Ephemera

SCB Photographics Publ,, 1981. PBO Softcover Pictorial Wraps,Slightly Oversized, 1981, stated 1st Limited edition, #168/500, Minor Rub & Wear Cover, Interior Nice, Tight Clean, FINE/F-, 59 pgs. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover.

1964. ORIGINAL Ticket Yellow & Black in Color, all seat $1.25, 9 P.M., 1/2\" X 3 1/2\", NF. First Edition. Unbound.

Boston & Charlestown, MA: Free Democratic State Committee & Republican Club, 1854. Leaf. Very Good. Two early contribution receipts; one from the Boston Republican Club in 1856 and the other from the Free Democratic State Committee of Massachusetts in 1854. The Free Democratic Party was one of several splinter political parties (e.g., Liberty Party, Free Soilers, etc.) that formed in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and opened up the new territories of the United States to slavery. The Free Democratic Party quickly banded together with other anti-slavery parties to form the Republican Pary in 1855. The Free Democratic Party receipt was printed by J. S. Potter & Company; the Republican Party receipt is manuscript. Both receipts are made out to Oliver Smith, a prominent Massachusetts businessman, philanthropist, and statesman.

New York: Milky Way Productions. Very Good. 1975. First Edition. Paperback. A lot of 26, 1975 issues of Screw Newspaper. The worlds's greatest, published every monday by the Milky Way Production in New York. Illustrated with B/W photograph and drawings. Warning: Sexual material of an adult nature. This literature is not intended for minors. January 6, 13, 20, 27, #305, #306, #307, #308; Feb. 3, 10 24, #309, #310, #312; Mar. 3, 10, 17 and 24,#313, #314, #315, #316; April, 1, 7, 14, 21, and 28, #317, #318, #319, #320 and #321; May 5, 12 and 19, #322, #323, and #324; June 2 & 30, #326 & #330; July 21, #333; August 4, #335; Oct. 6 & 13, #344 & #345; November 10, #349. Adult Magazine Erotica; B/W photograph & Drawing illustrations; Folio 13" - 23" tall .

San Francisco: Hungry Mind / Midnight Paper Sales, 1996. Signed by Sherman Alexie. First edition / First printing. Number 52 0f of 90 copies. Letterpress broadside. 15" x 11 Fine. Excerpt from Indian Killer. This broadside was produced for Sherman Alexie's Reading at the Hungry Mind on November 15, 1996. Uncommon.

various: various, 1970. Three Ring Binder. Good. We offer a large archive of fireworks labels dating to the 1970s, including 175+ labels collected from various manufacturers and countries, mostly India and China, but with a few from Japan and even America. The archive is contained in two binders labeled "FIREWORKS LABELS ALBUM NO. 3" (containing 82 labels mostly of Indian origin), and "FIREWORKS LABELS ALBUM NO 4." (99 labels, mostly of Chinese/Macau origin with a few from Japan and America). This archive was collected in the 1970s (presumably by someone in the fireworks business), and placed in old photograph albums with the "magnetic glue" format which has transferred to the backs of many of the labels. In some cases lines are visible on the front of the labels. We've left the labels in the albums as is, partly because there are some penciled notes on some pages indicating a date or (in album 4) "PGII CONV" presumably for the Pyrotechnics Guide annual conventions. They are easily removable, but… Read More

A 1st ed. very good hardcover (cloth-bound) in blue, gold embossed cover, minor signs of wear on cov. as in image, text near fine clean tight. Colour maps and numerous colour and black and white illustrations, advertising.

Matted North Platte Hotel Cabinet Photo
9x7 mounted on mat. Photographer unknown, August 1911. Local purchase, good condition

Manuscript leaves numbered 38 through 255, plus 2 leaves of introduction. Folio (12 1/2" x 8 1/2") bound in later quarter calf over green marbled boards.The first page is captioned "Títulos y sucesiones de la casa llamada de Santa Inés, situada a la entrada de la ciudad de Tlalpan," or "Title deeds and inheritances of the house named after Santa Inés, situated at the entrance of the city of Tlalpan." The volume contains numerous documents which trace the succession of owners, sellers, and heirs of a house and orchard in San Agustín de las Cuevas, a town in colonial Coyoacán. It later came under the jurisdiction of Tlalpan in the national period, where it remains today. An introduction summarizes its contents; followed by a bill of the sale of the house by the bachiller Fr. Ventura de Medina y Picaso to Diego Bravo de Monera in 1688. Medina had dubbed the house Casa Santa Inés, a name that stuck. After several other buyers and heirs, the volume ends with a deed from 1839. The documents… Read More

[n.p.: 1888] Dated October 1888 on front cover. . Accordion bound in buff paper self-wrappers. . 8 in. x 8 in. With eight full-page paper-weaving samples, each in two colors of paper (green, brown, pink, blue, black, white, etc.) Slight dampstaining to edges of wrappers. Contemporary ink ownership signature of a Mary Webb and date to front cover. Internally quite clean and attractive. A very good example of a fragile Froebel gift album. This is a colorful and well-executed example of Froebel gift fourteen. The techniques shown here include weaving in straight rows and columns, zigzags, and perpendicular designs, as well as attractive color-matching within the samples. The album also shows a difficulty progression from basic patterns to the more complicated designs.

Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Divers Press, 1955. Original Wrappers. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cover: Dan Rice (designer), Arthur Okamura (artist). First Edition of Blackburn's first collection of poetry. Fragile illustrated wrappers screenprinted over newsprint are rarely seen in this condition. Paul Blackburn was a poet, involved with Beat poets, as well as a translator of Latin American literature by Octavio Paz, Federico Garcia Loca, Julio Cortezar and Pablo Picasso. Blackburn was a strong and active supporter of poetry and poets, especially fledgling poets. His influence on the poetry world and Spanish/Latin American literature (from the 1950's to his death in 1971) is immeasurable. 8 x 6½". 24 pp. Very minor chipping to top and bottom tips of cover, some offset toning to end pages, else a Near Fine copy.

Near Fine. Postcards. Set of a dozen first edition postcards, signed by Edward Gorey on the envelope as Dogear Wryde. It contains 12 postcards with printed verses all in very fine condition. Envelope is in NF condition, slight bend on the one corner and a pencil price 25.00 in other corner. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

[Maine] Pictorial Letter Sheet. New York: C. Magrms(?) [Circa 1860?] 13.4 x 21.6 cm. Lined paper with color vignettes of Bird's Eye View of Bangor from the Harbor and Woman with a Trident. Light staining along top edge, not affecting color vignettes, else very good.
OCLC shows no holdings. This was with a number of Civil War letter sheets, so I am assuming it may be contemporary with them. The harbor shows three paddle wheel steamers in addition to a number of sailing vessels. The figure is perhaps meant to be Amphitrite, goddess of the sea.

Norton, MA: Wheaton College, 1952. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. INSCRIBED by Richard Eberhart (with his initials) to a colleague on the first interior page. 8vo, 16pp, stapled wrappers. A rare publication of this address delivered at Wheaton College in April 1952. Unmarked copy, a little outer soil, institutional gift label to inside front cover (no other markings).

[Philadelphia: John Binns, 1828. Folio Broadside, 11" x 19." Printed in three columns, each separated by a rule. Macabre relief cuts of six black coffins within the title. Repaired horizontal and vertical closed tears on blank verso; several small holes have slight effect on several letters. Light toning. Good+ copy of a rare, dramatic broadside. "As we soon expect to have official documents in relation to the SIX MILITIA MEN, arrested, tried, and put to death, under the orders of General Andrew Jackson, this may not be an improper time to give to the public some of the particulars of the execution..." The source of those "particulars" is the account in John Binns's 'Democratic Press.' The primary weapon of the anti-Jackson forces was his alleged impetuous, unrestrained, martial personality, utterly unsuitable for the presidency of a democratic republic whose success required respect for constitutional checks and balances. Jackson's indefensible shooting of the six militia men after the Battle of… Read More