The Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The organization promotes ethical and accurate bookselling on the web. I'm proud to be a member. The organization is hosting a virtual book fair May 2–4. These are the items I am exhibiting, with added extras.
First Edition. Six die-cut leaves of Captain Marvel comic characters perforated to cut out. Each figure has a folding base so they will stand up. 8-1/2 by 11-3/4 inches. First edition (first printing). A very good copy, with light wear at the corners. Color break on the spine.
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A carefully posed full-length albumen silver print portrait of two women, possibly Bengali, working as dirt haulers. They pose behind a small pile of soil, a shovel, and a basket partially filled with dirt. One woman balances a basket on her head. In style, this is a very typical occupational.....
Price: $500
First Edition. Forty-four writers and artists contributed. 111 pages. Illustrated in full color. First edition, hardcover issue (also issued in paperback). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon, Anita Lobel, Arnold McCully, and Uri Shulevitz on the title page. A bookplate signed by.....
Price: $125
First Edition. A long speech arguing against British policies toward opium in India and China. The author, the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, would later become president of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade. 55, [1] pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in contemporary marbled-paper.....
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![Item No: #363596 Take Your Pleasure Seriously [Signed, Numbered]. Luca Barcellona](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363596.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713914408)
First Edition. The limited edition, one of 50 copies, of this survey of the graphic designer and calligrapher Luca Barcellona's lettering work, with a custom calligraphy example, the word "Surfadelic", commissioned by the original owner. This limited issue also includes a second original calligraphy example reading "Take your pleasure seriously".....
Price: $200
![Item No: #363841 The Books of Blood [Six Volumes, All Signed]. Clive Barker](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363841.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713914405)
First hardcover edition. A classic of modern horror with one of the greatest taglines of all time: "Everybody is a book of blood; Wherever we're opened, we're red." The novel was originally published in six paperback editions in 1984 and 1985. Almost immediately, Weidenfeld & Nicolson put out this six-volume.....
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First Thus. This is one of 500 signed and numbered copies of the first complete edition of Barker's six-volume classic of the horror genre. 818 pages. First complete edition. This is no. 96 of 500 numbered copies signed by Clive Barker on a limitation page. The page block, as is.....
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This is a cabinet card portrait of eight US army soldiers probably taken about the turn of the 20th century during the Spanish American war (the US occupied Manila in 1898). The well-composed albumen print is on a card mount with E. M. Barretto's Centro Artístico Fotográfico logo and "Manila".....
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![Item No: #362635 [Original Painting of a Farm Scene]. Ludwig Bemelmans](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362635.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1677019312)
A charming original painting by the author and artist of the Madeline books. The scene shows a farmhouse, a barn, and a field being plowed with a tractor. SIZE: 7-7/8 inches square. MEDIUM: Gouache, watercolor, or both on paper. Signed "Bemelmans" in pencil at the lower right. Very good to.....
Price: $2,500
![Item No: #353571 A Moment With Miss Gish [Signed, Lettered]. Peter Bogdanovich](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/353571.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713567312)
First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies of director Peter Bogdanovich's account of hearing actress Lillian Gish speak, in 1958, following a showing of D. W. Griffin's 1920 film 'Way Down East' (at the Museum of the City of New York). Bogdanovich directed The Last Picture Show, What's Up Doc?.....
Price: $300
A group of six carte-de-visite format albumen prints, likely dating from the 1890s. The subjects are all Afro-Brazilians posed standing with their right arm resting on a piece of furniture (a table, a chair, a pedestal). Five of the six images have printed backs identifying them as originating from Photographia.....
Price: $3,250
![Item No: #363730 The Uplift War [Signed, Numbered]. David Brin](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363730.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713914413)
First Edition. Third book in the first Uplift trilogy. One of 475 signed, numbered copies. Copy number 29 of 475 signed by Brin on a limitation page at the back of the book. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and a very near fine slipcase.
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![Item No: #360805 Studio Views [Portfolio of Photographs]. Michael Burns](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/360805.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633727745)
A suite of ten silver gelatin contact prints mounted on acid-free museum board with a window overmat. These 8 by 10 photographs were made early in Burns' career, when he worked with a large-format view camera and belong to a series of detailed, enigmatic architectural studies exploring the play of.....
Price: $2,000
First Edition. The best five dozen short stories from Cemetery Dance magazine, including "Chattery Teeth" by Stephen King. 786 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Joe Lansdale on the table of contents page and Douglas Clegg at his contribution.
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10-3/4 by 14 inches. An ink-and-marker portrait of a man holding a Puerto Rican flag draped over a 1950s Cadillac in the foreground. An attractive, simple tribute to the Puerto Rican car culture in Brooklyn. The caption, a word used to refer to the accented English spoken by Brooklyn natives.....
Price: $75
A simple pencil line drawing of a curled up animal. I'm inclined to say it's a cat but it could also be a chihuahua. The drawing is dated 2-16-99 and signed in the right lower corner. Cisneros is a writer, best-known for her book The House on Mango Street, which.....
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A line drawing made with a thin felt pen of Sandra Cisneros's cat. The drawing is titled "Pablo 1/15/90" and it is signed in ink at the lower left margin. Cisneros is a writer, best-known for her book The House on Mango Street, which is one of the classics of.....
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A gelatin silver print of an elderly man in profile, holding a mirror in one hand and trimming his beard with scissors held in the other hand. The subject's clothes, a thick cloth jacket and canvas jeans, are worn and full of holes. The image is captioned in pencil on.....
Price: $1,250
The vintage gelatin silver prints of Jamaican migrant workers in Florida taken by a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. The images show workers preparing to return home with large boxes of items purchased stateside and their personal belongings. One man, named Mervin McWon, carries two boom-box-style radios; another photograph depicts two.....
Price: $500
A portfolio of six black-and-white plates measuring 12 by 16 inches in a folding paper portfolio. The illustrations by Steranko are inspired by Ellison's short story. The first plate is numbered and signed by both Ellison and Steranko. Steranko is best known for his work on the Nick Fury comics.....
Price: $200
A terrific, vibrant image from Finlay's peak period, the 1950s, depicting a man on a horse that is turning into stars. Finlay's density of ink and his ability to render light and dark is truly amazing. This is a top-notch drawing from one of the masters of pulp illustration. Depicted.....
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![Item No: #363790 Portrait of Actor Mae Murray [Platinum Print]. Arnold Genthe](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363790.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713389131)
A half-length profile portrait of silent film star Mae Murray (1885–1965) taken in Arnold Genthe's New York studio on March 24, 1920, according to the Library of Congress, which owns the original nitrate negative. Genthe (1869–1942) was a German-born photographer who photographed San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 20th century.....
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First Edition. "Gillette reports the results of studies into the effects of morphine on the newborn infant when given to the mother during the second stage of labor. Gillette discusses his own case studies as well as the research results of studies conducted by others. He concludes that, when given.....
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First Edition. One of Harrison's most popular collections of poems, published here in an edition of 350 copies illustrated with atmospheric drawings by Russell Chatham. The edition was mostly not numbered, per Orr and Torrey bibliography, A19.a. This is one of 215 copies accompanied by a suite of five prints.....
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A pencil drawing of a cobra head used to illustrate Jim Harrison's poem, "Cobra" in the Clark City Press edition of The Theory and Practice of Rivers (p. 44). Clark City Press was Chatham's imprint. The drawing measures roughly 2-3/4 by 5-1/2 inches on a larger sheet. It is framed.....
Price: $2,500
