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Boston: J. Lewis, 1746. 32 pages. Prince's sermon celebrates the capture of Louisbourg in 1745 by New England forces under the command of William Pepperell. It is dedicated to William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts, who was largely responsible for the formulation and promotion of the daring colonial expedition. ISBN: 281AIB1047734.

Barcelona: Leteradura, 1978. A black-and-white facsimile reprint of this satirical Catalan periodical. 502 pages in 32 separate issues. Many significant Catalan artists of the era contributed covers and drawings. Reprinted here in the Coleccion Ready-Made. ISBN: 281AIB1029807.

(Liverpool?): (the author), (n.d. but ca. 1972). 12 pages plus cover. Photocopied typescript, as issued. One of this prolific chess variant inventor's least common pamphlets. ISBN: 281AIB0077480.

(San Francisco): (Society of California Pioneers), 1932. 22 pages. LK Wood's account of the discovery of Humboldt Bay by the overland Gregg party, in December 1849. It was originally published in the Humboldt Times newspaper, in 1856, and reprinted in booklet form sometime later by Wood's sons, David and L.K. Jr. Based on the text, this version was revised in 1872. It was reprinted in the Society of California Pioneers Quarterly in 1932 and in this small booklet, issued in an edition of 100 copies. See Rocq, California Local History, no. 2141. ISBN: 281AIB0028986.

Barcelona: Letteradura, 1979. A black-and-white facsimile reprint of this satirical Catalan periodical. Pp. 505 to 930 in 24 separate issues. Many significant Catalan artists of the era contributed covers and drawings. Reprinted here in the Coleccion Ready-Made. ISBN: 281AIB1029810.

Barcelona: Letteradura, 1979. A black-and-white facsimile reprint of this satirical Catalan periodical. Pp. 417 to 832 pages in 25 separate issues. Many significant Catalan artists of the era contributed covers and drawings. Reprinted here in the Coleccion Ready-Made. ISBN: 281AIB1029812.

[Glendale, CA]: [Roy A. Squires], (1976). 16 pages. "Excerpts from a play-in-progress based on the Moby Dick mythology and dedicated to Herman Melville." Limited to 400 copies. While the signature on the title page looks very convincing, it is, in fact, printed and not hand-signed. This is one of 150 subscriber's copies, signed by Bradbury on the final leaf. Page 9 of all the subscriber's copies examined have 31-lines (two issues of the regular issue have been identified, one with 30 lines and the other with 31). ISBN: 281AIB1040480.

Amsterdam: Simonsz. Boeken Kunst-verkooper, 1775. Two leaves, folded to form 8 pp., the first seven printed. Pre-publication state, or proofs. Poem, 6 stanzas, followed by trade list of other books available from the printer, including Vondel's Gysbrecht Van Aemstel in two states + Letterdruk a f I: = [or] en Proefdruk a f 1:4: -. Text in Dutch. 9 x 6.75 inches. WorldCat locates one copy in the US. Gysbrecht Van Aemstel was reprinted in 1937, illustrated by Anton Peck. ISBN: 281AIB1050221.

New York: E. M. Murden, 1822. 36 pages. 4 by 6 inches. A script of the popular 19th century British actor's At Home series of one-man play productions of "table entertainment" that showcased his talent for mimicry, published upon his first tour of the show in the United States. ISBN: 281AIB1020677.

[Glendale, CA]: [Roy A. Squires], (1976). 16 pages. "Excerpts from a play-in-progress based on the Moby Dick mythology and dedicated to Herman Melville." Limited to 400 copies. While the signature on the title page looks very convincing, it is, in fact, printed and not hand-signed. This is one of 150 subscriber's copies, signed by Bradbury on the final leaf. Page 9 of all the subscriber's copies examined have 31-lines (two issues of the regular issue have been identified, one with 30 lines and the other with 31). ISBN: 281AIB1040480.

Madrid: Papeles de Son Armadans, 1962. [17] pages. A section of the author's first book, The Cannibal, translated into Spanish. ISBN: B00FKLRM7I.

Monrovia, Liberia: National Literacy Campaign, Department of Public Instruction, 1953. 52 pages. Illustrated with vignettes by Blanche Britte. A collection of proverbs, presented in literal English translation from the oral Kpelle, followed by English explanations. The proverbs were collected in the Formah Chiefdom and originally published in two small pamphlets, which were combined into this single volume. An edition of 1200 copies, and quite scarce. Ms. Bloomquist was an American missionary from the United Lutheran Church. ISBN: 281AIB1039824.

(N.-pl. but Liverpool?): (the author), (n.d. but ca. 1974?). 23 pages plus cover and final blank. A variety of chess variants are described here: the Game of Rettah Chess, Semi-Queen Chess, and the Diversion of Zerta, among others. ISBN: 281AIB0077499.

(Liverpool?): (the author), (n.d. but ca. 1972). 12 pages plus cover. Photocopied typescript, as issued. One of this prolific chess variant inventor's least common pamphlets. ISBN: 281AIB0077480.

Fortuna: [Inez Cooper Newell], 1954. [5], 14 pages. First separate edition of chapter 8 of Bledsoe's Indian Wars about the Cooper family, early pioneers in Humboldt County, California. With a one-page foreword by Inez Cooper Newell and two tipped-in reproductions of photographs of members of the Cooper family. Quite scarce. This is the first copy we've seen and OCLC records just two holdings, which is surprising as Indian Wars is a Zamorano 80 title and much pursued by collectors. ISBN: B0007HOWP0.

Munchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. Pp. 225-237. An offprint from Poetik und Hermeneutik, volume X (1983), of Podro's essay on Ernst Gombrich. Poetik und Hermeneutik was an annual meeting from 1963-1994 to discuss art theory. ISBN: 281AIB1024527.

(San Francisco): (n.p.), 1896. 29 pages. The City of San Francisco appointed a committee to fight the Central Pacific Railroad's proposal to refinance its debt to the US government. The pamphlet accuses the railroad and it's owners--Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins--of fraud. San Francisco Mayor Adolph Sutro appointed a "Committee of Fifty" to oppose the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. The conclusion of the pamphlet reprints two essays by John T. Doyle, which had appeared in The Nation. Many similar pamphlets were issued in the mid-1890s. Cowan and Cowan, Bibliography of the History of California, p. 509. ISBN: 281AIB0030549.

New York: (American Peace Crusade), (n.d. but 1952?). While not dated, an Australian edition was advertised in the Australian Age on August 23, 1952 (p. 16). The US edition almost certainly came first. A widely syndicated press photograph captioned Korean Lullaby, from April 1951, showed two servicemen sleeping in the shadow of an active artillery piece. Perhaps this is the origin of the title. "One of the most ambitious attempts to address the Korean War in verse"--W. D. Ehrhart, The Madness of It All, p. 182. An uncommon Fast piece. ISBN: 281AIB1031347.

(Beaumont, TX): (Greystone Press), (1938). [32] pages. 5 by 7 inches. A collection of folk nonsense rhymes, which Wood called "Peckerwood" verse. Each rhyme is illustrated by two drawings. Unexpectedly--based on the subject matter and the sources--only a couple of the rhymes are racist. To his discredit Dobie, in his short introduction, manages to make reference to "darkies" and he quotes only one rhyme, which also happened to be the only one that uses the N-word.

An expanded edition of this book was published in hardcover by Lippincott in 1940. This first edition is uncommon, with just two holdings in OCLC. ISBN: 281AIB1041587.