Folded tabloid, 16 pp. Toning, edgewear and chipping, and loss at top corner and small hole at fold, about VG. The “Collective Comment” section that opens this issue notes their desire “to shift from a national movement newspaper to a locally-based New York paper” starting with this issue. Included in..... More about Liberated Guardian Volume III Number 8 (February 1973
Measures approximately 19” x 25” with signs of having been used to advertise the event (soiling to edges, tape residue and pinholes to corners, a few tears and creases repaired with archival tape on verso, red paint mark on verso). Designed by Chuck Sperry and Ron Donovan. “Dino and Luigi..... More about Original Screen Printed Incredibly Strange Wrestling Poster
Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1951. First Printing. Printed by Dai Nippon Printing Co. 125(1) pp. The volume is string bound with internal toning to edges, a crease to lower corner, and modest edgewear. Housed in worn tri-fold slipcase with decorated pastedown, peg ties loose. Overall... More about Flower Arrangement Art of Japan
(Associated Collegiate Press). Edited by Donna Weatherly and Kaye Catron. Oblong 6” x 9” with white/tan heavy stock stapled covers. 50 pp. VG+, some toning and soiling to covers. Literary magazine of Longwood College (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia. From 1938-1965, the magazine was called The Colonnade; prior to... More about Gyre. Volume 1 Number 1, 1965-1966. Longwood College
[San Francisco]: Tattoo Archive, 1994. Yellow stock illustrated stapled covers. 8 pp. with text printed inside covers, 5.5” x 8.5”. Sticker ghost on front cover, otherwise Near Fine. A brief sketch of tattooing in the Bay Area, which the text asserts is “the mecca for tattooing in North America, and... More about History of Tattooing in San Francisco
The inaugural issue of this short-lived periodical (4 issues between 1988-1989) issued by the Tattoo Society of New York and published by Roger Kaufman. 16 pp. stapled pictorial wraps in Near Fine condition. Only one holding in Museum of Modern Art and none found in the trade. More about Tattoo Gazette Volume I Number 1 1988
Two charming songstress booklets, c. 1940, which provide snippets of lyrics to thirteen songs (ragtime and musicals), most written between 1890-1920, including “The Bowery,” “Oh! You Beautiful Doll,” “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now,” “Who Threw the Overalls?” “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” and “Little Annie Rooney.” Each..... More about 1940s Songstress Lyric Booklets
20 typed and stapled scripts (118 pp. total) for one-minute spots on radio stations in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Illinois, all for June 24, 1953. Most of the spots end noting that Lake Central Airlines is “serving the industrial heart of the nation!” Each script contains five or six... More about 1953 Radio Spot Scripts for Lake Central Airlines
135 total pages of typed television scripts and typed and handwritten inter-office correspondence and notes for Greyhound from Chicago advertising company Beaumont and Hohman, Inc. from 1952-1953. Specific TV and radio spots for Memphis, TN, Milwaukee, WI, Minneapolis, MN. Many scripts with handwritten revisions and notes, some bound with paper... More about 1952-1953 Television Scripts for Greyhound
130 pages of typed advertising script drafts (many working copies with notations), a page sketch, office memos, and handwritten notes for National Food Stores, all housed in a manila folder labeled “National Tea.” Overall VG+, with toning and some edgewear due to brittle paper. Spots for beef, root beer, strawberry..... More about 1951-1952 National Food Stores/National Tea Co. Collection of Advertising Scripts for...
Jonesville, MI: Andrew Mack and Son Brush Co., 1990. Reprinted from the original 1981 copy. 5.5” x 8.5”. 43(1) pp. with numerous close-up images that detail Roth’s process. VG+ illustrated stapled wraps, covers with some rubbing and light soiling, otherwise VG+. Roth, one of Southern California’s premiere pinstripers, was perhaps..... More about Pinstriping by Roth
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1983. First Edition. VG+ stapled wraps (some soiling and wear to covers), [24 pp.]. INSCRIBED by Rhodes on title page: “For Alison, I hope you enjoy this book as much as I enjoy your company. Love, Marvin K. Rhodes.” 13 photographs, “a summary of a graduate photographic... More about Time on the Street
Each 5” x 7” black and white photograph by Steve Savage, who came to the Bay Area in 1977 after founding The Pomegranate Press earlier in the decade—two of the photos have his stamp on verso while the other two credit him. The handwritten captions on versos read “Zamila—circus performer,”..... More about Four (4) Circus/Sideshow Photos from San Francisco c. 1978
Illustrated floral design with some light wear to covers. 21 leaves, all but three filled with 86 (mostly) black and white photographs of various sizes, affixed to pages (recto and verso), plus two additional loose photos laid in. The album covers the years 1980-1986 and is split into two distinct... More about 1980s Russian Photo Album
Oblong (8.25” x 6”) string-tied photo album with “Souvenir of Baltimore, MD” embossed on front cover, with image of Native American in headdress. 14 leaves, with only four used. 19 photographs corner mounted, various sizes (mainly 3.5” x 2.5” or smaller), with descriptions written in white on each page. Also... More about 1946 Photo Album of Young People’s Summer Assembly at Keuka College (NY
The scrapbook records his patents and inventions from approximately 1939 to the 1958. Thompson worked as an engineer almost exclusively for the Philco Corp. inventing improvements in phonographs, radios, and transistors. He is credited with inventing a photo-electric radio phonograph in 1944 which played records without a needle, and during... More about Inventor’s Scrapbook belonging to Elmer O. Thompson of Grasmere, Staten Island, NY
The inaugural and second issue of this sex paper published by S. Edwards and Steven Heller. Each 16 pp. and both 11.5” x 17” tabloid illustrated wraps. VG+ thus with soiling, toning, and light edgewear. Contains numerous photographs and illustrations as well as articles and features including “Jail Rape: A Full..... More about The New York Review of Sex. Volume 1 Number 1 (February 1969) and Volume 1 Number 2 (April 1969
Each black and white photograph measures approximately 3” x 4.75” and each has markings over the image (an X or indications of a future crop). The first image is of Edward Joseph Murray; on verso is stamped “FEB 14 1935” and includes 10 typed lines detailing his arrests going back... More about Two (2) Portland, Oregon Mug Shots, 1935 and 1959
Toledo, OH: Belmont Institute, n.d. [1940s]. 19 mimeographed pages. VG+ pictorial covers, light soiling and toning to edges and rusting at staples at top edge; internally a touch of toning. Belmont lays out tricks of memorization, recall, and concentration: “It is the wish of the author to acquaint the reader..... More about Miracle Memory: How to Remember Names, Numbers, Faces and Places (cover title). M-I-R-A-C-L-E...
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 about In the Interests of Teenagers We Bring You the September Issue of: Teeek Huoneee
Kansas City, MO: Mike Lyon and Lyon Art/Gallery Ezoshi, 2004. An exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the special exhibition, Mike Lyon : Kyoto Woodcuts, held at the Gallery Ezoshi, Kyoto Japan, October 18-October 31, 2004. [44] pp., the final eight of which are in Japanese. Lyon “marries Picasso’s innovation... More about Kyoto Woodcuts
Los Angeles: The Fred S. Lang Company, 1921. First Edition. Cover and Introductory Decorations by The Prettymans. Page Decorations are Engraver’s Drawings from Cover Detail. 58 pp. Quarto. VG+ (a bit of soiling and edgewear) in pictorial wraps. None in the trade and only five holdings per OCLC (UCLA, Newberry... More about Journeys with Fancy Through the World Beautiful and Its Fairy Folk for Little Folk
Dover, NH: JACS Publishing Inc. Edited by Andrew Schwartz. VG+ or better with a touch of rubbing to covers and corner crease to rear cover. Stapled pictorial covers (with a striking image of Rawd Holbrook of the Amazing Fantasy Jugglers), with a pictorial history of juggling pullout, an interview with... More about Juggling: A Magazine of Movement. Vol. I. No. 2 (1981
New York: Bagginer Productioners, 1977. Ten (10) unbound 8” x 11” prints, graphite on paper, one in color, also with illustrations on front cover (entitled “Atomic radiation victim”) and rear of portfolio. Contents include, “Storms,” “Suburban family, “Angus Grund 1961,” “Maison Joie,” “Rough-trade yoot,” “Disgussing the brogan,” “Shack fever,” “Sucuppers..... More about The Joe Coleman Portfolio: White Screams Meat Two
Newsstand Headline Poster from London’s newspaper Evening Standard. 17.5” x 24”. Staining and wrinkling on both sides, light fold through middle. Evocative headline circa 1970s. We can not definitively locate Human Torch Girl, but given the poster’s provenance, likely a sideshow performer. More about Human Torch Girl Dies