New York: Mr. Romance, c. 1960's. 8vo, single sheet folded once to make a 4 pp. booklet. A leaflet advertising a computer dating service based out of New York City, at 1245 Amsterdam Ave, aimed speficially at college students. The booklet states that "MR. ROMANCE began at Columbia University. It..... More
New York: 1964. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4" handbill, printed on pink paper stock. Illustrated with a small photograph of Mamie Smith. The handbill for this January 27, 1964 memorial tribute concert for Mamie Smith organized by the great Victoria Spivey. Performers listed include Buddy Tate's Band, Jimmy Rushing, Lucille..... More
![Item #30224 Broadway Gangsters and Their Rackets [Little Blue Book No. 1418]. Samuel Marx](/pictures/thumb/30224.jpg?v=1656715863)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled brown wraps. Gibbs 1418, variation, third noted binding in brown wraps with paper stock apology to back cover. Marx's study of organized crime in NYC, which begins with the legendary Arnold Rothstein holding a sign which says "You Can't Win", and gets better from..... More
[Santa Barbara]: University Art Museum, University of California, [1984]. First edition. 4to, 16 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Printed in black on chartreuse green paper. McCormick's survey of artists known and unknown in the East Village, from David Wojnarowicz to Greer Lankton to Marilyn Minter to Judy Rifka, et al. a key..... More
New York: Hobo News, 1945-46. First edition. Tabloid format, offset printed on newsprint. Twenty-one issues of the Hobo News, including Vol. 5, No. 32, and Vol. 6, Nos. 13-20, 22-24, 31-33, 35-37, and 40-42, with numbers 68 and 72 of the Bowery News. A Little Fun to Match the Sorrow..... More
New York: Village Corner Tavern, c. 1960's. 2 x 3 1/2" card, printed on red card stock. An original business card from tavern, which was for many years the unofficial post office for a good portion of Village bohemia. The owner, Jim Smith, used to rent out 64 mail lock..... More
New York: School for Democracy, 1942. 8vo, 22 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A course catalog for the School for Democracy, founded by Selsam and others at 13 Astor Place and associated with the CPUSA. The faculty and lecturers listed for the four month periodi are staggering, including Gwendolyn Bennett, Langston Hughes..... More
New York: Film-maker's Cinematheque, [1965]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, mimeographed from drawing and typescript. The flyer for this one day screening of films by the Film-makers' Cinematheque at the Astor Place Playhouse, notable for including a rare showing of Jack Smith's early film Blonde Cobra, made in collaboration with..... More
New York: 1837. Approximately 5 x 7", holograph on printed letterhead torn from a ledger, ragged at the edges with a small piece missing at lower margin leading the loss of a couple of words. On January 21, 1837, Mr. Henry Rankin, of 2 Washington Square, dropped nearly a century on..... More
![Item #30279 Admit One on the Afternoons Only [Ticket]. Wood's Museum](/pictures/thumb/30279.jpg?v=1660757221)
New York: Wood's Museum, c. 1868-1876. 1 3/4 x 2 1/8" ticket, printed on recto only. Initialled "J.K." at verso. A late 19th century ticket to Wood's Museum at 30th and Broadway in New York City. The theatre had been built in 1867, and initially called Banvard's Museum, but in..... More
![Item #30378 A Guide to New York City's Strange Sections [Little Blue Book No. 1053]. Clement Wood](/pictures/thumb/30378.jpg?v=1669667642)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1926. 32mo, saddle-stapled in faded blue wraps printed in black. Gibbs 1053, in the LBB(2) binding. One of series of essays and guides on NYC that Wood penned for Haldeman-Julius. Includes sections on Little Italy, Mount Lebanon, Harlem, The Battery, The Bowery, etc. 1/2" chip from upper..... More
![Item #30376 The Truth About New York's White Light Region [Little Blue Book No. 1058]. Clement Wood](/pictures/thumb/30376.jpg?v=1669666864)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1926. 32mo, saddle-stapled in faded blue wraps printed in black. Gibbs 1058, in the LBB(2) binding. An exposé on the underworld in the Tenderloin District of Manhattan and Times Square, including descriptions of 'bootleggers, drug vendors, dance-hall promoters, taxi night-hawks, illicit hotels, houses of call, gunmen, gangs..... More