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
![California Association of AIDS Agencies [information packet and cover letter]](/pictures/thumb/194212.jpg?v=1484087181)
California Association of AIDS Agencies [information packet and cover letter]
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
Shanghai: Shijie shuju, 1928. 112 double leaves, paperback bound with thread in tarditional format, rather worn, some edge tears to early pages. Guide to letter writing. More
Cat.No: 221448
Gong he xin chi du
Shanghai: Hui wen tang, 1929. Two slender volumes, bound with thread in traditional format; paper toned, otherwise very good. Seventeenth printing of this style guide for writing letters. More
Cat.No: 224107
Gong he xin chi du
Shanghai: Hui wen tang, [192-]. Two slender volumes, bound with thread in traditional format; paper toned, front cover of first volume has a crease and is stamped "China" for export. Undated printing of this style guide for writing letters. More
Cat.No: 224108
![Iva Toguri (d'Aquino): victim of a legend [with additional materials]](/pictures/thumb/231353.jpg?v=1542842506)
Iva Toguri (d'Aquino): victim of a legend [with additional materials]
San Francisco: The National Committee for Iva Toguri, Japanese American Citizens League, 1975. 32p., 5.5x8.5 inch booklet, very good, defending the woman accused of acts of treason as "Tokyo Rose." Accompanying the booklet is a signed cover letter from co-author Raymond Okamura addressed to Judy Stone, reviewer for the SF... More
Cat.No: 231353
Lesbian Letters. Issue no. 2
Toronto: Stewart Gordon, 1967. Paperback. 96p., ownership stamp on inner cover, offsetting to rear cover, otherwise good digest magazine in trade paperback format though in staplebound pictorial wraps, Sexual fantasies in letter-to-the-editor form The first letter in this group accuses the publication of having included a phony letter by a.... More
Cat.No: 202005
Love across the color line; the letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis, edited by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz and Kathy Peiss
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. Hardcover. xii, 144p., dj, First edition. Near fine. More
Cat.No: 102005
Nijisseiki Ei-Wa Shokanbun Taisei / 20th Century Anglo-Japanese Letter Writing
San Francisco; printed in Japan: Aoki Taiseido, 1916. 225p., very good hardcover, bilingual text. Letter-writing manual with sample texts reflecting a wide variety of circumstances encountered by Japanese living in the United States. Includes samples of legal documents. More
Cat.No: 218111
San bai liu shi hang chi du
Shanghai: Fu Hua tushuguan, 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 have blank covers, as issued. More
Cat.No: 222094
Tong su xin chi du
Shanghai: Shangwu yinshuguan, 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
![Voices of the heart [program and personal letter/picture]](/pictures/thumb/178373.jpg?v=1518444551)
Voices of the heart [program and personal letter/picture]
[San Francisco]: Jesus Christ is the Lord Church, [1991]. [16p.] including covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, photos, lightly-worn program for the Philippine-American Christian singing group in stapled blue covers, letter from the Philippines with envelope and color photo laid-in. More
Cat.No: 178373
Wen du bu qiu ren jiao ji da quan
Shanghai: Shi jie shu ju, [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 xie xin bi du fen yun cuo yao he bi
Hong Kong: Chang xing shu ju, [196-]. 67, 63p., paperback, pocketbook sized guide to writing letters; text in Chinese. Very good. More
Cat.No: 219019
Xue sheng chi du da quan
Shanghai: Shi jie shu ju, 1939. 196p., paperback; ownership stamp on front cover. Letter-writing guide. More
Cat.No: 231100
Zui xin shi yong chi du da quan: fen lei xiang zhu
Hong Kong: Shi yong chu ban she, [195-?]. Thick little volume, 23 individually paginated subsections, very good hardcover. Pages evenly toned. Text in Chinese. 4.25x6 inches. Guide for writing letters, divided into thematic categories. More
Cat.No: 220617
The Ackerley Letters
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Hardcover. xxxvi, 354p., very good first US edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Ackerley was the openly bisexual editor of "The Listener" literary journal and author of severla autobiographical novels in cluding "We Think the World of You" which was filmed with Alabn... More
Cat.No: 14006
By horse, stage, & packet: the Far West letters of Joseph Pratt Allyn
San Francisco: designed by Jack W. Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press for The Book Club of California, binding by Bela Blau, 1988. xxiii, 192p., 6.75x10.5 inches, vintage frontis-portrait, rubricated title page, introduction, brief biography, nineteen letters, bibliography, index, illustrated with 10 plates, fine first edition limited to 450copies bound in... More
Cat.No: 213016
Letters to Women
Berkeley: Shameless Hussy Press, [1971]. [24p] 5.5x8.5 inches, Folded photocopy sheet of pages from a book on Women's Presses with sections bracketed by alta and a personal thanks signed by alta on back of the sheet with a phone number, mild wear and soiling otherwise very good first Shameless Hussy... More
Cat.No: 220538
![[Handwritten letter on letterhead of the Ames Botanical Laboratory, thanking William Wilson Baker for his translations from Latin]. Oakes Ames.](/pictures/thumb/201579.jpg?v=1529269913)
[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]. Michael D. Anderson, West Side Discussion Group.](/pictures/thumb/200261.jpg?v=1484087815)
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
Correspondence and personal essays
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1972. Hardcover. 130p., illustrated endpapers with facing photo profiles of the writers, footnotes, index, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped, edgeworn dj. More
Cat.No: 28013
Lettres à André Breton: 1918-1931
Paris: Gallimard, 2011. Paperback. 469p., trade paperback, French language, small spot on lower corner of front cover, else very good. Introduced and annotated by Lionel Follet. More
Cat.No: 224401