SELECTED POEMS, by DIANE di PRIMA..

VERMONT: North Atlantic Books, 1977. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by di PRIMA on the title page:

"For Jo / In friendship / HAPPY BIRTHDAY! / Diane di Prima / Aug 3 1999".

Softcover book, 6x9 inches, 386 pages.

GOOD MINUS condition, the covers are sunned, foxed, the spine has a crease, and there is some corner tip wear; the page edges are foxed; internally, the pages are tight, bright, clean and clear.

A special copy with di Prima's Happy Birthday inscription to her good friend Jo Kaufman.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******

TIMEBOMB, by Diane di Prima.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, this being copy number 43 of only 100 copies. Each copy is SIGNED and NUMBERED by di Prima on the Colophon page (the last page).

THIS COPY is also INSCRIBED by di PRIMA on the half-title page to her close friend, Jo Kaufman:

"For Jo / with all my love / Diane di Prima / Thanks for the friendship - the play dates.... ....".

Self-produced publication, plain 8.5 inch sheets velo bound in clear plastic covers, approximately 52 pages (26 sheets). Produced in San Francisco in 2006.

Cover art by di Prima.

FINE condition, bright, clean and clear.

A wonderful inscription defining a long, loving friendship between two women.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******

SEMINARY POEMS, by Diane di Prima.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Diane di Prima to her good friend, Jo Kaufman:

"For Jo / with much love / Diane".

Chapbook, paper wrappers with French flaps, string bound, 6x9 inches, 48 unnumbered pages.

POINT REYES STATION, California: Floating Island Publications, 1991.

FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and clear.

Rather special with the loving inscription to her close friend.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

About JO KAUFMAN (from her obituary):

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******

SEVEN LOVE POEMS FROM THE MIDDLE LATIN, translated by Diane di Prima.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Diane di Prima to her good friend, Jo Kaufman:

"For Jo / this chapbook from another time / In friendship and love / Diane di Prima".

Chapbook, paper wrappers, side stapled, 6x9 inches, 32 unnumbered pages. Text in Latin and English, on facing pages.

NEW YORK: The Poets Press, second printing, 1967.

GOOD condition: A paperclip imprint is on the front cover and the first leaf, the paperclip has also left its yellow ghost image on the first leaf; otherwise the chapbook is bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

Unique with the loving inscription to a close friend.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

About JO KAUFMAN (from her obituary):

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******

THE TRUE AND INVISIBLE ROSICRUCIAN ORDER - An Interpretation of the Rosicrucian Allegory, and an Explanation of the Ten Rosicrucian Grades. By PAUL CASE.

SIGNED and HAND NUMBERED by PAUL CASE on the front pastedown: "No. 152 / Paul Case".

Self published, second edition, 1928. Paul Case self published the first edition in 1927, limited to only 64 copies; it was NOT a signed edition. He then revised and enlarged his work and self published a second edition a year later in 1928. The second edition is a signed, numbered and limited edition. The exact limitation of the second edition is not stated, but certainly quite small. The 1927 first (unsigned) and 1928 second (signed and numbered) editions of "The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order" are the only editions that were self published by the author. Both are scarce.

Hardcovers, black cloth covered boards with red titling on the front cover and spine, ii + 101 pages, pages printed on one side only, mimeographed from an original typed copy, self published. Illustrated with a plate showing the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and one other plate; there are also a few small drawings within the text.

Laid-in the book are a group of Paul Case related materials, lecture announcements, remarks on the Tarot, a card about B.O.T.A., etc. Some of the items are covered with relevant handwritten notes by a previous owner, perhaps taken during a Paul Case lecture. There are also 8 typed pages on the Sepher Yetzirah, with hand corrections to mistyped words. Likely a typed copy made by the previous owner from a printed translation. An interesting grouping of ephemera from a dedicated occultist.

Condition: The covers' spine folds are scraped and have some tearing to the cloth, the boards have some water drop stains and finger marks, and the edges have a few scrapes, otherwise the covers are solid and doing their job well. Internally, the endpapers have light offsetting / toning, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. The various ephemera is well used, heavily marked condition; but still cool!

RARE Early Source Material on Rosicrucion Occultism, SIGNED by THE PRIMARY SOURCE, PAUL CASE.

Handbook of Yokuts Indians by Frank F. Latta

Published by Bear State Books, Santa Cruz, CA. 1977 Second Edition, revised and enlarged, limited to 5000 copies. SIGNED by the Latta Family Trust for the California Dept of Fish and Wildlife, in the authors hand on the half title page. Illustrated by Joe Rodriquez. Hardbound in green cloth with embossed gilt printing on the front cover and spine, 10.25" x 7.25", map endpapers, 765 pages. Illustrated throughout with historic b&w photographs. VERY GOOD Condition: covers show a touch of wear to the extremities, a few tiny droplet stains to the bottom edge of the closed book, lightly affecting the bottom margins of a handful of inner pages, otherwise internally excellent, tight, bright, clean and unmarked. With Publisher's prospectus sheet laid-in.

A comprehensive, classic ethnography of the Yokuts people of California's San Joaquin Valley, based on decades of interviews with tribal elders. Originally published in 1949, the revised and enlarged 1977 second edition is considered the definitive version, featuring hundreds of photographs, detailed, in-depth accounts of Yokuts culture, traditions, and artifacts. An invaluable primary reference for scholars and collectors studying California Native American culture.

Frank Forrest Latta (1892-1983) California historian and ethnographer of the Yokuts people. He also wrote histories of the early European-American settlement of the San Joaquin Valley.

Tailholt Tales by Frank F. Latta

Published by Bear State Books [Latta Family Press], Santa Cruz, CA, 1976. First edition, as indicated by the number line starting at 1. SIGNED by the Latta Family Trust for the California Dept of Fish and Wildlife, in the authors hand on the half title page. Illustrated by Joe Rodriquez. Hardbound in avocado green cloth with embossed green printing on the front cover and spine, 10.25" x 7.25", green end papers, 323 pages. Illustrated throughout with historic b&w photographs. VERY GOOD Condition: just some light signs of age and use, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. With Publisher's prospectus sheet laid-in.

Details the life of Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, a white pioneer raised by the Yokuts Indians in central California, offering a firsthand account of their culture and his 19th century life in the San Joaquin Valley, specifically in the area known as Tailholt or White River in southern Tulare County, and on the Kings River, south of Fresno, California. Great ethnographic material.

Frank Forrest Latta (1892-1983) California historian and ethnographer of the Yokuts people. He also wrote histories of the early European-American settlement of the San Joaquin Valley.

Manuscript indenture between two citizens of Oxford, England, dated 2nd April, 1691. Christopher Pettie of Oxfordshire, manuscript accounts for the period 29th July 1697 to 25th December 1703. Broadside folio, folded, written in a neat secretary hand, vellum indenture used as wrappers, preserved in a cloth case. Excellent condition, in its original state.

The Petty, or Pettie family of Oxfordshire had acquired substantial amounts of land in the county after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In particular they acquired estates that had belonged to the Abbey of Thame: Tetsworth Manor, and property at Stoke Talmage, Hardwick and Little and Great Milton. They were related by marriage to a number of leading Puritan families: the Cromwells, Hampdens and Wallers, and also to the Oxford chronicler Anthony Wood. The best known member of the family was George Pettie (1548-1589), the writer of romances.

Christopher Pettie succeeded to the family estates in 1674 and quickly set about selling them off to subsidize a life largely given over to bell ringing. Delafield, in his "Account of Great Milton" reported that Pettie had left his name on one of the bells of Tetsworth Church as "a lasting memorial of his unthriftiness, folly and extravagance. For being much addicted to ringing he carried about with him a set of silken ropes and a train of idle fellows for his accommodation of that exercise, till he had rung away a good estate." He died at Thame "extremely reduced" in 1739. His accounts record rental income from his diminishing estates, sales of livestock and crops, particulars of his lands at Tetsworth, payments to his children Hester, Charnell and John and considerable expenses incurred going back and forth to London in connection with a land dispute. A fascinating story and genealogical record.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by RICK GRIFFIN "To Bruce Bard In Friendship." Signed in thick black pen in his cross like trademark style.

Rick Griffin. Published by Perigee Paper Tiger (G.P. Putnam's Sons), New York City, 1980. Stated First Printing. Photographs by Bob Seidemann. Publisher's illustrated glossy card wraps, perfect bound, 11.25" x 8.25", 95 pages. Fully illustrated in color by Griffin showcasing his legendary psychedelic posters, surf posters, underground comix, album covers, and more. Very Good Condition: light shelf wear and edgewear to the covers but the spine remains uncreased. Internally, a touch of age, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Rare Signed.

Rick Griffin (1944 -1991) American artist. One of the legendary 'Big Five' psychedelic poster artists of the 1960s. His work appeared on many iconic San Francisco rock concert posters and Grateful Dead album covers. As a contributor to the underground comix movement, his work appeared regularly in Zap Comix. In the mid-1960s, he participated in Ken Kesey's Acid Tests. His first art exhibition was for the Jook Savages, celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street. As a boy, Griffin was influenced by Native American culture, comic books, and surf culture.

Bruce Bard was a Petaluma philanthropist, music lover, Deadhead, and old hippie.

DORIS LESSING POSTER. "AN EVENING TO BENEFIT THE AFGHAN REFUGEE FUND / DORIS LESSING". The "Lecture and Conversation" event took place on April 9 (1984) in Berkeley, California.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by DORIS LESSING in Silver Ink: "With good wishes / Doris Lessing / 9th April 1984".

The poster is 13 x 19.5 inches. It is in GOOD condition, with some creases from handling to the right margin, overall bright and lovely.

The poster was stored rolled, and will be shipped in its natural rolled state. Would look great mounted and/or framed.

This event took place a few years before the publication of her book "The Wind Blows Away Our Words". The book was about the horrors taking place in Afghanistan and how the West was doing little to help.

An unusual Doris Lessing item.

THE HUDSON, by WALLACE BRUCE. (Cover title WALLACE BRUCE'S HUDSON).Published by Bryant Literary Union, New York, copyright 1894 with no statement of edition.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by WALLACE BRUCE on the front free endpaper: "Mr. (Howard?) Cook / with the regards of / Wallace Bruce / On the Hudson / August 8th 1900."

On the same page below Wallace Bruce's inscription, the person to whom the book was inscribed wrote: "All rights herein transferred to Frankly E. Davis / (Howard?) Cook / February 18, 1935." Sweet. He thought his inscribed book was so valuable that he had to officially transfer the rights

Hardcovers, gilt titles to the front cover and spine, 5.5x7 inches, 310 pages. ILLUSTRATED with 4 COLOR FOLD-OPEN MAPS, and numerous b&w engravings.

GOOD condition, the cover spine is sunned / darkened and there is some wear to the spine ends, the inner pages are lightly toned at the edges, otherwise tight, bright, clean and clear. The four folding maps are in great condition.

RARE with the SIGNATURE and INSCRIPTION of the author/poet//lover of the Hudson, WALLACE BRUCE.

TRANSLATIONS by JESS. Introduction by ROBERT DUNCAN. Catalog for the exhibition that took place at the Odyssia Gallery, New York, in 1971.

NEW YORK: Odyssia Gallery, 1971. Printed by Black Sparrow Press in an edition of 1000 softcover and 200 hardcover copies.

Softcovers, 8x10 inches, xiii, 26, [6] pages. Illustrated in b&w. Laid-in is a fold-open invitation to the opening of the exhibition.

Though uncalled for in the softcover edition, THIS copy is warmly SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by JESS to his friend, the noted Marin County bookseller MICHAEL GOOD: "For Mike Good / In hopes he'll like our picture-book / affectionately, JESS ".

NEAR FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

Copies of this catalog are rarely found INSCRIBED by the artist. A nice bibliophilic association copy.

About JESS (from Wikipedia):

******Jess Collins, b.1923 d.2004, known today simply as Jess, was an American visual artist.

He met Robert Duncan in 1950 and began a relationship with the poet that lasted for 37 years until Duncan's death in 1988. The two men lived and worked for decades from their historic Victorian home in the Mission District, "a wonderland of an old house, filled to the roof with art".

Jess's art received international attention with solo exhibitions at the The Museum of Modern Art in New York (1974), the Galleria Odyssia in Rome (1975), the Wadsworth Atheneum[11] (1975), the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1977), the Berkeley Art Museum (1980), and The Arts Club of Chicago (1981).

In 2019, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art mounted the show "Mythos, Psyche, Eros: Jess and California", which paired paintings and collages: "that privileged the mystical, whimsical, and absurd" by "one of San Francisco's most enigmatic figures..."

LOVER OF ROBER GRAVES ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN 1927 SAID SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE ANOTHER POEM

A POEM : HOW A POEM CAME TO BE. A Lovely BROADSIDE POEM by LAURA RIDING JACKSON.

SIGNED by LAURA RIDING JACKSON at the end of her poem, beneath her printed name.

Published by [Lord John Press, 1980]. Presentation Copy - Presentation Copies are normally printed prior to numbered copies, making them quite hard to find. Subsequently printed in a limited edition of only 150 numbered copies.

Broadside, printed on fine, heavy stock, watermarked paper (Arches, France), deckled top and bottom edges, 15x22 inches.

NEAR FINE condition, a bright and beautiful copy. Would look great mounted and/or framed.

From the Broadside: "Within a very few years of the publication of my Collected Poems (1938)... I renounced further trying the way of poetry... saying: I would write no more poems - and I wrote no more poems... (however) I wrote for (a close friend), in the 1978 Christmastime, a poem, marked as a poem for him only, giving it the title HOW A POEM CAME TO BE. I kept no copy of this privately written and given poem, and forgot the writing and the giving of it... I chanced, recently, to tell my friend of receiving a request for a poem to publish in broadside form from the Lord John Press, indicating my feeling some surprise that Mr. Yellin, the Press's director, should not have been aware that FOR FORTY YEARS there had been NO NEW POEMS of mine. But my friend reminded me that about a year ago there HAD been a new poem - the one I wrote for him; and he urged me to let him release it to me from its private status of being a poem for him only... I give here the poem, given him, to be out in the world..."

LAURA RIDING JACKSON, 1901-1991, was an iconoclastic American Poet. She left New England at the age of 25 to live with ROBERT GRAVES and his wife, Nancy Nicholson. The triangle did not suit her, and Laura Riding tried to commit suicide in 1927. Thereafter Robert Graves divorced his wife and lived together with Laura Riding in Majorca, France, England and Switzerland, and even went with her when she returned to the United States. They bitterly broke up in 1939. In 1941 Laura Riding Jackson renounced poetry, married Schuyler B. Jackson, and lived quietly with him in Wabasso, Florida, until her death in 1991. In the 60s, 70s and 80s she wrote a number of pieces explaining her reasons for renouncing poetry, but no poetry. This is apparently THE ONLY POEM written by Laura Riding Jackson since 1941.

You can read much more about LAURA RIDING on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the Internet.

This Large and Lovely BROADSIDE will be shipped carefully rolled in a sturdy mailing tube.

Original 1981 Color Photograph. SIGNED and DATED in black the ink by the artist KEN BOTTO on the front mat and on the rear frame backing. Ektacolor print, 8" x 12", double matted in an 11" x 16" metal and glass frame, the photograph is loosely set into 4 photo corners. The photograph is in NEAR FINE Condition bright and clean, the inner signed mat has a shoreline stain in the lower left corner, not affecting the photograph (this can also be seen on the rear backing board), and both of Ken Botto's signatures are bold and bright. A scarce early photograph from his famous Barbie Series.

A darkly surreal image that evokes a nuanced sense of unease and satire with a touch of uninhibited dominatrix energy. An iconic image from an iconic series by a very unique photographer.

Photographer Ken Botto (American, 1937-2008) Bolinas based artist who received his BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and his MFA from Claremont Graduate School. Botto's photographic work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

SCARCE GROUP OF IMPORTANT AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS BOOKS ONE SIGNED

1. Exhibition Catalogue. THE PROPHET AND OTHER PAINTINGS by Alvin Hollingsworth

ALVIN C. HOLLINGSWORTH attracted widespread critical acclaim with his groundbreaking exhibition THE PROPHET SERIES held at the Harbor Gallery in Long Island that travelled to the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1970. Harlem Renaissance Artist and Civil Rights Advocate Romare Bearden lauded the exhibition in the October 1970 issue of the New York Amsterdam News. And in a 1971 Ebony magazine interviewed Hollingsworth who provocatively stated, "I have always felt that Christ was a Black man . a symbol of any of the modern prophets who have been trying to show us the right way. To me, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are such prophets." Published by the Harbor Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1970. First Edition. Softcover, dark yellow textured card covers with black printing and tipped on color plate, 9" x 6", side staple bound, 12 unnumbered pages including covers, illustrated with 7 b&w photographs of Hollingsworth's paintings and a b&w photographic portrait of the artist. NEAR FINE Condition: tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce, only 11 copies in OCLC collections worldwide.

2. SIGNED Conference Program. THE SLAVERY DEBATE: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? April 1975, Queens College, University of New York. John Henrik Clarke, Convener. Illustrated wraps 11" x 8.25", side staple bound, 8 un-numbered pages. SIGNED by HOLLINGSWORTH in blue pen on the front cover. Hollingsworth created the cover art for the program. NEAR FINE Condition: tight, bright, clean, unmarked and Hollingsworth's signature is bold and bright. Scarce.

3. Children's Book. I'D LIKE THE GOO-GEN HEIM. Written and Illustrated by A.C. Hollingsworth. Published by Reilly & Lee Books, a division of Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, IL, 1970. First edition. Hardcover in illustrated dustjacket, light yellow cloth covered boards with embossed metallic blue printing on the spine, 7" x 8", sky blue endpapers, 48 un-numbered pages, colorfully illustrated throughout, the inside rear panel of the dj has a b&w photograph of the artist Book and un-price clipped dustjacket are in NEAR FINE Condition: tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scare first edition of Hollinworth's only children's book.

ALVIN C. HOLLINGSWORTH (1928-2000) Leading African American Artist, trail blazing Black comic artist, painter, illustrator, abstract expressionist, best known for his paintings relating to civil rights issues, the experience of Blacks within the urban landscape, Black women's rights, jazz, spirituality, and dance. Founding member with Romare Bearden of the Spiral Group of African American artists who linked their creative expression to social justice, other prominent members included Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Earl Miller, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, Richard Mayhew, and Reginald Gammon. As early as 1945 he was illustrating comic books for various publishers including Cat Man Comics, which were issued under his name and pseudonyms, by the early 1950's he successfully created his own nationally syndicated comic.

THE OLD GLORY by Robert Lowell SIGNED & INSCRIBED

" For James Sanders / From / Robert Lowell (signed) / In Castine, In July / 1968 " in blue ink on the title page.

Published by Noonday Press, New York. Fourth Noonday Printing, 1967. Illustrated softcovers, 8.25" x 5.5", 193 pages GOOD CONDITION: tanning to the covers and inner pages, light wear to the covers, fading to the spine, light crease to spine, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. With a unique literary association to the New England coastal village of Castine, Maine where Robert Lowell inherited a house and summered for 15 years from 1955 to 1970 with his wife, writer Elizabeth Hardwick.

Robert Lowell (1917-1977) American Poet, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and celebrated as America's most famous living poet. He taught such luminaries as W. D. Snodgrass, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath. He set his famous poem "Skunk Hour" in Castine. The Old Glory consists of three plays adapted from works by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville and reflect the political turmoil of the 1960s

FIVE WILLIAM T. WILEY ART EXHIBITION CATALOGS, plus a Memorial Tribute pamphlet.

TWO of the ART EXHIBITION CATALOGS are SIGNED & INSCRIBED by WILEY to his good friends MICHAEL and SANDRA GOOD.

(The items come from the estate of MICHAEL and SANDRA GOOD. Sandra Good, a noted bookbinder, was a past President of the Hand Bookbinders of California. Michael Good was an antiquarian bookseller and a one time President of the ABAA.)

The catalogs are in GOOD to VERY GOOD condition, the Robert Hudson / William Wiley catalog is scraped and worn at the spine, otherwise the items just show light signs of handling and age.

The exhibition catalogs are:

STRUCK! SURE? SOUND / UNSOUND. Wm. T. Wiley. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1991. Softcovers, 7x11 inches, 44 pages. Illustrated. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by WILEY on the half-title page: "For Mike and Sandy / Love / Wiley / 91".

ROBERT HUDSON: SCULPTURE / WILLIAM T. WILEY: PAINTING. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1991. Softcovers, 10x11 inches, 50 pages. Illustrated. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by WILEY on the front endpaper: "For the GOODS / With Love / Wiley / 91".

WILLIAM T. WILEY - AFTERBURNER. Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco, 1994. Softcovers, 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated. 32 pages.

STEAL THE WITNESS FOR THE TIME BEING. William T. Wiley. Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, 1984. 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated. 31 pages.

WILLIAM T. WILEY - SELECTIONS FROM TWO EXHIBITIONS. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; Charles Cowles Gallery, New York. 2007. 10x10 inches. Illustrated. 72 pages.

PLUS:

A Celebration of the Life of William T. Wiley - San Geronimo Valley Community Center, July 17, 2021. Small, single fold pamphlet (4 pages), 5.5x8.5 inches.

POPERY UNMASK'D. THE SUBSTANCE OF DR. MIDDLETON'S LETTER FROM ROME, With an Abstract of the Doctor's Reply... by [Conyers Middleton]. LONDON: Printed for G. Keith, at the Bible and Crown, in Grace-church-street. M.DCC.LIX [1759].

Hardcovers, leather covered boards, small format, 4x6 inches (9.5x15 cm),

GOOD condition: Professionally rebacked and the hinges strengthened, making this a lovely, solid copy. The pages are lightly toned as normal, there is some edge wear and a closed edge tear here and there, overall a solid, presentable copy.

SIGNATURE of WELCOME ARNOLD, b.1745 d.1798, is on the front free endpaper. Rare old iron ink signature

BOOKPLATE of WELCOME ARNOLD is on the front pastedown.

SIGNATURE of ARNOLD GREEN (aka GREENE), b.1838 d.1903, is on the top of the Welcome Arnold bookplate.

BOOKPLATE of THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN, b.1867 d.1966, son of Arnold Green, U.S. Senator for Rhode Island, is on the front pastedown.

Three CHECKS SIGNED BY THEODORE F. GREEN as TRUSTEE for the ESTATE OF ARNOLD GREEN are Laid-In.

About the ARNOLD AND GREEN / GREENE FAMILIES of RHODE ISLAND (extracts from various Internet sources):

The Arnold and Greene families are two prominent families deeply intertwined with the history of Rhode Island. The Arnold family, particularly the lineage of William Arnold and his son Governor Benedict Arnold, were early settlers and influential figures in the colony's development. The Greene family, also among the earliest settlers, played a significant role in shaping Rhode Island's political and social landscape. Their histories are closely connected through intermarriages and shared influence in the colony and state.

The Arnold and Greene families were among the earliest settlers in Rhode Island, contributing significantly to the colony's establishment and development.

Intermarriage between the two families, like the marriage of Patience Greene and Welcome Arnold, further solidified their connections and influence.

Both families produced prominent figures who served in various capacities, including governors, senators, and military leaders, shaping the state's history.

The Arnold and Greene families are remembered for their immense contributions to Rhode Island's political, social, and economic landscape.

About WELCOME ARNOLD (from Wikipedia):

******Welcome Arnold, b.1745 d.1798, was a Colonial American politician and merchant. He was a descendant of William Arnold, one of the founding settlers of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Arnold, a member of the Sons of Liberty, was involved in the planning of the 1772 burning of the HMS Gaspee in Narragansett Bay, which later became known as the Gaspee affair. Occurring three years before the Boston Tea Party, it is considered the first act of civil disobedience against the Crown. A prominent merchant in the New England-Caribbean trade, Arnold was also a leader in the fight to end Rhode Island's involvement in the African slave trade. He served as a trustee of Brown University.

Welcome Arnold was one of twelve children born to Jonathan Arnold and Abigail (née Smith) Arnold. His sister, Elizabeth Arnold, married Samuel Arnold (son of Joseph Arnold), and another sister, Abigail Arnold, married Nathaniel Greene (son of Caleb Greene). In 1773 Arnold married Patience Greene, 1754-1809, a daughter of Patience (née Cooke) Greene and Samuel Greene (grandson of John Greene Jr.). The marriage was said to have consolidated landed and mercantile power in colonial Rhode Island. Together, they had fourteen children, only four of whom lived to maturity.******

About THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN (from Wikipedia):

******Theodore Francis Green, b.1867 d.1966, was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island, 1933-1937, and in the United States Senate, 1937-1961. He served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1957 to 1959.******

MEDICAL and SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS in the CHRISTIE CASE, by FRANCIS E. CAMPS, M.D. Lecturer in Forensic Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College.

Published by Medical Publications Limited, London and New York, 1953. First edition.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author, Francis Camps, on the front free endpaper.

Copy of JOHN E. MURDOCK, noted Forensic Science Investigator, with his signature at the top of the front pastedown.

Hardcovers, green cloth covered boards, gilt titles to the spine, 6x9 inches, xxiii + 244 pages. ILLUSTRATED "With 47 Diagrams and Photographs and 6 Coloured Plates".

GOOD condition: The covers have some small white spots, there is a bit of wear to the spine ends and corner tips, and the spine gilt is faded but legible, otherwise the covers are solid and well bound. Internally the pages are very nice, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

SCARCE book, especially so with the Signature and Inscription of the author and forensic witness Francis Camps, and the association to criminologist John E. Murdock.

About FRANCIS CAMPS and the CHRISTIE MURDER CASE (from Wikipedia):

******Francis Edward Camps, b.1905 d.1972, was an English pathologist noted for his work on the cases of serial killers John Christie and John Bodkin Adams. He was professor of Forensic Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College, and President of the International Association of Forensic Scientists. He was the author of many papers on forensic medicine.

Camps gave critical evidence during the 1953 trial of John Christie, providing the court with a detailed report on the bodies found at 10 Rillington Place. Camps' report showed a consistent pattern of attack by Christie. His forensic evidence left little doubt that Christie murdered the victims and that Timothy Evans, who had been convicted and hanged for two of the murders, was innocent.

The Christie case was the most prominent of a series of miscarriages of justice which ultimately led to the abolition of capital punishment for murder in England, Wales and Scotland in 1965.******

About JOHN E. MURDOCK (from an online obituary):

******John E. Murdock, b.1938 d.2025, was Chief of the Contra Costa County Forensic Services Division (crime laboratory) for many years. He was an expert firearm and toolmark examiner. Though Murdock worked on many high profile criminal cases, he was most proud of his work on two cases for the Innocence Project, where his expertise helped secure the release of Patrick Pursley (who had spent 25 years in prison) and Bryan Foshay (who had spent 9 years in prison) following their wrongful convictions for murder based on misleading forensic evidence. The Pursley case was the first in the United States to allow post conviction firearms testing.******

About JOHN CHRISTIE - Serial Killer (from Wikipedia):

******John Reginald Halliday Christie, b1899 d.1953, was an English serial killer who murdered at least eight people - including his wife Ethel - by strangling them inside his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. The bodies of three of his victims were found in a wallpaper covered kitchen alcove soon after he had moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953. The remains of two more victims were discovered in the garden, and his wife's body was found beneath the floorboards in the front room. Christie was eventually arrested and convicted of murder, for which he was hanged.

Two of Christie's victims were Beryl Evans and her baby daughter Geraldine. In 1950 Timothy Evans was charged with those murders, found guilty and hanged. Christie was a key prosecution witness in the Evans trial. When his own crimes were discovered three years later, it became evident that Christie's murders included Beryl Evans and her daughter, and that the police mishandling of the original inquiry allowed an innocent man to be hanged and Christie to escape detection, enabling him to commit a further four murders.******