San Francisco: Glossmagazine dot net, 2009. Magazine. 96p., 5x8 inches, comprised of color advertisements for gay clubs, bars and events in the Bay Area as well as a few short columns, very good digest-size magazine in color stapled wraps. Santa Bear on cover. More about Gloss: year #08, issue #23, Nov. 20 - Dec. 03, 2009; the Lazy Bear Holiday Edition
Cat.No: 164481
Cedar Falls, Iowa: Holst, 1933. [48p.], single issue of the Danish immigrant Christmas annual; text in Danish. Wraps worn, last page doodled upon in pencil; staples rusted. More about Julegranen 1933
Cat.No: 204032
Pasadena: AIDS Services Center, 1994. Single sheet newsletter 8.5x11 inches printed both sides, event information, map of the walk, horizontal fold crease and toning otherwise good. The newsletter is for a fundraising event during the annual Christmas walk re-enacting Mary And Joseph's journey to Bethlehem. More about Posada News: the newsletter for the 1994 Posada participants" vol. 1, #3, November 1994; a...
Cat.No: 224689
New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1995. Hardcover. 32p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated children's story, personal inscription signed by the artist Gonzales dated 1995 on the title page, first printing of this first hardcover edition, laminated color boards in matching dj. More about The Farolitos of Christmas; a New Mexico Christmas story
Cat.No: 180222
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San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1958. Hardcover. 51p., illustrations, rubricated titles, bookplate on endpaper otherwise a very good first edition in decorative wine cloth designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. More about Navidad; a Christmas day with the early Californians [with] Pastorela, a shepherd's play,...
Cat.No: 9631
New York: McCall's Magazine, 1956. [24p] includes covers, 5x7.5 inches, color illustrations; first edition booklet in pastebound color-illustrated wraps. Presswork was careless, a bit indistinct and somewhat out of register. A worn copy with a corner-tip missing, tiny tears along spinefold, paperstock quite toned, pen scribble on back cover, let's... More about Madeline's Christmas: a McCall's Book
Cat.No: 213970
London: Brock Ltd., December 1944. One folded sheet making a four-panel pamphlet, 5x7.75 inches, red print cover titles and Christmas greeting, decorative border and black print story based on an actual event which occured in Europe shortly after D-Day, very good on heavy white stock. Vera Brittain was a member... More about With Greetings from Vera Brittain: The Good Chap
Cat.No: 223294
no place: Self-published by the author, [1943]. One folded sheet making a four-panel pamphlet, 3.5x5.5 inches, cover illustration and titles, poems 1 & 2 on inner pages, third poem on back panel, very good. Vera Brittain was a member of the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) a semi-autobiographical novelist (including "Testament... More about Three Sonnets with Christmas greetings from Vera Brittain; Lament for Cologne, Europe's Children...
Cat.No: 223293
San Antonio: TexArt Services, 1989. Hardcover. [48p] 8.5x11 inches, text in English, color illustrations, children's book, very good first edition in blue boards and gilt, unclipped dj, short closed tear. Children's Christmas story, set in San Antonio. More about Rosita's Christmas Wish
Cat.No: 116062
San Antonio: TexArt Services, 1989. Hardcover. [48p] 8.5x11 inches, color illustrations, text in Spanish, children's book, very good first Spanish language edition in blue boards, gilt and unclipped dj. Children's Christmas story, set in San Antonio. More about El sueño de Rosita
Cat.No: 116061
San Francisco: The Phoenix, 1973. Newspaper. 24p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, ads, services, resources, news, events, opinion, very good on newsprint, cover illustration is a Charles Surendorf woodcut originally done for the Black Cat Cafe. Trina Robbins comic on rear featuring a Katy Cream Superstar Streetchild paper doll. Christmas issue. More about The San Francisco Phoenix: a magazine of news, the arts and informed dissipation; vol. 1, #9, for...
Cat.No: 185718
San marino: California Historical Society, 1984. [4p] 8.5x11 inches, printed red ink on white stock, two small illustrations, calendar of events, reservation form, folds for mailing. More about CHS Programs: December 1984 (mailer
Cat.No: 162448
![Greetings of the Season [Christmas card]. 3rd A. D. Communist Party, Manhattan](/pictures/thumb/213415.jpg?v=1489039672)
New York: CPUSA, [193-]. 4.25x5.5 inch card, folded from a single mimeographed sheet, very good. Opens to show a row of Santas holding up signs that say "Build the Democratic Front," dating the card to the late 1930s. More about Greetings of the Season [Christmas card
Cat.No: 213415
New York: Dance Magazine, 1975. Magazine. 100p. including covers 8.5x11 inches, articles, features, reviews, listings, illustrated with b&w photos and ads, worn semi-glossy entertainment magazine in lightly-worn stapled pictorial wraps. Streisand cover story. Also an article on Don Bachardy and Chrisopher Isherwood. The numbering of the volumes is illogical in..... More about After Dark: the national magazine of entertainment vol. 7, #12, April 1975: Barbara Streisand in...
Cat.No: 238625
New York: Dance Magazine, 1974. Magazine. 122p. including covers 8.5x11 inches, articles, features, reviews, listings, illustrated with b&w photos and ads, worn semi-glossy entertainment magazine in lightly-worn stapled pictorial wraps. Tom Eyen and "Women". The numbering of the volumes is illogical in the beginning years up to about 1971. The... More about After Dark: the national magazine of entertainment vol. 7, #8, December 1974: Special Christmas...
Cat.No: 215648
New York: Dance Magazine, 1975. Magazine. 100p. including covers 8.5x11 inches, articles, features, reviews, listings, illustrated with b&w photos and ads, worn semi-glossy entertainment magazine in lightly-worn stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story of the Who's "Tommy" filmed by Ken Russell. Reworking of "Ballroom Dance Magazine" A fine magazine of arts..... More about After Dark: the national magazine of entertainment vol. 7, #10, February 1975: The Who's Roger...
Cat.No: 239126
New York: Interim Books, [1968]. [4p] 4.25x5.5 inches, stated first printing in sewn wraps with ink drawing illustrations and cover. Christmas tale self-published by Congdon likely as a gift. More about The Christmas tree
Cat.No: 131131
Buffalo, NY: State University of New York at Buffalo, 1987. Cards. Single leaf of glossy printed cardstock, folded once vertically to 8.5x5.5 inches, Martha's artwork is reproduced in colors (4.5x3.5 inches), poem and publishing data done black with rulings in blue. One of 1,950, of 2,000. Faintest (perhaps imaginary) signs... More about Christmas Broadside; Second Series, Number Nine, December 1987
Cat.No: 226543
New York: MItchell Loeb, 1960. 24p., graps wraps with yapp edges title, author & 'Season's Greetings' printed in red ink on front wrap, inscribed by Sam & Gussie DeWitt with their stamped signature on the front wrap. An expanded version of the poem was first published in 1948. S.A. DeWitt... More about The Sermon on the Mount; set to rhyme and rhythm out of the King James version of the New...
Cat.No: 113404
Lucca, Befana: Tecnografica Lucca, 1932. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about eleven pages, stapled pamphlet in 8.5x6 inch buff wraps printed black in red and green printed panel, with other touches of luxury: leading initial is gilded and find a tipped-on illustration from photography. Upper corner bears numerous small dog-ears, some dust-soil, slight... More about Carita e folklore
Cat.No: 228374
Washington DC: Off Our Backs, 1973. Newspaper. 32p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, illustrations, news, reviews, services, ads, mild toning and wear, soiling, good on newsprint. "Mary anti-Mary", a novel by Carol Anne Douglas, illustrated by Mecca Reliance. Special Xmas Issue. More about Off Our Backs: a women's news journal; vol. 4, #1, November, 1973 "Mary anti-Mary", a...
Cat.No: 218240
Washington DC: Off Our Backs, 1973. Newspaper. 32p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, illustrations, news, reviews, services, ads, heavy toning and wear, soiling, fair on newsprint, reading copy. "Mary anti-Mary", a novel by Carol Anne Douglas, illustrated by Mecca Reliance. Special Xmas Issue. More about Off Our Backs: a women's news journal; vol. 4, #1, November, 1973 "Mary anti-Mary", a...
Cat.No: 223540
San Francisco: Desmodus Pub. 1987. Magazine. 100p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, explicit b&w and color photos and art of SM, Bondage and Rough Trade/Leathermen, stories, news, reviews, Dear Sir section of personal ads, very good erotic men's magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Spanking. Concrete Mama and Other Photos of Prison..... More about Drummer: #110
Cat.No: 239882
Mill Valley, CA: the author, n.d. 8.5x11 inch handbill/broadside printed with Gidlow's Christmas poem, very good on white stock. More about Yuletide letter from Druid Heights
Cat.No: 45047
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 about Selected Bab Ballads written and illustrated by W. S. Gilbert, with an Introduction by Hesketh...
Cat.No: 182743
