London, Princes Theatre 1961 Stapled wrappers.7.25x5” 24pp.#####'King Kong' was a pioneering South African musical inspired by the life and death of the heavyweight boxing champion Ezekiel Dlamini. Billed as a 'Jazz-Opera', the production was first staged in Johannesburg, opening on February 2nd 1959 and went on to take South Africa by storm. Nelson Mandela attended the opening night and is on record as highlighting the show as his favorite musical. 'King Kong' subsequently opened at London's Princes Theatre on February 23rd 1961 and ran for 201 performances.#####With an all-black cast, the pl... View More...
Small format (approximately 6x9) newspaper, original and complete but disbound from a larger volume. Each issue 16 pp. consecutively numbered.The Niles Weekly Register was a national magazine published in Baltimore from 1811 to 1848. The most widely circulated magazine of its time, the Register was the nation's first weekly newsmagazine and exerted a powerful influence on the early national discourse. This is a broken run of ten issues from March 25-April 8 [3]; May 6-May 13 [2], and June 3-June 24 [5]. Contents include extensive news and commentary on the final weeks of the War of 1812, the... View More...
War communiques, German atrocities, Holocaust, Soviet Annexation#####Published by the Czechoslovak Government Press Bureau, NY. Vol 4 nos. 1-103 [less issue 46] 102 issues in all; a near complete run of the final year of publication. 11x8.5", 4-8 leaves each. Offset printed from typed originals. Most, but not all, stapled in upper left corner. Each issue contains news about the progress of the war and the occupation, reports of the Holocaust and other German war crimes, reprints of important documents, and speeches by Jan Masaryk, Edvard Benes and others.#####Among significant topics:-Apparen... View More...
2 Sample Books, 13"x10"; cards mostly 4.25x5.5 in folded form.34, 36 greeting cards in each1945-1948 – humorous greeting cards, many depicting the misogyny and racial stereotypes of the period. Artists not identified; Birthday, Get Well, Graduation, Congratulations, Xmas. In the form of two photograph albums, two-post, decorated burgundy covers, black paper pages, with two cards mounted per page. Condition: individual cards range from Good with occasional folds and creases to Fine – mostly the latter. The album is fair only with extensive exterior wear, creases and tears to some of the pages ... View More...
1st ed. 8vo, 16 pp., Disbound from a larger volume; no outer wrappers. Seward's first address to the Senate was one of his most influential orations and immediately established him as a national antislavery leader. He acknowledged that the Constitution's framers had recognized slavery's existence and protected it where it existed, but the new territory was governed by a "higher law than the Constitution" -- a moral law established by "the Creator of the universe." Opposing all legislative compromise as "radically wrong and essentially vicious," Seward demanded the unconditional admission of Ca... View More...
The only copy we have ever seen with the first-issue gold silk cord still present. ##### Includes photos from the set, candid shots, and narrative details about Welles' and the making of the film. The gold cord, running through the center spread and around the spine, was possibly an allusion to the gold mine discovered on Mary Kane’s property that allowed her to send her son Charles away to be properly educated. The program was sold only at the 1941 first-run screenings of the film in the United States and our understanding is that only opening night copies had the cord inserted. #####
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1st ed., second printing with the original 5c price at the bottom of the cover. Covers age-toned with a couple of light stains. Paper cover pulling from one of the staples, but still intact. Pencil erasures on back cover and one interior page. View More...
Collection includes 60 individual billheads from 37 different suppliers to the families of Dr. Joseph A. Gale and pharmacist Paul. P. Hunter, Roanoake Virginia. Clothing, Bicycles, Hardware, Ostrich Feathers, autos and parts, groceries, photography – and one for artwork sold to Gale by bookseller John Rosenbach
Broadside - Freiheit der Freimadchen [Freedom of the Free Girls]Vienna, J. N. Fridrich, July 1848. Folio 9"x15"], 1 leaf printed both sides.#####Rare broadside published during the March Revolution in Vienna, Austria, protesting against the public behavior of girls of easy virtue. And, as the author complains, even the good working girls of Vienna are acting too freely in public. The text is signed L.S., but the author's identity has not been established. #####Scarce; not in Flugschriften im Netz or Sammlung Friedlander. One copy in National Library of Austria https://digital.onb.ac.at/Rep... View More...
“California Gold. Important Official Report.” In The New York Tribune for December 8, 1848, published by Horace Greeley and Thomas McElrath. Original elephant folio newspaper, 4pp. complete, the report on p. 3.”Colonel Richard B. Mason’s famous report of his trip to newly discovered placers. It ranks as one of the most important eyewitness accounts of the Gold Rush.” (Kurutz 105) “One day Mr. Marshall, as he was walking own the race to this deposit of mud, observed some glittering particles at its upper edge…” [from the Report). This issue was printed just three days after the “Message from t... View More...
Wholesale and retail motorcycle and automobile supplies. Every part and tool the auto owner of the period might need. Clothing, goggles, parts, tools, gauges, tires, lamps, gauges, etc. Fully illustrated.
Condition: Good; interior very good overall with small 1" dampstain at top of first several pages. Covers moderately soiled, with ¼" chip lower left rear cover. View More...
Oblong red & blue embossed, cord-tied wrappers. 10" x 11 3/4". 20 photos in various monotones, image size approx. 6.5" x 9.75". "Phototype Illustrations of the Principal Buildings at the Fair Grounds, together with some General Views of the Great Northwest, Mountains, Big Trees and Rivers."
OCLC (WorldCat) locates only 7 copies. (1905).
Owner signature faintly inked on tissue guard of title page, otherwise In near fine condition …... View More...
Eulogium, on the Character of General Washington, Late President of the United States; Pronounced at the Request of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, Before the President of the United States, and the Members of Both Houses of Congress
Philadelphia, Pa. John Ormrod, 1800.
12mo, original wrappers. 44 pp. Title page continues: "on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hundred, in the German Reformed Church, Philadelphia." "New Edition." Woodcut head piece and tailpiece. George Washington’s sudden sudden death inspired mourning throughout the US and this is one of numerous eu... View More...
The Book of Fate / Formerly in the Possession of Napoleon Later Emperor of France and Now First Rendered Into English from a German Translation, of an Ancient Egyptian Manuscript, Found in the Year 1801, by M Sonnini, in one of the Royal Tombs, Near Mounty Libycus, in Upper Egypt. 23rd edition. 8vo. Maroon boards. Fold-out frontispiece with Oraculum charts, "Questions which may be put to the Oracle." The Oraculum was discovered in one of the Royal tombs of Egypt during an 1801 French military expedition and, at Napoleon's request, was translated by the German scholar. It was Napoleon's most c... View More...
Published for tourists, each of these popular booklets discusses a significant aspect of Japanese life and culture. They were written by a variety of authors and many went through several editions, including post-war reprints. /////This set comprises 17 of the first 19 titles [lacking 11 & 16]; all are pre-war editions —ten are scarce first printings (1935-1936)/////1 Tea Cult of Japan [3rd, 1937]2 Japanese Noh Plays [3rd, 1938]3 Sakura Japanese Cherry (3rd,1941)4 Japanese Gardens [3rd, 1938]5 Hirosige and Japanese Landscapes (3rd, 1939]6 Japanese Drama (2d,1936)7 Japanese Architecture [3rd, ... View More...
3 issues of German POW Newspaper “Rundschau” / Camp Myles Standish, Mass.
Dec 1945 26 pp.; No. 11 Jan 1946 10 pp.; Jan 26 1946 22 pp.
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Black mimeograph on newsprint, stapled at left. 8-1/2x11”. News summaries, essays, poems, camp announcements, drawing-contest-winners' artwork, humor and puzzles
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12mo, original wrappers. 24 pp. Author(s) not identified but with printed signatures at the end of Samuel Parsons and Anne Mott, clerks. The narration begins with a description of the "spirit of unbelief and libertinism, which has long been secretly insinuating itself amongst us." Followed by an account of how "separatists" disrupted the Society's daily business in New York. [In an 1824 epistle, preacher Elias Hicks argued that the most important principle of worship was obedience to the Inner Light, which he considered more authoritative than the Bible. By 1827, Philadelphia Quakers had spl... View More...
9 pp. (8¾x5¾"), previously bound. First Edition.#####Document 9, 1855. Report on the sale of the interest of the State of California in the property within the water line in front of San Francisco [known as water lots]. The sales occurred between September 1853 and October 1854. The appendices list the blocks and properties, the buyers, the dates, and the prices for sales and for re-sales, and a summary of the revenue by sale date. OCLC lists only the three copies at the Huntington Library, Harvard Law School, and Saint Patrick's Seminary & University.#####CONDITION: Good+. Light wear and tone... View More...
Washington D. C. U.S. Government Prining Office, (1945). First edition. 4.25x5.25", Softcover. 26pp. Original stapled wraps, illustrated with a reproduction of a caricature by Arthur Szyk of Hitler, Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito. Szyk crossed out the faces of Hitler and Mussolini with red X's, hence the title that only Japan remains left to be beaten. Illustrated inside with six partly colored reproductions of drawings by unknown artists. Explaining the reasoning and plan to invade Japan after VE Day, and the options and opportunities for servicemen and women once the war ends. Interestingly... View More...
Four 4.25x6.5" sepia toned cabinet card photos by E.B. Snell Elite Gallery, Wellington KS. One 5.25x8.5" by H. Beck Winfield Kansas, with two inked annotations identifying destroyed properties./////On May 27, 1892, a cyclone ripped through the heart of Wellington Kansas, leaving 17 dead, numerous injuries, leaving hundreds homeless, and causing $500,000 in property damage. At that time, Wellington was one of the state's fastest growing cities, with a population of 12,000. The cyclone caused extensive damage to a 26-block area and ended the momentum of growth the city had been experiencing. P... View More...
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