n.p. Kool [cigarettes], 1980. Magazine. Unpaginated, perhaps twenty leaves (ergo 40p.), profuse color photos of performers, softdrinks and cigs (the mentholated Kools and its related brands), staple-fastened magazine-type format, 11x8 inches. Crimped with handling and leafing-through, still a good undamaged copy. First ad shows B.B. King holding "Lucille" and quaffing..... More
Cat.No: 325055
Philadelphia: Ujima Press, 2005. Paperback. xvi, 123p., poetry, prose, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. African American writings of "Natural" hair styles. More
Cat.No: 214527
Athens GA: the quarterly, 1995. Magazine. 206p. plus ads, softbound in 9.5x6 inch pale lavender journal wraps. The spine panel bears an ink-penned ownership and scuff mark, the sole flaw we see, item is otherwise entirely sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 300433
![Cat.No: 132977 Annual report [Nos. 1-6; 1928-1933]. California State Board of Barber...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/132977.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1484030268)
Sacramento: California State Board of Barber Examiners, 1928-33. Hardcover. Six reports in original wraps bound together in library boards, with accession stamps and usual accoutrements. Each 6-9 page report provides statistics on barber licences, income levels, unlicensed barbers caught in inspections, and similar data for the year covered. More
Cat.No: 132977
New York: Times Square Press, 1947. Hardcover. [8], 156p., boards. In dust jacket. Boards Very Good. Jacket shelfworn, piece chipped off at lower right corner; chips to head of jacket and spine. DJ is Good. An unlikely military recruit-- a middle-aged hairdresser-- gets removed from the front and assigned to..... More
Cat.No: 324090
npl: @ kataclysmix, nd. Pamphlet. 8p., single standard leaf cut and folded to make a tiny zine, self-wraps with cover as page one; 4x2.5 inches; illus., in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 233004
2003: K-Y Brand Personal Products Company, 2003. Album. A postcard album with perforations that allow a cardstock leaf to be removed from this booklet and used as a postcard, each pretty card a separate "idea" conventionally postcard-adaptable. Seventeen such cards (counted carefully, confirmed) wire-bound securely into an oblong mini-album measuring..... More
Cat.No: 301116
New York: Viva International, 1977. 114 p., 8.76x11 inch women's magazine in very good condition. Viva (1973-1980) was a women's erotic and general interest magazine founded as the female companion to Penthouse. Ad campaigns described how "the Viva woman lives the life that the Cosmo girl only dreams about." This..... More
Cat.No: 340359
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998. Paperback. xvi, 297p., wraps lightly handled, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 290315
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas Instituto de Estudios Africanos, 1953. 50p. + 65 plates, 9.5x13.5 inches, photos, drawings, maps, multi-color border decorations throughout, #53/500 copies in pictorial wraps; spine panel and back cover are somewhat foxed, slight edgewear, otherwise expect very good condition. Study of decorative hair-styles and tattoos..... More
Cat.No: 138198
Paris: Ulysse Boucoiran, Editeur, 1936. vii, 170p., ads, illustrated with line drawings and diagrams; entirely in French. A small softbound in 7x5 inch plain printed wraps with a decorated back cover. Very worn with lots of dust and a bit of dirt to covers and blanks; spine panel has undergone..... More
Cat.No: 249517
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Paperback. 241p., very good later printing in pictorial wraps. Stonewall Inn Editions. First book by the gay mystery writer featuring Stan Kraychik, an ex-psychologist, now hairdresser. More
Cat.No: 163955
San Francisco: Providence Baptist Church of San Francisco, 2002. Paperback. Unpaginated, perhaps 75 or so pages, contents mostly local advertisements in support of the congregation and the morale and safety of women and children. Staple-fastened 11x8.5 inch semi-glazed alkaline paperstock, pages dense with Christian encouragements and mom & pop services..... More
Cat.No: 328431
San Francisco: San Francisco, Board of Education, 1932. 19p., [2] appended pages, several illustrations (four photos), 9x6 inch greenish wraps. Pencilled extra information, mild edgewear, staples rusted, else good condition. Occupational study number Two. More
Cat.No: 174171
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. [93]p., first edition 7 x 9" wrappers; unbleached (natural) paperstock is brown and has begun to brown a bit more; mild edgewear, nice copy of a fragile item. More
Cat.No: 46762
San Francisco: authors, supported by SF Arts Commission's Cultural Equity Grant Program, 2004. Paperback. 65p., skilled illustrations in monocolors on every page, minimal but sufficient text, small softbound in 5.5x4.2 inch decorated wraps. An as-new copy: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. The City's dozen distinct neighborhoods defined by their most..... More
Cat.No: 325634
Richmond VA: Self-published by the author, 1964. Hardcover. xiv, 193p., illustrations include before & after photoportraits, hardbound first edition in 8.5x5.5 inch red cloth boards spine-titled gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Case-binding is slightly edgeworn, the dj a little more so, textblock is badly foxed on all exposed..... More
Cat.No: 288286
Washington University, 1922. Pamphlet. pp. 273 - 189, 7.25x10.75 inches, illustrations, tables, graphs, unopened pages, offprint in drab green stapled printed wraps with slight rust to staples, else very good. Trotter's approach has much to do with hair follicles and diameters of strands and little or nothing with fashions-worn. More
Cat.No: 180306
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Hardcover. 208p., profusely illus., first printing, inscribed and signed, dj. African American hairdresser to the stars. More
Cat.No: 117037
New York: the journal, 1938. Pamphlet. Offprint on laid-lined paperstock, pp.165-169; staplebound 9.5x6 inch self-wraps. A nice clean copy. Wilson notes redheadedness cropping up in Thomas Mann's "Felix Krull" and in Van Gogh's paintings. A patient's dream of the "wilting and collapsing" of a male redhead Wilson interprets as referring..... More
Cat.No: 222983
