North America
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# 32088
BAKER, Kenneth
George Washington’s war in caricature and print
London : Grub Street, 2009. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 224, extensively illustrated. A fine copy. A history of the American War of Independence in printed caricatures, broadsides, prints and ephemera.
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# 31752
MORTON, Johnny; MASTODON MINSTRELS
Johnny Morton’s Mastodon Minstrel song book, containing all the favourite songs, & which have made the “Mastodon Minstrels” famous on their tour of the Australian Colonies.
Wellington : Printed at the “New Zealand Times” office, Lambton Quay, 1882. Duodecimo, original printed wrappers, lower wrapper with advertisement for the Company, pp 23, [1 contents]; very small hole with loss to lower wrapper, otherwise a very good copy. Bagnall, 3641. Formed in the United States by the entrepreneur J.H. Haverly (1837-1901), this legendary …
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# 29792
HUBBARD, Lucien (1888-1971) (producer, director & screenwriter); Jacqueline GADSDEN (aka Jane DALY) (1900-1986) (actor)
Original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screenplay for the Technicolor film “The Mysterious Island” (1929), dated July 24, 1928 and credited to Lucien Hubbard; personal copy of leading actress Jacqueline Gadsden (Jane Daly).
Culver City, Calif. : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], July 24, 1928. Original yellow wrappers preserved (with some marginal loss) on later card covers (303 x 230 mm), front wrapper with typed title at centre ‘”The Mysterious Island” / Screen Play / by / Lucien Hubbard’; at top right is typed ‘Prod. No. 273’, and at lower right …
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# 29291
HESS, Katharine; LANGFORD, Jean and ROSS, Kathy
Feminismo primero : un ensayo sobre separatismo lesbiano = Feminism first : an essay on lesbian separatism
Seattle, WA : Tsunami Press, 1981. Octavo, lettered wrappers, staple bound, pp. 112, text in Spanish and English. Translated by Helen Weber & Fabiola Rodriguez. ‘Lesbian separatism is most importantly a tactic rather than a goal. It is a way of building a strong feminist movement to work for feminist revolution. It is not an …
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# 28207
Anon.
Fashions in leather vinyl-patent & latex
[Chicago? : s.n., circa 1965]. Octavo, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. 14, illustrated in black and white, light central crease. A rare early American vinyl and latex catalogue with a variety of products designed for fetishist sexplay. Includes latex bikinis, bloomers, custom made ladies dress suits, exercise suits, panties, gloves, aprons, raincapes, slacks, bras, boots, and other latexwear. …
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# 25591
CODY, S. F. (Samuel Franklin) (1867-1913)
The Klondyke Nugget / by S. F. Cody
Belfast [Ireland] : David Allen & Sons, [1898]. Chromolithographed poster, 435 x 720 mm (sight); matted for framing; in fine condition. A striking poster produced in Ireland around 1899 for S. F. Cody’s stage production The Klondyke Nugget. ‘The Klondyke Nugget was a gory melodrama, written by and starring the Wild West showman S. F. …
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# 23595
GALLA, Philip
A story of sorts
Minneapolis : The Hermetic Press, 1979. Small square duodecimo, limp papered boards with title label, unpaginated, text and typecut illustrations. Limited to 100 copies bound by hand. ‘Acclaimed artist, poet and master printer Philip Gallo has operated The Hermetic Press since 1965 when he first began printing concrete and visual poetry. For the ten years …
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# 21871
NOBUKAZU, Yosai (1872 - 1944)
[SYDNEY]. Godaishu Kanyu Sugoroku [Boardgame of a World Trip]
Tokyo : Tsunashima Kamekichi, Meiji 23 (1890). Woodblock printed in colour, 712 x 698 mm, lined with Japanese tissue, old folds as issued, a clean and bright example. A board game of a voyage around the world, starting in Yokohama and with illustrated vignette scenes of the destinations visited, including Vanvouver, San Francisco, Niagara Falls, New …
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# 22406
SIMPKINS, Wayne
Exhibition artist : Wayne Simpkins. True love will find a way
Santa Barbara: University of California, Santa Barbara, 1974. Artist’s book. Card portfolio containing 27 leaves (each numbered and initialled verso), composed in two parts: a catalogue and an autobiography. Each page is made by digital print with collage of photographs, with hand embellishments and pencil annotations. Created in an edition of 10 signed copies. “This …
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# 21618
OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP CO.
1896 / 1897. Joint Schedule showing sailing of steamers of the Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co. and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. between San Francisco and Yokohoma and Hongkong.
(Including calls at Honolulu, Nagasaki, Hiogo (Kobe) and Shanghai). At head of sheet: United States, Japan and China. San Francisco : Occidental & Oriental S.S. Co., 421 Market Street, September 26, 1896. Lithographed broadsheet, 400 x 230 mm, printed recto only; original folds, in fine condition.
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![[WHALING] Letter written from Auckland, New Zealand to New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1853](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/04/26170751/2017_DSFB_0856-300x300.jpg)
# 15422
BAIN & BURTT; [GIBBS, Alexander]
[WHALING] Letter written from Auckland, New Zealand to New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1853
Entire letter, single sheet folding to form [4] sides, quarto, closely written manuscript in ink on 3 sides, headed ‘Auckland, New Zealand, 8th February 1853’, addressed to ‘Alexander Gibbs Esqr., New Bedford’; signed at the foot ‘Your faithful obedt. servants, Bain & Burtt’; outer side with address panel, endorsed ‘via New York’, with ‘LONDON / …
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![[CIRCUS HISTORY] Wild Australian Children](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/02/04144453/2016_DSFB_4977-189x300.jpg)
# 14746
[FREDRICKS, Charles D.]
[CIRCUS HISTORY] Wild Australian Children
Buffalo ; New York : Warren Johnson & Co., [circa 1864]. Promotional card with colour lithograph design, after a photograph by Charles D. Fredricks, carte de visite format (105 x 62 mm), printed caption and publisher’s imprint in lower margin, verso blank; closely trimmed at left and right edges, and with a small amount of …
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![[CSS SHENANDOAH] Two parliamentary papers concerning the British involvement in the American Civil War](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/09/09152902/2017_DSFB_4331-300x300.jpg)
# 16645
CUSHING, C.; EVARTS, W.M; WAITE, M.R., et al.
[CSS SHENANDOAH] Two parliamentary papers concerning the British involvement in the American Civil War
Two contemporary official documents relating to Britain’s support of the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861-1865), and accounts of the actions of British built warships, including the Confederate raider Shenandoah and its controversial stopover in Melbourne. (1) North America. No. 12 (1872). Argument of the United States delivered to the tribunal of arbitration at Geneva, …
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# 18053
WAHLEN, Auguste
Costumes, usos e trajos de todos os povos do mundo,
em face de documentos authenticos e das mais recentes viagens. Lisboa : Impresa Lusitana, 1872-1873-1874-1876-1878. Five volumes, octavo, original quarter blue calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, corners bumped, upper board of vol. 4 with several scratches), spines with gilt lettering and rule; vol. 1 (Asia) 421, [1]; vol. 2 (Asia, India) 439, [4]; …
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# 17977
Data-boy. Issue No. 62. March 14, 1973
Los Angeles : Data-boy. 1973. Newspaper, pp. 40, reviews and advertisements for the Los Angeles gay social scene.
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# 18079
FOWLERS AND WELLS
A list of books.
Fowlers and Wells, Publishers, No. 308 Broadway, New York. 1854. Foolscap sheet (36 cm tall), folds as issued, wholesale order form for medical publications available for order, in the fields of phrenology, hydrotherapy, physiology, mesmerism and psychology, phonography and miscellaneous. Scarce American publishing ephemera.