Social Movements
A Petition for Haight Street
San Francisco: Communication Company, [1967]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, mimeographed from typescript. A rare petition handbill printed by the Communication Company, calling for Haight Street be closed to vehicular traffic from Stanyan Street to Masonic Street during the weekends to ease overcrowding. Given that most examples would likely have..... More
Order of Maximilian. To the Oneness of All in One
San Francisco: Order of Maximilian, c. 1970]. Single sheet folded twice to make a 3 panel leaflet. Offset printed on orange paper. Prospectus outlining the aims of the conscientous objector and anti-war group, named after the 3rd century Roman saint and martyr Maximilian of Tebessa, and composed largely of clergymen..... More
Registration Form for Freedom to Love: A Course On Sex and Life for Young People
New York: The School of Living / The New York City League For Sexual Freedom, nd. 8 1/2 x 11" leaflet, mimeographed from typescript on recto only. With a handwritten note in blue ink at upper margin; "Tuli spoke at this and asked us." Original leaflet for this early seminar sponsored..... More
Der Marsch ins Reich der Caoba
Zurich, Vienna, Prague: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1933. First edition. 8vo, 254 pp, bound in full slate blue cloth with red blind-stamped titles. Printed dust jacket. The first edition of the third book in the Mahogany series, and the first book published by the Buchergilde Gutenberg following the seizure of the Berlin..... More
88a in Aktion, oder, Wie man Bücher verbrennt ohne sich die Finger schmutzig zu machen. Dokumentation zu den Staatsschutzaktionen gegen den linken Buchhandel
Frankfurt: Verband des Linken Buchhandels, 1976. 4to, 48 + 12 pp, perfect bound in photographically illustrated wraps. Text in German. A compilation of articles from the underground press, newsclippings, and other texts about attacks on leftist bookshops in Germany. A valuable reference for German bookstore history as well as a...... More
Kampfreime
Hamburg: [Quer-Verlag], 1968. First edition. Oblong 16mo. Mimeographed on white paper, with red card section dividers. Stapled into red wraps, which are tipped into aluminium boards with red tape. Illustrated title pastedown to front panel. Perhaps the first book ever to be designed as a weapon. Kampfreime is a collection..... More
Trop Tard! Tous les soirs, a la tombee de la nuit...
[Paris]: Ministere de la Defense Nationale de la Guerre, c. 1940. 5 1/4 x 9" sheet, offset printed on newsprint. A strikingly designed leaflet distributed to French citizens to keep it dark at night to reduce visibility from the air during bombings, illustrated with a stark and powerful illustration of..... More
Alcatraz is Not An Island
Np: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 " broadside, letterpress printed with Cheltenham type. Of three paper variants, this example is on light green paper stock. Among the earliest ephemera from the press, dating from the Collins St. days. The simple design gives the text, a powerful manifesto..... More
Ed Davis & S. I. Hayakawa
[San Francisco]: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 5 1/2 x 7" broadside, linocut and zinc block print on fluorescent crack-n-peel sticker backing. Illustrated with a found zinc block print of a photograph of S. I. Hayakawa and Mickey Mouse, who is here identified in the caption as Ed Davis, who was the chief..... More
Ed Davis & S. I. Hayakawa
[San Francisco]: [Zephyrus Image], nd. Approximately 5 1/2 x 7" die-cut broadside, linocut and zinc block print on fluorescent crack-n-peel sticker backing. Illustrated with a found zinc block print of a photograph of S. I. Hayakawa and Mickey Mouse, who is here identified in the caption as Ed Davis, who was..... More
Emergency Equipment
Np: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 ", broadside on red crack and peel paper with backing still intact. Peter Howard, in the Serendipity Books catalog of the Holbrook Teter archive (no. 43), suggests that this was directed at the Republican culture of fear, and that "one can..... More
Emergency Equipment
Np: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 ", broadside on red crack and peel paper with backing still intact. Of two known variants, this is the one printed on white paper. Peter Howard, in the Serendipity Books catalog of the Holbrook Teter archive (no. 43), suggests that this..... More