Search Results: Books from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

Dallas: Fikes Hall of Special Collections and DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 28 pp., including illustrations. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. Catalog of an exhibition of the Robert O. Harris Whitman collection at Fikes Hall of Special Collections, Southern Methodist University, 1987.

New York: Whitney Museum of Art, in association with Flammiron, 1997. Softcover. Very good. [1997]. Quarto. 205,[11] pp. including two folding leaves, color and black-and-white photographic images throughout. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author (dated 1998) on the title page. Corners lightly bumped, light shelfwear, else near fine. "The first major survey of the artist's work and the largest exhibition ever devoted to an individual video artist" - Whitney Museum of Art.

Rockport, Massachusetts, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Gorey, Edward. 86,[2] pp., containing numerous in-text and full-page illustrations. Original 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-page illustrations of 17 that would later be published by Gotham Book Mart, in 1972.

London: Smith, Ainslie, & Co., 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. [1895]. Publisher's pictorial cloth. xi,227 pp. including eight plates. Mildly cocked, cloth lightly worn at edges. Very good. Late 19th-century English thriller, laced with criminal flash, set partly in the Wormwood Scrubs prison.

Downpatrick, Northern Ireland: Dissident Editions, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Anthony Weir. [32] pp., including two full-page illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Minor abrasion in verso of front wrapper, else fine. Anthony Weir's 28-part poem, "Millennium Maggot," published "in honour of U.G. Krishnamurti / in memory of Vasko Popa (1922-1991) / and the canids of Kosova," with an epigram by Walter Benjamin, appears on versos. Individual poems by Tom Baer, including the title poem concerning his astonishment at the romantic attentions of "a madwoman" and two poems on the Glory Storefront Tabernacle in Edgewater, Florida, face Weir's work on rectos. Illustrated with two photographic illustrations by Weir.

Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 189 pp. Original green and silver cloth over boards, spine gilt. Boards slightly bowed, else fine. Scarce.

Baltimore, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. viii,48 pp. Contemporary half cloth, gilt, and marbled boards. Square one-inch abrasion to front board, foxing in endpapers. Good to very good.

Montreal: H. & G.M. Rose, 1855. Softcover. Very good. [129]-160 pp. Original printed wrappers. Some wear to edges of wrappers, else fine. Anglophone Quebecer Unitarian periodical, including an article on the Crimean War by Canada's first Unitarian minister, the Rev. John Cordner.

Moscow-Leningrad: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländer Arbeiter in der UdSSR, 1933. First German-language edition. 19 cm. 62,[2] pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. One-inch scratch on front wrapper, rear wrapper moderately soiled, leaves toned. Very good.
"A Victory of World Historical Significance" A paper on the January plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, by Sergei Kirov (1886-1934), who served in the Committee. Kirov was an early Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, and close associate and supporter of Stalin. His assassination in 1934 provided a pretext for growing political repression by Stalin, culminating in the Great Purge.

New York: Expanding Cinema [script published by arrangement with Viking Press], 1965. First Separate Edition. 11 x 8 1/2-inch leaves in an 11 1/2 x 9-inch folder. [4],58,[3] pp. Leaves in printed blue metal tab folder. Fine. PASSAGES FROM JAMES JOYCE'S FINNEGANS WAKE was the final film produced and directed by Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983), a pioneer in experimental film and animation. Bute spent much of her early career developing a style of "visual music" in film, synchronizing abstract images and music. PASSAGES, a film treatment of FINNEGANS WAKE using Joyce's original language, was largely a live-action piece but incorporated animation, double exposures, and various other unconventional visual methods. UbuWeb describes it as follows: "A half-forgotten, half-legendary pioneer in American abstract and animated filmmaking, Mary Ellen Bute, late in her career as an artist, created this adaptation of James Joyce, her only feature. In the transformation from Joyce's polyglot prose to the necessarily… Read More

Paris: United Nations Educational [Unesco], 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Quarto. 27,[1] pp. including in-text illustrations. Covers toned, lightly foxed. Very good. Fourth part of Unesco's Division of Museums and Historic Monuments' MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS five-part series. The volume reports on Unesco' second mission concerning the preservation and restoration of historic buildings: this concerning Yugoslavia's early medieval Church of St. Sophia in Ochrida (Ohrid), Macedonia. The author, Ferdinand Forlati (1882-1975), was an important Italian architect and civil engineer, responsible for the restoration of many of the Veneto region's architectural landmarks.

[Jackson, Mississippi]: [Journal of Mississippi History], 1951. [13] pp. Self-wrappers, saddle-stapled. Lightly creased in upper margin, else fine. Offprint from THE JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI HISTORY, April, 1951. An paper on the lives and careers of Confederate military and political leaders from Mississippi after the Civil War, including Jefferson Davis, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, James L. Alcorn, Henry Stuart Foote, Francis Asbury Shoup, Stephen Dill Lee, and various others. The article concludes with the observation that "[i]n the years following Appomattox these men of ability regained their positions of leadership in the political, religious, educational and cultural life of the State .... [t]hose who fought under the Southern Cross remained to help and rebuild the state and to direct its destiny." The authors, William B. Hesseltine (1902-1963) and Larry Gara (1922-2019) co-wrote several articles together during at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, Hesseltine served on the faculty and Gara received… Read More

[New Haven], 1942. First Separate Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 9 pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Slight edgewear, else fine. Offprint from CONNECTICUT STATE MEDICAL JOURNAL, Vol. V., No. 12 (December, 1941). A narrative of the founding process of the Society from its precursors in Litchfield and New Haven counties to its charter and first meeting in 1792.

New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 1991. Oriole Farb Feshbach. Quarto. x,86 pp. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Signed by Oriole Farb Feshbach on title page. Corners lightly bumped, else near fine.

Pleasant Valley New York: Kriya Press, 1967. First Edition. Broadside. Near fine. Broadside, 16 x 12 inches. Numbered 34 of 100 copies. Light wear at edges. Near fine. One of the first six broadsides printed at the Kriya Press, in the year it was founded at the Sri Ram Ashrama in Pleasant Valley.

[Detroit]: The Glass Bell Press, 1974. First Separate Edition. Broadside. Fine. Broadside, 11 x 8 inches, printed on pale green paper. Fine. First separate edition of this portion of Ellen Bass's longer poem, "Japanese Notebooks," which was published a year earlier in her first collection of poetry, I'M NOT YOUR LAUGHING DAUGHTER. In 1973, Bass also co-published (with Florence Howe) NO MORE MASKS!, one of the first major anthologies of 20th-century women's poetry. Detroit's Glass Bell Press published poems by women from 1974 to 1979, largely in broadside form. In 1975, Glass Bell printed 10 broadsides for the portfolio collection, TEN MICHIGAN WOMEN POETS. The present broadside is one of nine Glass Bell printed in 1974 for which we have found records, but it remains unclear whether the 1974 broadsides were also intended to be issued as a collection. Scarce, with OCLC locating one copy, at Brown University.

[Detroit]: The Glass Bell Press, 1974. First Separate Edition. Broadside. Fine. Broadside, 11 x 8 inches, printed on red paper. Fine. Broadside poem, translated from the Greek, by Greek-born American poet, Lili Bita. Detroit's Glass Bell Press published poems by women from 1974 to 1979, largely in broadside form. In 1975, Glass Bell printed 10 broadsides for the portfolio collection, TEN MICHIGAN WOMEN POETS. The present broadside is one of nine Glass Bell printed in 1974 for which we have found records, but it remains unclear whether the 1974 broadsides were also intended to be issued as a collection. Scarce, with OCLC locating one copy, at Brown University.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1960.Pp. 523-532 plus 4 plates containing 11 images (4 color). Original printed wrappers, side-stapled. Light rust marks near staples and light fading at wrappers' fold, else fine. Offprint from THE SMITHSONIAN REPORT FOR 1959, providing a brief history of the discovery and study of viruses and recent developments in the understanding of what a virus is, how viruses may be classified, genetic study, and virus diseases and recovery from them. The illustrations include schematic representations of virus activity, theoretical diagrams of DNA structures (including the recently-discovered double helix), and several examples of microscopic photography, including a color image of infected HeLa cells (the cell line developed from the cancer cells of Johns Hopkins cancer patient Henrietta Lacks in the early 1950s).

[New York]: Telegraph Books, 1971. 36 pp. Pictorial wrappers. Light shelf wear, 1/4-stain at head of rear wrapper, else near fine.

The second book of poems by poet, educator, and longtime denizen of Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side, Tom Weatherly (1942-2014).

In his review for Weatherly's last published book, SHORT HISTORY OF THE SAXOPHONE, Andrei Codrescu said his work "condenses the wisdom of a life and vast readings into brilliantly compact music."

Clay and Phillips, pp. 212-213.

[Denver]: Bowery Press, [1970]. First Edition. Broadside. Very good. [ca. 1970]. Broadsheet, 17 x 11 inches. Illustration of a bottle of "Moon Juice" and three shot glasses on recto. Horizontal fold, as issued. Some toning. Very good. Bowery Press broadsheet containing poems by latter-day Beat poets Frank Rios, James Ryan Morris, and Tony Scibella.