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Seattle: Associated Students of the University of Washington, 1930. Very Good-. 12-3/8" x 9". 458 pp. Black cloth with dyed illustration and illustrated red title label to front cover. B/w photographic images of students and faculty, lithographs of sketches of the campus by Norman Fox, and color silkscreened beginning pages and section title pages. Board corners quite bumped; faint dampstain to corners of some pages; occasional faint offsetting from illustrations to facing pages. Lacking the dust jacket. A gloriously illustrated art-deco yearbook for the University of Washington, with sections on student publications, athletics, women's activities, music, drama, and debate, honoraries, college life, society, fraternities, sororities, and other organizations.

San Francisco: The San Francisco New School, 1965. Good. 11" x 8-1/2". [2], 1-15, [2] pp printed recto only. White self-wrappers, bound with a single staple to upper corner. Light toning and soiling to covers, chip to margin of last leaf, light coffee stain to front cover and p. 1. Transcript of a 1963 interview recorded by WBAI, in New York City, with a 1965 forward and postscript by Duskin providing context and commentary. Duskin founded Emerson College in Pacific Grove in 1960, the free college that became the precursor to the San Francisco New School. Goodman, an anarchist philosopher and respected and vocal critic of the U.S. educational system, wrote in Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals (1962) that Emerson College was an academically weaker version of Black Mountain College, and the same year again reviewed the school negatively in The Community of Scholars. The interview was spurred by these criticisms, although it did little to resolve the two men's differences regarding the practical… Read More