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Approx. 4-1/2 x 11-1/2 feet. Banner. Sturdy cream stock hand painted in multiple colors. Worn to corners, somewhat affecting text; extensive taping to approx. 3 feet of verso; some evidence of painted corrections to recto. Good.
A massive banner mapping the Revelations according to the New Testament, possibly created for a Pentacostalist or Assembly of God revival meeting. Beginning with the Alpha and ending with the Omega, the banner encompasses the "Priesthood of Christ," "The Elders in Heaven," "The Heavenly Saints," and the Millenium, with the different aspects of each charted out. At the bottom, Death, "Hades, the Unseen World," and the "Lake of Fire" await fallen sinners.
*Please note, the first photograph shown here is a composite image -- some unevenness of tone, etc., is obvious at the edges of each sectional photograph, and is not visible on the banner itself. Photos of each section used for the composite follow the first image.

22 x 17 inches. 28 broadsides, including two duplicates. White stock printed in two additional colors. Condition varies, with some posters showing only minor wear but the majority with marginal chips, loss, and/or tears; old tape repair to verso some; significant dampstaining to three posters.
A collection of posters most likely issued during WWII, encouraging workers to use safety precautions, be efficient, work together, be responsible during off hours, and even smile at coworkers. All of the posters were illustrated by Stan Randall, an artist who studied under Norman Rockwell and worked on early gag and humor comics like "Alfy Elephant" and "Slim Pickins". Randall also did the newspaper feature "Right Around Home" for two years in the 1950s, was an assistant on "Ripley's Believe it or Not", and did numerous commercial comic strips and promotional art.
Randall's comic strip background shines clear in a series of eight posters (plus one of the duplicates) featuring two workers named Spec and Lumpy,… Leer más

7 x 11-3/4 inches. 28 leaves containing 52 b&w photographs and three blue photographs, as well as 17pp of holograph poetry, written in white on the black leaves, and two hand-painted color illustrations. Black hardcover post-bound album stamped in gilt. A few photos starting to come loose, else fine. Very Good or better.
An exquisite photograph album about the travels through Kashmir of one man and two women -- all white, possibly British, inscribed only to "Auntie Gillmore" -- filled with vernacular photographs of the countryside and local people. Nearly all of the photographs are captioned, and the three blue photos appear to be made after the method devised by Frank A. Perrett to photograph volcanoes in the early 1900s, rather than being cyanotypes.
The trio's journey is narrated in rhymed poetry written by the man of the group, as revealed on the last page: "The author of the photographs, / And also of the paragraphs, / Is standing on the Kamri Pass, / Complete with alpenstock and glass. / He… Leer más

[Seattle, Washington], 1924-1929. Good to Very Good condition overall. Sizes vary, from 9 x 7 inches to 11-1/2 x 16 inches. Paginations vary, many about 20-30pp, one 81pp. Most stab-bound paper wrappers; two bound in heavy cardboard covers and string ties. Includes many original illustrations; text in holograph script or typescript. Occasional light wear; one volume, "My Trip to South America", has become unbound. A collection of handmade books by [Winfield] Scott Spirk from 1924-1929, on subjects as varied as the history of paper, WWI, and a trip to South America. Spirk (1914-2009) was a student at McDonald Elementary School, John Marshall School, and Roosevelt High School, all in Seattle Washington, during this period. He later served in the U.S. Navy during WWII and was employed by Boeing as an aeronautical engineer.The volumes included here are: Europe, about an imaginary visit to 27 European countries; Paper, a history of paper; My Book, possibly the earliest creation of Spirk's, with six… Leer más

8-1/4 x 11 inches. 60pp, recto only. Burgundy cloth photo album with gilt title and ornament stamped to spine, brown paper leaves reinforced with cloth at the gutter. 55 b&w photographs + 6 cyanotypes, 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches each; holograph text in verse, in Spanish. All but two photos are pasted in one per page; two additional photographs are laid in, one a duplicate possibly removed from another album, and one on a loose leaf of black construction paper and seemingly unrelated to the text. Light wear to spine ends and corners; front hinge gently split; light dampstaining to edge of front endpaper; text of one page smeared from contact with moisture, although there is no damp-staining and the text is still readable.
An original proto-fotonovella, relating in dramatic fashion the tale of four young couples who fall in love despite opposition from their guardians -- who, it turns out, are themselves a pair of star-crossed lovers who fell in love during an unnamed 19th-century war in the United States… Leer más

13-3/4 x 9 inches. Unpaginated issues, approx. 300pp total. Includes a total of 27 complete issues: Vol. 1, Nos. 1-12 (including two different issues of No. 10); Vol. 2, Nos. 1-12; and Vol. 3, Nos. 1-3, plus the first two leaves of No. 5. Bound in dark brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board, issues mimeographed on different colored sheets, mimeo illustrations throughout. Boards worn, rubbed and spotted, with fraying to corners; chipping to foot of endpaper and edges of Vol. 2, No. 1; newspaper clippings pasted to inside front cover and front endpaper; light soiling to endpapers; at least one leaf of Vol. 3, No. 5 roughly excised. Occasional pencil marginalia, possibly in the hand of Jean Monk himself.
Bound volume of over two years of this monthly publication of the National Fellowship Club, a social group for Washington's lonely hearted. Founded around 1921 as the Lonesome Club of the Wilson Normal Community Center, to create social opportunities for the influx of single people over 35 to the… Leer más

Paterson, New Jersey: National Silk Dyeing Company, 1911 - 1915. Very Good overall. Five accordion-style books bound in brown cloth with snaps and gilt stamping, containing nearly 780 samples of 800; each set of samples is approx. 5 cm long and contains five different hues of tied silk string. Each book 13 x 23 cm, or approx. 23 x 75 cm opened in full. Splitting to edges of some bindings; some samples missing or bent. A rare collection of silk sample booklets from the period before and after the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike. Included are: Autumn 1911, Autumn 1912, Spring 1914, Autumn 1914, and Spring 1915. OCLC locates only incomplete holdings at Yale (Spring 1915 - Spring 1918), the Fashion Institute of Technology (Spring 1911, Autumn 1916, Spring 1917 and Spring 1918), and the Brooklyn Museum (Spring 1913).

8 x 34 inches. B&w photograph, with photographer's name in the plate in the lower right corner. Rolled, with a slight crease to the left edge and a small corner crease to the right edge; light soiling to verso.
A large panoramic photograph of an unnamed chicken farm, probably in Petaluma or Penngrove, California, given Hanasono Studio's San Francisco location. Although there is nothing in the photo itself to indicate the farm was owned by Japanese Americans, it is possible, as Hanasono Studio was owned and operated by Japanese Americans George and Mabel Hanasono. George was heavily involved in the Bay Area Japanese American community, and was one of the partners in the restaurant Nisei Grill, on Post Street in San Francisco.
We find no records of this photograph in OCLC, and locate only a handful of any photographs by Hanasono Studio in online records, all related to the Japanese American community.

3-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches. Recto only: [1],viii,40pp, including inside rear cover. White wrappers printed in red and black. B&w illustrations. Tiny scuff/indent to front wrapper, slightly affecting red overlay of symbol; tiny stain to foot of text block, very slightly edging over onto lower margin of a few leaves.
Háy's rare second book, published as samizdat in her native Hungary in the early 1980s and with an introduction by Hungarian psychologist Ferenc Mérei. Now an internationally renowned experimental artist and filmmaker, Háy was considered a subversive during the Communist era, and faced persecution for her work. She emigrated to London in 1985 with her partner and fellow dissident György Krassó, who here translates the introduction into English.
The book consists of Háy's b&w drawings of the male and female sex symbols, playfully arranged to suggest different meanings about the interplay between the two sexes.
OCLC locates 5 copies, only two of which are in the U.S., at the Met and the Getty.

[San Francisco], [1927]. Very Good. 16 x 11-1/4. [16]pp, of which 3pp are printed text and the remaining 13pp contain tipped-in signed typescript letters on letterhead, two photomechanically copied documents, and five photographs. Yellow string-bound wrappers printed in black, housed inside a custom mustard yellow chemise with leather ties. B&w photographs pasted in. Light soiling and dampstaining to wrappers; spine foot bumped and reinforced with archival japan tape, as is the interior of the spine; ink ownership signature to front wrapper. An invitation given to the Democratic National Committee, attempting to persuade it to hold the 1928 nominating convention in San Francisco. Included are letters from state and city officials -- a photograph of a signed typed letter from the Governor C. C. Young and a TLs from Mayor James Rolph, Jr -- as well as typed letters signed from H. H. McPike, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee; Philip J. Fay, President of the San Francisco Chamber of… Leer más

St. Louis: Printed by George Knapp & Co., 1858. Very Good+. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". 16 pp. Rebound in new marbled wrappers with white title label, original front wrapper bound in. Short tear to original wrapper, minor foxing, else a remarkably clean and well-preserved copy. John S. Phelps was a democratic congressman from Missouri and an ardent advocate for the Pacific Railroad. The southwest branch of the railroad traversed through Rolla, Arkansas.

9 x 11-3/4 inches. 75 b&w photographs on 19 leaves, including one laid-in photo. Photos 3" x 3". Ornate wooden album with wooden cutout of a cactus and a sleeping man in a sombrero to front cover, fragile tan leaves. Many photographs captioned in ink on the lower margin of the photos themselves. Leaves chipping at the edges, with some loss.
Photograph album documenting a trip by three 20-something white American men to various locations in Mexico shortly before the U.S. entered WWII. The men flew out of El Paso, Texas, and traveled to Mexico City, Taxco, Cuernavaca, Teotihuaca, and other locations. In addition to typical scenes of landmarks, buildings, etc., the album includes rare glimpses of daily life in Mexico, with images of street and market scenes, a bullfight, landmarks off the beaten path, and more.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1899. First American edition. Cloth. Good. 8" x 6". [xiv], 336 pp. Includes frontispiece and 15 (of 16) plates of illustrations. Original red publisher's cloth illustrated in blue, silver foil and black, lettered in silver foil and black. Light wear to extremities; board illustration somewhat rubbed; ink date and ownership blind-stamp to front endpapers; light occasional soiling. LACKING one plate (p. 139), one plate loose. Verne's sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, published in 1838.

Mounting board 11 x 23 inches; photogram 8 x 20 inches. Large b&w photogram mounted on cream cardstock. Damp staining to photogram edges near center and left side; mounting board stained, damp stained, and darkened, with scraps of paper stuck to side margins and dark paint along sides of photogram -- presumably due to the image having been framed at one point.
A scarce "fern leaf motto" photogram by Anna K[uhn?] Weaver (1848-?), celebrating the American centennial and praising God for it -- and, perhaps, referring to American manifest destiny.
Weaver was a Quaker from Salem, Ohio, who used her photography work to employ numerous women as well as to fund her own missionary work in Bogata, Columbia. Although she initially created the photogram religious mottos for herself sometime in or around 1874, their unexpected success led her to found an establishment in her hometown dedicated to their production. According to an article in The New Century for Women (Philadelphia: Women's Centennial Committee,… Leer más

Glendora, California: R.F.M., (1976). Very Good. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. 40pp. Stapled yellow wrappers printed in black. B&w illustrations. Light wear and toning to wrappers; some items marked by the previous owner with small orange stickers. Extensive catalogue of sex toys and leather paraphernalia, as well as BDSM books. "All items are guaranteed to be effective for the purpose they were designed for. Most items in this catalog I have designed myself and others are the creations of others. Most of the leather items in this catalog are made for me from one of my original models. You will see many copies being offered elsewhere. Be assured, if you buy it from me - it is a original and functional." RFM also published the Complete R.F.M. Catalog, which was devoted almost exclusively to dungeon equipement; he saw the catalogue offered here as a supplement to that one.OCLC locates three holdings.

Glendora, California: R.F.M., (1978). Fifth edition. Very Good. 10-3/4 x 8-3/8 inches. 46,[2]pp including wrappers. Stapled orange self-wrappers printed in red and black. B&w illustrations. Light soiling to wrappers; light crease to upper corner of front wrapper and beginning leaves; ink notation to inside rear wrapper; few ink checkmarks beside certain items. Extensive catalogue of sex toys and leather paraphernalia, as well as S&M tapes and books by Robert Fraum. "As the 5th edition, this is the largest one to date and is geared toward the average gay leather guy. I have tried to put something in it for everybody; that is, I have tried to cover all the different aspects of our scene." RFM also published the Complete R.F.M. Catalog, which was devoted almost exclusively to dungeon equipement; he saw the catalogue offered here as a supplement to that one.Not located in OCLC.

(n. p.), [San Francisco]: [Federal Telegraph Company], (n. d.), circa 1920. Good. 18-3/4 x 14-3/4 inches. Mounted photograph, in a black wooden frame with an engraved metal plaque. Light soiling and toning; three approximately nickel-sized spots of loss to photographic overlay; frame somewhat scuffed and worn. Large photograph showing one of the Federal Telegraph Company's 100 KW antenna loading inductors, with a man in work clothes standing beside it for scale.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; Printed by J. Dewick , 1810. Good. 14 cm. iv,47,[1]pp. Self wrappers (or lacking wrappers?), resewn using new holes. Wrappers somewhat grubby and stained, with ownership signature interspersed with title; loss to corner of one leaf, not affecting text; occasional pencil lines to margins. A published extract from Robert Walsh’s A Letter on the Genius and Dispositions of the French Government, which unfavorably compared France’s mode of taxation with Britain’s. Walsh was an ardent Federalist and editor of the American Review of History and Politics; his Letter didn’t go over so well in America, but was (unsurprisingly) quite a hit in England — the editor of The Edinburgh Review reportedly exclaimed after reading it, “We must all learn to love Americans, if they send us many such pamphlets”. SABIN 101165.OCLC locates 7 holdings of this imprint, although we suspect some additional copies are misclassified as internet holdings.

[Fresno, CA]: [M[artin] Theo[dore] Kearney, 1904. Souvenir edition, using the sheets from the 1903 ed. . Wraps. Very Good. Oblong octavo, 7-3/4" x 10-1/2". 179, [1] pp. Purple wraps printed in pale grey, stab-bound with a tied string. Profusely illustrated from b/w photographs and engravings, approx. 150 illustrations total. Wrappers lightly toned, with three short tears to the spine and sticker shadow/slight adhesive to rear wrapper; lower corner of beginning pages lightly creased; minor soil to one margin. An interesting souvenir booklet with particular attention paid to the farming industry of Fresno, designed "to convey to the mind of the reader, as thoroughly with wth as little loss of time as possible, an impression of the extraordinary resources of the central portion of California, and to illustrate what may be accomplished in a very brief period by a combination of intelligent labor, moderate capital, rich soil, abundance of water for irrigation, and a climate that is especially healthful… Leer más

Kjobenhavn: Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 9-1/2" x 6". [4], 154, [2] pp, plus nine plates and a loose fold-out map (Plate X). Half leather over maroon marbled boards. A good only copy, front board detached, spine perished, foxing scattered throughout; ownership signatures and minimal ex-libris notations, likely from a private rather than institutional collection (no institutional ownership markings), with penciled notation to verso of title page; one plate reinforced along gutter with tape; ink stain to margin of some leaves; wear to map edges. A scientific monograph on the 1845 eruption of Hekla, illustrated with lithographs from drawings by the author.