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Typed Letter SIGNED “L. Sprague de Camp” dated “19 April 77” on de CampÂ’s own letterhead with wonderful content on Robert E. Howard. Written to C.C. Clingan (addressed to Chet), who was the editor of the sci-fi fanzine The Diversifier (1974-1979) where de CampÂ’s writing appeared in 1976 and 1978. The opening paragraph thanks Clingan for the copy of “REH” (perhaps a reference to the bio-bibliography of Howard, The Last Celt, published the previous year). He then goes on to discuss the variations of spelling of HowardÂ’s middle name—“The name appears as ‘ErvineÂ’ on the birth and death certificates of REH and his mother, but as ‘ErvinÂ’ in all of REHÂ’s writings about his family and on the gravestone at Brownwood,” and concludes, “In any case, to make a big fuss about the matter, as Everts (a.k.a. Kirsch) did, tells more about Everts than about the Howard family.” The middle portion of the letter speaks of the spelling of de Camp within his own family.  Dampstaining to lower…
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L. Sprague de Camp TLS with Wonderful Content on Robert E. Howard
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Las Vegas Celebrity Cookbook Volume I: The Private Recipes of Fifty-Four International Celebrities
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Las Vegas: Creel Printing Co./Hollybrooke House, 1982. First Edition. Near Fine in VG+ dustjacket (sticker ghost on front cover, edgewear). With promotional order form laid in.
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The Last Days of Pompeii: In Two Volumes
by Lytton, Edward Bulwer
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Boston: Estes and Lauriat, [1891]. Parchment Edition. #226 of 250 copies. Illustrated. 2 volumes. Decorative white boards with gilt lettering and top edges gilt. A striking set. VG+ (light soiling, edgewear).
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The Last Great Bay: Images of a Vanishing Florida
by Bickel, Richard
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Apalachicola, FL: Watertown Press, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by Bickel on title page. 168 pp, oversized hardcover. Bickel's "haunting visual poetry" of the world of Apalachicola Bay and its people. Bickel's photography has won the Golden Quill for Photography and the New York Art Directors Club Award.
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The Last King of Scotland
by Foden, Giles
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London: Faber and Faber, 1998. Near Fine in illustrated wraps. "A journey into the mind of the African tyrant [Idi Amin] who became a cartoon bogeyman for the rest of the world."
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Late 1960s Advertisement for PinkÂ’s Wig Bar [Philadelphia?]
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“Greetings and Welcome to….Pink’s Wig Bar. Discounts For Everyone!! Wigs of Every Type and Description. ‘Ask about a WIG Demonstration’ Wiglets-Falls-Cascades. We’re located at ‘Kelly’s Corner.’” Single sheet, printed on pink paper with four illustrations, 3 Black women (including Miss Finney, Leading Hair Stylist) and one Black man (Mr. Pink, Prop.). VG or better (edgewear, 1” closed tear to top edge, horizontal crease). Scarce—we could not find any information on this business. No copies in commerce, auction results, or OCLC.
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Late 1970s Broadside “Why Have These Federal Agencies Been Harassing The Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton? Because They Don’t Like What the Black Panther Party Has Been Doing!”
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One page, double-sided, printed in black and red, with three photographs highlighting the Black Panther Party “Survival Programs” meant “to provide Black and poor people with decent food, clothing, medical care, education, and other basic needs.” The broadside calls out the FBI, ATF, CIA, and IRS as federal agencies targeting Newton and the Black Panthers and notes that they are a threat to all Americans.An uncommon broadside, not in commerce, auction records, or OCLC.
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Late 1990s Treatment Concept for a Musical Play on West Coast Gang Life
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16+ pages of handwritten material written by [name withheld]. “This is a Musical Play showing gang member exactly what effect is laid upon other with gang activity in today society. The reason I’m writing this Musical Play is because I’ve seen the effects of these actions. I also hope that in some way the play will make at least one look at what he or she is really doing both to themselves, society, and to a once proud and strong black race.” Includes Concept for songs: Song One: Family Life-A Mother CryingSong Two: The ending of a blood line-Family destructionSong Three: The retaliation of the home boyz-RevengeSong Four: A river of red-running wildSong Five: Black by nature Proud by Choice (Bravery Love Attitude Courage Knowledge)Lays out scenes and includes lyrics to one song, “A Mothers Crying” as well as snippets of other songs. Includes plan to reference Martin Luther King Jr.An incredible unfinished West Coast Gang Musical Treatment from the late 1990s.
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Late 1990s Collection of Handwritten and Typed Lyrics for Budding West Coast Hip Hop Artists: [names withheld]
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Includes 8 color photos of performers (3 of live performance), drawings and doodles scattered throughout, more than 100 pages total including handwritten lyrics. Also included are a set of poems from a woman in Costa Mesa, CA.
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Leaving Eden
by Baumgaertner, Jill Peláez
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Fox River Grove, IL: White Eagle Coffee Store Press, 1995. First Edition of the author's first collection of poetry. 24 pp. Cover art by Steven Obendorf. Near Fine in illustrated stapled wraps. Uncommon.
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Leonard BaskinÂ’s Speech of Acceptance on Receiving the Medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York, April 28, 1965
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[Northampton, MA]: Leonard Baskin/Spiral Press, 1965. Near Fine in grey stapled wrappers, [10] pp. "This speech has been made into a booklet for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, for the 'Typophiles' (monograph no. 78) and for the friends of Leonard Baskin and the Spiral Press, where it was printed in June of 1965.”
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Letter on Italian Music: An Intimate Glimpse of Eighteenth-Century Italian Musical Life
by De Brosses, Charles
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[n.p.]: [n.p.], 1978. Translated and Annotated by Donald S. Schier. First Edition. 52 pp. Fine in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket with moderate rubbing and edgewear. INSCRIBED on ffep by the translator, signed “D.S.S.”
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Letters Lovecraftian
by Fabian, Stephen E.
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Saddle River, NJ: Gerry De La Ree, 1974. VG+ illustrated wraps, comb bound. First Edition, Limited to 400 copies, this copy being No. 73. An alphabet of illuminated letters inspired by the works of the late master of the weird tale, Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937).
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Liberated Guardian Volume III Number 8 (February 1973)
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Folded tabloid, 16 pp. Toning, edgewear and chipping, and loss at top corner and small hole at fold, about VG. The “Collective Comment” section that opens this issue notes their desire “to shift from a national movement newspaper to a locally-based New York paper” starting with this issue. Included in this issue is an interview with Bobby Seale and another with San Francisco Mime Troupe and articles about murders at Attica, Nicaragua as victim of U.S. intervention, NYC daycare under attack (“Fight the Fee Scale!”), and responses to the war. Liberated Guardian “was originally started in the spring of 1970 by a group of Guardian workers who went on strike because of that paper’s undemocratic organization and sexism as well as political differences, and started a new collectively-run paper" (from page 2).
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The Liberator. Complete Run for 1922-1923
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A complete run from 1922 and 1923 of this important socialist magazine edited by Max Eastman and Floyd Dell. New York: Liberator Publishing Co., [1922, 1923]. 23 issues (Nov-Dec 1922 is combined in one issue). There is a small "Jan. 1922" stamp on one of the opening pages of first issue. Pages loose in February, March, April, July 1922 and September 1923 issues. All have been disbound by a conservator (they were loosely sewn and bound in red buckram), showing signs of that work to edges. Good+ to VG illustrated wraps (fragile newsprint, nicks to spines from being sewn together previously, chipping, tears, and wear to edges, vertical creasing through center of all issues, two notations in first issue, one to December 1922 issue, two to March 1923, one in May 1923).
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Lies: Poems
by Williams, C.K.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. First Printing. 62 pp. Near Fine in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket, a bit of off toning to flaps and wrinkle at crown. The authorÂ’s first published collection; Williams would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He died in 2015.
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Life Work
by Hall, Donald
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Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. First Edition. Near Fine (gift inscription on half title) in a VG+ price-clipped dustjacket. SIGNED by Hall on title page. Jacket design by Barry Moser. HallÂ’s memoir of the writing life at his New Hampshire farm, written after his cancer diagnosis in 1989 and before the death of his beloved wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, in 1995. Hall died in June 2018.
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Lillabulero: Being a Periodical of Literature and the Arts. Volume I, Number 1
by Ed. Russell Banks
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Winter, 1967. Tall Quarto. 56 pp. with Portfolio/1 A Photographic Essay by Peter Schlaifer inside the rear cover. About VG+ overall, with a 4” tear to front cover, creasing and spotting. Laid in is a December 18, 1966 The News and Observer article, “Mag Makes Debut” with picture of Banks reviewing the first issue (Banks is quoted as saying, “We do not expect to make a profit.”). The inaugural issue features work by Nelson Algren, William Stafford, Lewis Lipsitz, and Evan S. Connell, Jr., among others, contains reviews of Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and Walker Percy’s The Last Gentleman, and capsules of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, Langston Hughes’s Poems from Black America, and A Poetry Reading Against the Vietnam War. A relatively hard-to-find first issue of this important periodical that ran from 1967-1974.
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Lillabulero: Being a Periodical of Literature and the Arts. Volume I, Number 2. Spring, 1967
by Ed. Russell Banks
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Tall Quarto. 40[3] pp. and includes inside the rear cover Portfolio/2 “The Shaker Dove” by Daniel Patterson. Contributors include Ralph Dennis, Dabney Stuart, Lewis Lipsitz, and Edmund Skellings. Includes A Special Supplement on William Faulkner: A Story and Five Poems. VG+ or better.
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Lillie Carroll Jackson Museum News.: Vol. 1 No. 1. Winter 1979
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Two-page newsletter for the Lillie Carroll Jackson Museum in Baltimore, MD. Jackson, a freedom fighter and known to Baltimoreans as “that NAACP Lady,” fought racial oppression her entire life and was the president of the Baltimore Branch NAACP for almost 35 years. Today the Museum is known as the Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum run by Morgan State University.Scarce. Not in trade or OCLC.
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