Search Results: Authors starting with M from Martin Hartzold

Hollywood, California, [ca. 1960's]. Single 8" x 10" photograph. A contact sheet showing 6 strips of 35mm film, 33 thumbnail images total. With ink stamping to verso reading: "RUSS MEYER / PHOTOGRAPHY / 8886 EVANVIEW DR. / HOLLYWOOD 46, CALIF. / OL. 2-7704" Some mild handling wear and light creasing. Overall very good. An original contact sheet with verso stamping by American film director Russ Meyer capturing an undated demolition derby at Ascot Park speedway in Gardena, California. A precise date is unknown, though print qualities, vehicles, and dress suggest about early 1960's.

[Waterford, Michigan], [1965]. 30" x 22 1/2" poster. Silkscreen on paper. Mild horizontal crease through lower half, trace edgewear, tiny repaired puncture at lower right. Overall bright, clean and about very good. An original 1965 event poster advertisting the 1965 "Spring Sprints" staged by the Oakland County Sportsmen's Road Racing Club (OCSRRC) at the Waterford Hills Road Course northwest of Detroit near Waterford, Michigan. Waterford saw prolific attendance to its Spring, Summer, and Fall meets amid the 1960's sports car racing boom as one of the earliest paved road course tracks in The United States and the only road course in southeast Michigan. This boldly-designed silkscreen poster is an attractive and highly ephemeral survivor from the fisrt decade of racing at an iconic American road course.

Various, including India and Buma, [ca. 1928]. Commercial album. 12 1/2" x 9 3/4." Patterned cloth over boards with string binding at left margin holding 24 card leaves with 83 snapshot photographs, typed caption sheets, and 3 color prints adhesive mounted to rectos only. Stationer's ticket to interior of rear board reads: "ESCO / ALBUM/ MIMOSA." Neat and well preserved ; about near fine. A well-notated, anonymously-shot vernacular snapshot album documenting the travels of a small group of Americans in Burma and India during about 1928. Images are uncommonly sympathetic throughout and capture numerous named locations include Rangoon, Burma and numerous towns and cities (many rural and uncommonly photographed locations) in India including Madras, Bangalore, Wadi, Secunderbad, and Yadgiri. Contents are undated, though a series of five views of the Elphistone Theatre in Madras shows posterage advertisting a performance by an American Black Minstrelsy troupe called "Wilbur's Black Birds" which toured… Read More

St. Louis, Missouri: [The Board of Governors of the Log Cabin Club], (1990). [66]pp., including 15 full-page black and white photo reproductions. 7" x 5 1/4." Green cloth over hardcover boards. Gilt title decoration to front. Without dust jacket, likely as-issued. Presentation slip tipped-on to interior front pastedown with printed Club logo and typed text with handwritten name of "W.H.T. Bush." Fine condition. A scarce, privately-published membership roster and history of the exclusive Log Cabin Club, a private golf club located in Ladue, Missouri, a tony western suburb of St. Louis, consisting of a clubhouse and nine-hole golf course. At the time of publication, membership had been recently expanded from 55 to 70 members. The highly-revealing text here provides a full roster of current and past members which included August Busch III ; longtime Emerson Electric CEO Charles F. Knight ; renowned architect Gyo Obata (who was almost certainly the Club's first non-white member) ; William H.T. Bush… Read More

St. Louis, Missouri: James G. Butler Co., [ca. 1870's]. 21" x 14" broadside. Black ink lithograph printed to recto only. Mild handling wear, storage folds, aged tape repair to lower margin. Overall very good. A handsomely-illustrated broadside featuring the lithographed image of an ornately decorated hand truck offered as a premium to retailers who purchase the St. Louis-based company's tobacco in bulk. James Gay Butler established thiss longtime local concern after his service ass a U.S. Cavalry officer in the Civil War.

Columibia, Missouri, (1938). Large commercial scrapbook. 14" x 11" x 2" thick. Smooth brown vinyl over board panels with ornate relief design of a sailing ship above the tite "SCRAP / BOOK" to front. String binding at left margin holding 50 thin brown card leaves, the first 45 with contents moounted to rectos and versos throughout ; final five leaves blank. Contents include 39 original snapshot photographs along with dozens of travel publications (including many maps), postcards, clippings, a typed itinerary in cut scraps, etc... Maybe half a dozen articles perished from mountings, otherwise about very good condition. A dense scrapbook kept by a student of the all-women's Stephens College during a two-week trip from Columbia, Missouri into Texas and Mexico, then west to Los Angeles, up the Pacific coast and into Seattle before heading back east throuogh the Norther Plains states. The trip began on March 3, 1938 and was directed by The Travel Guild of Chicago which arranged transport on at east five… Read More

[Arrow Rock, Missouri], (1901). 2 - albumen print photographs. Each approximately 7" x 4 3/4" prints on matching 9" x 7" decorative card mounts. Each with a hand-written date to the upper corner of card verso "9 July 1901." Mild to moderate handling wear to prints and mounts. About very good still. An evocative pair of albumen print photographs documenting the immediate aftermath of a July 9, 1901 fire which devastated Arrow Rock, Missouri, a village of about 350 residents (at the time) situated on the Missouri River in Saline County and well known as a prominent Boonslick trading post, point of ferry service on the Santa Fe Trail, and longtime home of artist George Caleb Bingham. These photographs lack attribution, though printed dates to the card versos coupled with the presence of the distinctive “City Hotel” signage of the J. Hutson Tavern (shown at the left-most edge of one of the photos here, with the tavern just out of frame) have us fully confident in identifying these as Arrow Rock.… Read More

Washington, D.C. , (1934-1936). 52 newsprint issues bound as two volumes, each approximately 11 1/2" x 9." Plain brown cloth over boards. Ink stamped titles to spines. One volume with cloth dye coloring worn away at edges, the other almost entirely gone. Issues with ocassional nicks from margins and scattered small sections of paper loss from print, otherwise sound and clean. Good-plus. A pair of bound issues of PATHFINDER, collecting the first half of 1934 and 1936 respectively (issues 2088-2133 and 2192-2217). Founded in 1894 by eccentric publisher and staunch Republican, George Dean Mitchell in Washington, D.C., the mail-order weekly news magazine condensed national events for a rural audience. Contents here focus on Depression-era issues and events with the National Recovery Administration logo integral to the masthead for the 1934 volume. Issues are each 24pp. in self-wrappers and contain myriad illustrated comics and cartoons, ads for patent medicines, generic novelty goods, mail-in… Read More

[Missouri], (1962). 32 Kodachrome color snapshot photographs, each 3 1/2" x 5." One print with scuffing about corners, otherwise group in fine condition. A singular group of snapshot photography documenting an unnamed Missouri couple on a motorcycle trip through western National Parks in The U.S. and Canada. The pair rode the same Harley-Davidson motorcycle, decked out in classic motorcycle leather and the images are finished in a lush period color with "Kodachrome" stamping in red ink to each verso (also noting a date of November 1962).

Santa Fe, New Mexico: John Muir Publications, (1977). 224pp. Approximately 10 7/8" x 8 1/2." Illustrated card wrappers. Moderate handling wear to outer wraps, notably scuff to front, lower-center. Contents clean, binding sound. About good-plus. The scarce first Spanish-language edition of John Muir's classic Volkswagen repair guide. Originally self-published in 1969 by Muir, an accomplished structural engineer who "dropped-out" of typical society, in the contemporary 1960's vernacular, to work on the Volkswagen Beetle models favored by hippies and counter-culture scenesters, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. With illustrations by Peter Aschwanden, the book is a classic of the automotive genre, still in print (currently in its 19th revision). This Spanish-language edition was originally published in 1977 in an unknown, though probably small run, and saw a second revision in 1980. It is scarce to encounter and its fragile production, coupled with its intended use as a hands-on guide, finds few survivors with… Read More