Creative Film Associates Program for Das Cabinet der Dr. Caligari (1919)
by Anger, Kenneth; Charles McNutt
Los Angeles: Creative Film Associates, 1947. Rare program notes for a 1947 showing of Das Cabinet Der Dr. Caligari by Kenneth Anger and his group Creative Film Associates. 3 pp. printed on rectos only. 8.5" x 13.25", folded horizontally. A few small tears at left edge by staple, sheets slightly irregularly trimmed. Front wrap showcases a long quote from Dr. Wilhelm Stekel's book Sadismus und Masochismus. Actor Fritz Lang and scifi fanzine editor Forrest J. Ackerman are among the... Read More
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Collection of photos from the 1995 New York City Gay Pride Parade
by [Anonymous]
[New York]: [no publisher], 1995. Near Fine. A large collection of approximately 300 color photographs documenting the 1995 New York City Gay Pride parade, with images typically depicting floats, parade marchers, banners, signs and crowds. Most images appear to be taken from the crowd. Those depicted marching in the parade come from a broad range--from local establishments such as bars or gyms and activist organizations such as GLAAD and PFLAG, or for causes such as AIDS/HIV, religious affiliations,... Read More
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(Anti-Japanese WWII-era poster) The Japs are killing Alaska's fish industry
by Anonymous
Portland, OR: Np, 1942. Good. Original 10 3/4" x 14" poster printed in orange and black on cardboard with a racist caricature of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo stabbing a salmon. Text reads in its entirety: "The Japs are killing Alaska's fish industry / vote 311 X no against this infamous proposition / closing Oregon's coastal streams will kill Oregon's salmon industry / our boys in service need every case of salmon Oregon can produce!" Good with five... Read More
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Free the Seattle Eight: Free Bobby Seale (Original handbill)
by Anonymous
[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1970. 4.25" x 5.5", single-sided handbill flyer. Good, horizontally creased, missing triangular chips at corners, wrinkled, toned. No other copies located in commerce or in institutional collections such as University of Washington's Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection. A scarce piece of propaganda from the American anti-Vietnam War movement, demanding the freeing of the protestors that would become famous as The Seattle Seven. On February 17, 1970 the Seattle Liberation Front organized a protest of about... Read More
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The Spiritual Herald: A Record of Spirit Manifestations
by Anonymous
London and New York: H. Bailliere, 1856. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition. iv, 208 pp. Bound in publisher's elaborately blind stamped dark cloth with gilt spine lettering, yellow endpapers. Very Good+ with slightly sunned spine, slight wave to text, a little foxing to contents, former owner's bookplate on paste down. Nice shape overall. The complete run in six issues of an anonymously-edited mid-19th century spiritualist publication, scarce in book format. Prophecy, ghostly manifestations in London, California,... Read More
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Blanche" (Anonymous handmade manuscript of cut-outs of magazine illustrations, loosely narrated)
by Anonymous
np: No Publisher, 1910. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 38 pp. Ruled untitled notebook with mounted illustrations on both recto and verso throughout, all with accompanying captions in manuscript. Very Good. A collection of clipped illustrations from magazines, mostly fashion-oriented, mounted in a notebook with handwritten captions, probably created ca. 1910. The illustrated notebook proceeds to tell the quaint story of "Blanche" and her numerous suitors, primarily "Clifford" and "John." The primary characters are introduced in the first... Read More
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Sucker, you believed it. They don't give a damn. They enjoy their war-profits. You suffer." (WWII Nazi propaganda leaflet aimed at American troops)
by Anonymous
[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1944. Single thin sheet; 4.8" x 7" leaflet printed in red and black. Verso numbered S W 3. Text in English. Very Good, folded in fours, tiny tear in top edge at fold. An illustrated WWII psychological warfare pamphlet from the Nazi German government, aimed at American soldiers in a slightly warped attempt at vernacular English. The recto features an illustration of city life in America, a man and a women merrily strolling through a... Read More
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(Herbarium) A Collection of Flora 1878-1879 (spine label title)
by [Anonymous]
[no place]: [no publisher], 1879. Near Fine. An exquisitely compiled herbarium of over 1000 plants native to Europe, collected over the course of one year, meticulously chronicling the flora's growth throughout the seasons. Approximately 1051 specimens of all manner of flora mounted on 104 sheets further mounted onto leaves, some with exact collection dates, almost all specimens have been identified in their Latin name except the last 113. At the head of each leaf are sequential month and... Read More
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Vintage British anarchist punk armbands c. 1980
by [Anonymous]
[UK]: [Unknown], 1980. Near Fine. Two vintage anarcho-punk/ peace punk armbands from the United Kingdom, manufactured circa 1980. Machine sewn white cotton linen with black elastic bands at verso. Screen printed red anarchist designs. Each are 6.5 x 3.5". Near Fine with light fading and minor abrasions at edges. Scarce, in-your-face political ephemera from Britain's angry, young and poor. Manufactured roughly one year after Margaret Thatcher's 1979 election -- a vote that solidified the anarchist and punk legions... Read More
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Botanical Photograph Album
by [Anonymous]
[British Columbia?]: [no publisher], 1940. Near Fine. A lovely vintage photograph album containing plants that are either native or endemic to the Pacific Northwest (likely British Columbia), neatly assembled by an amateur botanist. Most images are taken in the wild, while several are of pressed plant specimens shot against a white background. The last three images differ from the theme: One depicts a black bear attempting to get into a barrel of Swift'ning Shortening lard (a Chicago-based company... Read More
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Sea Mosses From California (Herbarium)
by [Anonymous]
[California], [c. late 19th-early 20th century]. Very Good. A lovely sea moss souvenir album with six pressed and mounted specimens from the coast of California. [6] pp. Bound in a commercially produced gilt lettered die-cut booklet with poetical onlay and yellow silk picot ribbon tie. Very Good. Lacking a ribbon fastener, extant ribbon is slightly stained and creased, covers soiled and lightly worn with tarnishing to gilt lettering. First specimen is crumbling but mostly intact. The other specimens... Read More
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Translucent Erotic Playing Cards
by [Anonymous]
[France]: [Unknown publisher], 1880. Very Good. A suggestive set of translucent erotic playing cards likely created in France in the mid-19th century. Set consists of 35 hand-colored playing cards, 32 of which are from around 1840, featuring 11 court cards (3.25 x 2.25"), and three slightly larger cards (3.5 x 2.5") possibly from the late Victorian period. Housed in a much earlier handmade late-18th century sliding box (4.5 x 2.75") made from thin plywood with pasted decorative paper,... Read More
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Vice-pResident Dick Cheney Here in Portland" & "DICK CHENEY WANTS YOU" (Two flyers protesting Vice-President Dick Cheney's 2002 visit to Portland, Oregon)
by Anonymous
Portland, OR: Indymedia, 2002. Two 11" x 17" vintage black-and-white flyers protesting then-VP Dick Cheney's 2002 visit to Portland, Oregon. Staple holes, light wear. Popular Left/antiglobalization site Indymedia's web address written in marker on the bottom margin of one poster; highlighting to text of the other with dates corrected in sharpie, Cheney's eyes poked out to give him an even more demonic appearance. Uncommon. A real time capsule of protest in the tense months following 9/11, as dissent... Read More
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Not Another PUNK! Book
by Anscombe, Isabelle
London: Aurum Press, 1978. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. 96 pp. Publisher's neon pink wraps. A Near Fine copy with bright wraps, lightly shelf worn with very faint soiling. An attractive copy of a rare early book on punk music and fashion, chock full of photos and quotes from musicians and scenesters.
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The Protectors: The Heroic Story of the Narcotics Agents, Citizens and Officials in Their Unending, Unsung Battles Against Organized Crime in America and Abroad
by Anslinger, Harry; J. Dennis Gregory
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1964. First Edition. Very Good/Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by Harry Anslinger on the front free endpaper and warmly inscribed to the recipient. xii, 244 pp. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards over oatmeal spine cloth stamped in black and red. Very Good with light rubbing and edge fading to covers, discoloration to rear joint, and bumping to rear board corners. Topstain a little scuffed and faded at gutter. In a... Read More
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An Appeal to the Women of the United States by the National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee
by Anthony, Susan B.; Hooker, Isabella B.; Davis, Paulina W.; Bowen, Mary B.; Denison, Ruth C.; Griffing, Josephing S.
Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Printers, 1871. First Edition. Fine. 4 pp. Self-wrappers. First edition. Fine. An announcement by famous feminist Susan B. Anthony and five other suffragettes of the formation of a National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee, and their intent to pursue recognition of voting rights for women under the 14th and 15th amendments. These were recent amendments (around three and one years old, respectively) but this salvo relies on them heavily, as well as... Read More
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Runaround
by Appel, Benjamin
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1937. First Edition. First edition. 320 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with crimson lettering. Very Good, offsetting and foxing to cloth and endpapers, faint paperclip impresion to prelims, in Near Fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, flaps foxed, unclipped ($2.50). Red, white and blue dust jacket presents very well with no sunning. Hard-boiled/proletarian novelist Benjamin Appel's take on political corruption and machine politics in New York during the Great Depression.
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Brain Guy
by Appel, Benjamin
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's buff cloth stamped in red. Near Fine. Cloth toned along top edge, lightly foxed along rear joint, lightly bruised at head. Previous owner bookplate to front paste down. Else a lovely copy in a Very Good silver foil dust jacket with price intact, surface scratches and edge wear with chipping at the spine ends and a short tear with... Read More
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The Laurel Leaf: Volume 1, Number 2. July 1949
by Appelman, Evan H.
Highland Park, IL: Published by the Editor, 1949. Volume 1, Number 2. July 1949. Original side-stapled sheets, folded in half vertically with back cover used for mailing. Very Good with toning and wear. A scarce early sci-fi fanzine.
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Karel Appel: Street Art, Ceramics, Sculpture, Wood Reliefs, Tapestries, Murals, Villa El Salvador
by Appel, Karel; Pierre Restany and Allen Ginsberg [Text]
New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Signed by Karel Appel and inscribed to Allen [Ginsberg], who co-authored the text to this book. Inscribed "To Allen with love from Karel / to make a new book 'The Dragon' soon." Bound in publisher's original blue cloth blindstamped on upper board and lettered in silver on the spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed and lightly edge-worn. A lovely copy... Read More
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![Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire [...] With Notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, and Extravagant Exploits](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/014/700/1120700014.0.l.jpg)
Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire [...] With Notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, and Extravagant Exploits
by Nimrod; [Charles James Apperley]
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition. [vi], 110 pp. with 12 hand-colored aquatint plates. Finely bound by Riviere for Bumpus, in full scarlet crushed morocco, triple gilt-rule borders, spine gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Original front, rear, and spine cloth bound in at rear. Housed in a later morocco-tipped and backed marbled paper chemise and board slipcase. Front board expertly reattached and hinge repaired, else Near Fine with light rubbing to joints,... Read More
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Applegreen's Bar Book or How to Mix Drinks
by Applegreen, John
Chicago: The Hotel Monthly, 1909. Third Edition. Very Good. Third edition of the first professional pocket-sized reference for mixology. Bound in publisher's flexible leather wraps, single ruled in blind and stamped in gilt on the front cover; all edges green with green endpapers. Very Good with wear, darkening and droplet stains to covers, fading to green edges. Foxing to endsheets with small nick to front free endpaper at edge; uneven toning to contents some marginal foxing. John Applegreen's... Read More
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Original illustration
by Aragones, Sergio
[np]: [No Publisher], 1977. Original cartoon by the prolific Spanish-born illustrator famous for his Mad magazine marginals and comic Groo. Approx. 9" x 12" on a sheet of slightly yellowed sketch-pad paper, in black sharpie, showing what is likely a caricature of the former owner as a fat bear in a Mad sloganed T-shirt, while Aragones looks on from the background, dejected. Signed and inscribed to former owner, dated 1977. Light rubbing.
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Poets of the Younger Generation
by Archer, William (Editor); Bryden, Robert (Illustrator); Yeats, William Butler; Kipling, Rudyard; Housman, A.E.; Carman, Bliss
New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1902. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. viii, 565, 10 (ads) pp. Original ribbed blue cloth decorated in gilt, gilt topstain. Very Good with slightly soiled and scratched cloth, spine gilt dulled, hinges starting, offsetting and foxing to prelims, name on paste down and a few pencil marks in margins. A scarce poetry anthology featuring Rudyard Kipling, Bliss Carman, A. E. Houseman, William Butler Yeats, and 29 other younger poets... Read More
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Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought
by Arendt, Hannah
New York: The Viking Press, 1969. Very Good+. Second printing of revised paperback edition. Association copy signed by Hannah Arendt on the first page; Hans Morgenthau's copy from his family estate, although unmarked. [x], 306 pp. Bound in publisher's purple wraps. Very Good+ with moderate wear to covers, light soiling to textblock edges, and light toning to contents; binding firm. A rare signed copy of eight essays by the German-American political theorist and philosopher, from the library... Read More
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