Portland, OR: Np, [1942]. Original 10 3/4" x 14" poster printed in orange and black on cardboard with a racist caricature of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo stabbing a salmon. Text reads in its entirety: "The Japs are killing Alaska's fish industry / vote 311 X no against this infamous..... More
np: No Publisher, 1910. 38 pp. Ruled untitled notebook with mounted illustrations on both recto and verso throughout, all with accompanying captions in manuscript. Very Good. A collection of clipped illustrations from magazines, mostly fashion-oriented, mounted in a notebook with handwritten captions, probably created ca. 1910. The illustrated notebook proceeds..... More
[No Place]: [No Publisher], [1970]. 4.25" x 5.5", single-sided handbill flyer. Good, horizontally creased, missing triangular chips at corners, wrinkled, toned. No other copies located in commerce or in institutional collections such as University of Washington's Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection. A scarce piece of propaganda from the American anti-Vietnam..... More
London and New York: H. Bailliere, 1856. First edition. iv, 208 pp. Bound in publisher's elaborately blind stamped dark cloth with gilt spine lettering, yellow endpapers. Very Good+ with slightly sunned spine, slight wave to text, a little foxing to contents, former owner's bookplate on paste down. Nice shape overall..... More
[No Place]: [No Publisher], [1944]. Single thin sheet; 4.8" x 7" leaflet printed in red and black. Verso numbered S W 3. Text in English. Very Good, folded in fours, tiny tear in top edge at fold. An illustrated WWII psychological warfare pamphlet from the Nazi German government, aimed at..... More
Portland, OR: Indymedia, [2002]. Two 11" x 17" vintage black-and-white flyers protesting then-VP Dick Cheney's 2002 visit to Portland, Oregon. Staple holes, light wear. Popular Left/antiglobalization site Indymedia's web address written in marker on the bottom margin of one poster; highlighting to text of the other with dates corrected in..... More
[British Columbia?]: [no publisher], c. 1940s. A lovely vintage photograph album containing plants that are either native or endemic to the Pacific Northwest (likely British Columbia), neatly assembled by an amateur botanist. Most images are taken in the wild, while several are of pressed plant specimens shot against a white..... More
[New York]: [no publisher], 1995. A large collection of approximately 300 color photographs documenting the 1995 New York City Gay Pride parade, with images typically depicting floats, parade marchers, banners, signs and crowds. Most images appear to be taken from the crowd. Those depicted marching in the parade come from..... More
[no place]: [no publisher], 1878-1879. An exquisitely compiled herbarium of over 1000 plants native to Europe, collected over the course of one year, meticulously chronicling the flora's growth throughout the seasons. Approximately 1051 specimens of all manner of flora mounted on 104 sheets further mounted onto leaves, some with exact..... More
[California]: [c. late 19th-early 20th century]. A lovely sea moss souvenir album with six pressed and mounted specimens from the coast of California. [6] pp. Bound in a commercially produced gilt lettered die-cut booklet with poetical onlay and yellow silk picot ribbon tie. Very Good. Lacking a ribbon fastener, extant..... More
[France]: [Unknown publisher], [c. 1840-1880]. A suggestive set of translucent erotic playing cards likely created in France in the mid-19th century. Set consists of 35 hand-colored playing cards, 32 of which are from around 1840, featuring 11 court cards (3.25 x 2.25"), and three slightly larger cards (3.5 x 2.5")..... More
[UK]: [Unknown], [1980]. Two vintage anarcho-punk/ peace punk armbands from the United Kingdom, manufactured circa 1980. Machine sewn white cotton linen with black elastic bands at verso. Screen printed red anarchist designs. Each are 6.5 x 3.5". Near Fine with light fading and minor abrasions at edges. Scarce, in-your-face political..... More
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Norfolk, UK: [No publisher], 1837-1860. Two large herbaria with hundreds of plant specimens collected in 19th-century Norfolk, England pertaining to flowering plants and mosses. Bound in contemporary half leather over marbled boards with morocco spine labels stamped in gilt. British Plants contains approximately 90 specimens with no manuscript identifcations. British..... More
[No Place]: Libertarian Enterprises, 1971. Original psychedelic-style poster of American abolitionist, lawyer, philosopher, author, and libertarian anarchist Lysander Spooner (1808-1887), with a quote from his best-known work No Treason. Measures 14" x 21.5". Rolled up. Very Good with stain around Spooner's head, light edge wear, age-toning, a pieces of clear..... More
[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1989. Comb-bound, printed on sheets of various colors. Unpaginated. Near Fine with light wear. A thick collection of Grateful Dead lyrics, plus lyrics to songs the Dead often covered. A memento of rabid Deadhead culture at the close of the '80s, transcribed by the anonymous Deadeditor..... More