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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarto. Measuring 9½" x 11". Spiral-bound commercial album. Contains 40 color photographs measuring between 2½" x 3" and 4" x 5" without captions. Very good album with chips and tears with near fine photographs. A photo album compiled by an African-American man in the 1990s who was an aspiring DJ and hip hop fan. The album cover features a Malcolm X sticker which reads "Shut 'Em Down May 19th." The photos show him with his record collection, scratching on a turntable, and in a Run DMC band shirt and standing by a poster. He attended the city University of New York and his student identification card is featured here. Other photos feature the compiler posed in a subway station, at Yankee Stadium, and with his girlfriend. His family is also seen in some photographs but a majority of the images are of him posed around the city. A modest but interesting collection of photographs following a college-aged African-American man in the 1990s.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Two folio sketchbooks. Dark green and black leather boards. Some paint marks on the boards with light edgewear, else near fine with fine illustrations and photographs. An artist's sketchbook kept during the mid-1970s to 1981 created by an artist while she studied art is London and New York City. Filled with 8 (mostly acrylic) paintings, 86 ink and pencil sketches, and 19 color photographs ranging in size from 2" x 1.5" and 10" x 8" along with some poetry and written letters. Light edgewear else fine. Two sketchbooks kept by a woman during her college years studying art in London and New York City from the mid-1970s through 1981. There are two handwritten letters from Ferguson written in 2013 explaining some history behind the sketchbooks, "The portraits are sketches of my friends & lovers.went to Pratt Institute; & worked with Punk Bands & artists". Other than the two recent letters, the rest of the sketchbooks contain small paintings, portraits, ink and pencil illustrations, and poetry, "I've had enough of moon lit smiles and bedroom eyes". Her pieces include portraits of homeless people, nude women and men, and regular portraits of friends. There are also sketches of bugs, city landscapes, the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz, a man playing guitar, people waiting at JFK airport, cherubs, and a painting of her neighbor washing the dishes through his kitchen window. There is also mock up for punk flyers and a flyer of an imaginary guitar available for purchase. Lastly, a more serious picture depicts a woman before and after she is raped, "There will be plenty of time for romance after the rape. During the trial and through the papers. I will never forget you," is written in the attackers speech bubbles. There are a few Polaroid photographs that have been heated and rubbed with pencils and combs to create different patterns in the ink. There are also a few unaltered photographs of dogs, New York City's landscape, a large photograph of a woman, and a young man. Part of the sketchbooks are devoted to art class notes about techniques, styles, and art history; intermingled are small drawings around the notes. Lastly there are two pages of typed writing. One is a poem about the difficulties of marriage and how it changes people and the other is a sorrowful and sensual love poem, "So in love was she, that she didn't have to look at it. She could always feel it.It was the heart mind body spine rib touch means so much". A captivating archive of a young woman's artwork during her time in London and New York in the mid-1970s through early 1980s.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two volumes. Octavo and 24mo. 212pp.; 184pp. Black leather boards and three quarter maroon leather with pink and purple decorated cloth-covered boards with silver spine decorations. The 24mo journal has light edgewear with a small mark on the front board else near fine. The octavo journal has edgewear, bumped spine ends and corners, with tears on the spine, very good. Two journals of a young woman featuring her musings from 1978 to 1988, postcards from friends around the world, and an account of her trip to Europe in the spring of 1981. Contains poems, quotes, drawings, and other written ideas and thoughts by the author; additionally features three color photographs measuring 4.5" x 3.5" and several postcards measuring between 5.5" x 3.5" and 6.5" x 4.5". Two handwritten journals by a young woman from Monmouth County, New Jersey from 1978 to 1988 with pieces of ephemera from her adolescence. The woman was 21 when she first started writing in her larger journal. The written pieces include poems, quotes from books and movies, drawings, and her thoughts; most of which are interesting and boarder on the obscure and morbid. She frequently writes of her dreams though they are often nightmares: "Nightmare this past night-time. Left me numb- Silence in the shower." Between dream descriptions she jots down passing thoughts: "I saw the energy steaming from the top of my head and the top of my shoulder today- in my shadow- on my paper. Fan-out," and poems: "Easily distracted / you think me insane Don't drag me down All you are is in your pants / Why don't you wear it out?" During her visit to Arizona in 1978, she complains of the muggy weather and devotes one page to drawings of the bugs she finds, labeling them "Friends of Arizona." Her drawings are odd, one of which is a portrait of herself with the word, "psycho" written below. Another drawing is of a person holding a gun and shooting a wall covered in cupids and hearts. The words "that potential psychotic killer who comes into the library and stares at us the unsuspected hatchet murderer awaits," are written to the side of the page with a drawing of a man. Several drawings are of skeletons and the words "Dead Head," likely a Grateful Dead reference. She returned home in May 1978 and writes how nice it is to see everyone and later writes about her friend Lois, who is featured in one of the two photographs in the larger journal. Lois is mentioned several times in both books, often commenting on the writer's actions, "You've got a scheming evil look in your eyes" The included postcards are from friends in London, Washington, DC, Florida, New York, and New Jersey. One is a postcard from a friend of hers pretending to be James Taylor asking "Kimbo" to come see him in the movie *Two-Lane Blacktop* "before my receding hairline has no place left to go. Catch 'ya later, babe J.T." with a peace sign. The others include warm letters to the writer and ask how she's been and that she is missed by her friends. The smaller journal is of her trip through Europe, with her friends Lois and Ginny. Most of the book includes notes to herself on what not to do in certain places like, "walking up a hill to your hostile(sic) when it isn't even open," and "what you pack, you carry." One entry describes two men with "fat bellies" dancing with her and her friends during their stay in Leipzig, Germany: "One sat at our table and tried to communicate in German. After a bit of confusion, Sue came up with the brilliant conclusion that he wanted a kiss. I kiss the fat guy (on the cheek) and he brought us nuts & chips, to quote Ginny 'Good going!"" Most of the stories are of the joyous and interesting moments she experienced; as contrasted to her larger, more juvenile and emotional journal. Also included in the smaller journal is a color picture of her dancing. An extensive look at a young woman's interior life from 1978-1988 with wide vacillations between happiness and morbidity.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of the rarest and most valuable books for a German Jew in the 1930s: A German passport with visa to United States! Here for a 37-year old Jewish woman (surname and maiden name both Jewish, 2 photos provided from Munich (family or occupation unlisted), no other visas suggest woman used passport for but one reason: emigrate from Nazi Germany in December 1935, 9 days after approved she landed in New York. Previous nine bank transfers totally $2700 Marks (about $31,000 in 2021 money) shown for Dresden, Munich and Bremen banks as Jews were forced to do for travel. Loose slip of paper shows Bronx (NYC) as her American address on Davidson Avenue in Morris Heights (a Jewish neighborhood in 1934). VG, softcover. Passport shows expiration in 1940 but she never returned to Germany for renewal (wonder why?). Sprache: Deutsche.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. A collection of 2075 black and white photographs of a U.S. soldier stationed in Germany during Vietnam along with images from his work as a photo technician with the military contractor Raytheon. The photographs, measuring approximately between 2.5" x 3" and 8.5" x 11", are very good with dried glue on some of the versos and some rolled, and some with captions. A substantial archive of photographs taken by a skill photographer stationed in Berlin, Germany from the mid-1960s to the late-1970s. A majority of the photographs show soldiers working and off-duty around the base. There are also images of a military parade with tanks and military vehicles showing Vietnam War protesters with signs and pictures of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Queen Elizabeth. There are a great number of photographs around Berlin during Christmas, as well as numerous images of buildings, homes, churches, and bridges including several pictures taken from a helicopter. The compiler was a skilled photographer with many of the images featuring bokeh, light painting, and double exposure effects. There are also several photographic negatives of a young naked man posing in a garden, with both full body shots and close ups of the man's genitalia and buttocks. Census records reveal that the photographer never married and this may indicate his interest was confined to men. The remaining photos were taken in American with his family, showing his mother, sister, and brother. There is also an interracial couple with their children that was he presumably close to, interacting with them as the couple with his family at a gathering, suggesting a progressive environment. He worked as a photo lab technician for Raytheon, a manufacturer of weapons and military electronics, as well as commercial electronics for the public. Photos from the 1970s showing a Raytheon press event including images of motherboards and specially designed electronics designed for weapons and computers. Most notable is photos of a watch that has a camera hidden within its face. Our research found nothing about a camera watch developed by Raytheon, suggest it was a nonworking proto-type or has remained classified. An extensive archive of photographs taken by a skilled U.S. soldier stationed in Berlin during the Vietnam War and his postwar career with a military contractor.