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196526870San Francisco: Sexual Freedom League of San Francisco 1965. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good . Stapled paperbound quarto. At the top of the first page is the following statement: This edition of The Fug's Songbook is reprinted Oct. 1965 by Sexual Freedom League of San Francisco Box 14007 SF California". 28 leaves printed on rectos only. Front and rear cover paper is peach. A very handsome example of this scarce FUG's item. This book would go on to be reprinted several times out of Detroit in 1966 and beyond. Sexual Freedom League of San Francisco paperback books
13889Bold and graphic movie poster in black and white with vibrant pops of red. The banner reads: "BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR!" and below with the characteristic stylized hand of a puppermaster the poster proclaims: "PARAMOUNT PICTURES PRESENTS The Godfather WINNER OF 3 ACADEMY AWARDS" Measures 17"x22". 2 small pinholes in each corner not affecting images or text. Single fold down center horizontal and vertical. Slight paper separation in center where folds meet. Scuff mark in lower right on the word "Admission." U.S. Window ORIGINAL MOVIE POSTER issued by the studio when the film was released and meant for theatrical display after it won the Oscars .Not a reproduction.This version released during the 1973 rerelease after it won 3 oscars is very rare and this one is overall in Excellent condition. unknown books
1886II618-001New York; San Diego; London: W. E. Webb; Geo. H. Sisson; Captain Francis Pavy 1886. Paperback. Very Good. Single Large Sheet folded. 35 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches unfolded. 24 pp. Each page 9 1/2 x 6 inches. Seal of the International Company of Mexico on the front cover 6 black-and-white half-tone photographs 2 maps; text clean unmarked. Single sheet of printed tan paper; light soiling to covers small holes at folds when closed there is a paper repair at the foot of the spine pencil notations on front cover. II618-001. Very Good. Barrett notes 2 different states for this promotional broadsheet which contains 6 illustrations of orange groves banana plants olive and oak trees and 2 maps; one map of the US and another of northern Baja California. These images do not line up seated with the text on the opposite side so it would not do to trim the broadsheet. This promotional piece encourages emigration to Baja California describing agricultural and mining opportunities and boasting about the city of Ensenada. George H. Sisson was a nineteenth-century American entrepreneur. He was born in Michigan and was an early real estate developer in Chicago. He was a mining engineer in Arizona and with his profits from the Arizona operation Sisson purchased a large land concession in Baja California on July 24 1884 with Luis Huller. This concession extended between 29 degrees north and 32 degrees 42 minutes north and included Cedros Island. Additional purchases extended their holdings to 13325630 acres. In 1885 Sisson and Huller formed the International Company of Mexico in Hartford Connecticut with Sisson as general manager. The company was sold to the British Mexican Land and Colonization Company in 1888. These land holdings represented the problems in land distribution during the Porfiriato 1876-1911; related lawsuits continued for years afterward. REFERENCE: Barrett Baja California No. 1306. W. E. Webb; Geo. H. Sisson; Captain Francis Pavy paperback books
1886II618-002Hartford CT etc: Edgar T. Welles etc 1886. Paperback. Very Good. Signed. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches. 22 2 pp. 6 black-and-white half-tone photographic illustrations 3 maps printed on the wrappers include a map of Ensenada on the inside of the front cover a map of the United States showing the "Lands of The International Company of Mexico Lower California" inside the rear cover and a more detailed map of Baja California "Map of Lands of the International Co. of Mexico Located in Lower California" on the outside of the rear cover; text clean unmarked. Blue printed wrappers stapled; light shelf wear rear cover stained affects mostly the part of the map marked "Gulf of California." Ownership signature of B. A. C. Stephens Los Angeles CA at head of front cover. II618-002. Very Good. This is another version of The International Company of Mexico's Tierra Perfecta in this instance the printer is noted on the front cover as "Francis Valentine & Co. Printers San Francisco Cal." and the "publishers" are noted as Edgar T. Welles Hartford CT; George H. Sisson Vice-President and General Manager San Diego Cal.; Charles Scofield General Agent San Diego Cal.; and W. E. Webb Land Commissioner 160 Broadway New York. The 6 half-tone illustrations appear appropriately on the respective pages. The 2 un-numbered pages at the end of the text include 1 blank and on the second page verso is an illustration of the "Office of the International Company of Mexico at San Diego Cal." showing a 5-story building at the corner of F Street and 6th Streets the site of Hanbury and Garvey Land Agents. Rubber stamp of "Hanbury & Garvey" land agents on front cover. PROVENANCE: B. A. Cecil Stephens was a member of the Historical Society of Southern California in the 1890s and also a member of a syndicate interested in water flows in the lower Colorado River. An inquiry directed towards the Historical Society of Southern California requesting information on Stephens resulted in the comment that the HSSC "does not have records of the early members of the Society." REFERENCES: Barrett Baja California No. 1305 and 1306 neither of which is this issue with the Francis Valentine & Co. Printers San Francisco Cal.; Ramirez American and English Influence on the Early Development of Ensenada pp. 45-56. Edgar T. Welles, etc paperback books
19522088New York: The Living Theatre 1952. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small Quarto 9 1/8 x 6 inches; 230 x 155 mm 16 pages in stapled red wrappers printed on Japanese paper.<br /><br />Program for Paul Goodman's "Faustina" which opened at the Living Theatre on May 251952 starring Julie Bovasso as Faustina. Judith Malina directed and Julian Beck designed sets and costumes.<br /><br />This production was part of the first season at the Living Theatre's first permanent performance space at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. The program includes a "portrait sketch" of playwright Paul Goodman by Laura Perls; "Notes on a Ritual Tragedy" by Judith Malina; and a full-page drawing by Larry Rivers for "A City Winter and Other Poems" by Frank O'Hara. <br /><br />There are also advertisements from local businesses especially bookstores and cafes; a list of paintings for sale by Julian Beck; and a list of sponsors which included John Cage Jean Cocteau Merce Cunningham Betty Parsons and other luminaries of the art and literary worlds.<br /><br />"Faustina" was an important milestone in Living Theatre history. The play's title refers to the wife of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. At the end of the play Faustina is supposed to step forward and chastise the audience for not leaping on stage and stopping a murder. However Julie Bovasso as Faustina felt this moment was pretentious and told the audience on opening night about her irritation. She quit the production after just a few performances. Stephen J. Bottoms <i>Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement</i> pages 25-26. <br /><br />Despite the controversy the speech "was the beginning of direct audience confrontation by the Living Theatre a technique used extensively in later productions." Theodore Shank <i>American Alternative Theater</i> pages 8-9. <br /><br />This program is rare and is notable for the use of stunning Japanese paper for the wrappers. OCLC shows only two institutional holdings at SUNY/Buffalo and Michigan. <b>RARE</b>. <br /><br />CONDITION: Slight toning to the pages and bit of edge wear to the Japanese paper wrappers. A beautiful production. Near Fine.<br /><br /> The Living Theatre books
1960131291New York: Self published 1960. Archive of two pieces from one of the New York Underground's most creative and charismatic orators Spencer Holst. Includes Holst's self-published first book "25 Stories" 1960 and a flyer from a reading shortly after publication at The Living Theatre in New York on February 1 1961. <br/><br/>Holst was already a well-known and gifted speaker by the time "25 Stories" was published with the help of his wife abstract expressionist painter Beate Wheeler. He frequently held audiences with his psychedelic and surrealistic tales and would give performances at Judith Malina and Julian Beck's The Living Theatre selling copies of "25 Stories" at the show. Holst's work continued to fascinate audiences and "25 Stories" was reprinted in 1993 by Station Hill Press as the better part of a career-spanning collection "The Zebra Storyteller."<br/><br/>Book: tall handbound perfect bound wrappers 4.5 x 14 inches. Spine ends chipped cracked front hinge dampstains and soiling overall Good plus and still serviceable surviving copies of this fragile book are scarce in any condition. <br/><br/>Flyer: 8 x 12.5 inches. Very Good plus with one vertical fold and minimal toning along the fold. Self published unknown books
195916795New York: The Living Theatre 1959. Near fine. 8.5" x 11" approx. offset printed recto only in black and red. 6.75" x 13.25" approx. Minor toning to both. Very near fine. <br/><br/>Flyers for Jack Gelber's THE CONNECTION directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck. A hit production of The Living Theatre and one that helped cement its reputation as the premier company for avant-garde theater. The play centered on Jazz musicians and junkies waiting on their dealer was an early realistic portrayal of heroin addiction at the end of a decade beset by drug hysteria. The Living Theatre unknown books
1927274707London: Spurr & Swift 1927. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. A lovely set in full blue morocco with gilt rules and corner devices dentelle turn-ins raised bands with titling and decorations. and marbled endpapers. All edges gilt and bound in silk markers. Bound by Charles E. Lauriat of Boston. Each volume with a colored frontispiece. Quite a sumptuous set. Near Fine binding. Spurr & Swift unknown books
19302102019Miniature Dictionary Publishers 1930. softcover. very good. Six miniature leather books with snap enclosures each held by elastic strap in a leatherette envelope. Outer case is 5" in length inner books are 2" x 1.5". Outer case in near fine condition inner leather cases very good. The six volumes are: Cervantes 2 vol.-Don Quixote The Arabian Nights Milton-Paradise Lost Golden Treasury of English Songs The Little Webster. Miniature Dictionary Publishers unknown books
186318000London: Macmillan and Co 1863. Decorative Cloth. Very Good . J. Noel Paton. A handsome very presentable copy of the 1863 1st edition 2nd issue lacking the "L'Envoi" page just following the Dedication page. Solid and VG in its dark-green cloth with bright gilt-design and bordering along the front panel and bright gilt-titling at the spine. One neat faint 1863 presentation inscription from 2 daughters to their father light rubbing to the panels. Firm binding which shows very light cocking. Octavo top-edge gilt with 2 illustrations including the frontispiece by J. Noel Paton. Also includes an elegant custom-made 1/4 morocco dark-green box which has protected the fragile book nicely. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co hardcover books
17692386London: W. Griffin 1769. Collectible; Very Good. Wherein it is demonstrated that our most celebrated Philosophers have for most part taken what they advance from the works of the ancients; and that many important Truths in Religion were known to the Pagan Sages." 1769 1st English language edition. A firm copy still tightly-bound in the publisher's original brown leather over 19th century marbled boards. 6 compartments 5 raised bands original spine label. Solidly VG internally very clean with no writing--save for one very small and neat former owner signature along the front pastedown-- or foxing to speak of. Light chipping at the spine ends one small abrasion and light fading to the back panel. Octavo 459 pgs. "Translated from the French of the Rev. Mr. Dutens Rector of Elsdon in the County of Northumberland--With considerable additons communicated by the Author." <br/><br/> W. Griffin hardcover books
1967131678London: Panther Books 1967. First Edition. First Edition. Details the five-month drug case against the Rolling Stones with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at the forefront a case that would ultimately divide Great Britain and tells how the nation became aware of drugs both "hard" and "soft." Quite scarce. <br/><br/>Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light foxing and toning to the page edges spine ends lightly bumped. Jacket spine and folds slightly toned light rubbing overall and a tiny closed tear. Panther Books unknown books
1971260388Seattle: The Group 1971. Thirty-four issues of the mimeographed bulletin each on varying numbers of 8.5x14 inch sheets stapled at upper left folded for mailing with a red sheet affixed to the page sheet giving the issue number and stating that "the only concurrence we solicit is that which the Devil asked of Wicked John: 'Here-Take a Chunk of Fire and Start Your Own Hell.'" Numbers present are 6 9 13 14 29-46 48-52 and 54-60. Each issue has its own title; these and their authors are listed below:<br/>6. On the alleged wholesomeness of honest toil-Louise Crowley<br/>9: Four Parodies-Gloria Martin Barbara Tomlinson Louise Crowley<br/>Sing To "Home Of The Brave"<br/>The New "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"<br/>Drinking song to "The Dutch Company"<br/>Sing to "The Three Kings" which you may know as the Farandole from "L'Arlesienne"<br/>13. Dear Comrade-Louise Crowley<br/>14. "Chaos"-or Else-G and L Crowley<br/>29. The Last Indian War Part I-Janet Mccloud and Robert Casey<br/>30. The Last Indian War Part 2-Janet Mccloud<br/>31. You Really Want to Know Why Johnny Can't Read-Louise Crowley<br/>32. Revolutionaries: Write About Life!-Jim Everard<br/>33. Season's Greetings-Tomi Schwaetzer<br/>34. The M/W Question Again-Louise Crowley<br/>35. Immigration to Canada-Vancouver Committee to Aid American War Objectors<br/>36. Learn Some Economics-J.E.<br/>37. Accept No Substitutes!-Louise Crowley<br/>38. The Situationists Translated By Jim Evrard<br/>Finally to Create the Situation Which Renders Return Backwards Impossible<br/>39. The Provos-H.M.<br/>Provolution-The Evolution of the Provo Principle<br/>40. The Grating Society-George Crowley<br/>41. Deathwatch-J.R.<br/>42. The Edge-Where It's Really At-J.T.<br/>43. Anatomy of A Frame-Up-Louise Crowley<br/>44. From The Commune-Rainer Longhans<br/>45. Provo for Council-Stan Iverson<br/>46. Letter to "The Movement"-Gloria Martin<br/>48. The Trial-Stan Iverson<br/>49. The Death of A Precedent-J.A.<br/>50. The Yoga Of Sex-Thad & Rita Ashby<br/>51. Society As A Totality-G.N.<br/>52. Two Comments on Bulletin #49 And A Further Observation-L.C.<br/>54. Now That the Tear Gas Has Cleared Away-George Crowley<br/>55. Excerpts from a Projected Tract on Urban Warfare-Stan Iverson<br/>56. The Moral Implications of Anarchism-Davy Jones<br/>57. What Does it Take to Stop a War-1969-George Crowley<br/>58. Their Revolution or Ours!-Barbara Garson<br/>59. Untitled Critique #1-G.A.N.<br/>60. Interview with an Anarcho-Pacifist This is the final issue. The Group unknown books
19675422New York: The Viking Press 1967. Full-Leather. Collectible; Very Good. The specially bound 1st edition limited to 305 copies and signed by 4 of the contributors including author Peter Matthiessen. Handsome in its full chocolate-brown leather and publisher's matching brown slipcase. Bright and clean and VG with unflecked gilt-lettering at the spine and including a solid VG example of the slipcase. Folio 270 pgs. beautifully illustrated thruout by Robert Verity Clem. <br/><br/> The Viking Press hardcover books
1795265626Philadelphia: Francis Childs 1795. unbound. good. in the state of Pennsylvania on Monday the third of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four. An ACT relative to the compensations of certain officers employed in the collection of the duties of impost and tonnage. 8 1/2 inches x 13 1/2 inches. 2pp. Weaknesses at the folds with fraying at the left and right-hand margins. Philadelphia: Francis Childs 1795.<br/><br/> The ACT approved February 14 1795 is signed in type by President Washington Vice President Adams and House Speaker Muhlenberg. Two states exist of this rare circular own with and one without a deposition statement. This copy like the Bristol copies and as noted by Stark and Cole NYPL is without the deposition statement. Evans 29694. Bristol B 9370. Stark & Cole 1164.<br/><br/> Francis Childs unknown books
180411324Washington 1804. 8vo. 140 of 156 pp. <br><br>Via this agreement Georgia turned over to the U.S. its claim to land south of Tennessee and west of the "Chatahochie" River for the express purpose of creating the future state of Mississippi. In return it received the sum of $1250000. The new territory would result in the creation of Alabama and Mississippi. A sticking point but ultimately resolved was the problem of land in Georgia set aside for the Creek Indians by a treaty in 1798. It is common to find the Message without its accompanying documents but this copy is complete: p. 1-8: Message. p. 9-28: Report of the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of An Act for the Amicable Settlement of Limits with the States of Georgia . : 29th November 1804; p. 29-140: Documents accompanying the Report of the Commissioners on the Georgia Mississippi Territory Ceded to the United States: Feb. 10 1803. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 7452. Removed from a nonce volume in need of restiching. "Message" separated from the other pages. Lacks text of document L. A good copy. unknown books
1833442411833. Washington 1833-1836. 3 vols. Washington 1833-1836. 3 vols. Valuable 1833-1836 Compendium Of U.S. Commercial Regulations United States. Department of the Treasury. A Digest of the Existing Commercial Regulations of Foreign Countries With Which the United States Have Intercourse; As Far as They Can be Ascertained. Prepared Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Treasury In Compliance With a Resolution of the House of Representatives of 3d March 1831. Three volumes. Volume I: City of Washington: Printed by Francis Preston Blair 1833; Volumes II and III: Washington City: Blair & Rives Printers 1836. Complete set. Octavo 9" x 5-3/4". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards lettering pieces and blind fillets to spines. Some rubbing some scuffing to boards. Several unopened signatures. Occasional discoloration and foxing interior otherwise fresh. $500. This is one of 750 sets printed for the use of the House of Representatives. A valuable resource for students of commercial and international law of the period and students of taxation as well it contains laws the texts of treaties and statistical information. These books were published at an important juncture in U.S. history. Having survived the Napoleonic Wars and the devastation of the War of 1812 the United States was beginning to emerge as one of the world's leading commercial powers. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2003 Supplement 7432.70. unknown books
1828317157Philadelphia: Carey Lea and Carey-Chesnut Street and New York by G. and C. Carvill-in Boston by Munroe and Francis 1828. First American edition. 4 507; 10 8 ads 2 ads 2 395 pp. Thomas Kite Printer Frontispiece folding map about half torn away. 2 vols. 8vo 9 x 5- 1/2 inches. Publisher's drab paper boards untrimmed neatly rebacked.with paper labels. Handsome. Contemporary signature of Alfred Welles. First American edition. 4 507; 10 8 ads 2 ads 2 395 pp. Thomas Kite Printer Frontispiece folding map about half torn away. 2 vols. 8vo 9 x 5- 1/2 inches. Lowndes II p. 900 listing UK edition published the same year Carey, Lea, and Carey-Chesnut Street and New York by G. and C. Carvill-in Boston by Munroe and Francis unknown books
1900008172London / New York : S. T. Freemantle / J. B. Lippincott Co. 1900. # 188 of 208 copies printed for America. Two volumes in publisher's original green buckram gilt lettering at spines top edges gilt. Profusely and wonderfully illustrated. Very Good spot of discoloration rear board Vol. II scattered light toning at end papers only. A handsome set of this classic of natural history. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Thick 8vo. S. T. Freemantle / J. B. Lippincott Co. Hardcover books
1806009891LongmanHurstRees and Orme Paternoster Row 1806. Book. Fine. Three-Quarter Leather. 1st Edition. Beautiful Fine 2 Vol Set in Brown 3/4 leather.First Edition 1806.Fresh set without Foxing scarce Condition.Written By Himself Address to his Son. Longman,Hurst,Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row Hardcover books
1890305926Oblong 4to 10 1/2" x 6 3/4". 62 pages 2 pages advertisements beautiful colored lithographed wrappers by Crocker & Co. San Francisco front cover with a view of San Francisco Bay with ships in the harbor. Backcover with advertisements for the Gettysburg pageant panorama and museum and a view of it's special building. Introduction by William Heath Davis. Illustrated with halftone portraits views including Yosemite and advertisements of San Francisco merchants and hotels. Not located in Rocq. H.S. Crocker & Co. paperback books
287913London: Charles Knight. unbound. very good. J. & C. Walker. Six maps. Engravings with original hand coloring. Images measure 12" x 12" sheets measure 16" x 13.5". Some small tears at edges some light staining at edges images unaffected. In very good condition.<br/><br/> A set of beautiful celestial maps issued by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge or SDUK. The maps use the Gnomonic Projection and include stars up to the sixth magnitude of those that can be seen with the naked eye.<br><br>Originally published by Baldwin and Cradock in October 1830 drawn by W. Newton. Constellations were drawn by W. Clarke and engraved by J. & C. Walker. <br><br>The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was formed in 1826 and published low cost maps with the goal of reaching a large market while still maintaining high quality and precision.<br/><br/> Charles Knight unknown books
189048919London: Bemrose & Sons 1890. 1st Edition. Original publisher's red cloth binding with black & gilt stamping. Slight lean. Spine sunned with binding cloth showing wear & soiling with perhaps some moisture exposure. Age-toning to paper. The occasional dog-earred leaf corner. About Very Good. xx 102 xxi - xxxviii pp. Roman numbered pages filled with adverts for medicinal health-related products trusses and foods. Frontispiece albumen photograph of Sister Eva. Facsimile inscription underneath. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/>Autobiographical memoir by Sister Eva wherein the volume's preface she states "This little volume is sent out with the hope that it will afford a means of gaining an insight not only into the work of a nurse but into the character of the nurses themselves. During my career both as Hospital and Private Nurse I have been stuck with the fact that the public know so little of us . thie idea in publishing this little volume . is to give its readers an insight in the Life of a Nurse her time and how it is spent." <br /> <br />OCLC records just 5 holding institutions none in the US. <br /> <br />Rare. Bemrose & Sons hardcover books
56771Taft assures Washburn that he will forward information about the relations of the US and the Philippines and is glad to hear that Washburn's grandsons are going to Yale and Harvard. William Howard Taft September 15 1857 - March 8 1930 served as the 27th President of the United States 1909-1913 and as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1921-1930 the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908 the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921 President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft chief justice a position in which he served until a few weeks before his death. Charles Grenfill Washburn January 28 1857 - May 25 1928 was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. unknown books
15964WOMEN History Corinne Roosevelt Robinson - Completed Application for The Woman's Volume revision of Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography sister of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: 1923. Folding single sheet completed in full with four pages of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson's entries. Stamped July 18 1923 she describes her profession as 'writer of verse and lectures' place of birth as 28 East 20th NYC 1861. Notable facts in father's career: "Founder of American Museum of Natural History Museum of Art Children's Aid Society . etc." She herself was educated at home by Governesses and Professors. She writes "I made the first speech ever made by a woman at a National Convention when in the Republican Convention of 1920 at Chicago I seconded the nomination of General Leonard Wood for President. After Senator Warren G. Harding was nominated he asked me to campaigning for him as one of the members of the Executive Committee of the National Committee which I did making a number of speeches in the middle west in New England New Jersey Pennsylvania New York. Ever since the death of my brother former President Theodore Roosevelt I have given addressed on him at the request of Public Schools Teachers' Associations Rotary Clubs Women's Clubs Political Clubs of all kinds - I have often received as many as nine request to speak on him in one day . my book 'My Brother Theodore Roosevelt' has gone into many editions. I published my first volume of poetry in 1912 under the title of "The Call of Brotherhood" at the suggestion of Scribners who had before published some of my poems in their magazine when sent to them anonymously. In 1914 the same fmn published my second volume "One Woman to Another" and in 1919 "Service Sacrifice" my 3rd volume. In 1921 they published a complete collection under the title of "Poems" . My mother's maternal grandfather Daniel Stewart of Georgia was a General in the Revolution his great grandfather paternal Archibald Bullock was the first War President of ." Very good. paper. unknown books
