![Item #46591 [Handbill] Lew Leslie's 1940 Edition of Rhapsody in Black. 125th Street Apollo](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46591.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767038054)
New York: 125th Street Apollo, 1940. Broadsheet handbill (14x22cm); halftone photographic illus. Light foxing, tiny crease to bottom right-hand edge, else Very Good. Handbill promoting the updated 1940 edition of Lew Leslie's musical review "Rhapsody in Black" at the 125th Street Apollo in Harlem, home of "America's Smartest Colored..... More
San Francisco: A. Finke's Widow, n.d. but after 1910. Pictorial receipt (17.5x21cm) printed on blue stock with printer's slug of Schmidt Lith. Co. Very slightly darkened along margins, else a Fine example. Unused receipt for the recently indicted wine distributors A. Finke's Widow, in reality the partnership of E...... More
New York: Chas. Magnus, 12 Frankfort St., n.d. [but 1865]. Small broadside lithographed song sheet (20.5x12.5cm), top third adorned with an oval portrait of Abraham Lincoln mourned by a Union soldier. A fresh and Fine example. A popular song sheet disseminated in the wake of Lincoln's assassination by..... More
Minden, LA: 1931. Original black and white photograph (15.5x25.5cm.) depicting the girls' basketball team alongside their coach Mr. Russ, each player identified in ink manuscript along bottom of image. Photograph slightly curled with very small flaw at bottom of image, else Very Good overall. Misidentifying manuscript label mounted to verso..... More
Tulsa, OK: n.d. [ca. 1940]. Pictorial business card (6x10cm.) printed on pink card stock. Light toning to margins, old red wax remnants to verso, else Very Good. "Clean, Comfortable, Convenient" reads the hotel's logo. Located at 615 E. Archer St. in the heart of Tulsa's historic Greenwood neighborhood..... More
![Item #46594 [Handbill] The Al T.N.T. Braggs Show. Al "T N. T." Braggs](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46594.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767038197)
N.p.: s.i., n.d., [ca. 1960s]. Broadside handbill (28x22cm); halftone photographic illus., decorative text printed offset in red. Moderate wear to margins from handling, previous folds, light tonging; About Very Good. Handbill promoting the Al T.N.T. Braggs show which featured Al, James, and Floyd Braggs as well as "Miss Soul"..... More
New York: The Junior Council of The Museum of Modern Art, 1970. First Edition. Newsprint folio (38cm); [65]pp. Staple-bound sheets with two hole punches at top edge. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Exterior toned, scuffed, and bumped with tears forming in several places. Final page shows dampstain and tape repair. Interior pages..... More
![Item #31206 [Broadside] A Love Song / The Cobler [sic]. Americana - Pictorial Poetry Broadside](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31206.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1732227722)
Boston? ca. 1824. Pictorial broadside (27x23cm.) adorned with two woodcut illustrations. Stock quite wrinkled and worn as though the leaf had been crumpled up and then ironed back out, smallish losses mid-leaf including one affecting woodcut illustration of the beautiful woman, another loss affecting text of the final two stanzas..... More
![Item #33437 [Display Placard] War Is the Health of the State. Anarchism - Black Mountain Press](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33437.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750870938)
Corinth, VT: Black Mountain Press? ca. 1970. Stiff card broadside placard (17.5x30cm) printed in red on yellow stock. Just a hint of wear to margins, brief ink note on verso ("Anarchist 1970"), else a Near Fine, bright example. Placard attributed to the 1970s anarchist printing house the Black Mountain..... More
Pocket notebook (16 x 8cm); 40 leaves. Handwritten notes in ink on each recto. Staple-bound at top edge with black tape covering. Perforated leaves. Cardboard backing with no front cover, possibly as issued (one stub remains on top from a torn-out sheet; unsure if this was a cover page or..... More
![Item #32405 [Broadside] Arrendersi o Perire Tedeschi e Fascisti Scegliete la Resa o la Morte....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32405.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742323673)
[Rome?]: Il Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, [ca. 1943]. Printed broadside [26.25x42cm]. Light edgewear, creasing, and smudging; surface tears to rear with very faint adhesive remnant suggesting contemporary use; Very Good. Il Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale was an anti-fascist political and military organization formed in Italy in 1943 to support..... More
La Jolla, CA: The Green Tiger Press, 1977. First Edition. Oversized folio. 12 leaves, each with a mounted color plate by Rackham. String-bound pictorial wrappers. Wraps curl and crease at edges with a few short closed tears and some light spotting. Cover wrap torn at top edge and..... More
New York: Asahel Jones, ca. 1850. Square 16mo (11cm.); publisher's pale pink wrappers printed within typographically decorative border; [24]ll. of blank tissue, presumably once interspersed with gold and tin foil. Wrappers soiled, old vertical fold, leaves foxed throughout, else a Very Good example of a rare piece of dental ephemera..... More
![Item #31303 B.P. Grimaud's Playing Cards [Advertising Display]. B P. Grimaud](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31303.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1732373921)
Lorraine, France? B.P. Grimaud, ca. 1920. Advertising display (ca. 16x25cm.) comprised of stiff die-cut card stock to which are fitted, like the pieces of a puzzle, seven fanned out playing card samples. Dark soil spot affecting two cards, light wear from handling, else a Very Good, bright and sound example..... More
![Item #45398 [Broadsheet] Chick Webb and his N.B.C. Orchestra Featuring Ella Fitzgerald [with...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45398.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1760202228)
Baltimore, MD: [1937]. Illustrated broadsheet (23x15cm) promoting Chick Webb and his N.B.C. Orchestra and featuring 20-year-old Ella Fitzgerald, who had begun singing with the band in 1935. Verso prints an "Open Letter to Dance Lovers of this City" promoting Webb's band for combining "hot stomp music and sweet melodies." Printed..... More
![Item #32436 [Broadside] NOTICE! The use of this Park for the purpose of playing Games of Ball is...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32436.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742840628)
United States? ca. 1900. Broadside (22x30cm) printed letterpress on newsprint. Small chips and losses at corners and along bottom edge not approaching text, textblock a bit spotted and toned, else Very Good. Fun-spoiling broadside forbidding ball games at the park, "All persons violating this requirement will be dealt..... More
New York area, ca. 1970s. Archive of materials belonging to jazz and R&B organist Bill "Mr. Honky Tonk" Doggett consisting of the following: a.) Handwritten sheet music for four different songs all with “words and music by Bill Doggett” written on top right corner. Quartos (32cm). One written..... More
London: St. Thomas' Hospital, ca. 1918. Original necklace of twenty-one hand-made wallpaper beads, each approx. 4cm. in length, interspersed with colored glass beads. Wallpaper beads a bit browned, else a fine piece of vernacular jewelry. Slightly later manuscript card attached to necklace stating "Necklace made of wall paper..... More
Atlanta, GA: Carver Bible Institute, n.d., ca. 1950. First Edition. Six-paneled brochure; halftone photographic illus. throughout. Moderate wear from handling, small damp stain along top edge, brief ink note to rear panel, else Very Good. Brochure issued by the Atlanta branch of the Carver Bible Institute, "The faith..... More
![Item #45890 [Prospectus] "Siberia" Frankenstein by UNESCO. Charianne Kircher](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45890.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761861163)
Los Angeles, CA: Charianne Kircher, ca. 1960. Pictorial mimeographed flyer (28x21.5cm). Uniformly toned and foxed, else Very Good. Date of publication based on Kircher's address listed as Los Angeles, 26, placing this sometime before 1963 and the introduction of the zip code. An unusual prospectus for what appears to..... More
Darlington, Indian Territory [Oklahoma]: ca. 1881. Two illustrated cards, one chromolithographed and issued by Dozier-Weyl Cracker Co. (13x8 cm), the other woodblock printed (7x11 cm). Each gently rubbed at margins with mild toning; overall both Very Good or better examples. Charles T. Connell sold dry goods, groceries, camp equipment, clothing..... More
Octagonal collapsible tabletop candle screen composed of white cloth over stiff card stock to which is mounted to each folding panel a 3-D cloth, silk, and hand-colored paper rendering of the Eight Immortals, accompanied by a separate octagonal card paper base. Cloth slightly foxed at extremities, perished tape repair visible..... More
Rome: Gagosian Gallery, 2009. First Edition. Catalog brochure/poster (19x14.5cm folded; 75x56cm opened). Fourteen images. Unusually clean and crisp with only very faint hints of edgewear. This brochure/poster constitutes the catalog for the Cindy Sherman show held at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome 7 June to 19 September 2009... More
United States: ca. 1960s. Collection of three pins measuring 4, 3.5, and 2cm. Backing of the largest and smallest of the pins a bit rusty, else a Very Good set. Lovely trio of pins stripped down of text, simply evoking the spirit of the Civil Rights movement through..... More
Chicago: Dechert Publications, 1965. First Edition. Slim octavo (22cm); publisher’s illustrated staple-bound wraps; unpaginated; illustrations and images throughout. Lightly bumped and toned; binding sound. A few annotations in blue ink. Very Good. Curious conspiracy theory pamphlet claiming that “The assassination of the mythical hero Abraham Lincoln was strictly a farce..... More