Hunt Roman: The Birth of a Type.
First edition. One of 750 numbered copies (of which 500 were designated for the Pittsburgh Bibliophiles); this copy signed by Zapf and Stauffacher on the half title. Oblong quarto. 23 pp. folding plated again inscribed and with notes by Zapf and Stauffacher, [32] pp. Printed in red and black. Publisher's gray cloth with printed paper spine label, plain dust jacket with title on spine and red monogram on front. A small mark on the front board, a bit musty, else a very attractive study in typography by two of the greatest.
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History of Siskiyou County, California, Illustrated with Views of Residences, Business Buildings and Natural Scenery, and Containing Portraits and Biographies of its Leading Citizens and Pioneers.
First edition. Small folio (9 x 12 inches). [i-iii] iv-viii, [2], [9] 10-218 pp., with 38 inserted leaves of biographies (many with engraved text illustrations: portraits), 60 lithograph plates (including frontispiece; some plates with multiple images). Publisher's original quarter leather, gilt-lettered and decorated spine, over brown cloth embossed boards, gilt lettered on upper cover, marbled edges. Rebacked to style retaining most of original spine. Some spotting throughout book but fairly minor. Title page and two text pages backed with Japanese tissue. Five lithographs have been backed with Japanese tissue, professionally done, While there are a few pages with pages strengthened, it is unusual to find this book in a relatively solid original binding. "Founded in 1852, the county was by that point an important avenue to the California gold fields, including those in the county proper, because of the Siskiyou Trail, an ancient route used by Native Americans for eons. The immediate impetus for the volume was probably the expected arrival of the Central Pacific Railroad, which laid its tracks along the Trail in the 1880s. The arrival of the railroad opened the area to many possibilities, including those for settlers and tourists, a situation that the leading citizens were no doubt eager to exploit. The text contains extensive discussions of the Gold Rush, early settlement, and troubles with Native Americans. The copious lithographs illustrate prosperous businesses, ranches, farms, and elaborate residences. The inserted leaves all contain biographies, often with portraits, of leading citizens. Numerous local communities are discussed as well. The book lives up to its author's promises, as laid out in his preface: "The work embraces a brief and succinct history of California from the discovery of the Pacific ocean to the discovery of gold; a history of the cause and progress of the tidal wave of gold-seekers that swept over the northern end of the State and developed this region; a complete political history of the county; a detailed account of its Indian wars and other historical events within its borders; a statement of its resources; a brief local history of each place of importance in the county" (D. Sloan). Howes S520. Sixteen Rare Artist’s Proof Photographs.
Original silver gelatin proof prints by Burton Frasher of scenes and people in Death Valley and environs. Sight size of each is 5 x 7 inches and the mount size is 10 x 8 inches. All with the Frasher logo in the print as well as stamped in the back. one photograph with a small marginal tear. Impeccable condition of rarely seen views. All photographs were laboriously identified on three typed sheets. From the library of Hugh Toldford.When one thinks of Frasher the first thing that comes to mind are his numerous RPPCs but the photographs on offer here are all his deluxe format photographs and are seldom seen, especially not in this condition and number. After years of traveling while working in the fruit packing industry, Burton Frasher and his wife Josephine opened a photo shop in La Verne, California in 1914. Six years later they moved to Pomona where he expanded his studio by publishing postcards. Frasher went to great lengths to find images for his real photo postcards. He traveled extensively through California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada, ranging up through Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, and down through Baja California region and Sonora, Mexico, taking pictures during a time these locations were still largely inaccessible by road. He was one of the major RPPC makers of his day and his work is sough after now. The titles of these artist's proofs are: Old Stamp Mill, Keane Wonder Mine, Death Valley; Pete Aguerberry, One of the Remaining Old Timers of Early Death Valley Days; The Bottle-Dugout at Stovepipe Wells; Abandoned Cabin at San Springs, North End Death Valley; Shoshone Indian "Nettie", Old Doc's Squaw, Death Valley; School House at the Ghost City of Rhyolite, Nev,; Historic 20 Mule Team Borax Wagons, Death Valley; Basket Making is Taught Down Through the Generations, Shoshone Indians, Death Valley; Easter Sunrise Services in the San Dunes in Death Valley; Indian Children at Indian Village; Bones of Oxen in Death Valley; Main Street of the Ghost City of Rhyolite, Nevada [even though this was taken in 1925, 18 years after Rhyolite's heyday, it looks like it has been desert for generations]; Two Burrows Standing in Front of a Miner's Dugout House; Death Valley Scotty Standing Next to His Shack; Mill in Death Valley with 3 Men Standing on a Walkway, One of Whom is Carrying a Gun.N.B. Pete Aguerberry came to the Death Valley region in 1905 and that same summer nearly died while tying to cross Death Valley in summer. He struck gold with the Eureka Mine but nonethess less remained in Death Valley for another 40 years. Summer’s Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp.
First edition. Quarto (). Unpaginated but [158]pp. of which all but 16 pp. are filled with Barbara Morgan photographic illustrations. Publisher's teal cloth lettered in yellow on the spine and front, pictorial dust jacket. after Morgan. Jacket spine with some sunning and a small chip from head of jacket, A bright and clean copy. Martha Graham: Sixteen Dances in Photographs.
First edition, first printing. Quarto (10 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches). 160 pp. with a profusion of photographic illustrations by Barbara Morgan. Publisher's beige cloth with spine and cover lettering in red, original dust jacket with a photograph illustration of Graham. Jacket spine a bit sunned and with minor edge wear but a very clean and bright copy. Female.
First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Folio (9 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches). One long sheet of paper folded twice bears the title, limitation, printing information, and an introduction by Mat Collishaw. It also has thumbnail views of the 26 original photographs contained in the portfolio. The portfolio itself is simple folding stiff cardstock with the front bearing an impression of a triangle and the title in silver. New.This is not a publication glorifying or objectifying women's bodies but rather an inner journey undertaken by the artist. Mat Collishaw (himself a fine art photographer and a key figure in the important generation of British artists who emerged from Goldsmiths? College in the late 1980s) writes in the introduction:"James Mountford's Females avoid the bright flash of the modern camera and elude the high contrast, colour saturated, cacophony of digital sewage. Unlike most contemporary representations of the female body, they twist and cavort to an unknown rhythm, evoking the knuckled stumps of savagely pruned trees. Their contours appear and disappear as if we had intruded on their presence in an unlit room. Uneasily, they provoke voyeuristic speculation that is never sated as they continually elude our senses and comprehension. The brilliance of these coarse and bristled bodies remains etched on our retina long after the new days' digital downpour - Mat Collishaw. An article about him on the DRESS website comments on this projest thusly--"Towards the end of his time in London, James started working more and more on his own art/work. He produced an over-size non-book folio of prints and a series of form studies using life models and performers as well as model/models. Startling, minimal, (un)still life/s. A human in a space with chair, nude tights, floor lines ? all in relationship. A deliberate exploration and pushing of composition and subject/object ? knowing, unafraid of possible ugliness." Presentation Photograph Album Given to U.S. Minister-Counselor to West Germany William C. Trimble.
Original photograph album containing over 60 photographs and presented to William Trimble in 1957 as a gift when he left the American embassy in Bonn, West Germany. The album measures 13 x 16 inches and the majority of the photographs measure 9 x 6 1/2 inches (though there are a number of larger images). All leaves mounted to stubs and all photographs with with handwritten captions. The whole housed in the original green morocco and card slipcase. Slipcase worn but album and photographs in very good condition. A fascinating photograph album dealing with American diplomacy in Western Europe at the start of the Cold War. We find the presentation, nicely done in a calligraphic hand, on the first leaf - "Presented to Minister William C. Trimble by the Administrative Affairs Section of the American Embassy, Bonn, in recognition of his unfailing support, understanding patience and wide counsel which he so willingly provided on all matters concerning the Embassy's administrative program. It is out hope that this small token of our appreciation will recall fond memories of his tour of duty at Bonn. On the occasion of his departure we want him to know that he takes with him our best wishes for his continued success. On the second leaf, in the same hand, we find a list of all 69 Embassy employees. The photographs include 2 views of the embassy (1 from high up with a good view of the Rhine), 3 views of Trimble reviewing military units, men in uniform for a Memorial Day ceremony, Armistice Day ceremonies, aerial photographs of Plittersdorf and Bad Gadsburg, 5 of spring flooding of the Rhine, orientation for Fulbright students, an American church, movie theater, 5 of the opening of the Little League of Bad Gadsburg, Col. Ray Lasseter, Gen. Norstad, Adm. Ruge, William de Bourdet, Konrad Adenaur (first Chancellor of West Germany, 1949-1963), Willi Brandt (chancellor 1969-74, near end of album), and finally a 2-page pair of photos of a city's buildings surrounded by trees, taken from an elevated position.William C. Trimble began his diplomatic career as a vice consul in Seville, Spain, in 1931 and finished it in 1968 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. After leaving West Germany he became the United States Ambassador to Cambodia. He died in Maryland in 1996. Lithographed Prayer Book in Arabic; Al-Hizb al-Azam.
Octavo. 246 lithographed pp. Original black cloth, marbled endpapers. Binding worn through to board at couple of places, front joint cracked but holding, lower inch of spine with cloth absent, text with minor foxing in a couple of places. These prayer books in portable format were heavily used by the devout making it difficult to find great copies. This copy is complete and in the original binding and sturdy and clean.Al-Hizb al-Azam, also known as "Al-Hizbul Azam," is a renowned collection of supplications and prayers compiled by a classical Islamic scholar named Imam Ali al-Qari. The term "Al-Hizb al-Azam" translates to "The Supreme Hizb" or "The Greatest Supplication." It is called so because it's composed of various supplications from the Quran and the Hadith (sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad), organized in a systematic manner for different occasions and needs. Lithographed editions of Al-Hizb al-Azam have been produced in various regions with significant Muslim populations, including the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. These editions were often printed in Arabic script and distributed among Muslim communities for their spiritual benefit. While lithography has largely been replaced by more modern printing methods today, these earlier lithographed editions of Al-Hizb al-Azam remain significant artifacts of Islamic printing history. A Photographic Proposal for California to be the Future Home of the United Nations. “Capital of the United Nations in the Moraga Valley on San Francisco Bay” [cover title].
Oblong folio (14 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches). Likely the print run for this was extremely small. Unpaginated. [5] leaves of printed text (including one signed by all the members of the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors), printed on rectos only. With color a map designating the potential site for U.N. World Capitol plus 23 linen-backed black and white photographs, with printed captions in the bottom margins. Publisher's teal cloth with gilt spine lettering. This copy was presented to the then Governor of California Earl Warren and his his name stamped in gilt on the front. Lower corner of map leaf with some discoloration but overall in excellent condition.A charming prospectus for when Moraga was bidding to become the headquarters of the then newly established United Nations. Delegates of fifty nations met in San Francisco, California, USA, between 25 April and 26 June 1945 at the United Nations Conference on International Organization. Working on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, the Yalta Agreement, and amendments proposed by various governments, the Conference agreed upon the Charter of the United Nations and the Statute of the new International Court of Justice. One other subject was discussed at the San Francisco meeting; a permanent home for the United Nations. Strangely enough Contra Costa County made a bid to be that home. "It may have all started in February, 1945, when Robin Lampson, a poet, radio scriptwriter and owner of Lampson?s Stamp Shop in Richmond, wrote a letter to the editor of the Richmond Independent.He proposed that since San Francisco had been chosen to be the site of the first meeting of the United Nations, why not find a spot in the Bay Area where the international organization could have a permanent home, such as the Berkeley hills, Orinda or the Moraga Valley? Ione Booth, secretary-manager of the Contra Costa Development Association headquartered in Richmond, thought bringing the U.N. to this county, particularly the Moraga Valley, was a great idea, as did her board of directors and the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors. A committee was created to act for the supervisors. Members included real estate developer state Sen. Arthur H. Breed Jr., who did a lot of his developing around the Moraga area. Another member of the committee was Congressman George P. Miller (no relation to current Congressman George Miller). In September, 1945, Miller (D-Alameda) inserted a proposal to put the U.N. headquarters in Moraga. On Dec. 17, 1945, the U.N. voted 30 to 14 to locate its headquarters in the United States. Fifty regions in the U.S. started to compete.Meanwhile, the Contra Costa Development Association pushing for the Moraga Valley came up with $2,500 for an expensive-looking book that included 24 glossy 15-by-11 -inch photos showing aerial views of Moraga and the Bay Area.The book [presented here] promoted Moraga?s proximity to San Francisco (30 minutes), to airports, U.C. Berkeley and St. Mary?s College. Copies of the book, signed by the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, were sent to members of the U.S. Department of State and each chief representative of the major nations of the U.N." (Nilda Rego, East Bay Times, 2008). On Nov. 22, 1946, the Contra Costa County proposal was rejected. San Francisco 1854. [Bird’s-Eye View].
Color lithographed view of San Francisco. 7 1/4 x 15 1/2 plus margins, with title and key in lower margin. Matted and framed under glass. Original fold lines, area of foxing in sky on upper right, small closed marginal tear (not affecting image). Overall, a very good copy of this famous print.Originally published in Henry Bill's History of the World, this is a charming and important color lithographic birds-eye view of early San Francisco. Thirteen points of interest are listed and keyed to the view including Contra Costa in the distance, the California Exchange, the Marine Telegraph, etc. Reps 272. History of Mouments.
First edition. One of 450 numbered copies signed by the artist. Text in English and Chinese. Octavo in size (5 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches) but in reality it is an accordion-folding singe work measuring 27.5 feet in length. Upon it are two visions of the history of monuments; the recto bearing a collage timeline and the verso using human models caked in mud to express the same ideas. Publisher purple silk over boards with gilt spine and cover lettering. In the original (and odd) match slipcasee. An excellent copy.Wang Quingsong is a famous Chinese artist. Speaking of this work he said "Since August 2009, I started to work with two hundred models over fifteen days, shooting the 42-metre-long History of Monuments. This work is my reflection on what is told about civilisations, beauties, virtues, standards and norms The models are smeared with mud and placed into the carved out contours of the photo backdrop. Chinese traditions are handed down from generation to generation with many documents on the historical figures, poetries, literature, dramas, etc. Often the powerful people like to summarize their achievements during their reign times. So each dynasty has its interpretations of its dynasty and the former dynasties. It is undeniable that many such versions are misguided." This publication of it is very reduced in size. A Fine Gathering of 23 Rudolf Steiner Books, 1971-2012.
23 disparate titles, all in wrappers (except where noted) and all in very good condition.The Four Seasons and the Archangels; Lecture and Addresses in England and Wales; The Healing Process: Spirit, Nature and Our Bodies; Ancient Myths and the New Isis Mystery; Michaelmas and the Soul-Forces of Man; The Nature of Substance: Spirit and Matter; A Theory of Knowledge: Implicit in Goethe?s World Conception; Worlds-Antiworlds (this copy in blue cloth); The True Nature and the Second Coming; The Fifth Gospel: From the Akashic Record; Three Lectures on the Mystery Dramas; What is Biodynamics? A Way to Heal and Revitalize the Earth; The Human Being in Body, Soul and Spirit (this copy in blue cloth); Truth-Wrought-Words and Other Verses (this copy in blue cloth); Man as Symphony and the Creative Word, The Spiritual Hierarchies and Their Reflection in the Physical World, The End of the Millennium and Beyond; Man and the World of Stars; How Can Mankind Find the Christ Again?; Life Between Death and Rebirth; The Threefold Social Order; Christ and the Spiritual World and the Search for the Holy Grail; Materialism and the Task of Anthroposophy; Rudolf Steiner: Herald of a New Epoch by Stewart C. Easton Les Proletaires. Preface par Jules de Marthold.
First edition. One of 50 copies numbered and signed by the artist but in this copy Greilsamer has put his stamp where a number would usually be and has written in ink "Souvenir fraternale, a mon ami Leon Martin." Folio (16 1/2 x 24 inches). 13, [1] pp. of prefatory material all printed on bifolios plus the requisite 10 engravings, each bearing the artist's seal and each with its original tissue guard. All loose as issued in publisher's half red morocco over green cloth folding case with flaps, gilt cover lettering. Some wear to case but whole and sturdy, plates very clean but with the usual lower margin rolling as they were issued loose. A very good copy.Greilsamer is chiefly, if at all, remembered as a very late 19th century painter. These 10 engravings (along with two others) appear to be his only foray into prints. It concerns, of course, laborers and thus offers a nice view of the working man at that time. Photograph Album with 187 Fine, Artistic Portraits, circa 1890s-1920s, of Family and Friends of Hattie Goldnamer, Including a Portrait of Her Friend Loraine Stebinger, a California Musician, Taken by Louis Fleckenstein.
The soft leather-covered album measures 15.5 x 11.5 inches and contains fifty extant pages containing a total of 164 original photographs of varying sizes. The album has had some of its pages removed, and there are missing photos from extant pages. There are an additional 23 fine photos, either unmounted or on partial pages, that have been removed from the album but are present in this offering. Altogether there are 187 photographs in this grouping. Several of the photos are over 9 x 13 inches in size. The photographs, whether still in the album or separated from it, are in fine condition. Harriette (Hattie) Elizabeth Hill Foster Goldnamer (1868-1940), assembled the album and wrote the white ink photo descriptions in a wonderful cursive hand. According to Hughes? Artists in California, Hattie married ?? Daniel Foster and moved to Fresno, CA in 1886. In 1904 she moved to San Francisco where she studied at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute and privately with Frederick Bauer. A widow, by 1910 she had married Wm. Goldnamer. She then settled in Oakland where she remained until her demise on May 2, 1940.? As an artist, Hattie worked in charcoal and oil and specialized in still life and figure studies. This album is one of three family photographs she put together that we acquired together. Although the family names are the same in all three, each stands alone and we are offering them individually. All but nine of the 164 photographs in the album are fine portraits of her family and friends, and several of herself. Surnames identified in the album include Hill, Foster, McNeil, Gardner, Potter, Bryer, Gould, Pierce, Page, Oust, Le Blanc, Ryan, McKenzie, Holden, Oberwetter, Russell, Hutchens, Eldred, Dunbar, King, Brown, Scholler, Holaday, Radley, Hutchens, and many others. From the identification inscriptions beneath the photos, along with photographers? imprints, many of Hattie?s family and friends were from the Illinois-Nebraska area and California. There are a number of oval portraits of identified individuals, both male and female, dated 1900. The other nine images in the album are large photos of the Hill, Dunbar, and Oberwetter ranches in Nebraska and Wyoming, circa 1895-1900.The photo with the ?Louis Fleckenstein / Los Angeles? blind stamp is of Loraine Stebinger, who signed the photo?s mount, ?Most sincerely, Loraine Stebinger, Dec. 25, 1918.? Removed from the album, the photograph of the musician shows her playing the piano and measures 7 x 10 inches on a 10 x 13.5 inch cream colored mount. Fleckenstein (1866-1943) was an internationally known pictorialist photographer before moving to Los Angeles in 1907 to open up a portrait studio. He and a colleague had already organized the Salon Club of America to give support to regional camera clubs interested in pictorial photography, where the emphasis was on photography as an art form rather than a documentary tool ? aesthetics over reality! In 1914, along with Edward Weston and others, Fleckenstein helped found the Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. In 1924 he relocated to Long Beach where he continued his work in photography. His photos are now in most major museum collections of photography.Another unattributed photo of Stebinger has an ink presentation, ?To my dearly beloved Friend Harriet Goldnamer, from Lorraine Stebinger? That presentation photo was key to identifying Hattie Goldnamer as the compiler of all three albums acquired at the same time, of which this is one. Of interest is the penciled note on the back that attributes it (along with several other shots of Stebinger in the same dress) to Fleckenstein. However, that has not been verified. Cataloge [of] Land and Fresh Water Shells of the Hawaiian Islands.
first edition. Octavo. 25, [1] pp. Publisher's printed light brown wrappers. Nine pinholes through text (hard to discern upon first glance), else an excellent copy. Baldwin had earlier published a list of Hawaiian mosses and liverworts (hepatic plants, or Hepaticae in Latin). Malacology In the 1890s he devoted much of his time to studying mollusks (malacology), specifically the study of Hawaiian land snails, some of which he named and described. In addition, several land snail species in the family Achatinellidae were named in honor of him, as well as a subgenus Baldwinia of the genus Partulina. He produced the first catalog of Hawaiian land snails and freshwater snails in 1893. Anti-War Poster.
WEEGE, Wm, [artist] Original anti-war poster collage poster by Weege, 19 x 25 inches. Half-tone printed in pink and black and with a Jefferson quote in the middle. Some light toning around the edges but a very good copy. "In the fall of 1967, Bill Weege was an art student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, studying printmaking and sculpture. While studying at Madison, Weege became politically active in the anti-war movement. In October of 1967, Weege participated in the infamous Dow demonstration, protesting the Dow Chemical Co.'s recruitment on the UW campus. Dow Chemical was the manufacturer of napalm, a vicious jellied gasoline used in flame throwers and bombs by U.S. forces in Vietnam" (R. Epp, Gallery One One One) The demonstration was enourmous and soon turned violent with many students being injured by overly-eager police and carted of to the hospital. In fact, it was the first violent anti-war demonstration in America. Weege produced Peace is Patriotic as his M.F.A. thesis in 1967, following the Dow riot. The portfolio of 25 collage prints was both a defiant fierce protest against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, and a declaration of the right to dissent. Using images and text from popular culture, Weege's prints, sure to raise the nackles of any lurking hawks, condemn American military aggression in no uncertain terms. They attack government war propaganda, and expose the brutality and cruel obscenities of modern warfare. "Peace is Patriotic became popular with the sixties hippie counterculture, as Weege reproduced the prints as posters for campus political rallies and student demonstrations. At times he printed up to 500 posters in a week for different events' (ibid.). THis particular poster seems to be one of the rarest of the 25 and his Napalm poster seems to be the most common The posters were sold by the famous Print Mint in Berkeley likely until Print Mint became no more in 1975.- $200
- $200
The Theory of Conscious Harmony.
COLLIN, Rodney First edition. Octavo. xii, 212 pp. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt spine lettering. Some sunning to spine but a very good and clean copy.Comes with a second impression (1968) of Collin's Mirror of Light (Watkins: London). Small snag to front and some rubbing to cloth but very good overall.- $150
- $150
Wm T. Coleman & Co?s Exhibit of Californian Products Showing Location of Industries.
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY) COLEMAN, William T. Ten original chromolithographed leaves from the exceedingly rare ?Wm T. Coleman & Co?s Exhibit of Californian Products Showing Location of Industries? marketing booklet. Front and rear wrappers and eight internal leaves advertising Coleman?s various business enterprises (out of a total of 16 internal leaves). Wrappers printed on both sides on thin cloth over cardstock, internal leaves printed on textured paper and also on both sides. Approximately 13 x 10 ? (wrappers trimmed a bit smaller). Colors are generally vibrant. Wrappers worn, soiled, chipped, internal leaves a bit toned, some mild wear, creasing. Very good. These wrappers and leaves are incredibly rare; only three copies of this booklet are thought to exist in various states of completeness (none are listed on WorldCat).William T. Coleman (1824-1893) was a Kentuckian who worked in various places, gaining an enormous appetite for entrepreneurship. When he moved to California in 1849 to work the gold fields, he discovered that selling tools to other miners was far more profitable than mining. He established his mercantile business in Sacramento; in order to grow his successful business more, he moved to San Francisco. His boundless energy and resourcefulness gained him enormous fortune, and he eventually owned and operated several different businesses, including shipping, agriculture, fishing, mining, and more (he also established the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco to combat the local rampant crime). This booklet (it is unknown who actually printed it, however Bufford is a possibility) was designed to announce to the public his huge success and his consolidation of his various businesses under a single banner. These leaves are offered with The Ephemera Journal, Volume 25, Number 2 in which this magnificent booklet?s history is described by Mark Rucker. Included are Rucker?s photocopied images used to illustrate this article. Also included is a biography of Coleman, ?The Lion of the Vigilantes? William T. Coleman by James A. B. Scherer (1939, The Bobbs-Merrill Company); early reprint in jacket). A superb lot. From the Mark Rucker Collection.- $1,750
- $1,750
Battling the Wolves of Society: The Narcotic Evil.
(DRUGS) ROWELL, Earl Abbot First edition. Small octavo. 91, [1] pp. luridly illustrated from photographs. Publisher's bright pictorial wrappers. Very good and sharp copy."Paperback pamphlets such as The Moloch of Marijuana by Rev.Robert J. Devine (1943), and evangelist Earle Albert Rowell?s Battling The Wolves of Society:The Narcotics Evil (1929) and On the Trail of Marijuana: The Weed of Madness(1939) fanned the flames of pot paranoia. So outlandish and over the top were the sensationalistic claims of these ?educational? books that ?the bureau attacked such apostles of fear". Anslinger wished the FBN to be sole source of publicity and educational materials. A few of the Rowell softcovers were issued by ? guess who?? Pacific Press Publishing Association, a great thorn in the side of anyone trying torationally educate the public on drugs. Pacific Press Publishing Association also issued Plain Facts for Young Women onNarcotics, Marijuana, Liquor and Tobacco by Dr. Belle Wood Comstock (1938).- $350
- $350
Original Photograph of a 14 Mule Team Hauling a Water Tank across Death Valley.
(PHOTOGRAPHY: DEATH VALLEY) Original albumen photograph, 6 6/8 x 5 inches. the photograph bears a caption in the print sating merely "Death Valley, Calif." Not on a photographer's mount but flat and clean. When you see an image with a long string of horses/mules hauling something one generally think of the famous Borax Twenty Mule Team. But the cargo in this picture is a huge metal tank of water; a rather necessary item in Death Valley. Likely bound for Ryan.- $150
- $150
Original Broadside for a Concert Featuring Carol Doda’s Image.
(SAN FRANCISCO: CAROL DODA) Original broadside for a concert by The Jiants, Anne Weldon, Randy Randolph Trio, Carol Doda and special guest star Charles Pierce. 23 x 35 inches. with lettering in pink and with a pink tint overall. A very minor (under an inch) marginal tears though none extending into the image. Overall a very good copy. Rare.In the 1970s if one entered San Francisco via the Bay Bridge one was soon looking at a huge billboard for Carol Doda. She was a key cog in the revolution that had going on in San Francisco since the 1960s. This broadside advertises a concert held at The 524 Club on February 17, 1969. The Apex of Hippiedom.Carol Ann Doda (d. 2015) was an American topless dancer based in San Francisco, California, who was active from the 1960s through the 1980s. She was the first public topless dancer in the United State, Her usual venue was the Condor on Broadway. On June 19, 1964, when Doda was twenty-six years old, the Condor's publicist, "Big" Davy Rosenberg, gave Doda a monokini topless swimsuit designed by Rudi Gernreich. She performed topless that night, the first noted entertainer of the era to do so. The act was an instant success. Two months after she started her semi-nude performances, the rest of San Francisco's Broadway went topless, followed soon after by entertainers across America. Doda became an American cultural icon of the 1960s and 70s. She was profiled in Tom Wolfe's 1969 book The Pump House Gang and appeared that same year as Sally Silicone in Head, the 1968 film created by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson, and featuring The Monkees. The movie was produced by Columbia Pictures. She also appeared in a Golden Boy parody with Annette Funicello, Sonny Liston, and Davy Jones. She eventually went all nude forcing the government to change the law; no nudes with alcohol. She performed until 1985 at the remarkable age of 48. She later ran her own lingerie shop in the city.One of the other acts, Ann Weldon, has also gone down in history. Ann and Maxine Weldon from Bakersfield, performed in clubs beginning in the 1950s, and developed relationships with their gay audiences that came to benefit both the audience and the performers. Ann Weldon performed often in the Bay area and in 1966 and 1967 at the 524 Club, a gay club that was earlier known as the Paper Doll. It was during a performance in autumn 1967 that William Ball from American Conservatory Theatre came to see her and offered her a role in Edward Albee's play, An American Dream. That was the beginning of her acting career. n 1968 Maxine Weldon began performing in San Francisco clubs as well. For several months at the end of that year and into 1969, she was performing at Leonarda's (16 Leland) with the Randy Randolph trio. Leonarda's was a restaurant, bar and nightclub with both lesbians and gay male patrons in Visitation Valley. It was owned by Margaret "Peg" Clark, who would later open Peg's Place on Geary. "On Feb. 17, 1969, Ann Weldon with the Randy Randolph trio performed at "A Night To Remember" with Charles Pierce, Carol Doda and the comedy troupe the Jiants at the Basket (895 O'Farrell) which was billed as an "All-Star Show For Homosexuals" in the Chronicle" (M. Flanagan, 2019). The Weldon sister became central players in the gay and AIDs activist scene in San Francisco, performing at numerous fundraisers and contributing their emergy to many organizations.- $500
- $500
A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry (Ars Magna Latomorum).
WAITE, Arthur Edward New and revised edition (the first edition was published a year earlier). Two large octavo volumes. With sixteen full-page plates and other illustrations. Publisher's blind-ruled blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, front cover with a gilt Masonic device. Some light spine extremity wear else a very handsome, clean and study copy.- $250
- $250
Designs for Workers in Precious Metals. With an introduction by Sidney Webb.
STEWARD, W. Augustus First edition of this seemingly non-existent book. Quarto. 15, [1, blank] pp. of text plus all 26 high quality plates showing numerous examples of the jeweller's art. Plates printed on rectos only and each one has a pitch black background. Publisher's gray cloth with the titling and publication data within a fanciful border on the front. For some odd reason the bottom third of the spine has blanched to a white but with no loss of cloth or integrity, patterned endpapers. Endpapers quite foxed but none of the text or plates as they were printed on clay paper. A handsome copy with lovely plates. We can find no reference for this book. No copies recorded by OCLC.Steward was a metal worker sad is well know for his books on war medals. The Webbs were quite a force in the industrial and social reform movements in England at the time.- $250
- $250
![Lavius Egyptus: Or the Unveiling of the Pythagorean Senate [together with] Lavius Egyptus: Lectures in the Pythagorean Senate](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/31826623489.jpg)
Lavius Egyptus: Or the Unveiling of the Pythagorean Senate [together with] Lavius Egyptus: Lectures in the Pythagorean Senate, in the Temple of the Oracle of Dodona. Complete in two volumes.
SPIVEY, Thomas Sawyer First edition. Two octavo volumes. vi, 196; vi, 180 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's blue (Vol. I) and Green (Vol. !!) cloth, gilt spine and cover lettering, each front board bears a gilt coiled snake. Some silverfishing to the edges of the cloth on the second volume. Else very good and clean copies Of this somewhat elusive title, especially so for the second volume. Thomas Sawyer Spivey (whose wife insisted was the model for Twain's protagonist of the same name) led two lives. For his working years he work for a lock and safe manufacturing company. As he put that behind him he became a modestly successful author of occult and pseudo-religious works as well as novels. The work purports to be a novel but clearly it is just a vehicle for his more outlandish theories. It claims to deliver "the fundamental lessons received by Lavius Egyptus before the Essenic Body whose wisdom he recorded for twenty-nine years," hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. In the second volume, Spivey gives the reader the "Lectures in the Pythagorean Senate in the Temple of the Oracle of Dodona." The printing of the second volume was purposely meant to imitate a typescript in its presentation, with attendant illustrations, corrections, etc. "The suggestion that we publish this edition in the form of a reproduction of out manuscript came to us as we were ready for press, otherwise we might have attempted more artistic effort in making the simple drawings" (Preface). It is a hodgepodge of the Gnostic, Theosophical and Hermetic ideas so popular in that age.- $350
- $350
James Connors’ Sons, United States Type Foundry, New York, Ornamental and Border Specimens.
[TYPE SPECIMEN CATALOG] First edition. Folio (9 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches). 62 leaves (including 3 in color). Publisher's black cloth with gilt cover lettering, gray endpapers. Front tips bumped to exposure. Recased retaining the original endpapers. A very nice copy of a rare item.Romaine p. 216 also list 62 leaves and with only one location. We could find no copy listed on OCLC. The entire catalog is concerned with ornaments and borders, many quite beautiful. James Connor's company was one of the 23 that joined forces to become the American Typefounders' Company. Scarce as hen's teeth (a nod to my mother).- $750
- $750
