New Arrivals
Signed by Vonnegut
Hocus Pocus
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. A novel about a Vietnam vet who realizes he's killed as many people as he has slept with. 302 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a like jacket. Only very minor wear. Signed by Vonnegut on.....
Price: $150
With a Woodburytype of Jules Verne
Woodbury Type of Jules Verne in The Union Jack Volume III
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882. Hardcover. A nice profile photograph of Jules Verne reproduced by Woodburytype tipped in as the frontispiece of a bound volume of G. A. Henty's Union Jack magazine. This is identified as Volume III on the title page, but includes vol. II, no. 49.....
Price: $85
By England's Aid: Or, The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585–1604)
London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. [x], [11]-384, plus 32 pages of ads. "The story of two English lads who go to Holland as pages in the service of...Sir Francis Vere, who played so important a part in the freeing of the Netherlands.....
Price: $40
Inscribed to Stephen Jay Gould
Al-Kemi: Hermetic, Occult, Political and Private Aspects of R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz
Great Barrington, MA: Inner Traditions / Lindisfarne Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. "The story of the eighteen months that VandenBroeck spent in daily contact with the remarkable French philosopher, hermeticist, and Egyptologist, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887–1961). It provides a passionately felt, personal, and dramatic introduction to the startling.....
Price: $125
Inscribed to Writer-Scientist Stephen Jay Gould
Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. A portrait of rich environmental and cultural heritage of the Amazon, told through oral histories, stories, and published accounts. The author is a Brazil expert at UC Berkeley and did extensive field work in South America. 332 pages. First edition (first printing.....
Price: $75
Inscribed to Baseball Fan Stephen Jay Gould
A Player for a Moment: Notes from Fenway Park
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. The novelist and lifelong Boston Red Sox fan writes about the team during the 1987 season. First edition (first printing with row of letters beginning with A on the copyright page). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.....
Price: $125
Scarce Maori Christian Sect Hymnal
Ko nga whakahaere whakamoemiti a te Hahi Ratana i roto i te kororiatanga o te Matua, Tama, Wairua-Tapu, Anahera-Tapu, Anahera-Pono, me te Mangai - Amine: Kko ihoa onga mano
Wanganui, New Zealand: A. D. Willis, Ltd., [1929?]. Hardcover. A rare Maori hymnal for the Ratana church. Ratana, a Maori religious, political, and social movement, was founded in 1918 in New Zealand by Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana. He saw a vision and began preaching that the Maori and the Japanese were.....
Price: $750
Hymns in Maori
Te Honae; Being a Small Collection of Temperance, and Sacred Melodies, in Maori / He tau puru ripene, aha, aha
Akarana [Aukland, New Zealand]: Brett, "Evening Starr" Office, 1885. Hardcover. Second edition, revised and expanded, of this collections of hymns, first published in 1873 as "Temperance songs, etc., in the Maori language." The text of this book is devoted to Maori language songs written to the tunes of the hymnal "Sacred.....
Price: $500
Biography of a Prison Reformer
A Brief Memoir of Elizabeth Fry
Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knoweledge, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. A brief biography of a British Quaker prison reformer, told in part through extended quotations from her writings. Fry was honored in the UK with her picture on the 5-pound note. This is an.....
Price: $50
The US Military Explains the Japanese Internment
Final Report, Japanese Evacuation From the West Coast, 1942
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. An extensively illustrated account of the legal background for the Japanese internment along with an account of the military's considerable efforts to relocate more than 100,000 persons of Japanese descent from the West Coast of the United States during the first.....
Price: $750
"Eureka Is on the Fritz"
Letter from Eureka (Humboldt County), California
Eureka, CA: (n.d. but ca. 1925?). Eleanor, a teacher, writes to Harry, a friend or possibly a relative. She writes about planned trips to San Francisco for shopping and about her parents. Then she starts complaining about Eureka: "Eureka is on the fritz. The lumber industry is nil & Humboldt.....
Price: $50
Viewpoint, September 27, 1944 (Vol. I, no. 16)
Fort Steilacoom, WA: Pacifist Information Center, 1944. An issue of a periodical published by men in the Civilian Public Service (CPS), the work camp program for conscientious objectors during the Second World War. This journal was put out by the Pacifist Information Center at CPS 51 in Fort Steilacoom, which.....
Price: $95
![The Little Sod Shanty on the Claim [Cabinet Card]. J. N. Templeman, Jasper Newton](/pictures/thumb/306905.jpg?v=1600749735)
1880s Family Life on the Prairie
The Little Sod Shanty on the Claim [Cabinet Card]
Miller, Dakota [now South Dakota]: J. N. Templeton, (ca. 1885). A nice image of a sod house on the Dakota prairie with its likely inhabitants, a white woman standing at the door, with a white man sitting on a barrel against the house holding two young children. This is a......
Price: $300
![CDV of Viola Myers, Bearded Woman, with Her Husband Amos]. James Mahon, photographer](/pictures/thumb/306901.jpg?v=1600749733)
Original Photograph of a Bearded Woman and Husband
[CDV of Viola Myers, Bearded Woman, with Her Husband Amos]
Columbia, TN: James Mahon, (ca. 1880). Viola E. Myers (6 June 1854 to 24 April 1931) was born in Wilcox, Pennsylvania and in the 1870s and 1880s was the best-known bearded woman in the US. In 1883, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared Madame Meyers (as she was also known) "the.....
Price: $300
![Mrs. Woodhull (Broker) [CDV]. Victoria Woodhull](/pictures/thumb/306900.jpg?v=1600749732)
CDV of the First Female Stockbroker and Presidential Candidate
Mrs. Woodhull (Broker) [CDV]
(1870s). Ephemera. A circa 1870s carte-de-visite photograph (CDV) of the first woman to run for President in the US. 2-7/16 by 4-1/16 inches. Thick mount; rounded corners. This CDV shows Victoria Woodhull in profile from the waist up wearing a ruffled gown and a matching cap. The verso of the photograph.....
Price: $750
19th Century Maori-English Periodical in the Original Wrappers
Ko Aotearoa, or the Maori Recorder (no. 1) together with The Recorder and Ko Aotearoa (no. 2) [Complete Run in Original Wrappers]
Auckland, New Zealand / Akarana: Printed at the "Aotearoa" Office for the Native People / He mea ta i te Perehi o nga Iwi Maori (no. 1) and Printed at the "Recorder" Office / I tala ki a Aotearoa, ki te perehi Maori (no. 2), 1861–1862. The January 1861 and.....
Price: $950
Scarce Maori-English Periodical
Ko Aotearoa, or the Maori Recorder (no. 1) together with The Recorder and Ko Aotearoa (no. 2) [Complete Run]
Auckland, New Zealand / Akarana: Printed at the "Aotearoa" Office for the Native People / He mea ta i te Perehi o nga Iwi Maori (no. 1) and Printed at the "Recorder" Office / I tala ki a Aotearoa, ki te perehi Maori (no. 2), 1861–1862. The January 1861 and.....
Price: $600
German's Fifth-Grader School Project on Nazi Military Victories
Heeresberichte und Bilderheft
1939–1940. A fifth-grader's "army reports and pictures" documenting German military victories and leaders. Young Ms. Wolter was (apparently) assigned to collect newspaper articles about Adolf Hitler and military victories, which she pasted neatly into a blank school lesson book. The collection begins with a newspaper photograph of Josef Goebbels congratulating.....
Price: $65
Taller Leñateros Ephemera
Group of Five Serigraphed Announcements
San Cristóbal de Las Casas: Taller Leñateros, 1990s. This is a group of five serigraphed announcements for publications and events, printed by Taller Leñateros, a Mayan book-arts collective in Chiapas founded by the American-born Mexican poet Ambar Past. One of the pieces prints a poem. Another has an abstract alphabet design.....
Price: $150
La Rueda Cartonera
Lleva la vista viva
Guadalajara, Mexico: La Rueda Cartonera, 2011. Poems published in a cartonera edition of 50 copies. This is a revised and expanded version ("edición corregida y ampliada") of a previously published collection. 44 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive.....
Price: $30
La Rueda Cartonera
Tode el mundo tiene un primo en el canal de la mona
Guadalajara, Mexcio: La Rueda Cartonera, 2010. Poems published in an edition of 75 copies in cartonera format. 61 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are.....
Price: $30
Cuernavaca's La Cartonera
Sentencia del fuego
Cuernavaca, Mexico: La Cartonera, 2011. Poems published in an edition of 125 copies in cartonera format. 44 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made.....
Price: $30
Mamá Dolores Cartonera
Queremos tanto a Mamá Lolita
Querétaro, México: Mamá Dolores Cartonera, 2012. An anthology of texts of different types loosely focused on cartonera publishing. This is one of 30 copies of the second edition. The sheets are laid into the covers only; they are not bound. 46 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about.....
Price: $30