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1991204912New York: Star Dist 1991. Paperback. 154p. very good first edition PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Star Dist paperback books
199182902New York: Star Dist 1991. Paperback. 150p. ads very good first edition PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Transvestite tale. Transvestite Tales TT-135. Star Dist paperback books
1920006216Leipzig: Dr. Trenkler & Co 1920. First American Edition. Orginal Wraps. . 87 pp. German text. Burgundy wraps embossed with silver. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs captioned 2-3 per page covering all 4 years of the war. Frontispiece map showing path of the batallion on the Eastern front. Dr. Trenkler & Co unknown books
195244687Soeul Korea 1952. All housed in a deep red commercial album with light red cord tie and gold imprint "Photographs" to front cover. Some extremity wear to album covers. Edge rash to some leaves. One leaf detached. Overall VG. Photos generally clear & without significant wear: VG - VG. 25 leaves of black 'construction' mounting paper. 199 b/w images of the 'snapshot' variety 3 spots evident were photos probably removed. Approximately 10% captioned with white ink no images examined out of the album so additonal captions may be present on versos. Album: 8-3/4" x 1`2-1/2". Images: range from 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" to 2-5/8" x 3-5/8" tp 3-1/4" x 4-1/2" though the bulk are the latter. <br/><br/>A visual record of a unidentified soldier's Korean service and while as expected many are 'buddy' shots eg "Xmas 1952" there is also a goodly percentage of location e.g. "Korean Festival" & "Train Station in Seoul" & service related images e.g. a number of photographs show Corsair aircraft & "Inside a Sabre Jet" as well as some action images "Accident on the way to Seoul. July 1952" and "Loading Planes with Bombs". A nice primary visual source documenting one man's tour in Korea during 1952. unknown books
38525n. p. n. d. 1st edition thus. Black lacquered album with peacock and Mount Fuji mother-of-pearl inlay to front cover silk ties. Black mounting paper with red photo corners. Some glassine layers between leaves. Album rubbed and silk ties gone from top rear board hinge almost detached. Photographs generally Very Good or better with glassine layers mostly torn. A Good to VG item. 22 leaves. 300 b/w photographs ranging in size mainly 3" x 4-1/2" and 2" x 2". Few photographs missing. Some photographs contained in an envelope in rear of album. 10-3/4" x 16" <br/><br/>Unless they were on the front lines equipped with C-Rations members of the U. S. Army stationed in Japan in the 1950s enjoyed hearty well-prepared meals - particularly the officers. This photograph album titled by its compiler "Far East Command 1951 - 1952 - 1953" contains snapshots and formal staff pictures of what appears to be the officers' mess of Pershing Heights - HQ for the Far East Command in Tokyo. The photographs show large kitchens Japanese cooks and waitresses in starched uniforms dining rooms and elaborate desserts on serving tables. During his time in Japan this officer also seems to have enjoyed some leisure time - trips to the beach with bikini-clad women temples sacred springs and other tourist attractions. He also photographed the interior of his own quarters some locals and many of the official buildings and their grounds. During the "Third Korean Winter" however he was sent North with the army as General Ridgway began "meatgrinder" tactics to regain the Korean peninsula. This second part of the album with pasted-in typewritten title "Pictures Taken in Korea 1952 - 1953" shows a rougher outfit with jeeps and artillery in the snow sandbagged quarters bundled-up Korean soldiers and what appears to be a portable mess. Despite the circumstances the cooks must have had efficient facilities in which to work; there is one small photograph of an elaborately iced and decorated cake proudly held by two chefs in white toques. At this time the major generals ordered food for their officers from Japan. The basic fare was apparently popular and was even said to be enjoyed by visiting entertainers like Jack Benny and Debbie Reynolds. There are several pictures of USO performances in this part of the album. unknown books
1888002091S. l. San Francisco: s. n. 1888. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 4; white stock printed in black; full-page engraved frontis; faint intersecting crease lines; very mild age-toning along spine; facsimile signature of Commander Frank French; very good or better condition.A scarce program for the September conclaves of the Knights Templar it featured a beautiful engraving of a knight by the water of the San Francisco Bay with Alcatraz in the far left under the slogan "Golden Gate Commandery. In Hoc Signo Vinces." The pamphlet listed the events scheduled for the month including an excursion on the bay on the steamer "Encinal" and the past commanders and the officers for 1888. S. l. (San Francisco): s. n. paperback books
1948001444Paris: s. n. 1948. Softcover. Presumed first edition; 5 3/4 x 9; pp. 20; beige wraps printed in black; closed cuts to tips of spine; some rubbing to edges; several small tears around staples of first and last few pages; good to very good. An anonymous work on the Antichrist most probably created and published by a Russian emigre religious organization in France in the aftermath of the Second World War. Paris: s. n. paperback books
007508Mexico City: Creed Tourist and Information Bureau at Sanborns 1920. Orginal Wraps. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. No Edition Stated. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 80 pp. C. 1920 from internal evidence perhaps mid-20s. Service and travel guide for the city. Mexico City: Creed Tourist and Information Bureau at Sanborns, 1920 unknown books
1919001838Scranton PA: Ukrainian Book Store 1919. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 4 1/2; pp. 1 4-30; light brown wraps ruled with an intricate border; thin closed cut to tail of spine; mild age-toning to margins; very good condition. A mysterious little work it was presumably written and published by Vasyl Hryshko who was considered by some the first Ukrainian bookseller in the United States. Humorous and at the same time offensive and steeped in stereotypes the book contained poems and stories about the gypsies and their lives including chapters such as "A Gypsy Funeral" and "A Gypsy Bull." Not in OCLC or in the trade as of July 2015. Scranton, PA: Ukrainian Book Store paperback books
193329616Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran 1933. 8vo pp. 22. Illustrated with photographs. Paper wraps. Includes bibliography. VG. Seems to be a publicity pamphlet for the author. Doubleday, Doran unknown books
188623125Tonawanda NY 1886. 4to pages not numbered. Frontis portrait. Cover and page edges stamped in gilt. Slight staining on a few pages one hinge tender leather cover somewhat scuffed and worn o/w VG. A memorial book with a short bio of the subject and an account of her funeral. unknown books
1918006188Berlin: Deutscher Verlag 1918. First American. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Pictorial Cover Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 254 pp. Fraktur. Full-color illus. front-cover creases along illus. 2 full-color paintings in-text photographs numerous sketches. Deutscher Verlag unknown books
1772WRCLIT43024Dublin: Printed for the Author and sold by the Booksellers 1772. 479pp. Small octavo signed in 4s. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. A bit dusty faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library but a good copy. First edition of the first part; a second part 19pp was published early the following year. An assemblage of ruminations extending from the macro to the micro beginning with the effects of the Great Flood on nature and men the development of commerce and finally commerce and trade affecting Ireland with abundant reference to Molyneux Petty et al. Pages 70-79 consist of over one hundred queries in the style of Berkeley. Both parts were reprinted in London and Goldsmiths lists only the 1774 London printing of the second part. HIGGS 5612. BRADSHAW 4590. BLACK 818. ESTC T125064. Printed for the Author, and sold by the Booksellers unknown books
1950291178Made in Japan.: No publisher. circa 1950. Color pictorial boards in a color pictorial slipcase. . Very good in a good slipcase with moderate wear and some chipping. 20.5x16.5 cm. . An uncommon children’s book in remarkable condition in the fragile slipcase. weight: 0.7 lb. 12 full page color images including endpapers some with moving parts others with noise makers. No publisher. hardcover books
198522644NY:: Grove Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. Book club edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Grove Press, hardcover books
187716169London: Privately Printed 1877. Leather lightly scuffed evidence of minor archival repair to the spine light rippling to pages likely caused by the mounting of the photographs hint of foxing; photographs themselves noticeably browned at the edges; a lovely copy overall of a period travelogue with excellent pictures and typography. First Edition. Octavo. Full leather with raised bands on spine stamped in gilt. This delightful book features the tale of a family trip to North Wales as told in verse and photography. INSCRIBED by the author unknown to an Ellen Pitman and dated in the year of publication. With 55 original mounted photographs many quite good albeit discolored along the edges. The typeface throughout is particularly lovely and a good sample of font from this period. Comical woodcuts at the end of each chapter. Only three copies in OCLC all in the U.K. London: Privately Printed unknown books
1827295301London: Colburn 1827. First. hardcover. near fine. 329 pages. Small 8vo 3/4 red polished calf over old marbled boards ornate gilt-stamped spine with raised bands. London: Colburn 1827. First Edition.<br/><br/> Comprising an Account of his Campaigns and Adventures in England Ireland Denmark Portugal Spain Malta Sicily and Italy.<br/><br/> Colburn unknown books
030073quarto 37 pp. bound in half leather embossed cloth covered boards binding worn rubbed scuffed small tear to spine entries dated 16 October - 11 November 1845 and 23 September 1847.<br /><br /><p>Copies of these journal entries-letters were made with a "<i>Wedgwood's highly improved manifold writer</i>." According to an online site at the Yale Center for British Art1 a crude form of carbon paper was patented by Ralph Wedgwood in 1806. The Wedgwood Patent Manifold Writer was patented in 1806 and initially intended as a means of helping blind people to write. But it was very quickly adapted for business use and similar systems that were sold from 1806 until around the end of the 19th century enabled users to retain a copy of outgoing letters made with this carbon paper. </p> <p> The original Wedgwood system used manifolds consisting of a sheet of transparent paper followed by a sheet of ordinary writing paper. To write a letter and make a carbon copy simultaneously the user would insert a sheet of double sided carbon paper between the transparent sheet and the writing paper. When the user wrote with an agate-tipped stylus on the transparent paper he would produce an outgoing letter on the ordinary paper under the carbon. He would also produce a copy in reverse on the back of the transparent sheet and because the sheet was transparent the copy could be read from the front. Mark Twain wrote some of his stories on Manifold Writers in the early 1870s. </p> The item offered here does not include the "agate-tipped stylus" but does include some of the carbon paper and a piece of metal the size of a piece of writing paper that presumably was placed under the letter carbon paper and tissue copy paper in order to have a hard surface to write on. <p> <b>Description of Journal-Letters</b> </p> <p> While the manuscript is not signed clues within the text tell us that the writer was from New York ".us Yankees" & "I find myself as comfortable in London as I do in New York" and likely worked on the steamer <i>Washington</i>. In the first section of the journal when our writer is on board the steamer <i>Cambria</i> he mentions that he is sharing a room with a British nobleman. He does not necessarily know the man but they are sharing a room on the voyage. Thus we can infer that the writer is a male from New York who is of the upper class or upper middle class and knowledgeable about ships but he also appears to be a merchant as the journal shows him placing orders with commission houses in Liverpool Leeds and elsewhere in England. </p> <p> There are two different sections of this volume. The first section of the journal carries entries from 16 October to 11 November 1845 and consists of 32 pages with everyday entries beginning while aboard the Steamer <i>Cambria</i> on 16 October followed by other entries while on board the steamer and afterwards entries made during his trip to England from the Waterloo Hotel at Liverpool on 27 October followed by postings from Huddersfield 28 Oct. London 6 Nov. Dover 10 Nov. and finally Brussels Belgium on 11 November 1845. </p> <p> The <i>Cambria</i> left the port of Boston on 16 October 1845. Our writer states he will keep a journal for the amusement of the person he addresses it to which is simply "My Dear." On the second page of the journal our author writes that Fanny Kemble the famous actress is on board his ship: </p> <p> <i>"We have as passenger Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler - who has for the 3rd or 4th time parted from her husband & is now returning disconsolate without her children to her friends upon the other side of the Atlantic. It is said that her husband has weaned the affections of their children from their mother & that she is going back to England quite broken hearted the truth of which I can not vouch for - But if the statement is true as regards her a circumstance that occurred today might by many be considered quite ominous. Mrs. B. has been reclining by the starboard side of the saloon on a mattress part of the time engaged in reading say Stearns Tristram Shandy or some other work no matter what & part of the time ensconced in the arms of that goddess yclept Morpheus. She was habitat in a velvet cloak which almost entirely covered her dress of red & blk fig'd cashmere. Upon her head rested a gentleman's blue cloth cap which was destitute' of visor ornamented with a bank of fur which gave her quite a Lady Gay Spanker appearance. As it was she was fast asleep a few hours previous."</i> </p> <p> Adding to the Fanny Kemble story our writer goes on to state that a hawk was flying about the rigging of the ship. A young lad climbed up and caught the bird with his cap. He clipped the hawk's wings and let it run around the deck for the amusement of the children on board. Then at one point the bird got into the saloon where Fanny Kemble was sleeping: </p> <p><i>".he at last in utter despair perched himself upon the shoulder of the unfortunate Fanny & so congenial to the feelings of this poor persecuted bird appeared his resting place that it was with great difficulty that he could be compelled to vacate it - As poor Fanny lay in the above position I could not but say to myself is that hawk an emblem of the workings of thy spirit."</i> </p> <p> The writer then tires of writing about Kemble stating <i>"No more of Fanny for the present."</i> He then writes about everyday shipboard events a sermon he attended people drinking in the ship's saloon etc. He mentions other ships he sees the fact that "the captains of the packet ships detest the steamers." Our writer tells us the <i>Cambria</i> will make the transatlantic trip in "11 days" the shortest transatlantic trip prior was made earlier by the <i>Cambria</i> in "10 days and 18 hours." </p> <p> Our author gives a description of some of the people he meets on the ship; in particular he spends time with three Scotch parsons one of whom the clergyman that gave the sermon on the ship he takes a liking to. The writer arrives in Liverpool spends the night at a hotel then in the morning takes a train to Manchester. At Manchester he calls on the commission houses that he "does business with." On 30 October he writes: </p> <p> <i>"</i><i>Have done but little business today. Shall be compelled to wait here until market day which is next Tuesday when all the small manufacturers of the neighboring villages bring in their samples& goods a large building having been provided for their accommodation by Sir John Ramsden who in fact owns most all the Real Estate in the town." </i> </p> <p> The writer then takes a carriage trip to Leeds from Liverpool for the day where he places some orders with different commission houses. He mentions that Leeds is: </p> <p><i>".the principal market for cloths blankets and stuff goods - aside from its manufacturers it is a place of but little interest. It is a dirty smoky town & I hurried out of it at ½ pass 3 PM by the same coach upon which I went up."</i> </p> <p> He then goes to Barnsly "the seat of the principal linen manufactories of England." He places his orders for "linen drillings thus our author appears to be a cotton goods merchant or textile merchant. </p> <p> After Liverpool Leeds and Huddersfield he takes a train to London where he tours the city with a friend from New York that he meets on the train. After a day or two transacting business he takes a train to Dover spends the night and heads to Brussels Belgium in the morning. This is the end of the first section of the journal. </p> <p> The second section is much smaller and is headed: <i>"Voyage of Steamer Washington"</i> and dated for September 23-25 1847 4 pp. This is only the second voyage of the <i>Washington</i> her maiden voyage being back on June 1st 1847. The entries are for the first three days of the voyage the ship eventually arrived at Southampton on October 9th. </p> <p> The <i>Washington</i> leaves from "Pier 5 North River." A newspaper advertisement in the <i>New York Evening Post</i> dated 22 Sept 1847 p.3 states that "Steamer Washington will positively start for Southampton and Bremen on.the 23d September." It was a ship for the Ocean Steam Navigation Company at 45 William Street in NYC. The "Washington" was a side-wheeler built by Westervelt & Mackay and launched on 31 January 1847 the two engines were built by the Novelty Works of Stillman & Allen New York NY. This entry mentions a "Mr. Stillman" and that he built the engines. Much of the four pages concern the engines of this ship its speed the amount of coal being used the fact that the coal was no good etc. The <i>Washington</i> appears to have been the first regularly scheduled connection between the United States and mainland Europe. </p> <p> The <i>Washington</i> was also involved in a very famous U.S. Maritime postal history event. The Ocean Line was established in the U.S. with the British & North American Royal Mail Packet Co. better known as The Cunard Line. As an American Packet line the rating of letters was planned to follow the British plan vis. and the prepayment of a 24 cent Packet Letter charge plus inland postage in the U.S. with the letters to be received in England as Ship Letters at the 8d. rate where the captain would receive the 2d "Captain's pence" for each letter. However when the <i>Washington</i> arrived at Southampton on her maiden voyage and the 1st voyage of the line the British authorities declared that her letters were "Packet Letters" subject to the one shilling 24 cents Packet rate and not eligible for any "Captain's pence." This happened in spite of the fact that these incoming mails had been transported by a U.S. Packet. After all Royal Mails coming into American ports were rated as Ship Letters. This infuriated the U.S. postal authorities and resulted in the Retaliatory Rate period whereby all letters by British Packets in or out of American posts were charged 24 cents plus inland postage in the U.S. as well as being charged 1/- 24 cents in Britain. This lasted until a treaty was signed in 1848. </p> <p> It appears the writer is either on board to check the engines or that he worked on the ship itself. The entries do not sound as if he is simply a passenger. On board with him are about thirty passengers including a "Mr. McC and his lady and son" and many "Germans" heading to Bremen and a "Miss Henick" who is going on a tour of Europe. There is much mention of the workings of the ship's engine coal breeze wind speed etc. </p> <p>1. Yale Center for British Art. http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/4009986</p> hardcover books
19731N.p. London: ca 1976: C.A.C.T.L. Campaign Against the Criminal Trespass Law`. Original silk-screened poster in two colors; 30" x 20". Trivial edge-rubbing; Fine / Grade A. Large vivid poster promoting the rights of squatters tenants and gypsies. Unattributed but possibly from the Paddington Printshop in London a peoples' printmaking workshop where a great many squatters' rights materials were produced. This poster advertises the Campaign Against the Criminal Trespass Law organized in 1976 and warns: "If you are a trade unionist tenant squatter claimant gypsy: this bill attacks your interests - Stop This Bill. C.A.C.T.L. [Campaign Against the Criminal Trespass Law]` unknown books
48891NY: Andrews. Small broadside 6x8-3/4 inches with words to the song and a decorative border. Rather carelessly trimmed at edges slight foxing and a small hole at center bottom o/w VG. Andrews unknown books
1856002315S. l.: S. n. 1856. First Edition. Very good. A silk campaign ribbon; 7 1/2 x 2 1/2; possibly originally mint-green or blue faded to beige especially along margins; a bit of fraying to top and bottom; overall in very good condition. Steel engraving by Martin Johnson & Co. 1856 sheet 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 engraving approx. 8 1/4 x 6; light age-toning to margins; very good or better condition. A grammatical and/or spelling error a typo or a slogan with a deeper meaning A rare presidential campaign ribbon for John C. Fremont and William Dayton's running for President and Vice President in 1856 it depicts a portrait of Fremont below a picture of the American Eagle with the slogan: "Fremont and Dayton / The Peoples' Candidates." Also included is a beautiful portrait of Fremont in an elaborate oval historiated frame titled: "J. C. Fremont. The Explorer of the Rocky Mountains." S. n. unknown books
002827Scottsdale: Jim Fowler's Period Gallery 1978. Pictorial Cover. Very Good. Limited/Numbered. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 58 pp. #1306 of 3000. Catalog with 37 full-color reproductions of Berg G. Phillips O.E. Berninghaus E.I Couse Joseph Sharp Walter Ufer W.r. Leigh Alfred Bierstadt. 25 b&w reproductions of Edward Borein Scottsdale: Jim Fowler's Period Gallery, 1978 unknown books
002793Santa Fe: Jean Seth 1989. Pictorial Cover. Very Good. Limited. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 102 pp. George O'Keeffe 'Red & Orange Hills 1938" on cover many full-color reproductions in catalog of 488 items including lithographs by Chagall and Renoir in addition to Dasburg Ellis Gaspard Howard Cook Beatien Yazz Vitor HIggisn Alfred Morang many others. Santa Fe: Jean Seth, 1989 unknown books
1779289620No place Amsterdam. : Au Temple de la VeriteÌ. 1779 . Publisher’s plain wraps stabbed. . Very good untrimmed in the wraps corners dog-eared. . 8vo. 21x13.5 cm. . French text. Consists of: Lettre d'une anonyme à un anonyme ou Procès de l'esprit et du coeur de Mr. d'Alembert. - Lettre à M. Fréron par Mme de La Motte. - Lettre de Mme de Saint-G à M. Fréron. - Extraits du "Journal de Paris". weight: 0.2 lb. Au Temple de la VeriteÌ. paperback books
1960294605Tokyo: Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai 1960. hardcover. fine/very good. Colored frontispiece black & white illustrations. 201 pages. Tall slim 8vo heavily textured brown silk cloth. Tokyo: Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai 1960. Fine in very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> JAPANESE Classics Translation Committee. Volume III ONLY.<br/><br/> Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai unknown books
