Search Results: Authors starting with P from Martin Hartzold

New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, (1967). 8 1/2" x 6." [i-vi] vii, [1-2] 279pp. Blue linen cloth over boards. Gilt title at spine. In original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication page. Jacket with an approximately 1" closed tear at lower margin of front panel. Book with just the slightest lean and some trace corner bumping. In addition to the autor's signature, another gift inscription (not by the author) is present on the first endpaper. A sharp, signed copy of the first printing of Clara Claiborne Park's intimate memoir of raising an autistic daughter. In an era largely dominated by the myth of the "refrigerator mother" propogated by the research of Leo Kanner and Bruno Bettelheim. which largely blamed autism on emotional neglect caused by mothers working outside of the home, Park's book, written during an era when treatment for autism consisted almost solely of insitutional confinement, was the first book-length account of an autistic child being… Read More

[ca. 1940's]. 17 black and white photographs, each 8" x 10" single weight darkroom prints. [WITH] An approximately 10 1/2" x 8 1/2" ledger volume. Black cloth over boards with a red cloth strip over spine. 12 pages of manuscript entries (the balance blank graph paper leaves) of wage payment logs. Some mild handling wear and ocassional stray markings to print versos, otherwise all about very good. A collection of material from two different Don Cossack choral music acts active in the 1940's: An assembly of 17 original, ca-1940's promotional photographs, each stamped by the "General Platoff Don Cossack Chorus" and a 12pp. manuscript wage ledger of the "Don Cossack Choir" kept from 1947-1948. Each were prolific touring acts active in The United States and abroad throughout the 20th Century, formed from the Cossack diaspora in the wake of the Russian Revolution. The "Don Cossack Choir" traces its origins to Serge Jaroff and a Turkish Internment Camp in 1921. The "General Platoff" group to a Nikolai… Read More

[Spokane, Washington], (1946). Commercial album approximately 9" x 6." Black muslin cloth over boards with "SNAPS" stamped in reflective silver ink to front, spine. 26 black paper leaves with a total of 100 black and white snapshot photographs loosely fit into corner mounts of rectos and versos. Prints uniform in size, each about 4 1/2" x 3 1/2." One slot wtihout a photograph, most prints with a barely discernible waviness, otherwise neat and well preserved. An uncommonly well-executed album of snapshots of Spokane and its regional environs circa-1946. Views consist of urban architecture (including one of the front of the long-demolished Union Pacific Rail Depot), several of a parade, nature scenes, mountains, etc...

[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma], [1995]. 24 snapshot photographs. Each 6" x 4" glossy drugstore prints on Kodak-branded paper. All about fine. About a fillm roll's worth of snapshots of the Alfred P. Murrah building and its surrounding environs captured in the wake of its domestic terrorist bombing in April of 1995. The prints are undated, though a complete and professional destruction of its remains was carried out barely a month on from the April 19th bombing, placing these sometime in the interim.

Various, including Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee, (1992-2002). 13 sticky-page commercial photo albums holding about 625 color drugstore print snapshots, several ticket stubs, and some varied ephemera. About 20 prints sporadically perished from albums. Overall condition excellent. Very good or better throughout. 13 albums worth of snapshot photography documenting chiefly late-career performances by Waylon Jennings at venues in southern Indiana and Kentucky from about 1992 to 2001. Captured by a single, devoted fan, the images include many featuring performances with Jennings' wife, Jessi Colter and one with the short-lived supergroup The Highwaymen. The albums typically capture single concerts at venues like the Little Nashville Opry in Nashville, Indiana ; The Executive Inn in Owensboro, Kentucky ; and various nightclubs in Louisville, Kentucky. The final two albums document the anonymous compiler's attendance at an estate sale held at the Jennings' home in Brentwood, Tennessee, one of his final… Read More

Portage County, Ohio, (1979). 42 color snapshot photographs. Each approximately 5" x 3 1/2." [WITH] A single sheet, approximately 8 1/2" x 11" event flyer with print to recto only. All about fine. A small archive of snapshot photography accompanied by an original event flyer from the 1979 "Big Yank II" truck pull held in September of 1979 at the Portage County Fairgrounds outside of Akron, Ohio. Nighttime photographs, often with blurred headlights, capture the competition along with participant and spectator culture in more than 40 fine photographs to an undeniably artistic (albeit likely naive) effect. A scarce surviving group on truck pull competition from the late 1970's boom in the scene brought on by the seminal monster truck, Bigfoot, arriving on the national scene.

[Los Angeles, California], [ca. 1970's]. 8 black and white snapshots. Uniform prints on glossy Kodak-branded paper, each about 5" x 3 1/2." Fine condition. An undated, though seemingly-1970's series of snapshots capturing armed men standing at guard before the entrance of the Jewish Community Building at 590 N. Vermont Ave, just west of Downtown Los Angeles, as neo-Nazi protestors stalk the sidewalk out front holding Nazi flags and picket signs illustrated with swastikas above the phrase "NO TROOPS FOR ISRAEL." Prints are undated, though Kodak stamping to the versos, combined with multiple cars seen in frame, suggests early-to-mid-1970's, early in the existence of the Los Angeles chapter of the extremist Jewish Defense League, whose members are likely those standing guard, armed with machine guns, before the doors of the Building.

[Austria], (1927-1935). 23 photo albums. Various outside dimensions from 6” x 4” to 8” x 5 1/2.” Holding more than 1,200 black and white snapshot photographs to rectos and versos of paper leaves. Prints range in size from about 2 1/2” square to approximately 5” x 3 1/2.” Some infrequent handling wear and a few perished prints from pages, otherwise all uncommonly clean and well preserved. About very good-plus. A substantial archive of vernacular snapshot photography all originating from the same, almost certainly Austrian, family and dated between 1927 and 1935. More than 1,200 images focus on what appear to be travel and holidays, often in the Alps. The images range from typical point and shoot family views to significantly more considered, artful impressions of the human figure, Alpine scenery, city views, etc... all combining to form a lovely and broad archive of Austrian vernacular photography in the era just prior to the onset of World War II. Albums are a blend of seemingly… Read More

[St. Louis, Missouri], (1895). Single albumen print photograph approximately 7 1/2" x 4 3/4" on a card mount (approximately 10" x 8").Contemporoary pencil notation to verso: "SAINT LOUIS / FEBRUARY 8TH - 1895 / JOS. A. KANE." Print lightly faded, lower right chunk out of mount. Overall good. An evocative view of a St. Louis streetcar dated 1895. Lettering to the front of the car reads: "Grand Ave. Rwy. Co." and architectural environs suggests to us Benton Park. Further, the address number "2001" can be read above the front door of the house at left, rear, suggesting to us a location of the corner of Wisconsin and Arsenal, immediately across the street from Benton Park (City Park at the time).

Los Angeles, California and Berwick, Pennsylvania: Crown Body and Coach Corporation / American Car and Foundry, [ca. 1955-1958]. 13 black and white photographs. Each approximately 8" x 10" bordered, single weight prints with photographer's stamping and brief notes in pencil or pen to versos. Originally in a non-archival blue chipboard album. Prints each near fine and now encased in an archival mylar sleeve with original album intact and included. A group of 13 reference photographs documenting the interiors and exteriors of two different "Highway Post Office" conversion buses from about 1955 and 1958. Seven prints feature verso stamping of a Van Nuys, California photographer and image side branding of the Crown Body and Coach Corporation of Los Angeles. The remaining six are dated January 1958 to versos and feature stamping of the Berwick, Pennsylvania offices of American Car and Foundry (ACF). We acquired these from the estate of a former staff engineer with ACF, a St. Louis-based firm involved… Read More

Various, including Nashville, Tennessee, [ca. 1993]. 61 color photographs. 59 approximately 6" x 4" color drugstore prints ; 1- 5" x 3 1/2" - 1 - Polaroid instant print. Some mild handling wear, most notably to the Polaroid. A few prints with ink notations to versos. Overall well preserved, group about very good. A small archive of color snapshot photography compiled by a woman known only to us as "Hollie" and documenting her time in Nashville and on the road as a back-up singer for the popular country music band Confederate Railroad, circa-1993. Views center on life on tour and on stage, several capture a scene in a Nashville Printer's Alley nightclub called Barbara's and feature excellent candid views of a pre-record deal Kenny Chesney, some show her at home with family, etc... An uncommon vernacular glimpse behind the scenes at early 1990's Nasvhille, through the eyes of a side performer, as the country music industry bommed in mainstream popularity. Confederate Railroad went on to sell some 5… Read More

St. Louis, Missouri , (ca. 1918-1940). Two ruled ledger books. THE FIRST: 12 1/2" x 8 1/2" gray cloth over boards with marooon calf at spine corners. 200 numbered pages full with manuscript entries. Dozens of scrap manuscript notes, printed business cards, etc... laid-in. Binding nearly failed from being laid flat. Gatherings coming loose from one another, but most contents, apart from a few stray loose leaves, servicably holding together. THE SECOND: 12" x 7 1/2." Printed card wraps. 88 numbered pages full with manuscript entries. Card wraps almost entirely split along spine. Mild to moderate handling wear. A few manuscript scraps laid-in loose. Overall each solidly good or better with legibility about the same. A pair of manuscript ledgers recording visits of patients to the office of Dr. G. William Poehl (1887-1971) from about 1918 to 1940. Located at 5101A Delmar Blvd. on the city's north side and about two blocks east of St. LukeÂ’s Hopital, Poehl's practice seems to have been a general one,… Read More