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Neito’s Jewish Almanac for One Hundred Years
Abraham H. Neito
New York: Burr Printing House for the Author, 1902.From New Year 5663/1902 to 5763/2002. Showing the New Moons, Festivals and Fasts, with the sections of th elaw as read in the synagogues every Sabbath in the year. Also the first and last days of the solar month, with their corresponding Hebrew dates and pages for family registers. With 3 leaves at rear for Births, Deaths, and Marriages, unmarked. This copy from the collection of the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library of The Great Synagogue Sydney (deaccessioned), and with the armorial bookplate of David James Benjamin, and inscribed by members of the Sydney Jewish community, Louis Phillips to Moritz Gotthelf.
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Dark Shadows in the Afternoon
Kathleen Resch; Marcy Robin
New York: Image Publishing, 1991.A look at the American daytime TV horror soap opera, Dark Shadows. The original series ran for 1,225 episodes between 1966 and 1977.
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Macumba: White and Black Magic in Brazil
A. J. Langguth
New York: Harper & Row, 1975. -
The Miracle of Celanese Brand Fabrics
Celanese Corporation of America
New York: Celanese Corporation of America, 1928.Early promotional booklet for Celanese, a cellulose acetate “artificial silk” fabric, produced by the Celanese Corporation of America. The firm, a Fortune 500 company still operating today as Celanese, the name being a portmanteaux of cellulose and ease, promoting the new product as easy to clean and care for. The booklet is illustrated throughout by Robert L. Leonard (1879-1958), a pioneering figure of American decorative arts, design, and illustration. Having studied and worked as an illustrator in Munich, Berlin, and Paris before migrating to the United States in 1923, he brought with him a modernist style which is on full show in the colourful art deco illustrations. Leonard was a founding member of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Designers and edited the first Annual of American Design in 1931. A rare treat of 1920s fashion and illustration, with only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library.
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Ha! Ha! Houdini!
Patti Smith
New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1977.Smith’s poetic tribute to illusionist Harry Houdini, dedicated to Jacques Stern. An unsigned, unnumbered copy of the first edition.
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Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects
Edward L. Youmans
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856.Exhibiting the General Principles of the Science in a Series of Beautifully Colored Diagrams, and Accompanied by Explanatory Essays, Embracing the Latest Views of the Subjects Illustrated. Edward Livingston Youmans (1821-1887) was an American scientific writer, editor, and lecturer, and founder of Popular Science magazine. Youmans’ Chemical Atlas is one of the 19th century’s pioneering publications of science popularization, with striking colour plates both conveying information and capturing the imagination, and was featured in the William Reese exhibition Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books: “This chemistry textbook was a pioneering publication in the use of color to convey quantitative information”. There are recorded printings each year between 1854 and 1857. This 1856 edition being the third year of printing and from the collection of the renowned neurologist, author, and educator Dr. Oliver Sacks, with his bookplate laid in.
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Mastering Mary Sue
Mary Love
New York: Masquerade Books, 1998.A tale of a wealthy nymphomaniac with a husband attempting to declare her mentally incompetent and steal her fortune.
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Trinkets
Lizbeth Dusseau
New York: Masquerade Books, 1998.Erotic story of domination.
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Architectural Details
Antonin Raymond; Noemi P. Raymond
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1947.The Second Edition of this classic of 20th century architecture by Czech-American architecture Antonin Raymond. Raymond commenced his career working with Frank Lloyd Wright and Cass Gilbert. In 19Wright sent him to work in Japan and there he went on to do his own work. This book presents architecture elements developed in Japan during the interwar years. This copy with the original comb binding covers slipped into a custom cloth binding for Michael Hugo-Brunt (1924-1988, an architecture professor at Cornell before moving to the School of Architecture of the University of Western Australia.
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Dragons and Dragon Lore
Ernest Ingersoll
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928.With an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn.
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Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration
Eric C. Dahlberg
New York: Springer, 1995. -
Mardi Gras Mambo
Greg Herren
New York: Kensington Books, 2006. -
Beware The God Who Smiles
Larry Townsend
New York: Badboy, 1995.Gay pulp time-travel.
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Derricks
James Barr
New York: Greenburg, 1951.A collection of short stories. The second published work by of one of the first modern authors to portray homosexual characters positively. Written by James Fugate, under the pseudonym James Barr. YOUNG 185*.
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One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900
Grolier Club
New York: The Grolier Club, 1947.Catalogue and Addresses: Exhibition at The Grolier Club, April Eighteenth – June Sixteenth, MCMXLVI.
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From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West
Susan J. Napier
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. -
Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives
Toni Johnson-Woods
New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010. -
Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime
Mark W. MacWilliams
New York: M. E. Sharpe, [2008]. -
The Other Side of the Picture
Olivier Theyskens
New York: Assouline Publishing, 2009.Photographs by Julien Claessens. Introduction by Sally Singer.
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Cage: A New Series of Assemblages and Collages
Betye Saar
New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, [2010].Exhibition catalogue November 6 – January 15, 2011.