1970s Chicano Power Patches
33 patches total. Includes “I’m Proud To Be a Chicano,” “Chicano Power,” “Viva La Raza,” and “Chicano Power Viva La Raza.”. More
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1973 Poster for Women’s Conference at Windham College, Putney, VT. Guest Speaker Robin Morgan
Film-Lectures, etc. Free Day Care. Sept. 29 + 30, 1973. Sat. 10AM-9PM and Sun. 9AM-5PM. 24.5” x 29” screenprinted poster on heavy stock, overall about VG+ with vibrant colors and striking graphics, folded in quarters, a touch of wrinkling and light wear at folds, with pinholes in all four corners. The..... More
1979 & 1981 Aspencade Motorcycle Convention Pictorials, Ruidoso, NM
Both pictorials were published in Sacramento, CA, by Cimini Graphics. The 1979 edition is comb-bound, with 106 pp. Pictorial cover, overall VG+ (staining to cover, with pen notation “Oct. 1-6, 1979” written vertically). In addition to photos of activities (exhibit hall, clubs, tours, show competition, and field events), there are..... More
African American Florida artist Bryant “Bubba” Gowens Signed Folk Art
5 Handguns. Marker, glitter, paint(?) on repurposed plywood (3/4” thick, 9.5” x 20.5”). Circa 1999. Gowens (1918-2003), a black self-taught artist, was known to "shoot up a box of cartridges a week" in his yard in Sanford, Florida, reasoning that it might scare away anyone who might be lurking..... More
Alabama Gun Collectors Association Photo Album & Scrapbook (1957-1985)
The album was compiled by one Don Cranmer of Birmingham, Alabama, documenting his involvement with the association from its early days and featuring photos of the shows he attended. Oblong (19.5” x 13”) photo album/scrapbook, faux leather covers a bit dusty, ring bound with metal fasteners. Overall VG or better. 32..... More
Approximately 56 complete sermons delivered between 1940-1944 by Rev. Loyde O. Aukerman mostly at his parish at Olivet Baptist Church in Valley Stream, NY
Rev. Aukerman delivered sermons at Congregational, Presbyterian, Friends Meeting House, Jewish Centers, and numerous other Baptist churches stretching from Long Island to upstate New York, including the cities and towns of Batavia, Rochester, Mount Morris, Canaseraga, Honeyville, Ontario, East Henrietta, and South Rutland. The title pages (numbered between 2-70), usually typed..... More
BTWBA Black Business Directory; Booker T. Washington Business Association
Detroit: BTWBA, [late 1980s]. First Edition. 12 pp., stapled illustrated wraps. VG+ or better. 36 advertisements with an alphabetical membership roster containing more than 140 names. BTWBA is Detroit’s oldest black business, founded in 1930. This directory was distributed under the leadership of the organization’s first female Chair, Betty..... More
Conquistadores del Cielo 41st Ranch Meeting Photo Album, 1978
September 5-10, 1978, compiled specifically for Delta Airlines CEO David C. Garrett, Jr (served 1978-1987). Contains 215 color photographs of the week’s activities at the Abara Ranch in Wyoming, including the induction ceremony of Garrett (now a member of the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame). Beautifully presented, with Garrett’s photo..... More
In the Interests of Teenagers We Bring You the September Issue of: Teeek Huoneee
Oakland: [n.p./Wally Ehler], 1957. Sandra Morra, Editor-in-Chief. 8.5” x 11” Unpaginated, but 9(1) pp. Pink and light green covers, side stapled. Toning and light wrinkle to covers with crease to upper corner affecting entire issue. About VG+. Mimeographed zine issued by Oakland Technical High School students (text hints that contributors/potential readers..... More
L. Sprague de Camp TLS with Wonderful Content on Robert E. Howard
Typed Letter SIGNED “L. Sprague de Camp” dated “19 April 77” on de Camp’s own letterhead with wonderful content on Robert E. Howard. Written to C.C. Clingan (addressed to Chet), who was the editor of the sci-fi fanzine The Diversifier (1974-1979) where de Camp’s writing appeared in 1976 and 1978. The opening..... More
Original Poster for the Centennial Symposium Events at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, November 15-19, 1967. Featuring John Cage
Original Poster: University in Motion. Matrix for the Arts. Centennial Symposium November 15-19, 1967. Sponsored by the Graduate Committee for the Centennial Year and the Center for Advanced Study. 13.5" x 22”. Heavy stock, overall VG+, one bumped corner, sunning to extremities, not affecting image. The poster breaks down the..... More
Photographs Related to the Blue Scout Air Force Rocket Program, 1960s
37 black and white contact sheets (most 8” x 10”), each with 10-20 individual thumbnail images (approximately 600 images), most with stamp on versos that reads “U.S. Air Force Photo Air Force Eastern Test Range Photographic Laboratory,” “Unclassified,” and dated January 1965. The photos on the contact sheets detail the..... More
Playbill for theatrical production of Grizzly Adams starring Mr. E.T. Goodrich
No date, c. 1870. Four (4) pages, large woodcut on rear, 6" x 9". Scarce playbill for theatrical performance of a play based on the life of mountain man J. Capen “Grizzly” Adams, made popular in the 20th century with the 1974 film release of The Life and Times of..... More
Rare Studio Mock-Up of 12 works by Pop Artist Steve Kaufman. New York, ca. 1992
Very large original working proof. Single leaf, measuring 72” x 40”, screen-printed in black, red, green, and blue on semi-rigid white vinyl. Rolled. Features preliminary impressions of twelve early Steve Kaufman Art Studio works: Malcolm X (a suite of four prints); Live to ride, our right to decide — Fight the helmet..... More
Two Original Scrapbooks/Photograph Albums of West Point graduate and Army Colonel, 1929-1945
Colonel Charles Leon Andrews (1910-2005) was a decorated veteran (including the Bronze Star and Legion of Merit) who, during World War II, was appointed Military Attaché to Brazil and Ecuador before serving two combat tours as battalion commander during the Korean War. After graduating first in military excellence from the..... More
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[Vernacular Art] Why Gripe about Grapes?
5.5” x 8.5” Watercolor (with ink lettering and outlining) on reverse of American Red Cross stationery. VG or better with 3 tape repairs, a closed tear to upper corner, a chip to lower edge, and wrinkling. Unsigned. No date, but early to mid-twentieth century. Striking colors, with woman in dress..... More
Willie Edouin's Sparks. For a Limited Number of Nights. Every Evening at Eight. Grand Opera House! For 9 Nights and 3 Matinees, Commencing Monday, May 22.
Forbes Co. Boston (Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co. operated in Boston 1862-1930). 11.5" x 31.5" Litho on thin original paper that is linen backed and whitewashed. Seems to have been a placard (and perhaps the original was also affixed to blue linen). Overall VG. Circa. 1882 (Sparks launched in 1880, and..... More
The Naked Sun
Garden CIty, NY: Doubleday, 1956. First Edition. Jacket design by Ruth Ray. VG (soiling to boards, a few bumps to edges, offsetting to endpapers, slight spine lean) in a Good + unclipped dustjacket (soiling and rubbing, chipping and loss to edges, light creasing to upper third, dampstaining to flap edges..... More
Miss July Grows Older: Six Poems by Margaret Atwood. This Magazine Pull-Out Collectable #1
SIGNED by Atwood at top of this 4 pp. light blue ephemeral publication. VG+ with a slight fold. Included is a letter on This Magazine letterhead, additionally signed by Managing Editor Anne Bains, congratulating the grand prize winner of the magazine’s “Word on the Street” draw. Poems included are “Miss..... More
Requiem for Bluesville
Worcester, MA: Shield Press, 1971. [3] 20 pp., printed on rectos only. Six drawings by Stephen Jenkins. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author in the year following publication: “Best wishes To Mr. & Mrs. [ ] Corrine E. Bostic -1971-.” VG+ (edgewear, light creasing to bottom edge, lightly..... More
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop Cookbook
Hollywood, FL: Frederick Fell Publishers, 1986. Illustrated by Peter Nelson. VG+ illustrated softcover with some sunning to spine. SIGNED by Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Simic on p. 87 at his recipe and caricature. Simic also began to sign his name on the title page. Uncommon signed. More
Bitter Sweet Chocolate Meat
Los Angeles: Inner City Cultural Center, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. Near Fine with only minor loss to upper rear cover. Comb binding with brown illustrated card covers. 32 leaves each printed solely on recto. Fourteen ink drawings, each repeated twice. First appearance of each drawing is a full page, with..... More
The Grass Harp: A Play
New York: Random House, 1952. Octavo, 120 pp., with illustrations. First Edition, with Review Slip laid in (Publication Date: May 10, 1952. Price: $2.50). Near Fine in a VG+ or better unclipped dustjacket, with a small tear to head of spine and toning to rear and extremities of inside flaps..... More
Toreo de Salon; Fotografias de Maspons and Ubiña. Farsa con acom pañamiento de clamor y murga
Barcelona: Editorial Lumen, 1963. Issued without dustjacket. Text in Spanish. VG+ (spine weakening, edgewear). SIGNED by Nobel Laureate Cela on half-title. More than 20 photographs of aspiring toreadors in Spain. The only signed copy on the market (October 2018); only two found in OCLC (both housed in The British Library)..... More
Verse. Issue Six
Oxford: The Holywell Press Ltd, 1986. 56 pp. VG+ in yellow stock stapled covers. Contains work by Seamus Heaney (“The Haw Lantern”), Derek Mahon, Seamus Deane, Tony Harrison, Medbh McGuckian, Miodrag Pavlovic, Jay Parini, and Charles Simic. This issue, though not called for, is SIGNED by Simic at his poem..... More