Buffalo, NY: World’s Dispensary Medical Association, [not before 1927]. Staplebound. 32 pp., illustrations, color printed wraps. 4 x 5.5 in. Oblong pamphlet. Surface scratched on rear cover. A booklet with a very abridged history of aviation, emphasizing the then-recent solo flight of Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris and..... More
Cat.No: 298631
USA: J.L.D. Publishing, 1964. Magazine. 66 p, illustrations, 8x10.75 inches, full color glossy covers with newsprint pages, black and white images and text, wear to edges and spine with several closed tear at right edge of front cover, text block in good condition. Beatles fan mag published sometime in the..... More
Cat.No: 196345
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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
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Hong Kong: Dian ying shi jie chu ban she 電影世界出版社, [197-]. 74 pages, single issue of the staplebound magazine, very good. The magazine is about Hong Kong films and celebrities, e.g. Sisi Chen, Connie Chan, accompanied with numerous black and white photographs. There is a formal letter on page 4..... More
Cat.No: 248534
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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
Kowloon, Hong Kong: Wu yue chu ban she 五月出版社, [197-]. 44p., magazine-style booklet profusely illustrated in black and white; very good, about the Hong Kong actress. Nü xing le yuan hua bao. More
Cat.No: 247652
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
San Francisco: The San Francisco Committee for the Aid of Russian Disabled Veterans of the World War I and II, 1947-1955. Pamphlet. Six stablebound booklets, 6x9 inches, generally very good with some minor handling wear and dust soil. Programs present are for Feb. 15 1947, Nov. 26, 1949 (in which..... More
Cat.No: 291848
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
Los Angeles: Guest Relations Department, National Broadcasting Company, undated, 1940s. Pamphlet. Single leaf, 9x12 inches, printed and folded to make a 9x3.75 inch promotional handout. Lightly penciled on the front panel is a street address, item shows faint signs of handling, colors are quite bright throughout, nice copy. More
Cat.No: 228580
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
San Francisco: San Francisco Committee for the Aid of Russian Disabled Veterans Outside of Russia, 1949, 1955. Pamphlet. Two stablebound booklets, 6x9 inches, generally very good with some minor handling wear and dust soil. Programs present are for Nov. 26, 1949 and November 12, 1955. 12 and 24 pages respectively..... More
Cat.No: 291849
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: National Song Parade, [circa 1940]. Magazine. 32p., small-font production on newsprint, stapled 11x8 inch self-wraps, the red cover wrapper is decorated with a sly photoportrait of Bing Crosby. Cover slightly edgeworn and a little faded, text is quite toned but handleable, a good copy. Caveat emptor, no music..... More
Cat.No: 208480
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, 1935. 36p., folio magazine on newsprint (sound, not too acidic), 17x12 inch stapled wraps, illustrated with profuse rotogravure publicity stills reproduced in b&w and sepia photography amidst captions and brief texts; the only touches of color are in caricatures by Sotero, these printed inside front & back..... More
Cat.No: 250649
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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
Mexico City: Comision Nacional de los Libros de Texto Gratuitos, October 1976. Paperback. 143p., newsprint paperstock printed double-column with vignette photo-portraits of scheduled performers; the stock is toned, the softbound 8x7 inch wraps are a little creased and edgeworn with a small chip at the heel of rear cover, a...... More
Cat.No: 187659
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
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Concord NH: Yachting Publishing Corporation, 1941. Magazine. Each 106p.; entire copies of the magazine; a plush production for luxury-boat owners, 12.5x9.5 inch slick color cover with b&w guts printed beautifully on alkaline coated paperstock. Similar condition: general light edgewear with abraded spine panels, each having half-inch chips at the tail..... More
Cat.No: 232994
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
Havana: SNTECD, 2006/7. 64p. each, staplebound 11x8 inch glossy magazines printed on alkaline glazed paper, very good copies; the two together. More
Cat.No: 200644
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
Los Angeles: Dorleach-MacLeish, 1984. 205p., foreword, epilogue, references, chronology, illustrated with glossy plates from b&w production photos, very good first edition in cloth and silver foil titlees, sheet of reviews tipped-in to front free endpaper, lightly-worn unclipped dj. Personal inscription signed by the author. More
Cat.No: 147451
