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

[S.l.]: Department of Correction of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1929. 10 3/4 inches. 52 pp., containing numerous in-text photographic illustrations. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers miildly worn and toned, upper-outer corner bumped, else near fine. A 1929 illustrated catalog of goods manufactured by prisoners in Massachusetts for use in public institutions. The catalog opens with a printing of General Laws Chapter 127, Sections 53-60. Section 53 states, "The Commissioner shall, so far as possible, cause such articles and materials as are used in the offices, departments or institutions of the commonwealth and of the several counties, cities and towns to be produced by the labor of prisoners in the institutions named in section fifty-one." The articles and materials listed range from hosiery to children's cribs to manhole covers.

Toledo: E. G. Ashley, Grand Financial Secretary, 1907. 24 pp. including in-text figures and photographic portraits. Printed in red and black. 12mo. Original flexible black cloth, stamped in gilt. 3/4-inch closed tear in front free endpaper, else near fine. In addition to the directory, the volume includes an "early history" of the association, a "list of vessels of the Great Lakes, American and Canadian, with names and addresses of owners," "other information of a miscellaneous nature of interest in shipping circles in the Great Lakes," and scores of advertisements for marine suppliers in Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Milwaukee, and various other Great Lakes cities. Several of the different companies' advertisements contain wood-engraved or photographic views of their buildings, ships, or machinery. Scarce.

[New York: Grenfell Press], 1986. First Thus. Broadside. Fine. Jackson, Vanessa. Broadside, printed recto and verso, Approximately 10 x 16 inches. One poem facing one color woodcut print on each side, with "What the Pencil Writes" signed in pencil by Laughlin and facing print signed in pencil by Jackson. In English and French. Fine. Two-sided leaf printed by the Grenfell Press during its production of THE HOUSE OF LIGHT, a 1986 collaboration between poet and publisher James Laughlin (1914-1997) and British painter and printmaker Vanessa Jackson (b. 1953). As with the book, the broadside is printed on Rives paper, the text is set in hand-set Monotype Poliphilus, and the prints are made from the original blocks.

Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 1964. First Russian Book Edition. 351,[1] pp., with several in-text illustrations. Cloth-backed pictorial paper over boards. Early Russian ink inscription and inkstamp on rear pastedown. A few small scribbles in blue ink on covers and ink stains on cloth. Edges of boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked. Contents lightly toned, but surprisingly fresh for the quality of the paper. A good copy. The pirated first Russian book edition, after a 1963 appearance in the periodical INOSTRANAYA LITERATURA ("Foreign Literature") and a 1964 special separate issue of ROMAN-GAZETA ("Novel as Newspaper"). Like other books by foreign authors published in the USSR at the time, this edition is a piracy, with no royalties paid to the author. Nevertheless, it was a major undertaking, engaging major Russian literary talents of the day, with the still-authoritative translation by Nora Gal (1912-1991) and Raisa Oblonskaya (1924-2010), an introduction by celebrated literary critic Raisa Orlova… Read More

Dar es Salaam: Umoja Wa Wanawake Wa Tanzania (United Women of Tanzania), 1975. Pictorial broadside, 21 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches. In Swahili. Early horizontal crease, additional small creases near edges, mild soiling. Good. A rare poster, issued by the Umoja Wa Wanawake Wa Tanzania (UWT), celebrating the recent declaration of 1975-1985 as the United Nations Decade for Women and demanding equality, peace, and development ("usawa amani na maendeleo"). The UWT was created 1955 as the women's branch of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) and emerged in its current form in 1965, after the modern country of Tanzania was formed from the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. OCLC records no copies.

[San Marino, California]: [Huntington Library], 1939. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. [20] pp. Color gift-wrapping tissue over paper wrappers, side-stapled, letterpress label on front cover. 1939 Christmas Seal stamp below colophon. Small stains and light toning and wear in tissue, tiny stain at fore-edge of first three leaves, else near fine. Fourth issue of the annual Huntington Library Christmas party keepsake journal, which ran from 1936 to 1970. The running joke of the present issue was economic anixiety, with a dedication "to the proposition that just maybe perhaps it might possibly be better if this economy thing doesn't reach too far into the reading of proof" and the limitation statement, "This 'economy number' of the Quarterly was printed (sic) in 100 copies, from pie-eyed type" (the "sic" presumably refers to the mimeograph production of the booklet). Contents include a "Dead End Kids" take on the Three Bears, humorous poetry, jokes, and a crossword puzzle. Scarce, with OCLC… Read More

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1823. 24 pp. Original plain green wrappers, stitched. Contemporary ink ownership signature of "G. Bond" on front wrapper. Wrappers lightly chipped at spine ends and corners, light soiling to front wrapper and extreme fore-edge, else near fine. An anti-Calvinist pamphlet from the Unitarian Controversy of 1805-1835, insisting upon "right of thought" and separation of church and state as fundamentally Christian principles. The author targets Massachusetts's "orthodox party" of Congregationalist clergy as heirs to Constantine and Rome in their abuses of Christianity and mental enslavement of their churches' laity. Sabin attributes the work to John Lowell, Jr. (1769-1840), the prominent Federalist Massachusetts lawyer, prolific pseudonymous pamphleteer, and author several years earlier of "Are You a Christian or a Calvinist?" Sabin 42457.

[Cincinnati: Little Man Press], 1942. First Edition. Approximately 6 1/4 x 5 inches. [16] pp. Original pink pictorial wrappers, saddle stapled, in matching dust jacket. Some wear to jacket, with small abrasion in front panel (not affecting cover image), soft crease at upper edge. Very good to near fine. One of 300 copies printed from handset New Caslon type by Robert Lowry at The Little Man Press, with wood and linoleum designs by James Flora.