Recent Arrivals from Kate Mitas, Bookseller

7 x 11-3/4 inches. 28 leaves containing 52 b&w photographs and three blue photographs, as well as 17pp of holograph poetry, written in white on the black leaves, and two hand-painted color illustrations. Black hardcover post-bound album stamped in gilt. A few photos starting to come loose, else fine. Very Good or better. An exquisite photograph album about the travels through… Read more about this item

21 x 13 inches. Broadside. Stiff white cardstock printed in yellow and black, with halftone illustrations. Heavy bump to top edge, causing approx. 3" closed tear; bumping to upper corner; wear and rubbing to edges and corners; foxing. Good. Fundraising broadside for an unnamed community seeking to raise funds to purchase an iron lung -- presumably the Drinker-Collins Duplex Respirator shown… Read more about this item

Approx. 4-1/2 x 11-1/2 feet. Banner. Sturdy cream stock hand painted in multiple colors. Worn to corners, somewhat affecting text; extensive taping to approx. 3 feet of verso; some evidence of painted corrections to recto. Good. A massive banner mapping the Revelations according to the New Testament, possibly created for a Pentacostalist or Assembly of God revival meeting. Beginning with the… Read more about this item

7-1/2 x 5 inches. 48pp. Stapled brown wrappers printed in black. Text in English and Chinese. Worn, with small stains to wrappers around binding staples and a few pencil scribbles to front wrapper; leaves toned and somewhat brittle, with small marginal loss to lower corner of beginning leaves. A surprisingly scarce booklet for teaching English to Chinese students, most likely by… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1922. First edition. About Very Good. Two volume set. 9-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. xxxii,276pp; xix,[1],308pp. Black cloth stamped in gilt to spines. Paper of both front hinges starting to split, mull intact; edgewear, with minor loss and short tears to spine ends; Vol. I spine dulled; short marginal tear to one leaf in… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Racego Game Company, (1921). Good in a Poor box. Box: 9-3/4 x 12 inches. Game includes: linen board printed in green, yellow, black and red, 26-1/2 x 26-3/4 inches when unfolded; [4]pp set of directions for play, printed in black on cream paper; six metal playing pieces in the shape of jockeys riding horses, painted black or… Read more about this item

Chicago and New York: The Adams Westlake Company, [1927]. Good. 9-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches. 22,[2]pp. Stapled tan wrappers with embossed blue lettering. B&w illustrations. Wrappers soiled; light soiling from handling to most leaves. Scarce catalogue of bus lighting fixtures, with illustrations of buses and their interiors as well as of the fixtures themselves. "A bright, cheerful, and attractive… Read more about this item

San Francisco, 1892. Good. 7-1/2 x 5-1/4 inches. Bifolium, [4]pp. Cream silk printed in brown, with brown and white illustration of Shakespeare to last page. Horizontal fold line; small stain to first leaf; fraying to fore-edges. Silk souvenir program for the opening shows at Stockwell's Theatre, which operated from 1892-1894 at 11 Powell St. in downtown San Francisco.… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Fine in Near Fine Slipcase. No. 70 of a signed, limited edition of 350. 9-1/2 x 6 inches. [14],104,[2]pp. Beige cloth with brown cloth tips, in brown slipcase. Fine; minor, faint spot of soiling to one panel of slipcase. A collection of autobiographical essays recounting Welty's life and progression… Read more about this item

Pawhuska, Oklahoma: Department of the Interior, Osage Indian Agency, 1958. Very Good. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. [8]pp including wrappers. Stapled self-wrappers printed in black, b&w illustration to front wrapper. Front wrapper toned; corner creased. Postmarked auction catalog for oil and gas leases on Osage tribal land. Such auctions were a regular occurrence, dating back until at least the… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Mr. S Leather Company, (2003). Very Good. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. pp.[413]-[476] including wrappers. Stapled b&w self-wrappers. B&w illustrations. Light wear; slight bumping to top edge. Order catalog for a variety of leather and BDSM supplies, ranging from sexual apparatus to cages and knee pads. Mr. S Leather is still in operation in San Francisco, and… Read more about this item

Glendora, California: R.F.M., (1976). Very Good. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. 40pp. Stapled yellow wrappers printed in black. B&w illustrations. Light wear and toning to wrappers; some items marked by the previous owner with small orange stickers. Extensive catalogue of sex toys and leather paraphernalia, as well as BDSM books. "All items are guaranteed to be effective for the… Read more about this item

New York: A. W. Bryce, 1921. Good. 8 x 5-1/4 inches. Unpaginated, but 30pp + wrappers. Stapled tan wrappers printed in black. B&w illustrations. Ex-library, with stamps to the front wrapper; no other library markings. Few tiny tears along spine and fore-edge of wrappers; two leaves incompletely trimmed and a bit rough at the fore-edge; slight vertical crease… Read more about this item

New York: Cameron's Steam Presses, [1848]. About Good. 23 x 9 inches. Broadside. Yellow stock printed in black, with specifics about the location, date and price of admission written in red pencil in the appropriate locations and to the upper margin. Worn and creased; loss to upper margin, affecting legibility of the name of the hotel (possibly "Vermont… Read more about this item

Framingham, Massachusetts: Danforth Museum, (1982). Very Good. 9 x 12 inches. [2],52pp. Pink wrappers with b&w illustration to front wrapper. B&w illustrations. Wrappers sunned to spine and edges; slight bump to upper corner.

San Francisco: Frisco Gazette / San Francisco Camera Publishing Company, Inc., 1969. Good. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. Unpaginated, but 60pp. Black wrappers printed in b&w. B&w illustrations. Wrappers rubbed and worn; crease to corner of front wrapper and beginning leaves. Interior clean and bright. "A collection of photographs from San Francisco State College." Includes contributions from Dirk Martin,… Read more about this item

Dayton, Ohio: University Art Galleries, Inc., Wright State University, (1978). Very Good. 9 x 12 inches. 64pp. White wrappers printed in black. B&w illustrations. Light wear and faint toning to wrappers.

[London]: Sifton, Praed & Co., Ltd / The War Office, 1943. Very Good. 6 x 3 inches. Eight-panel brochure. Tan paper printed in black. B&w illustrations. Some details of illustrations on outer panels neatly colored in with crayon and ink; trimmed slightly unevenly; minor wear. A brutally honest first aid guide for soldiers, containing instructions about how to… Read more about this item

Chicago: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 1999. Near Fine. 10-3/8 x 8-1/2 inches. [16]pp including wrappers. Stapled photographically illustrated b&w wrappers. B&w illustrations. Hint of wear to spine, else fine.

3-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches. Recto only: [1],viii,40pp, including inside rear cover. White wrappers printed in red and black. B&w illustrations. Tiny scuff/indent to front wrapper, slightly affecting red overlay of symbol; tiny stain to foot of text block, very slightly edging over onto lower margin of a few leaves. Háy's rare second book, published as samizdat in her native Hungary in… Read more about this item