Jenny Lens The Who paperback book collection [2 volumes]
1970. Original Wraps. Very Good+. Original Wraps. From the Collection of Jenny Lens. Collection of two volumes of The Who biographical and pictorial paperbacks. Shelfwear around edges, creasing, toning, tearing to wrappers else tight, bright, and unmarred. 8vo, illus. (b/w). Small paperback missing cover.
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The Great Dog Races of Nome // Official Souvenir History
Knik, Alaska: Iditarod Trail Committee, 1969. Reprint. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. Reprint. Original Wraps. "Held under the auspices of the Nome Kennel Club. Nome, Alaska" A handsome copy of the facsimile edition. Minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Tan printed wraps, black ink lettering and decorative elements. Small oblong 8vo. np [28pp]. Illus. (b/w... Read More
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Fortune Teller game [spinning wheel]
Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley, 1920. Later Printing. Good. Later Printing. The Fortune Teller Game is a functional divination game or novelty. The box features an image of the 'gypsy' is a misconstructed and culturally inappropriate term to describe people of Romani heritage. Often with a head scarf and a broom, the Romani fortune teller, is usually a young... Read More
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Important Maine Maps, Books, Prints and Ephemera
Orono, ME: Stillwater Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. No DJ, as Issued.. First Edition. Hardcover. A cornerstone reference for any Maine collection. Tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering. 4to. 519pp. One of 700 copies.
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1938 German Almanac
Germany, 1938. Hardcover. Near fine. Hardcover. Printed in red and black. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Faux burgundy leather/pebbled cloth, black ink lettering, minor foxing on a few pages, printed end papers. 49x36mm. 60pp.
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Pears' Soap Advertisement [Racist Advertising, Harpers' Magazine]
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893. Good+. Early Pears' soap advertisement published in Harper's Magazine Advertiser using racially insensitive illustration. Stain at one edge, two small chips (one missing, one repaired), tiny closed tear. Single leaf advertisement page.
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From Seed to Sheet
Marcham: The Alembic Press, 1997. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Beige cloth boards, triangular shape, accordion fold, glued in examples of various steps. 47x95mm. 15pp. Numbered limited edition, this being 50 of 80.
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Horse Hound [Two Issues, Together With] USPC News [Three Issues, Together with] Town and Country:. (see below for issue specifics)
London/Lexington, KY: Horse & Hound; United States Pony Club; Town & Country, 1996. First Printing(s). Original Wraps. Very Good to Near Fine in Wraps.. First Printing(s). Original Wraps. Horse and Hound: July 23 and 30th issues (Olympic Preview issue and Olympic Reports issue). USPC: 1996 ("Eventing USA" issue (Olypics)), Summer 1998 (#78); Fall 1999 (#83). Town and Country:... Read More
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Laws of the State of Maine:. To Which are Prefixed the Constitution of the U. States and of Said State, In Two Volumes With Appendix (N.B. Includes the 1831 Volume Three)
Bruswick, ME: J. Griffin, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Very Good. No DJ as Issued. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume Three, published by Thomas Todd, Portland, in 1831, is included and makes this set complete. V.3 includes 3 np pages, Index to the Appendix; Statement of Veracity, and Errata. American Imprints 5916 (first two volumes); Vol. III not located in... Read More
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Seattle [photogravures]
Seattle, WA: Albertype Co./Lowman & Hanford Co, 1900. First Edition (presumed). Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps.. First Edition (presumed). Original Wraps. Lowman printed these for many years (later called "Souvenir of Seattle"). This, believed to be the first iteration, includes 22 pages with at total of 23 plates tipped in (one large fold-out and one with two... Read More
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2500 Maths Formulae
England: College Lane Publishers, 1984. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue printed paper wraps. 61x55mm. 367pp.
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Map of Biddeford and Saco Maine
Boston, MA: A. Greenough & Co, 1900. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps.. Original Wraps. Very nice copy of period "urban" Biddeford/Saco. Moderate shelf/edge wear, light rubbing to wraps, light toning to first fold, else bright and clean. Printed cloth-backed paper wraps, black ink lettering and decorative elements. 16mo. Approx. 28"x16
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Collection of Oliver Sacks books of science fiction writings [9 volumes]
Reprint. Original Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. Reprint. Original Wraps. From the Library of Oliver Sacks. Includes: Earth Abides - George R. Stewart The Four-Dimensional Nightmare - J.G. Ballard Time Out of Joint - Philip K. Dick The Poison Belt - Arthur Conan Doyle The First Men in the Moon - H.G. Wells... Read More
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Urban Assault rave flier collection
2001. Unique. Very Good. Unique. Appears to be an album collection of rave 'party' fliers laid in from the late 1990s to early 2000s, for the Norfolk, VA and DC area. A common DJ name throughout is "Tasha" who resided, it seems, in both Virginia and San Diego. This is probably the personal scrapbook resident DJ album for... Read More
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Archive of original designs for Kuhnle's cremation urns
1930. Unique. Very Good+. Unique. The original designs are speculated to be prototype designs for funerary urns, cremation receptacles, illustrated by "Kuhnle." All of the illustrations are handcolored, despite part of the collection is original drawings and the other are hand touched chromolithographic prints. No tracings of a designer, company, or individual owner named "Kuhnle." The style is... Read More
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Politikai Plakatok 1945-1948 [Political Posters]
Budapest: Kossuth Nyomda, 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Text in Hungarian. Fading and minor wear damage, else tight. Printed paper boards, pasted on picture on front cover. 52x41mm. np. Illus. (color plates).
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Exercises in Celebrating the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge. Held December 28, 1880
Cambridge: Charles W. Sever/University Bookstore, 1881. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. No Dustjacket as Issued. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Later published more broadly, the first edition of this collection is rather uncommon. Includes work by O.W. Holmes, Longfellow, Higginson, Lowell, and others. Light shelf/edge wear, bump to upper corner, pencil notations at title page, else tight, bright,... Read More
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Dungeon [No.1, No. 2]
Van Nuys, CA: Lyndon Distributing, 1980. First Edition. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. First Edition. Staplebound Wraps. Sexual topics such as fetishism, homosexuality, sadomasochism, domination, and transvestism. Images of latex and dominatrix fashion, sleaze situations, and models in rubber. The beginning of the intersection between bondage and pornography. Featuring bondage equipment, female dominationand male domination, flagellation and... Read More
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Anarchist and Anti-Civilization Zines Collection [11 volumes]
2020. Staplebound. Very Good+ in Wraps. Staplebound. Titles include: Colonalism by Maia Ramnath. Justseeds.org. Lexicon series by the Institute for Anarchist Studies/Anarchiststudies.org, February, 2012. The Combahee River Collective Statement-Combahee River Collective [on Black Feminism] by Barbara Ransby, 2017 at Socialism 2017 Conference. Banner Drops, Stencils, Wheatpaste, & Distributing Information...How to Wheat Paste. Activate, Grand Rapids. Dysphoria Means... Read More
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Set of the “remarkable” IBM Computation Proceedings, 1948-1951
New York: IBM Corp, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover. • “Proceedings, Scientific Computation Forum,” 1948. (OOC 683) • “Proceedings, Seminar on Scientific Computation,” November 1949. (OOC 684) • “Proceedings, Computation Seminar,” December 1949. (OOC 685). Includes von Neumann on “The Future of High-Speed Computing,” disputing the “major concern which is frequently voiced... Read More
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Portland and Its Attractions
New York: G.W. Morris, 1898. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps [textblock Near Fine].. First Edition. Original Wraps. A very handsome copy of this wonderful collection of images...seldom found in such a state. Closed split at heal in the paper wraps, light even toning to wraps, else tight, bright and unmarred. Cream paper wraps, gilt lettering... Read More
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Whitechapel Club collection
Chicago, IL, 1890. Unique. Very Good+. Unique. The Whitechapel Club was started in The Whitechapel Club was founded in 1889 by a group of young, bohemian, literary Chicago newspapermen, located in a Loop alley that is now West Calhoun Place, between Wells and Lasalle. Equally a secret society and a press club, the organization was named after the... Read More
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Nine Drawings Depicting Spiritual Processes from The Theosophical Society [9 Diagrams]
1920. Loose cards. Very Good+. Loose cards. A small collection of nine hand-drawn illustrations on card, depicting various states of consciousness, types of spirits, reincarnation, rebirth, karma and the nature of souls. One: Stages of Consciousness, Two: Etheric, Soul, Spirit, Three: Reincarnation/Rebirth, Four: Education Through Karma, Five: Spirits, Six: Thought Forms, Seven: Creation, Preservation, Destruction and the Spiritual... Read More
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In Praise of the Virtuous Woman
Zulicchem, Netherlands: Catharijne Press, 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. White silk boards, foil endpapers, gilt lettering on front cover, frontispiece, gold hebrew letters. 61x41mm. 32pp. Numbered limited special edition, this being VI of XV.
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