Search Results: Titles starting with F from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

[New York]: Gotham Book Mart, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Edward Gorey. Booklet and cards in original two-piece box. Booklet: 4 3/4 inches, [32] pp., including portrait frontispiece; stiff pictorial wrappers, stapled. Cards: 4 3/4 inches, [20] loose laminated cards with individual pictorial rectos and uniform patterned versos. Box: 5 inches, pictorial lid, paper over card. Numbered and signed by the artist on the colophon. Fine. First edition of Edward Gorey's pack of twenty divination cards and its accompanying interpretive booklet, numbered 676 of 750 numbered and 26 lettered copies (the latter copies not published for sale). Its creator, Madame Groeda Weyrd ("a nom de guerre merely; her true one is known to few this side of the grave"), was a clairvoyante of Finnish and Egyptian extraction who made her home in the Staten Island portion of Tierra del Fuego; she was long a persona non grata "to many of the rich and famous because of her fearless predictions of disaster." Toledano A113b.

[Washington, D.C.]: Government Printing Office for the United States Forest Service, [ca. 1925]. Broadside, 13 2/3 x 10 inches, on card stock. Offsetting and abrasions on verso, evidently, from removal from a different copy of the poster below (not visible on recto). Light warping, very light edgewear, else fine.
A striking fire prevention poster depicting a fiery red wolf on a black background below a horizon of charred trees. The earliest reference to the poster we have found is in a 1926 list of publications issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (under which the Forest Service operates) available for purchase.

Rockport, Massachusetts, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Gorey, Edward. 86,[2] pp., containing numerous in-text and full-page illustrations. Pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly shelf-worn. Very good. First issue of a short-run literary magazine, including the first (partial) publication of Edward Gorey's story-without-words, LEAVES FROM A MISLAID ALBUM. LEAVES here contains eight full-pages illustrations of 17 that would later be published by Gotham Book Mart in 1972.

New York: Lines, 1966. 11 inches. 3,22,[1] leaves, printed recto only. Pictorial covers, side-stapled. 1966 ownership signature of Michael Silveitz in title page. Some wear and uneven toning in covers, else very good. Clark Coolidge's first book of poetry, published by Aram Saroyan under the LINES imprint. Cover by Coolidge. Clay and Phillips, p. 210.

[Massachusetts? ca. late 1880s]. Broadside, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Two neat vertical folds and one neat horizontal fold. Light contemporary pencil note ("What prizes & railroad facilities?") in lower margin. Half-inch closed tear in horizontal fold, not affecting text, else fine. Unrecorded broadside advertisement of agent M. J. Finn of Natick, Massachusetts, for a great variety of outdoor entertainments available for hire to fairs and other exhibitions. The broadside most significantly features T. S. Baldwin and his GRAND BALLOON ASCENSION AND JUMP FROM AN ALTITUDE OF 5000 FEET. Baldwin (1860-1923), a U.S. Army Major and pioneering aeronautical performer and engineer, designed and operated parachutes, balloons, and airplanes during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, creating the famous California Arrow dirigible, which was exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair, and numerous other flying machines, used variously for entertainment, military, and navigational purposes. Also advertised in… Read More

Cambridge: Printed and sold by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1815. First Edition. 42 pp. plus one page of publisher's advertisements. Original self-wrappers, stitched. Stamp of Providence Library on front wrapper. Small nicks in front wrapper, edges worn, open tear in lower margin of pp. 35/36. Toned throughout, unevenly in front wrapper and lower outer corner of first several leaves. Good to very good, untrimmed. The propsectus and first issue of Noah Worcester's FRIEND OF PEACE quarterly journal, which ran to 1827. Worcester (1758-1837) was a Revolutionary War veteran and Unitarian Congregationalist pastor who helped lay the foundation for American peace movements with his 1814 tract, A SOLEMN REVIEW OF THE CUSTOM OF WAR. Sabin 105253.