New York: A Joint Production of the Los Angeles County Mueum of Art [and] Universe Publishing; distributed by St. Martin's Press, [2000]. Unpaginated, manufactured in Thailand with lots of hand-work, an ambitious 3-D compendium of high and low art, many pop-up styles and pop-up devices on display here, not entirely..... More

Cat.No: 251483

Hong Kong: Xiang gang lan ma chu ban she 香港藍馬出版社, 1967. 74 pages, one issue of the staplebound magazine, very good. Text in Chinese. The magazine is about Hong Kong and international films, news of the entertainment industry, celebrity interviews, etc. More

Cat.No: 247844

San Francisco: The San Francisco Committee for the Aid of Russian Disabled Veterans of the World War I and II, 1947-1955. Pamphlet. Eight stablebound booklets, 6x9 inches, generally very good with some minor handling wear and dust soil. Programs present are for Feb. 15 and Nov. 15, 1947, Nov. 26..... More

Cat.No: 291846

Hong Kong: Guo ji hua bao she, 1967-1976. Nineteen issues of the magazine, 10.5x14.5 inches, some issues with bumped corners or edgewear, generally very good. Numbers present are 31, 38, 41-43, 45, 49, 61, 63, 64, 68, 71-73, 90, 98, 109, 115, 116, and 126. Variety magazine featuring entertainment, world..... More

Cat.No: 237209

Moscow: USSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), 1941. 102p., paperback, very good. Includes contributions from Einstein, Lysenko, H.G. Wells, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, and many others. The text of each letter is accompanied by a facsimile signature of the writer and a vignette photoportrait, often of a...... More

Cat.No: 233261

n.p. [1964]. 47p., slender paperback booklet, very good. Minor foxing to spine. Collection of brief essays and articles about the famous actress who had just committed suicide. Text in Chinese; some illustrations in black and white. OCLC lists an unpaginated Singapore edition with this title by Cheng Siyuan, but this..... More

Cat.No: 236634

New York: North American Congress on Latin America, 1969. 16p., stapled at corner. This issue includes "U.S. Media Empire / Latin America," by Jon Frappier, Interview with Omar Sharif on "Che!", tables. The information source for the Left in Latin America. Vol. II, No. 9, January. The NACLA Newsletter, which..... More

Cat.No: 78322

no place: Standard Brands Incorporated, 1938. Unpaginated, about 28p., photo illustrated throughout, sewn text bound in 7.5 x 5.5 inch pictorial paper over boards. A few flecks of offset white to cover decoration, background off-white is toned slightly, a nice copy of a fragile item. According to a scene-setting paragraph..... More

Cat.No: 75908

Paris: the magazine, 1938. 32p., folio magazine on newsprint (sound, not too acidic), 17x12 inch stapled wraps, illustrated with profuse rotogravure publicity stills reproduced variously in b&w, sepia and color photography, crowded together amidst captions and short texts. Centerfold is entirely in color (all four sides) with slightly more vivid..... More

Cat.No: 250647

San Francisco: San Francisco Committee for the Aid of Russian Disabled Veterans Outside of Russia, 1949. Pamphlet. 12p. stablebound booklet, 6x9 inches, generally very good with some minor handling wear and dust soil. The Ball, held to raise money for veterans, was a major event on the social calendar. The..... More

Cat.No: 291851

New York: J. Albresch Studio, [1940s]. Photograph. 8x10 sepia photograph of Licia Albanese as Violetta in "La Traviata" signed across the front by Albanese, very good condition. Licia Albanese (who passed away at 105 in 2014!) was an Italian American soprano who performed at the Met in NYC but also..... More

Cat.No: 198286

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xix, 271p., preface, notes, works cited, index, illustrations, remainder star bottom edge otherwise very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. The effect on Whitman, Melville, Howells, Louisa Alcott and James, of living popular culture, whether plays, orations, opera. More

Cat.No: 165648