New York: St. James Society, 1904. Together 5 items, some toning and wear, one sheet almost detached at fold, old prices in pencil at the corners, some short tears. Preserved in clear sleeves. FASCINATING ASSEMBLAGE OF SCARCE PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS FROM THE CHARITABLE (AND NOW-DEFUNCT) ST. JAMES SOCIETY OF NEW YORK..... More

Belgium: 1938. Small album (4" by 5.5"), containing 12 unnumbered black (blank) leaves, with seven (7) original photographs affixed to the leaves within paper corner mounts; each photo is captioned in MS in white ink in French in the margins. Album: contemporary "faux crocodile skin" embossed paper boards, fastened with..... More

Chicago: Chicago Herald-American, 1949. Photograph (ca. 230 x 190 mm; 9 3/16 x 7 3/8"), outer edges irregularly cut, image marked with printer's instructions; on verso a pasted newspaper reproduction of the photograph (see below) similarly marked. Photo creased and wrinkled with some short tears. EXTRAORDINARY AND ICONIC ARTIFACT, BEING..... More

Bologna: Vittorio Benacci, 1591. First Edition. Small 4to (horizontal chainlines). [4] pp. Later Italian decorated wrappers, old (19th-century?) label on front cover. On title-page old ink inscription "84," on verso of final leaf the faint ink inscription of "85" (in reverse) suggesting that our pamphlet was at one time bound..... More

San Pablito Pahuatlan in Puebla state, Mexico: 1981. Crown 8vo (18 x 14 cm). Original handmade paper wrappers with muñeco illustration on front, with manuscript title and production information, red ribbon ties. Handmade and handbound codex, folded accordion style, text in written dark brown pen on amate bark paper, original..... More

Paris: Librairie Renouard - H. Laurens, Editeur, n.d. (1906). First Edition. Folio (27 x 38 cm; 11 x 14.5 inches). COMPLETE SET of 48 plates of Parisian Art Nouveau leather deigns, 39 of 48 glassine tissue guards are present, most with their glassine pattern overlays (missing tissue guards: Fascicule 1:1..... More

Pittsburgh: Shields, Watson & Washington, Attorneys at Law, 1961. Together 4 leaves (7 pp.), the first two legal-size (14" x 8 1/2"), the others slightly shorter; brad bound inside a 14.74 x 9" printed chemise folded to 9" x 3.75". Creases at folds; chemise moderately worn; leaves lightly dust-soiled with..... More

S.l. s.n., n.d. (1920s). Small 12mo. 24 pp. (some light staining and soiling). Original (?) stapled paper covers worn (SEE IMAGES). PRECIOUS RELIC OF A FORGOTTEN AFRICAN AMERICAN FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION; THIS WELL USED PAMPHLET DESCRIBES THE INITIATION RITUAL FOR FEMALES WHO ARE ENTERING THE SECOND ("RUTH") DEGREE AND THIRD ("NAOMI")..... More

Baltimore: Printed and published by John Murphy; Pittsburgh: George Quigley, 1848. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo. xi, 326 pp. + 10 pp. (advertisements). With an engraved frontispiece of "The Bride." Pages i-xi printed in blue and yellow-gold. Frontispiece and accompanying tissue guard foxed, offset onto title-page, evidence of botanical..... More

Paris: [Yves Klein], 1960. First Edition. Original 4-page broadsheet newspaper (557 x 380 mm; unfolded sheet size: 1114 x 380 mm). Folded four times. All copies are age-toned as they were printed on the cheapest possible newsprint that has become very brittle over time. This one has a few small..... More

Washington DC: National Rifle Association of America, 1968 (entire year, Jan. - Dec.). Complete run of 12 issues (binder size: 315 x 230 mm), each profusely illustrated with photographs and preserved in original color-printed wrappers, stapled as issued, housed in original NRA-issued binder with working metal catches (SEE IMAGES): maroon..... More

London: 1968. Original drawings by Mal Evans on a 18.5" x 13" lead sheet, the music score annotated in pencil (this discarded sheet was likely left behind at the Apple Boutique after filming the movie "Hot Millions"). On verso: three drawings on two panels by Mal Evans for proposed music..... More

Washington DC: Printed by Order of the House of Representatives by Gales & Seaton, 1823 (Feb. 24). First Edition. 8vo. 6 pp. Offprint (NOT extracted from a larger volume), with running numeral "83" crossed out and renumbered "42" in ink, usual age toning on account of the paper stock. Recent..... More