![Item #30186 [Skull & Crossbones] At Pepperell, Mass. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/30186.jpg?v=1654805799)
Pepperell, Massachusettes: 1906. 2 3/4 x 4 9/16" card, printed in white on very heavy black coated card stock on recto only. Invitation to a ghostly happening in Pepperell, Massachusetts, on Friday evening on March 16, 1906. The card advertises music by Thayer's Orchestra, electrical effects beginning at 8 pm..... More
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
![Item #30412 On the Choice of Books [Little Blue Book No. 75]. Thomas Carlyle](/pictures/thumb/30412.jpg?v=1670285942)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled [2 staples] in faded blue wraps. Gibbs 75c, this is the odd first noted variant with the last 8 pages blank, in the LBB(2) binding. The classic essay on bibliophilia, written by a student of Thomas Browne and the arch-nemesis of Anthony Panizzi. Very..... More
![Item #28762 Life of Barnum, the Man Who Lured the Herd [Little Blue Book No. 537]. Charles J. Finger](/pictures/thumb/28762.jpg?v=1652477482)
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..... 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
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1955. 8vo, 62 pp, bound in black cloth titled in red at the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Translated into English by Barbara Wright, who also provides a foreword. Illustrated with collages by D. S. Willoughby, including a fold-up sheet printed on orange coated paper stock. Printed in..... 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
Hamburg: Ödipus Kollektiv (Bund Schwuler Kulturschaffender), 1976. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Profusely illustrated, with a sheet of folded paper towel bound in. Text in German. An early publication, if not the first from the Gay and Lesbian Theater group, issued in conjunction with the..... 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
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
![Item #30411 How N.Y. Working Girls Live [Little Blue Book No. 479]. Betty Van Deventer](/pictures/thumb/30411.jpg?v=1670285823)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1928. 32mo, saddle-stapled [2 staples] in faded wraps. Gibbs 479b, first noted state, first noted wrapper state, in the LBB(2) binding with variant typeface. "Illusions will scatter - New York is not a haven for the idealist." -p.4 Wraps faded at margins, and lightly bumped throughout at..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1929. 32mo, saddle-stapled [2 staples] in blue green wraps. Gibbs 473b, noted variation 1, second wrapper state. An exposé on the lives of New York City chorus girls, by the author of "Why Wives Leave Home." A scarcer book in the series. Wraps faded at margins, with..... More
![Item #30670 [Untitled Program]. Emmett Williams](/pictures/thumb/30670.jpg?v=1676589193)
[NY]: [c. 1965?]. 4to, three leaves mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. An untitled, mimeographed program for an unknown Fluxus performance of works by Emmett Williams, including descriptions for "Ten Counting Songs", "The Alphabet Symphony", "White for Governor Wallace", "Four-Directional Song..... 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