![[Book of Photographs and Identifications of Knots].; Textiles](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/026/966/1656966026.0.l.jpg)
[Book of Photographs and Identifications of Knots].; Textiles
N,P, 1940. Very good. 9 7/8” x 6 7/8”. String-tied portfolio, thin card wrappers with 7 linen-backed B&W photographs measuring 9 3/8” x 6” and 7 thin leaves of typescript captions, rectos only. Pp. [14] + two duplicate photos laid in. Very good: wrappers chipped in a few spots with two small tears; edgewear to blank endpaper leaves; first photo a bit scuffed; light spotting to versos. This is an unusual survival, a handmade identification book... Read More
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NGTF: National Gay Task Force Wants You to Join America's Largest Gay Civil Rights Organization
New York: [National Gay Task Force], 1980. Near fine. 8½" x 3¾". Single leaf, tri-fold brochure, unfolding to 11" x 8½". Near fine. The National Gay Task Force ("NGTF") was formed in 1973 by several gay rights activists including Barbara Gittings and Bruce Voeller. The NGTF sought to enact change at the national level and had several early successes including: removal of homosexuality from the Index of Mental Disorders, introduction of a gay civil rights bill banning... Read More
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![Who's Who at the SMads [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/698/992/1448992698.0.l.jpg)
Who's Who at the SMads [Cover title]
[New York City]: N.P., 1975. Very good. 8½" x 5½". Stapled self-wrappers. Pp. 12. Very good: moderate wear and dust soiling; light creasing, patches of staining mostly on the two outermost pages. This is a giveaway for a sex party sponsored by SMads in January 1975. Nine of its twelve pages consist entirely of explicit personal ads, presumably of men who intended to experience the party. The penultimate page has a handy blank form to keep track... Read More
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Swiss Melody Inn Fish Camp Yosemite Original 1971 35mm Film Slide
Califorina, 1971. Fine. This listing is for an original 35mm slide in a Kodachrome mount which shows the Swiss Melody Inn near Yosemite and is stamped June 1971. It's in fine condition.
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![Album Of Views of the Children's Home . . . [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/494/866/1759866494.0.l.jpg)
Album Of Views of the Children's Home . . . [Cover title]
Tres Arroyos, Argentina: Ejercito De Salvacion, 1929. Very good. 8¾" x 7¾". Cloth over boards, post-bound and string-tied. 21 stiff card leaves with 75 B&W photographs adhered both sides + interleaving tissue. Photos range from 3¼" x 2 " to 4 " x 6½" (most 3¼" x 5 ", one copy 3" x 8¼") and all are captioned on the image or the page. Album good: rear cover detached and cloth mostly perished; loss to lower edge of... Read More
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![[Collection of NAACP Membership Materials in Arizona and California]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/727/866/1759866727.0.l.jpg)
[Collection of NAACP Membership Materials in Arizona and California]
Mostly Flagstaff, Arizona; also San Francisco, 1967. Very good. 81 items ranging from 2¼" x 3¼" to 6" x 10½": see description for details. Generally very good or better: a few items gently worn and a few like new. This is a collection of letters, forms, reports and printed ephemera showing the drive of African American residents of Flagstaff, Arizona to increase membership in their local NAACP chapter. A few items also represent the San Francisco... Read More
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![Williams, Leroy "Fathead". Trinidad & Tobago Calypso Hits - 1969 [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/754/866/1759866754.0.l.jpg)
Williams, Leroy "Fathead". Trinidad & Tobago Calypso Hits - 1969 [Cover title]
[Port-of-Spain, Trinidad]: [N.P.], 1969. Very good. 8¼" x 5 ". Stapled pictorial wrappers. Pp. [24]. Very good: penciled price ($1) to top corner of front wrap; a few small dings and creases; the occasional scuff or spot. This is a rare publication promoting "current Calypso hits," musicians and local businesses in Trinidad and Tobago, compiled by a writer and sports journalist, Leroy "Fathead" Williams. All we could learn about Williams was that he covered... Read More
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![[Robb, Frederic H. Hammurabi]. The Chicago History Roundup](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/075/121/1582121075.0.l.jpg)
[Robb, Frederic H. Hammurabi]. The Chicago History Roundup
Chicago: The House of Knowledge, 1974. Very good. 11” x 14”. Stapled self-wrappers. pp. [32]. Very good due to staining of wrappers at edges and and old price in ballpoint on front cover; internally near fine. This is a Black history calendar published by The House of Knowledge which was created by F.H.Hammurabi Robb, an African American attorney who toured the country (and ultimately the world) speaking on Black history. He also wrote and published on the... Read More
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Autographed Photos of Sheila Scott and her planes Mythre and Myth Too
Very good. These two black and white photographs are focused on Sheila Scott, known for her “world and a half” flight, where she was the first person to fly over the North Pole in a small aircraft. She was also the first European woman to fly solo around the world. One photo features the smiling pilot sitting in her plane Myth Too. It is signed “For Pat / Smoothly Landings! / Sheila Scott & 'Myth Too'.” The second... Read More
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![Information Pamphlet on Peiping (Peking) [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/527/226/1657226527.0.l.jpg)
Information Pamphlet on Peiping (Peking) [Cover title]
Peiping, China: War Area Service Corps of the National MilitaryCouncil, 1946. 2nd Edition stated. Very good. 7¼” x 5”. Paper wrappers. Pp. 28 + fold-out 9” x 7” map. Very good minus: wrappers lightly soiled, moderately split at head and lightly at foot of spine; small closed tear to edge of front and corner chip to rear; age-toned and fragile with light scattered spotting. This is a rare and illustrated guide to Beijing issued after the... Read More
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Gay Poetry Reading
San Francisco, California, 1978. Near fine. 8½" x 11". Flier printed one side. Near fine with light toning at extremities. This is a flier for a poetry reading fundraiser for the Council on Religion and the Homosexual. While we locate little about the event, it featured a blockbuster lineup of important LGBTQ+ literary figures including Elsa Gidlow (misspelled here as "Giglow") whose "On a Grey Thread" is considered to be the first book of openly lesbian poetry... Read More
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![Frontier Bulletin-Gazette. Vol. 3, No. 11 [November 1967]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/128/473/1174473128.0.l.jpg)
Frontier Bulletin-Gazette. Vol. 3, No. 11 [November 1967]
Glitter Gulch [studio City], California: [Frontier Club], 1967. 17" x 11". Single sheet printed both sides. Near fine: light curl from being shipped to us rolled. A promotional news sheet for a cowboy themed members-only gay bar, The Frontier Club, owned by Dick Saunders and located in Studio City, California. Heavily illustrated with Tom of Finland-esque imagery, the recto details upcoming events such as its Harvest Moon Fiesta Party which took place at a "secure haven for carefree swingers.... Read More
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The History of Almira. Designed to Show the Advantages of a Good Education. By A Youth
New Hampshire, 1815. Good. 3 3/8” x 2”. Boards. Pp. v, [6-]68. Good: front board nearly detached; only remnants of paper over boards; old tape to rear; penultimate leaf printed askew, causing the loss of one line of text; lightly spotted throughout with a few tiny dog ears. Bookplate and penciled signature of former owner to front pastedown. This is a delightful miniature children's storybook about the education of a young woman named Almira, published and... Read More
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![Dreams Come True. Pride Week Calendar [Caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/014/612/1621612014.0.l.jpg)
Dreams Come True. Pride Week Calendar [Caption title]
Dallas, Texas: Dallas Gay Pride Week Committee, 1981. Very good -. 8½" x 3 5/8". Single-sheet, double-sided, tri-fold pamphlet. Very good minus: faint but moderate stain to each panel, light insect predation to bottom edge of front. This is a schedule of events for the 1981 Gay Pride Week celebrations in Dallas, Texas. Sponsored by Miller Beer, the program spanned from June 14-27, 1981. The events started out with a memorial service and all-night... Read More
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![[Photo Album of Exceptional Images of World War I Featuring the First Use of Tanks in Warfare]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/737/866/1759866737.0.l.jpg)
[Photo Album of Exceptional Images of World War I Featuring the First Use of Tanks in Warfare]
France, 1918. Very good. 9" x 12". Rivet bound, quarter leather over buckram with stiff card leaves. 104 pages with 108 photographs adhesive mounted. All but four measure 6" x 8" and all are captioned. Album very good with moderate wear and a few leaves which are partially detached; photos near fine or better. This is an extraordinary album documenting the British Expeditionary Force in France in World War I. It focuses on operations in the... Read More
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![[Photo Album of Trip Through Colorado]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/994/624/1576624994.0.l.jpg)
[Photo Album of Trip Through Colorado]
Colorado, 1954. Near fine. 11" x 14". Full leather post binder. 120 pages with 338 black and white photos adhesive mounted. 68 photos measure 4½" x 6½" or larger, the rest measure from 2¼" x 3½" to 3" x 5" and all are captioned. Album and contents near fine or better. This is an album of well composed images documenting a trip throughout the state of Colorado in 1954. It's organized into the following twelve sections,... Read More
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![[Collection of Promotional Ephemera for Movie Book Publishers]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/904/378/1688378904.0.l.jpg)
[Collection of Promotional Ephemera for Movie Book Publishers]
Mostly New York, NY; also Oklahoma City, OK and Chicago, IL, 1931. Good. 11½” x 9” string-tied commercial album, faux leather over boards, embossed “Treasures” to front. 48 leaves with 90 items of ephemera adhesive mounted both sides + one 8” x 10” B&W photograph and 18 items of ephemera laid in. Good: front cover detached with moderate loss; covers and leaves with light chipping. Contents generally very good or better, most items folded with light (to occasionally... Read More
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![It's a Big Decision But You'll Be Glad You Joined [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/034/966/1656966034.0.l.jpg)
It's a Big Decision But You'll Be Glad You Joined [Cover title]
Washington,D.C.: Department of Defense, 1950. Very good. 8¾” x 5¾”. Stapled pictorial selfwrappers. Pp. 15. Very good: some light creases, scuffs and spots to front wrap which has an Army/Air Force Recruiting Station stamp to top edge; one faint crease at edge throughout; lightly toned. This is a rare recruitment book, “calling young women” to join the United States Armed Forces in the early 1950s. Photographically illustrated with charming cartoons and informative details, the book outlines... Read More
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![Farm Woman's Almanac 1945 [Cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/486/118/1716118486.0.l.jpg)
Farm Woman's Almanac 1945 [Cover title]
Lancaster, Pa: Garden Seed Co. of America, 1944. Very good. 8½” x 5½”. Stapled pictorial self-wrappers. Pp. 40. Very good: small chip to lower edge of front wrap, a bit of soiling and tiny corner chip to rear; scattered faint small stains. This is a rare and lovely almanac holding a wealth of information aimed at female farmers for the year of 1945. Printed in black and white and splashes of red, the book's... Read More
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Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention Made At Chicago, Illinois October 25th to 30th, 1905
Louisville, KY: Dispatch Printing Company, 1905. Very good. 8¼" x 5½". Stapled wrappers. Pp. 28. Very good: two tiny puncture holes from being held with other pamphlets; wrappers lightly worn and moderately dust soiled; faint vertical crease. The National Baptist Convention (NBC) was formally organized in 1895. It brought together the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention (founded 1880), the National Baptist Convention of America (1886) and the National Baptist Education Convention (1893). According to its website, it... Read More
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![DODDS Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History Month 1989 [Caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/726/836/1544836726.0.l.jpg)
DODDS Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History Month 1989 [Caption title]
[Department of Defense Dependents Schools], 1989. Good. 22" x 17". Poster. Good: folded twice, moderate to heavy creasing throughout. This is a rare poster produced by the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DODDS) which celebrated the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History Month in 1989. It features sketches of King as well as several African American luminaries such as Jesse Jackson, Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, Count Basie, Willie Mays, and Walter Payton.... Read More
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20th Century Black Personalities
Dansville, N.Y./Jackson, TN: InstructorCurriculum Materials/Weber Costello, 1985. Very good. 14 small posters measuring 16” x 11½”. Generally very good with light to moderate wear, all laminated. This is a mixed set of educational posters. Per the included teacher's guide, “This poster set presents fourteen brief biographies of distinguished black Americans, most of whom are living today . . . the biography is written for middle-level elementary students to read . . . The series... Read More
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World War II Germany Road Maps Lot of 35
1945. Very good. This listing is for a total of 35 different maps – all but one are Germany, and the other is Switzerland. The maps are folded and were prepared under the Chief Engineer for the European Theater of Operations, United States Army (ETOUSA) during World War II in 1945. The maps are named as follows: 1. Kiel 4 2. Rostock 5 3. Stral Sund 6 4. Bremen 11 5. Hamburg 12 6. Schwerin 13 7.... Read More
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Sad Monkey Texas Train Station ? Original 1983 35mm Film Slide
Texas, 1983. Fine. This listing is for an original 35mm slide in a Kodachrome mount which possibly shows the train depot at Sad Monkey, Texas and is stamped June 1983. It's in fine condition.
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![Svenska Baptist Församlingens i Bellingham, Washington, Adress-Kalender 1908 ("Swedish Baptist Church in Bellingham, Washington, Address-Calendar") [Cover title.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/754/836/1544836754.0.l.jpg)
Svenska Baptist Församlingens i Bellingham, Washington, Adress-Kalender 1908 ("Swedish Baptist Church in Bellingham, Washington, Address-Calendar") [Cover title.]
Bellingham, WA: Svenska Baptist Church, 1908. Good +. 5 3/8" x 2½". Stapled wrappers. Pp. 12. Good plus: wrappers lightly soiled; oxidation of staples; spotting and toning to pages; one small handwritten notation. This is a small booklet of member addresses, church activities, and information pertaining to the first Swedish Baptist Church in Bellingham, Washington, in 1908. Amidst the influx of European immigration to the United States in the late 1800s, many Scandinavians settled in the... Read More
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