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![Vieux Carre Courier: the weekly newspaper of New Orleans [3 issue run]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/324/938/1600938324.0.b.jpg)
Vieux Carre Courier: the weekly newspaper of New Orleans [3 issue run]
by Gottlieb Derbes, Jeanette, editor, Ward Dunham, et al
New Orleans: James G. Derbes, Publisher, 1972. Newspaper. Three issue run, various pagination, very good tabloid newspapers on newsprint. Volume 8:41, 42 & 43, Feb. 18 - Mar. 9, 1972. News, reviews, bar guides, local ads, events.
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$35.00
New Orleans and the River. Study by the School of Architecture, Tulane University. A City Edges Project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts & the City of New Orleans
by Turner, William K., dean, Tulane school of architecture, speaking for the team of thirty professor/student compilers. Consultants include Murray Bookchin, "political ecology", and Henry C.K. Liu, urban design
New Orleans: Tulane University, 1974. Pamphlet. 33p., well-illustrated by b&w photos (some aerial) and diagrams. Softbound, a huge pamphlet in 11x11 inch glossy decorated wraps. Paperstock throughout is alkaline and unblemished. Pamphlet as a whole is edgeworn with turned corner-tips, lots of crimping, remains handleable, reasonably sound, clean and unmarked. FYI, the item is one of four productions of the project, comprised by this and another booklet, a poster, and "working papers" which are held in...
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$25.00
Department of Middle American Research of The Tulane University of Louisiana. Its activities and its aims
New Orleans: Tulane University, 1928. Staplebound. 30, [2]pp., illustrations, wraps. 9 x 6 in. Mildly dusty covers, but otherwise Very Good. Overview of the Middle American Research Institute (est. 1924) at Tulane University which furnished the latest research on Mexico and Central America to scholars and businessmen. Includes sections on library collections, expeditions, and artifact collections.
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$15.00
![[NEW ORLEANS] [FOOD AND WINE] Fifteenth Annual Convention Louisiana Hotel Association Banquet and Entertainment Saturday September 21, 1940 Grand Ball Room The Roosevelt Hotel](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/168/946/1332946168.0.b.jpg)
[NEW ORLEANS] [FOOD AND WINE] Fifteenth Annual Convention Louisiana Hotel Association Banquet and Entertainment Saturday September 21, 1940 Grand Ball Room The Roosevelt Hotel
by [Louisiana Hotel Association - corp. author]
[New Orleans]: [Louisiana Hotel Association], 1940. First Edition. Sewn binding. Near fine. Large octavo, [6]pp. A near fine copy in the publisher's textured illustrated wraps, with gold fringe as the binding. Scarce program with dinner menu and list of entertainments for this New Orleans-based association of Louisiana hotel owners. Not separately catalogued in OCLC, and we cannot find this or any similar example at the Historic New Orleans Collection. Nice piece of pre-war New Orleans culinary...
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$50.00
GPU News vol. 8, #8, May 1979
by Gay People's Union, Royal Agnew, Roy Letson, Richard Hall, et al
Milwaukee: Liberation Publications, 1979. Magazine. 52p. including covers, 8.5x11 inches, photos, ads, features, news, art, calendar of events, reviews, very good semi-slick magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Updates on local activities, discussions of the Movement, ads, photos, services, etc. Literary reviews. Iran Executing gays. Born Again Christians and gays. New Orleans Mardis Gras photos. The Gay People's Academic Union grew out of a University of a Wisconsin-Milwaukee student organization the...
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$20.00
![First Judicial District Court. The State of Louisiana.... [Citizens Bank of Louisiana vs. Hagan, Niven & Co., & Buchanan, Hagan & Co.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/048/573/1321573048.0.b.jpg)
First Judicial District Court. The State of Louisiana.... [Citizens Bank of Louisiana vs. Hagan, Niven & Co., & Buchanan, Hagan & Co.]
by P. Le Blanc; Francis J. Trubat; [Citizens Bank of Louisiana; Hagan, Niven and Buchanan]
New Orleans, Louisiana, June 20th. 1837. [1]p. Document Signed. Folio. 13 x 7¾ inches. Contemporary docketing on verso. Short splits expertly mended at folds; tanning and edge stains; corner paper loss. Writ of execution issued by New Orleans judge Charles Watts in the case of Citizens Bank of Louisiana vs. Hagan, Niven & Co., & Buchanan, Hagan & Co. The writ was issued on June 20, 1837, just a little over a month after banks in New York City suspended payment in specie. This action by banks in New...
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$75.00
Black flags and windmills. Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective. Forewords by Kathleen Cleaver & John P. Clark
by Crow, Scott
Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2014. Paperback. xxvi, 256p., pictorial wraps, illus., second edition, as New. Collective did relief & political work in New Orleans after Katrina. Includes some material on the Black Panthers, and Crow's work in Texas.
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$12.00
Spartacist Ireland. No. 8 (Autumn/Winter 2005)
Dublin: Spartacist Group Ireland, 2005. Single issue of the staplebound periodical, 16p., very good on semigloss paper, 8.25x11.75 inches. Issued by the Irish section of the International Communist League. Coverage includes criticism of the "war on terror" and a piece about the destruction of New Orleans.
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$12.00
Bourbon Street Studs
by Bonds, Jason
San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1982. Paperback. 153p., good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Adonis Classics AC275.
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$25.00
Brass bands and New Orleans jazz
by Schafer, William J., with Richard B. Allen
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977. Hardcover. ix, 134p., illustrated with numerous b&w period photographs, 8.5x8 inches, second printing, hardbound in 8x9 inch blue boards with a wide black cloth backstrip lettered in blue and gilt. Item is enclosed in its dust jacket. Book itself is entirely sound, clean and unmarked; the dj, while quite presentable, has two short marginal tears which we have tacked with verso tape. A very good copy.
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$35.00
Queens of the Quarter
by Tressner, William B., Jr
San Diego: PEC Publishers Export Co, 1968. Paperback. 159p., light wear else a very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. French Line FL 48. "Danny met some real characters in the old French Quarter. Take Daisy Mae, the big blond stud with a penal record who always wore drag..." - excerpt from cover.
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$30.00
Puddicat Lane
by Cox, Richard
New York: E. L. Pub, 1968. Paperback. 160p., worn first printing PBO in plain black and golf printed wraps. Trash fiction. TNC L-20. Trash sex fiction set in New Orleans features a jazz singer, a stripper, the Mafia.
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$15.00
Blues, An Anthology; Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs, Edited by W.C. Handy With an Historical and Critical Text by Abbe Niles. With Pictures by Miguel Covarrubias. Revised by Jerry Silverman, New Introduction by William Ferris
by Handy, W. C., editor
New York: Da Capo Press, Inc, 1990. Paperback. 224p., Covarrubias' paintings reproduced fullpage in b&w, bulk of text comprised of music notation and lyrics, softbound in 11x8 inch decorated silver wraps. Slight edgewear to covers and a small neat ownership on half-title, this is a sound, clean, otherwise unmarked copy.
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$20.00
The New Orleans Poetry Journal: vol. 3, #3, Sept. 1957
by Ashman, Richard & Maxine Cassin, editors, Larry Eigner, Louis Johnson, Charles Black, William M. Murray, et al
New Orleans: NOPJ, 1957. Magazine. 48p., 6x9 inches, poems, reviews, bios, very good poetry journal in stapled wraps.
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$20.00
Tinderbox: the untold story of the Up Stairs Lounge fire and the rise of Gay Liberation
by Fieseler, Robert W
New York: Liveright Pub. Corp, 2018. Hardcover. xxxviii, 343p., photographic endpapers, frontis-photo, map, historical figures, preface, introduction, notes, index, near fine first edition in boards and bright, unclipped dj. The story of the arson fire at the Up Stairs Lounge in NOLA in 1973 that murdered thirty-two people, many members of the local MCC church. Includes the aftermath, the search for justice and a consideration of other related incidents up to and including the Pulse mass-killing.
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$15.00
![Denizens of Happylandia [cover title Juan Carlos Quintana]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/593/495/1279495593.0.b.jpg)
Denizens of Happylandia [cover title Juan Carlos Quintana]
by Quintana, Juan Carlos, essay by Arvin Flores
New Orleans: Taylor Bercier Fine Arts, 2009. [24p] 6x9 inches, essay, illustrated with 13 color plates, curriculum vitae, very good exhibition catalogue booklet in stapled color pictorial wraps. Louisiana artist of Cuban heritage. The essayist is a Filipino American artist.
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$25.00
Trick of the Trade
by Corley, Carl
New York: 101 Enterprises, 1968. Paperback. 92p., very good first printing PBO in rubbed stapled original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. 101-26. A Marine on leave in New Orleans. Likely an edited version of "Jesse: a man of the streets" which features a bisexual teenage Native American boy.
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$45.00
![Official Drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery... Drawn at New Orleans, on Tuesday, June 17th, 1879 [opening lines of broadside]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/499/054/1514054499.0.b.0.jpg)
Official Drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery... Drawn at New Orleans, on Tuesday, June 17th, 1879 [opening lines of broadside]
by [M.A. Dauphin]
New Orleans: Graham, Print[er], 127 Gravier St., [1879]. Printed in multiple columns. 11 x 17¾ inches. Folds, as issued, light wear; near fine condition. A rare and ephemeral New Orleans-printed broadside advertising this Reconstruction Era lottery. The commissioners are identified in the broadside as "G.T. Beauregard" and "J.A. Early", i.e., the famed former Confederate Generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Jubal A. Early. As early as 1877 these two men profited from the dubiously-legitimate Louisiana...
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$1,250.00
New Orleans: the city disaster built
n.p.: n.pub, 2005. Pamphlet. [8p.], photocopied zine format in staplebound wraps, very good. Blames capitalist urban planning, or rather negligence, for the destruction caused by hurricane Katrina.
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$15.00
New Orleans Steam Spectacular!
by Strapac, Joseph A
Huntington Beach, CA: Shade Tree Books. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Light wear to edges and corners of front and back cover. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 64 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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$16.55
A Swarm of Bees In High Court
by Foster, Tonya
Brooklyn: Belladonna Books, 2002. Pamphlet. 14 pg. staple-bound pamphlet, 8.5" x 5.5". Staples rusted, else very good. Belladonna 34, Fall 2002. Foster was raised in New Orleans and is an editor at Fence Magazine and The Fence Magazine Review. Beginning in the Fall of 2021, she has served as the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair at San Francisco State University, and is a part of the San Francisco Writers Grotto.
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$12.00
Fabulous New Orleans
by Saxon, Lyle
New Orleans, Louisiana: Robert L. Crager & Company, 1952. Book. Illus. by E. H. Suydam, Illustrator. Near Fine. Hardcover. Later printing.. Very clean hardcover book in unclipped dust jacket. Revised Edition with New and Additional Illustrations by E. H. Suydam. Reddish cloth boards with clean unworn paste-on illustration on cover, black lettering; clean unfaded black cloth spine with gold lettering and decoration. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean decorated...
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$30.00
