Standard Games of Solitaire [Little Blue Book No. 1747]
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled beige-orange wraps printed in black. Fine. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled beige-orange wraps printed in black. Fine. More
Bolinas: 1973. 5 x 8", broadside, letterpress on cream paper. This, an undistributed copy without the wrappers which were present on distributed copies. Fine. More
Black Mountain, NC: Black Mountain College, 1954. 8vo, 64 pp, illustrated wraps. The second issue, of seven eventually published, of the central organ of Black Mountain College. This issue includes early work by Paul Blackburn, Charles Olson's essay on Mayan heads, accompanied by photographic plates, and other contributions from Toda..... More
Waco, TX: Judson Crews, 1937. 4to, unpaginated, mimeographed from typescript and side-staled into offset printed wraps. With a signed linoleum block print by Glen Stirling stapled in. A very early magazine, perhaps the first, to be published by Judson Crews, the American Pessoa, while he was attending Baylor University in..... More
np: The Artist, 2009. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Limited edition artist book / zine, one of only 40 numbered copies. Fine. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in brown striped wraps. Gibbs 1729, the variation noted, with the LBB (2) binding with variant typeface on the striped paper. An Address by Robert Cromie, Editor of the Vancouver Sun, to the Engineering Institute, Board of Trade Luncheon, Wednesday, January 18, 1933, Vancouver..... More
London: Cabinet Gallery, 1996. 11 1/2 x 16" poster, folded twice and housed with the press release in the original mailing envelope addressed to Simon Ford. The Poster Invitation to the Private View of the 1996 exhibition Deep Sky and Planetary Drawings. Fine in a near fine envelope. More
London: O.T.O., 1937. 4to, v, 137 + [1] pp, + [65] facsimile manuscript sheets laid in at rear, with errata slip tipped in facing p. [138] listing 17 items. With cancel slip to title page changing the date to 1937, with the High Holborn address. Fore edges of text untrimmed..... More
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1978. Sixth printing. 8vo, 196 pp, bound in black cloth titled in gilt at the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. The sixth printing, from 1978, and now somewhat hard to find in cloth. Top edge a bit dusty, else fine, in a jacket that is well rubbed..... More
San Francisco: Level Press, 1973. 8vo, 220 pp, illustrated wrappers. The third edition from the press, with a one pp. anonymous introduction added. Spine creased, wraps and edges of text block a little dusty and thumbed, but very good. More
Montreal: Next Step Publications, 1972. First North American edition. 8vo, 326 pp, bound in red cloth titled in gilt. In the publisher's original dust jacket. With fraternal rubberstamp to fep. The first Canadian edition, and first North American edition, edited and annotated by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant. Edges of..... More
Dallas: Sangreal Foundation, 1972. First edition thus. 8vo, 261 pp, bound in blue boards titled in gilt. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket. With an introduction by Israel Regardie. A couple small stains to endpapers, paper lightly toned, but square, tight, and very good or better, in a very good unclipped jacket..... More
np: Xeno Publishing Company, 1970. Second printing. 8vo, 44 pp, saddle-stapled in card wraps illustrated in color. Second printing of the edition that first appeared in 1967, and which, according to Wasserman, laid the foundation for the Crowley resurgence in the wake of the Summer of Love There are at..... More
np: Xeno Publishing Company, 1970. Second printing. 8vo, 44 pp, saddle-stapled in yellow card wraps. Second printing of the edition that first appeared in 1967, and which, according to Wasserman, laid the foundation for the Crowley resurgence in the wake of the hippie movement. There are at least two versions..... More
New York: Broadside, 1962. 4to, 9 leaves mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, and side-stapled into a mimeographed card cover sheet. With a Folklore Center rubberstamp to cover. Very early issue of the legendary little magazine devoted to the nascent 1960's folk scene. This issue prints the poem "Talking 1962..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled green wraps titled in black, with printing slug to back cover. One of the scarcer books in the series, and a superb one, written by Jim Thompson's mentor, and author of the Rideout novels The Green Corn Rebellion and Pretty Boy. "Erotic enjoyment is..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1928. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps (2 staples). Gibbs 1283, first record printing, in first wrapper state. One of the scarcer books in the series, and a superb one, written by Jim Thompson's mentor, and author of the Rideout novels The Green Corn Rebellion and Pretty Boy. "Erotic enjoyment..... More
Halifax: Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, 1971. 3 7/8 x 8 1/2" postcard, offset printed on white coated card stock and photographically illustrated at recto. Artist's postcard issued is conjunction with the 1971 installation at NSCAD. Addressed and postmarked at recto, with artists' name written by previous owner..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1991. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Illustrated in black and white. Fama & Fortune was an artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue..... More
Milano: Flash Art Edizioni, 1973. First edition. Oblong 4to, [35] pp, printed from the artists' holograph on rectos only and perfect bound in printed wrappers. One of an edition of 2000 copies. Early artists' book by Darboven. Wraps and page edges toned, with some minor indenting and creasing to wraps..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1929. 32mo, cream saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 1424, in the LBB(2) binding with the variant typeface - the earliest printing recorded by Gibbs, and likely a first edition. Darrow's account of his questioning of William Jennings Bryan in the 1925 Scopes evolution trial, as part of his defense..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in green wraps. Gibbs 509b, first noted variation, in the LBB (2) blue-green binding. Very good with some fading to margins and light rubbing to spine ends. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1925. 32mo, saddle-stapled in wraps. Gibbs 911, in the unusual first noted variation, with pp. 57-64 blank, and in the LBB (2) binding. Increasingly debatable. Near fine with fading to the wraps. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled blue wraps printed in black. Illustrated with frontispiece portraits of both authors. Gibbs 883, second noted variation with the copyright date removed. The wrappers, however, appear to be a variant not noted by Gibbs, in the LBB(2) binding but with no union slug to..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1925. 32mo, saddle-stapled [2 staples] in white wraps with a green crosshatch pattern. Gibbs 1637, second noted variation, in the second noted wrapper variation (green crosshatch). With an interesting ownership notation in ink to title page, noting that the book had been purchased in 1979 from the..... More