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16-2915Amazon Posters: 1982. 17 x 11 inches. Some fold marks. Provenance: Peter Howard Serendipity Books Berkeley. Amazon Posters: 1982. unknown
19922110502151005980Saito Shobo 1992. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 4 Saito Shobo paperback
1975194241975. LGBTQ The Lesbian Reader: An Amazon Quarterly Anthology. Edited by Gina Covina and Laurel Galana. Cover drawing and graphics by Sharon Behrends. Oakland: The Amazon Press 1975. First Edition. Softcover illustrated cover illuminating two women standing beside one another and a butterfly. Amazon Quarterly was the first national literary magazine with a lesbian perspective begun back in 1972. The Lesbian Reader collects short stories essays and poetry from Amazon Quarterly's three-year life span. Featured within The Lesbian Reader are several short stories that reflect upon Lesbianism in the 1970's. Titles of the stories include: "Woman Becoming" "The Lesbian Love Ethic" and "I Dream in Female: The Metaphors of Evolution". In "The Lesbian Love Ethic" Donna Richards surfaces a crucial notion: "For the single Lesbian who has lived through a number of such affairs and has come to realize their dynamics this general expectation of sex.constitutes a suffocating straight jacket to her maneuverability" 41. A complex amalgamation of Lesbian love heartache poetry and prose in the 1970's this Lesbian book is in very good condition. unknown
1975196161975. LGBTQ Amazon Poetry: An Anthology of Lesbian Poetry edited by Elly Bulkin and Joan Larkin. New York: Tower Press 1975. First edition Second printing. Tan soft cover wrappers with red titling. Octavo. 110 pages total. The prefatory note describes the anthology as ".a book of poems that show the scope and intensity of lesbian experience.The poems convey both private joy and pain and humor and a larger context of racial economic and social inequality". Significant lesbian authors are featured within the anthology including Audre Lorde's "To My Daughter a Junkie on a Train" and Rita Mae Brown's "Sappho's Reply". The poetry surfaces the multifaceted nature of lesbian life eloquently exploring themes of "growing up sisterhood sexuality family motherhood work dying Myth Racism Old age war ritual". A consequential anthology of lesbian poetry this book is in very good condition. Front cover mildly foxed otherwise this book is in very good condition. unknown
BN67620Volvo PV 444/544 1800 S/ E/ ES Amazon 121/122 S/123 GT. 1945 - 73 Hardcover <br/><br/> hardcover
1888236573London: Wyman & Sons 74-76 Great Queen Street 1888. First edition. Mounted Photo as frontispiece and 31 plates with another photo included 4 folding maps etc. 309 3pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later green cloth tan leather title label. Fine. First edition. Mounted Photo as frontispiece and 31 plates with another photo included 4 folding maps etc. 309 3pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Ads for the Mining Exhibition in Lima 1888 at the end. Palau VI 110831 Wyman & Sons, 74-76 Great Queen Street unknown
1961231231961. Baum Allyn. Peru photo archive a substantial working group of large original photographs and related New York Times material centered on Baum's Peru assignments significant for preserving a photographer's own visual record of Andean and Amazonian travel Indigenous communities village life and editorial circulation within mid twentieth century American newspaper photojournalism. Allyn Baum was a staff photographer for The New York Times from 1957 to 1967. Included is a typed note from New York Bureau Chief Gedeon de Margitay congratulating Baum on the Peru photographs published in the Magazine together with the January 21 1962 New York Times article "Into the Unknown" directly linking the images to their original publication context and to contemporary American visual encounters with Peru's Indigenous regions and frontier geographies. From the estate of Allyn Baum. Peru and New York. 1961-1973.<br /> <br /> Archive of 48 items including 46 large silver gelatin photographs a New York Times article written by Baum and a single-page typed letter regarding publication. Most photographs measure 8" x 10" while 9 larger examples measure 10" x 13". Several are mounted on board and bear Baum's signature or detailed inscriptions such as "Jungle Priest" "Headhunter" and "High Andes Quechua Indians in Peru. Working in home . producing products for sport." Many retain original press captions or handwritten notes on the versos some in Baum's own hand. The photographs document river and jungle travel in the Amazon Basin village and market scenes domestic interiors American aircraft and extensive portrait studies of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous peoples. Indigenous sitters appear weaving spinning wool knitting carrying children traveling by canoe gathered near riverside settlements or posed in both formal and informal portrait settings. Several photographs emphasize textile production and traditional labor practices among Quechua communities in the high Andes while others focus on Amazonian Indigenous groups photographed within thatched settlements and river communities preserving material evidence of architecture clothing subsistence practices and daily life during a period when American newspaper photography increasingly framed Indigenous South America through the lens of exploration modernization and remote access.<br /> <br /> The archive is a strong record of Peru in the early 1960s documenting not only transportation networks settlement patterns and regional travel but also Indigenous cultural continuity across both Andean and Amazonian environments. Baum's photographs repeatedly center Indigenous Peruvians not simply as background figures within landscape photography but as primary subjects whose labor dress craft production domestic life and physical presence structure the visual narrative of the archive. The accompanying New York Times material preserves the editorial framework through which these images entered American mass circulation while the de Margitay note confirms internal recognition of Baum's Peru work within the newspaper itself. The later date range appears to reflect continued press handling reuse and captioning rather than a single production moment giving the archive additional value as a working newspaper photography file shaped over time. Minor edgewear throughout; versos with original handwritten descriptions by Baum and press editors. A cohesive and well-preserved Peru field photography archive documenting Indigenous life regional travel and mid century American photojournalism connected to The New York Times. unknown
