North America

  • [PENNSYLVANIA] Report of the Board of Inspectors of the Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, for the year 1838 [1842; 1846; 1847].

    # 33733

    STATE PENITENTIARY FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

    [PENNSYLVANIA] Report of the Board of Inspectors of the Western Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, for the year 1838 [1842; 1846; 1847].

    Pittsburgh, Pa. : Johnston and Stockton, 1839; 1843; 1847-1848. Four issues, uniform octavo (215 mm), three with original colour wrappers, issue for 1838 with contemporary plain wrappers, each with wet stamp, spine label and ms. markings of the nineteenth-century German library Bibliothek Bruchsal; pp 12; 20; 24; 27; two issues with light vertical crease, otherwise all …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC; MELBOURNE] Seventy-six negro spirituals and plantation songs.

    # 34302

    Various.

    [SHEET MUSIC; MELBOURNE] Seventy-six negro spirituals and plantation songs.

    Series: The Australian Music Books, no. 43. Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Bendigo : Allan & Co., Ltd., [August, 1929]. Folio (330 x 250 mm), original lithographed pictorial wrappers with a beautiful design of native ferns and palms and a vignette view of Melbourne from the southern end of Princes Bridge (old tape reinforcement along spine), pp …

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  • [WESTERN AMERICANA] Lord of Lonely Valley.

    # 34202

    KYNE, Peter B.

    [WESTERN AMERICANA] Lord of Lonely Valley.

    By Peter B. Kyne. Complete book-length novel. Supplement to the Australian Women’s Weekly. Issue June 6, 1936. [Sydney : Consolidated Press], 1936. Folio newspaper (300 x 225 mm), cover illustration by Wynne W. Davies, pp 32, text printed in three columns; a fine example. Very scarce. The only copy of this edition of Kyne’s story located on …

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  • Jeff Koons : Lost in America

    # 34127

    KAZANJIAN, Dodie et al.

    Jeff Koons : Lost in America

    Milan : Skira Editore S.p.A, 2022. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 248, illustrated. Text by Dodie Kazanjian and Sophia Al Maria. New copy, sealed in shrink-wrap. Edited by curator Masimilliano Gioni, this book focuses in particular on Koons’ art as seen in relation to contemporary American culture. With his aesthetics of plenitude and his pop-up dreams …

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  • [HAWAII; CALIFORNIA] Viaggio intorno al globo principalmente alla California ed alle isole Sandwich negli anni 1826, 1827, 1828 e 1829

    # 33504

    DUHAUT-CILLY, Auguste Bernard (1790-1849)

    [HAWAII; CALIFORNIA] Viaggio intorno al globo principalmente alla California ed alle isole Sandwich negli anni 1826, 1827, 1828 e 1829

    di A. Duhaut-Cilly con l’aggiunta delle osservazioni degli abitanti di quei paesi di Paolo Emilio Botta ; traduzione dal francese nell’ italiano di Carlo Botta. Torino : Stabilimento Tipografico Fontana, 1841. First Italian edition. (Note: although the imprint on the bindings is dated 1843, the title pages of both volumes have the date 1841). Two …

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  • The Latin letter of Columbus : printed in 1493 and announcing the discovery of America. Reproduced in facsimile, with a preface.

    # 33652

    [COLUMBUS]

    The Latin letter of Columbus : printed in 1493 and announcing the discovery of America. Reproduced in facsimile, with a preface.

    London : Bernard Quaritch, 1893. Royal octavo (220 x 180 mm), publisher’s printed stiff wrappers, pp vi, [8], partially uncut, a near fine copy. Published by Quaritch to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s letter. Three copies traced in Australian collections: University of Sydney Library; National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales …

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  • [HOLLYWOOD] Welcome to Universal International.

    # 33646

    UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL STUDIO

    [HOLLYWOOD] Welcome to Universal International.

    Hollywood, California : Universal International Studio, [between 1955 and 1960]. Oblong octavo (140 x 220 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled, [8] pp, a visitor’s guide with double-page of thumbnail photographic portraits of current stars, and illustrations of and printed information about the Studio; a fine copy.

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  • Tomato Soup (1968)

    # 32890

    WARHOL, Andy (1928-1987)

    Tomato Soup (1968)

    New York : Factory Additions, 1968. Screenprint in colours, on smooth wove paper, 813 x 476 mm (image), 891 x 588 mm (sheet), signed in black ballpoint pen on the reverse, stamp-numbered 33/250 (there were also 26 artist’s proofs lettered A-Z), from the series Campbell’s Soup I. Complete and untrimmed, the full sheet, printed surface in …

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  • E. J. Bellocq : Storyville portraits. Photographs from the New Orleans red-light district, circa 1912.

    # 33288

    BELLOCQ, E. J.; FRIEDLANDER, Lee; SZARKOWSKI, John

    E. J. Bellocq : Storyville portraits. Photographs from the New Orleans red-light district, circa 1912.

    Reproduced from prints made by Lee Friedlander, preface by Lee Friedlander, edited by John Szarkowski. London : Scolar Press, [1978?]. First UK edition. Quarto (280 x 240 mm), publisher’s pictorial wrappers, pp [88], including 34 full-page monochrome plates; a very good copy. Now famous – but still startling – collection of photographs of prostitutes in …

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  • Gentle Subsidy

    # 33242

    CAREY, Steve

    Gentle Subsidy

    Bolinas: Big Sky, 1975. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, unpaginated book of poetry, limited to 750 copies. Fine copy.

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  • Jean-Michel Basquiat XXL

    # 33148

    HOLZWARTH, Hans Werner

    Jean-Michel Basquiat XXL

    London : Taschen, 2018. Folio (395 mm tall), boards in dustjacket, pp. 608, extensively illustrated. New copy, sealed in shrinkwrap. Get up close to the bold brushwork and scribbled words of Jean-Michel Basquiat, one of the most successful artists of his time. This XXL-sized monograph gathers Basquiat’s major works in pristine reproduction. Texts by editor …

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  • Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men

    # 32627

    FISCHER, Hal (1950 - )

    Gay semiotics : a photographic study of visual coding among homosexual men

    San Francisco : NFS Press, 1977. First edition. Quarto, lettered wrappers (edges rubbed, a couple of small creases and handling wear, small bookseller’s label inside lower wrapper), pp. 56, illustrated. A very good copy. The rare first edition. In 2015 a facsimile was printed (which sold out), this summary is taken from the publisher’s description: …

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  • American Cinematographer (a near complete run 1977 - 1984)

    # 32105

    American Society of Cinematographers

    American Cinematographer (a near complete run 1977 – 1984)

    Hollywood : American Society of Cinematographers, 1976 – 1984. 75 issues, magazine format, light handling marks, a very good run. A substantially complete run of this monthly guide to American cinema, published in Hollywood and covering the rise of the sci-fi blockbuster, and including covers featuring iconic films such as Alien, Blade Runner, Tron, The …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Nobody lied (when they said that I cried over you)

    # 32940

    NORMAN, Karyl [performer and lyricist]; WEBER, Edwin J. [music]; BERRY, Hyatt (lyrics)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Nobody lied (when they said that I cried over you)

    New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ in full drag, pp. 6, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing vaudeville on the west coast …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Don't leave me mammy

    # 32602

    NORMAN, Karyl [performer] SANTLY, Henry W. [composer] CONRAD, Con [composer] DAVIS, Benny [lyricist] De SYLVA, B. G. (Buddy Gard) [lyricist]

    [SHEET MUSIC] Don’t leave me mammy

    New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ dressed in drag, pp. 6, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing vaudeville on the west coast …

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  • [WOOL INDUSTRY] H. G. Hibbard, breeder of thoroughbred Spanish Merino Sheep, Orwell, Vt.

    # 32032

    H. G. HIBBARD

    [WOOL INDUSTRY] H. G. Hibbard, breeder of thoroughbred Spanish Merino Sheep, Orwell, Vt.

    East Shoreham, Vermont [U.S.A.] : F.L. Webster, [circa 1880]. Lithographed business card, 77 x 132 mm; printed recto only, illustration signed David No. 77. Fine condition. Having fiercely protected its merino bloodlines from foreign powers for so long, Spain had relinquished its monopoly on the hugely lucrative merino wool industry by the early 1800s. Merinos were introduced …

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