Search Results: Titles starting with B from Martin Hartzold

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.

New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1968. First Edition. 8 1/2" x 6." 670pp. Black and yellow cloth over boards. Ink titles to spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped ($8.95). General, mild edgewear to jacket, small section of paper loss near spine title, faint dampstaining at lower end. Page block with small section of dampstain at lower corner. Red top stain a bit discolored. Attractive still, internally clean, sound, and unmarked. A tick less than very good overall. A decent copy of the uncommon hardcover trade edition of Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal's 1968 compliation of Black Arts Movement writing. 200 works by more than 70 contributors including both editors, Stokely Carmichael, Sun-Ra, Charles Cobb, and more.

St. Louis, Missouri: [The Board of Governors of the Log Cabin Club], (1990). [66]pp., including 15 full-page black and white photo reproductions. 7" x 5 1/4." Green cloth over hardcover boards. Gilt title decoration to front. Without dust jacket, likely as-issued. Presentation slip tipped-on to interior front pastedown with printed Club logo and typed text with handwritten name of "W.H.T. Bush." Fine condition. A scarce, privately-published membership roster and history of the exclusive Log Cabin Club, a private golf club located in Ladue, Missouri, a tony western suburb of St. Louis, consisting of a clubhouse and nine-hole golf course. At the time of publication, membership had been recently expanded from 55 to 70 members. The highly-revealing text here provides a full roster of current and past members which included August Busch III ; longtime Emerson Electric CEO Charles F. Knight ; renowned architect Gyo Obata (who was almost certainly the Club's first non-white member) ; William H.T. Bush… Read More

Various, including Oklahoma, Texas, and Detroit, (ca. 1932-1965). An administrative archive consisting of about a dozen pieces of marketing and administrative forms and ephemera along with more than 200 pieces of typed, hand-written, or photo-duplicated correspondence. Materials chronologically sorted and all neatly placed into an approximately 13" x 10" x 2"h archival cloth clamshell box. Original (empty) leather binder included. A rich archive of paperwork and correspondence compiled by an Alfons. A. Jay (aka Alphonso A. Jurkiewicz, aka A.A. Jay) during his work as an agent and interrogator with a few different retail auditing firms active in Oklahoma and Texas, but primarily Detroit, from the 1930's into the 1960's. Ancestral records tell us Jay was born to Polish parents in Detroit in 1918 and that he died in 1971 (also in Detroit) at the age of 53. In between he seems to have pursued a career with various firms, most lasting the Business Surveys System of Detroit, as an agent and interrogator.… Read More