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191681209New York: The Masses Publishing Co 1916. First Edition. Slim quarto 34.5cm; original pictorial wrappers stapled; 22pp; illus. Wrappers separated and neatly detached along the spine-fold some wear tiny nicks and tears to extremities; contents clean complete; Very Good. An early issue of this innovative bohemian-socialist magazine conceived by Dutch socialist immigrant Piet Vlag in 1911. "Nothing like it had ever been seen in America before. It was an arts and letters magazine that thoroughly embraced a political agenda of radical reform and pacifism. And it managed to do this unlike all of its predecessors in the field of political thought and opinion with wit and style. The result was then and remains today a joy to behold an ever-evolving experiment in publishing and a supremely entertaining intellectual high-wire act" West Richard. The Masses Index 1911-1917 p.5. The contents of the magazine were a mixture of literature and poetry political reportage coverage of world events artwork political cartoons and articles on social reform and suffrage. This issue includes contributions by Max Eastman Floyd Dell Jean Starr Untermeyer Dorothy Weil Frank Bohn Harry Kemp and Susan Glaspell with illustrations by John Sloan Art Young George Bellows H.J. Glintenkamp Stuart Davis and a pictorial centerfold by Maurice Becker. The Masses Publishing Co unknown
81212New York: The Masses Publishing Co. First Edition. Slim quarto 34.5cm; original pictorial wrappers stapled; 36pp; illus. Wrappers separated and detached along the spine-fold showing moderate wear some tears and chips to extremities though not affecting design; contents clean complete; Very Good only. An early issue of this innovative bohemian-socialist magazine conceived by Dutch socialist immigrant Piet Vlag in 1911. "Nothing like it had ever been seen in America before. It was an arts and letters magazine that thoroughly embraced a political agenda of radical reform and pacifism. And it managed to do this unlike all of its predecessors in the field of political thought and opinion with wit and style. The result was then and remains today a joy to behold an ever-evolving experiment in publishing and a supremely entertaining intellectual high-wire act" West Richard. The Masses Index 1911-1917 p.5. The contents of the magazine were a mixture of literature and poetry political reportage coverage of world events artwork political cartoons and articles on social reform and suffrage. This issue includes contributions by Elizabeth Hines Hanley Adriana Spadow Harry Kemp John Reed Jean Starr Untermeyer Charles W. Wood Amy Lowell and Max Eastman et al. with illustrations by Cornelia Barns Art Young K.R. Chamberlain Boardman Robinson Hugo Gellert John Barber O.E. Cesare and others. Cover art by Will Hope. The Masses Publishing Co unknown
1873815441873. PERIODICALS ed. J. C. SQUIRE. THE LONDON MERCURY AN INTERRUPTED RUN. London: London Mercury 1878-1937. var pp. Square small 4tos orange wrappers. Literary magazine. Very good condition some creasing and edgewear to wrappers. As follows: No. 73 Nov 1925 - 78 April 1926 No. 85 Nov. 1926 - 96 Oct. 1927 No. 181 Nov. 1934 No. 211 May 1937 - 216 Oct. 1937. unknown
179743045West-Chester PA: Printed by Derrick & Sharples 1797. First edition. Removed. A very good- copy removed from a large volume front leaf detached and creased with a few chips; rear two leaves creased; otherwise clean. 3 172-224 pp. 8vo. Contains articles on science useful arts agriculture & politics as well as literary prose & verse. Includes "Description of the Mississippi River by Thomas Hutchins. Only six issues were published January through June 1797. One of a number of short lived early American periodicals. Uncommon in the market. Sabin 41494. Mott p. 790. Printed by Derrick & Sharples unknown
1913800311913. PERIODICALS Trevelyan Francis & Frank Allaben eds. THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY VOLS. I - VII PLUS INDEX I - V. New Haven/Greenfield IN: Associated Publishers of American Records/Frank Allaben Genealogical Company 1907-1913. Quarterly four numbers in each volume Volumes I - VII. 764 14 pp./716 16 pp./652 pp/632 12 pp./640 pp./788 6 pp./789-1271 pp. Index Vols. I - V: 281 xxxx pp. Half leather with raised bands and gilt spine lettering over pebbled paper covered boards. Minor wear to spines else fine with color/gilt plates tipped in plates and thousands of b/w photos and illustrations. A massive compendium of Americana American history reproductions and facsimiles of historical documents. Extra postage required for this substantial set. unknown
754Covers lightly rubbed creased and soiled; moderate toning throughout. Very good. JJA-754. <p>The Housewife: A Practical Magazine. Vol 1 No. 1 1886. London: Offices of "The Million" 1886.</p> <br /> <p>Measures approx. 10.5x 7 inches. 28pp. Illustrated. With numerous articles on domestic life ads. Publisher's grey paper wraps stringbound.</p> <br /> <p>Debut issue of this 19th century magazine for British homemakers. </p> . unknown
181345481Philadelphia: Kimber & Richardson 1813. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo 21.5cm.; Vol. I bound in slightly later half calf over marbled boards black gilt spine label Vol. II in full contemporary sheep red gilt spine label; 4506; 6484pp.; engraved title pages 25 leaves of plates including eight folding. Evidence of previously removed library bookplates to Vol. 1 pastedowns some scuffing to boards more heavily so to Vol. II some light foxing one leaf trimmed close with slight loss of text a couple of closed tears to folding leaves else Very Good and sound overall. Attractive engraved pictorial bookseller ticket to rear pastedown of Vol. II. Complete first and second volumes of the New Series edited by the Anglo-American chemist Thomas Cooper. Though not a particularly brilliant scientist Cooper's "greatest service to science was undoubtedly the dissemination of information" Dictionary of Scientific Biography III p. 400. The present collection includes detailed articles on sugar from beets and grapes "Comparative Height of Mountains on the Earth the Moon and Venus" turnpike roads making "fine Cutlery" foreign and homemade wines criminals from 1805 to 1811 and "the uses of a dead horse by the editor." SHAW & SHOEMAKER 28226. Kimber & Richardson unknown
0266104940.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
196333458New York: V.L. Richman 1963. Six issues. Quarto 14" x 8-1/2". Original corner-stapled sheets; mimeographed; each issue 6pp. Horizontal folds for mailing else Very Good to Fine. Six representative issues including the scarce inaugural number of this individualist anarchist semi-monthly which ran to a total of 23 issues ceasing publication in 1965. An eccentric and ephemeral publication described on the mast-head thus: "An independent and assertedly individual journal of commentary news and criticism of interest to residents of New York City published semimonthly edited by V.L. Richman and dedicated to prisons and jailers that they may continue to make anarchists of us all." The second issue contains a solicitation for submissions but it would appear that Richman in addition to editing and publishing the paper also provided most of its content. V.L. Richman unknown
189695888McSherrytown PA: McSherrytown 1896. First edition. Vol. One only of four. Hardcover; original cloth. Ex-convent library book with paper spine label and name stamp on title page else a clean tight book in good condition. First volume of a four volume series. This volume includes the issues published from #1 Sept 1896 through #26 August 1897. McSherrytown unknown
1977019755California PA: Arthur and Kit Knight 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Pictorial wraps 8-1/2" x 11" with a photograph of Kerouac on the cover. Edited by Arthur and Kit Knight. Contributions by all of the major Beat figures. Although there is no indication of such this is from the library of Herbert Huncke. <br/><br/> (Arthur and Kit Knight) paperback
181525368Philadelphia: Moses Thomas 1815. Good. Philadelphia: Moses Thomas 1815. Six volumes bound in one; octavo; contemporary sheep over marbled boards gilt-lettered spine; 45244adspp.; three engraved frontispieces including two portraits as well as added engraved title page plus three portrait plates bound at head of separate issues text illus. throughout. Boards rather scuffed Ex-New Castle Library Company with their contemporary markings tears to two of the frontispieces including loss along bottom edge of one not approaching image textblock significantly foxed presumably lacking two portrait plates. A Good or better copy overall bound with publisher's ads in rear.<br /> <br /> Bound volume of the six issues dated July through December 1815 covering a myriad of topics including naval history exploration pseudoscience "Gall and Spurzheim's System of Craniology" book reviews and poetry "Paradise of Coquettes" etc. Moses Thomas unknown
1949057810Springfield MA/New York: Ace Periodicals Inc. 1949. Paper Back. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Saunders Norman cover. 96pp.incl.adverts; SC red w/blk.&white-color pic.cover; slight rub w/sml.chips&tears; tannedcleantight pgs. Cover story: "You're DEAD Right!" by Donn Mullally <br/> <br/> Ace Periodicals, Inc. unknown
194188576New York: S.R.T. Publications 1941. First Edition. Slim quarto 31cm; original photo-illustrated wrappers stapled; 34pp; illus. Light wear with faint vertical creases to front wrapper; internally clean and unmarked - Very Good.<br /> <br /> WW2-era issue of this long-lived propaganda magazine which was launched in 1932 as the official organ of the Friends of the Soviet Union later called the Council of American-Soviet Friendship a CPUSA front group. The current issue dated shortly before the launch of the Nazis' Operation Barbarossa and the dissolution of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact includes articles by Millen Brand "War Talk and the Soviets"; Gregor Gog "Children's Art in the Soviet Union"; Isidor Schneider "The Quiet Don Flows Home" a review of Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don etc. Illustrated throughout with halftones. GOLDWATER 263. S.R.T. Publications unknown
193988578New York: S.R.T. Publications 1939. First Edition. Slim quarto 31cm; original photo-illustrated wrappers stapled; 42pp; illus. A well-preserved copy with just a touch of rubbing to wrapper edges; Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> Single issue of this long-lived pro-Soviet American propaganda magazine which was launched in 1932 as the official organ of the Friends of the Soviet Union later called the Council of American-Soviet Friendship a CPUSA front group. The current issue is devoted almost entirely to the Soviet Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair: "To those who cannot attend the Fair we hope it may give some idea of the beauty and significance of the Soviet Pavilion and its exhibits." Includes articles by Soviet aviator Vladimir Kokkinaki "The Story of Our Flight"; Joshua Kunitz "Creating a People's Art"; Maurice Hindus "A Talk With Gordienko etc. Well-illustrated with photos of the Pavilion including a 4-pp color insert accompanying Kunitz's article. GOLDWATER 263. S.R.T. Publications unknown
193788579New York: S.R.T. Publications 1937. First Edition. Quarto 31cm; original photo-illustrated wrappers stapled; 96pp; illus; folding map. Slight rubbing and soil to covers; small tear to paper at crown of spine; internally clean tight and unmarked with the folding map in fine condition. Very Good.<br /> <br /> The highly desirableTwentieth Anniversary Issue of this long-lived pro-Soviet American propaganda magazine which was launched in 1932 as the official organ of the Friends of the Soviet Union later called the Council of American-Soviet Friendship a CPUSA front group. The current double-sized issue is a full-throated celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution. Extensively illustrated with photographs and with editorial contributions by such figures as Theodore Dreiser "I Am Grateful to Soviet Russia"; Anna Louise Strong "I Watched the Soviets Grow"; Sidney Webb "Soviet Socialism Comes of Age"; Joseph Breslaw "The USSR Leads Against Fascism" and many others. The large color-printed folding map often lacking is present and in fine condition. GOLDWATER 263. S.R.T. Publications unknown
196810913Cologne: Sounds 1968. First Edition. Printed wrappers saddle stapled. Very Good-. 4to. Pp. 27 including covers. German text. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions. Bound in two-color illustrated paper wrappers saddle-stapled. Rubbed edges and corners minimal soiling to back cover. Laid in subscription postcard. Eventually becoming the leading German music magazineSounds was founded by Blome in 1966 as a jazz fan journal transitioning to rock within a year beginning with a review of Freak Out. In this scarce early issue: articles on Saucerful of Secrets Mothers of Invention farewell to Cream record reviews including Love Forever Changes.<p>Now housed in a clear removable archival sleeve with acid-free backing. Sounds unknown
1333687826.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1334659311.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1334832161.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0331451603.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
190547647Minneapolis: H.W. Wilson Company 1905. Edition not stated. Quarto 25.5cm; brown cloth stamped in gilt spine; patterned endpapers speckled textblock edges; 38393pp. Boards smudged and rubbed particularly about the extremities; minor scratches. Textblock has small crease along upper corner; soiling and light foxing intermittent throughout; title page has library reception stamp dated 1906. Overall Very Good or Better.<br /> <br /> Before the age of the computer-and way before the age of the Internet and its Famous Brand Name Search Engines-library patrons relied on the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature to help them find magazine articles by date and subject. This 1905 edition which belonged to the Maryland State Library is prefaced with 38 pages of period advertisements thankfully we also had yet to invent the pop-up ad. Nowadays the Reader's Guide has gone digital accessible through a regularly updated and searchable online database. H.W. Wilson Company unknown
019754San Francisco: Re/Search 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Creasing to rear cover. Very Good. Pictorial wraps 8-1/2" x 11". With 7 pieces by Burroughs including excerpts from THE PLACE OF DEAD ROADS and a chapter not included in CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Burroughs TWICE once to R'Lene Dahlberg at the top of the table of contents on 27 August 1982 and again to Herbert Huncke at the appearance of THE PLACE OF DEAD ROADS on 1 August 1982: "For Herbert Huncke/who would have been at/home with the Johnson Family/William S. Burroughs/August 1 1982." <br/><br/> Re/Search paperback
1850H5215Philadelphia: Publication House 1850. Hardcover. Good. Quarto half leather marbled boards binding is good general shelfwear rubbing and wear to spine and joints contents very good some foxing. Home and Foreign Record 192 pp The Presbyterian Treasury 144 pp The Foreign Missionary Chronicle pp. 49-64 etc. Includes much on foreign missions and Native American missions including Omahaw Otoe and Ottawa tribes. Publication House hardcover
19184817F1Paris: A. E. F; YMCA. Good with no dust jacket. 1918. Softcover. B000R022IG . 1918 Stapled pamphlet. Distributed to the Allied Expeditionary Forces in France during the 1st World War. Moderate outer wear check marks in the margins tanning. Complete and sound. 83 songs many with musical notation.; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 97 pages . A. E. F; YMCA paperback
