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Arabic Satirical Magazine
SANUA (James) [Known as Abou Naddara] Ya'qub Rufa'il Sanu' (1839-1912): Abou-Naddara (Organe de la Jeunesse d'Egypte). Paris, 1880-1882. 41 issues, 4to (27 x 21.6 cm), comprising:
Le Flûtiste, nos. 1-3 (each 2ff), 4 June – 20 June 1880, in Arabic;
La Clarinette (Aby Zammara), nos. 1-3 (each 2ff), 12 July – 27 August 1880, in Arabic;
Le Charmeur (Al-Hawi), nos. 1-4 (each 2ff), 5 February – 25 March 1881, in Arabic;
Abou Naddara 5è année [1881], nos. 1-15 (each 2ff, except nos. 6, 7 and 8 each with 4ff), in Arabic;
Abou Naddara – Abou Naddara Zarka 6è année [1882], nos. 1-6 (each 2ff), in Arabic, nos. 8-16 including translations in French.
Lithographically produced from original drawings and handwriting in both Arabic and French. The first Arabic magazine to feature cartoons, the captions for these being given in French and Arabic, as well as being the first to use colloquial… Read More

(Murder Trial)Account of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare ... the coroner's inquest, the trials of the prisoners, and the execution. By George Henry Jones.London, 1824.With 3 landscapes + 2 folding plates finely lithographed by C J Hullmandel.8vo, [iv]+344pp; half-leather marbled boards, spine label "Thurtell's Trial" (lightly scuffed), very solid and clean throughout.First edition.William Weare was a solicitor of Lyon's Inn and a gambler. His killer was John Thurtell (1794–1824), a sports promoter, amateur boxer, a former Royal Marine officer and a son of the Mayor of Norwich. Thurtell owed Weare a gambling debt of £300, an immense sum at the time (equivalent to £24,500 in 2015),[1]. Thurtell believed Weare had cheated him of the money. Whatever the truth, when Weare demanded payment Thurtell murdered him rather than pay up. He invited Weare to join him and his friends – Joseph Hunt, a tavern landlord, and William Probert, a former convict and alcohol merchant – for a weekend of… Read More

(Baseball: Babe Ruth)
SPENCER (J[ames]) W and ALFORD (Harry L):
Babe Ruth! Babe Ruth! (We Know What He Can Do)
Olneyville, RI: J W Spencer, (1928).4to, pictorial wrappers
Sheet Music

GOREY (Edward):
Black Doll
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973
A Few Frames from the BLACK DOLL, comprising eight mounted photographs by Tom Parrish, each picture signed by the photographer and dated '75 - '76.
Square quarto, [8] ff. + index; original stiff marbled paper with a typed title label on upper cover.
Created as a promotional presentation for making the film version of "The Black Doll".
Accompanied by: The BLACK DOLL. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. Small 8vo, 52pp + colophon; grey paper wrappers with pictorial label designed by the author on the front wrapper.
First printing, signed by Edward Gorey on the title-page.
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"The Black Doll" is Gorey's screenplay for an unproduced silent film. Like many of his works, the plot is set in a Victorian-esque surrounding. It tells the story of the black doll, a "PRO," or "priceless ritual object", from the ancient Asian city of Glub (or Blug), which is sought after by various groups of people.
The black doll figure is a recurring figure in Gorey's… Read More

(Korean War)
Commemorative Album of Photographs on the Second Year Anniversary of the Korean War.
Ministry of National Defense, Republic of Korea, 1951.
Oblong 4to, [31] leaves with protective tissue; with commemorative text: 6.25 Korean War (emblem: winged five-point star and anchor) 2nd Year, D.N.D. R.O.K. flanked by Birds of Paradise executed in mother of pearl, woven silver silk tie. Containing 77 original photographs documenting the events and players in the war (including President Syngman Rhee, Douglas MacArthur, etc., with typed captions, a page of dedication with presentation To Ambassador De Tervarent … Tao-Yong Shinn Minister of National Defense Republic of Korea . An official album presented to the Belgian Ambassador and Plenipotentiary Minister in Japan, Chevalier Guy de Schoutheete de Tervarent (1891-1969), Belgium being one of the 17 countries which furnished military forces in support of the United Nations Security Council resolution to defend South Korea. Most likely each of the… Read More

First edition of this influential and extensive study of the communitarian ideal in the United States. Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) emigrated to the United States as a child, and went on to have a varied career as sailor, journalist and writer. His grandson Charles Bernard Nordhoff is the famous historian of the Bounty. In The Communistic Societies of the United States, Nordhoff recounts his travels to many of the socialistic societies which became popular in the nineteenth century, most famously the Shakers of Mount Lebanon, the Rappite township at 'Harmony' and the Oneida Community. As Nordhoff points out in his Introduction, he hoped that a study of these communities might provide 'useful hints toward the solution of the labor question'. Throughout, the work displays a thoroughness and lack of hysteria which supports his claim to have 'thought it best to give at first an impartial and not unfriendly account of each commune.' Howes N177, Adams: Radical Literature, p. 47. An indispensable source for… Read More

Earliest Representation of a Rare Books Auction
The Compleat Auctioneer, circa 1700,
uncolored engraving of a book auctioneer standing behind a stall of books, with two ladies and two gentlemen beside him, and a tree behind, the tree bearing a printed notice 'A Choice Collection of Books being the Library of the late famous Unborn Doctor, are to be put to Sale this Day and to continue untill all be Sold, at Mr L-GS Auction in the North West Corner of Middle Moorfields. Cattalogues may be had at most of the eminent Booksellers in the four Quarters of Moorfeilds Gratis, the Books may be Seen before or at the time of Sale', the whole set within a 19th century black and gilt moulded frame, glazed.
Rare. The earliest known representation of a book auction. The table of books on display include many bawdy titles of the restoration era, such as 'Sch: of Venus', 'Aratines Post.', 'Play of Sodom', 'Poems by the R H the E[arl] of R[ochester], alongside standard medical works of the period, 'Culp Midw',… Read More

LEGER (Fernand), illustrator; GOLL (Iwan):
Die Chapliniade. Eine Kinodichtung.
Dresden: Rudolf Kaemmerer Verlag, 1920.
Small 4to, original pictorial boards after design by Hans Blanke.
PRESENTATION COPY of this 'cinepoem' based upon Chaplin's 'Little Tramp' character,
illustrated with 4 cubist style designs by Fernand Leger.
See Artist and the Book #236

NICHOLSON (William) [1872–1949]
Four original hand-colored Prints from Twelve Portraits (London: Heinemann, 1899)
Lord RobertsThe Archbishop of CanterburySir Henry HawkinsCecil Rhodes

Printed from the Original woodblock, hand-colored by the artist
Mounted on card, signed and dated in pen and ink on lower left
Measures 10-1//16 x 9 inches
From a series of portraits for the portfolio of twelve portraits,
Limited edition of 40 copies

One of 1000 copies printed, it was sold for one shilling each, a hefty price at the time, the concept suggested by Sir Henry Cole who is best remembered as the intellectual designer of the Victoria & Albert Museum and responsible for the modern British postal system. However, because the central design depicted feasting and drinking (as designed by John Calcott Horsley), the card was attacked by the Temperance League and thought to promote drunkenness, so it was suppressed soon after publication and there are believed to be less than 30 examples thought to survive. The 2nd Christmas card did not get issued until three years later (in 1846).
The two side panels on the card illustrate images of the Christmas Spirit of giving alms to the poor, feeding and clothing the needy. Its release literarily coincided the same week with the publication of Dickens' A Christmas Carol and certainly helped perpetuate the celebration of the holiday.
Printed on one side, this is possibly a salesman's sample copy as… Read More

HAIR. The American Tribal Love Rock Musical by Gerome Ragni and James Rado. Original typescript created prior to off-Broadway production by Studio Duplicating Service Inc (446 West 44th Street, NYC), title gilt-stamped and recessed on upper cover, title-page "copyright 1966" listing contact details for Authors and Producer, collates [i], 1-45, 2-27, bound in teal cartridge wrappers with double-rivets, small tears along outer wrapper edges but no loss.
An icon in establishing the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s with several of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. It debuted off-Broadway at Joseph Papp's Public Theater (October 17, 1967) for six weeks, then at the Cheetah discotheque (53rd and Broadway) for 45 performances prior to 1750 performances (four years) at The Biltmore Theatre.
Provenance: signed in ink "Linda Compton" preceded by "#44", original cast member of "The Tribe" listed at ibdb.com as from opening April 29, 1968 thru July… Read More

(AMERICAN INDIAN)Handbook of Indian Dances I. New Mexico Pueblos. By Dorothy N. Stewart. Santa Fe, NM: Pictograph Press, 1950.
Indian Ceremonial Dances of the Southwest.
8vo., [16] ff., pictorial wrappers. Original edition with 8 color block serigraph prints.

BILL CLINTON 1993 INAUGURAL PRINT signed by MAURICE SENDAK
SENDAK (Maurice): "HAPPY INAUGURATION ... A Jubilee Welcome for Our New President and His Family! From the Children of America, Maurice Sendak, and Harper Collins Publishers January 20, 1993". SIGNED.
Original art print on semi-stiff paper, the design by Maurice Sendak and commissioned by his publishers as an official greeting to welcome the Clinton era -- it was published in major newspapers all across the USA on the actual inauguration day, and may have been given to those invited to one of many inaugural parties: but exact limitation is unknown, except it is quite rare and unusual.
The actual image appears to be a duotone from graphite, with a red and blue single rule surround with caption below: overall measurement is 13-1/16 x 12-1/2 inches (33.2 x 31.8 cm). A small quantity was acquired directly from the artist, who then signed each one in ink. It is the only political image Sendak did in his entire oeuvre. Our copies are… Read More

CHUBB (Ralph)The Heavenly Cupid or The True Paradise of Loves.Privately Printed by the Artist, Fair Oak, near Kingsclere, Hants., 1934.One of 43 copies (#9); 30 for sale, each copy signed and numbered; the first 7 copies issued hand-colored. Reid A10a96 lithographic illustrations by Chubb to accompany his printed lithographed script text with signed and dated frontispiece. Folio, original half green morocco with dark green corduroy sides. Except for some binding scuffs, a very good copy. Ralph Nicholas Chubb (1892-1960) was an English poet, printer and artist, heavily influenced by Blake and the Romantics with a highly personal and sexually revolutionary mythology. He privately produced 17 works entirely by his own hand in very small print runs working quietly first from Curridge in Berkshire and then from Kingsclere in Hampshire. Part of his mythology was Chubb being the prophet and herald of the saving of England by a boy god. This eternal Boy-principle of the is announced as The Third Dispensation… Read More

(Christopher COLUMBUS)The History of America.London: W. Wetton, circa 1830.Small 8vo, 176pp + [4] adverts, listing this title as number 15 (of 22); original gilt leather-backed marbled boards, the spine titled "Columbus".Rare juvenile biography of Christopher Columbus, of which there is apparently no copy in OCLC.

HEBREW Translation of the "Little Red Book"
MAO (Zedong):
Imrot Hayoshev Rosh Mao Tse-Tung [Sayings of Chairman Mao], translated into Hebrew by Yesha'ayahu Lewitte.
Tel Aviv: Traklin, 1967.
16mo., [iv], 199 pp. + [Table of Contents]; red vinyl binding with title and star lettered in white on front cover (slight wear), with an inset photographic portrait of Chairman Mao covered in plastic and mounted also on the front cover.
FIRST PRINTING in Hebrew, although one of three different versions by different translators and different publishers all issued in Israel the same year. Of this red vinyl version, it is believed only 800 copies were produced; two bindings have been noted, the other stamped in tarnished gilt (the translator s own copy is lettered in white). An English text version was available in late 1966 distributed in Israel by Beijing: Foreign Languages Press.

(ANTI-SEMITISM) The Jews' Who's Who. Israelite Finance. Its sinister influence [compiled by Henry Hamilton Beamish]. London: The Judaic Publishing Co., Popular edition (first published the previous year), 1921. 8vo, 255pp; publisher's pink boards titled on front, spine and rear covers (flat spine ends worn).A heinous compilation regarding Jewish influence on global politics and economy (blaming Jews for the Boer War), but chiefly presenting as if it were factual that Jews are gaining control over the British economy, the Home Government and the entire UK Empire. The book contains a chronological description of "The Jew Conquest of England" and a list of Jewish economists listing the amounts of money they earn. Other chapters are titled "Our Jew-dominated Press", "Honored Jews and Titled Aliens", "Jew Conquerors of France", &c. OCLC records 20 locations worldwide but copies are unusually rare in commerce.
Henry Hamilton Beamish (1893-1948) was an Irish-born leading British anti-Semite. He founded… Read More

(Women's Peace Movement)
THYBJERG (Clara)
LECTURE SLIDES by Women's Peace Movement co-founder Clara Thybjerg [Tybjerg].
Collection of 240 double-glass negatives depicting images of World WAR I (soldiers and ruined cities), and the Women's International Peace Movement and it's activities.
Measuring 3-1/4 x 3-1/4 inches (approximately

McCAY (Winsor) [1866–1934]
Little Nemo in Slumberland: Santa Hunts for Little Nemo or else Christmas would need to be postponed. TWO sequential original Colored Printer's Proof Sheets for The New York Herald Sunday Pages 1907, each dated respectively "Dec. 15 '07" and "Dec. 22 '07" in pencil at upper right margin Captioned in 6 and 8 numbered panels, printed as proofs on coated paper, each sheet measures 25-3/8 x 17-3/4 inches (minor handling creases, slight edge tear).
Provenance: Alfred B Hunt Collection, then to his great-grandchildren Carmen and Jennifer Armstrong, afterwards Bonhams NY 11 December 2013.
Hunt (1854-1947) was head foreman of the press and worked directly with McCay coloring the Slumberland series from its inception in The New York Herald October 1905 until McCay joined Hearst's papers in June 1911. Hunt is credited with adapting LITTLE NEMO's finished black and white drawings to its eventual surrealist Ben-Day color scheme, an intricate, labor intensive… Read More

WARHOL (Andy) and WARD (Ralph Thomas):

Love is a Pink Cake by Corkie & Andy
New York: Privately Printed, ca. 1952.

8vo. (individual sheets measure 11 x 8-1/2 inches), [25] ff., loose as issued.

First edition, of which it is believed about 100 copies were printed.
Illustrated with 11 pairs of historical "Lovers" by Andy Warhol
Offset lithographs on light-blue-green wove paper.
One of two collaborations between the artists, the other being an abecedaire: A is an Alphabet.
More importantly, this is Andy Warhol's FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK
Ref: Feldman/Schellman Iv.27-37; 39-49