Fifty-two newly acquired items, ranging from Surrealist art exhibition posters to unusual US Spanish-language imprints.
Quite possibly this is the earliest book published in the United States about La Llorona, the mysterious weeping ghost-woman who haunts Mexican and Mexican American neighborhoods. In this version, purporting to be the true story of La Llorona, a woman in colonial-era Mexico kills her young son, born out of.....
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First Edition. One of a series of groundbreaking Chicano Movement children's picture books, written and illustrated by some of the most important Chicano activist writers and artists. The author was Alurista, the main illustrator was one of the original activist-artists of Chicano Park in San Diego, Victor Orozco Ochoa. The.....
Price: $250
First Edition. One of a series of groundbreaking Chicano Movement children's picture books, written and illustrated by some of the most important Chicano activist writers and artists. The author was Alurista, the main illustrator was one of the original activist-artists of Chicano Park in San Diego, Victor Orozco Ochoa. The.....
Price: $250
First Edition. One of a series of groundbreaking Chicano Movement children's picture books, written and illustrated by some of the most important Chicano activist writers and artists. The author was Alurista, the main illustrator was one of the original activist-artists of Chicano Park in San Diego, Victor Orozco Ochoa. The.....
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A challenging Cuban artist's book inspired by poems from a feminist writer from Matanzas. The cover includes a naked female doll, described on the colophon as a socialist Barbie made in China ("una barbie socialista realizada en China"). The poems, in Spanish and English translation, address sexuality and menstruation, with.....
Price: $1,250
![Item No: #361585 Vom Fluss der Gene [On the Flow of Genes]. Werner Arber](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/361585.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688490219)
First Edition. The text of a lecture issued as Vortragsreihe "Panta rhei" der Hans Erni-Stiftung, 3. Arber won a Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases. 52 pages. First edition. A fine copy in silver boards (hardcover). This copy is inscribed to the future Nobel Prize winner.....
Price: $250
Later printing. An anti-Semitic children's book published by the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer with a title translating as Trust No Fox on His Green Heath and No Jew on His Oath!: A Picture Book for Young and Old. Typographically, the book is very interesting as it is printed in two.....
Price: $1,500
First Edition. A short monograph whose title translates roughly to Bitter Tears (Criminal Abortion and the Law). Becerro de Bengoa, a physician, advocates reforming the Uruguayan abortion law. In this book, he is generally sympathetic to pregnant women seeking abortions and proposes fining women for having abortions, rather than giving.....
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First Edition. The uncommon second issue of Wallace Berman's influential underground periodical. "Berman's hand-printed, personally distributed literary journal, Semina, stands as an iconic document of its time... An eccentric and lyrical primer of the early counterculture, assembled against the grain of conformist Eisenhower-era America, it circumscribes a world of self-exploration.....
Price: $5,000
![Item No: #362880 Portrait of Medical Student Hü King Eng [Cabinet Card]....](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362880.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688490273)
A full standing portrait of the second Chinese woman to study medicine in the United States; she went on to be one of the first Western trained physicians in China. This albumen print on a thin photographer's mount dates from Hü King Eng's four years as an undergraduate at Ohio.....
Price: $1,500
First Edition. A "loose leaf book", issued in a paper clamshell box with original examples of British printing, each laid into a paper folder with a brief printed description on the front. An introductory leaf of text by the editor is laid into the box as well. The contents of.....
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First Edition. A "loose leaf book", issued in a paper clamshell box with original examples of continental European printing, each laid into a paper folder with a brief printed description on the front. An introductory leaf of text by the editor is laid into the box as well. The contents.....
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First Edition. A "loose leaf book", issued in a paper clamshell box with original examples of Asian manuscripts and printing, each laid into a paper folder with a brief printed description on the front. An introductory leaf of text by the editor is laid into the box as well. The.....
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First Edition. A "loose leaf book", issued in a paper clamshell box with original examples of printed book illustrations, each laid into a paper folder with a brief printed description on the front. An introductory leaf of text by the editor is laid into the box as well. The contents.....
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![Item No: #362739 The Woman Suffrage Cook Book Conta[i]ning Thoroughly Tested and...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362739.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688490250)
First Edition. The first edition of the first American woman's suffrage movement cookbook, printed for sale during the woman suffrage bazaar held in Boston on six days in 1886. Harriet "Hattie" Burr, who was active in suffrage and other community causes, in Boston compiled recipes and household advice from more.....
Price: $10,000
First Edition. A World War One book that simultaneously recruits women to work in the British munitions industry and explains their presence to a public skeptical of the appropriateness of women working in factories. The author, a successful novelist, argues that women shouldn't be given just two choices when it.....
Price: $250
First edition. This is one of a handful of mid-century books published in an attempt to paint a more positive picture of Mexican Americans in US history. Here Canales reprints and annotates two historical essays documenting Mexican American participation in the Texas war for independence. Canales particularly wants to refute.....
Price: $250
First Edition. A curious and idiosyncratic attempt to translate concepts like beauty and reason into mathematics. A few years ago, images from a digitized version of this book made the rounds on the Internet, even landing on the website of Smithsonian Magazine ("These Geometrical Shapes Are Diagrams of Human Consciousness".....
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First Edition. The complete set of Crampton's work on the Partula snails found on islands in the Pacific. Crampton's almost unbelievable amount of field work-—he measured and examined more than 200,000 specimens—provided valuable statistical data to document the evolution of species and variations. He showed that new species could evolve.....
Price: $750
![Item No: #362886 The Black Photographers Annual Volume 2 [Hardcover Issue]. Joe...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362886.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688490274)
First Edition. The second of four volumes seeking to define "a new Blackness, real and strong as our history, pushing consciousness toward a new place" through photography (quoted from the first volume). At the time Joe Crawford started this series, African American photographers had been almost completely left out of.....
Price: $400
![Item No: #362570 [Armory Show Poster] International Exhibition of Modern Art....](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362570.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688490232)
The rare original poster for the most important art show in American history. 14 by 20-5/8 inches; lithograph in five colors, on thin cardstock, with a line of letterpress at the bottom. The International Exhibition of Modern Art, commonly known as the "Armory Show" after its venue on the Upper.....
Price: $10,000
The poster for the first ever international Surrealist exhibition, held in London for less than a month, from June 12 to July 4, 1936. The event featured some 400 works from artists of fourteen countries. It was organized by Roland Penrose with the help of the sculptor Henry Moore and.....
Price: $12,500
A biography of Jesus for young readers published in Spanish in San Antonio, Texas, in the 1920s. The author was born in Mexico but lived in the United States off and on for a number of years. He was a politician and a writer who started a magazine in San.....
Price: $150
A poster publicizing the grape boycott led by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers by one of the best-known graphic designers of the era. The artwork depicts a bunch of grapes in the shape of a skull with a Chavez quote at the bottom taken from the Plan of.....
Price: $500
![Item No: #362574 Entartete Kunst [Degenerate Art Exhibition Poster]. Rudolf Hermann](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362574.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688490237)
A poster for the most notorious art show in history, the Entartete Kunst Ausstellung (Degenerate Art Exhibition) organized by Joseph Goebbels in 1937 as a public denunciation of modern art by the Nazis. After an opening exhibition in Munich, the show toured Germany. This poster is for the Chemnitz showing.....
Price: $12,500
