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Works and other Smoky George Stories
Perry Brass
New York: Belhue Press, 1992. -
Integrated Design of Water Treatment Facilities
Susumu Kawamura
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1991.Includes: Management of a Design Project, Preliminary Studies, Design of Basic Treatment Process Units, Subordinate Plant Facilities, Design of Plant Components, Elements of Detailed Design, Specific Water Treatment Processes, Management of Procurement and Construction Phases, Operations and Maintenance Manual and Operator Training, and Plant Start-up and Follow-up Services.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Homosexual Men: Diagnosis, Treatment and Research
David G. Ostrow; Terry Alan Sandholzer; Yehudi M. Felman
New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1983. -
Communist Zoo
Hans Muller
New York: Swen Publications, 1951.Photographs of zoo animals with humorous anti-communist commentary: “Don’t ask me what I think, comrade! I haven’t read the Daily Worker this morning.”
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A Star for Christina
Blakely St. James
New York: Playboy Paperbacks, 1981. -
Deborah: A True History by Herself
Deborah
New York: Emerald Books, 1982.20th century American pulp smut fiction.
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A Descriptive Check List, Together With Short Title Index, Describing Almost 7500 Items of Western Americana
Peter Decker
New York: Antiquarian Press, 1960.Comprising Books, Maps, and Pamphlets of the Important Library (In Four Parts) Formed By George W. Soliday, Seattle, Wash. Compiled with Notes by Peter Decker, 1940 – 1945. Edition Limited to 550 copies, of which this is number 161.
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Who Killed Amanda Palmer: A Collection of Photographic Evidence
Neil Gaiman; Amanda Palmer; Kyle Cassidy; Beth Hommel
New York: Eight Foot Books, 2009.Photobook of the purported death of Amanda Palmer, lead vocalist of The Dresden Dolls. With Stories by Neil Gaiman.
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The Sexual Wilderness: The Contemporary Upheavel in Male-Female Relationships
Vance Packard
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1968.The Upheaval in Male-Female Relationships: the Breakup of Traditional Morality: New Trends in Sexual Behaviour among the Young.
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The Second Window
Robin Maugham
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.YOUNG 2575*.
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The Wrong People
Robin Maugham
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.US Edition of YOUNG 2580*.
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Light Through Darkness
Henri Michaux
New York: The Orion Press, 1963.The accounts, observations, and literary manifestations of Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian born French poet and artist, on mescaline, psilocybin, and marijuana. Originally published in French in 1961, then translated into English by Haakon Chevalier and first published in America in 1963. Associated with the Tachiste movement in the 1940s and 1950s, Michaux was one of the original 20th century artists to take drugs and make art. This copy in a fine signed full leather binding by Queensland bookbinder Karen McGuire based on the original jacket design.
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Codex Seraphinianus
Luigi Serafini
New York: Rizzoli, 2013.The deluxe 2013 edition of the ever mysterious Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini (1949-). Possibly an illustrated encyclopaedia of an alternate universe, Serafini has alluded that it is perhaps all just the thoughts of a cat passed through his hand. The Codex is written in an imaginary language and illustrated phantasmagorically throughout. This being the deluxe 2013 edition, being the second Rizzoli edition, expanding on their 2006 edition. The deluxe edition was published in an edition of 600 copies, of which this is number 70, signed and numbered by Serafini on a plate mounted to the colophon and includes the Decodex in the rear pocket, as well as a signed and numbered print, housed in a clamshell folder. This copy also with a copy of the standard edition of the only published volume of literary criticism in English on the Codex Seraphinianus, Confronting Serafini by Jordan Hunter (2017). Confronting Serafini is a 36 page saddle-stitched booklet bound with a treated page from the 2013 Rizzoli edition of the Codex, numbered 39 in an edition of 60.
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A Symposium on America’s Stake in Vietnam
American Friends of Vietnam
New York: American Friends of Vietnam, 1956.The edited record of the Conference on Vietnam held in Washington D.C. on 1 June 1956. Attendees included almost 250 representatives of government, the armed services, universities and national civic organisations. John F. Kennedy was amongst the speakers.
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Embassy Girl
Emily Thorne
New York: Airmont Publishing, 1964.The Glamour and Adventure of Embassy Life in London.
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The Story of Pure Vanilla with Recipes
Vanilla Bean Association of America
New York: Vanilla Bean Association of America, 1955. -
McClure’s Library of Children’s Classics
The McClure Company
New York: The McClure Company, 1907.Booklet advertising the first five books in the McClure’s Library of Children’s Classics edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith. There is a detailed description of each book: Pinafore Palace, The Posy Ring, Golden Numbers, Magic Casements, and The Fairy Ring.
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The Luxury of the Four Stream Needle Shower
Reddan Specialty Co.
New York: Reddan Specialty Co., 1914.The benefits of the four head shower invented by Mr. A. E. Kenney are many: the year around way to start your day; send you down to your office feeling like a boy; no longer confined to the rich man’s home; the only curtainless shower; the price is low as you don’t have to tear the walls out to install; stimulates your whole system without shock to the head; no rubber cap needed to keep your hair dry and so prevents hair thinning, dandruff and catarrh; takes up no room; fits any bath tub. Unfortunately it doesn’t put out the cat or turn off the lights. This copy with the stamp of the sales Agent Wm. B. McMahon, Troy, New York, stating a free 5 day trial to the wrappers front panel.
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Price List of Parts for Canadian Training Airplanes
Aircraft Material and Equipment Corporation
New York: Aircraft Material and Equipment Corporation, No date.A price list for every part of an airplane, from wing panels ($88.85) down to cotter pins (1 cent). This copy with notice stamps of the United Air-craft Engineering Corporation.
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Experiments with Light: Practical Problems for Students in Science
Illuminating Engineering Society
New York: Illuminating Engineering Society, No date.