[Rarebooks] FS: Americana - A Tuesday Selection

Tue Jun 11 08:42:37 EDT 2019

Six Varied Americana Items-

1) November 1933 News-Letter of the Voteless District of Columbia League 
of Women Voters. -An interesting newsletter from the early 1930s League 
of Women Voters in the District of Columbia, with legislative and legal 
updates (the League had just gotten “Dime a Dance” halls outlawed) and 
notes about members and District news of note. A big concern was the 
slashing by nearly a third of the D.C. school budget from 1932 levels. 
Three mimeographed loose sheets. 8.5”x14”. Folds, some soil and light 
wear, several short tears along folds. $35

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2) Civil War Patriotic Envelope with Jeff Davis ‘Coat of Alms’ Skull, 
Crossbones, Whiskey & Copperhead Snake.  -“Civil War envelopes, some of 
which have been called early versions of pictorial postcards, were very 
popular with collectors of patriotic propaganda. The subjects 
illustrated on these envelopes varied from the Stars and Bars of the 
Confederacy, to caricatures of important war heroes. The majority of the 
envelopes are about 3 x 5" in size, and were published in nearly all of 
the major cities” [American Antiquarian Society]. Envelope. 5.5”x3”. 
Flap is not sealed. Some soil, minor wear.  $65

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3) 1902 Mississippi Man Captures Murderer, Gets Reward.  -A 
partially-printed form from Leflore County, Mississippi, dated July, 
1903, declaring that T.L. Pertuis be awarded $100 for apprehending one 
Ed Parks, who in 1900 had killed “one Gordon Jackson a human being”, 
“and that said Pertuis arrested the said Parks while said Parks was 
fleeing before arrest and delivered him up for trial to the sheriff of 
the county, and that at the time of said arrest Pertuis was not an 
officer of the law under obligation to make said arrest” -so he gets 
$100. That’s what they said. Single sheet. 8.5”x12”. Folds. Minor soil, 
light wear.  $25

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4)  "Proceedings of the Bar and Officers of the Supreme Court of the 
United States November 4, 1949. Proceedings Before the Supreme Court of 
the United States May 8, 1950 - In Memory of Charles Evans Hughes".  
Published in Washington in 1954. A memorial volume to the distinguished 
supreme Court jurist, with many speeches and remembrances. With- a loose 
card signed in type by Harold B. Willey, Clerk of the Supreme Court, 
"This book is sent to you at the request and with the compliments of the 
Hughes Family. The delay in publishing the book is largely due to the 
untimely death of Mr Hughes’ son, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., a few 
months after the death of his father”. With- a black and white 8x10" 
photo of Charles Evans Hughes, with Hughes facsimile signature and 
signed in pencil by the photographer, Harris Ewing. Softcover. 8”x11”, 
138 pages. Covers with some minor wear and soil, a corner bump, and a 
stain in the upper corner that extends inside (softly) for the first few 
pages. Photo with minor soil and creasing along one margin.  $35

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5)  1984 Sonia Johnson for President Citizen’s Party Pamphlet.  -On 
August 11, 1984, the New York Times reported- “Sonia Johnson, a Virginia 
feminist who was excommunicated from the Mormon Church after she 
supported the proposed Federal equal rights amendment in the 1970's, was 
nominated today as the Presidential candidate of the Citizens Party. 
Mrs. Johnson, who once chained herself to the White House fence in an 
equal rights protest, has been campaigning for the Presidency under the 
party's auspices since the start of the year. Last month she became the 
first third-party candidate in the current campaign to get matching 
funds from the Federal Election Commission”. Johnson remained an 
outspoken activist; in her 1991 book, The Ship that Sailed Into the 
Living Room, she wrote that both opposite-sex and same-sex couple 
relationships “are a dangerous patriarchal trap…two is the ideal number 
for inequality, for sadism, for the reproduction of patriarchy”. Her 
2010 book, The SisterWitch Conspiracy”, imagines a world without men- 
"as long as men were on the planet, neither peace nor justice would ever 
be possible”. Three-fold Pamphlet. 3.75”x8.5”. Minor soil.  $25

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6)  "In Plain English” Dan Murray Anti-Nixon Poem - Press of the Black 
Flag Broadside #8.  “The Press of the Black Flag Raised was founded by 
Robert Rose and Billy Little in Cambridge, Massachusetts between 1969 
and 1970. The publications of the press focused on anti-war and 
anarchist themes in literature and poetry. Literature was typically 
given away, posted on walls, and mailed to a small list of individuals 
and bookstores. The Press was supported by donations from Denise 
Levertov, Robert Duncan, Harvey Brown of Frontier Press and others" 
[Special Collections at the University of Maryland]. This broadside 
probably dates from 1970-71 or so. 11”x17”. Some soil, several stain 
spots, minor remnants of paper backing on the back.  $60

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