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The Front Page [Broken run of 11 issues] by Baxter, Jim

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Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC

Title: The Front Page [Broken run of 11 issues]
Author: Baxter, Jim
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Raleigh, North Carolina: Bugle Publishing, Inc, 1980. Very good. 15" x 11½", folded at center. Newsprint. Most pp. 12, a few pp. 16-20. Publication sequence: Vol. 1, Nos. 1 (Oct 25 1979), 4 (Dec 6-19 1979), 5 (Dec 20 - Jan 9 1979), 6 (Jan 10-23 1980), 7 (Jan 24 - Feb 13 1980), 10 & 11 [one issue] (Mar 20 - Apr 9 1980), 12 (Apr 10- 23 1980), 14 (May 8-20 1980), 15 (May 21 - Jun 11 1980), 16 (Jun 12-26 1980), 17 (Jun 27 - Jul 9 1980). Generally very good: a few issues with light wear, toning and dust-soiling, predominantly at edges; a bit of scattered spotting and a few small stains. This is a group of eleven rare early issues of The Front Page (TFP), known as "The News & Entertainment Paper for N.C.'s Gay Community." TFP was founded and produced for over 26 years by North Carolina native Jim Baxter. Jim Baxter entered college in North Carolina in the early 1970s and volunteered for a monthly publication called the Greensboro Sun. In his words, "The Sun came along too late to be 'underground' and too early to be 'alternative.'" He wrote a column called "On Being Gay," which was "scandalous at the time, and helped with production." In 1979, Baxter started TFP, a free biweekly publication for the gay and lesbian community. He subscribed to a clipping service, receiving any story about homosexuality that appeared in any North Carolina newspaper, and would cull the newsworthy items down to 200 words or less, with attribution. Over the years, the regularly published TFP offered the North Carolina LGBTQ+ community a way to spread news, announce meetings and run personal ads. In 1984, the writer John Preston called TFP one of the "great bulletin boards of the gay world" with "marvelously inventive and creative advertisers" and a "great source of amusement and assignations." TFP published its final issue in May 2006 after a 26 year run, then merged with Q-Notes. Based out of Charlotte, North Carolina, Q-Notes is the largest print publication serving the LGBTQ+ community in the American Southeast. On offer here are eleven of the scarce first 17 issues of TFP, spanning October 1979 to July 1980. The "Editor Emeritus" for each issue was listed as "Hildy Johnson," Baxter's clever tribute to the main "ace reporter" character of Broadway play (and 1931 film) The Front Page. That film was the inspiration for His Girl Friday, released in 1940, which used the exact same plot but switched Hildy's character from a gay man to a straight woman. Each issue was filled to the brim with North Carolina and national news covering legal issues, acts of Congress, marches and protests, advancements (and regression) in civil rights. The paper also covered lifestyle, entertainment, sexuality and venereal disease. There were music and book reviews, social calendars, and a plethora of fantastic illustrated advertisements for local gay-friendly bars, clubs, churches, art galleries and bookstores. TFP ran small cartoons and photographic images revealing noteworthy players in the fight for gay rights such as Captain Robert Coronado, who was dishonorably discharged from the United States Air Force for "consensual sodomy with an Army enlisted man," and the North Carolina winner of the "Man of the Year" contest. There were reports connecting gay rights to immigration, the Holocaust and the press, as well as headlines covering a memorial held for Harvey Milk, actions of the National Gay Task Force, the "Christian right" and the "Morality" march on Washington. While most of the issues were printed and folded like a standard newspaper, four were printed to include a full-page illustrated ad on the rear cover, including two with photographic images of half-dressed men. The issues also ran directories of groups and services as well as classified ads. A fantastic trove of news, activities and resources available to the North Carolina LGTBQ+ community. OCLC shows 19 institutions with holdings of The Front Page. Checking individual catalogs revealed that only five institutions have all of the first 17 issues (and at least three of these appear to be bound volumes). There is also one other institution with issue no. 7, one with no. 12, and two with nos. 14-17.

SHIKISHI by [DESIGN BOOK] Kamisaka SEKKA [Yoshitaka]

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Title: SHIKISHI
Author: [DESIGN BOOK] Kamisaka SEKKA [Yoshitaka]
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1901. [DESIGN BOOK] Kamisaka SEKKA [Yoshitaka]. SHIKISHI. Kyoto: Tanaka jihei, Meiji 34 [1901]. 2 folios, each 31.2 x 21.5 cm. Volume one has 2 color prints and 30 b+w sumi prints, volume two has 30 b+w sumi prints. An interesting design book of subtlety. The covers are quite worn and stained and there is some internal wear and spotting as well. But overall a good early printing. Cord-bound fukuro-toji Japanese style with the title printed on the covers. Complete.

Making Mother Happy (In Dustjacket) by Bertha Baldwin Tralle

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Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA

Title: Making Mother Happy (In Dustjacket)
Author: Bertha Baldwin Tralle
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1927. Mary LaFetra Russell. The 1927 1st edition of this lovely children's tale, IN ITS UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Clean and VG to VG+ (very light soiling at the spine) in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the spine ends and the tips, and a bit of mild creasing and offsetting to the rear panel's edges. Still though, very presentable and uncommon as such, in the fragile dustjacket. Octavo, wonderfully illustrated throughout (mostly in pencil sketches but a bit in color as well) by Mary LaFetra Russell.

We will be free... Karl Armstrong for D.A. [poster]

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Title: We will be free... Karl Armstrong for D.A. [poster]
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: [Madison, WI?], 1972. Poster. 17x22.5 inch poster, neatly creased from having been folded into quarters. Formerly from the collection of J. Wesley Miller, with his rubberstamp and penned signature on the blank verso. Date of November 2, 1972 penned below "institutions." Facetious endorsement of Karleton Armstrong for District Attorney. He was the oldest of the bombers who targeted the Army Math Research Center (AMRC) at UW-Madison in 1970 to protest the Vietnam War. After the bombing, Armstrong went into hiding for 18 months until his capture in Toronto in 1972. This poster was issued after his arrest, quoting him as saying that "We see the AMRC blast as more than just the destruction of one building. We see it as part of a world-wide struggle to defeat Amerikan imperialism. And there could be no greater support for me than renewed attacks on these institutions.

THE BEACH BOYS [ca. 1968] UK stamped portrait by Photography 33

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Seller: Walterfilm, Inc.

Title: THE BEACH BOYS [ca. 1968] UK stamped portrait
Author: Photography 33
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Photography 33. No binding. Near Fine. Photography 33, [ca. 1968]. Vintage original borderless 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) British black-and-white photo. Light rippling at top if photo is held at an angle to the light, near fine. Stamped by a British photographic agency, and a striking portrait of the band while on one of their earliest concert tours in Europe.

Livingstone Lost and Found, or Africa and Its Explorers. by Tyler, Rev. Josiah

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Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

Title: Livingstone Lost and Found, or Africa and Its Explorers.
Author: Tyler, Rev. Josiah
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hartford, Conn.: Mutual Publishing Company, 1873. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Half red morocco over purple moire silk covered boards gilt lettering and rules to the spine, hand-made end papers. Very Good. "With over one hundred illustrations and maps". Spine top front joint has a 1" closed tear with 1/2" diagonal closed tear, both with old repairs, small rubs at corners, hinges reinforced and tight, scattered light foxing throughout. Uncommon in lovely binding. .

The Psychology of Sound by Henry J. Watt

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

Title: The Psychology of Sound
Author: Henry J. Watt
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1917. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. 241 + 2 pp. publisher's advertisements. Printed dust jacket. Blue cloth stamped in black at spine. Dust jacket lightly chipped along edges with tear to top edge of front panel; tape mending to front and spine near top edge; general smudging and rubbing. Boards lightly edgeworn and sunned. Binding sound. Soiling and spotting to edges of text block and endpapers, but interior text clear and legible throughout; a Very Good copy; scarce in dust jacket.

Jane WIthers, Twentieth Century-Fox Star, Her Life Story by PACKER, Eleanor

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Title: Jane WIthers, Twentieth Century-Fox Star, Her Life Story
Author: PACKER, Eleanor
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1936. Staplebound wraps. Very good. 8vo; 32pp; color illustrated stiff wrapper with Jane Withers' portrait to cover; 3 staple binding tight; black and white photographic illustrations with text; light shelf scuffing, chip to top front wrapper, scratch to back wrapper and creases at spine with color loss; very good minus. Biography of the Hollywood child star, Jane Withers.

Every Man for Himself. by Bainbridge, Beryl.

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Title: Every Man for Himself.
Author: Bainbridge, Beryl.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: London: Duckworth, (1996). First Edition. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), 224 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket with mylar protector.

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