![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
New York: American Theatre for Poets, 1960. First edition. 4to, seven sheets mimeographed from typescript on rectos only and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. The scarce script for this early play by DiPrima. Single ink notation within, with some overall soiling and creasing, but very good. More
![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
Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1949. First edition. 12mo, 94 pp, printed wraps. Illustrated with four black and white plates. One of Marker's first two books, along with his novel Le Coeur Net, both published in 1949. A mysterious book, which Sarah Cooper describes as "a montage of different texts on..... 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
New York: Institute for Human Development, c. 1970. Sixteen placards, each 8 x 8", housed in the publisher's original folder. The placards are illustrated in color by Judith Savard, some of them incorporating photographs and quotes. A beautiful portfolio which grew out of the antipoverty "Summer in the City" program..... 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
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1960. First edition, wrappered issue. Oblong 8vo, 112 pp, illustrated wraps. Illustrated and designed by Franciszka Themerson. The book form of this play originally presented for radio in 1956 on the BBC Third Programme. An exuberant work lampooning many familiar figures in literature and cinema. Very good..... More