'DANCING THROUGH LIFE- A CHORUS GIRL'S SCRAPBOOK'-- As a performer in 1920s-1940s show-business, Miss Lorraine Kruger, of Oklahoma & Hollywood, tap danced and worked in theater. Lorraine clipped and pasted many newspaper & photos of herself as a dancer and actress-- her 80 pp. scrapbook is a look-back to one singular woman and the star-making machinery behind 1920s-'40s theater and Hollywood movies. Lorraine clipped lots of newspapers and photos-- press reviews, newspaper stories, publicity shots/ chorus girls, in group shots and with big Stars/ dance reviews/ gossip items about Lorraine/ per... View More...
1940s Flirty Girl 'Selfies' B&W Photo Album --'Cam's Selfies'--sent by mail to her boyfriend Jack, serving with the Seabees in the South Pacific. 12 wallet sized photos & Cam's captions assembled to portray a pretty picture of "the girl he left behind". Cam mailed Jack her photo 'selfies' during 1944-45 -- her handwritten notes and coy remarks, on the back of most photos, showcase a very flirty woman. Cam's original photos have copies of her captions besides each corresponding photos. Photo album 7.5"x 11.5", 10 leaves. Excellent condition. View More...
Shingaku is a Japanese religious movement that flourished from 1725-1875.The movement began with Ishida Baigan (1685-1744) and his successor Teshima Toan (1718-1786) but later a group of well-trained preachers traveled the country spreading the word. Shingaku was one of the cultural foundations for Japan's industrialization.The teaching is characteristic of Asian culture in its fusion of Confucian values with Buddhism and Japanese Shinto. This hand written and illustrated manuscript was done circa 1780. It is 6x9 inches, 47 manuscript text pages, with 21 drawings, sprinkled throughout. Som... View More...
This is a circa 1900s handmade sampler of lace- tatting - crochet patterns. 125+ examples on dark green oil cloth pages. Approx 9x9 inches, in very nice condition View More...
A female student's candidly flavorsome photo album depicting her student experience at Southwestern College - Winfield, Kansas 1911-1913. About 99% filled with 385 glued in snapshots, mostly 2.5"x4", 3"x5", and in very nice condition. The leather album, however is worn; the backstrip is missing, yet the album itself remains firm & is holding together very well. View More...
M.S. Gorodess was a Brooklyn, NY photographer with a specialty in architectural photography. He's represented in the Long Island (Brooklyn) Historical Society collections; and also has various postcards depicting his photographs. This album is a remembrance of the 1939 John W. Fraser Suffolk County Republican Club, Timber Point, LI outing. The album is 5x7 inches, 9 leaves-13 images. View More...
70 b&w Photos. (42) U.S.; (28) presumed New Guinea. "Service Album - U.S. Army" photo album opens May 18, '43 -- the day men signed their names, home towns and their best wishes & luck to 'Mac',presumably ahead of getting shipped from the States to the Pacific region -- "To a guy who'll stick with you when the going gets tough"--" Look me up after the war..."--"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition..." Snapshots of service men- guys goofing around, having fun/ in uniform with weapons/ men carrying packs approaching a battleship/ tents, barracks, thatched huts, small boats/ photos taken over... View More...
1943, ww2 scrapbook including superheroes , militaria and other items of interest to the maker, Edward C Pocus, age 16 residing in Cicero, Illinois. View More...
1947 Photo-Album. For some, the Salvation Army is their way of life -- photos of so many friends & families, at ease, in the Salvation Army summer camp/retreat in Ontario -- folks of all ages play in numerous brass bands -- and are seen enjoying each other's company in the summer of 1947. The Salvation Army was begun in 1865 in East London - its members preached and lived a practical Christianity ('soup, soap & salvation'). Brass bands were an early tradition in the Salvation Army; brass bands accompanied church services and created great public excitement. This 1947 Ontario, Canada Salvat... View More...
1892. 'AUTOGRAPHED LETTER' written and signed by H. RIDER HAGGARD, notable 19th century English novelist -- dated September 27, 1892 on Haggard's own letterhead from Ditchingham House, Norfolk - interestingly, there's an Egyptian cartouche on letterhead (on upper left corner). The letter is presented with 2 early American editions of Haggard's first novels, 'King Solomon's Mines' and 'SHE: A History of Adventure'. These two novels had enormous popularity, and their success led Haggard to serialize both books. 'King Solomon's Mines'- Published by JOHN B. ALDEN, NY, (unabridged) in 'The New Yo... View More...
2004 printing. "Angela Davis has been a political activist at the forefront of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements for more than fifty years. First published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974,' An Autobiography' is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in struggle. Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S. Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and t... View More...
Robin BLACK, Tania JAMES, Rajesh PARAMESWARAN, Jim SHEPARD, Charles YU [signed by all]. Five works are excerpted from previously published works. Jim Shepard's is original. View More...
1918-1933. Inscribed "From Kate to Gladys. Christmas 1918"-- Friendship book made after 'The Great War' by high school women at the Ralph Thoresby School in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Lovely Friendship Book - 29 pp, 5.5"x 4.5"- watercolors, inked drawings, cartoons, cursive writing, inscriptions, sayings and poems. An inked drawing shows a girl looking towards the horizon and handwritten is "Now there is dawning another blue day--say, will thou let it slip useless away?" Another page done in ink shows Advent-style windows with virtues below each window, its title says "Requisites of a la... View More...
200+ photos, 50 leaves. - A Nurse from Cincinnati - Photo-Album'. 1919-1930s - 'Nurse from Cincinnati' photo-album - snaps of her life and friends from nursing school- the women took degrees in early part of 20th c. at School of Nursing at Christ Hospital, Cincinnati. The Nurse wrote with a white crayon witty notes & names to many of the photos. Original photos: Nurses in uniform informally or at Christ Hospital/ folks eating watermelon/ nurses at a construction site, sitting on an auto's running-board/ women go boating/ nurses in cap & gown, 1921 graduation/ landscapes- farm & fields/ old c... View More...
A celebration of the revolutionary change Amy and David Goodman have witnessed during the two decades of their acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy Now!- and how small individual acts from progressive heroes have produced lasting results. In 1996 Amy Goodman began hosting a show called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues and movements that are too often ignored by the corporate media. Today it is the largest public media collaboration in the US. This important book looks back over the past twenty years of Democracy Now! and the powerful movements and charismatic leaders who ... View More...
Four-Footed Friends- Stiff boards filled with charming pictorials. Light wear mostly to corners. Light penciling on top right margin. Otherwise beautiful colorful full page illustrations. Gabriel Son and Co, #800, 1947. View More...
Al Capp - Inscribed 1st Edition FROM DOGPATCH TO SLOBBOVIA THE GASP!! WORLD OF LI'L ABNER' 'To Sam my native guide' - inscribed by Al Capp. 1964. 1st Edition. BOOK SIGNED & INSCRIBED by AL CAPP - 'FROM DOGPATCH TO SLOBBOVIA - THE GASP!! WORLD OF LI'L ABNER'. Beacon Press, Boston. An uncommon, early collection of Al Capp's 'Li'l Abner' - in very nice condition. In 1934, Al Capp used his considerable talents to create a comic strip he named 'Li'l Abner'-- Capp struck gold with his tale of amiable yokels, beautiful women, and satirical symbols of pomposity and disreputability set in a mythica... View More...
c1910 --SCARCE, DELUXE EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, FIRST ISSUE - "GIRLS' PASTIMES IN JAPAN" by TEIJIRO TAKAGI. Published by The Tamamura Photographic Studio & Art Gallery, Kobe, Japan. (24) Hand-Colored Collotype Plates in uncommon, rare first edition. A celebrated & important work by photographer Teijiro Takagi, in the publishers original silk boards with the original ties. Oblong 8vo., 7" x 9.75". Tissue guards before the title leaf & each hand-colored collotype plate. Illustrated title page. Includes the 'Ceremonies of a Japanese Marriage'. All photos have descriptive captions in English ... View More...
Signed by Jeff Koons and Muhammad Ali. 19.5"x19.5" elephant folio size promotional book featuring excerpts from the 2001 limited edition of G,O.A.T. published by Taschen Books.Taschen sent this signed promo to those who sit on their "regulars" list. Original essays and five decades' worth of interviews and writing explore the courage, convictions, and extraordinary image-building that made Ali one of the most recognizable and inspirational individuals on the planet, an icon not only as an extraordinary athlete, but also as an impassioned advocate of social justice, interfaith understanding,... View More...
Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers Chinese Brown- And Black- Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400 This groundbreaking catalogue is the first of its kind to examine the exquisite Chinese brown- and black-glazed wares (including those commonly known as Temmoku), tracing their evolution and development from the fifth to the fifteenth century. View More...
Henry Gregor Felsen "The Granddaddy of Street Rodding" Felsen wrote 6 classic, teenage hotrodding, drag racing books in the 1950s-1960s. In 1990 Felsen reprinted his 6 classic hot rod novels as a limited edition boxed set of 6, signing each volume of this set. Crash Club - ISBN 091747306X; Fever Heat - ISBN 0917473094; Street Rod - ISBN 0917473108; Hot Rod ISBN 0917473116; Rag Top - ISBN 0917473086; Road Rocket ISBN 0917473078 Each volume SIGNED! Includes some promotional papers. About fine condition in a lightly shelfworn cardstock slipcase. View More...
The 120 full-page photographs in this book depict people at country fairs, rodeos, mining camps, drilling sites, and even a slaughterhouse - men and women of the American West who work at hard, everyday jobs. Richard Avedon introduces the volume with an essay on his working method and portrait philosophy, and Laura Wilson, who accompanied Avedon and his team, provides a journal of their travels, between 1979 and 1984. 11x17 inches, soft cover in nice condition. View More...
1940s. SCRAPBOOK of 'International Figure & Ice Skaters'-- 97 pages of magazine pics & stories of famous & not so famous ice-skaters/ magazine pics show the careers of 1940s International Stars from the professional world of figure skating/ Opening pages of scrapbook focus on Sonja Henie-- color magazine pics & stories. 1940s Iceskaters scrapbook-- 97 pp. of color and b&w pics from magazines, newspaper articles and clippings. Ice Capades of 1944 & 1945. Oscar Johnson & Eddie Shipstadt- articles and color pics. Ice Follettes- full color photo. Dorothy Lewis- advertisements. Bobby Blake- artic... View More...
Circa 1840-50, approx. 50 handwritten pages with ink drawings. Ikebana (???, "living flowers") is the Japanese art of flower arrangement. The tradition of Ikebana dates to the 7th century when floral offerings were made at altars. Later, floral offerings were also placed in private homes in a special alcove (tokonoma) meant to display the offering, Ikebana reached its first zenith in the 16th century under the influence of Buddhist tea-masters and has grown over the centuries, with over 1,000 different schools in Japan and abroad. Ikebana is one of three classical Japanese arts of refinement ... View More...
This is a lovely, however very serious album from prewar Japan. The photos are formally staged or studio photographs, 1900s-1930s. There are 78 photographs that range in size. The album measures 10x7.25 inches. View More...
9 Watercolors c.1900 - attributed to Japanese Artist Gofu Hand-painted on 18 double-pages. The watercolors are otherworldly & mysterious as they unfold - beautiful Japanese nature & botany. 7.5" x 11" View More...
1967. 1st edition. --'Joyeux Noel Acadian-- Recipes for Christmas Dinners & Desserts'. Author-editor Mercedes Vidrine's signed and dated her presentation in English and Creole inside the front cover: "I am simply delighted that my daughter, Roxie, wanted you to have my most recent Cajun cookbook as a token of appreciation for the many thoughtful things you have done for her." ----Mercedes Vidrine 4.28.71 Eunice, La. Illustrated by J. A. Allen. 110 pages of Cajun recipes. Recipes include: Meats and dressings for Christmas Dinner/ Christmas Salads and Desserts/ After Dinner Pie and Demi-Tasse/... View More...
