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London: Charles Green Say, for J. Payne. Fair. 1754. 2nd edition. Printed by Charles Green Say, for J. Payne, London, 1754. Second edition. Four volumes. 12mo. (iv), 308p; (vi, 292p; (vi, 298p; (i v), 297p. The Adventurer was one of several 18th century English periodicals to publish the essays of Samuel Johnson. This 4-volum e set contains all 140 numbers as in the first edition. Bound in contemporary calf, ribbed spine with gilt labels and double lined borders. 25 of the papers are attributed to Johnson, 70 to Hawke sworth. . and tight overall with only occasional light foxing; the only si gnificant flaw is substantial toning/staining to title page margi ns and end papers. See photos. The covers are poor; substantial s urface wear; leather dried and cracked; front covers partially de tached, substantial chipping to lower front corners of volume 2. .

Small format (approximately 6x9) newspaper, original and complete but disbound from a larger volume. Each issue 16 pp. consecutively numbered.

The Niles Weekly Register was a national magazine published in Baltimore from 1811 to 1848. The most widely circulated magazine of its time, the Register was the nation's first weekly newsmagazine and exerted a powerful influence on the early national discourse. This is a broken run of ten issues from March 25-April 8 [3]; May 6-May 13 [2], and June 3-June 24 [5]. Contents include extensive news and commentary on the final weeks of the War of 1812, the Napoleonic War in Europe; a proposed constitutional amendment concerning slave representation and apportionment in the creation of new states, the Trial of Andrew Jackson for opposing execution of the writ of habeas corpus, national population statistics, Indian affairs, and commercial and foreign news. An 8-page supplement to the last issue contains the entirety of the New French Constitution and Napoleon's… Read More

NY: The New York Tribune . Very good. 1848. 1st ed. California Gold. Important Official Report. In The New York Tribune for December 8, 1848, published by Horace Greeley and Thomas McElrath.Original elephant folio newspaper, 4pp. complete, the report on p. 3. Colonel Richard B. Masonâs famous report of his trip to newly discovered placers. It ranks as one of the most important eyewitness accounts of the Gold Rush. (Kurutz 10 5) "One day Mr. Marshall, as he was walking own the race to this deposit of mud, observed some glittering particles at its upper edges..." [from the Report). This issue was printed just three days after the Message from the president to the Two House of Congress.., December 5, 1848. While there were earlier published reports of the discovery, the publication of Mason's report here was most significant. Mason was Military governor of California from 1847-1849. His letter, dated August 17, traveled by sea to Washington and did not arrive until December. By this tim e most… Read More

Published by the Czechoslovak Government Press Bureau, NY. Vol 4 nos. 1-103 [less issue 46] 102 issues in all; a near complete run of the final year of publication. 11x8.5", 4-8 leaves each. Offset printed from typed originals. Most, but not all, stapled in upper left corner.
Each issue contains news about the progress of the war and the occupation, reports of the Holocaust and other German war crimes, reprints of important documents, and speeches by Jan Masaryk, Edvard Benes and others.
Among significant topics:
-Apparent first US printing of the Soviet-Czechoslovak Treaty, Jan 21, 1944 and "Official Comment on New Czechoslovak-Soviet Agreement"
-Agreement Between Russia and Czechoslovakia on Administration of Liberated Areas
-"Persecution of the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia"
-"The Fate of Jewry"
-Czechoslovak Guerrillas in Action
-Slovak Partisans in the USSR
-Jan Masaryk on Russia
-Jan Masaryk on the Jews
-Czechoslovakia and the Europe of Tomorrow
-Goering Must Die
All are Ex Lib UCLA Library,… Read More

Nairobi: The East African Standard Ltd.. Good. 1932. 1st ed. 1st ed. 4to (11 x 15.5 inches). 166 pp. Library binding, orange c loth. With original pictorial covers bound in. Hundreds of period photographs and advertisements illustrate East African agricultu re, hunting, architecture, natural history, sports, etc. [Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar]. This was the second year of publ ication. Ex-libris Paramount Pictures Research Department with the film studio’s ink stamp and library pocket inside front cov er. . nterior very .

Ken magazine – First 18 Issues, 1938.
Chicago: Ken, Inc, 1938, approx.13.x10" stapled wrappers, 36-138pp each issue; BOUND IN TWO HARDBOUND VOLUMES, original covers retained, blue cloth, gilt titles on spine. Apr-June 1938 and July-Dec 1938. [Containing in all, Vol 1 No. 1 through Volume 2 No. 11]
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Ken was a short-lived news and feature magazine founded, in part, to convince Americans to support the Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War. It was published bi-weekly between April 1938-August 1939 and utilized full page photo spreads, pointed graphics, and articles, opinion, and commentary by a variety of leftist writers and artists. The magazine is notable for having published fourteen [14] of Ernest Hemingway's dispatches from the Spanish Civil War, beginning with its first issue of April 7, 1938 [containing his anti-Mussolini article "The Time Now, The Place Spain"). Some issues also contain photographs later credited to Hemingway. All issues feature caricature and editorial cartoons by… Read More

“Rundschau” / Camp Myles Standish. Very good. 1945-46. 3 issues of German POW Newspaper “Rundschau” / Camp Myles Sta ndish, Mass. . 946 22 pp. . t. 8-1/2x11”. News summaries, essays, poems, camp announcement s, drawing-contest-winners' artwork, humor and puzzles . ndition: very good; toning as expected for pulp newspapers .

New Pearson's Magazine. 1923. 1st edition thus. "Holiday", a 3-page short story, is one of Hammett’s earliest w orks of fiction. It is not a crime story, but a sensitive vignett e, possibly autobiographical. War veteran Paul Hetherwick is a pa tient at Public Service Health Hospital in San Diego. He obtains a day pass, withdraws $100 from the bank, and catches a bus to Ti juana. He spends some time playing the ponies at the track and th en drinking with a couple of bar girls. With economical, prose Ha mmett lets us know that in addition to his lung disease, Paul is suffering from a bad case of ennui; he doesn’t care whether his horses pay off or if bar-girls drink up his money. He spends his last 45 cents in a lunchroom, and returns to his hospital in a f og. . over by Gellert. . in better condition. Covers present but detached, frayed on edge s. The text block in good condition with several chips on content s page; first and last pages partially… Read More

New York: Book People. 1975. A trade paperback magazine featuring work by Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Rexroth and others. Good; clean and tight but with A few small chips along edge of spine and she lf-wear at edges. .