San Francisco: Self-published by the author, 1955. 90p., plus a fullpage original, softbound in 11x8.5 inch wire-spiral-fastened wraps. The wire is holding well with only two torn-out punchholes, front cover bears a kid's attempt (in ink) to copy printed lettering. Both covers somewhat soiled and edgeworn with corner-creasing and a.... More about Finger Painting in the Nursery School
Cat.No: 237558
Sacramento: Lambda Center, 1991. [4p] includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, yellow handbill laid-in, news, reports, events, calendar, services and resources, very good newsletter. More about At the Center: a monthly look at your community center vol. 1, #3, April 1991; Sacramento...
Cat.No: 237328
London: Demos, 1995. Pamphlet. 24p., 5.75x8.25 inches, stapled pamphlet, a few light spots on back wraps, name jotted on front, layed-in Demos promo leaflet. Demos Arguments 4. More about Easternisation: The rise of Asian power and its impact on the West and on our own society
Cat.No: 236885
[San Francisco]: the Alliance, 1980s. 1.75 inch diameter white button with icon of gay couple, union bug, light handling wear. The Alliance (early 1980s-1994) was a San Francisco pro-gay union organization that had the support of the San Francisco Labor Council. It was supplanted by Pride at Work, which has... More about Lesbian Gay Labor Alliance [pinback button
Cat.No: 235698
![2 pamphlets]: Dietrich von Hildebrands Lehre von der "Soseinserfahrung" in ihren...](/pictures/thumb/235515.jpg?v=1552670496)
Regensburg: Verlag Josef Habbel, [1969]. Pamphlet. Offprints, respectively p.33-51, p.7-11; softbounds, pamphlets in matching paste-fastened plain printed wraps, 9x6.5 inches. Virtually identical publications in identical condition: cover stock is mildly acidic and has picked up some toning. Clean, sound, unmarked copies, sold as a pair. More about 2 pamphlets]: Dietrich von Hildebrands Lehre von der "Soseinserfahrung" in ihren...
Cat.No: 235515
London: Socialist Platform, 1990. Magazine. 54p., wraps, movement library stamp on verso of front wrap else very good condition, 8.5x11 inches. Most of the magazine devoted to "Stalinism & Communism in Eastern Europe" More about Revolutionary history, Summer 1990, volume 3, no. 1
Cat.No: 235383
![Viva Chile M ! .. [4th edition]. Fernando Alegria](/pictures/thumb/234105.jpg?v=1549511420)
Santiago: Editorial Universitaria, S.A., 1968. Paperback. 37p., find an extended-play vinyl record in rear in a bound-in sleeve, softbound in 8x7 inch decorated wraps. Covers a little edgeworn with a smudge to front and a scratchy cup-ring to rear; paperstock is slightly toned with several corner-tips turned, two ownership stickers... More about Viva Chile M ! .. [4th edition
Cat.No: 234105
New York: Hillman-Curl, 1937. Hardcover. xii, 298p., original cloth binding, first American printing, endpapers unevenly toned, dog ear at bottom of half-title and title pages, browned and edgeworn dj strengthened at edges on the inside with paper tape once upon a time, else very good condition. More about Russia, twenty years after. Translated by Max Shachtman
Cat.No: 233825
Minneapolis: Udumbara / Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, 1984. Pamphlet. Published twice annually; 42p., illustrated with garment/textile construction diagrams. Softbound, an 8x7 inch pamphlet-style journal with stapled spinefold. Item shows faint signs of handling and sunning, staples a touch rusted, sound copy with no markings. More about Udumbara, Volume 2, Number 2
Cat.No: 233602
Santa Barbara: Ship Stone Press, 2004. Paperback. 314p., softbound in glossy 9x6 inch plain printed dark blue wraps. A fine unmolested copy, absolutely sound, clean and unmarked. Mix of sophistication and naivite' --ordinary citizens fight big polluters and breakers-up of families. More about Greed 2004, The NeoConning of America
Cat.No: 233593
![The Burlesque Films of Bettie Page [cover title]; Black Bangs & Burlesque, The A-Peeling Movies...](/pictures/thumb/232876.jpg?v=1546486546)
Evanston IL: Filmfax, 1996. 86p., slick magazine format, alkaline color cover with newsprint guts, staplebound 11x8 inch wraps. Text faintly toned, wrapper mildly crimped, a very good clean copy. The Bettie story occupies pp.52-55; other subjects this issue are director Abel Salazar, Paul Blaisdell the monster-maker, minor celebs Nestor Paiva... More about The Burlesque Films of Bettie Page [cover title]; Black Bangs & Burlesque, The A-Peeling...
Cat.No: 232876
London, Paris and New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., Publishers to Her Majesty The Queen, Undated. Hardcover. Unpaginated, six of the Tuck plates plus perhaps double that number of pages of pithy observations by literary celebs on comradely excellence. Hardbound in a small decorative format popular in the late... More about Friendship; Selections from the Poets by Volney Streamer. Illustrated by F. Corbyn Price and others
Cat.No: 232747
Brooklyn, NY: Progressive Labor Party, 1980. Magazine. 71p., pages toned, wraps worn, "office copy" stamped on front wrap, bottom edges of rear wrap and last few pages chipped, else good condition. Articles on Iran, organizing in Tupelo and Detroit, and more. More about Progressive labor, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 1979-80
Cat.No: 232487
New York: Sotheby's, 1986. Paperback. Unpaginated, 494 lots presented in b&w exhibit photos with scattered color reproductions, multiple images per page or none, not all lots are shown. High-gloss paperstock. Softbound in 10.5x8.5 inch decorated dark wraps. Cover has some pressure marks, otherwise an undamaged, unmarked copy. More about Fine Japanese Prints, Paintings, Screens and Works of Art. Wednesday September 24, 1986
Cat.No: 232183
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1953. Hardcover. xiii, 440p., hardbound in series format, i.e. 8x5 inch maroon oilcloth boards with decorative rulings in blind and titling in bronze. Good paperstock and respectfully neat casing-in (after all, rumors of his death, in 1953, might have been wrong). Casing is a little... More about J. V. Stalin, Works; Volume 2, 1907-1913
Cat.No: 232121
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Hardcover. xviii, 280p., illustrated with scattered tables, figures and photos; first edition hardbound in grey cloth titled black and bright blue dust jacket titled white. Jacket edgeworn with a couple short tears and a seller's small sticker at the upper corner; item is otherwise quite... More about Gedatsu-Kai and Religion in Contemporary Japan; Returning to the Center
Cat.No: 232073
![The Vegetation Relations in Corsica // [with] Komplexny fyzickogeograficaky profil a nacrt...](/pictures/thumb/232026.jpg?v=1544390548)
Bratislava: Slovak Pedagogical Publishers, 1976. 105p., numerous b&w photos and line maps and a substantial color-photo section applying to Plesnik's essay on Corsican cork oak and other trees. Texts in English, Slovak and Cyrillic. Hardbound in 9.5x6.5 inch cloth boards and dust jacket. The jacket is edgeworn with a tear..... More about The Vegetation Relations in Corsica // [with] Komplexny fyzickogeograficaky profil a nacrt...
Cat.No: 232026
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968. Hardcover. 64p., musical notation and lyrics throughout on alkaline untoned paperstock, hardbound in 10x7 inch papered boards and dust jacket. Nice copy, firm, flat and square, top edge shows faintest fading, there's an ownership signature on the front free pastedown, the unclipped jacket is... More about Tom Lehrer's Second Song Book. Piano Transcriptions by Frank Metis, Illustrations by Ted Scheel
Cat.No: 231976
New York: R. P. Heath Productions, Inc., 1976. Spiral_bound. 142p., illustrated with b&w line drawings and set-up diagrams throughout a running text, fourth printing of a gigantic softbound under 14x11 inch comb-fastened color cover sheets. A little edgeworn with a cover crease to the rear sheet and adjacent leaves, the..... More about Animation in Twelve Hard Lessons. Over 850 illustrations
Cat.No: 230917
London: Tiffany & Co., undated, perhaps 1970s. Paperback. Unpaginated, display of over one hundred "plates", i.e. buckles with caption descriptions, b&w exhibit photography on glossy coated paper, softbound in 8x6 inch decorated wraps; slightly edgeworn but very good exterior, clean within and marked only with a bookseller's unerasable pencilling; but..... More about Accoutrement Belt Plates
Cat.No: 230346
New York: Abrams, 1962. Hardcover. 508p., massive 9.5x12.25 inch casebound item (nearly 2.5 inches thick), foreword, introductions, 36 color plates, 176 monochrome plates, 160 diagrams in-text, bibliography, glossary, index, very good first edition in gray cloth boards, gilt, unclipped but lightly-worn gray dj. More about Greek Temples, Theaters and Shrines
Cat.No: 230345
Berkeley: University of California Berkeley / American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1937. Paperback. 124p., text in Russian with brief English translations, reproduced from typewritten mss (done on two different typewriters, of course), softbound, a small stapled paperback (8x6 inches) in plain printed greenish wraps. An ugly copy: head of... More about A List of Abbreviations Commonly Used in the U.S.S.R., compiled by George Z. Patrick. Revised...
Cat.No: 230241
Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1989. xiii, 189p., illustrated with charts, first edition hardbound in boards and dust jacket. The spine panel of jacket is mildly sunned and its back panel is faintly rubbed, books' free endpaper bears a barcode sticker, an else unmarked nice copy. More about Keynes's Principle of Effective Demand. Foreword by Victoria Chick
Cat.No: 229926
New York: Melrose Music Corp. 1948. Single large folio leaf printed and folded to make a typical two-page sheet music spread with monochrome cover illustration and a terminal page advertisement for other 1948 efforts (none so durable as this). Item very slightly edgeworn with some light creasings along its bottom... More about On a Slow Boat to China (Slowly with a beat
Cat.No: 229388
no city: Self-published by the compiler, no date, circa 2000. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, uncaptioned snapshot photography, clear photocopying well-laid-out in zine format: untrimmed 8.5x5.5 inch stapled pamphlet. Young men and women doing transgressive things in an unspecified urban setting, a small pentagram is part of cover design but we see no wicca. More about Witches Heal
Cat.No: 229042
