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[San Francisco]: City Lights Books, (1963). 68pp. 7¼ x 5 inches. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. First edition of this early epistolary novel by the celebrated author of The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded.

[York, Pennsylvania: np, 1939]. Approx. 8½ x 11 inches folded, opening to 17 x 21¾ inches. Half tone illustrations from photographs; map. Very Good. Large broadsheet for the 1939 York Inter-State Fair held in York, Pennsylvania near the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. The advertising piece opens and displays -in colors of red, white, and blue- more than 45 images touting the fair's numerous events: "Greatest array of carnival attractions.  •  Products of richest farms and orchards in Eastern United States.  •  Newest farm machinery-industrial and commercial exhibits.  • Pedigreed poultry and livestock-champion steer herds.  •  Brilliant night lighting of entertainment and parking areas....  •  Harness and running races on fastest half-mile track...." Other entertainments include "Frank Wirth's brand new all-girl revue, 'Here's to You'", The Spring Garden Band, and a midway carnival by James E. Strates Shows. As a special feature on "Thrill Day Saturday" only, "Flash Williams and His… Leer más

Berkeley: University of California Press, (1998). 340 pages. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine in dustwrapper. Biography of expatriate American composer and writer, Paul Bowles. This copy signed by the biographer.

[Geigertown, Pa.: Young Ladies' Bible Class, St. Paul's Methodist Church, c.1951]. [44]pp. 8¾ x 5¾ inches. Illustrated wrappers. Spine rubbed; staining and wrinkling to wrappers and leaves; but all legible and complete: Fair only. Community cook book issued by women of St. Paul's Methodist Church in Geigertown, Berks County, Pennsylvania. With numerous advertisements for food, cooking, and related services from such towns as Reading, Geigertown, Birdsboro, and Morgantown. Unrecorded in OCLC.

New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 88 John Street. [between 1849 and 1856?]. 16pp. Printed wrappers with vignette illustration. 4½ x 2¾ inches. Wood engraved illustrations throughout variously signed including "Lossing & Co." (i.e., Benson John Lossing), "W. Howland sc." (i.e., William Howland), and "H.H."  "Third series.-No. 8." at head of wrapper title and ad on rear wrapper for "Redfield's Toy Books." Ownership inscriptions on title page of "Miss Thomas" and "Carrie Baker." Minor foxing and handling; Very Good. A young boy sails with the ship Godolphin to the Indian Ocean, stopping at ports in the East Indies, then to China, and then to Australia. Shipwrecked, the young hero and his shipmates reaches Banguay, a small island near Borneo, where they are captured by Malays and brought to Suba Island. Eventually they escape and return home, but on the way back they experience a shark attack -a la Jaws- that is so gory that two sailors are confined to their hammocks, in a state of shock, for ten days.… Leer más