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New York: Published for the New York School of Social Work by Columbia University Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. vii,[1],142 pp. Contemporary red morocco-backed red cloth, raised bands, spine gilt. t.e.g. Front free endpaper inscribed and signed by the author. Half-inch water stain in front board, some wear to joints, small stains in front endpapers, occasional leaves creased at corners. Very good. Amy Gordon Hamilton (generally known simply as "Gordon Hamilton") (1892-1967) was an influential social work practitioner, educator, and writer, based for most of her career at the New York School of Social Work (now Columbia School of Social Work). She warmly inscribes the present volume in the year of publication, "To Stan | For whom the Recording Angel should hold no terrors - with love | Gordon Hamilton | December 1946." The identity of "Stan" is unknown, but the fine binding suggests the importance of the work and its author to the original owner.

New York: VVV, 1944. 11 inches. 86,[12] pp. including numerous in-text images, plus 7 tinted half-page plates and double-leaf work comprising 2 tinted plates, the first die-cut to reveal the second, which is also embossed. In English and French. Light soiling in covers, light foxing in outer leaves, some offsetting in and from plates. Very good to near fine. The substantial fourth and final issue of the important U.S.-based Surrealist magazine, with contributions by more than two dozen artists, poets, and scholars in the realms of myth, dream, and theory. Among the visual pieces in this issue is Duchamp's ALLEGORIE DE GENRE, in which an embossed plate showing strips of fabric containing slivered stars and red bloody stripes is framed by a blue-tinted plate die-cut in the profile of George Washington. The final twelve pages, printed on green paper, contain an index of contributors to all four issues of the magazine. The cover features an image of a vagina dentata by Roberto Matta.

Dallas: Fikes Hall of Special Collections and DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 28 pp., including illustrations. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. Catalog of an exhibition of the Robert O. Harris Whitman collection at Fikes Hall of Special Collections, Southern Methodist University, 1987.

Paris: Fr. Horth-hemels, 1730. Hardcover. Very good. [10],246 pp. plus frontispiece and two folding tables. In Latin. Early three-quarter vellum and speckled paper over boards, raised bands, manuscript paper title and shelf labels. Early shelf number inscription in front free endpaper, light institutional inkstamp in title page. Lightly rubbed, extremities worn. Very good. George Ernest Stahl’s influential Latin edition of Gideon Harvey’s ARS CURANDI MORBOS EXPECTATIONE (first published in English in 1689). Stahl published both ARS CURANDI and his own critical response, ARS SANANDI CUM EXPECTATIONE, with a combined title page under the heading, SILENI ALCIBIADIS. The present example corresponds with Waller 4082: Harvey’s work alone, issued with the combined title and without a separate ARS CURANDI title leaf. Gideon Harvey (ca. 1640 – ca. 1700) served as physician to Charles II and “physician of the tower” to William and Mary. Despite his connection to the Crown, Harvey was never a member… Read More

[German Democratic Republic: s.n., ca. 1982]. Poster, 81 x 57 cm. Offset print in blue, black, white, and yellow. Minor tears and wear at edges, else near fine. "No more teeth for this hyena." Early-1980s anti-American East German protest poster adapted from John Heartfield's 1932 photomontage, KRIEG UND LEICHEN - DIE LETZTE HOFFNUNG DER REICHEN ("War and corpses - The last hope of the rich") depicting a snarling hyena in a top hat. The poster replaces the hyena's teetch with white missiles and adds the caption, "USA-Raketen aus Westeuropa raus!" ("USA missiles out of western Europe!"). A rare survival.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. [12],654,[1] pp. Publisher's cloth-backed paper over boards in original dust jacket. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Boards bumped and lightly scuffed at head and tail, jacket worn at extremities, with minor chipping at head of spine panel, lightly scratched in rear panel. Very good in a good dust jacket. The autobiography of journalist, novelist, dramatist, and propagandist Ben Hecht, whom Pauline Kael called "the greatest American screenwriter," with accounts of Chicago, Hollywood, pre-war Germany, and the Zionist insurgency against the U.K. in Mandatory Palestine.

Denver: Bowery Press, 1969. First Edition. Broadside. Near fine. Broadsheet, approximately 17 x 11 inches, printed (both sides) on gray paper. Original horizontal fold for distribution, minor wear at fold and corners. Near fine. The first separately-published work by Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941), one of the Language movement's founding figures, containing 11 poems.

[Jackson, Mississippi]: [Journal of Mississippi History], 1951. [13] pp. Self-wrappers, saddle-stapled. Lightly creased in upper margin, else fine. Offprint from THE JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI HISTORY, April, 1951. An paper on the lives and careers of Confederate military and political leaders from Mississippi after the Civil War, including Jefferson Davis, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, James L. Alcorn, Henry Stuart Foote, Francis Asbury Shoup, Stephen Dill Lee, and various others. The article concludes with the observation that "[i]n the years following Appomattox these men of ability regained their positions of leadership in the political, religious, educational and cultural life of the State .... [t]hose who fought under the Southern Cross remained to help and rebuild the state and to direct its destiny." The authors, William B. Hesseltine (1902-1963) and Larry Gara (1922-2019) co-wrote several articles together during at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, Hesseltine served on the faculty and Gara received… Read More

[California, Pennsylvania]: [Arthur & Kit Knight], 1981. 5 1/2 inches. [20] pp., photographic image of Holmes's house mounted to page [3]. Original printed wrappers, saddle-stapled. Light dust soiling in wrappers, light wrinkling in second leaf from mounting glue, else fine. Numbered 141 of 750 copies and signed by the author. Four previously unpublished journal entries reflecting on the death of and three visits by Jack Kerouac to the Old Saybrook, Connecticut, home of the author, John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988), his close friend, known widely as the "quiet Beat" and author of the first Beat novel (GO [1952]). The first visit, "in 1957 occurred seven months before the publication of On the Road. The second entry, 1962, suggests the inroads that 'Beat' notoreity had made on Jack's personal life and character. The third, 1965 portrays something of the autumnal Jack (lonely and played-out) of the last years. The fourth, in 1969, records some of my emotion on hearing of his sudden death" (pp. [6-7]).… Read More