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1920List3307Evansville Indiana: N.p. 1920. Poster on heavy cardstock measuring 14 x 10 ¾ inches. Wrinkling and some water stains; very good plus. A poster advertising a fundraising drive to preserve Cedar Hill the home of Frederick Douglass in Washington D.C. The drive was organized by the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs an early civil rights group then headed by Sallie Wyatt Stewart 1881–1951. Stewart was an educator and activist from Evansville Illinois; she was president of the Indiana Federation of Colored Women and served on the executive board of the National Association of Colored Women among numerous other activities. The NACWC along with Douglass’ widow’s Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association completed their restoration of Cedar Hill in 1922 and owned the property until it was taken over by the National Parks Service in 1962. N.p. unknown
193748700Chicago: Poole Brothers 1937. 1937. 18" x 12" sheet folded to 12 panels. 2 cover panels showing pictorial illustrations of scenes in Utah. Remaining panels offer black and white views of Bryce Zion Capitol Reef Monument Valley Fish Lake Delicate Arch the Manti Temple and the North Rim Trail and with brief information about each location. 1" x 2" water mark and with light wear to the extremities. Very good. Poole Brothers, 1937. unknown
1940158584New York: The Hickory House 1940. Vintage three-color dinner menu from the renowned 52nd Street jazz club circa 1940s with a "Chef's Special" card stapled to the top outer corner of the second leaf.<br /> <br /> One of the longest running and premiere jazz clubs of "Swing Street" as 52nd Street between Fifth and Seventh Avenues was known in the 1930s through the 1950s Hickory House was opened shortly after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 by impresario John Popkin. Featuring a huge oval music bar depicted on the cover of the menu on offer here Hickory House was both a swing venue and the spot to grab dinner and cocktails before a show. A musician's club Hickory House presented and served jazz luminaries for three decades. Among those known to perform or frequent the venue included Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong Benny Goodman Artie Shaw and Thelonious Monk among countless others many of whom were known to be found sitting in with the house band The Hickory House Trio Marian McPartland Bill Crow and Joe Morello on Sunday afternoons in the 1950s. In 1956 jazz pianist and composer Jutta Hipp released two acclaimed Blue Note albums recorded at the club "At the Hickory House Volume 1" and "At the Hickory House Volume 2." By the mid 1960s the venue was one of the last of the jazz clubs left on 52nd street and by the end of the decade closed. As noted on the back of the menu "Life! Life! From ten thirty until scrambled eggs there is always a popular swingy rhythm band to beat out tuneful and catchy syncopations in their own inimitable style."<br /> <br /> <br /> 10.75 x 14.25 inches bi-fold. Very Good plus with light soiling rubbing and edgewear overall and a faint horizontal crease. The Hickory House unknown
19609926San Francisco: Printed by Lawton Kennedy for Francis P. Farquhar 1960. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. Octavo. 14 2 pp. illus. Limited edition one of 350 copies. As issued in stiff printed wrappers; partially unopened copy. Only light toning and rubbing to the wrappers else quite clean and bright. <br /> <br /> This keepsake reprints the 1854 pamphlet title: "Description of the Great Tree Recently Felled upon the Sierra Nevada California Now Place for Public Exhibition in the Spacious Racket Court of the Union Club No. 596 Broadway Adjoining the Metropolitan Hotel New-York." A wonderful if horrifying in its gratuitous felling illustration has exhibition information and prices touting the description of the 3000 year-old tree with a 90' circumference. Some have cited this gratuitous destruction as among of the catalysts of the early environmental movement. Printed by Lawton Kennedy for Francis P. Farquhar unknown
19889934Los Angeles: Scenic Road Press 1988. Unbound. Near Fine binding. Oblong bifolium 6-1/8" x 9-3/4." Limited edition one of 150 copies. Printed in black on the front cover the imprint occupies the verso of the read leaf; interior blank. A nearly fine copy in unused envelope. <br /> <br /> An anxious letter from Morris about taking measure to stop what he and others feel would be a ruinous renovation of the Venetian icon. The original is in the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection. Scenic Road Press unknown
19869935Los Angeles: Scenic Road Press 1986. Broadside. Near Fine binding. Broadside 12-3/4" x 9-1/2." Limited edition one of 200 copies. The letter is set in Morris's Troy type on the recto complete with woodcut initials. Imprint at the bottom. A nearly fine copy in unused envelope. <br /> <br /> Correspondence relating to a plan of window that is being designed with reference to Edward Burne-Jones. The original is in the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection. Scenic Road Press unknown
193013913New Jersey: Private 1930. First Edition Thus. Leather bound. Very good. Original album with photos ledgers scoring records and articles from various New Jersey Rifle Clubs of the 1930s including The Ridgewood Rifle Club The Jersey Rifle Association and The Garden State Rifle League. Folio 28pp 468pp. Three-quarter morocco four raised bands title in gilt on spine. Newspaper clippings of shooting competition records and wins affixed to leaves 28 unpaginated; 1-37pp of ledger. Hundreds of additional leaves with handwritten notes specifically records of car part sales to various New Jersey automotive garages. Additional items laid-in include an 8x10 photograph of the Ridgewood Rifle Club members three used card stock targets and a series of official reports from matches and game associations. Solid text block wear to covers and spine splitting to hinges. A unique piece of ephemera. Although the original compiler of this album is unknown certain names frequently appear throughout including Charlie Vanderbush and Bill Troeger. Private unknown
1976200315024n.p.: Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy 1976. Limited Edition. No binding. Fine. One of 150 copies quarto size 4 pp. This keepsake for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs of California features a short biography of the San Francisco printer Haywood H. Hunt who was vastly influential to the typography and fine press scene in San Francisco even teaching type-setting to Robert Grabhorn of the Grabhorn Press. <br /> <br /> The printers Lawton and Alfred Kennedy produced this booklet; Lawton Kennedy worked for notable printers such as John Henry Nash and Jane Grabhorn of the Colt Press and eventually began publishing books under his own imprint. <br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: One sheet folded twice to make four pages title in black with tipped-in photograph of Haywood Hunt on the front page another black-and-white tipped-in photograph of Hunt on the third page; quarto size 11" by 8.5" one of 150 copies unnumbered. <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: A fine copy clean and without wear. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy unknown
196419063005San Francisco: The Black Vine Press 1964. No binding. Near fine. Elephant folio size 4 pp. Printed for Joseph M. Bransten.for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe-Zamorano Clubs 1964. A humorous take on some characters in Shakespeare's plays in the form of limericks; for example the fourth stanza reads: "Hamlet I'm sorry to find / Was unable to make up his mind. / He shillied and shallied / He dillied and dallied - / In fact he was over-refined." <br /> <br /> With a facsimile on the inner left of hand-written notes made by Beerbohm which was sold as Lot 275 in 1960 at a Sotheby's auction; it is not known that these lines were ever published although there were directions to the printer. A revised and augmented version was later published and this revised version is printed on the inner right along with the essay by Majl Ewing. <br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: A single sheet folded to four pages author's name as a facsimile signature on the front in red title in black holograph on the inner left typed text and essay on the inner right colophon on the back; elephant folio size 15.25" by 11" 4 pages formed by a single sheet folded twice. <br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: Near fine clean and without prior owner markings; a couple of shallow creases else fine. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Black Vine Press unknown
1990159613San Francisco: 6th Street Rendezvous 1990. Vintage flyer for an unidentified show at The 6th Street Rendezvous also known as Chel's Rendezvous San Francisco on Monday July 23 1990. <br /> <br /> Flyer features a collage of portraits including Ronald Reagan George H.W. Bush Carly Simon Spiro Agnew Miles Davis and a Gary Panter / Big Daddy Roth-style cartoon character among others.<br /> <br /> The 6th Street Rendezvous was a short-lived nightclub on 6th Street between Market Street and Mission Street in San Francisco. Located in a decidedly unsafe block of the city in the late 1980s and early 1990s the 6th Street Rendezvous was a popular makeshift club and dive bar for local and touring experimental and art rock bands.<br /> <br /> 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with several small pinholes. 6th Street Rendezvous unknown
19252071<p>13-3/4 x 9 inches. Unpaginated issues approx. 300pp total. Includes a total of 27 complete issues: Vol. 1 Nos. 1-12 including two different issues of No. 10; Vol. 2 Nos. 1-12; and Vol. 3 Nos. 1-3 plus the first two leaves of No. 5. Bound in dark brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board issues mimeographed on different colored sheets mimeo illustrations throughout. Boards worn rubbed and spotted with fraying to corners; chipping to foot of endpaper and edges of Vol. 2 No. 1; newspaper clippings pasted to inside front cover and front endpaper; light soiling to endpapers; at least one leaf of Vol. 3 No. 5 roughly excised. Occasional pencil marginalia possibly in the hand of Jean Monk himself.</p><p>Bound volume of over two years of this monthly publication of the National Fellowship Club a social group for Washington's lonely hearted. Founded around 1921 as the Lonesome Club of the Wilson Normal Community Center to create social opportunities for the influx of single people over 35 to the city during WWI the group acquired Jean Monk's services as president in 1922. It briefly became the Washington Pastime Club which issued a periodical called The Lonesome Bug before being renamed the National Fellowship Club in 1924.</p><p>The club met every Thursday evening to dance and later other evenings of the week as well. Eventually the Club claimed a membership of between 3000 to 4000."There are multitudes of men and women here far from home and without friends or acquaintances" Monk is quoted as saying in the Evening Star. "This club stands ready to welcome them to invite them to spend a pleasant and profitable evening and to offer them our fellowship and assistance in meeting others who like themselves perhaps are strangers in a strange land." Evening Star Dec. 28 1924</p><p>The newspaper includes information on upcoming dances as well as a section called "Fellowship Funnies" editorials news about other social clubs illustrations of costumes for different themed dances poems short narratives and even the occasional screed by Jean Monk about patriotism the "supreme good" and other topics.</p><p>Rare. We find no record of this or <em>The Lonesome Bug</em> in OCLC or other online records.</p> Jean Monk hardcover
19629929Berkeley CA: Tamalpais Press 1962. Unbound. Very Good binding. Bifolium 8-1/2" x 4-1/2." Limited edition one of 100 copies. Trivial edgewear and quite minor toning. A nearly fine copy. <br /> <br /> A wonderful excerpt from Head's Proteus Redivivus or the Art of Wheedling 1679 in which Head describes the increasingly lucrative business of bookbinding and how its craftsmen slowly yielded to the wealth and ease of bookselling letting their tools rust in their leisure and wealth. As a bookseller and former bookbinder I can't help but wonder what I've done wrong. Regardless a wonderful keepsake beautifully printed by Duncan Olmsted and Roger Levenson. Tamalpais Press unknown
1905008595San Francisco: The Club Woman's Guild 1905 Paper. Near Fine. Soft cover. Tall quarto. 14x8 inches. 16pp. Publisher's tan pictorial wrappers printed in black with photographic portrait on cover by J. C. Rasmussen. List of all San Francisco clubs on inner cover. Short closed cut to upper edge of leaves. "Marked Copy" stamped in red at top of front cover. Two minor markings within text. Light vertical crease at center of leaves. A near fine copy. First edition. Volume 3 Number 7. Very scarce! Published monthly Club Life was the official organ of the California Federation of Women's Clubs and the International Sunshine Society. We suspect that most all copies of this periodical were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Original subscription order form laid in. At the time of this writing OCLC locates only 4 odd issues of this periodical. . The Club Woman's Guild paperback
197327913red filed C: Book Committee of the Southminster and Furness Ladies Clubs 1973. Hardcover. Good. Condition good. ref ZKVQ No dust jacket Book Committee of the Southminster and Furness Ladies Clubs hardcover
1973125a5508Saskatchewan: Book Committee of the Southminster and Furness Ladies Clubs 1973. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 280 pages. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Contains considerable information about local familes. Clean bright and unmarked with lightest wear. An excellent copy. Book Committee of the Southminster and Furness Ladies Clubs Hardcover
1934100704Reynal & Hitchcock. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. Brown cloth boards clean bright and square mild age toning and shelf wear to edges. Protected price unclipped dustjacket sharp general age toning short closed tear and general shelf wear to edges. Book firm in binding 110 pages include Lists of Buildings Artists and Bibliography b&w and color plates. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Else -- Free of any markings not ex-library. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 110 pages . Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
1906814461<p>Penton Publishing Company 1906. Good-/No dust jacket boards green cloth with gilt title soiled. Edges are blue spatter as issued. Missing pages 39/40 59/60 63/64 and 75/76 there may be others binding loose. Contains officers and members of American and Canadian Yacht Clubs Power Boat Associations and Clubs Yachting associations Canoe Associations and Clubs. Motor Sail and Steam Yacht owners of the United States and Canada boat builders and engine builders sail makers and marine railways for hauling out.Illustrations of 100 noted yachts. This is a rare edition. should one desire copies of the missing pages these can be made.</p> The Penton Publishing Company hardcover
195614012Woodland CA: The Record of Yolo County 1956. Spiral. Good. Half inch gage white plastic comb spiral binding has a single fracture midway; the wraps are scuffed stained and discolored; interior clean but age toned which is more even uniform and intentional looking than yellowing; POS on front cover. 284 pages of recipes with contributor's name and often affiliation and location as well. As is often the case with vintage mid-century cookbooks the instructions entail some culinary experience and the ingredients vary from industrial jello canned to farm-to-fork style and international fare from the immigrants. Americana. Rare collectible. <br/> <br/> The Record of Yolo County unknown
1920222911920. Promotional materials and photographs documenting burlesque and nightclub performance in the United States between the 1920s and 1950s record the visibility of women performers within commercial entertainment industries centered in cities such as San Francisco and Las Vegas. These materials identify venues including Chez Paree the Colony Club Queen Night Club Stardust and Sinaloa and present showgirls and dancers within staged social and promotional contexts providing evidence of women's participation in nightlife economies during a period of restrictive gender norms. The archive supports research into women's labor history performance culture and the development of American nightlife as a commercial and social institution.<br /> <br /> Archive consists of fifteen pieces including photographs printed menus advertising postcards and novelty correspondence materials ranging in size from postcard format to larger menu broadsides and mounted souvenir folders. Photographs depict performers in sequined and feathered costumes on stage and within nightclub interiors as well as patrons posed in social settings documenting both performance and audience environments. Printed materials include a die cut menu and showbill from the Colony Club advertising a "Battle of the Burlesque Queens" alongside dining service an illustrated promotional letter card for the same venue incorporating humorous and suggestive language and a stylized menu from Chez Paree featuring modernist figure drawings. Additional postcards and advertisements depict named or unnamed performers in dance poses pinup style imagery and cartoon illustrations often accompanied by venue addresses and promotional text with some designed for mailing as souvenirs or folded correspondence.<br /> <br /> These materials were produced during a period when burlesque and nightclub entertainment operated as significant sectors of urban leisure culture combining performance dining and social interaction within commercial venues. The prominence of showgirls in promotional imagery reflects both the marketing strategies of these establishments and the central role of female performers in attracting audiences and shaping nightlife identity. The archive documents the expansion of entertainment circuits linking cities such as San Francisco and Las Vegas and the integration of visual promotion into the business of performance. Minor toning and edge wear to some pieces with photographs remaining clear and printed materials legible; overall very good condition. This archive provides concentrated primary documentation of mid twentieth century burlesque culture and the commercial presentation of women in American nightlife. unknown
196090352New York N.Y.: Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs 1960. Paperback. Moderate soiling to wrappers. Mild bump to bottom outer corner. Mild rubbing to wrappers. Else pages clean and binding tight. Good. Paperback large thin beige quarto. 30 pages unnumbered 28 cm. Scarce. Series: Souvenir Journal;; 1960. Women's day - Women's suffrage - Jewish history - Jewish women. Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs paperback
198013962Macon Georgia: Federated Garden Clubs of Macon Georgia 1980. Spiral. Good. Nora Kay Appling. VG- / presque TBE. Brown plastic comb spiral binding pulling on last tabs but mostly fine one small spot on front cover mild surface wear clean interior most recipes sources cited light foxing to page foredges. 306 pages with index besides recipes there are historical vignettes illustrations detailed suggestions for decoration and garnishing according to the theme. Theme Well the entire book is organized by menu as opposed to the usual ingredient or course format. Also the cuisine leans heavily on traditional Southern fare. One of my favorites is page 87: "Supper After the Concert" menu - Green Pea Salad Charleston Shrimp Pilau Bacon Muffins Strawberries in Meringue Chantilly or Orange Chiffon Pie Wine: California Riesling at foot of page instructions on making a floral arrangement with miniature musical instruments. <br/> <br/> Federated Garden Clubs of Macon, Georgia unknown
19642011Wellington New Zealand: The Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand 1964. fifth Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wellington The Federated Mountain Club Of New Zealand Soft Cover 120 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Handbook For Trampers Stalkers Skiers & Mountaineers. <br/><br/> The Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand paperback
19932090202123004622Not Available 1993. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
19902083002115802594Federation of Uwamachi Senior Citizens Clubs 1990. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Federation of Uwamachi Senior Citizens Clubs paperback
19922080202106300726Not Available 1992. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B5 Not Available paperback
