Original vintage 1965 FLY PAN AM TO SAN FRANCISCO, U.S.A. Poster. From an original photograph believed to be taken by long time Pan Am staff photographer Chester "Blackie" Kronfeld who died tragically at the age of 49 while on assignment in the horrific American Airlines plane crash that killed 95 people in New York on March 1, 1962.

Off-set Color Lithograph, printed on matte paper. Large format 34.5" x 44". GOOD CONDITION: light age toning, a quarter size old water droplet to the blank backside of the poster that is faintly visible on the image (it's in the sky just above the tower on the Marin side of the Golden Gate Bridge, see my photographs), and some light wear to the edges, no rips, tears, holes or chips, the image was stored rolled and remains bright. A respectable poster that would look stunning framed.

In the 1960s Pan Am produced a series of large format promotional travel posters depicting fabulous shots of iconic destinations with bold red and blue text and airplane icon at the bottom stating "Fly Pan Am To . "

The Herman A. English Golf Classic, Inc. Presents A National Salute To LEE ELDER. Scarce Event Program

Published by Herman A. English Enterprises, Los Angeles, California, 1977. First edition. Illustrated softcover, side staple bound, 11" x 8.5", 20 pages, illustrated throughout with b&w photographs of the award recipient, celebrity guests and Black Los Angeles business people. Also contains an interesting compendium of Black owned Los Angeles businesses circa 1977. VERY GOOD CONDITION: a touch of light wear, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce. None in OCLC collections worldwide.

Held at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles to honor Professional African American Golfer Lee Elder with the first annual Herman A. English Humanitarian Award for his service to Black youth through Lee Elder's Scholarship Foundation. It was much harder for Black golfers to go Pro mostly because they couldn't play the great courses that prepare white golfers for competition. College is an important opportunity, and this well attended scholarship event raised a lot of money for young Black college bound golfers.

Peoples Forum, Vol. I, No. 17, March 1, 1977. Published by Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, San Francisco, CA. First edition, broadsheet format, one folded sheet, four pages printed on newsprint. GOOD CONDITION: tender at the folds with tiny chips/wear, some edge tears/wear, and light age toning, otherwise bright and clean. Scarce.

In April 1976, Jim Jones' Peoples Temple launched Peoples Forum. Distributed on the street by Temple volunteers and dropped on doorsteps throughout San Francisco, it served as the Temple's monthly newspaper and main source of promotion and communication. The header shows three faces of different races, civil rights related imagery Jones used to advertise his interracial religious movement.

Jones' increasing radicalism and connection to the civil rights movement became apparent with the Peoples Forum. While early issues contain articles on "subjects as diverse as killer bees, Muhammed Ali, freedom of the press, and Jones hosting a TV show," later editions are more radical, illustrating Jones' support for Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party. In late 1976 Peoples Forum covered a story about the FBI's role in the death of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton. The cover photo from this March 1, 1977 edition shows Jones and Newton shaking hands. Peoples Forum exemplifies the increasing involvement Peoples Temple had in California with Black rights leaders, racial issues, and activism. Additionally, Peoples Forum denounced and exposed the rising dangers of neo Nazism in San Francisco.

Jim Jones' Peoples Temple is notorious for the way it ended in on November 18, 1978 with more than 900 people dying in a mass murder suicide at the Peoples Temple Settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. The majority of the Jonestown massacre victims were black women.

In the entire history of the modern Olympics only three Games were cancelled, Germany 1916, Japan 1940, and London 1944. The European Games were cancelled due to the First and Second World Wars. But in Japan's case, the Japanese military government forfeited their right to host the Olympic Games in favor of waging an imperialist war against China. Tokyo Olympic Officials worked for over two years on this Official Report which showcases in part how they chose to represent the Western rituals of the Olympics to the Japanese people and how they planned to package Japanese culture to the world.

Report of the XII Olympic Games Organizing Committee, published Tokyo, 1938. First edition. Official report to the International Olympics Committee, containing an historical overview of Japan's efforts to host the Olympics, copies of letters between Japanese officials and the IOC, and maps, photos, and blueprints of proposed venues. Hardbound in textured indigo blue cloth with 5 Olympic rings blind-stamped on front cover, title printed on spine in white, 10" x 7.7", 439 numbered pages plus 32 pages of b&w plates, additionally illustrated with numerous in text b&w portraits, photographs, drawings, schematics and diagrams of the sporting venues, athletes, Olympic committee members, and other details including the microphones. Text in Japanese. VERY GOOD CONDITION: light wear to the covers, some fading and light scraping to the spine, internally, a touch of toning and light wear, 3" closed tear on leaf 431/2, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce. Only a few copies held in Japanese collections, one copy is held at the private Olympic Games Museum in Germany.

ICE ATLAS OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE Arctic Sea and River Ice Conditions

Compiled as a guide to Arctic Sea and River Ice Conditions in the Northern Hemisphere. Containing a large range of observations and records presented in cartographic form. The charts and other data are arranged in seven geographical sections and the ice is classified according to navigability and seasonality. The wealth of historic information clearly presented in this ice atlas serve as a record of the environmental changes in the Arctic happening right now due to global warming.

Published by the Hydrographic Office, United States Navy, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, Washington D.C., 1946. First and only edition. Hardcover, gilt titling and blind-stamped map on the front cover, original white plastic comb binding, elephant folio, 24.5" × 24.25", 106 pages, illustrated with 86 color maps, tables and charts. GOOD CONDITION: complete as issued, this very large format atlas has light warping, shelf rubbing, and some staining to the covers, the comb binding has a few broken combs but is holding well, internally, just some light wear, waviness, finger smudges and light signs of use, overall the maps and inner pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Uncommon.

1891 Photo Album with 26 Original Albumen Photographs Depicting Two Significant Mountaineering Expeditions Summiting both Mount Rainier in 1890 and Mount Baker in 1891, and Early Images of the Cascade Mining District circa 1890. The pioneering photographers were William Oscar Amsden (1862-1942) and Hobart Clark of Seattle. These photographs are of historical importance for a number of reasons: the Mount Baker Series were the first photographs taken at the top of the summit; The Mount Rainier Series was crucial in marshaling support for establishing Mount Rainier as a National Park (this expedition included Fay Fuller who was the first woman to summit Mount Rainier); the Cascade Mining Series depict one of the oldest mining districts in Northern Washington, discovered by the Rouse brothers who made the first major discovery of ores on the edge of Doubtful Lake.

Photograph Album. Oblong, textured brown cloth covered boards, 12.75" x 10", lace bound, embossed gilt printing on the cover, 26 board leaves, the photographs range from 9" x 7" to 9.75" x 7.5", mounted on 11.5" x 9.75 cream board, 25 of the photographs are mounted on one leaf, one is mounted on a verso. Captions at the bottom in the negative. GOOD CONDITION: wear/staining to the covers, spine covering tearing at the margins but still holding, gilt remains bright, internally, waviness, light shorelining and light foxing to the boards. The photographs are mostly clean, clear and legible, some toning, fading, a few small stains/abrasions. Scarce.

MOUNT RAINIER SERIES: Photographs documenting the glaciers, summit, and natural scenery of the 1890 Mt. Rainier summit bound expedition led by Reverend Ernest C. Smith. The party included Fay Fuller, Leonard Longmire, William O. Amsden, and Robert R. Parrish. Fay Fuller was the first woman to ascend Mount Rainier. Amsden had a heavy 8x10 camera. Shortly after the climb Amsden produced his series of Mount Rainier photographs. Expedition leader Smith wrote of the series "Amsden's photographs have a historic interest. Without them there would have been no illustrated lecture in Washington at the crucial time for the proposed park."

this underscores how the Mount Rainier National Park idea was rooted in the physical and aesthetic experience of climbing the mountain. The arguments that were marshaled in support of Mount Rainier National Park during the 1890s helped shape the national park idea at a crucial time.

CASCADE MINING DISTRICT SERIES: Photographs document the mines, miners, and natural scenery of the mining district. The Cascade Mining District is one of the oldest mining districts in northern Western Washington, dating its formal organization to September, 1889. Prospectors George Rouse and John Rouse, traveling from the west over Cascade Pass made the first major discovery when they located ores on the edge of Doubtful Lake.

MOUNT BAKER SERIES: Photographs document the ascent of Mt. Baker led by Valentine V. Lowe in June-July 1891. Photos include: men with alpenstocks amongst trees; men waving flag and hats on summit. The expedition party included photographer William O. Amsden, Henry Lowe, Ed. Whitstruck, Percival J. Parris, G. W. Smith, Tom Scatbo, and photographer Hobert Clark. These photographs are the first ever made with a camera on the top of Mt. Baker.

FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, by PAUL A. SAMUELSON. Facsimile of the First Cambridge Edition, LIMITED to only 500 SIGNED and NUMBERED COPIES. This is copy number 23.

This limited facsimile edition is HAND SIGNED by PAUL A. SAMUELSON on a prelim page.

Published together with a Vademecum / Companion Book with commentary on Foundations of Economic Analysis by Jurg Niehans, Paul A. Samuelson, and Carl Christian von Weizsäcker. Some of the tributes to Samuelson are in English, otherwise the text is in German, including Samuelson;s essay titled: "How Foundations Came To Be" which has been translated into German for this edition. The Vademcum has Paul A. Samuelson's facsimile signature at the beginning of his contribution.

DÜSSELDORF: Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanz, 1997.

Both volumes are in FINE condition, they look and feel unused, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

About PAUL A. SAMUELSON (from Wikipedia):

******Paul Anthony Samuelson, b.1915 d.2009, was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. When awarding the prize in 1970, the Swedish Royal Academies stated that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory". Economic historian Randall E. Parker has called him the "Father of Modern Economics", and The New York Times considers him to be the "foremost academic economist of the 20th century".******

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THE HUMAN USE OF HUMAN BEINGS - CYBERNETICS AND SOCIETY, by Norbert WIENER.

ASSOCIATION COPY. From the library of PAUL A. BARAN, with his signature, date and place on the front free endpaper: "Paul A. Baran / September 1950 / Stanford". Paul Baran was a noted STANFORD UNIVERSITY ECONOMICS PROFESSOR. From 1951 until his death in 1964 he was the only tenured Professor of Marxist Economics in the United States.

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1950. First edition, as indicated by the date 1950 on the title and copyright pages, with no statement of additional printings

Hardcovers, cloth covered boards with embossed design on the front cover and titling on the spine, 5.5x8 inches, 241 pages, lacking dustjacket.

VERY GOOD condition: The spine is sunned, otherwise the covers are sharp, bright and clean; internally, there are a few margin marks noting passages (presumably by Professor Baran), otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and clear.

Unique ASSOCIATION COPY of the first edition of Norbert Wiener's CYBERNETICS AND SOCIETY.

FLUXUS CODEX, by Jon Hendricks, with an introduction by Robert Pincus-Witten.

NEW YORK: Harry N. Abrams, second printing, 1995.

Hardcover book in dustjacket, 9.5x11.5 inches (24.5x29 cm), 616 pages.

Condition: FINE book, sharp cornered, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked; in a VERY GOOD dustjacket that has some shelf rubs and signs of handling. A solid, very presentable copy.

About FLUXUS (from Wikipedia):

******Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. These art forms include intermedia, a term coined by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins; conceptual art, first developed by Henry Flynt, an artist contentiously associated with Fluxus; and video art, first pioneered by Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell. Dutch art critic Harry Ruhé describes Fluxus as the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties.

The ideas and practices of composer John Cage heavily influenced Fluxus. Especially his notions that one should embark on an artwork without a conception of its end, and his understanding of the work as a site of interaction between artist and audience. Another notable influence were the readymades of Marcel Duchamp. George Maciunas, largely considered to be the founder of this fluid movement, coined the name Fluxus in 1961 to title a proposed magazine.

Many artists of the 1960s took part in Fluxus activities, including Joseph Beuys, Willem de Ridder, George Brecht, John Cage, Robert Filliou, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Bengt af Klintberg, Alison Knowles, Addi Køpcke, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Shigeko Kubota, La Monte Young, Mary Bauermeister, Joseph Byrd, Ben Patterson, Daniel Spoerri, Ken Friedman, Terry Riley and Wolf Vostell. Fluxus played an important role in the broadening of what is considered art.******

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AN OBSCURE FAMILY : THE BUFFETTS IN AMERICA, by DORIS BUFFETT.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the title page by the Author, DORIS BUFFETT, Warren Buffett's sister: "With best wishes / Doris Buffett".

Large format hardcover book in dustjacket, 9.5x13 inches, 272 pages. Illustrated throughout.

NEAR FINE book, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a VERY GOOD dustjacket that has some creasing at the spine ends but is overall solid and bright. A lovely, very presentable copy.

Self-published, designed and produced by "Volume 3" (volume3.net), and printed by Capital Offset Co., Concord, New Hampshire, 2012. First and Limited Edition, limited to only 500 copies.

From the book designer's website:

******AN OBSCURE FAMILY : THE BUFFETTS IN AMERICA...Pages: 272, Trim size: 9.5 x 13 in., Illustrations: 213, Inks: Four-color, Text paper: 80# Mohawk Superfine, Binding: Smyth sewn and casebound, PRINT RUN: 500 COPIES.******

From the front dustjacket flap:

******An Obscure Family: The Buffetts in America is the culmination of Doris Buffett's ambitious project to compile her family's genealogy. Interwoven with her careful documentation of all standard genealogical records, one will find interesting commentary, historical accounts, hundreds of photographs, personal letters, pages from a marvelous children's story, diary entries, family bible pages, and more. This book is a gift to all Buffetts present and future.******

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FREE AT LAST, by Mrs. Jane S. Collins.

PITTSBURGH: Murdoch, Kerr & Co, 1896. First Edition.

Hardcovers, green cloth covered boards, 5x7 inches, 208 pages. ILLUSTRATED with 15 plates (lacking the frontispiece).

FAIR condition: the covers are spotted, worn through at the corners and along much of their edges and spine folds, but are original and still doing their job; internally, previous owner's signature (Virginia Sherman) on the front pastedown, lacking the frontispiece but the other 15 called for plates are all present, foxing to the endpapers otherwise just a sprinkling here and there, there is a 1 inch closed tear to the bottom edge of the front free endpaper and a 1 inch closed tear and associated crease to front edge of the title page, a couple pages are dog-eared; overall the inner pages remain tight, bright, clean and clear. A solid copy with original but flawed covers of this early, rare, woman's novel concerning civil rights for African-Americans.

FREE AT LAST is one of the first published books whose title is those famous words "free at last", words which came from a spiritual and which later became a sort of anthem for Martin Luther King, Jr. during his speeches and rallies. The novel illustrates the need for Black civil rights, shows the injustices caused by Jim Crow laws, and calls for African-American temperance. The novel's protagonist is the son of slaves. He insists on being admitted to the White House to meet the President.

The author Mrs. Jane S. Collins was a civil rights activist and temperance crusader. She and her group of women followers would sit in saloons and refuse to leave until arrested and taken away by police. A form of passive resistance that was used by many movements to follow.

A historically important book written by a white American woman during the Jim Crow era.

SHOWA SHASHIN ZENSHIGOTO (PHOTOGRAPHY of the SHOWA ERA).

15 MONOGRAPHS presenting the work of 15 noted JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS of the Showa Era 1926-1989. A complete set of this important Japanese photography monograph series.

Published by Asahi Shimbun Sha, Tokyo, Japan, 1982-1984. First editions. TEXT in JAPANESE.

15 volumes. Softcovers / Wrappers with pictorial dustjackets, 9.5 x 11.75 inches (24 x 29.5 cm), approximately 125-150 pages per volume. Original obi bands are on 14 of the 15 monographs. FULLY ILLUSTRATED with b&w and color photographs.

The 15 monographs are:

Monograph (Series) 1: Shotaro AKIYAMA. Monograph (Series) 2: Yoshikazu SHIRAKAWA. Monograph (Series) 3: Tadahiko HAYASHI. Monograph (Series) 4: Shoji OTAKE. Monograph (Series) 5: Ken DOMON. Monograph (Series) 6: Yoichi MIDORIKAWA. Monograph (Series) 7: Jun MIKI. Monograph (Series) 8: Masaya NAKAMURA. Monograph (Series) 9: Ikko NARAHARA. Monograph (Series) 10: Shoji UEDA. Monograph (Series) 11: Shiro SHIRAHARA. Monograph (Series) 12: Takamasa INAMURA. Monograph (Series) 13: Shinzo MAEDA. Monograph (Series) 14: Taikichi IRIE. Monograph (Series) 15: Shomei TOMATSU.

CONDITION: The issues and their dustjackets are all in VERY GOOD condition, the inner hinge of a few issues has split where the issues were over-opened but the signatures are sewn bound and always holding well; otherwise the issues are bright, clean, clear and unmarked. The obi bands are all in GOOD condition, with some general wear and a few creases and closed tears here and there; one obi band is lacking as noted above. Overall a lovely, complete set.

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THE LIBERATOR Boston, Friday, December 29, 1865. Vol. XXXV No. 52. ANTI-SLAVERY PERIODICAL.

This is the Famous and Rare FINAL EDITION of The Liberator. It celebrates the ratification of the 13th Amendment that Abolished Slavery, and contains an UNPUBLISHED EXTRACT from a LETTER by ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL FINAL ISSUE of this important anti-slavery paper. It is the corrected second printing of the final issue, with the added thanks to Reverend May on the third page, and with the additional letter from William C. Nell on the fourth page. Authors include Lydia Maria Child, E. Cady Stanton, Garrison, et al. Lydia Maria Child was, like Garrison, a prominent abolitionist.

Single fold broadsheet newspaper, 4 pages, 18.5x26 inches. Folded in half vertically and horizontally, as originally distributed.

Beautiful front-page engraving. On the left side are White slave owners selling their "Slaves, Horses & Other Cattle"; on the right side are Blacks entering the land of Emancipation; in the middle is a picture of Jesus with a Black man and White man at his feet and the statement: "I come to break the bonds of the Oppressor". Running through the illustration is a banner stating: "Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor As Thy Self".

Edited by William Lloyd Garrison, Printed by J. B. Yerrington & Son, with articles by and/or about William Garrison, Lydia Maria Child, Thaddeus Stevens, Abraham Lincoln, and many others.

Front page has a twenty-two line extract from an UNPUBLISHED LETTER "from the late PRESIDENT LINCOLN, addressed to Gen. Wadsworth, taking strong ground in favor of universal suffrage", and also a three-column article on "The Constitutional Amendment" (abolishing slavery).

Other articles include: "Through the Red Sea into the Wilderness" by Lydia Maria Child (8 lengthy paragraphs), "William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator" (printing remarks by Garrison), and "Political Rights of Women," printing the text of a 26-line letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to William Lloyd Garrison. This issue also includes poems by J. C. Hagan, Sarah T. Bolton, Joel Benton, et al. One of the poems is titled: "A FAREWELL TO THE LIBERATOR", another "Slavery's Funeral March". Again, this was the final issue of "The Liberator," with articles on the abolition of slavery and universal suffrage.

FAIR condition, the issue was folded both horizontally and vertically as published, there is some light foxing and age toning, there is a 1 inch closed tear to the top margin, a 2 inch closed tear at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical folds and an associated close-by 1 inch closed tear, and small chips to the extremities and folds. Despite the expected wear, this original 155+ year old newspaper remains a complete, bright and clear copy.

The issue will be sent folded, as is its normal state. Please handle this rare item carefully, it has survived the aftermath of the assassination of Lincoln and the subsequent century and a half, but the newspaper and especially the folds are tender and the issue can be easily damaged.

This FINAL ISSUE of THE LIBERATOR, with the unpublished Lincoln text and tributes to Garrison and his paper, is considered to be the Publication's MOST VALUABLE and HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER ISSUE. You can read about THE LIBERATOR newspaper, and about many of the contributors in this final issue, on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the Internet.

See more photos of the issue on the Internet at Blank Verso Books.

S CURVES: THE ART OF SHANE GLINES, VOL. 3.

Published by Stuart Ng Books, Torrance, California, 2018. First Edition, limited to only 1000 copies.

Hardcovers, no dustjacket as issued, 8.5x11 inches, 160 pages. Fully illustrated with Glines' drawings, sketches and illustrations.

FINE Condition, looks and feels as new.

Volume 3 has been sold out for some time and is increasingly hard to find.

From the Publisher:

******S Curves Vol. 3 is an entirely new collection of over 400 color sketches, designs and pin-ups by animation designer Shane Glines.

Shane is currently working on the Harley Quinn animated series for DC's streaming service. He was most recently Lead Character Designer on Warner Bros. Animation's Justice League Action. He has been a character designer in the animation industry for 20 years, designing for Batman: The Animated Series, Superman, Batman Beyond, Justice League, Beware the Batman, Samurai Jack, and many others.

Print run of 1,000 copies.******

Clark's New System of ELECTRICAL MEDICATION - A Revised and Enlarged Edition. By A. W. Tipton, M.D.

CHICAGO: Chas. J. Johnson, 1882.

Proposes the use of electricity to help cure almost any disease and heal almost any defect.

Hardcovers, green cloth covered boards, gilt titles on front cover and spine, 6x9 inches (15x23 cm). Pagination: [1], 264 pages.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, a few in-text illustrations, and 4 pages of illustrations at the end that show 23 devices for "Electro-Therapeutic Uses". The electrical devices include a "Vaginal Electrode" and "Rectal Electrode". Yikes.

Previously owned by the 19th century New York physician Dr. J. Van Valkenburgh, with his ink stamp on a number of pages: "Dr. J. Van Valkenburgh / Physician and Notary Public / Sharon, N.Y.". An Internet search indicates Dr. J. Van Valkenburgh was a member of the "Eclectic Medical Society of New York" in the late 1800s.

Also previously owned by Gilbert R. Seigworth, MD, b.1932 d.2019, with his ownership label on the front free-endpaper: "Gilbert R. Seigworth, MD / Vestal, New York". An Internet search indicates Dr. Seigworth was an avid collector of antique medical equipment and antiquarian medical books.

CONDITION: The original covers are worn and not pretty - rubbed, scraped, stained, frayed at the spine ends, and splitting for 2 inches at the front fold; nonetheless they are solid and doing their job. Internally nice, the front and rear inner hinges are cracked but holding well, the thin endpapers have some light creasing, the text pages are lightly age toned as normal, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, complete, copy with well-worn but original covers.

ORIGINAL 1882 EDITION with interesting provenance.

Yes, electric shock therapy is making a comeback, but who knew

it could cure everything!

CONVERSATIONAL OPENINGS & ENDINGS - Some Hints for PLAYING the GAME OF SMALL TALK and Other Society Pastimes. By Mrs. Hugh Bell (Dame Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell).

LONDON: Edward Arnold, 1899. "Revised and Enlarged Edition".

In the book Lady Bell instructs how to play the game of Conversation as a Chess Game. Like chess, the conversationalists play either Black or White, making "moves" meant to win the game of conversation at evening gatherings. In the book, women play White and men play Black.

From the book: "I have adopted the phraseology of a Handbook to Chess as being most suitable for my purpose. By Player is meant the interlocutor, and for further convenience I shall designate the male interlocutor as Black, and the female as White...these being the prevalent hues of male and female costume at evening gatherings, where conversation runs the highest..."

Hardcovers, paper covered boards titled in black on the front cover and spine, and with black lining on the front and rear boards, 6x8.5 inches, 63 pages.

FAIR condition, the covers are soiled, worn at the corner tips, edges and spine ends, and the spine bottom is lacking 1 inch of its paper covering, nonetheless the covers are original and still doing their job; internally, the front inner hinge is cracked but holding well, there is a presentation inscription on the front free endpaper: "L. F. S. / from D. A. / July 1900" (maybe significant, no idea), and there is the signature of

"Willard Pope" on the front pastedown, the pages have yellowed with age as normal, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

RARE 1899 book instructing young ladies on how to checkmate men through conversation.

About Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell (from Wikipedia and elsewhere on the Internet):

******Dame Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell, Lady Bell, DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire), née Olliffe, b.1851 d.1930, was a British writer and playwright.

Lady Bell was born in Paris, France in 1851, the youngest of four children of Irish born Joseph Francis Olliffe (later Sir Joseph Olliffe) and Laura Cubitt. She was the second wife of Sir Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet, of Rounton Grange, and therefore became Lady Bell.

Lady Bell was the stepmother to her husband's children from his first marriage: British explorer and key political figure in the Middle East, Gertrude Bell, b.1868 d.1926, and Maurice, 3rd Baronet, b.1871 d.1944.

In 1918 she was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). She died on 16 May 1930 at her home, 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea.******

Your Move, Quick, Speak.

DOG LOCOMOTION AND GAIT ANALYSIS, by Curtis M. Brown.

Published by Hoflin Publishing, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, 1986.

Softcovers, 8.5x11 inches, 160 pages. Illustrated throughout with b&w illustrations and photographs.

GOOD condition, the covers' spine and margins are lightly sunned, the front cover corner is creased, and the covers have some rubbing and light wear; internally, just lightly used, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, nice, presentable copy.

About the Book (from the back cover):

******Curtis Brown's careful study of animals in the wild, purebred dogs in and out of the ring, breed standards, canine literature and research results, coupled with his experience as an engineer, professor and dog fancier, has produced a long needed book for the serious student of canine locomotion. It is fortified by his painstaking analysis of thousands of frames of slow-motion film of canine gait. The book is factual and analytical, free of the errors and assumptions we have inherited from early writers based on their knowledge of the horse. The book is well illustrated throughout with pictures and drawings. The science of canine locomotion has come of age with the publication of this scholarly textbook.******

THE ETERNAL BODY - A COLLECTION OF FIFTY NUDES - PHOTOGRAPHS by RUTH BERNHARD.

SIGNED by RUTH BERNHARD on the title page.

Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1994. Second edition (first Chronicle Books edition, second edition overall - first published by Photography West Gallery, Carmel, in 1986). First printing of the Chronicle Books edition, with the number line starting at 1.

Large format book in dustjacket, 12.25x12 inches. ILLUSTRATED with FIFTY PHOTOGRAPHS by Ruth Bernhard, each photo printed on its own page with a caption on the facing page. There are a few pages of introductory text by Ruth Bernhard, and a 24 page essay at the rear titled THE NUDE - Symbol and Light, by Margaretta K. Mitchell.

Condition: FINE book, sharp, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a NEAR FINE dustjacket that has some light shelf rubs and a few line indents. A solid, lovely copy.

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RADLEREI ! 40 KUNSTTAFELN. HERAUSGEGEBEN vom WIENER RADFAHR-CLUB "KUNSTLERHAUS". Text redigirt von Carl Rabis und Carl Seidl.

(CYCLING! 40 ART PLATES by the VIENNESSE CYCLING CLUB "KUNSTLERHAUS". Text edited by Carl Rabis and Carl Seidl.)

An anthology of illustrations and accompanying text on cycling. Printed by Gerlach & Schenk for the Viennese Cycling Club, Wien / Vienna, [1897]. TEXT IN GERMAN.

The 40 CYCLING ILLUSTRATIONS are all in the JUGENDSTIL / ART NOUVEAU STYLE that was flourishing in Vienna at the time, most are chromolithographed or helio-engraved images, many are multi colored or tinted. ALL the illustrations feature BIKES and CYCLISTS, male and female. The illustrations are based on works by noted Austrian and German illustrators of the day. The accompanying text is by numerous members of the Viennesse Cycling Club.

HARDCOVERS, engraved illustration on the front cover, 9x12 inches (23x30 cm), 81 pages plus 2 pages of art nouveau style ads at the rear.

CONDITION: The cover corners are worn and chipped and the edges are mostly worn through, otherwise the covers are solid and the front cover's engraved illustration is brilliant; internally nice, there is light toning to the margins otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

ART NOUVEAU and EARLY CYCLING. Cool and Scarce. Ride On!