New York: The Bowery Mission, Ca 1905. 12mo, 6.5 x 3.5", color illustrated wrappers, 18 pp, illustrations from drawings and photographs. A well-illustrated fundraising booklet with information about the work of the Bowery Mission and Young Men's Home, founded in 1879 as a rescue mission for poor, homeless, and alcoholic.....
New York: 1960s-80s. Collection of six flyers/price lists for gay pornographic magazines and novels. Creased, toned, bit soiled, very good overall.
Circa 1920. Narrow 8vo. Illustrated promotional brochure for a series of settlement house style residences for women run by the Salvation Army in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Chicago. One side of the brochure prints images of the three west coast residences, another panel contains.....
Chicago: 1923-1925. Photo album binding of suede, string tied illustrated wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5", containing 81 pasted in black and white photos, many images with annotations on the lower margins of the photos. A photo album documenting the activities of children associated with the Eli Bates House, a social settlement.....
Chicago: [Committee for the Relief of Belgian Prisoners in Germany], [1918]. 4to, broadside, with cartoon illustration of prisoners of war being horribly mistreated by German guards captioned "This is the Way Belgian Prisoners are Treated in Germany." Text seeks to raise money for feeding and supplying these prisoners by describing.....
New York: Central Jewish Institute, Circa 1925. 8.25 x 7", green printed wrappers with cloth reinforced spine, [102]pp. A book of Yiddish and Hebrew songs printed for attendees of Jewish summer camps founded by the Central Jewish Institute. Albert and Bertha Schoolman founded of the Institute, based in Manhattan's Upper.....
Chicago: 1896. Octavo, stapled self wrappers, 23 pp. A scarce pamphlet advocating for radical marriage reform, containing a lecture given before an obscure organization calling themselves the "Society of the Students of Nature." The lecture compares marriage to indentured servitude, in which the woman marries for financial reasons, becoming the.....
Philadelphia: David McKay Co, [1926]. 8vo, original navy blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, xi, 411 pp, illustrations within text & illustration plates. A rare study of serpent symbolism throughout history. An excellent copy with mild foxing to pages, bit of wear to spine ends.
New York: Franklin Watts, Inc, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 x 7.75", green cloth with gilt titles to cover and spine, 69 pp, lacking the dust jacket`. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Ursula Koering. Ex Maryland State Department of Education Division of Library Extension with stamps to endpapers and.....
New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1906. First edition, 8vo, 201pp, original green cloth with gilt lettering. A collection of addresses on Judaism and Jewish history by Meyer S. Isaacs, real estate lawyer, judge, newspaper editor and philanthropist, Myer S. and the eldest son of the second English-speaking Rabbi in the.....
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1930. 8vo, black cloth with gilt spine lettering, [12], 245 pp, photographic illustration plates. First Edition. Includes much on slavery, cotton culture, the Civil War and the African American population of the Southern Sea Islands. By a pioneering woman historian at the.....
New York: Physical Culture Publishing Co, 1899. Fourth edition. 8vo, brown cloth with gilt spine titles, 140, [4] pp. A guide to hair care for men and women by Bernarr Macfadden, prominent physical culture movement advocate and publisher. The text discusses the causes of baldness, and describes techniques for cultivating.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1893. Octavo, xii, 194 pp, contemporary blue cloth with gilt lettering. A guide intended to "give prospective students and parents a glimpse into the private world of women's college", written when the American College Girl was fast becoming a cultural icon (Tarbox, The Clubwomen's.....
Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co., Printers, 1908. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles, 159 pp. A guide to gymnastic games, compiled by the all-female staff at the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, founded in the 1890s as a gymnastic school for girls. Includes running games like blind man's bluff and.....
Birmingham, Alabama: Birmingham Publishing Company, 1949. 9 x 6", stapled booklet with cream covers and black lettering, 68 pp. A first-person account of a family of six as they toured around Europe shortly after the end of World War II. According to her obituary, Noland would have been 24 when.....
[New York]: 1857. Hardcover. Octavo, 9.25 x 6.5", brown cloth with gilt spine titles, 312 pp. Volume one of this newsletter published by the Five Points House of Industry, a charity founded in response to the high rates of crime and prostitution in the Five Points slum of New York.....