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American Literary Posters 1895-1897
by Stephen J. GertzLippincott's January 1895. 18 x 12 in.Design by J.K. Gould, Jr.On August 7, 2013, Swann Galleries is presenting a Vintage Posters auction within which is a collection of scarcely...
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Rare Ten Cent Book Will Improve Your Face
by Stephen J. GertzAs the nine-year old prodigy qualified to perform an appendectomy using a radio-knife because I studied the instrument and procedure in All About Great Medical Discoveries by David...
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The Failed Book Scout
by Alastair M. Johnston I'll never be a good book scout. Obviously you have to know the market, and you have to buy low and sell high. My problems are that I am generally only looking for books for...
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Beware Of Hart Crane's Sombrero
by Stephen J. GertzHart Crane sans sombrero.Literary sombrero alert!Hart Crane's sombrero rests in the University of Vermont Library's Special Collections. But is it really Hart Crane's sombrero? As it...
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The Best Literary Coffee Cups
by Stephen J. GertzShakespearean Insult Mug.Cry havoc, and let's sip the dregs of warm. Forsooth, the best mugs for book lovers drinking hot beverages have been produced, courtesy of The Unemployed...
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A Gravity's Rainbow Archive Screams Across The Sky
by Stephen J. GertzA screaming comes across the sky.- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow.The most demanding novel anyone has ever written… [and] the most important work of fiction yet produced by any...
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Meet Gumbo Chaff, The Ethiopian Flute Instructor, etc., etc.
by Stephen J. GertzIn 1848, a curious little volume of "negro melodies of the day," The Ethiopian Flute Instructor, was published in Boston. Containing ninety-one songs for the flute, including Band of...
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Masterpiece Posters From The German Secession
by Stephen J. GertzLEENDERT (LEO) GESTEL (1881–1941)PHILIPS ARGA LAMPLithograph in colors, c.1918. Printed by Van Leer, Amsterdam. 41 x 30in. (104 x 78cm.)£6,000–8,000. US$9,100–12,000. €6,800–9,000.On...
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The Glorious Future Of Detroit Under Glass, Including Television And The...
by Stephen J. GertzPoetical Drifts of Thought or, Problems of Progress. Treating Upon The Mistakes of the Church - The Mistakes of the Atheist Infidel and Materialist - God Not the Maker of the...
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Hw 2 Spel Gud Inglsh In 1856
by Stephen J. GertzExcepting sittin' fer a spell, at which I excel, spelling has never been my strong suit, or, as it's written in American Phonetic English, "ɛksɛptɪŋ sɪtən fər ə spɛl, æt wɪč ay...
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Virtue For Girls In The American Toilet
by Stephen J. Gertz"Children's books joined the crusade against the prevailing 'pride and affectation in dress,' and little girls in particular were regaled with alarming examples to prove that...
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Greetings From Bob Dylan On Highway 51, $12,500
by Stephen J. GertzA one-page, 8 1/2 x 6 inch autograph manuscript in black Flair pen by Bob Dylan from 1973 has come to market. Any Dylan material that finds its way into commerce is precious and...
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Henry Miller Loathed Salvador Dali (And Anais Nin Wasn't Crazy About Him,...
by Stephen J. GertzFor a few months during late summer 1940, Henry Miller and Anais Nin visited their mutual friend from Paris, Caresse Crosby (1892-1970), for an extended stay at Hampton Manor, a 486...
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A Grand Rip-Off Of Grandville's Metamophoses Du Jour
by Stephen J. GertzIn 1828-29, J.J. Grandville, (1803-1847), one of the most celebrated caricaturists of his era, published Les Metamorphoses du jour, a satire of the French bourgeoisie in which he...
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Grushenka: The Story Behind A Rare Classic Erotic Book
by Stephen J. Gertz It is an anonymously written erotic novel privately printed in 1933 in Dijon, France but it's not Fifty Shades of Grey Poupon.It is “the story of a Russian serf girl compiled from...
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You Are The Objects Of Your Trade: Personification Prints
by Stephen j. GertzGeorge Spratt and George E. Madeley, China.You are what you eat, you are what you do.In 1830 - 1833, George Spratt, an English artist, and George E. Madeley, an English engraver and...
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John Belushi Discovered In 1920 Bookplate
by Stephen J. GertzToga! Toga! Toga! Toga!My goodness, it's John Belushi as Bluto in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), in 1920 masquerading as Dr. Ignatz Streber, Krankenhausarzt...
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Hey, Rare Book Guy! What Happened To Dickens & Thackeray In Parts After...
by Stephen J. Gertz Hey, Rare Book Guy:You know how Dickens and Thackeray were originally published in installments? What happened after that - are surviving copies usually bound together into a...
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Progress Is Chanel No. 5 On The Rocks, Wrote Captain Beefheart
by Stephen J. GertzAn original poem in manuscript composed by musician, artist, and poet Don Van Vliet (1941-2010), aka Captain Beefheart, in 1975 with an accompanying drawing of a foot surrounded by...
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Kierkegaard's Silver Quill At Auction
by Stephen J. GertzPhilosopher Søren Kierkegaard's silver quill, finely wrought as an elegant feather, is being offered by Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers of Copenhagen in its International Paintings,...
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