Trials of a Recruit
San Francisco, CA: A.F. Broad, Printer, 1920. Pamphlet. 36p., wraps. 6.75 x 5 in. Covers soiled. Good. Humorous story about a WWI-era recruit in the U.S. army. More
Cat.No: 310388
San Francisco, CA: A.F. Broad, Printer, 1920. Pamphlet. 36p., wraps. 6.75 x 5 in. Covers soiled. Good. Humorous story about a WWI-era recruit in the U.S. army. More
Cat.No: 310388
Berkeley: Garlic Press, [1977]. Newspaper. [8]p., illustrations, wraps. 17.5 x 11.5 in. One vertical and one horizontal fold. Evenly toned, commensurate with age. Faint foxing at the extremities. Very Good. First number of the underground newspaper. With faux news announcements (Freud lectures at UC Berkeley), satirical articles (a self-help style..... More
Cat.No: 317854
London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. Hardcover. vii, 136p., calendared paperstock, plates as called for and hand-colored expertly; first edition hardbound in 11.5x7.5 inch cloth boards gilt, top edge gilded, deeply deckled fore- and bottom edges. No. 212 of 520 copies. An unsophisticated copy with serious flaws; each rim has lost..... More
Cat.No: 190698
Paris: Maison Quantin - Compagnie Generale d'Impression et d'Edition, 1888. Hardcover. 109p., profuse b&w reproductions (in a variety of media) plus the promised five color lithos (simple colorwork, not layered) as called for, hardbound in 11x8 inch dark red morocco over marbled green boards, beautifully tooled spine with raised bands..... More
Cat.No: 287477
New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1919. Hardcover. [2], 75, [3]p., boards. 7.5 x 5 in. Not in Krick’s bibliography of Neale books. Very Good. Satire presented as a travel narrative in which an observer visits “Maryville,” a city in “Fairyland” on the Patapsco Bay (in Maryland). The traveler has several..... More
Cat.No: 316156
London: House of VIZ / John Brown Publishing Ltd., August 1993. Hardcover. 81p. plus two color plates on inserted coated stock; a melange of cartoon panels, singleton jokes, textual parodies. Hardbound in 10x7.5 inch laminated pictorial boards. A good copy: clean (i.e., no physical dirt) and unmarked. Humor a la..... More
Cat.No: 259026
New York: published for The Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1936. Hardcover. Unpaginated, text reproduced with all faults (some original blurring and over-inking), an attractive little hardbound in 7.5x5 inch cloth boards ruled and spine-titled gilt, with blind panelling to upper cover. Not a fancy, but a pleasant..... More
Cat.No: 262779
New York: Bantam Books, 1964. Mass Market Paperback. Unpaginated softbound, a 6x8 inch oblong having curiously minimalist publishing information; following a barren title- and copyright-leaf all the rest are gotten up as photographic postcards to be sent to candidate RFK: verso provided with postcard layout, recto the b&w photojournal image..... More
Cat.No: 287774
Princeton: Collection of Robert H. Taylor, 1971. 16p., 6.25x9.5 inches, 17 plates from Beerbohm's originals, notes, cover bears mild dust- and handling-soil, faint splash stains though clean and sound within, otherwise very good booklet in stapled blue-gray printed wraps. More
Cat.No: 178096
Madrid: Imprenta de Juan Pueyo, 1915. Paperback. 62p., sewn wraps, the original thread holding well, 5 x 7.5 inches, pages toned, wraps worn and soiled, 1 inch closed tear along base of spine on front wrap, pencil notation on front wrap, else generally good condition. Text in Spanish, no illustrations..... More
Cat.No: 237736
San Francisco / Timpanona Kha-Chala Region, Southern Archipelago [of Bonga Lugo]: Printed and manufactured by California Publishing Company for Mahsheesh University Zephargo Press, 2005. Hardcover. vi, 518p., the illustrations are in readers' heads (only), hardbound in 9x6 inch open-weave brown cloth boards gilt-titled (gilt has flaked somewhat, cloth has picked..... More
Cat.No: 305314
Oxford: Oxford University Press, for Sir Allen Lane, 1955. Hardcover. 120p., appended plates, sketch illustrations throughout on pink calendared paperstock. Cased into openweave black cloth boards gilt, with turquoise cover panel gilt. A pretty book. Spine is sunned to grey, else a very presentable copy. Lane owned the originals. More
Cat.No: 182743
New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. Paperback. Signed copy: 392p., sketchy comix panels exclusively, later printing 9x7.5 inch decorated wraps. Textblock yawns just slightly, paperstock is turning yellow near the margin. This copy is inscribed to Robert [L.] Allen by Gonick on title page next his printed graphic; and, laid in, is..... More
Cat.No: 180387
St. Paul, MN: Brown & Bigelow, Remembrance Advertising, 1935. Pamphlet. [48]p., illustrations, wraps. 4.5 x 5.5 in. Very Good. Satirical sales catalog depicting outhouses--from the ramshackle to the stately--complete with model names ("The Tropical," "The Prairie Skipper," "The Leaning Tower") and prices. Intended as an advertisement for aluminum manufacturers, with..... More
Cat.No: 319462
Berkeley: Last Gasp, 1982. Comic. 32p., 7x10 inches comicbook, color pictorial wraps, some toning to interior pages, tiny water stain at bottom of front cover at spine, else good. 1982 reprint of the first issue originally published in 1970. Underground comix parody of romance comics. Entire issue by Griffith and..... More
Cat.No: 214380
Tampa, FL: American Studies Press, 1979. Pamphlet. iv, 17, [1]p., wraps. 8.5 x 5.25 in. The author parodies famous American poetry (Whitman, Bradstreet, Eliot, Sandburg, etc.) to describe the disciplinary norms of academic American Studies. More
Cat.No: 310793
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1899. Hardcover. 67p., plus publisher's ads for others in their "Little Folks" line, a kids' book for political grown-ups and vice versa. Presswork on semi-alkaline paperstock (each and every leaf is toned round the margins), recto pages each devoted to a "child's" drawing facing a...... More
Cat.No: 286852
San Francisco: John Howell, 1927. Hardcover. xxi+228p., illustrated endpapers, tipped-in frontispiece, title page designed by Edwin Grabhorn, introduction, preface to new edition, bibliography, illustrated with plates and facsimiles, second revised and expanded edition in publisher's original cloth-backed brown papered boards with paper label affixed to spine. Lacks the jacket, boards..... More
Cat.No: 109141
San Francisco: Janet Brown and Richard Paris, 1969. Pamphlet. [40]p., a copyshop pamphlet in untrimmed 8.5x5.5 inch wraps, texts reproduced from typescript, covers sunned and damp-stained with a touch of mildew to back cover. As is, a fair-only copy of an item issued in support of the student/faculty strike at..... More
Cat.No: 46040
Brooklyn, NY: M. Nash Rednose, 1991. Pamphlet. [16]p., black and white illustrations, oblong wraps. 2.75 x 8.5 in. First edition of 20-30 copies (unstated). On pink paper. Old price label on first leaf. Very Good. Notorious zine recycling illustrations from Dave Berg’s “The Lighter Side…” comic strip published in Mad..... More
Cat.No: 316878
n.pl. Self-published by the author, 1985. Paperback. 17p., copy-shop binding, 8.5x11 inches; slightly handled, else very good. Signed by the author. More
Cat.No: 292012
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. Hardcover. [177]p., hardbound in 8.5x5.5 cloth boards and dust jacket. Jacket shows a little handling and the spine lettering is a tad faded, but is sound and not price-clipped. Here is Hoppe's first book publication, his take on the political climate of the..... More
Cat.No: 226250
Berkeley: Privately printed for the compiler by Poltroon Press, 2016. Paperback. 71p., a lovely small finepress item concocted by one of the Bay Area's finest minds; Ian so variously talented it's impossible for this cataloguer to categorize it. - A listing of characteristic cliches? - It may be what it..... More
Cat.No: 305210
New York: G.A. Baker & Company, 1935. xviii, 195p., superior presswork on alkaline semicoated paperstock, first edition buckram boards spine-titled in black; a very sound clean copy that is a little dim externally, spine titling mildly obscure, stated on copyright page to be limited to 1,000 and signed by Johnson..... More
Cat.No: 225760
Arlington VA: National Technical Information Service, 1979. Pamphlet. 58p., side-stapled standard leaves under bright yellow cover sheets, presswork both recto and verso showing one or two cartoons (or panels) each with sidebar translations and interpretations in English. A very good copy marred only by an inked encirclement of the word..... More
Cat.No: 302932