A veritable who’s who in British hair styling is represented in this archive which contains thousands of photographic images of industry icons ranging from the legendary inventor of the bob haircut, Vidal Sassoon, to punk..... More
An archive of primary source materials about the adventurer and spy Fritz Duquesne collected for a book written about him by Los Angeles-based journalist turned studio publicist Art Ronnie. The collection includes scarce letters written..... More
Brooklyn, New York: NEON, 1956. Wraps. Sorrentino (1929–2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and editor. In 1956, he founded the literary magazine Neon with fellow students from Brooklyn College..... More
Upland, California: Blackbird Press, 2021. A signed, limited edition broadside of this poem, which originally appeared in the Poem-A-Day program from the Academy of American Poets. Herrera, the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Frederic Dannay to his sister-in-law and her husband on the front flyleaf: "to Shirl + Murray from the author, 'Ellery Queen'". The..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. This copy is Number 22 of 25 specially bound presentation copies. Inscribed on the front flyleaf: "To Shirl and Murray with the best wishes of 'Ellery..... More
A group of fourteen glass plate negatives of California desert scenes, which are believed to be the work of National Parks photographer Harry Edmond Roberts (1869-1959), dating to approximately 1914. The 5” x 7” plates..... More
San Francisco: Western Fertilizer Co., circa 1913. Wraps. Pictorial brochure for Wizard the Wonderful Fertilizer, marketed as an odorless full-strength fertilizer with no fillers and a signature bat logo on its packaging. “Close attention to..... More
A hand-drawn map entitled “A Plan of a Roman Barrow and Earth Works at White Heath in the Parish of Hollingbourne in the County of Kent Opened 26 July 1842 on the Estate of Charles..... More
New York: The Angry Arts Against the War, 1967. Broadside sticker meant to be posted on walls and other public places, featuring a disturbing black and white photograph of a disfigured child above the bold..... More
Charming scrapbook of 37 leaves filled with colorful chromolithographic images and some decorative trade cards. It was assembled by Esther Anderson (1871-1958) between 1885 and 1890 while her family was living in Brooklyn, New York..... More
Houston, Texas: Houston Fine Art Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Brice Marden on the title page. In the early 1980s, American artist Brice Marden (b.1938) broke from his accomplished style and technique of..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Anthony Caro on the title page. Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE (1924-2013) played a pivotal role in the development of 20th century sculpture. His breakthrough..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated by Willard Manus on the front flyleaf. Octavo: 250 p. Original purple paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with white and orange..... More
Number 9 of 3,000 possible $1,000 gold bonds issued in 1890 and signed by Moses Sherman, the railway company’s president, who is also the namesake for the community of Sherman Oaks, which he helped establish..... More
Northridge, California: Santa Susana Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 2,000 copies. A narrative account of land developers and early settlers in the San Fernando Valley from 1910 to 1922, including a clarification of..... More
Koln: Taschen, 2017. Hardcover. Fritz Kahn (1888–1968) was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer, and information graphics pioneer. Chased out of Germany by the Nazis, who banned and burned his books, Kahn emigrated to..... More
London and New York: Routledge, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by John Maxwell O'Brien on the title page. In the last seven years of his life, Alexander the Great grew increasingly unpredictable, sporadically violent, megalomaniacal..... More
Colorado Springs, Colorado: Out West Printing & Stationery Co., 1905. Wraps. With an unused form for reserving stock in the company laid in. Oblong octavo: [36] p. with 19 illustrations from photographs, some full page..... More
Mammoth blueprint map (approximately 27” x 66”), dated December 14, 1905, showing the route of the Twin Buttes Railway as it was originally proposed and surveyed. Construction of the railroad was completed in 1906, connecting..... More
Koln: Taschen, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. This monograph explores Klimt’s oeuvre with particular emphasis upon contemporary voices. With a complete catalogue of his paintings, including new photographs of the Stoclet Frieze commissioned exclusively for this..... More
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. "Of this edition, intended for private circulation only, 750 copies have been printed. This copy is Number 599." The epigrams here "are translated from the 'Anthologie Greque, Traduite..... More
Los Angeles: Hat & Beard Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. A broad survey featuring the very best of computer advertising in the 20th century. From the Atomic Age to the Y2K bug, this volume presents..... More
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Koln: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 1971. First Edition. The definitive fifth revised edition, featuring 209 tipped-in color plates by 92 artists. Fluxus pioneer Wolf Vostell (1932-98) designed this innovative catalogue for the Ludwig collection of contemporary art..... More
