Broadsides

Utica, NY: Howard Coggeshall, 1933. "Set in Kennerly Type for Frank Gregson, by Howard Coggeshall, his friend, and one copy printed at Utica, New York, in July 1933." An 11 line poem. An early Coggeshall item, and being the only copy printed, quite a rarity. Very faint age-toning at edge of paper, Else Fine.. First Printing. One Page. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 9"w x 11 1/2"h. Presentation Copy.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Red Hydra Press,, 2009.. Edition of 30. 16 x 24" single sheet. Letterpress printed in two colors on dampened Somerset printmaking paper. Text in English and Spanish. Illustrations by Pollyanna Fernández Fernández. The lively translation is by Maria Vargas. This broadside combines a poem by Wisconsin poet, Mary Wehner, a colored lithograph print by Cuban artist, Pollyanna Fernández Fernández, and the printing and typographic design of Steve Miller. Red Hydra Press: "[Broken Shells at Dusk] with evocative words by the Wisconsin poet Mary Wehner, was designed and letterpress-printed in two colors by Steve Miller in both English and Spanish.  "After words and titles were printed, the sheets were hand-carried to Havana, Cuba. At Taller Experimental de Gráfica a multi-colored stone lithograph was printed by the artist Pollyanna Fernández Fernández. This striking image partly invades the typography. The… Read More

No Place: Ray Bradbury, 2007. Single page, 8 1/2" by 11", with Bradbury's 22 line Christmas poem "Dogs Think That Every Day Is Christmas" printed in red with red double border on white paper. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR in red marker, "Matthew, Love Ray". Near Fine, center fold for mailing and small faint corner crease at 2 of the corners. A great item for any Bradbury collector, suitable for framing. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. One Page. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

Tempe, Arizona:: Cabbagehead Press,, 2002.. Edition of 24. 15.75" x 14", irregular, single sheet. Woodcut, linoleum cut, polymer relief, and handset letterpress on handmade paper. John Risseeuw: "This print features a map of Cambodia and some of the numerous facts about the mines and victims that I collected. The OK! is in reference to the fact that Cambodia is about the same size as Oklahoma. What would we do if 60 Oklahomans a month were encountering landmine accidents?

CBAA,, 2016.. Edition of 50 (24 available for sale). 25 printed pieces: 9 x 12" each. Flat prints, broadsides, and folios on a variety of papers using any print medium or combination of media, including letterpress, offset, digital printing, and/or other printmaking techniques. Housed in custom enclosure (10 x 13). CBAA: "CBAA's first print portfolio/exchange to benefit the CBAA academic journal, Openings: Studies in Book Art. This peer-reviewed journal aims to energize artistic practice, stimulate study in the field of book art, and encourage profound and multifaceted thinking in this dynamic arena. By providing open online access to Openings, CBAA seeks to support diverse conversations and an ongoing examination of the continually shifting role of the book in contemporary culture.  "Inspired by the potential for Openings to grow as a platform for critical and theoretical investigation, the theme for this portfolio is folium (plural foliums or folia). Folium, in Latin,… Read More

Seattle: Amy E. Redmond, Seattle School of Visual Concepts, 2007. Signed by Michael Chabon. Limited First edition / First printing. This is a signed and numbered limited edition broadside printed in an edition of 150 to commemorate the publication of The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Number 19 of 150. Letterpressed Broadside. 13.5" x 9.625" Very fine. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, The Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

Prov. R. I. [ Providence, Rhode Island ]: Henry L. Tillinghast, 1855. First Edition. Near Fine. First Edition. Broadside. Single leaf, printed on recto only. 9 x 6 1/4 inches. Wove paper with no watermarks. Cleanly trimmed (with minor variation on upper edge). A nice impression noting some ink ghosting (presumably from other copies printed at the same time). Signed in type "J. A. Foster" at base of leaf. Intended for brief use in a town or village, these broadsides had a low survival rate. The photographer would pin them up or circulate in the village they were in, drumming up whatever business they could with this new wonder. Once they left, there was no use for the advertisement anymore. Traveling photographers left fewer traces of their businesses - even semi-permanent establishments could put advertisements on their photographs, in local papers, etc. The itinerant photographer was just that - moving around constantly. It is a wonder any record survived - and most we find were those presumably… Read More

Minneapolis, MN: Shadow Press, 1983. First of this edition. Very Good. In 1983, at the coaxing of the literary elder, Meridel LeSueur, Shadow Press, USA published Timothy Youngâ_x0080__x0099_s Men Don't Dance in America, one of the early anthems of the then-budding men's movement. Quarter-fold landmark broadside. Limited to 250 copies. Very good+ no marks or faults.

2nd Avenue at 54th Street, New York : Old Knickerbocker Music Hall No date, circa 1947-1949. Playing piano and acting in these revues was Jack Lemmon's initial show business job in New York after his arrival in New York in 1947 and until late 1949 when he appeared in the television series, "That Wonderful Guy". 8 1/4" wide by 18 3/4" hi, tri-folded for mailing, Near Fine, small pinhole at top, small closed tear at one fold. A SCARCE piece of New York City theatre Americana. . First Printing. Broadside. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

Etched playing board with rules of the game in lower margin of the sheet and publisher's number 221. Sheet-size 407 x 335 mm. Very rare and beautifully illustrated etched sheet for dice game; the centre field of the playing board depicts an outdoor scene with a dressage show of monkeys in various costumes with spectators behind wooden bars, in the corners more or less anthropomorphic images of four species of monkeys. 14 of the 30 fields showing monkeys in various costumes doing acrobatic stunts, and if you enter one of these fields you have to according to the rules restart from the beginning or pay a penalty. - Georg Nikolaus Renner (1803-1854) was an art dealer and publisher in Nuremberg since 1826. From 1837 Friedrich Schuster became his partner, from then on the company was called "Renner & Co" – therefore the present game must have been published before. An almost perfect copy of a finely illustrated example of a monkey theatre dice game, a subject which became very popular in the 19th century.

Dead River Grand Trunk Railway. Broad Gauge Air Line. Shortest Route! Quickest time! Rum Policy, President. S.U.R.E. Death, SuperintendentOriginal illustrated, folded broadside. 4 pages. 8½ by 10½ inches. N.P., N.D. (Ca. 1870 – 1872). (Archive of Americana, American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, No. 12927). Caption title. "Reader, will you assist in diffusing information about the above road, so that the multitudes who are invited to excursions upon it, may be informed of the country through which it passes, and where it terminates? This advertisement will be sent free to any address, on application to R.H. McDonald & Co., 32 & 34 Commerce St., New York." Followed by 12 reasons why no rational being should use tobacco. Plus articles about the evils of alcohol, "Moderate drinking," "Bitters," "Satan's Agents," "Woman's Virtue," a Testimonial for Dr. Walker's Vinegar Bitters, "Purely Vegetable, Free from Alcohol," etc. R.H. McDonald & Co. is listed in New York City directories for 1870-71 and… Read More

Louisville, KY: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company , 1903. Broadside poster printed in black type of different sizes, 28" h x 10 1/4" wide, 6 horizontal folds, Very Good, two 1" tears at right edge, soiling at verso of bottom folded section. The printed admission price of 25 and 35c has been marked out in black ink with a reduced price of 10 - 15c written in. A broadside for the itinerant showman Samuel Gillock, Exhibitor. "Given under the Auspices and for the Benefit of The Choir At Centenary M. E. Church Friday Evening March 20". Likely the Centenary M. E. Church in downtown New Albany, Indiana, located across the river from Louisville where the broadside was printed. No year date, but Edison invented the concert phonograph in 1899, producing newer versions until 1906, and the first Friday, March 20 following 1899 was in 1903. "In the largest churches or halls. Everybody delighted with Mr. Edison's new improved Concert Phonograph. By means of a large microphone… Read More

Topeka, KS: J. F. Cummings, Printer to the State of Kansas , 1870. Dated the fourteenth day of September, 1870. " To the Sheriff of Any County, Kansas: Whereas requisition in due form has been made by the Governor of the State of Illinois of one John Randell a fugitive from justice, who stands charged with the crime of Forgery. Now Therefore, James M. Harvey (signature) Governor of the State of Kansas ....command you to apprehend, arrest and deliver said fugitive to the custody of John W. ? of the State of Illinois....". SIGNED at the bottom right, James M. Harvey and COUNTERSIGNED by the Secretary of State Thomas Moonlight. The warrant is Very Good, printed on this paper that has been backed with thicker construction paper at some point, written parts faded but mostly legible, with State Seal lower left, numered 33 top left, and with three engravings. James M. Harvey was the fifth Governor of Kansas, and served in the U.S. Senate: January 11, 1869, to January 13, 1873, serving the… Read More

Los Angeles: Ruhl Samples, 1961. Flyer. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Fine.. A fine copy of this 1961 flyer advertising a "Symposium on Freedom" presented by Ruhl Samples on June 24, 1961 at Hollywood High School, and featuring the eminent Austrian economist, Dr. Ludwig von Mises, who planned to speak on "Planned Chaos," and all for the incredible general admission price of one dollar. Mises (1881-1973) fled Europe in 1940 as a result of the German advance, emigrating to the United States where his scholarship was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and William Volker Fund. Mises would become a visiting professor at New York University from 1945 until his retirement in 1969, and was among the founding members of the Mont Pelerin Society. Mises was a leading scholar within the Austrian School of economics and a leading light for generations of libertarian scholars. The flyer notes that future speakers would include James Burnham (conservative scholar and former Trotskyist), Dan Smoot (former FBI agent and… Read More

San Francisco: John Henry Nash , 1929. Folio Broadside, Single Sheet, Folded , 173/8" h x 11 1/2" opening to 23" w. Tan paper with text by Edward F. O'Day, woodcutting by William Wilke printed and illustrated in raw sienna, light green, yellow-orange and black by John Henry Nash from a design by Dan Sweeney. Printed on front fold, with colophon rear fold and interior blank. Near Fine, old paper clip shadow with rust top corner rear cover, faint ols pencil price bottom corner front cover. Printed as a New Year's greeting for the Crockett family and their California and Hawaiin Sugar Refining Corporation, with 23 lines of text...."Beside the Straits of Carquinez , in lovely California the Blest, lo ! a Factory and a Town. Crockett and the Sugar Factory...". A SCARCE broadside, OCLC locates only four holdings, SUNY at Buffalo, Brown Univ., Sacramento Public Library, and Mills Coll. at Northeastern Univ. . First Printing. Single Sheet, Folded. Near Fine/No Jacket, As… Read More