Stories, Anecdotes, and Humor from the Civil War (1983)

Stories, Anecdotes and Humor from the Civil War

Hugh and Judy Gowan

 Daisy Productions

Martinsburg, PA

(c) 1983

Staple bound booklet showing "lighter moments" of the US Civil War with B&W photos. um - okay
 

Indian Beadwork: A Help for Students of Design by Clark Wissler (1927)

 Indian Beadwork : A Help for Students of Design

Clark Wissler

Guide Leaflet No. 50

American Museum of Natural History

(c) 1927 , 2nd edition

This is a beautiful booklet that I found to be handsome, informative, and charming - especially how they called it a "leaflet". But it also is an interesting relic in the sense that it is a booklet about Native people's crafts and craftsmenship written by a white man less than 30 years after the Wounded Knee massacre that makes the end of the "Indian Wars" in the United States. The booklet almost bleeds with irony. 

what'a hole History Geology of the Carlsbad Caverns by John Moseley (1948)

what'ahole History Geology of the Carlsbad Caverns

John Moseley & W A Dunagan

(c) 1948

Full disclosure : I have been to the Carlsbad Caverns. It's amazing and claustrophobic and I refused to go back for the evening event - that being the thousands upon thousands of bats who flew out of the cave entrance to do their night hunting. I don't like bats. 

I also did not get this gem at the time, I happened across it much more recently at a local library donation drop. It was too handsome to disregard, so I brought it come with me. It really is an amazing tiny staple-bound booklet with information and B&W photos and illustrations; really, what's not to like? 
 

20 Poems by Lauri Otonkoski (1999)

 20 Poems

Lauri Otonkoski

duration press 

(c)1999

Number  12 in their series. Translated from the Finnish by Anselm Hollo. Some interesting design features in this one. 

Fashion Blast Quarter by Krystal Languell / Chalky Undertaste by Emily Skillings (2014)

Fashion Blast Quarter by Krystal Languell / Chalky Undertaste by Emily Skillings

Flying Object 

flying-object.org

Hadley, MA

(c) 2014

This is a unique piece. Although it contains but 2 poems, it's a fold out. Meaning that when it is completely unfolded opened to its maximum size is roughly 3 feet by 4 feet. With images. Created by Flying Object.  Very cool. Interesting as heck. 

Empedocles's Sandal by Habib Tengour (1999)

 Empedocles's Sandal 

Habib Tengour

Translated from the French by Pierre Joris

Duration Press

Sausalito, CA

(c) 1999

Another in the series of International poets in translation published by Duration in 1999, with afterword by translator. #7 in the series. Unpaginated. 

twist riffs and stiff hits by Buck Downs (2008)

twist riffs and stiff hits

Buck Downs

self published

Washington, DC

(c)2008

The dude is that and more. 

Plague Love by Louisa Schnaitmann (2021)

 Plague Love

Louisa Schnaithmann

Moonstone Press

Philadephia, PA

(c)2021

A collection of poems based on an on-line romance that becomes a life partnership. Refreshing and timely - otherwise ruined by slap dash production by the publisher. Sad. 

A Guide to the Lizards of the Granite Mountains by Winfred F Frick (????)

 A Guide to the Lizards of the Granite Mountains

Written by Winifred Frick

Illustrated by Katie Tillotson

and that literately is all she wrote - publication date, no publication location. 60 pages of staple bound lizards on pages that were not trimmed. Kind of amazing and kind of helpless. 

Enigmas by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (2015)

 Enigmas

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Senal #2

BOMB magazine/ Ugly Ducking Presse

(c) 2015

Second volume that is part of a series done by this collaborative effort. Translated by Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal. 25 pages. Bilingual edition. Afterword by translator. 

The Sky is a Well by Claudia Smith (2007)

 The Sky is a Well and other stories

Claudia Smith

Rose Metal Press

Brookline, MA 

(c) 2007

Well written collection of short stories and other "short-shorts"