Search Results: Titles starting with M from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

London: Continuum, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. xii,212 pp. Publisher's cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Near fine.

[Jackson, Mississippi]: [Journal of Mississippi History], 1951. [13] pp. Self-wrappers, saddle-stapled. Lightly creased in upper margin, else fine. Offprint from THE JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI HISTORY, April, 1951. An paper on the lives and careers of Confederate military and political leaders from Mississippi after the Civil War, including Jefferson Davis, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, James L. Alcorn, Henry Stuart Foote, Francis Asbury Shoup, Stephen Dill Lee, and various others. The article concludes with the observation that "[i]n the years following Appomattox these men of ability regained their positions of leadership in the political, religious, educational and cultural life of the State .... [t]hose who fought under the Southern Cross remained to help and rebuild the state and to direct its destiny." The authors, William B. Hesseltine (1902-1963) and Larry Gara (1922-2019) co-wrote several articles together during at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, Hesseltine served on the faculty and Gara received… Read More

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 6 3/4 inches. [16] illustrated leaves, printed recto only, each cut twice horizontally to form three new leaves. Original stiff pictorial wrappers, stapled, colophon printed on recto of rear wrapper leaf. Signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon. Fine. Number 495 of the first edition, limited to 526 copies (500 numbered copies for sale, 26 lettered copies reserved for the use of the artist and the publisher). An exquisite corpse-style "slice book," featuring various human and non-human figures each cut into three parts so that their heads, torsos, and legs can be combined in various ways. Interestingly, Gorey created the original drawings for the book already in "mixed" form. One of Gorey's eleven movable books and three cut-apart books. Toledano A81b.

New York: [The author], 1970. First Edition. Broadside, 14 x 11 inches. Light toning at right edge, else fine. Poetry broadside by writer and photographer Denis Sivack, recounting scenes of the day of the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam mass demonstrations in New York. He drives in the morning from Staten Island, where he sees a Black army recuit staring into the distance, to Brooklyn, where he listens to variety of voices, including a representative of Women Strike for Peace, members of the Black Panthers, and the poet David Henderson, and finally to Washington Square in Greenwich Village, where he sees the statistics of the war dead on the Judson Memorial Church bulletin board and is left with the image of the darkness after a vigil's last candle "had burned to nothing and the last man had walked away." OCLC records two copies, at Brown and SUNY Buffalo (2017).

New York: Hand set in Caslon Old Face & Priory Text, by M. Martin & C. Skalba, apprentices, & printed at Uranian Press N.Y.C., 1960. 4 broadsides, approximately 20 x 8 1/2 inches, in original printed paper folder, 21 x 8 3/4 inches. Printed on tan paper. Signed and numbered in pencil on front cover of folder by Baer and Kaplan. Front cover of folder embossed with seal of the Uranian Press. Fine. Numbered 298 of 400 copies. The first Uranian Press "Broadside Ballads Folio," inspired by the the blackletter broadside ballad of Elizabethan England, advertised in the 1960 Uranian Press Catalogue One, and sold by Uranian Press founder Richard O. Tyler in the Judson Church Yard in Greenswich Village. The poems are composed by Victor Lorenz Kaplan, a.k.a. Ralph Mucklefoot, type set by young apprentices Michael Martin and Conard Skalbo, and illustrated with woodcuts by Dorothea Baer, wife of Richard Tyler and co-founder of the Uranian Press and the later Uranian Phalanstery. The first three broadsides, "Simple… Read More

New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co., 1914. 100 pp. Original printed wrappers. Light pencil marks and underlining. Wrapper rubbed and lightly chipped at extremities; rear wrapper creased. Very good.
The first English-language edition of Otto Rank's seminal psychoanalytic reading on heroes in myths across ages and cultures, after the German first edition of 1909.

Baltimore, [ca. 1989]. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Felt pen, rubber stamps, and photoreproduced collage, all in colors, on foam core board; 25-cent stamp with cancel. Inscribed and intitialed by the artist. Board mildly worn at extremities, board creased (visible only on verso). Very good. Sally Mericle, a.k.a. Mars Tokyo (b. 1952), is a Baltimore-based multimedia artist, who became involved in the Stamp and Mail Art movement in the mid-1970s and from 1990 to 2000 operated the Mars Tokyo Rubber Stamp Company. She warmly inscribes the postcard to Matty Jankowski (1948-2019), a fellow visionary artist and active Mail Art movement member. Jankowski, also a celebrated tattoo artist, was born in Brooklyn and based there for most of his adult life before moving to Panama City, Florida, in the early 2000s. The postcard was sent to Jankowski's Midwood, Brooklyn, address, where he was operating Circle Arts., Inc., a mail-art exchange program. Mericle's message reads: "Matty - This isn't exactly a recipe for your… Read More