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(Women's Peace Movement) THYBJERG (Clara) LECTURE SLIDES by Women's Peace Movement co-founder Clara Thybjerg [Tybjerg]. Collection of 240 double-glass negatives depicting images of World WAR I (soldiers and ruined cities), and the Women's International Peace Movement and it's activities. Measuring 3-1/4 x 3-1/4 inches (approximately

(GOLD MINES) ORTON (James): UNDERGROUND TREASURES: How and Where to Find Them. A Key for the ready determination of all the useful minerals within the United States. Hartford Conn: Worthington Dustin, 1872. Six page illustrations, including an illuminated gold nugget (California) on its pictorial half-title. 8vo, 137pp; original cloth with gilt-stamped pictorial title on front… Read more about this item

MOTION PICTURE LIBRARY issues # 1 thru 18. [? Tokyo, 1946]. Casablanca * Here Comes Mr Jordan * Tales of Manhattan * Our Vines Have Tender Grapes * Moontide * Rhapsody in Blue * Random Harvest * Jane Eyre * All This and Heaven… Read more about this item

(Game of the Goose) Poesies sur la Constitution Unigenitus. Recueillies par le Chevalier de G..., Officier de Regiment de Champagne. Villefranche [i.e. Amsterdam]: Chez Philalete Belhumeur, 1724. Two volumes. Illustrated with duplicate frontispieces, title-vignettes and many decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. 8vo., i, i, xxiv 317 pp. – i, i, 389 pp.; uniform polished tree-calf, extra-gilt,… Read more about this item

GOREY (Edward): Black Doll New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973 A Few Frames from the BLACK DOLL, comprising eight mounted photographs by Tom Parrish, each picture signed by the photographer and dated '75 - '76. Square quarto, [8] ff. + index; original stiff marbled paper with a typed title label on upper cover. Created as a promotional presentation for making the film version of "The… Read more about this item

LEGER (Fernand), illustrator; GOLL (Iwan): Die Chapliniade. Eine Kinodichtung. Dresden: Rudolf Kaemmerer Verlag, 1920. Small 4to, original pictorial boards after design by Hans Blanke. PRESENTATION COPY of this 'cinepoem' based upon Chaplin's 'Little Tramp' character, illustrated with 4 cubist style designs by Fernand Leger. See Artist and the Book #236

Arabic Satirical Magazine SANUA (James) [Known as Abou Naddara] Ya'qub Rufa'il Sanu' (1839-1912): Abou-Naddara (Organe de la Jeunesse d'Egypte). Paris, 1880-1882. 41 issues, 4to (27 x 21.6 cm), comprising: Le Flûtiste, nos. 1-3 (each 2ff), 4 June – 20 June 1880, in Arabic; La Clarinette (Aby Zammara), nos. 1-3 (each 2ff), 12 July – 27 August 1880, in Arabic; Le Charmeur (Al-Hawi), nos.… Read more about this item

(BOOK ODDITY) Revelations of My Friends. London: Dow & Lester, Foresters' Hall Place, [London} E.C.1, undated but with vintage inscription on front free endpaper dated 1922. Small printed vignettes and ink sketches throughout. 12mo, [52]ff; thin leather with blind pictorial design on upper cover, gilt-titled on front cover and spine (edges rubbed). A word-game book… Read more about this item

McCAY (Winsor) [1866–1934] Little Nemo in Slumberland: Santa Hunts for Little Nemo or else Christmas would need to be postponed. TWO sequential original Colored Printer's Proof Sheets for The New York Herald Sunday Pages 1907, each dated respectively "Dec. 15 '07" and "Dec. 22 '07" in pencil at upper right margin Captioned in 6 and 8 numbered panels, printed… Read more about this item

HAIR. The American Tribal Love Rock Musical by Gerome Ragni and James Rado. Original typescript created prior to off-Broadway production by Studio Duplicating Service Inc (446 West 44th Street, NYC), title gilt-stamped and recessed on upper cover, title-page "copyright 1966" listing contact details for Authors and Producer, collates [i], 1-45, 2-27, bound in teal cartridge wrappers with double-rivets, small… Read more about this item

SZPILMAN (Wladyslaw): [The Pianist] Śmierć miasta ("Death of a City"). Warsaw, 1946. 8vo, pictorial paper wrappers. The memoir written by the Polish musician of Jewish origin who survived the German deportations of Jews to extermination camps, the 1943 destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II. Szpilman wrote his memoir in 1945, shortly after the war's end which was… Read more about this item

BILL CLINTON 1993 INAUGURAL PRINT signed by MAURICE SENDAK SENDAK (Maurice): "HAPPY INAUGURATION ... A Jubilee Welcome for Our New President and His Family! From the Children of America, Maurice Sendak, and Harper Collins Publishers January 20, 1993". SIGNED. Original art print on semi-stiff paper, the design by Maurice Sendak and commissioned by his publishers… Read more about this item

(Black Interest - Racist) COUSIN KEN: The Ten Little Seaside Nigger Boys. [London:] Renwick of Otley, ca.1930s.Publisher's address given as: 180 Fleet Street E.C.4 = London 16 leaves of ink page mock-up pre-production for the book, comprising manuscript text and illustrations, 6 with color plate separations plus 1 full ink (British Production) and watercolor design for the cover. Loose. Some pages signed "Ken".

NICHOLSON (William) [1872–1949] Four original hand-colored Prints from Twelve Portraits (London: Heinemann, 1899) Lord RobertsThe Archbishop of CanterburySir Henry HawkinsCecil Rhodes Printed from the Original woodblock, hand-colored by the artist Mounted on card, signed and dated in pen and ink on lower left Measures 10-1//16 x 9 inches From a series of portraits for the portfolio of twelve portraits, Limited edition of 40 copies

(AMERICAN INDIAN) Handbook of Indian Dances I. New Mexico Pueblos. By Dorothy N. Stewart. Santa Fe, NM: Pictograph Press, 1950. Indian Ceremonial Dances of the Southwest. 8vo., [16] ff., pictorial wrappers. Original edition with 8 color block serigraph prints.

(Baseball: Babe Ruth) SPENCER (J[ames]) W and ALFORD (Harry L): Babe Ruth! Babe Ruth! (We Know What He Can Do) Olneyville, RI: J W Spencer, (1928).4to, pictorial wrappers Sheet Music

First edition of this influential and extensive study of the communitarian ideal in the United States. Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) emigrated to the United States as a child, and went on to have a varied career as sailor, journalist and writer. His grandson Charles Bernard Nordhoff is the famous historian of the Bounty. In The Communistic Societies of the United States,… Read more about this item

(Christopher COLUMBUS) The History of America. London: W. Wetton, circa 1830. Small 8vo, 176pp + [4] adverts, listing this title as number 15 (of 22); original gilt leather-backed marbled boards, the spine titled "Columbus". Rare juvenile biography of Christopher Columbus, of which there is apparently no copy in OCLC.

(Murder Trial) Account of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare ... the coroner's inquest, the trials of the prisoners, and the execution. By George Henry Jones. London, 1824. With 3 landscapes + 2 folding plates finely lithographed by C J Hullmandel. 8vo, [iv]+344pp; half-leather marbled boards, spine label "Thurtell's Trial" (lightly scuffed), very solid and clean throughout. First edition. William Weare was a solicitor… Read more about this item

(Sherlock Holmes) An iconic souvenir of Basil RATHBONE (1892-1967) British Actor, famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in a number of films, and Nigel BRUCE (1895-1953) British Character Actor, famous for his portrayal of Dr. Watson alongside Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Very rare vintage and iconic signed and inscribed photograph by both Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce individually, measures… Read more about this item