Growing up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System by Paul Goodman - 1960

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. Hardcover, dust jacket. 7.5 x 10.75 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. "The texts of the three lectures are given with a plethora of well-reproduced visual aids: almost every manuscript, piece of printed matter or artefact that Walker referred to is illustrated close to the reference, from a wide variety of sources." - Sebastian Carter, Journal of the Printing Historical Society Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) was a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement and the inspiration for the revival of fine printing in Britain, the Continent, and America. His November 1888 address to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (summarized in Appendix 1 of this book; the original text of the speech is lost) prompted William Morris to found the Kelmscott Press. With Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, Walker established the Doves Press in 1900, and Walker advised other fine presses as well. In 1935 Charles Harry St. John Hornby wrote, "Walker was a mine… Read More

Chicago: Jugoslav Directory & Almanac Publishing, 1926. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. [290p.] Endpapers toned, a few pages have minimal pencil markings, cover has fade spots on front and scratches on back with corners lightly worn. Designed for the Yugoslavian communities of Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes in the United States, including contemporary advertisements, articles of interest to these communities, fraternal organizations, and a partial directory of countrymen and women in the United States. Some text in English. B&w photographs. (10-1/2"x7")

BRADLEY, Kimberly Brubaker. Fighting Words. [NY]: Dial [2020]. 8vo, 271pp. Blue boards with spine stamped in light blue. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by two-time Newbery Honor author Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.
First edition. 2021 Newbery Honor Book! Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf – her protector. But who has been protecting Suki? Della might get told off for swearing at school, but she has always known how to keep quiet when it counts. Then Suki tries to kill herself, and Della's world turns so far upside down, it feels like it's shaking her by the ankles. Maybe she's been quiet about the wrong things. Maybe it's time to be loud.

McKILLIP, Patricia A. The Throme of the Erril of Sherill. Illustrated by Julie Noonan. NY: Atheneum, 1973. 12mo, [vi] 71pp. Maroon cloth stamped in silver on spine and blind stamped on front. Turquoise endpapers; four full-page b&w illustrations and b&w illustrated chapter headings. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author, Patricia McKillip.
First edition. A knight goes in quest of the non-existent throme of the Erril of Sherill since the king will not allow his daughter to marry without it.

Baltimore, Maryland: Bolgiano Water Motor Co, 1894. Fine. Some rust to grommet.. Printed receipt (5.5" by 8.5") acknowledging the sale of a gas iron from the Bolgiano Water Motor Company of Baltimore, Maryland, to the Hendrick Manufacturing Company of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Depicts a clever water-powered sewing machine in upper left-hand corner of the receipt, powered by the company's proprietary water motor that "will run Sewing Machines, Fans, Scroll Saws, Coffee Mills, Lathes, Printing Presses, Grindstones, Ice Cream Freezers, Washing Machines, etc." (recto). Attached with small grommet to receipt acknowledging the same transaction on Hendrick letterhead, measuring 7" by 8.5

(Paris, France: Picaron Editions, 1996. stiff paper wrappers, glassine front cover, string bound. Picaron Editions. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, glassine front cover, string bound. xxxvii, 99+(1) pages. Text in English, French, and German. Limited to 300 numbered copies. Table of contents, index. Color and black and white illustrations. Binding by Studio Corazza, design by Rik Gadella. Printed on recto only. Light tanning at edges of text. Two advertisement cards laid in.

N.P.: n.p., 1822. broadside (14 1/2 by 20 1/2 inches). Etching of a rural landscape, artist unknown, but date June 3 1822, on front corner. Edges chipped and tanned.

New York: Knopf. As New in As New dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A collection of Updike short stories. A very collectable set of first edition and uncorrected proof. First edition book is as new. Warmly inscribed to noted bibliophile and Updike collector; "for Albert J Raman that epic collector and exemplary Philadelphian John Updike". Dust jacket also as new, unclipped with archival protection. Uncorrected proof with white wrappers also as new. A great collectable set with a connection to a long time Updike collector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages; Signed by Author .

Providence and New York: The John Carter Brown Library and Readex Books, 1987. cloth. small 4to. cloth. 597 pages. A CHRONOLOGICAL GUIDE TO WORKS PRINTED IN EUROPE RELATING TO THE AMERICAS, 1493-1750. Fifth volume (of six volumes). Entirely superseding Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana, which appeared between 1868 and 1936, European Americana is now, first of all, the most comprehensive bibliographical guide to the entire printed record of European consciousness of the Americas. With more than 30,000 entries. With number of pages and locations of copies. Also gives bibliographical references to each work. Contains a short history of Americana bibliography and indices by printers, booksellers, geographic location, author, title and subject.

The Perishable Press, 1970. Limited Edition. Wraps. Very Good. One of 111 copies, this being #33 letterpress printed on a cream handmade mould made paper, and handsewn into a green handmade paper wraps. Inscribed by Rosmarie Waldrop to Eleanor and Bob Bender (Open Places editor) on the half title. Light wear and soiling to the wraps, top corner slightly bumped, else a Very Good copy.