Growing up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized System by Paul Goodman - 1960

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. Hardcover, dust jacket. 7.5 x 10.75 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. "The texts of the three lectures are given with a plethora of well-reproduced visual aids: almost every manuscript, piece of printed matter or artefact that Walker referred to is illustrated close to the reference, from a wide variety of sources." - Sebastian Carter, Journal of the Printing Historical Society Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) was a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement and the inspiration for the revival of fine printing in Britain, the Continent, and America. His November 1888 address to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (summarized in Appendix 1 of this book; the original text of the speech is lost) prompted William Morris to found the Kelmscott Press. With Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, Walker established the Doves Press in 1900, and Walker advised other fine presses as well. In 1935 Charles Harry St. John Hornby wrote, "Walker was a mine… Read More

Viking, 2004. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st Edition. Viking,2004.First US edition Grey hardback with black borders(gilt lettering to the spine).404pp including The Bush-Walker family tree,appendices A and B,notes,index.Price clipped.Heavy book. pages clean and unmarked

Liverpool: Bluecoat Press, 2017. Hardcover. New. Hardcover New Paul Trevor's compelling and moving record of childhood in Liverpool in the 1970s In. December 1974, Paul Trevor came to Liverpool as a member of the Exit Photography Group: three young photographers collaborating on a project to document life in Britain's inner cities. Paul stayed for six months photographing the hardships faced by people, particularly children, at a time of economic decline and social unrest In 1982. Some of his photographs were published in Survival Programs: In Britain's Inner Cities - a book of Exit's work that is now regarded as one of the most significant documentary projects of its time In 2011, National Museums Liverpool organized an exhibition of Paul's work, most of which had remained unseen and unpublished The show at the Walker Art Gallery attracted 64,000 visitors.

Chicago: Citizens Press, n.d. [1940s?]. Octavo (8 7/8 x 6 inches; 225 x 150 mm), 8 pages, in stapled wrappers. A ferocious attack on communists and communism: "Communism is immoral and decadent: it reduces men and women to the level of beasts and they lose all sense of propriety and decency." Divided into 21 short sections, such as: "Communists Are Perverts," "Communism Thrives on Trickery," etc. OCLC shows only two institutional holdings: Ball State and Michigan State, while a separate search turns up a copy at Columbia. None in commerce. SCARCE. Condition: Splits at top and bottom of cover page (but still holding firmly), small nicks to corners, vertical fold to lower right throughout, pages lightly toned, contact details of "Women's Voice" stamped on final page. About Very Good.

Baltimore, Maryland: Bolgiano Water Motor Co, 1894. Fine. Some rust to grommet.. Printed receipt (5.5" by 8.5") acknowledging the sale of a gas iron from the Bolgiano Water Motor Company of Baltimore, Maryland, to the Hendrick Manufacturing Company of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Depicts a clever water-powered sewing machine in upper left-hand corner of the receipt, powered by the company's proprietary water motor that "will run Sewing Machines, Fans, Scroll Saws, Coffee Mills, Lathes, Printing Presses, Grindstones, Ice Cream Freezers, Washing Machines, etc." (recto). Attached with small grommet to receipt acknowledging the same transaction on Hendrick letterhead, measuring 7" by 8.5

London: At the Florence Press Chatto & Windus. --/G. 1924. Reprint. Hardcover w/DJ. 8vo., dust jacket are 90% complete .

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913. First Edition. With a Frontispiece in colour by Edith S. Lees and 60 photographic illustrations by the Author and a folding Map at the end of the volume. 8vo, publisher's original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, upper cover framed in blind. 350 including the index pp. A very nice copy, near as fine, clean, tight, with very little evidence of age or use.. FIRST EDITION OF THIS HANDSOME AND WELL ILLUSTRATED BOOK. A complete tour with illustrations through one of the most beautiful areas of greater Italy. The author cover the Valley of the Nervia, the road to San Remo, Bussana, the Impero and Arroscia, Albeng and along the coast to Finalmarina and Genoa where some fine rambles are described, on to Mote Portofino, to Varese Ligure and the Spezzia and beyond. A well illustrated book.

New York: Knopf. As New in As New dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A collection of Updike short stories. A very collectable set of first edition and uncorrected proof. First edition book is as new. Warmly inscribed to noted bibliophile and Updike collector; "for Albert J Raman that epic collector and exemplary Philadelphian John Updike". Dust jacket also as new, unclipped with archival protection. Uncorrected proof with white wrappers also as new. A great collectable set with a connection to a long time Updike collector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages; Signed by Author .

McKILLIP, Patricia A. The Throme of the Erril of Sherill. Illustrated by Julie Noonan. NY: Atheneum, 1973. 12mo, [vi] 71pp. Maroon cloth stamped in silver on spine and blind stamped on front. Turquoise endpapers; four full-page b&w illustrations and b&w illustrated chapter headings. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author, Patricia McKillip.
First edition. A knight goes in quest of the non-existent throme of the Erril of Sherill since the king will not allow his daughter to marry without it.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1887. First Edition. Very Good. Illustrations W.C. Jackson, H.W. McVickar. [8x9.25"]; [1], viii, 409 pp. [1], frontispiece engraving of battle of Lake Champlain, 71 engravings on plates and illustrations in text; Dark blue and cream buckram over covers with embossed gilt lettering on front and spine, embossed gilt illustration of sailor climbing the ropes up the mast on front; Some shelf wear, rubbing and light soiling to covers, edges and corners, corners bumped, spine faded and rubbed, pp. 103 to 108 loose. A detailed account of the forgotten War of 1812, also known as the second revolutionary war. This was a confusing short war that President Madison was forced into. It was about impressment of US merchant ships, British use of natives to harass and limit western expansion and defiance of the British slave trade ban. This book is a detailed account of naval actions during the two and a half year war.