The Gaslight Room, circa 1960s. Loose_leaf. 14" X 11", folded. This charming circa 1960s menu for The Gaslight Room, possibly from Biloxi, Mississippi's Trade Winds Motor Hotel, features fun mid-century design and "Tournedos Baltimore" as Tonight's Special. Moderate wear to paper, with edgewear, light chipping, creasing, surfacewear, and dust soiling..... More
Chicago: Experience Pub. Co., circa 1926. Staplebound wraps. "This is the only publication on the market that defends and upholds the modern flapper instead of ridiculing and reviling her" (rear cover). This "Naughty-Nice Annual" of the 1920s flapper lifestyle and humor magazine Flapper's Experience. Flapper's Experience was the successor to..... More
Boston: Tichnor Brothers, Inc., 1939. Staplebound. 10" X 6 3/4". Light toning and wear to covers and edges. Mild age-yellowing to pages. Pages clean and unmarked. Black and white photographs throughout. An overall solid copy of this documentation of the 1939 New York World's Fair. More
[New York]: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., Circa 1920. Staplebound wraps. 8 1/8" X 6". Unpaginated, 16 pictures. 10 of 16 pictures filled out, with 3 of the 10 colored in crayon. Moderate wear to staplebound wraps, with mild soiling, spot of dampstaining, and edgewear. Binding is sound. Pencilled..... More
Philadelphia: Special Committee on Nondiscrimination, The Board of Public Education of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1964. Paperback. 9" X 6". xxvi, 191pp. Mild edgewear and rather heavy sunning to textured paper wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Gift inscription to first page, else clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this 1964..... More
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1960-1968. Later printing. Hardcover. Volume II lacking dust jacket, all other volumes in original dust jackets. Moderate wear to dust jackets, with sunning to spines, scattered rubbing, edgewear, and small tears to edges and extremities. 2 1/2" closed tear to front panel of Volume I, open..... More
[Savannah, Georgia]: N.P., 1945. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9 1/8" X 6 1/8". 16pp. Mild wear to textured printed staplebound wraps, with light edgewear, dust-soiling, and long crease to rear wrap. Binding is sound. Except for inked out statement regarding proceed donations to foreword, pages are clean and unmarked. A...... More
New York: John Day Company, 1941. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". 203pp. Dust jacket in pieces and laid in, with dampstains and creasing. Pale yellow cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in dark burgundy. Moderate edgewear to binding, with corners gently bumped. Binding is firm and..... More
London: Oldbourne Book Company Ltd., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 5/8". 222pp. Moderate edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with British Book Centre label to front flap, presumably covering price. Small tears to edges and extremities of dust jacket, with light dust soiling to rear panel. Red cloth..... More
Ottawa, Ohio: Marguerite Calvin, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 232pp. Inscribed as "David" by illustrator to front free endpaper, with woodcut self-portrait. Stain to front panel of dust jacket, with open tear to bottom corner of front panel and small closed tear to bottom edge, along..... More
Chicago: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/8". 291pp. Ex-Sale City High School Library, with stamp to front free endpaper but no other marks. Blue cloth over boards, with upper board and spine stamped in black. Moderate wear to binding, with edgewear and scuffing..... More
New York: The Five Orange Pips of Westchester County, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 114pp. Ex libris Sherlock scholar Leon S. Holstein, quoted several times in The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, with his name and Sherlock alias "The Tired Captain R. S. T." to flyleaf..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". 124pp. Presumed First, code A-K to copyright page. Chipping and closed tears to edges of dust jacket. Rubbing to front and sunning to spine of dust jacket. Black cloth over boards with spine and front..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1981, 1995. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 9" X 6 1/8". 1777pp. Each volume uniformly bound in full blue genuine leather and stamped at boards and spine in 22kt gilt, with spines lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Salmon orange silk moire endpaper with matching silk..... More
Denver, Colorado: Red Tempest Media, 2012. Second Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". 49pp. Moderate wear to staplebound wraps, with peeling to glossy film at corners, edgewear, and slight warping to wraps. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this comic book featuring a script..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1961. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". xii, [ii], 111pp. Moderate edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with original price of $3.00, with sunning to spine, 1" closed tears to front panel at top left and bottom right corners, small neat tears to extremities, and crease..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. Paperback. 10" X 7". 211pp. Mild edgewear to pictorial paper wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Very occasional light pencilled marks to pages. About this book: "In this study of the political thrust behind some of the most important officially sponsored art of the..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". ix, 586pp. Green cloth over boards with white lettering to spine. Slight lean to spine. Scattered rubbing to covers and edges. Corners turned in with board visible. Dust spotting and stamps to edges of text block. Foxing and toning..... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1955. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 5/8". 249pp. Mild edgewear and dust soiling to dust jacket, with a couple small nicks to edges and spine. Bookseller notations pencilled to rear flap. Black cloth over boards. Spine lettered in red. Mild dust soiling, edgewear, and gentle..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by the author, Carolyn G. Hart, in ink to title page. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 322pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers and edges of dust jacket. Green cloth over boards with..... More
Chicago: John Wright & Sons Ltd., 1973. 10th Edition. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 3/4". xi, 972pp. Previously belonged to the Saul's Memorial Library at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. Contains usual marks, stamps, and stickers of library books. Mild rubbing and wear to tan cloth over boards. Spine and front..... More
New York: Asia Publishing House, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 7/8" X 7 3/8". 400pp. Moderate wear to dust jacket, with small closed tears at corners and edges and light sunning to rear. Heavy sunning to faded red cloth hardcover binding, with offsetting of lettering from dust jacket onto cloth..... More
New York: Amerotica, 2004. Paperback. 11" X 8 3/8". Unpaginated. Mild edgewear to pictorial paper wraps, with hard bump to bottom corner of binding and text block. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this collection of erotic illustrations of "TRULY CURVY, TRULY..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. 11" X 11 3/4". 233pp. Mild rubbing and wear to covers and edges of dust jacket. Light dust spotting to top edge of text block. White cloth over boards with spine and front cover stamped in black. 1" X 1" square clipped..... More
Seoul, Korea: Pagijong Press, 2014. Paperback. 8 3/4" X 6". 227pp. Very mild edgewear to paperback binding. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are clean, bright, and unmarked. From rear cover: "The Gyu-Bang is a woman's private dormitory established due to the extreme inequality and segregation between the roles of..... More
