[n.p.]: [n.p.]. A playlet in one act, circa 1917, written for the RI State Food Conservation Committee with the purpose of "increasing the interest in Food Conservation and to emphasize the possible use of substitutes for the four food classes of food: wheat, meat, sugar and butter." Characters include Uncle..... More
Poughkeepsie, NY: Father Tree Press/Warp Graphics, 1986. Portfolio in illustrated envelope, which includes a suite of 10 individual "portraits" of the wolves (plus one on cover), originally realized in charcoal pencil. 14.5" x 11". VG+ or better prints and portfolio in a VG envelope. Wendy Pini is the creator (with..... More
[n.p.]: [n.p.]. VG+ illustrated stapled wraps, 28 pp. Recipes include Economical Giblet Pie, Border Town Liver, Crab Meat and Mushroom Casserole, Clam Fritters, Suffed Quahogs, Portuguese Chicken Livers and Fish Sauce, Scandinavian Fish Bake, and Jagaseeda. WBSM is the New Bedford, MA, news talk radio station founded in 1949. This..... More
Portland, Oregon: Kilham Stationery and Printing Company, 1921. Illustrated stapled wraps (5" x 7"). 17 unnumbered leaves with beautiful hand-colored illustrations that accompany poems about the beach and the sea. No copies in trade as of October 2023 and only 4 holdings in OCLC (NYPL, Brown, Oregon, Buffalo and Erie). More
Flyer that is a single sheet on blue paper folded to make four pages. VG+ or better with a light wrinkle. "Viking Penguin Presents Still Kesey! An evening of Ranting, Reciting, Rock 'n' Roll Rolling & Reading From his new work Demon Box with The Thunder Machine Band Thursday, September..... More
Newsletter from the destroyer U.S.S. Gridley 380, which served in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Contents in each corner stapled issue (8” x 13”) include editorials, jokes, poems, scuttlebutt, ads, and illustrations. Issues include: 20 December 1943, 20 January 1944, 21 April 1944, 24 June 1944, 15 July..... More
No. 198 (PSA graded Ex-Mt 6), along with four ungraded: No. 199, No. 1301, No. 1302, No. 1303. Warhol’s EPI [Exploding Plastic Inevitable], an experimental, sensory-fueled multimedia experience we could now describe as performance art, was performed in various U.S. cities in the late 1960s. “At its height, the EPI..... More
6” x 9.5”. 53 pp. plus index. Gathered signatures. Stitched and sewn. VG or better. Clerk notation on front page. Includes a fold-out Abstract of the returns of several banks in the state. SIGNED by Henry Bowen, Secretary, on p. 53. Henry Bowen was RI Secretary of State from 1819-1849. More
New York: Atheneum, 1979. First Edition. VG+ pictorial wraps (no hardcover edition). INSCRIBED by Levine to a former student on 10 May 1979: “Dear Patricia, These were the poems I was working on while I was supposed to be preparing for class at Bloomington. I hope they make up for..... More
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
5” x 7” mid-to-late 1970s photo housed in heavy stock folded (9.5” x 12” unfolded). “D. Santisi” written on inside with her North Brunswick, New Jersey address. On outside, “D. Santisi” written in pen on one side and on opposite side a sticker designed by R. Crumb that was affixed..... More
[n.p.]; [n.p.], c. 1906. 63 pp. Yellow pictorial stapled wraps with numerous (25+) photographs and illustrations. VG (soiling, a touch of fraying of wrappers near staples, edgewear). An early analysis of Houdini, “the World’s Handcuff King and amazing Prison Breaker” (p. 1), focused on “An Accurate Account of Every..... More
(Stand Rock, Wisconsin Dells or Cahokia outside of St. Louis, Missouri). 6” x 9” advertising flyer for Native American dance performances with “Five Great Indian Tribes Represented” (Hopi, Navajo, Sioux, Winnebago, Pueblo). In addition, attendees could see the famous bird and animal imitator Evergreen Tree and the world’s greatest Indian..... More
Cynthiana, Kentucky: The Hobson Book Press, 1945. First Edition. 82 pp. VG+ in an about VG clipped dustjacket (creasing and edgewear, soiling and light chipping). A scarce book of poems from McGregor, who was formerly Superintendent of two Sioux reservations, Rosebud Reservation and Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota..... More
New York, NY. Handwritten by the authors and published unedited and indiscriminately by Dan Saxon. Contributors include Ted Berrigan, Gerard Malanga, Anselm Hollo, Ron Padgett, and Paul Blackburn. Side stapled and mimeographed, 22 pp. VG+. Distributed at Café Le Metro avant-garde poetry readings in small numbers (reportedly less than..... More
Boston: Dana Estes and Company, 1892. Copyright belonging to his wife, Elizabeth S. Melville. Illustrations by A. Burnham Shute. Ownership signature on ffep belonging to Wallace Carnegie. About VG (fraying to head and tail of spine, small stain to upper edge, spine starting, edgewear). A striking copy of a...... More
Saddle River, NJ: Gerry De La Ree, 1974. VG+ illustrated wraps, comb bound. First Edition, Limited to 400 copies, this copy being No. 73. An alphabet of illuminated letters inspired by the works of the late master of the weird tale, Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937). More
A complete run from 1922 and 1923 of this important socialist magazine edited by Max Eastman and Floyd Dell. New York: Liberator Publishing Co., [1922, 1923]. 23 issues (Nov-Dec 1922 is combined in one issue). There is a small "Jan. 1922" stamp on one of the opening pages of first..... More
Red cloth, approximately 6.5” x 18” with white lettering. Armband likely worn in support of the D.C. Nine. According to the Zinn Education Project: “In March 22, 1969, nine protesters [eight of the nine were Roman Catholic priests, nuns, and seminarians] smashed glass, hurled files out a fourth floor window..... More
New York: Knopf, 1993. First Edition. 148 pp. VG+ softcover (edgewear, a touch of soiling). SIGNED by Child on title page. More
Includes System Manual and Communications Program for Super-Ratt (by Richard A. Landsman, 1981), a program written “to explore the new age of intelligent digital communications by radio” that required connection to an APPLE II computer. Also included: Vol. 1 no. 1 (January 1983) of RATT’S NEST newsletter, Super-Ratt Programming guides..... More
Seattle, WA: Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange, 1980. First Edition. [32 pp.]. VG stapled wraps (staining and ownership signature to front cover, moderate wear). A scarce booklet from the early days of Apple computers, launched in 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Sections on loading and running the..... More
33 patches total. Includes “I’m Proud To Be a Chicano,” “Chicano Power,” “Viva La Raza,” and “Chicano Power Viva La Raza.”. More
More than 1,850 individual labels, loose (early 1980s well represented). Hundreds of unique designs, with duplicates, as well as a number with color variations. VG to Fine. A visually-appealing record of France's champagne industry in the late 20th century. More
Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1983. Oblong orange wraps, approximately 10.75” x 8.5” with title label, once presumably affixed to front cover, loose. Bound proofs (perhaps galley proofs), with “Raymond Carver” written by hand on spine. An uncommon format, with no similar copies in commerce, with only one similar copy..... More