Small Broadside Or Handbill (12 items)

Navesink, New Jersey: All Saints' Memorial Church, 1988. Unbound. Near Fine. Large handbill or small broadside. Measuring approximately 8½" x 12". Light edgewear else fine. Prints ceremony information on the verso (but not a schedule), possibly issued as a keepsake.

Santa Barbara: Great Granny Press, 1976. Unbound. Fine. First edition. Small poetry broadside. 5" x 6.5". Fine. A single poem published as Great Granny's No. 1. Signed by Kooser.

New York: Art Park 22, 1971. Unbound. Very Good. Handbill or small broadside. Illustration by "M.B.S." Measuring 8½" x 11", printed recto only. Folded twice, toning and soil (mostly confined to the verso), very good with four lines of penciled notes in Yiddish verso.

Jersey City, New Jersey: Spirit of Life Art Ensemble / Jersey City Public Library, 1978. Unbound. Fine. Handbill or small broadside. Single 8½" x 11" sheet printed on both sides. About fine with a tiny bit of wear. An advertisement for the first anniversary celebration of the Jersey City "Community Awareness Series," featuring the music of Spirit of Life Art Ensemble with Billy Lumkin as guest vocalist, and the films "Black Artists of the U.S.A." and "Discovering Jazz." The verso prints the events list for a CAS event on October 22: highlights include a community forum ("The Community and Our Needs") with Glenn Cunningham, who in 2004 would become the first African-American Mayor of Jersey City; a photography exhibition by Sa Rudolph, a member of Collective Black Photogrphers; dance; poetry; and film ("Bill Cosby on Prejudice"). According to the Jersey City Library website, the "Community Awareness Series (CAS) was born in 1977 out of a successful experiment between the Miller Branch Library and… Read more

[London]: Mermaid Theatre, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Broadside. Single sheet measuring 5" x 8" printed on recto only. A fine copy. Robert Lowell's adaptation of 'Prometheus Bound,' was first published in New York, in 1969, by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The production starred Kenneth Haigh, and was directed by Jonathan Miller. This broadside is unrecorded by OCLC, which does note two holdings of a theatre programme for this production.

South Orange, [New Jersey]: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, 1924. Softcover. Fine. Printed flyer or handbill. Approximately 6" x 9". Printed rectos only. About fine. Handbill for the premiere of a now "lost film," hosted by the producers, the Edisons. We could find little about the presumably silent film.

New York: Progressive Labor [Movement, 1963. Unbound. Very Good. Handbill or small broadside. Measuring 8” x 10½”. Tiny date inked in bottom corner, old horizontal fold, a bit of toning and offsetting, very good or better. A handbill strongly against U.S. involvement in South Vietnam, prepared in advance of Tr?n L? Xuân (a.k.a. Madame Nhu) visiting the United States. According to the author of the handbill, she is coming to garner “popular support for fascism,” speaking at the Waldorf Astoria. Tr?n spoke at the Waldorf Astoria on Wednesday, October 9, 1963, and this handbill invites readers to a protest the policies “of Madame Nhu and the Kennedys.” The publisher gives two New York City addresses: 336 Lenox Ave. (known as the “Harlem Progressive Labor Club”) and 227 E. 3rd St. Probably the most well-known member of the Progressive Labor Movement is William Epton, an African-American man described in his obituary in *The New York Times* as “a Maoist agitator who made a fiery… Read more

(Harrisburg, Pa: Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association), 1915. Unbound. Near Fine. First edition, Harrisburg imprint. Small broadside or handbill. Single sheet measuring 6" x 7" printed both sides. Horizontal crease where once folded, verso is tanned, with thin line of tanning on recto, else a near fine copy. Leaflet promoting passage of the 1915 Pennsylvania resolution providing for a Constitutional Amendment to give women the vote, the text begins: "It is asserted that 'the average good American woman's indifference to woman suffrage' is an unanswerable argument against the movement...". Text closes: "Women Vote in Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington, California, Oregon, Arizona, Kansas, Nevada, Montana and Alaska. Why Not in Pennsylvania? The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed a resolution providing for a Constitutional Amendment to give women votes. When approved by the next Legislature, this amendment will go to the voters in 1915...". This Harrisburg issue is unrecorded by *OCLC*,… Read more

Davis, California: University of California, Davis Campus, Department of Music & Committee of Arts and Lectures, 1969. Unbound. Fine. Handbill or small broadside. Measuring 11" x 8½". Printed in two colors. Faintest vertical crease else fine. According to an article on the UC Davis blog, the November 1969 event was the brainchild of musician and faculty member Stan Lunetta and UC Davis grad student John Dinwiddie, with assistance from UC Davis music professor Larry Austin. Of particular note is the premiere performance of John Cage's "33 1/2," which included setting out a dozen phonographs and nearly 250 records with no instructions; the audience could play the records, creating the piece. Cage also gave a lecture titled "How to improve the world (you will only make matters worse)." Also, Erik Satie's piece "Vexations" was played 840 times (!), beginning at 6am and ending after midnight. In addition to the aforementioned participants, the handbill also advertises performances by Ashley, Woodbury,… Read more

[Virginia], 1848. Unbound. Fine. Political handbill. Measuring 3¾" x 6½". A fine example. Additionally the handbill lists the electors for each of Virginia's 17 election districts. Taylor, a Southern slaveholder whose family had migrated westward from Virginia, opposed the spread of slavery to the territories and was uninterested in politics but was recruited by the Whig Party as their nominee in the 1848 presidential election. He defeated the Democratic nominee, Lewis Cass, and became the first U.S. President never to have held a previous elected office. *OCLC* locates only two copies, both in Virginia.

(New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, 1918. Unbound. Good. First edition. Small broadside. Single sheet measuring 6" x 7" printed on recto and verso. Text is quite tanned (printed on acidic paper), few short tears and small chips at extremities, else a good copy of a fragile item. *OCLC* locates a single holding. Prints quotes regarding woman suffrage by Premier Lloyd George, Ex-Premier Asquith, Sir Wilfred Laurier, President Woodrow Wilson, et al. *Not in Krichmar*.

Portland, Maine: [Privately Printed for the Author], 1889. Unbound. Near Fine. First edition. Small broadside measuring 5¼" x 8", printed recto only. Lightly creased where once folded, else near fine. The broadside prints an 11-line statement by Jane P. Thurston, who lists herself as "Proprietor of the United States and Kingdom of Great Britain and Colonies." Thurston was born in 1814 and was a resident of Portland, Maine. She published material related to the Civil War, pacifism, abolition, genealogy, etc. This and several of her publications related to her long-running property claim against the United States, about a family estate in Maine. She states, in part: "I, Jane P. Thurston, Proprietor of the United States and Kingdom of Great Britain and Colonies, by process of law fully consummated: -- Hereby declare the faith which I receive from the 2d Book of Chronicles, 20th Chapter, from the 11th to the 30th Verses, to labor for the last twenty-eight years has been fully realized by me to-day… Read more