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Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Gene W. Baade Books on the West
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Connecticut) Old Hand-Writen Ledger
$404.20
n.p. Privately written, 1809. Hardcover. Good.
Hardbound, original 1/4 leather & paper over boards. Original handwritten (in ink) ledger, small folio, 8″ x 12″. Non-ruled paper. Unpaginated. 94pp, representing approximately 40% of the pages, are filled out, and also the rear paste down. The rear free endpaper lists births & deaths of about 20 family members (primarily Stocking & Hooker families) from the 1750s to the 1830s. Not every entry has both birth & death listed. One entry: “Elijah Hooker Decr (December) 1769 (presumed birth year) killed by lightning (no date)”. Just browsing the pages we find references to Berlin, Midletown (Middletown), & Southington (Connecticut). This ledger lists activities involving expenditures of one of these family members, whom we might presume to be Luther Stocking. Listings of financial dealings begin in 1809 (with one 1808) & end in 1852, and incorporate an absolutely fascinating number of people, types of work, purchases/payments/receipts, etc. Materials and products include cider, brandy, tallow, potatoes, apples, lard, various grains (buckwheat) building materials & farm animals. Work included a lot of painting, plastering, stone & brick laying. leading us to believe the owner had a home construction, or part thereof, business. Also “sawing pickets for fence”, etc.. “Waggons” are loaned, animals are bought & sold & rented/fed, harvesting is done, and dollar amounts are given for each entry. Two examples: “June the 14th 1833 Gideon Munson Pd For Eight Bushels of potatoes which he is to Return the sam Number of Bushels in my sellar (sic) Next fall.” “July the 14th 1838 Norman Warner turned in his Cow Nov the first took her out fifteen week and three days three dollars”. A remarkable “portrait” of personal/business economic life early in our nation’s history. Covers worn but in real good shape. Front hinge broken but binding nevertheless sound.
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JFK Tribute by Black Catholic Students
Daniels, Frank, Jr.; Arthur Lee Levy A TRIBUTE
$135.006 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm). 14 pp. plus illustrated wrappers. Stapled booklet, mimeographed or similarly reproduced typescript, with hand-colored front cover portrait of John F. Kennedy. Good +. Light toning and handling; scattered staining, chiefly along upper margins; some soiling to wrappers; pencil notes on rear wrapper. Contents complete and legible. Student-produced memorial booklet for John F. Kennedy, written by Frank Daniels, Jr. and Arthur Lee Levy, both described in the booklet as 16-year-old eleventh-grade students. The booklet itself does not state a place, school, or date. The identification as Notre Dame High School, Shreveport, Louisiana, [1964], is supplied from the 1964 Notre Damian, the school yearbook, where Frank Daniels and Arthur Levy are similarly pictured as juniors. The booklet combines Catholic prayer, brief biography, original poems, Cold War references, civil rights reflection, and response to the assassination. Contents include “Prayer,” “History of Kennedy,” “Big John,” “White House Years,” “Kennedy, Khruschev and the Nuclear War,” “Destination – Assassination,” “Presidential and Premier Poem,” and “Good Bye J.F.K.” “Good Bye J.F.K.” connects Kennedy’s death with Lincoln, Black civil rights, Christian sacrifice, and hope for racial justice. The booklet is an African American Catholic student-authored response to Kennedy’s assassination, with particular attention to civil rights, Christian sacrifice, Cold War anxiety, and national mourning. Only one institutional example located, in the John F. Kennedy Library’s tribute collection, described as a 14-page poetry booklet by Frank Daniels, Jr. and Arthur Lee Levy. No copies located in the trade or by web search at time of cataloging.
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Rare Bigfoot Movie poster
Slatzer, Robert F. (Director) Anthony Cardoza, Bill Reardon, & Herman Tomlin (Producers BIGFOOT, RARE 1970 MOVIE POSTER
$650.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
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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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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Very Scarce Report of the Second Klonvokation
Foreword by H.K. Ramsey, Imperial Kligrapp Proceedings of the Second Imperial Klonvokation Held in Kansas City, Missouri Sept. 23, 24, 25 and 26, 1924
$800.00Atlanta: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1924. Softcover. 8vo. Very scarce report of the second Klonvokation, which was held every two years. Very Good in lightly soiled wraps and with covers slightly pulled away from staples. Item #39236 It was reported that there were 2,000 men and 3,000 concomitants present at the Kansas City meeting recorded here, which was held at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri. This Klan meeting was held behind closed doors and a card and a password were necessary to gain admittance. Only Klansmen with courtesy cards were allowed to view the proceedings. What was published about the proceedings came through the Klan publicity office. The meeting was opened by the Grand Dragon of Nebraska. The Imperial Wizard, Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans of Atlanta delivered a message to the Klonvocation on the state of the Empire: ‘This Klonvocation, held here in the great Middle West, is assembled on the battlefield of the immediate future…some of the Eastern states are today lost to true Americanism and must be rewon; but the great American population of the Middle West, of the South and of the Southwest are left to do valiant battle…you are leaders in the only movement in the world, at present, which exists solely to establish a civilization that will insure these things…history has proved, and is proving daily that only Nordic and Anglo-Saxon peoples have reached a high level of intelligence.’ Rare record of an early 20th century KKK gathering. OCLC list 20 copies held exclusively at major U.S. research university libraries.
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