A Craft Tint Permanent Sketch Book, manufactured in Cleveland, OH, small octavo. 157 leaves, approximately 95 with sketches on mostly rectos. Dates range from 1957 to 1969. Approximately 60 sketches of human figures of various ages in numerous poses, with another 15 or so labeled “Cedar Key” (in Florida). The..... More
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
Each black and white photograph is roughly 8” x 10” (four trimmed), all with cropping marks and three with additional notations. Unknown airport or individuals in the photos—many are shown cleaning the airplanes or inspecting them. Airplanes look to be Piper high-wing and Cessna double twin engine. More
Bureau of Naval Weapons, 1958/rev.1960. Quarto, 75 pp. Bound together with 3 other manuals (1953, 1956, 1960) for helicopters flight and maintenance, H23C and two different manuals for H-34A. All manuals with numerous illustrations and some with pull-out diagrams. All VG+ in original printed wraps, bound together in heavy black..... More
New York: Bartholomew House Ltd. Publishers, 1967. First Printing. Striking dustjacket art by Bill Wenzell, who also provides 23 illustrations within the book (which are of the “Wenzell Girls” that had appeared in publications like Esquire). 288 pp. About VG+ with slight spine lean and ownership name scribbled out on..... More
Issues 1-6 of the American Airlines Guest of Honor Service Advanced Training Unit Self-Development Planner, belonging to American Airlines employee Audre Courval (her name written in pencil on each issue). These training units were “aimed at enabling [you] to deliver friendly, helpful service at all times.” Laid in to the..... More
Los Angeles: North American Aviation, Inc./Los Angeles Division, [1966?]. Contributors include John Young (Corporate VP for Quality and Logistics), Carl Hansen (Former Chief Engineer of LA Division), and Dick Schleicher (Special Assistant to the Chief Engineer Structures). Oblong stapled wraps (11” x 8.5”), overall VG+ with a touch of rubbing..... More
Brown Accopress binder with metal fasteners (a touch rusty); label pastedown on front cover. Overall VG, with a musty odor throughout. Bound together are: Air Commerce Manual No. 18: Repair and Alteration of Aircraft, with 18 figures and illustrations and four tables; 12 mimeographed pages on conducting maintenance inspections; typed..... More
A rich collection of materials, perhaps from a devoted aviation historian or enthusiastic collector with the intent of using the research for a writing project, that carefully collects images (including original slides and photo postcards), articles (some photocopied, some original), webpage printouts, and other assorted ephemera on each plane. Each..... More
Dallas, TX: George W. Cearley, Jr., 1992. SIGNED by Cearley on title page: “Best Wishes! George Cearley Jr.” 100 pp. Stapled pictorial wraps, 8.5” x 11” illustrated throughout. VG+ overall with some toning and price sticker on rear cover. Laid in are eleven other documents, from cut-out images from magazines..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. First Printing. Review Copy, with publisher’s slip laid in. VG+ green hardcover (offsetting to endpapers) in an about VG+ clipped but price-intact illustrated dustjacket (rubbing and soiling, chip to fold). A scientific account of the development of Earth’s satellites, fully illustrated. More
New Brunswick, NJ: Boy Scouts of America, 1966. First Edition. 96 pp. VG+ stapled pictorial wraps—a number of pages contain annotations, underlining, and a few doodles, and laid in on lined paper is a drawing of a rocket. Contents include a history of space exploration and sections including Problems in..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980. 168 pp. Illustrated throughout. VG+ orange hardcover (some staining to page edges) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (fading and chip to spine, one small tear to rear cover, light wrinkle to top edge). First Edition. SIGNED by Berlitz on title page. A fully documented..... More
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
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
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
(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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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