An offset poster reinterpreting the original Starbucks logo (a topless mermaid) to mark the company's quarter-century anniversary. Victor Moscoso is a graphic artist closely associated with the psychedelic movement in the 1960s, designing a number of iconic concert posters, and with Zap Comix, to which he contributed from nearly the.....

First Edition. The second collection of poems by the first Japanese American millionaire, the Stockton "potato king" Ushijima Kinji, known in the United States as George Shima. In 1920, Ushijima's "Shima Fancy" brand of potatoes had an 85% market share and were grown on 28,000 acres in California's.....

First US edition. This book, translating a 19th century work on gold and a sixteenth century work on payments and the power to issue coinage were published following the 1900 Gold Standard act, which connected the value of the dollar to gold. "In the Fluctuations of Gold [originally published in.....

A homefront poster from the middle of the Second World War explaining the need for gasoline rationing on the East Coast. It reads (ellipses or ... in the original), "Last year... we used about 22,000,000 gallons of gasoline a day in the gasoline rationed Eastern States alone. This year... Because.....

A blank poster for menus or price lists for price controls during the Second World War. The poster, folded to make four pages, as issued, includes a page of instructions to merchants and restaurant owners; the interior spread provides forty lines for filling out price information. An interesting piece of.....

A Second World War homefront poster encouraging Americans to participate in price-control efforts in order to keep inflation under control. The main graphic shows two women reaching for their baskets of groceries. The woman from 1918—the First World War—finds the basket out of reach. The "modern" 1944 woman can easily.....

A homefront poster of a woman holding an empty basket while contemplating full store shelves. During the Second World War, the US government encouraged stores and consumers to abide by price controls and ration limits. 20 by 14 inches. This is an original World War II poster, not a reproduction.....

A rather fierce-looking poster encouraging women to participate in the federal efforts to control inflation driven by shortages during the Second World War. An illustration of a woman wearing an apron, her teeth and fist clenched dominate the poster. Below the image are a list of seven key actions: buy.....

A 12-by-18-inch "window emblem" poster from the federal effort during the Second World War to keep inflation in check. Text reads, "We charge only ceiling prices or less / We post ceiling price lists prominently / We welcome questions about our prices." This poster was intended for distribution to participating.....

First Edition. A reprint of this precursor to Malthus' work on population. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by Montagu to the evolutionist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould: "For Steve, Affectionately from Ashley. 29 June 1981." Montagu (born Israel Ehrenberg) was.....

First Edition. A speech on commercial debts and the American bankruptcy laws. Hopkinson begins with the observation that merchants are the United States' ambassadors to the world: "The American merchant then should never forget, that he holds the character of his country, as well as his own, in a sacred.....

First Edition. The American representative of the Comisión Reguladora del Mercado de Henequen [Regulatory Commission of the Sisal Fiber Market] narrates his actions in the US, from 1915 to 1917. The Mexican Revolution broke the US monopoly on sisal fiber cultivation in Yucatán, Mexico, and that led to great wealth.....

First Edition. A day-by-day account of Witter's month-long safari in British East Africa in September and October 1948. With a record of animals killed at the back. The illustrations are reproductions of color photographs, printed with particularly intense color, lending an air of hyper-reality to many of them. Witter was.....