San Francisco: San Francsico Symphony Orchestra, 1947. -. 4to; single leaf, folded to make four pages, printed on all sides in black and red. Boldly signed "Marian Anderson" on the front cover. The program featured Anderson singing arias from Verdi's "Don Carlos" and Tchaikowsky's "Jeanne d'Arc" as well as "Negro..... More

(1946). Ten vintage gelatin silver prints, variously 3-1/2 X 4, 3-1/2 X 4-1/2, 3 X 5-1/2 in. In 1946, in the aftermath of the war and the catastrophic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United Stated conducted Operation Crossroads in the south Pacific at Bikini Atoll, part of the Marshall..... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. First Edition. 4to, 35pp, with tipped-in facsimiles; cloth-backed marbled boards with printed label. One of 350 copies. More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 267pp; bright orange cloth. A decent copy of Bodenheim's novel; jacket art by Harold Harvey. More

Chicago: Institute of Design, 1953; 1957. Two vols, irregular 4tos. First volume is spiral bound in printed stiff wrappers; second volume is loose leaves in printed chemise. The first two numbers of this student publication from the Institute of Design, founded by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy as the Chicago Bauhaus and eventually..... More

London: John Murray, 1854. First edition. 8vo, frontispiece, 253pp + map and woodcut illustrations; 3/4 leather. The author was a British commissioner assigned to the region with the task of establishing boundaries. His book includes portions on history, natural history, travel, politics, and culture. More

New York: Horace Liveright, (1931). First edition. 8vo, 435pp; gray cloth. Mixed state, with "filched" on p. 49 and other corrections made. More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 256pp; cloth-backed patterned boards. An excellent copy of the author's first book; she later had a couple of comic screenplay credits in the 1930s under her married name Ethel Borden. Highly uncommon in a satisfactory jacket. More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. First American edition. 8vo, 215pp; original decorative cloth. Attractive copy of the first of Hesse's novels to appear in English, here in an uncredited translation. More

Washington DC: 1962. Single leaf, folded once; loosely inserted together with other items in spiral bound album. Kennedy writes to express his personal thanks to a federal Border Patrol officer pressed into service at the University of Mississippi to provide protection when James Meredith was registered as the first African..... More

St. Petersburg. -. Five and half pages, on one bifolium and one single leaf, each approx. 5-1/2 X 8-1/2 in. Long, content rich letters in a small, condensed hand, discussing plants, readings, colleagues, etc. Friedrich Köornicke (1828-1908) was a leading botanist who made substantial contributions, particularly in his studies of..... More

Vienna. -. One page, approx. 4-1/2 X 7 in. Hieronymus Lorm, pseudonym of Heinrich Landesmann (1821-1902) a successful social critic and author of many books, despite being deaf and virtually blind. More

München: Schirmer/Mosel, 1991. First edition. Boards. Square 4to, unpag.; boards. Signed by Marden on the title page. More