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The Guild of Women Binders, Bound To Be Great
by Stephen J. GertzI promise to refrain from expressing wisecracks and torturous cat o' nine tales about the Guild of Women Binders and trade unionism for dominatrixes. And you? Do we have a deal?...
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More Magnificent Bindings, Bound To Be Great
by Stephen J. GertzA book bound to read or worn as a tiara; two Scottish Wheels that took the high road; a Sutherland binding that soprano Joan Sutherland would have hit high C upon seeing; a Bumpus of...
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The $65,000 Binding, Bound To Be Great
by Stephen J. GertzTENNYSON, Alfred Lord. The Princess.London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1880. One of 50 Large Paper Copies signed by the printer and dated October 23, 1880 (this being copy #41.Bound by...
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Drop-Dead Gorgeous Bindings, Bound To Be Great
by Stephen J. GertzA binding that declares, Good Grieve!; an American binding that finally shows up amidst all the Anglos; a binding romance at Oxford; a neoclassical binding of an acclaimed edition of...
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The Most Unsettling Series of Children's Books Ever Published
by Stephen J. Gertz A beautiful actress and model turned fashion photographer, she, to all appearances an urban sophisticate, talked to the dolls she photographed for her personal pleasure, "Now, hold...
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It's Tuesday, We Pause To Smoke Opium
by Stephen J. GertzOh Stevie boy, the pipe, the pipe is calling... Melancholia, catarrh, the weakies, dropsy, hectic fever, hydrocephalus, ague, the King's evil, quinsy, croup, iron-poor blood,...
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The Mark of Zaehnsdorf
by Stephen J. GertzOut of the night,When the full moon is bright,Comes the binder known as Zaehnsdorf.This bold renegadeCarves a "Z" with his blade,A "Z" that stands for Zaehnsdorf. Zaehnsdorf!...
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Pogany's Parsifal in a Beautiful Inlaid Binding
by Stephen J. GertzTitle page.Willy Pogany's Parsifal of 1912 is one of the five books he designed and illustrated that immortalized his career as an illustrator, the others being The Rubáiyat of Omar...
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Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles: The Real Story
by Stephen J. GertzListen, Do You Want To Know a Secret? The truth has finally emerged, as truthy as truth can be. Finally, the Communist Master Music Plan has been exposed.Before the Beatles went...
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Harper Lee Talks About "Mockingbird" in Exceptionally Scarce Letter
by Stephen J. GertzTwo months after the publication of her modern classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, novelist Harper Lee replied to an inquiry from one Mrs. Hudson. A fellow Alabama resident, Hudson, like...
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L. Ron Hubbard's Infamous Forgery on Soviet Brainwashing
by Stephen J. GertzThis notorious forgery, "A Synthesis of the Russian Text Book on Psychopolitics," originally published in 1955 and falsely attributed to Lavrentii Beria, the Chief of Stalin’s Secret...
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Vile Rarities From the Archives of the American Right-Wing
by Stephen J. GertzWARNING: This post contains highly disturbing images containing commensurate text. Once upon a time (for this truly seems like a fairy tale), the Right and Left wings in the United...
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Dark Knights in White Satin Hoods: A Ku Klux Klan Library
by Stephen J. Gertz[SHEET MUSIC] SEALE, Walter B. and Adger M. PACE Wake Up!! America and Kluck, Kluck, KluckLawrenceburg, TN: James D. Vaughan, 1924. Quarto (32cm). Pictorial card covers; 3pp. Also...
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Meet Edward Withers, Bookseller, c. 1735
by Stephen J. GertzEw’d Withers, Bookseller At The Seven Stars Over Ag’st Chancery Lane Fleet Street, Sells Variety Of Books In All Facultys & Sciences, &c. This decorative trade card, with...
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The Scarce and Exquisite Colored Engravings of Raphael's Vatican Loggia
by Stephen J. GertzThese splendid, large-size copperplate engravings, from the suite Le Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Rome: 1772-77), after the celebrated frescoes by Raphael in the loggia of the...
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When Irish Elves Are Smiling
by Stephen J. GertzThey offered a cow for each leg of her cow, but she would not accept that offer. When Irish elves are smiling‘Tis an Arthur Rackham SpringWith the lilt of Irish fairiesYou can hear...
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A Movable Book Feast: The World's Greatest Collection Comes to Auction
by Stephen J. GertzThe startling resemblance and typical tableau deeply disturbing, I must begin by categorically denying that the terrifying portrait above with its desperate plea for acceptance is of...
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Dos-A-Dos With Death on the Dance Floor in Basel, 1621
by Stephen J. GertzOssuary.While Halloween has come and gone it's wise to remember that for death and the macabre every day's a morbid holiday, the Grim Reaper parties all-year long, and that no amount...
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An American Folk Art Masterwork: Hand-Stitched Celestial Map (1863) at...
by Stephen J. GertzOn May 23, 1863, Hattie E. Rogers of Oneida County, New York, sewed her name to a just completed project.That project was a recreation in needlework of Elijah J. Burritt's, A...
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Charlie Chaplin's MS Notes and Script for M. Verdoux Estimated...
by Stephen J. GertzA duplicated typescript with autograph manuscript corrections, and manuscript notes and additions by legendary silent screen comedian, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), of his screenplay,...
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