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2 pp, 5 3⁄4 x 14 3⁄4. Splits repaired with archival tape. Even toning, soiling. Written on ledger paper, not uncommon during the Civil War, especially in the Confederacy as paper was scarce. Address leaf is light.C"Geneva Girls" was apparently a title given to Confederate women who were devoted to helping wounded and sick soldiers regardless of the side they were fought for.E.R. Manron, writes to W.C. Morrison "Right out of the rebel camp...Well, Mr. 'Billy' here is the song you wanted. You must excuse the bad writing for I write in great haste. If you are out of the notion of wanting this song yourself please give it to one of the boys who know the Geneva Girls. "Yours ever...Geneva Girl No. 2." On the verso, Manron, titles the song, "Geneva Girls/Air of Fairy Belles"
 The song, "Now please give attention to what I am going to say about our Geneva Girls in my own peculiar way; Now pretty girls one by one everybody knows, that you are always taking on about your precious beaus; Chorus. Geneva… Read More

[Ann Arbor]: Human Rights Party, n.d. [ca 1970s]. Flyer/broadside, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, printed both sides of a single sheet. Faint horizontal mailing fold, else fine. Calls for the repeal of marijuana laws and the reinstitution of the $5 fine for pot possession in the Ann Arbor city limits.

New York: Simon & Schuster/Trident Press, 1961. Second printing. Hardcover. 679pp. 8vo. Brown Boards. Chipping to spine. Some small white stains on back board else very good. Robbins' bestselling novel, published at the onset of the sexual revolution. The Carpetbaggers demonstrates Robbins' skill at judging the exact boundaries of permissibility. Only two years earlier, the U.S. Postmaster General had banned D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover from the mail as obscene. In 1960, publisher Grove Press won the Supreme Court case contesting the ban, but even in 1961 booksellers all over the country were sued for selling Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. Parker quotes a professor of English as saying, "The Carpetbaggers could have sent any retailer handling it to prison before 1960." The Carpetbaggers never landed in court. It did not extend the boundaries of what was acceptable. But it vigorously (and profitably) exploited the territory that Grove Press had opened up.… Read More

San Francisco: PolyPrints, Inc., 1959. First edition. Near fine. Unpaginated. 5 x 7" B&W and color illustrations. Cover is a colored Normal Rockwell reprint, "The Farmer Takes a Ride." Includes: A Complete Selection of Authoritative Publications, Historical Information for the Old Car Enthusiast, Ford Facts and Figures and Continental, Mercury and Lincoln Lore. This is the first of a regular series. Complied in answer to requests from old car fans for information regarding Fords and for a listing of available publications. Includes over a hundred titles on the Ford Motor Company and their products that provide all of the information needed to restore a Model T, A or V-8 to original condition. There are manuals on Models: A, B, C, F, K, N, R, and S. Other titles explain how and why Ford cars were made. An essential addition to a Norman Rockwell, Ford, or vintage catalog collection.

New York: Alternative Museum, 1988. First edtion. 112 pp. 8 1/2 x 11" Stiff covers. Catalog for the 1988 exhibition at the Alternative Musuem in New York, organized by Geno Rodriguez, examining Central America, the Middle East and Southern Africa. Text by Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmed, Ellen Siegel, Edward W. Said, Jon Lister, Saths Cooper, Houston conwill, Cherri D. Waters. Black and white photographs by Peter Magubani, Phil Parmet, Omar Badsha, Larry Boyd, Julian Cobbing, Lou dematteis, Said Elatab, Bill Gentile, Atsuko Otsuka, Nancy McGirr, Cedric Nunn and many others. Like New.

np: 1982. First edition. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" 14pp. Different colored pages with drawings, side-stapled blue covers. Sunning to spine and top edge. Long inscription on back cover. Signed, "from a nice American guy-Art

First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 314pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, easily VG or better. Memoir by a lifer in the Iowa State Penitentiary. Includes a description of the author's lengthy stay in solitary confinement following an escape attempt.

Alhambra, CA: The Cunningham Press, 1967. Second Edition. One of 500 unnumbered copies. Original white wrappers with title printed in red ink on front and spine. Glassine dust-jacket with protective mylar cover. Some tearing on top/bottom edges of glassine dust jacket. Light soiling and wear on front cover. Ruscha combines the literalness of early California pop art with a photographic aesthetic using minimalist concepts of repetitive sequence and seriality. The title describes the book - black and white photographs of twenty-six different gasoline stations. The idea was for the book to be available to an audience that couldn't afford gallery art; circumventing galleries began with Happenings and certain Fluxus events in the late 1950s and early 1960s. There was an idea of the book as a democratic and affordable means in which an artist could produce their vision and disseminate it widely. [Drucker 77]. In an interview Ruscha explains that, “...One of the purposes of my book has to do with… Read More