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
Cat.No: 164481
New York: The Guardian, 1983. 47 page, 8.5x11 inch staplebound catalog of activist shirts, records, posters, books, and other materials, issued as a holiday shopping supplement to the Oct. 26 issue of the Guardian newspaper. More
Cat.No: 262029
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
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
Cat.No: 224689
Austin, TX: The Rag, 1966. Newspaper. 16p., small-format underground paper on toned newsprint, closed edge tear to last two pages. An early and rather rudimentary issue of Austin's iconic underground paper. Articles on dope busts, a sarcastic call to buy war toys, local theater and music, and more. More
Cat.No: 250182
n.p. n.d. Four-panel greeting card for Cristmas and New Year, minor handling and foxing, with the Chinese greeting framed in tiny striped flags adopted in 1912 and used until 1928. More
Cat.No: 254568
![Navidad: a Christmas day with the early Californians [with] Pastorela, a shepherd's play. Don...](/pictures/thumb/9631.jpg?v=1524456577)
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
Cat.No: 9631
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cat.No: 162448
![One Christmas [slipcased]. Truman Capote](/pictures/thumb/258534.jpg?v=1603938920)
New York: Random House, 1983. Hardcover. 41p.,near-fine first edition stated with number line ending in 2 as called for in Random House first printings of the period, in cloth boards and slipcase with paper label on cover. More
Cat.No: 258534
![The Thanksgiving Visitor & A Christmas Memory [slipcased omnibus edition]. Truman Capote](/pictures/thumb/247664.jpg?v=1580356175)
New York: Random House, [1980?]. Hardcover. 103p., very good reprint in two-color cloth boards and lightly-worn slipcase with label affixed front & rear. More
Cat.No: 247664
![Merry CHRISTmas 2001 and a Happy New Year 2002 [signed]. Calvin Cayetano Contreras](/pictures/thumb/244294.jpg?v=1572488558)
[Oxnard]: Self-published by the author, 2001. [22p] printed one side only, 5.5x4.25 inches landscape format, good likely handmade booklet in stapled yellow covers with yellow tape spine, signed on the cover by the writer, plastic cover sheet attached front. Likely handmade Christmas mailer with Christian story and poetry followed on..... More
Cat.No: 244294
![Statement [handbill]. Committee to Save Christmas](/pictures/thumb/251356.jpg?v=1588821656)
Pacifica, CA: the Committee, [1971]. 8.5x14 inch handbill, printed both sides, horizontal fold, date penned in corner. Interestingly, the paper was used for recording the license plate and make of a car suspected of belonging to a "Pig," presumably observing the demonstration where these were distributed. Calls for an anti-consumerist..... More
Cat.No: 251356
![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
Cat.No: 213415
New York: Danad Publishing, 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
Cat.No: 215648
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
Cat.No: 131131
Buffalo, NY: State University of New York at Buffalo, 1987. Cards. Single leaf of glossy printed cardstock, folded once vertically to 5.5x8.5 inches, Martha's artwork is reproduced in colors (4.5x3.5 inches), poem and publishing data done black with rulings in blue. One of 2,000, very good condition. More
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
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
Cat.No: 228374
San Francisco: College of the Holy Names, 1938. 46p., letterpress with rubricated titlepage (and every poem head, two colors! green and red). First edition blue paper-over-boards panelled in red, 8.5x5.5 inches. Some foxing and edgewear, a good copy. Strictly for meditative Christians, no local color or personal touches. Sister Edwin..... More
Cat.No: 182949
San Francisco: Desmodus Pub. 1987. Magazine. 108p. 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. More
Cat.No: 243726
