About a ghost town bike town
Dauphin, Canada: Of course you can distro, [2013]. Pamphlet. 30p., 5.5x8.5 inch photocopied zine wraps; b&w illus., small price sticker on back wrap, slight handling, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 289180
Rural
Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Volume X. Part I.
St. Paul, MN: The Minnesota Historical Society, 1905. Paperback. xvi, 448p., 12 portraits on inserted stock, textblock sans wrapper, all edges heavily deckled and many leaves unopened. The sewn signatures look stringy with exposed threads and lumps of binder's paste, but we see no breaks. We are presuming that our..... More
Cat.No: 193478
A Homecoming Celebration & Consecration for radical Faeries at Wolf Creek Sanctuary June 6th to 24th, 1987 [program and fliers]
San Francisco: Nomenus & Wolf Creek, 1987. Pamphlet. Four panel program, 5.5x8.5 inches with folded 8.5x14 inch handbill with registration form, calendar and information laid-in, also find 5.5x8.5 inch card with maps of the Sanctuary, very good on green stock. More
Cat.No: 277426
A Homecoming Celebration & Consecration for radical Faeries at Wolf Creek Sanctuary June 6th to 24th, 1987 [program and fliers]
San Francisco: Nomenus & Wolf Creek, 1987. Pamphlet. Four panel program, 5.5x8.5 inches with folded 8.5x14 inch handbill with registration form, calendar and information laid-in, also find 5.5x8.5 inch card with maps of the Sanctuary, very good on yellow stock. More
Cat.No: 277427
The Leningrad show; the fellowship for experimental art; Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, April 29 - May 30, 1988
Point Reyes Station: Gallery Route One, 1988. 62p., 7x8.5 inches, b&w reproductions of the art and photos of the artists, very good catalogue of an exhibition in a rural Californian bohemia; pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 149564
Marriage in Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby: Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea; Administrative College of Papua New Guinea, 1986. xi, 223 pages, paperback, trace of old price label on front cover, upper right corner bumped. Research Monograph no. 4. More
Cat.No: 238684
Official Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Session of the Farmers' National Congress of the United States - Held in Boston, Mass., October 3-10, 1899. Compiled and Published under the Direction of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1899. Hardcover. xvi, 174p., hardbound in 9x5.5 inch cinnamon-brown cloth gilt, ruled and decorated in blind. We see a small faint splash stain to cover, a little crimping round cover's edges, completely free of any markings within, a handsome item in sound..... More
Cat.No: 238349
Queretaro, Monografia estatal; anhelos libertarios sobre caprichos geograficos [segunda edicion]
Mexico D. F. SEP, 1997. Paperback. 252p., profusely illustrated in the text with photos, drawings, maps and tables, all reproduced in color (rather fuzzily), softbound in 10x7 inch color-photo wraps; later printing of the second edition. A former owner has protected this item in clear plastic wrap, neatly enough, and..... More
Cat.No: 217730
Research Report on The Advantages of Metering - Compiled for the Alaska Department of Health, Water Works Operators School
New York: Neptune Meter Company, 1954. Paperback. Variously paginated, a compilation aimed at inducing small Alaskan towns to save money by measuring water usage, thus correcting sloppiness, gross leaks, and fraud. Typewritten general text, typed and printed individual reports, supplemented with graphs & stats from all over the US. Clean..... More
Cat.No: 286959
RFD: a country journal for gay men everywhere; #30 Spring 1982
Bakersville, NC: Running Water, 1982. Magazine. 64p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, toning to edges of covers and wear otherwise a good magazine in stapled yellow pictorial wraps, survey sheet laid-in. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. More
Cat.No: 225387
RFD: a country journal for gay men everywhere; #50, Spring 1987, vol. 13, #3
Bakersville, NC: Running Water, 1987. Magazine. 96p.,, 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. More
Cat.No: 172647
RFD: a country journal for gay men everywhere; #52, Fall 1987 [vol. 14, #1]
Bakersville, NC: Running Water, 1987. Magazine. 104p., includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. This issue has articles by Ian Young, John Ritter etc. and some lesbian content and..... More
Cat.No: 215840
RFD: a country journal for gay men everywhere; #86 Summer, 1996 [vol. 23, #4]
Liberty: Short Mountain Collective, 1996. Magazine. 80p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. More
Cat.No: 215495
Rural development and women in Africa
Geneva: International Labour Office, 1989. Paperback. x+157p., preface, introduction, bibliographies, notes, annex, good reprint in original wraps. Peeling/scrape to rear cover at ISBN bar code where, presumably, a sticker was inexpertly removed. Collection of papers. More
Cat.No: 89957
Ceylon Vagabond
Colombo: K. V. G. de Silva and Sons, 1969. Paperback. viii+194p., photographic and other illustrations, color-photo wraps in a ditto color-photo dust jacket. The dj is frayed at top, endsheets foxed, otherwise very good. "A curious interlacing of folklore, legend, history, botany, strange customs and habits, Buddhist philosophy and primitive..... More
Cat.No: 149696
Rural life in Bangladesh. A study of 5 selected villages
Dacca: Nawroze Kitabistan, 1979. 116p., hardcover with chipped paper label on spine. Second edition. More
Cat.No: 176531
Structures of Patriarchy; State, Community and Household in Modernising Asia
New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1991. Paperback. xi, 254p., illustrated with tables and statistics, softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch coated decorated wraps. Paperstock faintly toned, a New Delhi bookshop fiche inside cover, an almost as-new copy, completely sound, clean and unmarked. Women and the household in Asia, vol 2. Series editor..... More
Cat.No: 250159
Yellow-Yellow, a novel
Lagos: Dtalkshop, 2006. Paperback. 179p., professionally printed and softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch stiffish decorated wraps; cover bears a garish publisher's label (book won an award), half-title author's signed inscription datelined 2008, a clean sound copy, unmarked except as noted by author. The rural narrator, whose Greek father disappeared, goes to..... More
Cat.No: 250246
Modern Russia. Translated by Bernard Miall
London / New York: T. Fisher Unwin / Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Hardcover. First American edition: 361p., thick pulpy paperstock making for a thickish volume, blue cloth gilt with a gilded top edge; nice production. Somewhat edgeworn with bits of fray to the top rim, and small closed tears to..... More
Cat.No: 237476
Irene, Or, The Life and Fortunes of a Yankee Girl, a tale in eight cantos.
Joliet IL: Signal Printing Office, for the author, 1878. Hardcover. xii, 167p., hardbound in 7x4.5 inch green cloth boards cover-titled gilt and panelling in blind. Casing is faintly dust-soiled with a few touches of silverfishing, else near-immaculate; the matte brown endsheets unmarred, the textblock completely sound. The superb condition is..... More
Cat.No: 232663
Irene, Or, The Life and Fortunes of a Yankee Girl, a tale in eight cantos.
Joliet IL: Signal Printing Office, for the author, 1878. Hardcover. xii, 167p., 7x4.5 inch brown cloth boards cover-titled gilt and panelling in blind, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 265482
A power of good: language of a midwestern childhood
Chesterfield, MO: Mira Digital Publishing, 2016. xix, 95p., paperback, 7x5 inches. New. The anthropologist couple turn their analytical reflections to the slang phrases used in midwestern communities when they were children. Most reflect general useage, not at all limited to the midwest. More
Cat.No: 216190
Lift Up the Glory. By the author of This Bright Summer.
New York: Covici-Friede, 1934. Hardcover. 347p., 8x5 inch cloth boards in dust jacket, top edge tinted green, a nice production of the first edition. Condition is fair to good, there's a severe reader's crease, lots of binder's paste staining to both endsheets, the dj spine is faded to illegible... More
Cat.No: 265266
Shared visions, Native American painters and sculptors in the twentieth century; essays by Joy L. Gritton, W. Jackson Rushing
Phoenix: The Heard Museum, 1991. 110p., coated paperstock throughout; forewords, introductory essay, numerous color plates, catalogue, bibliography, first edition in 12x9 inch illustrated wraps. This copy mildly rubbed, crimpings along spine, light corner creasing. More
Cat.No: 177017
Migración rural hacia Estados Unidos; un estudio regional en Jalisco
Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1991. Paperback. 289p., text in Spanish, illustrated with tables and figures, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 52509