Search Results: Titles starting with S from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

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.

Grand Rapids, Mi.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 72 pp. including one full-page illustration. Publisher's brown textured paper over boards, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, else fine. An eschatological exploration of Biblical prophecies relating to Zionism and the coming Jewish rule of Palestine by American fundamentalist evangelist Harry Rimmer (1890-1952). An interesting feature of Rimmer's predictions is his conclusion that the Dead Sea will provide the government of Israel with vast and immediate wealth in the chemical deposits of the Dead Sea, which will play a role in the apocalypse: "It is largely because of this vast wealth that Russia and her godless allies will invade that devoted land, just at the dawn of That Day when Jesus shall come again. This will be the reason for the storm of battle that shall yet break over Palestine, the last conflict before the setting up of the Kingdom of Heaven and the restoration of Israel to her ancient place as… Read More

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

New York: [Privately published], 1995. First Edition. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. [4] leaves (printed recto only). Red printed wrappers, side stapled. Original horizontal fold, else fine. Three New York City-based concretist poems by Eli Wilentz (1918-1995), photocopied from his own manuscripts and privately issued by his family on the occasion of his death. Wilentz founded the legendary Eighth Street Bookshop with his brother Ted in 1947 and owned and operated it until 1979. It was a center of the Beat scene in the 1950s and 1960s - "the very hearthside of hip, the cynosure of cool," as the NEW YORK TIMES called it in Wilentz's obituary. The shop provided a critical meeting space in New York to struggling poets and avant-garde authors, a daring commitment to stocking paperback books and mimeo publications, and, eventually, a publishing arm, Corinth Books. Wilentz had major interests in sculpture, architecture, and the literary geography of New York City, all of which are reflected - in either form or topic -… Read More

New York: Van Norden & Amerman, Printers, 1847. 24 pp. Publisher's printed wrappers (both wrappers printed recto and verso). Wrappers creased and lightly chipped. 3/4-inch stain in rear wrapper. Foxing throughout. Good. Second edition of the first biography of Tom Thumb (after the first of 1846), with a pictorial advertisment on the rear wrapper of Barnum's American Museum, where the pamphlet was sold. "General Tom Thumb" was Charles Stratton (1838-1883), a little person from Bridgeport, Connecticut, who became the one of P. T. Barnum's biggest talents and one of the 19th-century's most beloved celebrities. The present edition is updated with American press accounts of Stratton's 1847 return from his recent first European tour and visits to Washington, D.C., Richmond, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.

New York: Burns Archive Press, 2002. Folio. [186] pp., including numerous black-and-white and color photographic illustrations. In English and French. Black cloth, stamped in silver, in matching black dust jacket. Signed by Stanley B. Burns on the title page and inscribed to Johnny Fox and Valeria Duarte on facing page, "Presented To Johnny & Val & The Freakatorium fellow affectionatos of the Macabre Stanley B. Burns at N.A.C. Lecture Nov 21, 2002." Light toning at edges of outer leaves. Dust jacket rubbed and lightly nicked. Near fine in a very good to fine dust jacket. The second book of the Burns Archive's SLEEPING BEAUTY series, documenting the its collection of bereavement photography, from 19th-century daguerreotypes of port-mortem portraits to walls of missing persons fliers in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. This copy was inscribed to Johnny Fox and his wife at the time, Valeria Duarte, in the year of publication. Johnny Fox (1953-2017) was a celebrated American sword swallower,… Read More

[London, 1968]. Folio (14 x 11 1/4 inches). [1],1-117 pp. Manuscript sheet music, inscribed and signed on the final page by the composer, "End | London 7 April 1968 | Tyringham-Cleveland-London 1966-1968 | John Stewart McLennan." Occasional manuscript corrections in pencil. In cardboard plastic-comb binder, manuscript paper cover label. Covers moderately worn, nearly all of binding comb perished. Contents toned, especially at edges, else fine. Overall very good. Original holograph musical score for the unpublished SONATA FOR ORGAN, by 20th-century American composer John Stewart McLennan, Jr. (1903-1996). McLennan was the son of the Canadian senator of the same name (1853-1939) and the American writer Grace Seeley Henop Tytus McLennan (1875-1928). He was born in Tyringham, Massachusetts, at Ashintully, his maternal family's estate. He acquired that property in 1937 and lived there for the remainder of his life. After the estate's Georgian-style mansion was destroyed by fire in 1952, McLennan moved into… Read More

Paris: United Nations Educational [Unesco], 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Quarto. 27,[1] pp. including in-text illustrations. Covers toned, lightly foxed. Very good. Fourth part of Unesco's Division of Museums and Historic Monuments' MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS five-part series. The volume reports on Unesco' second mission concerning the preservation and restoration of historic buildings: this concerning Yugoslavia's early medieval Church of St. Sophia in Ochrida (Ohrid), Macedonia. The author, Ferdinand Forlati (1882-1975), was an important Italian architect and civil engineer, responsible for the restoration of many of the Veneto region's architectural landmarks.

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. [5],208,[1] pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine titled in gilt, in pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on dedication leaf verso. Jacket lightly rubbed, else fine. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Warmly inscribed by the author to a fellow World War I veteran and alumnus of the American Expeditionary Forces University at Beaune, France, "For Red & Elizabeth Palmer with good wishes & Affectionate Thoughts & Memories of A.E.F. [i.e., American Expeditionary Forces] University Beaune - Beaune - pas bon Beaune! E. Hoffmann Price also known as Tao Fan| Mar 12 1969," and signed with a stamp of his Chinese chop. The first hardcover collection of the author's short stories. Jacket designed by Lee Brown Coye. 2007 copies printed. Derleth 93. Jaffery 100.

[Late 1940s]. Watercolor and ink on paper. Image approximately 2 1/3 x 1 1/2 inches, sheet 4 2/3 x 3 1/4 inches. Paper toned, faint one-inch crease at left edge. An unpublished, unrecorded work, circa late 1940s, of a gentleman walking in night clothes with his eyes closed. The figure is rendered in a style anticipating the look of Mr. Earbrass, the protagonist of Edward Gorey's 1953 first novel, THE UNSTRUNG HARP, and other "Earbrass-type" figures of the early 1950s.