SNOWDAY EDITION : A WINTER SHORTLIST

20 selections from the ABAA Virtual Showcase for Bibliography Week 2021

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20 items, including books, serials, ephemera

Presented

on the occasion of the N.Y.C. blizzard of ’21

and the recent ABAA Virtual Showcase for Bibliography Week

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A varied assortment of topics and formats, mostly from the 20th century, including some notable artists’ books, items of interest for subject specialists in Latin American and African American culture and history, a very rare magazine published by World War II era German Jewish refugees in Shanghai, and a presentation of photographs of bookmobiles.

Cover illustration: front cover board of the rare monograph on African-American artist Howard Smith

Illustrations on this page and the following: Book of Spirits by Naomi Yang, the above showing the form of a HUMOTS, a spirit that "can transport all manner of books for thy pleasure."

CONTENTS

I. African American History & Culture p.5

II. Latin American History & Culture p.8

III. Judaica p.15

IV. Artists’ Books p.21

V. Western Travelers in the Middle East p.24

VI. Rare Annuals and Serials p.26

VII. Going Places p.23

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I. African American History & Culture

1. Suomala, Jussi. Howard Smith. Helsinki: Like, 2008. First Edition. 231 pp. text in a two-column Finnish-English bilingual translation concerning the African American artist based in Helsinki, lavishly illustrated throughout. Includes an index, timeline, and annotated bibliography. 4to. As new. Illus. boards, gilt cloth spine. [1142] $300 An important work on a major Black artist who has spent the last forty years of his life and career working in Finland. The book includes beautiful reproductions of Smith's work across a variety of media including painting, drawing, paper cuts, textiles, ceramics, metalwork and sculpture. Candid images from the artist's personal life are also included. Per an online biography, Smith (New Jersey, 1928) attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and become a fellow there in 1962 after having earned a commission in the U.S. Army. He made his first trip to Finland that same year as a member of the Academy of Fine Arts' "Young America Presents" touring exhibition and decided to remain there. Supporting himself as an interior designer, Smith mounted his first solo exhibition at Gallerie Pinx (Helsinki) in 1963. He has since exhibited internationally, including in the U.S., but remains largely overlooked in recent accounts of major African American artists and designers of the 20th century. The present title (now more than ten years out of print and poor distributed outside of Finland) is the most comprehensive monograph on his life and work. As of January 2021 we are only able to locate holdings at six institutions in the U.S.

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3. Sew-on Patches. Black is Beautiful : Color Fast. Laundry Proof. Sew Them On: Shirts, Pants,

Jackets, Hats. New York, NY: Best Emblem Insignia, n.d. [196?]. Embroidered cloth patch in red, green, and black, housed in the original sales packaging. 12mo. Interior contents presumed near fine ; packaging is very good with original printed price "59 [cents]" marked down to "25 [cents]" in black marker. [1115] $125 An textile iconic patch giving voice to the "Black is Beautiful" movement's statement of affirmation for a positive perception of African-American bodies in a cultural space the privileges white and light-skinned beauty. While its exact point of origin remains obscure, the slogan first rose to prominence during the early 1960s as part of the wider cultural flowering of Black pride during the struggle for civil rights and social justice for African Americans. Some cultural historians have associated the slogan with a televised fashion show entitled

2. [African American Women’s Fashion] NAFAD. The San Francisco Chapter Presents The Los Angeles Chapter of National Association of Fashion and Accessory Designers Inc. in their Designers' Showcase 1963. San Francisco: NAFAD, 1963. 20 pp. souvenir program for the African American fashion designer's showcase and dinner. 8vo. Very good, unevenly toned at the center spread. Saddle stapled. On hold Attractive copy of a West Coast showcase for San Francisco and Los Angeles chapters of the National Association of Black Fashion and Accessories Designers (NAFAD), an historically important collective of Black women in the fashion industry who banded together to combat rampant racism and exclusion in American beauty culture. At its peak, NAFAD had chapters throughout the country, and served as an important social network for black women entrepreneurs during the civil rights era. We can find no other examples of the present brochure in institutional library collections in North America.

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"Naturally ’62," hosted by photographer by Kwame Brathwaite, which sought to celebrate Afrocentric ideals of natural beauty. Others have pointed to efforts of black-women entrepreneurs in African-American beauty salons and local pageant businesses of the era. Rare in such good condition especially in the original packaging.

II. Latin American History & Culture

5. [Mexico] Cronista de México, El : Semanario Ilustrado Independiente. Vol. I, no. 7 (Oct 1879) through Vol. III, no. 100 (Dec. 1881) (99 of ca. 122 issues printed during the serial's first three years). México: Dublan y Compañia. Imprenta del Comercio, Cordobanes., 1879-1881. First Edition. Impressive bound collection of the illustrated newspaper edited by Ignacio Herrera de Leon and José E. Hernández as a weekly gathering of political, economic, scientific, literary, and cultural events in Mexico and around the world. Issues present include Tomo I : nos. 7 (Sabado 18 de Octubre de 1879) - 20, 22

4. [Architecture] Villanueva, Carlos Raúl. La Vivienda Popular en Venezuela, 1928-1952. Caracas: Banco Obrero, n.d. [ca. 1952]. First Edition. [Preparada y dirigida por Carlos Raúl Villanueva y Carlos Celis Cepero] 140 pp. texts in Spanish and English, illustrated throughout with reproductions of landscapes, plans, elevations and portraits of workers. Square 8vo. Very good, with slight ripple to glossy paper of the front wrapper, interior text block near fine. Plastic comb bound deformed at head but fully intact. [1135] Sold Prepared by the authors "con colaboraron los estudiantes de Aruitectura: José Manuel Mijares, Ana Teresa Caraballo G., Mercedes Fernández, Gladys de la Cova, Maria Fedacka, y los dibujantes Francisco Oliva y Victor Gil," for presentation at the Eight Pan-American Congress of Architects, this attractive study of popular dwellings in Venezuela during the middle part of the 20th c. considers the potentials of modernist cooperatives and planned communities as a solution to the social problems inherent to destitute worker communes in Caracas and throughout the countryside. An elegant and beautifully illustrated work. Rare in the trade and institutionally uncommon.

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(Sabado 31 de Enero de 1880) ; Tomo II : nos. 1 (7 de Febrero de 1880) - 3, 5 - 13,15 - 26, 28 - 40, 42, 43, 46, 47 (Sabado 25 de Diciembre de 1880) ; Tomo III: no. 48 (1º de enero de 1881) - 54, 58 (12 de Marzo de 1881). The second contains Tomo III : nos. 66 (7 de Mayo de 1881) - no. 100 (31 de Diciembre de 1881). Folio. Very good overall. Scattered professional paper repairs and occasional stains and inclusions throughout, minor losses at the margins. Vol. 1: 3/4 leather ; Vol. 2: 1/2 leather. Modern, though both spines appear to be retained from older bindings. [1112] on hold Rare survival of an important Porfiriato newspaper, published during the era when General Porfirio Díaz ruled Mexico (1876-1911), limiting political liberties and curtailing the operation of a free press, yet embracing foreign trade and cultural connections with Europe and the U.S. According to our expert source, some of the gaps in the present collation may represent issues that were seized or censored by the government. Despite the repressive climate of its time, El Cronista published a variety of important early modernist Mexican authors, among them Gutiérrez Nájera, who managed to bridge the gap between romanticism and the contemporary movements of modernismo and Symbolism in North America and used various pseudonyms including Monsieur Pomponet, Frú-Frú, Puck, El Cura de Jalatlaco, El Perico de los Palotes, and Mr. Can-Can. El Cronista contains the entirety of Nájera's "Memorias de un Vago, Pomponet." Other writers of note appearing in the volumes include Arturo Cuyas, Teresa Arroniz y Bosch, Alexandre Herculano, Andrés Bello, Diego Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Placido). The newspaper also includes impressive coverage of Thomas Edison's invention of the electric lightbulb, and the Mexican portion of Ulysses S. Grant's world tour. Lavish illustrations include multipage lithographic spreads showing the architecture and landscape of the Mexican republic. Extremely rare in the marketplace and largely unrepresented in institutional libraries. Not to be confused with the earlier Catholic newspaper of the same title (1862). As of January 2021, we are only able to ascertain physical holdings of scattered issues at UT's Benson Latin American Collection and Washington State University.

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6. [Mexico] Patronato del Movimiento Económico Nacional. México y su Evolución Económica. México, D.F.: Editorial Arquitectura y lo Demás, 1952. First Edition. 214, xlvii pp. text, lavishly illustrated throughout with silkscreens and block prints as well as reproductions of photographs and line drawings on various paper stocks. Folio. Very good over all, with only light discolorations at the margins. Maroon cloth illustrated boards with silkscreens ; vividly colored front and rear end paper illustrations by "J.G.R." (Jose A Gómez Rosas) showcase the connection between Mexico's indigenous past and its economic modernity. [1132] Sold Featuring a graphic layout overseen by architect Lorenzo Favela (editor of Arquitectura y lo Demás), México y su Evolución Económica champions the economic power and potential of Mexican industry during the boom years following WWII. A rather massive and remarkable book, the work was commissioned by a council of leaders in Mexican banking and industry (among them Luis G. Legorreta, Roberto Ugarte, Pablo Diez, José de la Mora, Minimino Michel, and Santiago Ontañón) to promote achievements in nation’s petroleum production, mining, metallurgy, electrical power, chemicals, textiles, sugar, rubber, paper, cement, brewing, glass, soap, tanning, automobile manufacturing, canning, furniture, filmmaking, tourism, and ceramics sectors, with separate chapters for each field featuring photographs of modern factories and bold illustrations of the social goods to which each of these industries contribute. Rare.

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7. [Poetry] Alvarez, Ernesto [Prólogo de José Emilio González : versión al inglés por Janice Lebrón ; xilografías del autor]. Sobre el Puente de Brooklyn. Río Piedras, P.R.: Ediciones Mairena, Ediciones Mairena. First Edition. 69 pp. text in English and Spanish, illustrated throughout with photographic frontispiece portrait and reproductions of woodcuts by the author. 8vo. Covers fold out to reveal an image of the bridge. Very good overall, extremities rubbed. Belly band with attribution text present but torn. Illus. stiff wraps. [1156] $250 A moving meditation on identity and place in New York City by the noted poet from Puerto Rico. Signed and dedicated by Alvarez to Leonardo Santana on the half-title page.

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III. Judaica

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8. [Jewish Refugees in China] Gelbe Post : Ostasiatische Halbmonatsschrift. Nos. 1 (May 1939) through 6 (July 1939) (complete head of series run). Shanghai: Eigentümer, Herausgeber, Schriftleiter: A.J. Storfer, 1939. First Edition. [Alternate title: Gelbe Post : Ostasiatische Illustrierte Halbmonatsschrift] A bound set of the first six continuous "semimonthly" issues, 144 pp., illustrated throughout, with texts in German. 4to. Laid in is a TLS with newspaper article clipping attached, sent from Max Nacht, a German-Jewish refugee in Shanghai, to publisher Max. G. Lowenherz of Three Lions, Inc. All six bright yellow, unmarred covers bound in, front and back. Endemic marginal toning and a few closed tears within the text, all less than 1/2 in. Cloth backed boards with old tape repairs, spine is missing. To the front endpaper a note concerning the set's provenance is pasted in: "Okt. 1971. Unter bezugnahme auf Ihr Inserat im 'Aufbau' teile ich Ihnen mit, das ich Hefte 1-6 des 1 Jahrhanges der "Gelbe Post" abzugeben habe. Ilse Abraham, N.Y. (Diese Dame hatte eine leihbibliothek in Shanghai.)" [Oct. 1971. With reference to your advertisement in the "Construction" section, I share with you that I have at hand issues 1-6 of the 1st year of the 'Gelbe Post.' Ilse Abraham (Note: This lady had a lending library in Shanghai.)"] [1134] Sold "The Yellow Post" was originally published by Viennese psychoanalyst Adolf Josef Storfer during his exile in Shanghai under the Nazi era. It began as a semi-monthly periodical existing for six issues between May and July of 1939. After the appearance of no. 6, publication temporarily ceased then resumed with a seventh issue in November of 1939, after which it morphed into a daily newspaper under the same title ("Jahrgang 2") continuing through 1940. Storfer's editorial introduction for readers of the first issue explains that the pigment reference in the serial title wasn't meant to have deeper meaning beyond its association with the black print on the yellow cover, chosen because he felt the colors offered a favorable combination for the eye. The magazine covered various aspects of intellectual and cultural life in China, Korea, and Japan, with an emphasis on items of interest for the growing community of Jewish refugee exiles seeking shelter from the storm of antisemitism that was overtaking Austria and Germany. Maps showing overland travel routes from Western Europe to East Asia sit adjacent to film reviews of Chinese cinema and articles concerning psychoanalysis in Palestine and Japan. Storfer had been a student of Freud and eventually went on to co-edit Freud's collected works with Anna Freud. He also edited psychoanalytical journals and was the

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managing director of the Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag. The present set provides a fascinating document of life among members of a little known community of Jewish exiles in mainland China, worthy of much further study. While the run is available in microfilm and has appeared in a reprint edition issued by Verlag Turia + Kant in 1999, physical copies of the original series are vanishingly rare, with the only confirmed holdings we can ascertain in Yivo and the Leo Baeck Institute.

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9. [Yiddish-American leftism] Gubin, Bluma. An Aoyfruf Tsu Ale Anarkhismn aun Simpateyzer! ["A Call to All Anarchists And Sympathizers!"]. New York: Amerikanskye Izvestia, n.d. [1924]. First Edition. Single large leaf, printed recto only with three columns of Yiddish text. Ca. 11.5 x 17.5 in. Very good, two old central folds but stored flat. Minor edgewear and uneven toning at the lower margins. [1144] $450 According to our expert source, the March-April 1924 issue of Freedom includes the following notice (p. 20): "Our comrades in Los Angeles and Boston, Mass. have issued an appeal (in Yiddish) for the formation of a Workers' Anarchist Federation, and the publication of a paper in Yiddish. They ask all comrades who are dissatisfied with the present state of the movement to help them by joining together with a view to fresh activity. There is

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plenty of scope for work in the United States, and all those willing to give a hand are requested to communicate with Bluma Gubin, care of Amerikanskye Izvestia."

10. [Yiddish-American leftism] Rosenfeld, Morris. Lieder Buch, first book (Lieder-bukh : ershṭer ṭheyl) [note: all published]. New York: 1897. 88 pp. text in Yiddish illustrated with a photographic frontispiece. 8vo. Inscribed in Yiddish by a previous owner, S. Abel. Very good. Black 3/4 leather cloth boards, original blue wrappers bound in. [1147] Sold An uncommonly well- preserved copy of the work by noted Yiddish poet, Morris Rosenfeld (née Moshe Jacob Alter, b. 1862, Stare Boksze in Russian Poland - d. 1923, New York City.) Rosenfeld's verse often concerned the poor living conditions among Eastern Europe Jews in New York's tailoring workshops. He himself had worked as a tailor and a diamond cutter before joining the editorial staffs of several leading Jewish newspapers in New York. He independently published books of poetry and songs, notably among them Nokhn Ball (After the Ball), Di Pawnshop (Faryomert Farklogt) and Nem tsurik dayn gold (Take Back Your Gold.) Rosenfeld served as a delegate to the Fourth Zionist Congress at London in 1900. He also gave readings at the University of Chicago and Harvard University, where professor of Slavic Cultures Leo Wiener (the first Jewish professor at Harvard), took an interest in the young poet and translated his work into English, after which Rosenfeld found wider audience and became world-renowned as the “Poet of the Sweatshops.” The present work is uncommon, especial in such fine condition.

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11. Dempsey, Shawna ; Lorri Millan. In the LIFE : Portrait of a Modern Sex-Deviant. Winnipeg, Canada: Finger in the Dyke Production, 1995. First Edition. [Cover title.] 14 pp. artist's book in the manner of an utterly deadpan Life Magazine parody, illustrations, black and white photographs. Small folio. Near fine. Illus. wrapper ; stapled fold binding. [1064] $450 This "day in the life of a bull-dyke," photo essay and article was created by Dempsey & Millan as a provocative to challenge to heteronormative behavior patterns imposed upon lesbian couples. Collaborators since 1989, the duo ranks among Canada’s best-known performance artists. They were catapulted into the international spotlight in their 20s with the performance and film We’re Talking Vulva. Since then, their live work and videos have been exhibited in diverse venues as far-ranging as women's centers in Sri Lanka to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. o most, however, they are known simply as the Lesbian Rangers of Lesbian National Parks and Services. Their humorous, feminist and provocative work has been acclaimed as “one of the high-points of contemporary Canadian artistic production” (Border Crossings Magazine). Performance documentation and artifacts are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of History and the Dia Art Foundation, among others. Rare in the market-place, especially in such fine condition.

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12. Yang, Naomi. Book of Spirits. N.p. [Boston]: Rosetta, 1994. First Edition. Unpaginated artists' book [24 pages, french fold] printed in letterpress on cream colored laid paper, reproducing texts and images that relate to Spirits. 4to. Hand numbered and signed at the colophon. Fine. Single hand-sewn signature in a card stock cover, wrapped in mottled brown laid paper printed with the title text. [1143] $150 Book of Spirits was printed at Firefly Press to accompany the exhibition of paintings by Naomi Yang at Galerie Mourlot, Boston, September 6-October 15, 1994. According to Yang's introduction, "this little book is an attempt to give some account of those Spirits about whom every person ought to know something. The Grimorium Verum mentions seventeen of the most important subordinate Spirits.

As in choosing a cricket eleven the first choices are easy and the lastvery difficult to make, so it has been here. And if the reader feels thatsome Spirit who has been omitted should have the place of one whois represented, why, very likely the reader is right." Co-publisher ofExact Change Press (with her partner Damon Krukowski), Yang is alsoa noted graphic designer, visual artist, filmmaker, and musician knownfor her work with Damon & Naomi and Galaxie 500. The Book of Spiritsis her only artist's book to date. It pairs a dozen elegant line drawingsof Spirits with short descriptive texts providing their true names andbrief descriptions of their distinguishing qualities. Examples includeSIRCHADE, which "has the power to show thee all kinds of animals, ofwhatever nature they may be" and HUMOTS, which "can transport allmanner of books for thy pleasure." Yang has explained that the text ofBook of Spirits is derived, in part, from her readings of 'Everyman’sBook of Saints' by C.P.S. Clarke (1914) and 'The Book of Ceremonial Magic' by A.E. Waite (1961), and that her original drawings are based on illustrations in Waite's book, which are taken from the Grimorium Verum (1517), a magical textbook. As of January 2021, we are able to locate only one institutional holding, at The New York Public Library.

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V. Western Travelers in the Middle East

13. Stark, Freya. Space, time and movement in landscape. London: Her Godson [Simon Lennox-Boyd], 1969. First Edition. 167 pp. photographic book with poems and brief narratives, chiefly illustrated. Oblong 4to. "This edition of Space, Time and Movement in Landscape is limited to 500 copies." Signed by the author, no. 171. Very good. Leather backed marbled board, split near head of spine, issued in a case. [1167] Sold According to her online biography, Freya Madeline Stark DBE (1893 – 1993) was an Anglo-Italian aristocrat and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non- Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert. Together with Robert Byron, Stark is considered to be one of the most prominent British orientalists of her time.

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VI. Rare Annuals and Serials

15. Joel, Hans Theodor (Hrsg.) Das Graphische Jahrbuch. [1919, sole issue published] Darmstadt: Karl Lang Verlag, 1919. First Edition. 55 pp. text, illustrated, prefacing 32 numbered plates. Very good, interior contents near fine. Tan boards, gilt title and spine. Our copy is rubbed at the extremities and sports an almost comically appropriate drop of black ink on the front cover, which is not present on other examples we have examined, though in our opinion it adds to, rather than diminishes, the otherwise austere composition. [1162] $300 The frontispiece is an original woodcut by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. The fourteen text illustrations also include two original prints: a woodcut by Gottfried Graf and a lithograph by Walther Ruttmann. Includes text contributions by Meier- Graefe, Paul Westheim, Rosa Schapire, Theodor Däubler and reproductions of works by Max Beckmann, Ernst Barlach, Christian Rohlfs, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Unold, Conrad Felixmüller.

14. Hilali, Abdul Razzak. A Modern Guide to Iraq. Beirut, Lebanon: Dar-Alkashaf, 1957. First Edition. 120 pp. illustrated guidebook for tourists and business travelers to Iraq, includes two maps bound into the rear wrapper, one detached. 8vo. Very good overall, a bit rubbed at the extremities, with a barely noticeable damp stain (smaller than 1/2 in.) to the lower margin of the last 20 pp. Illus. stiff wraps. on hold A charming and useful travel guide to Baghdad and the region (printed a year before the establishment of the Republic of Iraq) with tips on local food, manner of dress, and customs along with listings for museums, mosques, nightlife, bookstores, cinemas, television, and sports betting, among other pastimes. A powerful reminder for modern readers of all that has been so senselessly destroyed by decades of war.

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16. N8. Number One (1979) through Number Five (1979) (all published). Atlanta: s.n., 1978-1979. First Edition. Five issues, 10 pp. each, comprising a complete run of the artists' serial by Darryl Vance consisting of brief prefatory tests and photocopied fragments from daily newspapers layered across paper stocks of various colors. The cover title, author name, and a copyright statement for each issue has been rubber stamped in color ink, and there is a pencil-signed limitation on the last page of each booklet, ranging from 15 to 50 copies each. Very good with only minor handling marks. Printed card stock covers, saddle stapled. [1148] $950 In the preface to each work, Vance explores a set of premises that describe the relationship between information and knowledge, mediation, news, and memory. According to his website, the artist is a graduate of The Atlanta College of Art, and his work has been featured in one-person and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe for over 30 years. Working in a diverse range of media including photography, video, audio, billboards, performance, conceptual art and painting, he has shown at the Arts Festival of Atlanta, The Galway Fringe Festival, Westport Ireland Art and Music Festival, Venice Biennale, Hemphill Fine Arts in Washington, DC, and The Passdoor in Sonoma County, California. Vance has also been an active participant in international mail art circles. Copies of N8 appear in four North American libraries including the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, with only the Savannah College of Art & Design showing a complete run of all five issues.

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17. [Kathy Acker] Only Prose. Nos. 1 (July 77) ; 2 (Nov. 77) ; and 3 (Oct. 78) (head of series). New York City: Perreault/Weinstein, 1977-1978. First Edition. Three issues, 10 pp. each, chiefly text. 4to. Near fine, uncirculated copies. No. 1 folded and unevenly toned. Nos. 2 & 3 mint. Corner stapled. [1133] Sold An elusive set of the intimate 'mailing list' magazine published by influential art critic John Perreault and his partner Jeff Weinstein during the late 1970s, featuring contributions by both editors along with writings by Kathy Acker, Barbara Baracks, Ira Joel Haber, Alex Gildzen, Helen Duberstein, John Jacob, Winifred Golden, Hannah Wiener, Douglas Messerli, and Melvin Freilicher. The excerpt of Acker's Blood & Guts in High School may be the work's first appearance in print. A fourth issues seems to have been printed in September of 1979, though we cannot confirm this due to scant records. Best known for being an early proponent of avant-garde movements like Minimalism, Land Art, and Pattern and Decoration during the late 1960s and 1970s, Perreault served as a critic for ARTnews, Soho News, The Village Voice, and other publications. The present set is un-mailed, and comes to us from Perreault's estate via the trade. Issues of Only Prose are extremely scarce, especially in such fine condition.

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18. JAPM The Poetry Weekly. Vol. 1, nos. 1-11, 13-26 (missing only 12) ; Vol. 2, nos. 1-26 (complete) ; Vol. 3, nos. 1-11, 13-25 (missing 12 and the final issue 26) (Complete run save the three issues noted here). Atlantic City, N.J.: Ben Musser, editor, 1928-1929. First Edition. Seventy-five issues comprising a nearly complete run of the important small poetry magazine published by the queer bohemian poet Ben Musser. Typed postcard, signed, and a four additional issues of Musser's other magazines, (Contemporary Verse and Bozart) included. 12mo. Very good, some issues with significant marginal tears (presumably from mailing envelopes roughly opened) ; the set smells mildly of tobacco. Loose as issued. [1060] $850 JAPM, which stands for "Just Another Poetry Magazine" published works by a wide range of notable writers from the era, including Louis Ginsberg (Allen's father), Stanton Conlentz, Ralph Cheyney, Charles Henri Ford, Ernest Hartsock, Susan Bingham Pendleton, and Parker Tyler. Its editor, Ben Musser, was romantically connected to Samuel Steward (cf. Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring, New York: FSG, 2011.) In 1929, Musser discontinued his publishing efforts and devoted the rest of his life to religious work (he was a tertiary of the order of St. Francis, i.e., a lay monk). In an autobiographical essay for The Book of Catholic Authors (Detroit: Walter Romig Co., 1945), he wrote of “…a period in which Bohemianism rivaled Catholicism for the field and finally, I pray forever, fell before the Cross. That ‘arty’ interlude included the editorship of several poetry magazines….” ] Extremely scarce in the marketplace, and fewer than five institutions in the United States can claim significant runs.

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VII. Going Places

19. [Airplanes] The War in the Air Sept. 3, 1939--July 22, 1941 [manuscript.] with : War Emergency Information and Instructions [pamphlet]. N.p. [London]: mss. 1939-1941. Unique. 120 pp. manuscript in a juvenile or adolescent hand, chronicling, almost daily, events of aerial combat between fighters of the Royal Airforce and German Luftwaffe during the course of World War II. 8vo. Very good overall. Rust at staples, covers a trifle worn, old bend to the upper right corner of front wrapper and first 30 pp. Hand drawn and lettered cover. [1061] $650 The manuscript relates very few (if any) incidents of day-to-day life, rather, it focuses almost exclusively on dogfights and bombing raids, neatly summarizing the air war news as transcribed from evening papers and radio broadcasts in London. The front cover features a charming though inexpertly drawn Supermarine Spitfire. All in all, the item stands as a particularly British example of optimism under duress and composure during chaotic circumstances. The sureness and clarity of the War Emergency Information and Instructions [pamphlet, 8 pp.] tucked inside provides a startling contrast to today's situation, reminding readers to "KEEP A GOOD XHEART, WE ARE GOING TO WIN TRHOUGH."

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20. Bookmobiles] Boyertown Truck Bodies. Collection of Ten (10) Silver Gelatin Photographs Showing Bookmobiles and Newspaper Delivery Trucks. Boyertown, PA: Boyertown Body and Equipment Co., n.d. [ca. 1945-1970s]. Ten prints, each marked with the stamps of a Boyertown (Betterbuilt, Multalloy) division. Eight showing images of bookmobiles, two showing newspaper delivery trucks. 8 x 10 in. Very good. Loose as issued. Sold A fantastic collection of mid-20th c. images of community library bookmobiles in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, as well as a range of models and presentations of delivery vehicles designed to transport and distribute printed matter.

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