A collection of 180 flyers, business cards, and handbills promoting Southern California glam and heavy metal bands from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s, featuring acts such as Funhouse, Nuclear Valdez, L.A. Guns, New Haven, The..... More
A collection of the artist’s work that includes two sketchbooks and numerous other original pieces. Born in Austin, Texas, Ryan grew up in Washington State, and lived in Escondido, California from 1919. Primarily a printmaker..... More
An archive of photographs, ledgers, canceled checks, legal documents and other business and personal records from a Stillwater, New York family who feuded over the disposition of a lumber and coal business at the turn..... More
An archive of research and writing materials gathered for a biography of Ormer Locklear, the daredevil aerial stuntman who was the first to change planes mid-air and died while filming the silent movie The Skywayman..... More
A collection of autographed photographs, cards, and letters by 16 different members of the Supreme Court of the United States, ranging from Chief Justice William Rehnquist to Chief Justice Earl Warren. This assemblage includes autographs..... More
Carmichael, California: 1992-93. Wraps. The Fifth Path was a self-produced zine out of Northern California only publishing five issues sporadically between 1991 and 1994, as the founder, Robert Ward, died in 2004. Michael Moynihan of..... More
A collection of concert photographs, video cassette recordings, and other items associated with Mad Parade, a stalwart hardcore punk outfit from Los Angeles. The material was assembled by the band’s drummer, Mike Sosa, who has..... More
A collection of material kept by Gloria Sabath and her husband, Fred, concerning a McDonald’s hamburger franchise location the couple owned in Carson, California. The materials in this group include everything from memos about managing..... More
New York: U.S. Continental Mines Company, 1923. Wraps. A thorough report, addressed to the officers and directors of the U.S. Continental Mines Company, on exploration work conducted to determine the commercial value of future operations..... More
circa 1995. Accompanied by a typed statement, which is affixed to the bottom of the removable ceiling cutout: “This model is a replica of the actual cell here at San Quentin. The dimension of the..... More
Remarkable vernacular unit history of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323, which earned the nickname “Death Rattlers” after three fighter pilots killed a six-foot rattlesnake and hung its skin in the squadron’s ready room. Commissioned on..... More
1907. This marvelous photographic record begins when Philip R. Andrews (1884–1927) of Kennebunk, Maine leaves New England and travels by train across the United States to San Francisco. He documents this portion of the trip..... More
1919. Three months after the armistice, Eleanor Williams sailed from New York aboard the R.M.S. Cornia, arriving in Liverpool on February 9 and proceeding to France. Her duties with the YMCA and the troops of..... More
London: circa 1935-39. An unpublished children's novel, TALES OF A SHEPHERD, with numerous manuscript ink drawings on fine quality Japanese silk tissue art paper. This work was produced by noted British artist and illustrator William..... More
San Francisco: circa 1934. Wraps. Type specimen catalogue, oblong octavo (8” x 5”), 44 p. Original decorative paper wrappers, profusely illustrated. Text in Chinese with some English. Remarkable condition, with only some mild toning to..... More
New York: September 30, 1933. A single page manuscript letter on Hotel Algonquin stationary, dated September 30, 1933. There is a little toning and wear, and a staple has been removed from above the printed..... More
Oslo: Aschehoug, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. The true first edition, preceding the English translation ("Death Archives"). Signed and dated by Stubberud as "Necrobutcher" at Neseblod Records in Oslo on the title page. Intimate account of..... More
![NUNS IN RODEO: Sat. June 18. [with] TLS from Jennifer Miro to Mr. [Philip] Elwood. Punk, Jennifer...](/pictures/thumb/70578.jpg?v=1590627710)
San Francisco: 1977. Two-page promotional kit (8 ½” x 11), photomechanically printed on the recto only, signed by promotions manager Rusty Cramer on the second page; one-page TLS. Folded for mailing, with some light wear..... More
New York: New Directions, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher’s slip laid in. The classic story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society. Praised by Gore..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. The plot of this, the ninth book in the James Bond series and the eighth full-length novel featuring 007, centers on the theft of two atomic..... More
Brooklyn, New York: Sacred Bones Books, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Artist Edition, number 29 of 100 copies with a signed artist print photograph, a 7” featuring unreleased music from blackened thrashers Aura Noir and old-school..... More
David Rutledge, 1988. Spiral bound. Fourth edition, revised, accompanied by a 5 ¼” floppy disk of Tigger 1.0, an interactive circuit editor Rutledge wrote in 1985. An introduction to integrated circuits intended to provide students..... More
[Los Angeles]: Betnic Productions Inc., November 8, 1972. Wraps. Revised Draft of this unproduced screenplay. Veteran producer Frank P. Rosenberg hired Ernest Tidyman (1928-84) to adapt Jeanne Rejaunier’s best-selling novel, which deals with the glamourous..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Edited by R. Lincoln Keiser, with a commentary by Paul Bohannan. Anticipating and informing the popular blaxploitation films of the early 1970s, this..... More
