San Francisco: Jack Ruby Slippers [at a p.o.box on Market Street, a Tenderloin site], undated, about 2000. 22p., standard leaves copied expertly double-side with good layout and smart clip-art eye candy. Side-stapled under light cardstock sheets, b&w only, mild edgewear without any real damage or ownerships or any markings, a...... More
Cat.No: 231307
London: the magazine, 1852. Hardcover. Externally a poor to fair-only copy; iv, 274p. Within, the textblock is intact and complete with no excisions or any other sort of defacement. The binding however is awful: quarter black pressed-calf suffers red rot and abrasion, half the spine panel nearly detached, hinges cracked..... More
Cat.No: 256172
Princeton: the PU class, 1982. Variously paginated to the body of listings, which are unpaginated. Perhaps 200p. 11x8.5 inch decorated orange wraps, slightest handling or dust-soil, last few leaves a bit dog-eared, very good copy. Addresses, nicknames, spouses, children, occ/emp, telephone. Twelve pages of questionaire results (what records have you..... More
Cat.No: 166397
San Francisco: A Project of the Coalition on Homelessness, 1999. 134p., illustrated in b&w from the newspaper, with inserted color plates; small oblong in glossy decorated 5x8 inch wraps. Slightly edgeworn and thumbed. More
Cat.No: 66591
Los Angeles: n.pub. [1990s]. Single 8.5x11 inch leaf of speckled alkaline paperstock folded twice to make a 8.5x4 inch brochure of six panels printed in dark maroon. Faint pressure marks, a very good copy. This "tour guide" is for attendees of the L.A. Municipal Gallery, corner of Vermont and Hollywood..... More
Cat.No: 191345
Atlanta: Crimethinc. chapter of Alcoholics Autonomous, no date, circa 2000. Pamphlet. [8]p., two standard leaves printed and folded to make eight pages of text, nested not fastened, illustrated with typography and a couple of swiped images, a mildly rumpled copy with a touch of dust. "Sedition not Sedation," and the..... More
Cat.No: 225277
Atlanta: Crimethinc. chapter of Alcoholics Autonomous, no date, circa 2000. Pamphlet. [8]p., two standard leaves printed and folded to make eight pages of text, nested not fastened, illustrated with typography and a couple of swiped images, lightly worn, a few small stains to rear wrap else very good condition. "Sedition..... More
Cat.No: 258117
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1935. pp. 235-264, 6x9.25 inches, inscribed and initialed by the author at top of front cover, English introduction, index and glossary, poem in French, some toning and edgewear otherwise very good booklet in stapled white wraps. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, Vol. 18..... More
Cat.No: 221871
Berkeley: North American Congress on Latin America, 1973. Comic. 49p., wraps, first edition, illus., 8.25 x 10.75 inches, light toning to pages, three bits of ordering info on back cover marked out, else very good. Comic book-format exposé. More
Cat.No: 118044
Milwaukie OR: Dark Horse Books, 2009. Paperback. 100p., plus a further 15 pages most in color; softbound in 10x6.5 inch color cardstock wraps. Mildest edgewear, entirely sound, clean and unmarked. The era that Aragones depicts in this episode of Groo appears to be post-Roman Dark Ages to early Middle Ages..... More
Cat.No: 256108
Milano: Tarentel Press / Tatantola, 1957. 24p., self-wraps magazine, stapled into 12x8.5 inch color wraps, plentifully illustrated with b&w and bright multi-color political cartoons. Artwork and page layout are quite skilled. A handled copy with slight dust-soil and crimping along spinefold, a few dealer's notes in pencil on front cover..... More
Cat.No: 258543
London: Printed for the author and sold by Gold and Northhouse, 1820. iv, 22p., disbound 8.5x5.2 inch disbound self-wraps, some leaves tending to detach, light foxing, a very good copy. Criticism of governmental operations, first as a one-act Shakesperian playlet, then as a medley of silly epitaphs and proverbs collected..... More
Cat.No: 174079
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no place: no publisher, 1992. Respectively: "Bush 1992 for President" (3 inches across); "Another Moron for Bush" (2.3); "Just Say Nothing" (1.3); "Shit Happens" (present tense, 1.3); "Shit Happened" (past tense, shown with Quayle, 1.3). Four exemplars are in very good condition, one (Another Moron) is somewhat dust-soiled under the..... More
Cat.No: 227804
Paris: Le Dernier Terrain Vague, 1983. Paperback. 135p., bibliography, high-gloss coated paperstock with captioned b&w photos throughout; softbound in 7.5x4 inch wraps with mildest edgewear and light reader's creasing to spine. Sound and free of any markings, a very good copy. Note a b&w reproduction of author portrait credited to..... More
Cat.No: 46062
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
Santa Barbara [actually Carpenteria]: Painted Cave Books, 1971. Paperback. 60p., preface, illustrated with woodcuts and production stills, very pretty softbound its cover and titlepage printed in three colors, two colors at chapter dividers, a very good limited edition of 800 copies, in pictorial letterpress wraps. Personal inscription signed by the..... More
Cat.No: 126561
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
no place: National Song Parade, no date, circa 1940. Magazine. 32p., small-font production on newsprint, stapled 11x8 inch self-wraps, the red cover wrapper is decorated with a sly photoportrait of Bing Crosby. Cover slightly edgeworn and a little faded, text is quite toned but handleable, a good copy. Caveat emptor..... More
Cat.No: 208480
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
San Francisco: Fifty/24SF, no date, 2000s. Paperback. Unpaginated, perhaps 150p., a substantial small paperbound printed with enormous care on alkaline matte and coated paperstocks, reproductions divided equally between precise b&w and robust color exhibit photography; 8x6.5 inch frenchfold wraps. Nice copy; cover yawns faintly, the only sign of any handling..... More
Cat.No: 228853
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no place: Self-published, 2008 [?]. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, a 24-page 6.5x5.5 inch booklet with a teeny 4x4 inch one fastened inside. Some pages are color-reproduced, the artwork varies (most notably by sex), the smaller book is an ABC for teens. Staplebound, very good clean copy (it may be no.2 of 50..... More
Cat.No: 231280
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
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
San Francisco: Quay Gallery, 1975. Paperback. 34p., artwork reproduced fullpage and double-sided, with opaque captioned dividers. Slender softbound 11.5x8 inch color wraps, covers a bit crimped and edgeworn, an else sound clean copy that is inscribed and signed in full ("For Mimi / whose company we love as much as..... More
Cat.No: 234075
