Search Results: Authors starting with B from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

[New York]: Uranian Press, 1962. First Edition. Broadside. Near fine. Baer, Dorothy [Tyler]. [ca. 1962]. Broadside, approximately 6½ x 5½ inches. Printed in red on green paper. Embossed with seal of Uranian Press in lower margin. Signatures of Dorothea Baer and Richard O. Tyler over rubber stamps of their monograms on verso. Faint toning at bottom edge, else fine. Small Uranian press broadside of the ancient Christian symbol of the fish, in a decorative border, signed in the print by Dorothea Baer Tyler with her "d.b.t." monogram. The caption prints, "ICHTHUS," the Greek word for fish, as an acronym for the Greek words for "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour." No date is provided for the print, but circa 1962 is likely; that year, "ichthus" was also printed on the cover of the Uranian Press's 1962 portfolio, 9 GNOSTIC TRACTS (there, in Greek letters), in red on green paper. Dorothea Baer Tyler frequently alternated, as she does here between the initials in the print and those in her monogram on the… Read More

Downpatrick, Northern Ireland: Dissident Editions, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Anthony Weir. [32] pp., including two full-page illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Minor abrasion in verso of front wrapper, else fine. Anthony Weir's 28-part poem, "Millennium Maggot," published "in honour of U.G. Krishnamurti / in memory of Vasko Popa (1922-1991) / and the canids of Kosova," with an epigram by Walter Benjamin, appears on versos. Individual poems by Tom Baer, including the title poem concerning his astonishment at the romantic attentions of "a madwoman" and two poems on the Glory Storefront Tabernacle in Edgewater, Florida, face Weir's work on rectos. Illustrated with two photographic illustrations by Weir.

[Massachusetts? ca. late 1880s]. Broadside, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Two neat vertical folds and one neat horizontal fold. Light contemporary pencil note ("What prizes & railroad facilities?") in lower margin. Half-inch closed tear in horizontal fold, not affecting text, else fine. Unrecorded broadside advertisement of agent M. J. Finn of Natick, Massachusetts, for a great variety of outdoor entertainments available for hire to fairs and other exhibitions. The broadside most significantly features T. S. Baldwin and his GRAND BALLOON ASCENSION AND JUMP FROM AN ALTITUDE OF 5000 FEET. Baldwin (1860-1923), a U.S. Army Major and pioneering aeronautical performer and engineer, designed and operated parachutes, balloons, and airplanes during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, creating the famous California Arrow dirigible, which was exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair, and numerous other flying machines, used variously for entertainment, military, and navigational purposes. Also advertised in… Read More

[New Haven], 1942. First Separate Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 9 pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Slight edgewear, else fine. Offprint from CONNECTICUT STATE MEDICAL JOURNAL, Vol. V., No. 12 (December, 1941). A narrative of the founding process of the Society from its precursors in Litchfield and New Haven counties to its charter and first meeting in 1792.

[Detroit]: The Glass Bell Press, 1974. First Separate Edition. Broadside. Fine. Broadside, 11 x 8 inches, printed on pale green paper. Fine. First separate edition of this portion of Ellen Bass's longer poem, "Japanese Notebooks," which was published a year earlier in her first collection of poetry, I'M NOT YOUR LAUGHING DAUGHTER. In 1973, Bass also co-published (with Florence Howe) NO MORE MASKS!, one of the first major anthologies of 20th-century women's poetry. Detroit's Glass Bell Press published poems by women from 1974 to 1979, largely in broadside form. In 1975, Glass Bell printed 10 broadsides for the portfolio collection, TEN MICHIGAN WOMEN POETS. The present broadside is one of nine Glass Bell printed in 1974 for which we have found records, but it remains unclear whether the 1974 broadsides were also intended to be issued as a collection. Scarce, with OCLC locating one copy, at Brown University.

[Brussels]: Ligue nationale belge contre le péril vénérien, 1929. Large octavo. 44 pp., containing eight in-text graphs, plus one double-page map. In French. Contemporary blue half morocco and marbled boards, stamped, ruled, and lettered in gilt, original stiff printed wrappers bound in. Spine lightly worn and sunned, light stain in upper margin of p. 23 (touching some text), else fine. An account of the progress of the Belgian National League Against the Veneral Perils fight against syphilis, by its president, Professor Adrien Bayet (1863-1935), delivered on December 8, 1928, and published in 1929. The League had held its first conference in the great hall of Brusellss Palais des Académies on October 8, 1922, with its founding patron, Elisabeth, Queen of Belgium, and various other dignitaries in attendance, to address the spread of syphilis in Belgium in the aftermath of the First World War. Six years later, Bayet delivered the speech printed here to report on the League's overwhelming success.… Read More

Plattsburgh [N.Y.]: Printed by F. P. Allen, 1833. 280 pp, including 3 wood-engraved figures in text. Original cloth-backed plain paper over boards, in modern cloth clamshell case. Bookplate of Jacob L. Chernovsky in case. Binding worn, joints cracked, leaves wrinkled, mold stains in outer leaves, contents mildly foxed. Good. "To the medical bibliographer there are few more treasured Americana than the brown-backed, poorly printed octavo volume of 280 pages with the imprint "Plattsburgh, Printed by F. P. Allan, 1833'" (Osler 1972). William Beaumont (1785-1853), the "Father of Gastric Physiology," was serving as a U.S. Army surgeon in the Michigan Territory in 1822 when he treated Alexis St. Martin, an 18-year-old French-Canadian guide who had been wounded in his left side by an accidental discharge of a musket loaded with duck shot. The wound healed but left a permanent fistula - a hole through which Beaumont would access St. Martin's stomach to study gastric juice and digestive processes over the… Read More

Toronto: Willing and Williamson, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. vii,183 pp. plus 20 mounted photographic plates (albumen prints) and 2 lithographic plates (including 1 map). Modern library label on front pastedown. Publisher's brown cloth, stamped pictorially in gilt, t.e.g. Binding bumped at sides and corners, rubbed at extremities; front hinge cracked, one plate neatly detached, some photographs faded, occasional light soiling and light scattered foxing. Overall very good, all tissue guards present. The author, Henry Cory Rowley Becher (1817-1885), was an English-born Canadian attorney, based for most of his career in London, Ontario. The present work, mostly a diary of his travels to and within Mexico in February and March, 1878, with an extensive appendix, was his only book. He was admiitted to the Royal Geographical Society in the year of its publication. The map shows the Mexican Railway in 1877, and the other lithographic plate depicts stone hieroglyphics at Copán and written… Read More

Amsterdam: Daniel van den Dalen, 1691-1693. Four books and one pamphlet in two volumes. Quarto. [4],[4],[16],138,[2];[8],262,[2];11; [8],32,188,[2];[6],277,[3] pp., including portrait frontipiece and facing description leaf in first volume and in-text illustration of the Oldenburg Horn on p. 141 of fourth book. Contemporary parchment, manuscript spine titles. Autograph signature of the author on half-title verso of first book, title-page verso of second book, and following the introductions of third and fourth books. Matching contemporary ownership inscriptions of C. V. D. Hell on title pages of first and third books; early ownership inscription of "[?]. [?]. v. d. Bosch" on front free endpaper of both volumes; 1961 gift inscription on front free title page of first volume; occasional contemporary underlining and marginalia throughout; booksellers' pencil notations in front and rear endpapers of both volumes. Boards bowed, parchment moderately soiled and, in first volume, turn-ins separating from… Read More

[S.l.: S.n.], [1805]. Broadside. Near fine. Engraving, 9 x 7 1/8 inches (plate area). In French. Faint early folds, very faint foxing in lower margin. Near fine. Portrait engraving of Philippe-François Bellanger, the "Lucky Blind Man," "drawn from life at the Conciergerie on the day of his ordeal." Bellanger (ca. 1740-1805) was a Parisian pyrothechnician who lost his sight detonating fireworks. He moved to the Quinze-Vingts hospital for the blind and soon became widely known as a bird trainer and vendor of French National Lottery tickets. At Quinze-Vingts, Bellanger became deeply attached to a young widow named Fanchette whom he had hired to care for him. When Fanchette began receiving marriage proposals from a young curiosities seller named Pinson, Bellanger became enraged at both the couple and Pinson's blind aunt, who supported their engagement, and he began plotting their murder. On February 25, 1805, Bellanger visited Fanchette and Pinson's aunt in the latter's room and sent Fanchette to… Read More

Brooklyn: Clown War, 1980. 5 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches. [16] pp., containing four illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers, saddle-stapled. Fine. Nine poems by leading member of the second generation of the New York School of poets, Ted Berrigan (134-1983), published in Bob Heman's CLOWN WAR series. The cover and contents contain five illustrations reproduced from Jan Vredeman de Vries's architectural work, PERSPECTIVE, first published in Leiden in 1604 and 1605. One of 500 copies. Clay & Phillips, p. 269 (CLOWN WAR series). Fischer, p. 25.

New York: Adventures in Poetry, Coach House South, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 135,[6] pp.Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers moderately rubbed, light creasing in upper-outer corner of front wrapper, else near fine. Published in a limited edition of 750 copies. "Larry Fagin notes that he published this book with David Rosenberg, who was then an editor at Coach House Press (Toronto). Rosenberg was living in New York at the time, hence the listing for Coach House Presss on the colophon. Compiler's collection inicludes the manuscript for this book, a paperback cowboy novel that Berrigan altered by 'writing through' in different-colored inks. According to Fagin, Berrigan used a copy of TWENTY NOTCHES by Max Brand. The front cover ... is a self-portrait of Berrigan ... the rear cover is a picture of a cheeseburger that has been cut out of a magazine and pasted down. Alice Notley adds, Ted liked the idea of 'the range' being a stove and proceeded from there" - Aaron Fischer, TED BERRIGAN… Read More

Paris: Chez l'auteur... Laurent d'Houry... Jean Boudot, libraire..., 1699. 12mo. [18],300;112 pp. plus 26 plates (three folding). Contemporary speckled calf, spine richly gilt, gilt leather label, raised bands, edges rouged. Light institutional inkstamp in title page. 18th-century inscription in titlepage and signature of Theophile Leonard in title page and final page of the dedication. Occasional 18th-century marginalia. Minor wear. Near fine. First edition of the first major work of Nicolas Bion, complete with 26 plates of terrestrial and celestial maps, diagrams, and images of globes. Bion (ca. 1652-1733) was a Paris-based cosmographer and maker of mathematical and astronomical instruments, holding the title of "king's engineer for mathematical instruments" under Louis XIV (DSB II, pp. 132-1330). A landmark in its field.

[Detroit]: The Glass Bell Press, 1974. First Separate Edition. Broadside. Fine. Broadside, 11 x 8 inches, printed on red paper. Fine. Broadside poem, translated from the Greek, by Greek-born American poet, Lili Bita. Detroit's Glass Bell Press published poems by women from 1974 to 1979, largely in broadside form. In 1975, Glass Bell printed 10 broadsides for the portfolio collection, TEN MICHIGAN WOMEN POETS. The present broadside is one of nine Glass Bell printed in 1974 for which we have found records, but it remains unclear whether the 1974 broadsides were also intended to be issued as a collection. Scarce, with OCLC locating one copy, at Brown University.

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1945. xi,309,[1] pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine titled in gold, in pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Jacket lightly rubbed, lightly worn at extremities, else near fine. Near fine in a near fine jacket. The full first book (preceded by a 40-page pamphlet) by H. P. Lovecraft protégé and author of PSYCHO, Robert Bloch, containing 21 short stories of fantasy and horror. With a dust jacket illustration and design by Ronald Clyne. One of 2065 copies printed. DERLETH 10.

Kathmandu, Nepal: Bardo Matrix [at Sharada Printing Press], 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Maya, Lee Baarslag, Dana Young, Sydney Hushhour, Petra Vogt. [13] ff. (rectos only) including in-text designs and illustrations and mounted photograph. Original pictorial wrappers, side-stitched. Near fine. Bardo Matrix's STARSTREAMS Poetry Series No. 5, numbered 208 of an edition of 500 copies. Ira Cohen published under the Bardo Matrix imprint throughout the 1970s in Kathmandu, collaborating with Angus Maclise and other fellow expatriates with the help of Nepali craftsmen and woodblock artsts. In his account of the press he wrote for the May/June 1995 issue of NEW OBSERVATIONS, "The Great Rice Paper Adventure Kathmandu, 1972-1977," Cohen highlights the process and production of NEXT TO NOTHING: "In 1976 Paul Bowles sent me his poem, Next to Nothing, written specially for Bardo Matrix. Although I knew that Paul expressed a preference for an unadorned presentation of the text with little or no… Read More

[London]: Lowndes, Printer, [1808]. Broadside, approximately 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, untrimmed. Portion of bottom line of text unprinted. Small remnants of paper tape on verso, else fine. Broadside advertising the twelfth performance of the opera, KAIS, OR, LOVE IN THE DESERTS, at Drury Lane, starring and produced by the renowned English tenor, John Braham. John Braham (ca. 1774-1856) rose from poverty and orphanhood in London to the heights of European opera, where he celebrated as one of the great voices of his age. As a British Jew, he also represented a major shift in Jewish status and social potential in the late Georgian era, becoming not only an artist of acclaim but also eventually the father-in-law of several English aristocrats. KAIS was based on the ancient Arabian love story of Layla and Majnun, which had been adapted into a famous work by Persian Poet Nizami Ganjavi in the 12th century, which in turn became the source for numerous later poets and mystics throughout the Middle East and… Read More

New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1971. 11 inches. [7]/[6] leaves, printed recto only. Pictorial covers, two sections side-stapled dos-à-dos. Quarter-inch hole in lower panel of first leaf of SUFFERIN' SUCCOTASH, very light dust-soiling to wrappers, else near fine. Lettered "R" of 26 copies signed by Joe Brainard, Michael Brownstein, and Ron Padgett (of a larger first edition of 300). Two works in cartoon style, drawn by Brainard and written by Brownstein and Padgett. Clay and Phillips, p. 195.

Calais, Vermont: Z Press, 1975. [12] postcards, 4 x 6 inches, each bearing a different illustration by Joe Brainard, in original printed envelope. Postcards fine, in a scuffed and lightly soiled envelope. Very good to near fine.

[New York]: Angel Hair Books, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 11 inches tall. [12] pp. Pictorial wrappers, saddle-stapled. Inscribed, "For Jon," and signed by Brownstein on the publisher's page. Light wear, near fine. One of 737 unnumbered copies (of 750 total), printed for Angel Hair Books by Chapel Press in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Michael Brownstein's first collection of prose poems, three "tantrums" - expressions of rage alluding to (and contrasting with) the Hindo-Buddhist practices of Tantra. The first, "Monkey Blues," addresses the anguish of a circus monkey named Julian, who must work extra hours in humiliating jobs away from the big top to support his self-absorbed cynical junkie owner. In the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE NEW YORK SCHOOL POETS, Terence Diggory describes Michael Brownstein (born 1943) as 'convey[ing] Beat vision with New York School speed." After moving to New York in 1965, Brownstein quickly became involved with the Lower East Side poetry scene, becoming a… Read More