Search Results: Maryland from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Boston: Ploughshares Books, 1990. Paperback. 181p., softbound, the first edition in 8.5x5.5 inch pictorial wraps. Very nice copy, entirely sound, clean and unmarked. Buyer should note an oddity: back cover bears a neat keyboard-set label affixed at the publisher's, reading "Not Final Cover / Printer Error" followed by Ploughshares' name, the price ($9.95) and the ISBN (same as printed on copyright page). Ergo, depending on the "final" graphic (or other element) this is the fustest first.

Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1972. Calendar. Twelve sheets for the months of the year, with cover sheet; 8.5x14 inches, mild handling wear, very good. Most pages have either a feminist quote, or an advertisement for a book or poster.

n.p.: the Association, 1984. 56p. very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches, numerous black and white photos. Text almost entirely in Chinese. Booklet produced for the annual conference of the Association, this time held in Pasadena, CA.

Rockville, MD: the Association, 1989. Paperback. 132p., slightly creased wraps, 8.5x11 inches, numerous black and white photos. Text mostly in Chinese. Booklet produced for the annual conference of the Association, this time held in Chicago.

Rockville, MD: Self-published by the author, 1998. 66p., 5.5x8.5 inches, #40/150 copies, very good first edition chapbook in stapled lavender pictorial wraps. Puerto Rican poet and military veteran living in Rockville, MD. Only one holding located in OCLC as of 7/2019.

Baltimore: The Sunpapers, [195-]. 11x18 inch black and white print, very good mounted on a slightly worn board, title penned at lower left, the photographer's rubberstamp on the reverse. Photo depicts a boy wearing a traditional Chinese outfit but sitting in such a way that his western shoes and socks are visible. Richard Stacks was a renowned photographer for the Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore: Bureau of Public Secrets / Vacant Lots Press, 1979. Pamphlet. [18p.], 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled into mock "Secret" file folder, front cover toned, staples slightly rusted, slight edge wear, fore-edge is heavily foxed, a decent reading copy. Research Group One report no. 25. Sardonic observations with silly diagrams and advertisements, presented as a dossier based on years of behavioral investigation.

Washington DC & Atlanta: Capital Community Pub. & The Gay Yellow Pages, 1996. Paperback. 120p., 8.25x10.75 inches, LGBTQ phone book, very good paperback in decorative wraps.

Baltimore: BGP: Baltimore Gay Paper, 1998. Pamphlet. 38p., 8x10.75 inches, pages lightly and evenly toned, light handling wear, else very good in stapled pictorial wraps.

Coral Springs, FL: Llumina Press, 2004. Paperback. 80p., wraps. Strange Fruit is a youth writers collective based in Baltimore; most members are African American. Creasing to corners, else good.

Silver Spring, MD: Cherry Valley Editions, 1984. paperback. 64p., very good first edition trade paperback in decorative wraps. African American poet in the rapper vein who was at publication doing time in The Maryland House of Corrections at Jessup.

Baltimore: DuForcelf Black Classic Press, 1994. Paperback. 188p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps, remainder marks to bottom page edges. Baltimore writer and educator.

College Park, MD: University of Maryland, Dept. of American Studies, 2011. 20p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, news, articles, book reviews, member publications, announcement of prizes, candidates, call for submissions, very good newsletter in stapled wraps.

Baltimore: Educational Recovery Communications, 1992. Pamphlet. 33p., 5.5x8.5 inch zine wraps; many illustrations by the author depicting life with multiple personality disorder, in very good condition.

Riverdale, MD: Maryland Socialist League, 1966. Newsletter. 9p. newsletter, 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at corner, penciled note "Contains text of Const'n of MSL" at top of cover sheet, otherwise very good. The entire issue is devoted to the Constitution of the newly formed League.

Santa Rosa CA: Self-published by author Ketchum, 2007. Hardcover. [2]p. (Shulgin intro), iv, 1-360p., illustrated with numerous chemical formulae plain & fancy (the fancy are presented in neat small boxes color-xeroxed throughout the final quarter of text). First (and possibly last) edition, in 8X11 inch laminated boards, Text stock is entirely clay-coated paper, presswork is professional-level. Condition: slightly edgeworn, but expect structural and aesthetic damage to front hinge, where the pastedown of endsheet has begun to lift away from front board, a half-inch gap at gap's top end, dwindling away 3/4 of the way down. No leaves are lost or even at risk, book is slightly musty. All other aspects of the item perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, a good (good-only) copy that is inscribed and signed to a "great editor!" PLUS: five standard leaves imprinted with ten full pages of text, corner-stapled and somewhat edgeworn from storage in the smaller book. This inserted pamphlet is credited to Ketchum… Read More

Washington DC: Chesapeake Bay Bears, 1995. Pamphlet. [16p] includes covers, 4.25x11 inches, very good program booklet in stapled gray wraps. A benefit contest for The McCann Fund in DC & Moveable Feast, Baltimore. Emcee was Lurch. Judges included Bob Miller editor & publisher of Daddybear Magazine.

Laurel, MD: Laurel Print Shop, 1941. Pamphlet. 23p. staplebound booklet, very good. The author discusses moral and philosophical reasons for taking up arms in WWII.

Baltimore: Club Atlantis, 1980. Handbill. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill printed one side only with photos of the male strippers, lightly-worn. The Club was a Gay institution in Baltimore for decades. Closed down in the 2000s. There were complaints that African American strippers and customers were barred from the Club.

Albany: State University of New York Press. xii, 318pp., illustrations, wraps slightly shelf worn else very good condition. This book examines the harassment of the Johns Hopkins University sinologist Owen Lattimore during the height of the Cold War on campus. It moves from detailing the specifics of Lattimore's case to a discussion of the broader themes of academic governance that the case exposed. With his meticulous dissection of this major event in United States academic history, Lewis shows us much about the workings of academic governance.