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Support the Black Panther Party
Folded twice, else near fine. [webonly] [JSP01; JHG2019]
Book ID: 93630More details Price: $1,000.00 -
Wanted by the FBI Interstate Flight - Assault with Intent to Commit Murder Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
First Edition
Washington, D.C: FBI. Wanted Flyer 447, issued December 13, 1968, 3 days following a Federal warrant issued on December 10, 1968, at San Francisco, California, charging Cleaver with unlawful interstate flight to avoid confinement after conviction for assault with intent to commit murder. Photo-printed poster with 4 images, 2 taken in 1966 and 2 in 1968. Signed with facsimile signature of J. Edgar Hoover. Poster was mailed to Postmaster, High Bridge, New Jersey. Folded for mailing. 14 x 10.5 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1049272.
First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Folded for mailing in half and again in thirds. Middle fold is tanned and there is edge and corner wear. Small edge chip on right center.
Book ID: 264850More details Price: $600.00 -
South Bay Railroad and Land Co. Stock Certificate
San Francisco: Edward Denny & Co, 1875. 13 by 5 inches. A stock certificate for the company that built the first railroad in Humboldt County, California, a line from the bay up Salmon Creek to the old growth redwood forests there. The company was founded by H. H. Buhne, one of the first Anglo settlers in the region, who was on the first ship to sail across the bar in 1850. Very scarce. ISBN: 281AIB1023374.
A fine, unused example. [JSP02]
Book ID: 103749More details Price: $350.00 -
[Letter to Zane Grey about Seth Kinman]
Folded for mailing, else fine. In the original envelop, made from tanned and chipping acidic paper. Note, probably written by Grey's secretary, on the outside of envelope.
Book ID: 139983More details Price: $312.50 -
Album von Jagd- und Luxus-Hunden: Sieger der Offenen Klassen auf den Ausstellungen des Jahres 1904 [Cover title]
First Edition
Frankfurt: Verlag des "Sportblatt" Kern & Birner, 1904. Portfolio of 141 loose black-and-white plates with photo reproductions showing Open Class Winners of Hunting and Luxury Dogs from the 1904 Exhibitions. Text in German. Depicts 38 breeds including Dachshund, Fox Terriers, Setters, Basset, St. Bernard, Collie, Bulldog, Doberman Pincher, Airdale, Bull Terriers, Mastiffs, and King Charles. Each plate with details on the dog and breeder. ISBN: 281AIB1035444.
First edition (first printing). Most plates fine with some a bit soiled and dog-eared. Missing two plates (6j and 20j). In the publisher's illustrated green portfolio with one inside flap detached but present, and a few frayed tears to cloth edges. Sticker of the Institut International de Bibliographie pasted to cover verso. Spotting to cover and flaps.
Book ID: 167906More details Price: $300.00 -
Tenth Annual Sensational W. P. Kinsella Fantastic One Size Fits All Self Serving Year End Letter: Stupendous - In Living Color Withoyut Commercial Interruption - Wonderful
First Edition
Chilliwack, B. C: (the author), [1997]. A single 8.5 by 11 sheet, photocopied from typescript. A holiday letter with news about Kinsella's books, travels, movies and Broadway plays watched, and readings he gave during the year. He also describes the accident that halted his writing career for fourteen years. A very scarce Kinsella publication. No copies of what was an ongoing series of similar letters located on OCLC. ISBN: 281AIB1026283.
First edition. Near fine (original folds). Signed at the end, "Bill." With the original mailing envelope addressed to Peter Howard at Serendipity Books in Berkeley. [JSP01]
Book ID: 119610More details Price: $300.00 -
Attention: S T Fiction, Occult & Rocketry Enthusiasts
A few tears and chips; insect residue in upper right. Printed on the back (verso) of a flyer for Anthony More's fantasy story collection, Puzzle Box, suggesting Madole's lack of resources. [JSP01; JHG2019]
Book ID: 129003More details Price: $295.00 -
Sixth Annual W. P. Kinsella Self-Serving Year-end Letter & Botulism Antidote
First Edition
White Rock, BC: (the author), 1993. Two 8.5 by 11 sheets, photocopied from typescript. A holiday letter with news about Kinsella's books, celebrities he met, and readings he gave during the year. A very scarce Kinsella publication. No copies of what was an ongoing series of similar letters located on OCLC. ISBN: 281AIB1020546.
First edition. Folded for mailing. Small tear in bottom margin of page 2, neatly repaired on the back (verso) with a small piece of Japanese tissue; offsetting of printed signature to bottom of page 1, else fine. With a handwritten note, not signed, in Kinsella's hand at the top of page 1. Original mailing envelope addressed by Kinsella present. [JSP02]
Book ID: 91357More details Price: $250.00 -
Vincent Price Self Portrait Signed
Single cream-colored sheet, 8-1/2 by 11. A self portrait in profile done with a black ink pen and signed by Price. ISBN: 281AIB1040393.
Short crease to top corner else fine. [JSP02]
Book ID: 204539More details Price: $250.00 -
Chautauqua Industrial Art Desk
1913. ISBN: 281AIB0099166.
With eraser, The Home Teacher and Child Life
Book ID: 50052More details Price: $250.00 -
Give Me Back My Rags
First Edition
Portland, OR: Trace Editions, 1985. 18 leaves (two blank), printed rectos (one side) only, except for a copyright statement on the back (verso) of the title leaf. Laid into a folding cover. Limited to 600 copies. Popa was a noted Serbian poet. Simic, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was born in Belgrade, Serbia, and grew up in Chicago. ISBN: B002SM315E.
First edition (first printing). Fine sheets laid into a near fine folder with minor edgewear. This is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Simic and Popa, with a handwritten poem by Simic written out on a blank leaf. In this case, Simic has copied out and signed his 16-line poem, "Pyramids Are Towns / for Vasko" Your humble cataloguer made a half-hearted attempt to find this poem in one of Simic's published collections, but did not locate a printed version.
Book ID: 96273More details Price: $250.00 -
U.S.S. Arizona Amos and Andy Script
Very Good
Book ID: 66334More details Price: $200.00 -
Manifesto [title in Greek]
Fine, or nearly so. [JSP02]
Book ID: 141626More details Price: $200.00 -
If the Sands of the Seas Were Pearls
First Edition
New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co, 1914. 6 pages. The multi-talented Johnson was an early black leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a Consul in Latin America, and the author of a number of books. In his spare time, he wrote songs like this one, in partnership with Will Marion Cook, one of the leading African American composers of his day. ISBN: 281AIB1024330.
Two copies, both very good or better. One, with a list of salon and concert songs numbered 7823 on the final page, and the other with an ad for All Aboard for Dixie Land on the back cover, with the ID number 9609. The former is probably the first issue. Uncommon. Housed in a custom cloth case. [JSP01]
Book ID: 107685More details Price: $200.00 -
In Remembrance Joseph Henry Jackson
First Edition
[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, 1955. A single sheet folded to make four pages; printed on one page only. A short memorial resolution adopted by the club after Jackson's death. Reportedly (per OCLC) only of 20 copies printed by the Allen Press. Paper watermarked Richard de Bas. The Allens printed a book for the club in 1952 on de Bas's paper. ISBN: 281AIB1021988.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 97339More details Price: $156.25 -
John O'Hara's Gibbsville (lot of 13 TV scripts)
Burbank, CA: David Gerber Productions, Inc. / Columbia Pictures Television, 1976. Each script is about 65 leaves printed recto only. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Based on the fictional town featured in the writings of O'Hara. Final drafts for 13 episodes of the short-running 1976 television series about two reporters in a small Pennsylvania town; the final seven scripts are for episodes that never aired. Script titles in order are "How Old, How Young;" "Saturday Night;" "Trapped;" "All the Young Girls;" "Andrea;" "Afternoon Waltz;" "Chatauqua, Chatauqua, Chatauqua;" "In the Silence;" "Manhood;" "A Case History;" "The Price of Everything;" "All I've Tried To Be;" and "The Grand Gesture.". ISBN: 281AIB1020548.
Very good, bound in a various-colored double-pronged folders with title, date and episode information printed on covers. Names on cover in ink on six scripts. One script missing a binding prong. Another script heavily water stained on rear cover and final 15 pages but text readable. Pages unmarked.
Book ID: 91356More details Price: $125.00 -
North Beach Photographic Art Fair Handbills [First Five]
San Francisco: North Beach Photographic Art Fair, 1971-1975. Handbills for the first five photo shows. Various sizes, 3-1/2 by 7-1/2 to 4-3/4 by 8-1/2. All five feature psychedelic-inspired artwork by Gilbert Johnson. The handbill for the first fair is printed in one color; the others are full color, with two credited to Tea Lautrec Litho. A nice grouping; the first two are particularly scarce. ISBN: 281AIB1043816.
All fine; the second annual handbill has a tiny bit of foxing to the white border. All believed to be original printings.
Book ID: 221381More details Price: $125.00 -
holograph letter
New York: 1916. ISBN: 281AIB1050179.
holograph letter, 2 pages, on Hotel Majestic, West Seventy-second St. at Central Park, New York, letterhead: Dear Miss Kanser:- Please don't think I'm utterly mad. Which I am. But today, after a fruitless search for a desirable furnished apartment in New York I thought of you. I wondered if one of your many stage friends or acquaintances might not have a place that we could rent for two months. We shall be here for November & December, And you know how I loathe hotels. Will you forgive me for taking your time like this? It's really a desparate situation for out-of-towners in New York this winter. I saw Rose Stahl in Rochester in _______. She was delightful. Edna Ferber." Each sheet 9.25 x 6 inches, previously folded into thirds. Stamp on first page "Answered Nov 4 1916."
Book ID: 266536More details Price: $120.00 -
Five typed letters signed to Robert (Bob) DeMott
London: 1971-3. Michael Horovitz is a British poet, editor, artist and translator. He founded the literary periodical New Departures in 1959 and continued to edit it for 50 years. Penguin published 'Children of Albion' in 1970, introducing him to US readers. Additionally he is a musician on whose 80th birthday a limited edition recording of a 2013 poem accompanied by musicians was released. Robert DeMott is an American author, scholar and editor best known for his influential scholarship on John Steinbeck. He is currently Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Professor Emeritus of English at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. ISBN: 281AIB1049471.
Five typed letters, each addressed to Bob DeMott, signed "M.H., Mike H., or M.", dated 1. 28th March, 1971 on New Departures letterhead; 2. air mail letter, dated 10th September, 1972; 3. air mail letter, dated 26th September, 72; 4. air mail letter stamped 25 November, 1973; 5. dated 11 Jan '73 on Michael Horovitz personal stationary, "Mullions", Piedmont. Each of the letters have holograph additions. Each letter contains approximately 400 words, mostly addressing literary efforts, readings completed and planned, mutual friends and their work, and personal news. Nice content.
Book ID: 265245More details Price: $120.00 -
Autograph Postcard Signed
(n.d. but 1980s?). Roughly 9 by 6 inches. The card reproduces Onslow Ford's painting, Present in Company (1969). It is signed on the verso, "Season's Greetings, Gordon." The artist, one of the last surviving members of Andre Breton's surrealist group, has embellished the card with several abstract loops and swirls. His wife, Jacqueline Johnson, has also signed the card, "All good wishes for the New Year dear Daniel. A kiss, Jacqueline." The recipient was Daniel del Solar, a media activist in the San Francisco Bay Area. ISBN: 281AIB1016683.
A bit of soiling to the verso (back) of the card, thus very good. With another, similar card, not signed, depicting another Onslow Ford painting. [JSP04]
Book ID: 75168More details Price: $100.00