TRANSFER 21 - THE LITERARY MAGAZINE OF SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE [now San Francisco State University], Spring 1966, Number 21.

Includes student ANNE RICE'S SECOND PUBLISHED STORY (the first with Counts, Bats, and mysterious, drippy, dark surroundings). Also contains poems by STAN RICE, Anne Rice's husband. And to top it off, there is an insert with a poem by the author THOMAS SANCHEZ.

The story by SFSU student ANNE O'BRIEN RICE is titled "NICHOLAS AND JEAN". It is subtitled "Chapter One of a Nouvella" (sic). This is Anne Rice's second published work, the first having been published in Transfer #19. "Nicholas and Jean" is, however, Anne Rice's first work with the eerie sensibilities of "Interview with the Vampire", and her other Vampire novels. "Interview with a Vampire" was published in 1976, ten years after the publication of this story / chapter one of a novella.

Anne Rice's "Nicholas and Jean" is 7 pages long (pages 3-9). Stan Rice has 3 poems in the issue, and Thomas Sanchez has two poems, one which is on an insert.

Printed paper covers, side stapled, 5.5x8.5 inches, 48 pages.

GOOD condition: The wrappers have pulled from the staples at the front fold but are holding on at the back fold, otherwise bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A nice, presentable copy.

Rare look at Anne Rice's early drift towards Vampires and Vampirism.

NOTIONS OF THE AMERICANS by JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. Two Volume Set. LONDON: Henry Colburn, 1828. First English Edition (following the first American edition published the same year).

A SIGNED MANUSCRIPT LETTER by his DAUGHTER, SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER, is tipped-in. A single page handwritten letter, written from "Riverside Cottage", addressed to "Mrs. Foot" and ending with"good wishes" for "Miss Stone". The letter is tipped on to a blank prelim of Volume I

Two Volumes, 3/4 leather and paper covered boards, marbled page edges (page edges of the closed book), 5.5x8 inches. Pagination: Volume I: xxiv, 459 pp. Volume II: xii,477 pp.

GOOD CONDITION: Spines professionally rebacked and inner hinges professionally reinforced making these complete, solid, very presentable copies. The original front and rear paper covered boards are scraped, shelf rubbed, and worn along the edges. Internally, there is foxing mostly on the first and last few pages of each volume then only a bit here and there. There is a lovely armorial bookplate of GEORGE MERRYWEATHER on the front pastedown of each volume.

RARE and UNIQUE with the handwritten letter by SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER, and the interesting provenance.

About SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER (from Wikipedia and other Internet sources):

******Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper, b.1813 d.1894, was an American writer and amateur naturalist. She was the daughter of writer James Fenimore Cooper. Much of her life was devoted to her father and his writing. She often travelled with him and assisted in documenting and organizing his notes. Later in his life she served as his secretary and amanuensis. In addition she was a noted writer, naturist and suffragist.

Cooper published on diverse subjects, but she is best remembered as a nature writer. Her second book, Rural Hours (1850), published anonymously "By a Lady" offered a sharp eyed account of rural life in New York.

In 1855 Susan Fenimore Cooper and her sister, both unmarried and childless, built a home mainly with bricks and materials from the burnt ruins of Otsego Hall in Cooperstown, which her paternal grandfather had built and where her father and mother had lived. They named it "RIVERSIDE COTTAGE" and the sisters became known as "The Cottage Sisters." Riverside Cottage was later renamed Byberry Cottage.

Many of the houses on River Street were haunted with "uncanny things seen and heard". But, perhaps the most striking occurrence took place in 1894: Susan's ghost - complete in her ghostly wheelchair - was said to have taken itself out of the cottage and rattled across the street to the church where the whole town witnessed her going down the aisle in the middle of the Good Friday Service and then straight through the altar before vanishing altogether.******

About GEORGE MERRYWEATHER (from Wikipedia):

******George Merryweather was a British doctor and inventor.

His best known invention was the Tempest Prognosticator, a weather predicting device also called The Leech Barometer. It consists of twelve glass bottles containing leeches, which, when disturbed by the atmospheric conditions preceding a storm, climb upwards, triggering a small whalebone hammer which rings a bell. Merryweather said the more leeches that climbed, and the more the bell was rung, the greater the likelihood of a storm. He explained that the twelve bottles were placed in a circle in order that his "little comrades" might see one another and "not endure the affliction of solitary confinement".

The invention had great success and caused a sensation when it was put on show at the Great Exhibition of 1851. At this time he was an honorary curator of Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society. His device remains on permanent exhibition there.******

HOURS OF LIFE AND OTHER POEMS, by SARAH HELEN WHITMAN.

PROVIDENCE: George H. Whitney, 1853. First edition.

SIGNED by SARAH HELEN WHITMAN, b.1803 d.1878, and by her sister SUSAN ANNA POWER [S. A. Power], b.1813 d.1877, both at the top of the title page. Susan Anna Power was mentally ill and at the time was under the complete care of her widowed sister, Sarah. The book also has some small pencil hand corrections, additions, and margin marks, apparently in the hand of Sarah Helen Whitman.

The corrections and additions are: (1) page 34 - "Hell" is lined out and "Hades" is written in both the right and left margin; (2) page 37 - "norland" has its "n" underlined and the word "Norland" [capital N] is written in the right margin; (3) page 95 - page 95 is misnumbered "59", there is a line beside the number marking the mistake for correction; (4) page 175 - the first line of the second stanza has "his rich" lined out and "the Pilgrim's" written above the lined out words - the sentence read "Listen to his rich words, intoned' and is being changed to "Listen to the Pilgrim's words, intoned"; (5) page 176 - the "y" at the end of "dusky" is lined out and there is a mark next to the line pointing out the change. The margin marks are lines or other pencil marks next to a line or stanza, likely noting that something Whitman was considering altering. They are found on pages 69, 95 (misnumbered page 59), 136, 148, 175, and 190.

Hardcovers, blue cloth covered boards, gilt designs on the covers and spine, and blind embossed framing designs on the covers, gilt page edges, 4.5x6.5 inches, vii, 227 pages.

VERY GOOD condition, Spine professionally restored and inner hinges professionally reinforced making this a solid, tight, lovely copy; the covers are clean, bright and attractive, the gilt page edges have some scratches but still glimmer; internally, there is foxing on a few pages here and there, shorelining to the bottom corner area of the latter pages (text fully legible), and light toning to the very edge of the pages; overall tight, bright, clean and clear. One of the nicest copies I have seen.

About SARAH HELEN WHITMAN (from Wikipedia and the Poetry Foundation website):

******Sarah Helen Power Whitman, b.1803 d.1878, was an American poet, transcendentalist, spiritualist and the great romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe. Whitman had a penchant for wearing black and a coffin-shaped charm around her neck, and held séances in her home.

Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe first crossed paths in Providence in July 1845. However nothing came of that rose garden meeting until three years later, in 1848, when they began exchanging letters and poetry. Poe asked for and Helen agreed to an "immediate marriage". Poe vowed to remain sober during their engagement - a vow he violated frequently - and Sarah finally called the wedding off.

Edgar Allan Poe attempted to commit suicide with an overdose of laudanum in Providence, Rhode Island, in November 1848, shortly after Sarah Helen Whitman refused the wedding.

Whitman's poetry collection HOURS OF LIFE, AND OTHER POEMS was published in 1853. Some of the poems in this collection were reportedly helped along by her sister Susan, who had some poetic skills of her own.******

You can read much more about Sarah Helen Whitman on the POETRY FOUNDATION and EDGAR ALLAN POE RI websites.

You can also read all about her mentally ill and madly eccentric sister, SUSAN ANNA POWER, on the Edgar Allan Poe RI website. The sisters lived alone together for many years after their mother died. Susan Anna Power almost never left the house.

NEW SIGNATURES 1948 / NEW SIGNATURES 1 : A SELECTION OF COLLEGE WRITING, edited by ALAN SWALLOW.

Published by Alan Swallow, printed at The Press of James Decker, Prairie City, Illinois, copyright 1947 but published in 1948. First Edition, with no indication of later printings.

The book contains stories by various college students across the country, including the story THE BARBER by FLANNERY O'CONNOR, a student at the University of Iowa.

Hardcover Book, no dustjacket, 5.5x8 inches, 178 pages. The Flannery O'Connor story is on pages 113 through 124.

This is Flannery O'Connor's first appearance in book form. This story, along with six others, were previously printed as part of her Master's Thesis at the University of Iowa in 1946, titled "The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories". The story The Geranium was then published in the literary journal Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature, in 1946.

GOOD Condition: The covers' bottom corner tips are bumped, the spine has a light crease, the gilt titling on the front cover and spine is faded but legible, otherwise the covers are solid, clean and doing their job well. Internally, there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown (see below), the pages are lightly toned as normal and there is a mild crease to their bottom corner; otherwise tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A solid, nice, presentable copy.

Bookplate of ELDRED and LOIS RENK is on the front pastedown. In 1940 while a student at Boise State College Eldred Renk wrote the school "fight" song "Orange and Blue" which is still sung at Boise State sporting events, though it has been revised over the years. Lois Renk had a movie worthy life which you can read about by searching "Lois Renk Wythe Western Friend". Interesting previous owners!

ANNE ROYALL - FIRST PROFESSIONAL FEMALE JOURNALIST in AMERICA -

"SKETCHES OF HISTORY, LIFE, AND MANNERS in the UNITED STATES" - First Edition of Her First Book, 1826

SKETCHES OF HISTORY, LIFE, AND MANNERS, IN THE UNITED STATES - BY A TRAVELER [ANNE ROYALL].

NEW HAVEN: Self-Published, 1826. First edition Anne Royall's first book. Because she was a woman, and because she was an unknown writer, Anne Royall wrote the book under the pseudonym "A Traveller". She self-published the book. It was widely read. She wrote all her later books under her name.

Hardcovers, 3/4 leather (spine and corners) and marbled paper covered boards, gilt edging to the leather, gilt designs and lettering to the spine, gilt top page edges, marbled endpapers, 4.5x7.5 inches, 392 pages. Lacking frontispiece (copy of frontispiece laid in), textually complete.

GOOD condition: The covers have some scraping to the edges, corner tips and spine folds, but remain solid and quite lovely; the page edges (page edges of the closed book) have some light foxing and soiling; internally, lacking the frontispiece (as noted above), the pages are bound too tightly in some sections, the pages have light toning and soiling especially to the margins and corners, and there is a spot here and there, overall the pages are well-bound, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy.

Important and rare self-published first edition copy of Anne Royall's first book. Many consider Royall to be the First Professional Female Journalist in the United States.

Please read all about Anne Royall on her Wikipedia page. Well worth reading!

Original 1884 or 1885 Cabinet Card Photograph featuring an unnamed African American nurse or nanny dressed in a natural form bustle dress pinstripe uniform with matching pinafore apron and headscarf holding a white baby in a long gown and lace top. The back of the card does not identify the Black domestic employee but a penned notation states D.B.M. 3.5 months. The child's name is Dorothy B. Mann. Original Cabinet Card Photograph in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Albumen Print, 6.5" x 4.25" inches, the Photographer is Hugh J. Brady. Printed on the verso: "HJ BRADY Leading Photographer. COR[ner] MAIN and PARK STS. Orange N.J. Additional Copies Can Always Be Obtained And Instantaneous Portraits Of Children A Specialty"

In 1880, 35% of married Black women and 73% of single Black women were in the labor force compared with only 7% of married white women and 24% of single white women, most Black women were in low wage domestic service (Economic Policy Institute, 2019). The legacy of Black women's employment in industries that lack worker protections continues today. The culling of the federal workforce reinforces this historic discrimination.

Hugh J. Brady (American, b. circa 1859) Professional Photographer whose studio and business were in Orange, New Jersey from about 1884 to 1910. His cabinet cards from 1884-1885 were printed with variations of Main Street, Corner of Park Avenue, Orange, NJ. In 1886 his business burned down "The photographic gallery of Hugh J. Brady, Main and Park streets, Orange, N. J., was destroyed by fire lately." (Anthony's Photographic Bulletin of 1886.) After rebuilding, his cabinet cards were printed with the street address 393 Main Street, Orange, NJ, from 1887 to 1910.

ITALIAN EDITION OF OUR TOWN TRANSLATED by NOTED MID 20th CENTURY FEMALE TRANSLATOR WILDER CALLS HER TRANSLATION "ONE OF THE WORST TRANSLATIONS POSSIBLE"

PICCOLA CITTÀ [OUR TOWN], by THORNTON WILDER. Published by Franco Campitelli, Editore, Roma, 1944. Softcovers, French flaps, 5.5x8.5 inches. ITALIAN edition, translated from the English by Alessandra Scalero.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED by THORNTON WILDER to Fellow Playwright GEORGE KELLEY:

"George Kelley - Cordial greetings / Thornton Wilder / Hamden Conn / January 1950."

Below which Thornton wrote (caps added for emphasis):

"Note page 73 - The Translator has omitted 'the address on the envelope' - one of the many places which render this version one of the WORST TRANSLATIONS POSSIBLE."

GOOD MINUS condition, the covers are lightly toned, have some corner and edge creases, there is a chip to the top edge, and the front spine fold is separating for 3 inches; internally, the pages are toned, especially at the margins, and the binding is a bit shaky but holding. Overall a complete copy, made special with the bitter inscription by Thornton Wilder.

ALESSANDRA SCALERO was an important FEMALE ITALIAN TRANSLATOR who translated many important works, including Virginia Woolf's Orlando, and was considered a feminist scholar who, amazingly was able to capture the essence of subversive novels, including Orlando, in Italy during the repressive 1930's and 1940's. You can read about her online. Here are a couple tidbits:

"Translating Orlando in 1930s Fascist Italy: Virginia Woolf, Arnoldo Mondadori, and Alessandra Scalero // The first full translation of Orlando in Italian was published on 1 October 1933 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. What made the Italian translation of Orlando such a literary and economic success was not only the brilliance of the novel but also, as I shall show, the lexical expertise of its translator, Alessandra Scalero. In her translation Scalero was able to remain true to the spirit and the style of a subversive novel and what is more remarkable, she accomplished this feat in a climate of repressive censorship."

"Alessandra Scalero worked as a literary translator from English, German, and French for the publishing houses Mondadori and Il Corbaccio, from the late 1920s to the early 1940s. She translated novels by many prominent authors including Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, John Dos Passos and Daphne Du Mauier and often translated works for Mondadori's Medusa series. Scalero translated Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop into Italian in 1936, and Cather was impressed with the quality of the work."

IL METODO DELLA PEDAGOGIA SCIENTIFICA Applicato ALL'EDUCAZIONE INFANTILE Nelle CASE DEI BAMBINI. Seconda Edizione accresciuta ed ampliata. Con molte tavole e figure.

(THE METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC PEDAGOGY Applied to CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN CHILDREN'S HOMES. Second edition expanded and enlarged. With many plates and figures.)

ROMA: Ermanno Loescher & Co., 1913. Second Edition.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED TWICE by MARIA MONTESSORI to her TRUSTED LAWYER & FINANCIAL ADVISOR ALFREDO BRUNO - ONCE on the Dedication Page and ONCE on the a blank prelim page:

"Al Dottore Alfredo Bruno mio avvocato / affidandogli con la più affettuosa stima la sfera di questa opera. / Maria Montessori / Roma Gennaio 1912".

(To Doctor Alfredo Bruno my lawyer / entrusting him with the most affectionate esteem the entirety of this work / Maria Montessori / Rome January 1912)

"All'Avv, Alfredo Bruno / La Seconda Edizione / Maria Montessori".

(To Lawyer Alfredo Bruno / The Second Edition / Maria Montessori)

Hardcovers, red cloth covered boards, gilt titles on front cover and spine, 8x11 inches (20x27.5 cm), 283 pages plus 23 b&w photographic plates at the rear.

GOOD Condition, the covers have some darkening to the spine and margins, the spine was professionally restored, overall the covers are solid, with bright gilt, and quite attractive. Internally, the front inner hinge has been professionally reinforced, the text pages are toned/browned as normal, there is foxing to the first and last few pages of the text, the first plate has some foxing at the top (a result of facing the foxed blank verso of the last page of text), otherwise the plates, which were printed on good quality paper, are bright, clean and clear. Overall a solid, complete, very presentable copy.

ALFREDO BRUNO was MARIA MONTESSORI'S lawyer and advisor during the years that PEDAGOGIA SCIENTIFICA first appeared and the "Montessori Method" was taking off internationally. As such he was greatly responsible for the early diffusion of Maria Montessori's work. As Montessori states in her inscription to Bruno she entrusted him with "the entirety of this work".

Below are a few of the references to Maria Montessori and Alfredo Bruno found on the Internet (these from the Lilly Library; "America's Early Montessorians" by Gerald and Patricia Gutek; and an Italian Doctoral Thesis from the Università di Bologna):

******From 1911 on, requests for translations came to Montessori from all over the world. The lawyer ALFREDO BRUNO handled all correspondence, and all issues related to finance - contracts, copyright, royalty payments, etc. In the collection held in the archives of the Association Montessori Internationale in Amsterdam, are collected the letters SENT TO HIM between 1912 and 1914 from every part of the globe. The documents show on the one hand the international interest in the Montessori experiment, on the other the criteria Bruno and Montessori used in deciding to whom to entrust her work.*****

******She refused to sign the Montessori Company contract and her lawyer, ALFREDO BRUNO, told S. S. McClure that the proposed Montessori Company was dead: "Dr. Montessori has examined the contract plan prepared by you...relative to...the Montessori Company of America recently established, but she will not in any way feel obligated in such a broad and open-ended way."******

******On May 24, the lawyer Alfredo Bruno, Maria Montessori's lawyer for all matters related to the publications of the texts and the sale of the material, wrote to Heinemann: Dear sir, Doctor Montessori told me about your proposals which reached her via a letter sent to Mrs. Tasker. May I, as Montessori's advisor, request that all communications be sent to ME or to Dr. Montessori personally?******

FEMMES DE COREE (WOMEN OF KOREA) Issue NUMBER 1, 1971.

The First and apparently Only Issue of this magazine on NORTH KOREAN COMMUNIST WOMEN. Features North Korean Women singing the praises of Kim Il Sung and Communism, 1971.

Produced and Published by Le Comite Central de l'Union Democratique des Femmes (Central Committee of the Democratic Union of Women), PYONGYANG, KOREA, 1971.

Magazine, side stapled, 8.5x11.5 inches (22x28.5 cm), 64 pages. TEXT IN FRENCH.

Illustrated with photographs, including an eight page section of photographs of women singing (literally) the praises of Kim Il Sung and the communist dictatorship, lots of parades too.

Sections include: Rapport d'Activité du Comité Central au IVe Congrès de L'Union Démocratique des Femmes de Corée (Report of the Activities of the Central Committee at the Fourth Congress of the Democratic Union of Women of Korea); L'Appel Lancé Aux Femmes Sud Coréennes (An Appeal to South Korean Women); La Lettre à l'Adresse des Femmes Coréennes Résidant au Japon (Letter Addressed to Korean Women Living in Japan); L'Atrocité Diabolique du Loup, Impérialiste Américain (Diabolical Atrocities of the Wolf, the American Imperialist); and more.

VERY GOOD condition, some light creases and general signs of handling, overall tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

SCARCE. This is the only copy I have ever seen.

A unique, comprehensive and beautifully drawn anatomical study book by Louise Fairbanks Williams, a student at the California College of Arts and Crafts, in Oakland, California circa 1950. She received an A+.

An impressive handmade work filled with pencil drawings throughout. Bound in a blue cloth covered top loading three ring binder embossed with the logo of the California School of Arts and Crafts, Oakland on the front cover, 12" x 9", 200 leaves, typescript in red and black ink (mostly printed on one-side), superbly illustrated throughout, with approximately 150 full page original anatomical drawings rendered in pencil and color pencil, many with tissue guards laid-on, and smaller in-text illustrations. Bibliography at the rear. This does not appear to be a copybook but her own interpretation of an anatomical treatise. Original Art Book is in VERY GOOD CONDITION: the title page and blank front endpapers pulled from the binder and laid-on, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A wonderful example.

LIFE IS FREE, Volume 0, Number 0, Winter 1988

A unique zine detailing the Philadelphia Squatter Scene. Published by [Karen Eliot] c/o The Wooden Shoe, Philadelphia 1988. Karen Eliot, Editor. Underground Anarcho-Squatters' Newsrag, softcover tabloid, printed on newsprint, 17" x 11.5", 8 pages, illustrated throughout with b&w drawings and collages, includes illustrated instructions for building a stove for your squat. VERY GOOD CONDITION: solid, bright, clean, and unmarked. Scarce, only four copies located in OCLC collections worldwide.

An underground zine made by and for anarchist squatters, filled with guidance on how to squat, where to squat, the steps needed to equip the squat, squatter support, and prescient revolutionary political commentary on gentrification. I found one source that stated Karen Eliot created this zine and paid for the 500 copies she had printed from the money she earned as a sex worker. Sounds completely plausible to me, there are no records of Karen Eliot and her cohort of fellow squatters except in the pages of this compelling zine.

NEW & SEALED

1. THE TAROT OF LEONORA CARRINGTON. Published by RM Verlag, Spain, 2022. New expanded edition, text by Susan Aberth, Tere Arcq and Gabriel Weisz Carrington. Text in English. Hardbound in gold with embossed black printing on the front cover and spine, the front cover has tipped-on images of the Magician and High Priestess cards, 12.5" x 9.75", 168 pages, richly illustrated throughout. The book details each of Leonora Carrington's Tarot Cards and its symbolism. Her other worldly images are a spellbinding interpretation of the Major Arcana, rich with color and sumptuous detail. Roughly dated to 1955 her extraordinary work fuses surrealism with the occult and mystical explorations of femininity. EXCELLENT CONDITION: As new, still sealed in original shrink wrap.

2. LEONORA CARRINGTON MAJOR ARCANA DECK. Published by Fulgar Press, United Kingdom, 2023. Second edition. Deck of 22 Major Arcana Tarot Cards, a 48 page booklet with introductory essay by Susan Aberth And Tere Arcq, and a custom box, 5.25" x 4.25". A collection of only the Major Arcana, a smaller portion of the entire canonical tarot that's focused solely on archetypal images and symbologies. Replete with symbolism and evocations of the occult. EXCELLENT CONDITION: As new, still sealed in original shrink wrap.

Artist Leonora Carrington (b. United Kingdom 1917-2011 d. Mexico) Surrealist Painter and Writer. A key figure in the Surrealist Movement she was highly regarded by her peers including Andre Breton and Max Ernst, but overlooked by the art establishment, she's only recently been recognized as an equal to her male counterparts. A captivating figure, she delves fearlessly into the esoteric worlds of alchemy, the occult and feminism.

WOMAN'S CONVENTION AUXILIARY NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION 65th Anniversary Program Dallas, Texas 1901 - 1966 : Theme "Together We Stand"

Souvenir Program, Published by the Woman's Convention Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention, Dallas, Texas 1966. First edition. Softcover, illustrated green wrappers, side staple bound, 12" x 9", 62 pages, historically illustrated throughout with b&w portraits, and photographs of the Black woman and men leaders of the NCB. GOOD CONDITION: covers have edge and corner creasing and some closed tears to the top edge, internally light creasing to the corner-tips, and light wear from age and use, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A remarkable historic documentation of the Black Women in the leadership roles of a pivotal African American religious and activist organization at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Scarce, none in OCLC collections worldwide.

The National Baptist Convention (NBC) was founded in 1895, A major organization of African American Baptists and the nation's largest Black religious organization. Unfortunately, the NCB was not supportive of women's leadership so in 1900 two Black Women Suffragists and Civil Rights Activists, Sarah Willie Layten (1864-1950) and Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) played pivotal leadership roles in founding the Woman's Convention Auxiliary to the NBC. Representing over one million Black Baptist women, the Auxiliary provided means through which women organized on state and local levels around religious, political, and social issues, making their place of worship an epicenter for Black liberation and social change.

Kappa Beta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Presents "FASHIONETTA" 1986, 1988, and 1990 DEBUTANT BALL PROGRAMS

THREE SOUVENIR PROGRAMS, published by Kappa Beta Omega, Vallejo, California, 1986, 1988, 1990. First editions. Illustrated softcovers, 11" x 8.5", pink tinted paper, 208, 142, 151 pages respectively, featuring the b& w portraits of the Debutantes, their escorts, short biographies of each of the Debutantes that showcase their service to the community and educational activities, also Advertisements, many illustrated, from family, friends, community members, and local businesses in support of this group of young Black women. The Ball culminates in the crowning of "Miss Fashionetta." Also included are some invitations, programs and tickets. The 1986 and 1988 programs are in VERY GOOD CONDITION: just some light wear from age and use, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked, as are the invitations, program and ticket. The 1990 Program is in GOOD CONDITION: with nail polish stains, corner creases and chips on the covers, internally some light wear from handling and some corner-tip creases, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. An uncommon group of vintage programs documenting the young Black Sorority Women of the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay region.

Alpha Kappa Alpha was the first Greek sorority founded by African American women. Established on January 15, 1908 at Howard University by nine Black students wishing to create an organization for college educated women that would support their academic and personal goals. The Vallejo California's Kappa Beta Omega Chapter in the Bay Area's Solano County is known for their community service and sponsorship of Fashionetta, an annual event during which African American high school girls in their senior year compete for college scholarships by engaging in various academic and civic activities. The Ball is a fundraiser for the Kappa Beta Omega chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Debutante program is open to a select group of young Black ladies who are high school seniors or local college freshmen.

PACIFIC MILLS ARE THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS IN THE WORLD OF COTTON GOODS, PRINTED - DYED -BLEACHED & WORSTED DRESS GOODS, COTTON - WARP and ALL - WOOL. With Manufacturing Plants Located in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Dover, New Hampshire, Columbia and Lyman, South Carolina.

Published by Pacific Mills, Boston, Massachusetts, 1924. First Edition. Hardbound, original Publishers navy blue cloth with gilt embossed Pacific Mills logo and vertical line on the front and rear covers, 11" x 8.75", navy blue endpapers, 123 pages, handsomely illustrated with 41 full page black & white photographs, 2 double page, and 18 full page color photos. VERY GOOD CONDITION: covers have light wear to the extremities, a few tiny droplet spots, and light foxing to the page edges, internally a touch of age toning, and light wear, overall a handsome, tight, bright, clean and unmarked example of this uncommon advertising promotional portrait.

A curated and sophisticated glimpse at Pacific Mills, one of America's largest textile producers of the early 20th century. Showcasing aerial photographs of the enormous factories and what occurs within them to descriptions of the factory towns equipped with electric lights, running water and sanitary plumbing, also photographs of the huge machines and of the women and men who tend them, overviews of the textile products, and the manufacturing processes of the cotton and wool from gathering, picking and shearing to the finished packaged fabric. Lawrence Massachusetts was named for the founder of Pacific Mills, Abbott Lawrence. Interestingly the wealth accumulated by this northern industrialist is integrally tied to slave labor by depending on cotton harvested on southern plantations.

ARCHIVE of ADA CLARK MERRELL, b.1856 d.1934, of RIPON, WISCONSIN (Wife of EDWARD H. MERRELL, second President of Ripon College). COMPILED AND HANDWRITTEN by ADA CLARK MERRELL, circa 1920s - 1950s.

Large, personal, in-depth archive on the genealogy of the Merrill, Clark and Related Families.

Includes 100s of handwritten pages, stuffed scrapbooks, notebooks, letters, etc. An incredibly comprehensive work that must have taken many years to compile and write. The papers and items have been separated into folders, most with an identifying post-it note on the front, likely by a relative or close friend. One post-it note reads; "Genealogy Papers as Found Together in A.C. Merrell's Trunk".

Includes:

Notebook filled with 148 pages of handwritten genealogy on the Clark and related families;

a folder with 25 manuscript pages;

a folder with letters and 25 pages of genealogy information;

a folder with about 54 manuscript pages plus genealogy charts and a Daughters of the American Revolution application;

a folder with 14 letters, 23 manuscript genealogy pages, some programs, and George C. Merrill biographical information;

packet of 20 or so manuscript genealogy papers and documents "found loose in Ada Merrell's Trunk";

more loose papers "found in AC Merrell's trunk" related to the Clark family, and to a Merrell Family Reunion;

a hardcover binder with a post-it title on the front cover that reads: "Ada Clark Merrell's genealogy research - 45 pages mostly handwritten, photos and postcards, DAR documents";

a hardcover binder with a label that reads: "Ada Clark Merrell's genealogy research and some writings, 149 pages plus other items mostly handwritten, a few typed, some clippings".

CONDITION: Lots of flaking to the edges of the old manila folders and some of the more fragile papers, but, with few exceptions, the manuscript pages, letters, documents, etc. are fully legible and in fairly good condition, with expected folds, edgewear, some stains, etc.

PLUS a FIRST EDITION COPY of ADA CLARK MERRELL'S book "LIFE AND POEMS OF CLARISSA TUCKER TRACY". Chicago, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1908. Hardcovers, 150 pages. Illustrated. GOOD condition, the title page is pulling from its binding (though still holding well) and there is a small chip to the top edge, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

A TREASURE TROVE OF GENEALOGY researched and written by ADA CLARK MERRILL of the NOTED RIPON, WISCONSIN, MERRELL FAMILY.

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IVONNE BAKI - PAINTINGS of WOMEN of the MIDDLE-EAST..

Ivonne Baki is primarily known for being a diplomat, politician and the first female Ambassador from Ecuador. She was an ambassador to Qatar and later to the United States. BUT she is also an artist. This book catalogs some of her paintings of Middle-Eastern Women (she lived 19 years in Lebanon where she raised her family) as well as promotes her as an artist.

SIGNED & INSCRIBED by IVONNE BAKI on the inside front cover, below her photo: "Muy estimado Fred, Con todo cariño y amistad! Te deseos stempu felicidad! / Ivonne / Dec. 7th, 1991". Baki also wrote a sentence in Arabic below the Spanish inscription.

Softcovers, 8.5x11.5 inches, 46 pages. TEXT in FRENCH and ENGLISH.

ILLUSTRATED with 6 reproductions of Baki's paintings, a photograph of a young Baki at work, and a photograph of Baki on the inside front cover. The book also contains listings of her exhibitions, works in private collections, press articles, etc.

GOOD condition, the covers are pulling from the inner text block due to weak glue, but the sewn text block remains tightly bound; otherwise bright, clean and clear.

Publisher not stated, perhaps self-published; printed by NAHHAL, Beirut, Lebanon, c.1991 (the date of the inscription).

An unusual item from a formidable Ecuadorian woman.

About IVONNE BAKI (from Wikipedia):

******Ivonne Leila Juez Abuchacra de Baki (aka A-Baki), b.1951, is an Ecuadorian politician and diplomat. She is most known for her time as the Ecuadorian Minister of Industries and Productivity and as the President of the Andean Parliament. She is Ecuador's former Ambassador to Qatar and the United States. She is currently the Ecuadorian Ambassador to France. She was the first female ambassador in Ecuadorian history. She is fluent in Spanish, English, French, German and Arabic.

In 1998, she became the first woman in Ecuadorian history to represent her country in Washington as ambassador, and four years later, the first woman ever to run for president. A-Baki, as she is commonly known, spent 19 years in Lebanon, living through Lebanon's brutal 1975-90 civil war, and more recently has witnessed Ecuador's rapid slide into violence and gang warfare.

Yet "my first identity is as an artist," A-Baki told The Washington Diplomat some 25 years ago. "Art opens the right and left sides of your brain. It helps you see the whole picture. Music, poetry, painting and dancing make you more human. In order to be in politics, you have to be human. And that's what art does for me."******

UN PORTRAIT D'APRÈS NATURE - ou l'histoire telle qu'on la crée. A monograph on the Belgian Female Surrealist Artist JANE GRAVEROL, by the surrealist poet PAUL NOUGÉ.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by JANE GRAVEROL in FRENCH on a blank prelim page. Graverol's inscription thanks a friend for their kindness and companionship during her trip to New York and Washington. Ends with: "Très affectueusement / Jane Graverol / Mai 1963".

PARIS: Le Soleil Dans La Tête, 1955.

Wrappers / Softcovers, 5.5x7.5 inches (14x19 cm), 126 pages. Illustrated with 30 b&w reproductions of Graverol's surrealistic art works (28 in-text and two on the covers).

Condition: The covers are soiled, sunned, smudged, peeling at the spine, and starting to pull from the text, nonetheless they are present and still doing their job. Internally the pages are nice, lightly toned at the margins, otherwise bright, clean, clear and unmarked, and the sewn binding is holding the pages of text together well. Graverol's inscription is bright and bold.

Scarce with the Signature and Inscription of the sadly overlooked female Belgian surrealist artist, Jane Graverol.

About JANE GRAVEROL (from Wikipedia):

******Jane Graverol, b.1905 d.1984, was a Belgian surrealist painter. She started painting between 1920 and 1930, before the rise of surrealism and before she adapted the surrealist style she is known for today. She began to exhibit her work in 1927.

Graverol was closely linked to the development of surrealism in Belgium. She would considered her canvases to be "waking, conscious dreams". Her encounters after the war with René Magritte, Louis Scutenaire, Paul Nougé, and then Marcel Mariën, with whom she collaborated on the periodical "Les Lèvres Nues", reconfirmed her belief in surrealism. Her painting La Goutte d'Eau is a collective portrait of the Belgian surrealists. Her paintings offered an original, dreamy version of feminine sensibility, painted with a figurative technique that was both precise and cold.******

About PAUL NOUGÉ (from Wikipedia):

******Paul Nougé, b.1895 d.1967, was a Belgian poet, founder and theoretician of surrealism in Belgium, sometimes known as the "Belgian Breton".******

DAISY WITH ALL THE PETALS YES / Two Heads Really Are Better Than One / Yes. Yes. Yes. / Art D'Eglise by SISTER MARY CORITA KENT

Published by Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, CA, 1966. First edition, softcover, illustrated wrappers, side staple bound, 11.25" x 8.5", 32 pages, off-set printed, profusely illustrated in black & white and color, edition size unknown. A promotional booklet by and about Sister Corita, her art, prints and serigraphs with contributions from various authors including poet Robert Lowell and artist Ben Shahn. GOOD Condition: covers have light foxing and some staining, corner-tip, spine edge wear but remain bright. Internally, the staples are oxidized but holding well, otherwise the inner pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A respectable copy of this uncommon Sister Corita Artist Monograph.

Sister Mary Corita Kent (1918-1986) was the most controversial nun of the 1960s and is one of the most famous Graphic Artists in America. A Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, she ran the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles until 1968 when she left the Order to pursue her art.