The Alarm, no. 3, June 1980. The Natalia Trotsky papers
San Francisco: F.O.R. Organizing Committee in the U.S., 1980. Pamphlet. 11, [i], wraps, not stapled, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 199572
Letters
The Alarm, no. 3, June 1980. The Natalia Trotsky papers
San Francisco: F.O.R. Organizing Committee in the U.S., 1980. Pamphlet. 11, [i], staplebound pamphlet format, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 236889
![Cat.No: 280582 Bedfellows aka Butt Fun Club Membership materials [5 sheets] [handwritten...](/pictures/thumb/280582.jpg?v=1646883257)
Bedfellows aka Butt Fun Club Membership materials [5 sheets] [handwritten note signed by Chuck (indecipherable last name)]
Santa Ana, CA: Bedfellows, 1989. Handbill. Five 8.5x11 inch sheets including an application form and four computer-font text handbills with horizontal folds for mailing and a lengthy scrawled note from someone named Chuck explaining the history (club founded in 1987). More
Cat.No: 280582
California Association of AIDS Agencies [information packet and cover letter] [signed]
Sacramento: The Association, 1988. Six panel brochure, 14p. report on 7 sheets, all stapled together at top-left corner with a cover letter to a Santa Cruz resident on Agency letterhead signed by Brian Dobrow, very good. Early effort in California to form a central clearinghouse for AIDS organizations and information..... More
Cat.No: 194212
Faculty for Full Divestment: letter dated April 22, 1985
[Berkeley]: [UC Faculty], 1985. single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides, folded once. Copy of the letter to have been accompanied by 100 signatures (missing). More
Cat.No: 130224
Fen lei guang zhu pu tong chi du da guan 分類廣註普通尺牘大觀
Shanghai: Shijie shuju, 1928. 112 double leaves, paperback bound with thread in traditional format, rather worn, some edge tears to early pages. Guide to letter writing. More
Cat.No: 221448
Lesbian Connection informational letter
East Lansing: Ambitious Amazons, April 17, 1992. Two 8.5x11 inch sheets printed three sides with horizontal folds for mailing else very good on yellow stock. Page one and two is "A Little About Us & How You Can Help" Page three is a Welcome to the mailing list and coupon/donation..... More
Cat.No: 262226
NGTF packet of materials from 1975 to 1982
New York: National Gay Task Force, 1975-1982. Ten membership letters and other materials, light wear and folds for mailing. Urgent call to membership to support Governor Shapp. Letters and updates from 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979 & 1982. More
Cat.No: 287130
San bai liu shi hang chi du 三百六十行尺牘
Shanghai: Fu Hua tushuguan 富華圖書館, 1914. Six slender paperback volumes, bound with thread in traditional format, paper toned, first and last volumes with minor edge chipping; 3.5x5.75 inches. Collection of sample letters to use as models, sorted by category, with special focus on business correspondence. Volumes 4, 5 and 6..... More
Cat.No: 222094
Tong su xin chi du 通俗新尺牘
Shanghai: Shangwu yinshuguan 商務印書館, 1921. 665p., hardcover, read board coming loose at the hinges, pages toned and edgeworn, a reading copy only. Guide to letter-writing, originally published in 1913. More
Cat.No: 219714
Wen du bu qiu ren jiao ji da quan 文牘不求人交際大全
Shanghai: Shi jie shu ju 世界書局, [192-]. Paperback, variously paginated internal sections, spine panel chipped, pages toned. Style guide for letter writing and other composition. More
Cat.No: 225882
Xin ji gai liang xie xin bi du fen yun cuo yao he bi 新輯改良寫信必讀分韻撮要合璧
Hong Kong: Chang xing shu ju 長興書局, [196-]. 67, 63p., paperback, pocketbook sized guide to writing letters; text in Chinese. Very good. More
Cat.No: 219019
Xin ti guang zhu shu han wen zi xiu du ben 新體廣註書翰文自修讀本
Shanghai: Guang wen shu ju 廣文書局, 1921. Two paperback volumes, bound with thread in traditional format, pages toned, light handling. Letter writing guide. More
Cat.No: 244280
Xue sheng chi du da quan 學生尺牘大全
Shanghai: Shi jie shu ju 世界書局, 1939. 196p., paperback; ownership stamp on front cover. Letter-writing guide. More
Cat.No: 231100
Art Agnos for Mayor [two page letter to Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club members]
San Francisco: Self-published by the author, July 9, 1987. Two 8.5x11 inch sheets printed one side only with Agnos's argument for the LGBT community's support of his run for mayor of SF, stapled upper-left corner, two horizontal fold creases for mailing else good. More
Cat.No: 264015
Mailer offering "carburetor cleaners"
Cathedral City, CA: Alternative Marketing, Oct. 1991. Pamphlet. Letter announcing that the company could no longer sell "aromas" aka Poppers as it was now illegal but would be selling "carburator cleaners" aka Isopropyl alcohol accompanied by a release form swearing the customer will only use the cleaner for automotive purposes..... More
Cat.No: 286557
[Handwritten letter on letterhead of the Ames Botanical Laboratory, thanking William Wilson Baker for his translations from Latin]
North Easton, MA: the author, 1901. Single sheet of stationery, 8.5x11 inches, faint creases from having been folded. The letter begins with an apology for mislaying the precise amount of money Ames owed to Baker, an instructor of Latin at Harvard, for some recent translation work. “The translations were perfectly..... More
Cat.No: 201579
Roses of Crimson Fire
Sebastopol: Scorpion Romance, 2006. Paperback. 80p., illustrated with erotic nude and seminude photos, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Anaya Valdepeña was born in Mexico and lives in Sebastopol. An erotic story-poem told in an epistolary style. More
Cat.No: 218030
Letter from Michael D. Anderson regarding a letter published in The West Sider in December 1973 [photocopy]
New York: Self-published by the author, [1974]. Four photocopied 8.5x11 inch sheets printed recto-only with introductory sentences, a page reprinting the original letter from "M.R." regarding bisexuals followed by a three page reply from Anderson and his photocopied signature, very good. West Side Discussion Group formed in 1956 and held..... More
Cat.No: 200261
Lettres à André Breton: 1918-1931
Paris: Gallimard, 2011. Paperback. 469p., trade paperback, French language, a tiny green spot at the heel of front cover, else very good. Introduced and annotated by Lionel Follet. More
Cat.No: 224401
The Amazon of Letters: the life and loves of Natalie Barney
New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1976. Hardcover. 286p. + 16p. photos, introductions, bibliography, index, worn first US edition in cloth and gilt, and worn, stained & price-clipped dj. Reading copy. More
Cat.No: 35996
A year of mud and gold: San Francisco in letters and diaries, 1849 - 1850
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Hardcover. xxiii, 241p., preface, introduction, street map of San Francisco in 1850, notes, bibliography, index, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Personal inscription signed by the editor. More
Cat.No: 169239
![Cat.No: 244310 World War II Project [letter]. Allan Berube](/pictures/thumb/244310.jpg?v=1572488573)
World War II Project [letter]
San Francisco: Capp Street Foundation WWII, [1982?]. Single 8.5x11 inch open letter seeking funding for the project folded to 3.75x8.5 inches printed both sides with Project letterhead, also a reprinted column N.C. Gitz from Chicago's Reader reporting on the story of Berube's research, a 3.5x5.5 inch donation card with envelope..... More
Cat.No: 244310
The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies 1612-14. Edited by Sir William Foster
London: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1934. Hardcover. lvi, 316p., illustrated with a few maps and a facsimile (all as called for), hardbound in Hakluiyt's signature skyblue cloth boards gilt & blind, and (how exceptional) the original plain printed dust jacket in good shape (item perhaps untouched since its publication?)..... More
Cat.No: 281423
Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: the complete correspondence
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2011. Hardcover. lxii, 421p., introduction, note on the text, letters from 1934 - 1979, index, illustrated with b&w photos and facsimile letters, fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 219914