Various: nd [c. early 1900's]. Fourteen cabinet photographs mounted on card, one sheet of stationary with a two color photographically illustrated header, and one real photo postcard. The Brown Brothers were an acrobat and equilibrist duo active in the early part of the century. One of the brothers was one-legged..... More
![Life of Barnum, the Man Who Lured the Herd [Little Blue Book No. 537]. Charles J. Finger](/pictures/thumb/28762.jpg?v=1617061142)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled in pale green wraps printed in black. Illustrated. Likely the first edition of the work, in Gibbs' LBB 1 binding. Finger was an Arkansan wanderer, folklorist, musicologist, and adventurer whose remarkable body of work is still too little known. He was a prolific contributor to..... More
Gera: Paul Schaerf, nd [c. early 1900's]. 3 11/16 x 5 11/16" postcard, printed by offset lithograph. Divided back. Addressed with message and franked ; date illegible. Postcard for the tattooed woman Annie Frank, and printed and published by Paul Schaerf, who issued postcards for a number of circus and..... More
np: nd [c. early 20th century]. 3 1/4 x 5" postcard, offset printed in white card stock. Verso blank. Postcard featuring the tattooed sideshow performer, active in the late 19th and early 20th century in Germany. Note the tattooed spats on those elegant ankles. More
Magdeburg, Germany: Carl H. Odemar, nd [c. early 1900's]. 3 12/2 x 5 1/2" color postcard, with dividing line and publisher's imprint information at verso, featuring a striking portrait of sideshow performer and tattooed woman Djita Salome. The verso is unwritten, but intriguingly bears a small "Luna Park" rubberstamp. Rather..... More
NY: Shescape, [1989]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, offset printed on two colors on both recto and verso. Flyer for the influential, roving lesbian party, this one to usher in a new decade at Octagon. Machine-folded twice, with an additional horizontal fold, otherwise clean, bright and very good. More
np: [1973]. A cache of 10 items produced in conjunction with the Electric Element, a multi-media performance which was performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford in 1973 by the avant-garde theatrical performance troupe, which included the legendary musican and cybernetic artist Bruce Lacey, who appeared in Jasia Reichardt's Cybernetic Serendipity..... More
![Doomsday. The Last Party of All Time [invite]. The Tunnel](/pictures/thumb/29932.jpg?v=1642716918)
New York: The Tunnel, 1987. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" flyer, printed in red and black on white coated card paperstock. Flyer for a happening at The Tunnel timed to coincide with the end of the world, advertising an open bar, free biscuits, and canned food. Some minor handling creases..... More