TWICE A YEAR, a book of literature, the rights and civil liberties.; Number seven. Fall "Winter"1941
Little soiled printed boards, a very good tight copy. Includes an original tipped in photograph of a seascape by Ansel Adams: Photograph (1940) and one of work by Georgia O'Keefe: Abstraction (1927). Also work by Muriel Rukeyser; Marcel Proust.
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TWOWINDOWS FOLIO II
[San Francisco: Twowindows Press, 1968. First Edition. Six broadsides laid into the publisher's little soiled folder. Scarce. Issued in an edition of 200 copies. The broadsides of avrying sizes are: Boyle, Kay. The Lost Dogs of Phnom Penh; Dickey, William: The Anniversary. Gray, Don: Lemon Groive 3 also to C.K. Liddy, James: To Patrick MacEntee, Dood Soldier. Kahn, Sy: The Jewish Cemetary at Kazimierz. (water stained at trhe extremities). McDonald, Maurice: The Portable Dino.
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THREE YALE YOUNGER POETS
[Lexington, KY]: Printed for the Gaines Center for the Humanities's 2004 Bale Boone Symposium with Kentucky's Three Yale Younger Poets, 2004. First Edition. Folio, three broadsides in black publisher's folder, with printed paper label. One of 200 sets, signed by the three poets. Includes: "Salt Cave" by Davis McCombs, "Wave" by Maurice Manning and "Three Hymns" by T. Crunk. As new.
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THE SURVEY,; Book by Women. Notable Contributions to social and economic writings in 1917
8vo, pp. 365-380. Printed wraps, VG. Includes reviews of work by Edith and Grace Abbott, Eliza Burt Gamble, Elsie Clews Parsons, Mary E. Richmond, Vida Scudder, etc.
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BOATHOUSE WRITERS:; No.2
Green Bay, WI: The Boathouse Writers, 1992. 8vo, pp. 127. Paper wraps. VG. Poems, short stories; an anthology.
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A NOTBOOK OF MOVIE STILLS AND PHOTOGRAPHS OF MOVIE STARS; from the 1940's and 1950's
1940's - 1950's. This is a loose leaf notebook with photos of: Doris Day, Anne Baxter still from "Little Women" (1949); Debra Paget; Betty Davis, Anne Baxter, Susan Hayward, Shelly Winters, Doris Day, Eleanor Parker, Dorothy McGuire, Lauren Bacall, Fay Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman, Olivia DeHavilland, Loretta Young, Elizabeth Scott, Naria Montez, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Rosalind Russell, Barbara Stanwyck, Gloria Graham, Errol Flynn, Burt Lancaster, 2 stills of Judy Garland and James Mason from "A Star is Born"; Maria... Read More
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PROTECT THE HOME; Vote Missouri Dry November 8
The Missouri Woman's Christian Union, 1910. Self wraps, [pp. 24]. Contemporary name on cover. This is a combinatin of temperance songs and temperance slogans: "Which do you stand for? the Church & the school of the saloon? | Blind Tigers: Chicago has over 7000 licensed saloon and 2500 blind tigers, dives and joints.
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AMAGAMA OKUHLAbELELA: ZULU HYMNAL
Boston: Published by The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for The American Zulu Mission Natal, South Africa, 1929. Second Music Edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo, pp. 344, iv, 25. Bound in plain dark green cloth, a very good tight copy. 330 Hymns + 27pp containing 37 lessons (Isifundo). Preface in English otherwise all text in Zulu.
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FABIAN ESSAYS IN SOCIALISM
London: Water Scott, 1890. Walter Crane. 8vo. Edited by G. Bernard Shaw. Laurence BB7c. Reprint of the 1889 edition with a new cover by Walter Crane. Moderate handling wear but a VG copy. Essays by Shaw, Sidney Webb, William Clarke, Sydney Olivier, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas and Hubert Bland.
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MASTERS OF THE COLOUR PRINT VI. - HIROSHIGE; Introduction by Jiro Harada
London: The Studio, 1929. First Edition. 4to, with 8 full color tipped in plates. X-library with stamp and bookplate, images nice and clean, hinge tender. Wikipedia: " Utagawa Hiroshige, also And Hiroshige, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the T kaid and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" He died in 1858.
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CONSULTANT'S REUNION 1987; A Keepsake Anthology of The Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration Of The Consultantship in Poetry: The Library of Congress, March 29, 30, and 31, 1987
Washington: Library of Congress, 1987. First Edition. Quarto. 44pp. Stapled wrappers. Fine. This copy belonged to poet William Jay Smith with his bookplate and has been signed, and or inscribed by: Karl Shapiro, Richard Eberhart, Howard Nemerov, Reed Whitmore, Stephen Spender. James Dickey, William Jay Smith, William Stafford, Josephine Jacobsen, Daniel Hoffman, Stanley Kunitz,William Meredith, Maxine Kumin, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Photos and poems by Joseph Auslander, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Louise Bogan, Karl Shapiro, Robert Lowell, Leonie Adams,... Read More
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THE CYCLOPEDIA OF TEMPERANCE AND PROHIBITION; (advertising sheet)
1892. single sheet, printed on both sides. (tear at the lower corner, not affecting any text) 8-1/4 x 3-3/4. This prints positive blurbs by individual and media outlets for the Cyclopedia.
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ART OF THE FIRST AUSTRALIANS
NSW Australia: Wymond Morrell, nd. First Edition. 4to, pp., 80. Stiff paper wraps (some writing on cover), illustrated throughout with many b/w photographs of the art of Australian indigenous tribes and the first Australians. Forward by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, and Wandjuk Marika, Chairman of the Aboriginal Arts Board of Australia.
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MADAME SARAH BERNHARDT; Last visit to America. Season of 1917-18
1917. Narrow 12mo, pp. 16. A flyer printed for Bernhardt's last American tour. Consists of an outline of events in her career (she was 72 at the time of the tour, apparently), a few reviews and a list of the repertoir she was performing. The flyer was used at the Empire Theatre in Lewiston, ME, on Sept. 21, [1917]. VG.
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MASSACHUSETTS ELEPHANT, The.; Published in the interests of the Republican Party. Vol. 3, #10-12; Vol. 4 # 11. Published every month by the Massachusetts Council of Women ... Mrs. Frank B. Hall, editor
Worcester, MA. quarto, pictorial wraps, 14pp. Some water staining, very good. 4 issues. This offers a wide range of political articles about Massachusetts and national politics aimed at and having to do with the interests of women.
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TWENTY ETCHINGS BY ...; Illustrating The Life of Sir John Falstaff as drawn by William Shakespeare
London: Longmans Green Reader & Dyer, 1857. First Edition. CRUIKSHANK, George. 4to, 20 etchings with paper guards, original printed wrapper bound in. Bound in rubbed later 3/4 calf, front wrapper reattached. Nice clean images. Cohn 96. A separate issue of the 20 etchings by Cruikskank illustrating the life of Sir John Falstaff as drawn by Sir William Shakespeare.
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FAITH & MISSION:; An ecumenical women's liturgy resource book
Task Force on Women Massachusetts Council of Churches, 1973. 4to, pp. 73. Paper wraps A name and address on back cover, o/w VG. Various liturgies, written by many different people, both lay and clergy.
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THE GROCER'S COMPANION AND MERCHANT'S HAND-BOOK; Containing a comprehensive account of the growth, manufacture and qualities of every article sold by grocers. Also tables of weights and measures, and information of a general nature of value to grocers and country merchants
Boston: New England Grocer's Office, 1883. 8vo, pp. 192. Bound in brown cloth nstamped in blind and gilt. Contemporary ownership signature on the front blank, A very good clean copy. "This work comprises, within itself, all the uses of a Cyclopeadia, a Manual and a Hand-book, all the necessary, well-ascertained and authenticated facts being condensed into the smallest space consistent with completeness and perspicuity.
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AUCASSIN & NICOLETE
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. Sixth edn. 1/925 copies. Done into English by Andrew Lang. Small, narrow 8vo, pp. 66. Paper wraps. Donor's presentation on flyleaf. VG. A twelfth or thirteenth century love story, in alternatre prose and poetry.
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NATIONAL PARK SEMINARY; (Incorporated) A Junior College for Young Women 1934-1935
Forest Glen, Maryland, 1935. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 166, Illustrated cloth binding and profusely illustrated with B&W photos and 6 color plates including birds eye views of Washington and the Maryland campus. Cover little soiled, but a very good copy of an impressive college catalogue. Includes course lists, references, faculty and the like.
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EUROPE.; [A folding map.]
London: Philip & Son, n.d.. Folded into a soft cloth cover. Some small tears at map creases. A folding map showing a Europe with Poland as part of Russia and Austria-Hungary as one nation.
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BARBRI BAR REVIEW; Multistate testing: Simulated MBE workshop
Thomson, 2005. 4to, various pagination. Paper wraps. Some marking throughout, o/w VG.
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IBSENARBOK 1974
Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1974. 8vo, PP. 241. The Ibsen Yearbook published in Norway. Six articles in English, including "Ghosts Seen from an Existential Aspect" by Charles W. Leland. . Wraps. Fine.
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BATAILLE DE LA MARNE 1918; The first American victory in France, July 1918. America Sector Hill 204
Chateau Thierry: Bouvigny. Book of 20 monochrome postcards. Paper wraps, faded pale blue stamped in black and ochre. Cover slightly worn and stained, o/w VG.
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HANDBOOK TO SWITZERLAND
London: Ward Lock, 1920. Seventh edn., revised. Small 8vo, pp. 224. Owner's sig. on flyleaf. Maps intact. cover little worn, o/w a fine copy. Over 60 illustrations, mostly photographs.
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