Seattle, WA: Brennan Dalsgard Publishers, 1998. First Edition. Errata slip affixed to ffep. Near Fine in Near Fine unclipped dustjacket. "Circus of the Scars takes you on a bizarre odyssey around the globe with a Sideshow troupe that truly was live, real, raw, and dangerous. Learn the hidden secrets behind..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. First Edition. 646 pp. VG+ in VG+ price-clipped dustjacket (dampstaining to lower edge). Laid in is the 1964 Washington Post Book Week review by Randall Jarrell of the book. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. First Edition. 78 black and white photographs. Near Fine in an about VG+ unclipped dustjacket (sticker ghost on inner flap, light wrinkling, chipping, and soiling at edges). Laid in is a Holt, Rinehart and WInston promotional booklet of their Frost publications which folds..... More
Durham, NH: UNH Marine Advisory Program/University of New Hampshire, 1977. 10 pp. VG illustrated stapled wraps (2" stain in top corner, soiling). "In an era when food costs are rising, shortages are looming and labor costs are climbing, the food service manager must learn to adjust menus with the skill..... More
Portland, OR: Portland Gas & Coke Company, [1944]. Corner-stapled mimeographed booklet (8.5 x 11"), 9 pp. Printed recto only and title page printed in multiple colors. Toning, upper corner crease, blue pencil mark bracketing one section on p. 7. Overall VG or better. A manual "intended as a guide to..... More
Waseca, MN: Walter's Publishing Company, 1986. First Edition. Original "Teacher in Space Cookbook" issued prior to the January 28, 1986 Challenger tragedy. The editor, Fakes, the Tennessee Teacher in Space, compiled and edited the cookbook. Two pages dedicated to Christa McAuliffe, the nominee for NASA's Teacher in Space. McAuliffe added..... More
Los Angeles: Scream Press, 1986. World Fantasy Convention Edition. Introduction by Clive Barker. Illustrated by JK Potter. Warmly INSCRIBED by Campbell to Stanley Wiater on title page, with Wiater's oversized bookplate inside front cover, and his stamp on the verso of the half title. VG+ in wrappers, with mild staining..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1959. First Edition. INSCRIBED on title page: "To my friend _ God Bless You Jonn 2/28/61 Wm. Leising OMI." Laid in is Leising's business card (with photo); also laid in (formerly attached, tape residue apparent) at dedication page is a small booklet on Our Lady..... More
Apalachicola, FL: Watertown Press, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by Bickel on title page. 168 pp, oversized hardcover. Bickel's "haunting visual poetry" of the world of Apalachicola Bay and its people. Bickel's photography has won the Golden Quill for Photography and the New York Art Directors Club Award. More
San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2006. First Edition. SIGNED by 7 contributors (Rick Bragg, Larry Brown, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, L.A. Hoffer, Jack Pendarvis, James Whorton, Jr., Karen Spears Zacharias) on ffep; additionally, Ehrhardt, Pendarvis, Whorton, and Zacharias signed at their contribution. The fifth installment of Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe Series..... More
London: Varsity/Cherwell, 1996. First Edition. Selected and Introduced by Penelope Fitzgerald. Near Fine softcover. An anthology of 10 short stories by students and recent graduates from Oxford and Cambridge. SIGNED by Zadie Smith at her story "The Newspaper Man." ,At the time of publication (reportedly her first), Smith was an..... More
New York: Random House, 1933. First Edition. VG+ in a Good+ clipped dustjacket (chipping to extremities, 1/2" loss to crown of spine, 2" tear to rear near spine, rubbing). An American folk play that is "a relaxation from the tragic mood" that permeates O'Neill's other work. More
Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1956. First Edition. 130 pp. INSCRIBED on ffep: "For _ From John Walton July 3, 1956." An account by this Johns Hopkins professor of Filson, the eighteenth century cartographer and historian who helped to found present-day Cincinatti. A replica of Filson's map of Kentucky is..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1984. 277 pp. VG+ in a VG+ dustjacket (edgewear, sunning to spine). Author publicity photo laid in. INSCRIBED by the author on half-title page: "Best Regards Erik Lee Preminger." The humorous story of the famous burlesque entertainer as told by her son. More
Baton Rouge, LA: Southern University Department of Psychology, 1964. VG or better (toning to covers, with about 4 tiny pin holes that are present throughout). Perfect bound. (ix) 78 pp. with 25 tables (printed on rectos only). "The research reported herein was performed pursuant to a contract with the United..... More
Lexington, KY: Maxie C. Maultsby, Jr./Psychiatry Out-Patient Clinic, Uinversity of Kentucky Medical Center, 1974. First Edition. Illustrations by Grace von Drasek Ascher. 109 pp. VG+ llustrated softcover (toning and creasing to corners, affecting opening two pages). Contents include You and Your Emotions, This is Rational Thinking, ABC's of How to..... More
Renton, WA: Jehlor, 1979. First Edition. 44 pp. VG+ stapled pictorial covers (scuffing, ghost of teddy bear pattern inside front cover). Traditional and cabaret patterns for creating your own costumes "for the belly dancer, folk dancer, musician--anyone who wants to wear Middle Eastern garments, to folk festivals, practice sessions and..... More
Names of all the 9 men are in white below the image. Photographer name in white is "(H.H.) Haskell, Columbus, O." Not examined outside of frame. Because of the shortage of pilots during World War I, the War Department formed the Aviation Cadet Training Program (1917-1919) and commissioned six universities across..... More
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
Illustrated (presumably the author) on both sides, with striking and skilled line drawings with watercolor accents. Approximately 6” x 42” (unrolled). No author identified. No place identified. Dated “3/21/1973.” A unique dreamlike story that begins as a letter to S (Sedric), recounting how the female speaker “felt my shadow disengage itself”..... More
Ed. John Osborne. 8 issues total: Volume 1, Number 2 (July-August 1970), Number 3 (September-October 1970), Number 4 (November-December 1970), Number 5 (January-February 1971), Number 6 (March-April 1971), Volume 2, Number 1 (May-June 1971), Number 2 (July-August 1971), and the 1970 IVA Directory. Mimeographed, all stapled at top left corner..... More
26 total photographs: eleven 8” x 10” black and white photos and ten 6” x 8” black and white photos, all with “British Information Services: An Agency of the British Government” stamp on verso—most also contain handwritten notations and markings, taped printed descriptions, and seven contain Harper & Row Publishers..... More
String-tied cloth boards reinforced with tape. 12” x 13” (2.5” thickness), soiling to covers. 33 leaves (chipping and edgewear, some pages brittle) filled with photos and ephemera on all rectos and versos. 126 photographs, profusely captioned on pages (and many with notations on versos), most in corner mounts, some black..... More
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
New York: Sunbury Press, 1975. First Edition of the author’s first book. 32 pp. VG+ illustrated stapled wraps, with design by Ralph Vega II. A chapbook of poetry made possible, in part, through a grant from The Bronx Council of the Arts. “These poems belong to all women who dare..... More