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Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Gene W. Baade Books on the West
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Slatzer, Robert F. (Director) Anthony Cardoza, Bill Reardon, & Herman Tomlin (Producers BIGFOOT, RARE 1970 MOVIE POSTER
$650.00
RARE DRAMATIC BIGFOOT MOVIE POSTER, Ellman Film Enterprises. 1970. The over-the-top film, BIGFOOT, produced in 1970 by Anthony Cardoza and Bill Reardon, was panned by everyone, with virtually no one saying it was any good. One wag said that it would be the only opportunity to see John Carradine, Joi Lansing, Judy Jordan, John Mitchum, James Craig, and several other actors all together in one movie, so you better see it anyway! The only poster for this film that one finds for sale is the common one that you can buy on several websites for very little money. But that one is like cheap, 3-year old Scotch compared with 50-year old good stuff that you will find in Edinburgh whisky shops under lock and key and that I cannot afford. I frankly don’t know about this poster in terms of whether it was an advance or trial poster that didn’t make the cut, or wasn’t produced en masse for some other reason. It is far more classical in appearance than the cheap cartoonish one you can still get for a few bucks. Unrolled to a size of 27 ¼” x 39 ¾”, it takes up almost all of my golden oak antique kitchen table and half of my standard-size bed! It is professionally backed on linen. In spite of one long tear and several short tears, all of which are professionally and archivally repaired, this poster ends up being showy, good-looking, and impossible to ignore, a poster that would dominate the conversation of any beer and brats forest cookout-“Have you seen that poster?!” It will bust the balls of any hairy-chested man-cave dweller and, because it is also a “biker” film, salt the seats of Harley-Davidson rally-goers on their way to Sturgis! Bigfoot filmography author David Coleman in his massive book, 2012 book, The Bigfoot Filmography: Fictional and Documentary Appearances in Film and Television, devotes two quarto pages to description of the film. He includes these gems: “Bigfoot is perhaps the most entertainingly bad Bigfoot movie of the entire ‘cycle’ . . . given the strange blending of motorcycles, ridiculously bad Bigfoot costumes, has-been actors, bikini babes, and a mutant music score, the entire enterprise is truly a slow-paced, stupefying descent into all things torpid, but with a camp sensibility that redeems Bigfoot from total boredom. Then, from a historical perspective, he concludes: the film “marks the beginning of a new era in the genre that draws a clean dividing line between the earlier film incarnations of the ‘wild man’ cryptid appearing mostly in snow settings as a Yeti (and) set(s) the stage for the plethora of Big-foot focused movies to follow in the 1970s.” This is an essential poster for few people who have the wall-space to hang it. It would be one the poster you would frame and hang front and center over your giant fieldstone fireplace at one end of your room with the 20-foot vaulted ceiling. Unquestionably rare.
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Captures the Vanishing Charm of Old New Orleans
Arnold Genthe with a Foreword by Grace King Impressions of Old New Orleans: A Book of Pictures
$300.004to., 250 pp. unpaginated. 100 full page black and white photographic plates printed on rectos only, including many candid portraits of local African Americans, as well as architectural studies, street and garden views. Very Good with small stain on lower right and corner lacking the dust jacket. Item #913202413  This evocative early 20th-century volume showcases the atmospheric photography of Arnold Genthe, whose lens captured the vanishing charm of old New Orleans before modernization transformed its streets. With a warm and insightful foreword by Southern author Grace King, the book offers a rare visual record of the city’s French Quarter, Creole architecture, and street life at a pivotal moment in its history. Genthe’s soft-focus images and masterful compositions evoke the romance and mystery of a bygone era, while King’s prose situates them within the city’s cultural and historical fabric. Published in the 1920s, Impressions of Old New Orleans is among the most beautiful photographic tributes to the Crescent City. Collectors prize this title for its blend of documentary precision and artistic vision, as well as its association with two of the period’s most refined interpreters of place and character. A cornerstone work for enthusiasts of photography, New Orleans history, and Southern Americana.  Genthe [January 8, 1869 August 9, 1942] was a German-born American photographer, best known for his photos of San Francisco’s Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and his portraits of noted people, from politicians and socialites to literary figures and entertainment celebrities. Uncommon title. Â
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Marshall's History of the Colonies - First Editio
John Marshall A History of the Colonies planted by the English on the Continent of North America From Their Settlement, to the Commencement of That War Which Terminated in Their Independence
$450.00Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1824. First Edition. Binding: Hardcover (Full Leather). Book Condition: Very Good Condition; Ex-Lib, but with minimal markings. Size: 8″-9″ – Octavo (8vo). 486 pages. First edition, but without rear advertisement leaf. Sabin 44787; Howes M316. Written by the fourth and arguably most important Supreme Court chief justice. Originally published as Marshall’s Introduction to his Life of George Washington, now issued in its first separate (and corrected) edition. In his Preface Marshall explains the reason for publishing his history of the colonies in a separate volume, in “a form less exceptionable than that which it originally bore” (p. vii): “From the extreme, I may add unpardonable, precipitation with which it was hurried to the press, many errors were overlooked which, on a perusal of the book, were as apparent to the author as to others. He was desirous of correcting these errors, and of making the work more worthy of the public to which it was offered, as well as more satisfactory to himself. For this purpose he . . . has made several alterations in the language ; and has expunged much of the less essential matter with which the narrative was burthened. He dares not flatter himself that he has succeeded completely in his attempt to entitle this work to the approbation of the literary public of America ; but hopes that its claims to that approbation are stronger than in its original form” (p. vii). Contemporary full tan sheepskin binding with four raised bands and the title and author in gilt on black morocco spine labels. There is gold stamping around all three sides of the front and rear boards (though it is heavily worn on the bottom edges). There is a crease down the middle of the spine from the book being opened and the paper is torn on the front and rear hinges, exposing the cords, but the binding remains tight. Marbled end papers and page edges; the page edges are faded. There is an old bookseller’s label at the top of the front pastedown for Isaac N. Whiting, Bookseller & Stationer, Columbus, Ohio. The text block is tight. The pages have toned with age. It is an Ex-Lib copy with minimal markings: a library book plate on the front pastedown and a catalog number on the verso of the front free end paper and in the gutter of the first page of the Preface. There is a “For Reference” sticker on the rear pastedown and a small shelf tag at the bottom band of the spine. In addition, someone has checked some of the chapter headings in the Table of Contents and added brief notes (e.g., Good, Very Good) to a few. Howes’ number and a price are written in pencil on an initial blank leaf and there is another brief note in pencil at the top of the copyright page. A previous owner’s last name is written in a contemporary hand on the first blank leaf, which is almost completely separated from the text block, though holding on.  Otherwise, the text block itself is unmarked. There is heavy foxing on the verso of the front and rear free end papers and the adjoining blank leaf, front and rear. The text block itself, however, is largely free from any foxing with only an occasional spot.Â
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Rare 1841 frontier narrative, last sold in 1920
Pritts, Joseph Incidents of Border Life Illustrative of the Times and Condition of the First Settlements in Parts of the Middle and Western States Comprising Narratives of Strange and Thrilling Adventure – Accounts of Battles – Skirmishes and Personal Encounters with the Indians – Descriptions of Their Manners, Customs, Modes of Warfare, Treatment of Prisoners, etc. etc.
$1,000.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Lancaster: G. Hills, 1841. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #2401049 2nd edition, 1841 title page, with 1839 first edition pagination. Original boards, but rebound with new spine and leather-looking material extending past the joints and on the board fore edges covering the entire fore edges. Title stamped in gilt on spine. New endpapers. 507pp. The 1841 edition calls for 511pp, so I don’t know why the 1839 pagination is in this volume. Howes P619 lists variant issues. This copy has seven engravings. The double page foldout of Braddock’s defeat is bound in upside down & is missing about 1/5 of the lower right of the image. Two of the illustrations are full page and we believe include the essential visual information, but in each case there may have been a foldout extension with additional visual material or border. Engravings include portraits of Brant and Danial Boone. One interesting fold out engraving shows three Indian women bathing a white man in a river or pool of some sort. It is quite fetching. Title page near gutter was previously repaired with what may be thin archival tape and a minor loss of paper at the bottom edge. General foxing/browning. Tidelines (water stains) on many pages but not very dark in my opinion. The publisher essentially compiled dozens of reports and narratives from military and civilian sources from the western border of western New York, eastern Pennsylvania, and adjacent areas from the War of the Revolution. Sample chapters: “Devastation of Wyoming Settlements” (Penn.), “Singular Prowess of a Woman,” Incidents attending a Desertion,” “The Lost Sister,” Trial of Mamachtagea,” “War in the North-West — Gen. Harmar, St. Clair, Wayne,” “The Widow Scraggs.” The last recorded copy for sale of this book was in 1920. Several copies of this book appear in world libraries, mainly in the UK. Only a couple in US libraries. Overall good condition and nicely rebound. Rare.
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Rare 1830 anti-Baptist pamphlet, 55 arguments
Timothy [attr. Williams, Thomas (Rev.) or Holmes, Sylvester (Rev.)] FIFTY-FIVE REASONS FOR NOT BEING A BAPTIST
$350.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
(New Bedford?): Titus, 1830. First Edition. Soft cover. Good. Item #5005080 “By Timothy.” (Columbia University identifies “Timothy” as Rev. Thomas Williams, 1779-1876. However OCLC identifies him as Rev. Sylvester Holmes.). FIFTY-FIVE REASONS FOR NOT BEING A BAPTIST. Printed in New-England (New Bedford?) / by / TITUS…1830. Printed wrappers, string-tied. (12pp). A rather remarkable point by point argument why a Christian should not be a Baptist, many of the points having to do with baptizing by immersion. Point # 11 gives you a picture of the author’s argument: “Not a shadow of evidence appears that the first Christian Baptism, administered to THREE THOUSAND on the day of Pentecost, was by plunging. Acts 2: 41.” Thomas Williams was a Congregationalist minister and a graduate of Yale. He was a missionary in New York and later served several parishes in New England. Several of his booklets / tracts were published. Less is known or available about Holmes. A rare pamphlet found in only a few theological schools and others. Light foxing. Obvious small chips on some leaves. RARE.
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