Oakland: Baker Mortuary, Inc., 1987. Calendar. [28p] includes covers, 8.75x9 inches, illustrations, photos, biographies, historical information, 12 month wall calendar, stapled pictorial covers. More about America's Black Heritage Calendar; a continuing strength in our society [1987 calendar
Cat.No: 214649
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. 24p., 9x6.5 inch landscape layout, 7 color exhibit photos, line map, b&w photo of one of the mantles in situ (as found, carefully bundled round a corpse) and diagram, very good exhibition booklet in stapled decorative wraps. More about Ancient Peruvian Mantles, 300 B.C.-A.D. 200 February 23 through August 13, 1995
Cat.No: 228979
Santiago de Chile: Banco O'Higgins in association with the museum, 1985. Paperback. 85p., numerous exhibit photos (most in color) plus critical apparatus, printed on glazed alkaline paperstock; a softbound in 11x9.5 inch pictorial wraps with line-maps in two colors, two fold-out leaves showing artists' conceptions of unearthed ancient clothing as... More about Arica, Diez mil Anos; Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
Cat.No: 236175
Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1985. 259p., color plates on glazed stock, double-column text (with sidebars) on matte brown stock, decorated 14x10 inch boards. Corners slightly scuffed with a small ding to spine panel, faint foredge smudge, lacks the jacket, otherwise a very good copy. More about Bactrian gold from the excavations of the Tillya-Tepe necropolis in northern Afghanistan
Cat.No: 168397
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1971. 20p. illus. tabloid format newspaper, fold-creased, with George Jackson portrait on front cover and Emory Douglas poster on the rear cover; upper left corner of front page torn away, not affecting text. This is the first issue of the BPP paper to appear after Jackson's... More about The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service vol. VII, no. 1, Saturday, August 28, 1971. George...
Cat.No: 224531
Detroit: International Masons, Inc., n.d. Paperback. 12p., 4x5.75 inches, stiff wraps mildly toned at edges, staplebound, signature of former owner on inside cover, else very good. 4-page Syllabus of additional Eastern Star material from Ezra A Cook, Publisher laid in. Burial Ceremony for the Eastern Star affiliated with the International..... More about Burial Ceremony for Eastern Stars of International Masons, Inc
Cat.No: 224282
Washington: Library of Congress, Rare Books Division, 1945. xii, 30p., 8.5x12 inches, lightly worn boards. Facsimile of 1490 edition, with engravings of dancing skeletons among the living. More about The Dance of Death, Printed at Paris in 1490: a Reproduction made from the copy in the Lessing J....
Cat.No: 135743
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San Francisco: Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, 1989. Four 8.5x11 inch blue sheets printed on seven sides, stapled right-hand side, mostly English text, some Hebrew, program for the dedication of the cemetery, very good. Congregation Sha'ar Zahav is the main LGBT synagogue in SF. More about Dedication - Congregation Sha'ar Zahav Cemetary [sic] at the Hills of Eternity and Congregational...
Cat.No: 206903
México: Secretaria de Gobernacion Consejo Nacional de Poblacion, 1984. 43p., 5.5x8.25 inches, introduction,footnotes, tables, figures, conclusions, bibliography, text in Spanish, very good first edition booklet in stapled brick-red wraps. More about Estado actual del conocimiento sobre los niveles y tendencias de la mortalidad en México
Cat.No: 161627
Oxford: First Baptist Church, 1973. 4p. memorial service program, photo of the deceased, wraps. More about Eulogistic service for Mr. Lucillus Green; First Baptist Church, Oxford, North Carolina,...
Cat.No: 147687
New York: Alliance for the Arts, 1992. 32p., 6x9 inches, very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Includes sectuions on health insurance, estate planning, resources, strategies etc. More about Future safe: the present is the future Estate planning for artists in a time of AIDS
Cat.No: 72036
San Mateo, CA: Patterson & O'Connell, 1977. Calendar. 28p. calendar, each month illus. with 8-10 panels depicting the life of a prominent Black American (Frances Harper, Duke Ellington, James P. Beckwourth, Charles Spaulding, etc.). Calendar sponsored by Patterson & O'Connell, a San Mateo California funeral home. More about The great American Negro calendar 1977
Cat.No: 42287
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. 217p., fine b&w and color illustrations, first edition white cloth boards with red Chinese titles in pictorial dj, 13x10.5 inches. Text in Chinese, staplebound supplemental insert in English and also foldout supplement in Chinese. A fine copy in a utilitarian cardstock slipcase. More about Historical relics unearthed in New China
Cat.No: 50022
Sevilla: Imp. F. E., 1938. 35p., rubrications and onlay colors throughout, sewn wraps, somewhat edgeworn and dustsoiled. Elaborately produced, designed and decorated booklet. More about La Falange conmemora a los martires de la tradicion
Cat.No: 7262
San Francisco: Fidelity Mutual Aid Association, 1890. Single long leaf (6.2x19.5 inches)of pink paperstock printed dark blue and folded five times to make 12 printed panels (6.2x3.3) filled with conditions of membership, list of late claims paid (name, city, nature of disability, amount) and excerpted letters of gratitude (name, city... More about List No. 31. Late Claims Paid by the Fidelity Mutual Aid Association 315 California St. San...
Cat.No: 228028
Detroit: Second Baptist Church, 1975. 4p. memorial program, wraps. More about Obesquies for the late Geneva Carpenter Parks; Monday, December 15, 1975 .... Second Baptist...
Cat.No: 147686
New York: The Center for Inter-American Relations and The American Federation of the Arts, with the cooperation of the Government of Peru, 1973. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about 32p., text and most of the exhibit photography are printed sepia, with a few pale color reproductions, softbound, stapled into 9x8.5 inch decorated wraps... More about Peruvian Paintings by Unknown Artists 800 BC to 1700 AD. September 12 - November 11, 1973
Cat.No: 198657
Willimantic, CT: Lysander Spooner Society, 1983. Special joint-issue of the Anarchist zines, [22p.], wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches. Letters, essays and poems submitted by readers from prison, plus a piece on the death penalty by Michael Parenti. More about Special prisoners issue. Instead of A Magazine: an organ of the Lysander Spooner Society, vol. 4...
Cat.No: 144654
Chicago: RCP Publications, 2005. 16p., printed on coated paperstock throughout with a fine photo of Shaw and a standard one of Avakian; Shaw an RCP African American militant active in Los Angeles; very good staplebound pamphlet. More about Statement by Bob Avakian, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, on the occasion of the...
Cat.No: 121529
Bergamo: Instituto Italiano d' Arti Grafiche, 1963. Magazine. 134p., massive softbound journal in color wraps; profuse color, b&w and sepia exhibit photography on unglazed alkaline paperstock, 13.5x10 inches, a handsome big book with externals in rough condition, expect edgewear, corner-creasing and abrasions to spine panel. First leaf is detached, so..... More about Vie Italienne / Vita Italiana / Italy's Life / Leben in Italien. Revue Officielle de l' E.N.I.T....
Cat.No: 236508
Oakland: Tilghman Press, [1975]. 10x7 inch funeral hand-fan, stiff cardstock cut in semi-circular shape (10 across, 6 high), illustrated in three colors with a cross on a hill on the front, b&w photos of the funeral owners on rear, photos accompanied by calendars for 1975 & 1976 plus advertising for... More about Funeral Fan for Baker Mortuary
Cat.No: 215036
Paris: Éditions Adyar, 1937. 237p., wraps, very good; attractive old publisher's bookmark laid in. Text in French; a consideration of various classifications of death and how regarded. More about Le livre de la mort douce
Cat.No: 135440
Milan: Skira, 1998. 208p., period and contemporary photos, in situ and from museum, high-resolution b&w work throughout. First English language edition 12x9 inch openweave black cloth boards in laminated dj, faint rubbing to dj, a near-fine copy. More about Messages in stone; statues and sculptures from tribal Indonesia in the collections of the...
Cat.No: 166371
San Quentin: Esque Distributors [i.e., "S. Q." --author?], 1965. 48p., illustrated with numerous competently-taken b&w photos in the text; staplebound 7 x 5 inch decorated wraps, entirely clean and sound, a near fine copy. "..my personal associations and experiences with prisoners is somewhat limited. The opinions and ideas expressed are... More about Inside San Quentin ..today
Cat.No: 183425
Glendale, CA: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 1935. 40p., 10.5x14.75 inches, profusely illustrated with sepia-toned photographs of the Park, a page of facts at rear including staff and board members, tissue-guard endpapers, first edition booklet/brochure in heavy blue textured and decorated stapled wraps, gilt titles. A little edgeworn with nicks in... More about Pictorial Forest Lawn: a first step toward heaven
Cat.No: 205765
