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Hardcover. Condición: Very good +. Large octavo-sized commercial photo album, measuring about 9 1/4" x 6 1/4". Tan boards. 24 black paper leaves with 132 black and white snapshots photographs loosely fit into corner mounts (rectos and versos), with neat and generous captions and identifying notations throughout. Some photos with mild curling, but a well-preserved album; overall very good or better. The album contains a number of typical campus photographs, portraits of friends, and the like. However at the heart of the album is a group of about 40 images depicting the Ohio State University Marching Band in various elaborate formations; for which they are internationally renown to this day, as the "Best Damn Band in the Land!" Among the drill formations shown are the famous "Script Ohio," the Liberty Bell, a pennant with an "O" in the center, a tulip, and several others. Some images of football games, including several against rival Michigan, are also present. Altogether, a nice example of immediate postwar American college football life, at one of its most storied institutions.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Small quarto. Scrapbook album in dark green patterned cloth. The look of the album suggests that it was manufactured in the 1860s-1880s, but most of the original writing is dated ca. 1901. Inner hinges tender, and a few leaves detached and laid-in; good. Contents clean. A good-humored and lively commonplace book. The author, who seems to have been a ~16 year-old from Brighton, in Sussex, England, and whose name appears in a number of places throughout, writes a poem near the beginning of the album entitled "A Woman in It," which reads, in full: "They talk about a Woman's sphere as if it had a limit There's not a place in earth or heaven There's not a task to mankind given There's not a blessing or a woe There's not a whisper--yes or won There's not a life, nor death, or birth That has a feather-weight of worth, Without a Woman in it!" Following this bold announcement, there are many drawings, as well as some very neat calligraphy, autographs from friends, and the like. The drawings are of particular interest. Many are "signed" by other names, which suggest that they may be tracings, or otherwise copied. However they are of a distinct quality. Some loose artwork, which was laid-in when we received it, is present.

Hardcover. Condición: Near fine. Two commercial journals. Uniform volumes, each about 9" x 6" with gilt titled and decorated red cloth over boards. Each filled with manuscript entries in an ink cursive to rectos and versos of daily blanks. First volume with two printed card placards laid-in to pages. Entries typically neat and legible. All about near fine. The manuscript diaries of Randall M., a Chicago accountant who dutifully recorded his daily activities focused chiefly on his involvement in Alcoholics Anonymous during 1947-1949. His full name is stamped repeatedly to both volumes. He was born in 1899 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and got sober on March 2, 1946. Much of the content in these journals is either personal or related to his career as an accountant. However, he very often gets breakfast with other AA members, and he chronicles weekly AA meetings, usually including a list of attendees at a meeting, and the main subject of discussion (often one of the Twelve Steps). Notable extra details include guest speakers or new members. Randall was a member of Chicago's Group 84, which for a time was joined with Group 88 after the opening of the North Side Alano Club in the Fall of 1948 (two breast pocket placards from the club are laid in). Before and after this brief period, Group 84 (North Side) met at various apartments, while Group 88 (Evanston) usually met in Indian Boundary Park. Randall's even-keeled personality and steady, reliable nature is evident in his writing. While he does not go into lurid details, there are clearly a few cases within in which his fellow alcoholics fall off the wagon, or need to "get coffee" early in the morning, and he unfailingly shows up to help them. Though, again, not overflowing with details of the group's operations or group meeting notes, there is much to learn from these pages about the social and hierarchical structure of these Chicago-area groups in the first two decades of AA. There is a nice mix of men and women among the membership, and women often take leadership roles. Some quotations from the contents: "Albert M[] phoned during afternoon apparently still drinking [] 8:00 Went by for Albert, Rev. Wilmer, Lutheran Minister there. Albert wanted to stop for drink before going into meeting at Indian Boundary. Told him no. He seemed to resent it. [] Decided to re-consolidate the group, but retain identity service of joint meeting for a while." (January 22, 1948) "Took "L" to beginner's meeting. George B[], 6yrs., conducted Gave Bringman's regards to Edgar B[.], also later to Clem L[.] at Wagtayle's All women's program. Last speaker 10th step Excellent. "Better to admit you're wrong, than have the sweat pour off you coming off a drunk.and remember you're only down on your knees, you're not flat on your face or lying on your back shackled to the bed."" (February 3, 1948) "9PM Albert M[] came by said he had bad news. Bud had a slip and was in a hospital in Syracuse. Got dressed and went with him to put Connie on 11:15 (The Chicagoan) NY Central La Salle St. Sta. Vi took David to their apartment. Slow Taxi Coffee at the station. Connie told about David saying a prayer." (November 13, 1948) "Vi called. Albert off on another bender. Celeste called wants me for chairman tomorrow night." (January 21, 1948) "Meeting at Club. Outline of Articles of Incorporation read. Patterned after Des Moines? Guy Campbell took me aside and gave $25 [] About 40 present, Bill Mauer, Bill Nolan, Joe Seamn, John Curry Met a Dr. Leonard of Conn. who arrived after meeting said he had just from from Des Moines. " (May 14, 1948) Altogether a neatly presented and rather detailed account of an ordinary man whose history with alcoholism is not readily apparent, but who seems to have managed to stay sober by taking part enthusiastically in AA. Certainly a significant record of AA activities in Chicago just after World War II.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Quarto. Measuring 9½" x 11". Spiral-bound commercial album. Contains 40 color photographs measuring between 2½" x 3" and 4" x 5" without captions. Very good album with chips and tears with near fine photographs. A photo album compiled by an African-American man in the 1990s who was an aspiring DJ and hip hop fan. The album cover features a Malcolm X sticker which reads "Shut 'Em Down May 19th." The photos show him with his record collection, scratching on a turntable, and in a Run DMC band shirt and standing by a poster. He attended the city University of New York and his student identification card is featured here. Other photos feature the compiler posed in a subway station, at Yankee Stadium, and with his girlfriend. His family is also seen in some photographs but a majority of the images are of him posed around the city. A modest but interesting collection of photographs following a college-aged African-American man in the 1990s.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Two folio sketchbooks. Dark green and black leather boards. Some paint marks on the boards with light edgewear, else near fine with fine illustrations and photographs. An artist's sketchbook kept during the mid-1970s to 1981 created by an artist while she studied art is London and New York City. Filled with 8 (mostly acrylic) paintings, 86 ink and pencil sketches, and 19 color photographs ranging in size from 2" x 1.5" and 10" x 8" along with some poetry and written letters. Light edgewear else fine. Two sketchbooks kept by a woman during her college years studying art in London and New York City from the mid-1970s through 1981. There are two handwritten letters from Ferguson written in 2013 explaining some history behind the sketchbooks, "The portraits are sketches of my friends & lovers.went to Pratt Institute; & worked with Punk Bands & artists". Other than the two recent letters, the rest of the sketchbooks contain small paintings, portraits, ink and pencil illustrations, and poetry, "I've had enough of moon lit smiles and bedroom eyes". Her pieces include portraits of homeless people, nude women and men, and regular portraits of friends. There are also sketches of bugs, city landscapes, the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz, a man playing guitar, people waiting at JFK airport, cherubs, and a painting of her neighbor washing the dishes through his kitchen window. There is also mock up for punk flyers and a flyer of an imaginary guitar available for purchase. Lastly, a more serious picture depicts a woman before and after she is raped, "There will be plenty of time for romance after the rape. During the trial and through the papers. I will never forget you," is written in the attackers speech bubbles. There are a few Polaroid photographs that have been heated and rubbed with pencils and combs to create different patterns in the ink. There are also a few unaltered photographs of dogs, New York City's landscape, a large photograph of a woman, and a young man. Part of the sketchbooks are devoted to art class notes about techniques, styles, and art history; intermingled are small drawings around the notes. Lastly there are two pages of typed writing. One is a poem about the difficulties of marriage and how it changes people and the other is a sorrowful and sensual love poem, "So in love was she, that she didn't have to look at it. She could always feel it.It was the heart mind body spine rib touch means so much". A captivating archive of a young woman's artwork during her time in London and New York in the mid-1970s through early 1980s.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Two volumes. Octavo and 24mo. 212pp.; 184pp. Black leather boards and three quarter maroon leather with pink and purple decorated cloth-covered boards with silver spine decorations. The 24mo journal has light edgewear with a small mark on the front board else near fine. The octavo journal has edgewear, bumped spine ends and corners, with tears on the spine, very good. Two journals of a young woman featuring her musings from 1978 to 1988, postcards from friends around the world, and an account of her trip to Europe in the spring of 1981. Contains poems, quotes, drawings, and other written ideas and thoughts by the author; additionally features three color photographs measuring 4.5" x 3.5" and several postcards measuring between 5.5" x 3.5" and 6.5" x 4.5". Two handwritten journals by a young woman from Monmouth County, New Jersey from 1978 to 1988 with pieces of ephemera from her adolescence. The woman was 21 when she first started writing in her larger journal. The written pieces include poems, quotes from books and movies, drawings, and her thoughts; most of which are interesting and boarder on the obscure and morbid. She frequently writes of her dreams though they are often nightmares: "Nightmare this past night-time. Left me numb- Silence in the shower." Between dream descriptions she jots down passing thoughts: "I saw the energy steaming from the top of my head and the top of my shoulder today- in my shadow- on my paper. Fan-out," and poems: "Easily distracted / you think me insane Don't drag me down All you are is in your pants / Why don't you wear it out?" During her visit to Arizona in 1978, she complains of the muggy weather and devotes one page to drawings of the bugs she finds, labeling them "Friends of Arizona." Her drawings are odd, one of which is a portrait of herself with the word, "psycho" written below. Another drawing is of a person holding a gun and shooting a wall covered in cupids and hearts. The words "that potential psychotic killer who comes into the library and stares at us the unsuspected hatchet murderer awaits," are written to the side of the page with a drawing of a man. Several drawings are of skeletons and the words "Dead Head," likely a Grateful Dead reference. She returned home in May 1978 and writes how nice it is to see everyone and later writes about her friend Lois, who is featured in one of the two photographs in the larger journal. Lois is mentioned several times in both books, often commenting on the writer's actions, "You've got a scheming evil look in your eyes" The included postcards are from friends in London, Washington, DC, Florida, New York, and New Jersey. One is a postcard from a friend of hers pretending to be James Taylor asking "Kimbo" to come see him in the movie *Two-Lane Blacktop* "before my receding hairline has no place left to go. Catch 'ya later, babe J.T." with a peace sign. The others include warm letters to the writer and ask how she's been and that she is missed by her friends. The smaller journal is of her trip through Europe, with her friends Lois and Ginny. Most of the book includes notes to herself on what not to do in certain places like, "walking up a hill to your hostile(sic) when it isn't even open," and "what you pack, you carry." One entry describes two men with "fat bellies" dancing with her and her friends during their stay in Leipzig, Germany: "One sat at our table and tried to communicate in German. After a bit of confusion, Sue came up with the brilliant conclusion that he wanted a kiss. I kiss the fat guy (on the cheek) and he brought us nuts & chips, to quote Ginny 'Good going!"" Most of the stories are of the joyous and interesting moments she experienced; as contrasted to her larger, more juvenile and emotional journal. Also included in the smaller journal is a color picture of her dancing. An extensive look at a young woman's interior life from 1978-1988 with wide vacillations between happiness and morbidity.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of the rarest and most valuable books for a German Jew in the 1930s: A German passport with visa to United States! Here for a 37-year old Jewish woman (surname and maiden name both Jewish, 2 photos provided from Munich (family or occupation unlisted), no other visas suggest woman used passport for but one reason: emigrate from Nazi Germany in December 1935, 9 days after approved she landed in New York. Previous nine bank transfers totally $2700 Marks (about $31,000 in 2021 money) shown for Dresden, Munich and Bremen banks as Jews were forced to do for travel. Loose slip of paper shows Bronx (NYC) as her American address on Davidson Avenue in Morris Heights (a Jewish neighborhood in 1934). VG, softcover. Passport shows expiration in 1940 but she never returned to Germany for renewal (wonder why?). Sprache: Deutsche.

Sewn binding. Condición: Very good. Large quarto gathering of artwork and tissue guards with ink inscriptions, bound with a green ribbon. Dimensions approx. 10.75" x 13.5". [7]pp. altogether, recots only. In very good condtion, with all corners somewhat rounded and with shallow creases. There is a three-inch tear to the last leaf, which does not approach the image. Contents lovely. Beautifully made group of three amateur drawings, along with three leaves of holograph verse, plus title page. Two of the drawings (one of which is made to look like the cover of Vogue magazine) appear to be depictions of the subject of the author's admiration. One of the poems reads, "Whenever the time/Wherever the place/I put other mens' visions/of you to disgrace/For in my lovelit eyes/--you see/You'll always be a/Ziegfield girl to me." The final drawing appears to be a self-portrait of the artist. Each of these drawings is signed with a name, but since the volume is supposedly anonymous, we are not 100% sure that this is the same person. Regardless of the authorship, an impressive valentine which would likely have impressed the "Ziegfield girl.".

Condición: Very good. Oblong small quarto. 28 leaves [56pp.] used, the rest blank (about half of the album). Album edges somewhat worn, but still sound. 27 albumen photographic prints, all but two of which are tipped onto the album leaves. Prints generally very good, with occasional mild spotting; some prints overexposed. Altogether very good. A contemporary bookseller label on the rear inner cover for a Nashville (TN) bookstore and one internal reference to the Harpeth River would seem to place the album in the Nashville area. A strikingly attractive photo album, whose real star is a series of drawings and design elements executed by the compiler using the standard white ink, which most contemporary scrapbookers used simply to write captions. Here, however, are elaborate drawings of a woman fishing, two nicely drawn chairs, an Art Nouveau-style "title page" border, an early 20th century-style telephone, and more, along with several pages of original verse. The images themselves center around a group of three women and two men lounging, swimming, talking, and posing for some light-hearted candids. The "story," which is rather loosely threaded, begins with a long poem about two male-female relationships, and seems to be centered on some inside jokes among the couples. Then, the following six pages contain a continuing story, which begins "Six little campers standing at the gate. Long came a bronco and out went Kate." On that page, there is no photograph, but there is a photograph on each of the next five pages, and tehse correspond to the captions. It continues, "Five little campers standing at the door. Jay overate himself and then there were four." A little later: "Three little campers sitting in the dew. Mirs. Miller got "moon-struck" and then there were two." In the image, the three "little campers" are looking up and to their left, at nothing that can be discerned in the frame. However, on the album page, the author has drawn a moon surrounded by moonlight, bringing the image to life. The album goes on in this lighthearted vein. One photo, of the three women in outdoors attire (possible swimsuits?) is captioned: "An Adamless Eden." The poem on the opposite leaf reads: "Three little girls all dressed in blue / Down to the banks of the Harpeth did flew / The rocks were sharp and the water was cold / But two of these girls were very bold. // Now one of these, when the water spied, / Ran to the banks and cried and cried, / She played on the sympathies of the other two, / They were rash in their promises of what they would do. // But Kate cried on and would't come in / Until she succeeded in getting the HIM, / Now this young miss in acting coy / Was planning to capture the only boy." Resistant to summary cataloguing, the album deserves to be seen in person. Other albums compiled by spirited young amateur photographers of this period tend to be a bit unfocused and not particularly illuminating. This one, however, is just beautifully appointed, and contains the most innovative use of white album ink that this cataloguer has ever encountered.

String binding. Condición: Very good +. Oblong quarto. 163 photographs, nearly all measuring about 2.75" x 4.5", including white borders. Most photographs are laid in to corner mounts, some of which are missing. Most, though not all, of the photographs are captioned in white ink on the album leaves, and there are sometimes further details inked or typed on the verso of the prints. (Some of those lacking album captions have some identifying notations on the verso). Apart from occasional age-toning or a few mild stains, the photographs are in excellent condition; very good or better. Some minor mold/soiling to the album boards and extremities. A focused, detailed, and well-composed group of identified images which offer a close-up of working life on the Great Lakes on the eve of World War II. The album's compiler was a young woman who was engaged to a crew member of the SS Yosemite. For whatever reason, she was able to join her beau for a summer on the ship, and used her keen amateur eye to capture the busy industrial life of the harbors of the Great Lakes at their peak. There are snapshots of ships passing each other in tight squeezes on the Cuyahoga River; iron ore being removed from the Yosemite in Marquette, Michigan; a tugboat guiding the Yosemite into a tight spot in Milwaukee; barges on the Cuyahoga with Terminal Tower just in the background; and a number of close-up shots of the Yosemite's hull in dry dock in Cleveland. The couple was in Cleveland on Labor Day, so of course they took some shots of the air show. There are also several other shots of the city of Cleveland, which the photographer has labeled as "housing clearance" in anticipation of further industrial land development. The SS Yosemite, owned during this period by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., was eventually traded to the U. S. War Shipping Administration in 1943. Several years after the war, it was scrapped in Buffalo. The final dozen or so photographs in the album are personal/family portraits, unrelated to shipping. There are also about 15 spaces in the album with corner mounts and captions, but the photograhphs have been removed and are not present. Altogether a pleasingly detailed and well-executed album of Great Lakes Shipping, taken at the end of a century of industrial progress in the region.

A full-to-bursting photograph album, bound in tan suede and string-bound, measuring about 13" x 9.5". 732 photographs on 89 album pages. Photographs vary in size, but are nearly all in the snapshot category, smaller than 4" x 4". The photographs are uniformly in excellent condition; nearly all of them are inserted into clear corner mounts. May of these mounts are aprtly torn or cracked, and the glue from the mounts has occasionally bled onto the photos, making them hard to lift. Nevertheless, the contents are very nearly displayed, and in near fine overall condition. The vast majority of photographs have captions, though many of these are inked on the versos of the snapshots. A smaller, but significant number of captions are neatly inked on the album leaves. At rear are ten leaves of ephemera and paperwork related to the compiler's service in the R. A. F., and some other souvenir ephemera, which is discussed in more detail below. The compiler has also added a brass R. A. F. badge and a small purple badge marked "Jerusalem," pinning these in the album exterior. PLEASE NOTE: Of the 732 photographs, perhaps as many as 35% are souvenir photographs (and some postcards), with many of these stamped on the verso with "Matson Company" copyright, or "Palphot." Despite the presence of a significant number of souvenir photographs mixed in, this is nevertheless an extraordinarily rich first-person account of hostilities around the time of the foundation of Israel, and of the landscape of the British military presence in the Middle East during this time. Most striking and important is a group of snapshots which capture the immediate aftermath of violence associated with the 1947-8 war between the nascent Israel and Palestine. While a couple of these are Matson photos (as described above; this would include the corner shot of the King David Hotel blast pictured here), the rest appear to be genuine snapshots taken by the compiler, who notes details about the damage and lives lost. For example, "5th August 1947. Civilian Labour Office Street of the Prophets Jerusalem. 2. P. P. [Palestine Police] killed." Another reads, "Terrorist car that bleu itself up in the Street of the Prophets 3 terrorists killed." Another album leaf contains a striking contrast, with eight snapshots of British soldiers horsing around on their base, with four snapshots of the March 1, 1947 attack by the Irgun on the Goldschmidt's Officer's Club (for British military officers; note that the compiler spells it "Goldsmith's"), which killed 18. There are a great number of more pastoral shots, capturing life outside Jerusalem and other cities, and, again, while a number of these are souvenir cards, more than half of them were cearly taken by the compiler. These include shots of the desert in then-Transjordan between the Jordan River and Amman, with some shots of Amman, as well as shots of Baghdad, Basra, Nicosia, Famagusta, and a few other places. Snapshots of markets in Baghdad, of farmers in rural Cyprus, and aerial snapshots taken from R. A. F. planes are present throughout. Several dozen shots of rural Iraq, including some oil fields, and one of a rugby match between Basrah Petroleum Co. employees and R. A. F. Station Shaibah enlistees are also pictured. The ephemera in the final album leaves contains several documents of note. Most striking and worthy of research is an otherwise ordinary "Guide Map of Jerusalem," which the compiler has annotated in several places, noting where car bombs or attacks were executed during the March 1947 martial law period in Jerusalem. While some of these (the Goldschmidt and King David Hotel bombings, for example) are well-documented, there are at least three car bombs noted here which may or may not be well-documented. A few other documents, including a transport visa, a temporary driver's license for Cyprus, and a swimming certificate (?) for the R. A. F. Habbaniya in Baghdad give a sense of the soldier's life outside of his experiences o.

Unbound. Condición: Very Good. A collection of 2075 black and white photographs of a U.S. soldier stationed in Germany during Vietnam along with images from his work as a photo technician with the military contractor Raytheon. The photographs, measuring approximately between 2.5" x 3" and 8.5" x 11", are very good with dried glue on some of the versos and some rolled, and some with captions. A substantial archive of photographs taken by a skill photographer stationed in Berlin, Germany from the mid-1960s to the late-1970s. A majority of the photographs show soldiers working and off-duty around the base. There are also images of a military parade with tanks and military vehicles showing Vietnam War protesters with signs and pictures of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Queen Elizabeth. There are a great number of photographs around Berlin during Christmas, as well as numerous images of buildings, homes, churches, and bridges including several pictures taken from a helicopter. The compiler was a skilled photographer with many of the images featuring bokeh, light painting, and double exposure effects. There are also several photographic negatives of a young naked man posing in a garden, with both full body shots and close ups of the man's genitalia and buttocks. Census records reveal that the photographer never married and this may indicate his interest was confined to men. The remaining photos were taken in American with his family, showing his mother, sister, and brother. There is also an interracial couple with their children that was he presumably close to, interacting with them as the couple with his family at a gathering, suggesting a progressive environment. He worked as a photo lab technician for Raytheon, a manufacturer of weapons and military electronics, as well as commercial electronics for the public. Photos from the 1970s showing a Raytheon press event including images of motherboards and specially designed electronics designed for weapons and computers. Most notable is photos of a watch that has a camera hidden within its face. Our research found nothing about a camera watch developed by Raytheon, suggest it was a nonworking proto-type or has remained classified. An extensive archive of photographs taken by a skilled U.S. soldier stationed in Berlin during the Vietnam War and his postwar career with a military contractor.

Condición: Very good. Oblong small quarto. 50 album leaves (100 pages), with 69 pages of tipped-in photographs (well over 200 overall). Mostly small snapshots of various sizes, from about 2" x 3" to 3" x 5". A rather typical family portrait album in many respects, but uncommonly well-presented, with some contemporary identifying captions, and still more captions added in the 1980s according to a note on the front paste-down (these are typed and printed). There are several dozen shots of Yellowstone Park, Banff National Park in Canada, and other notable natural wonders. These all date from the 1920s. Family portraits note a few locations, including Philadelphia and historic Camden, South Carolina, indicating a rather well-to-do family. Several leaves disbound, but laid-in. The prints are generally in excellent condition - overall a very good album.