[NY]: Leeds Music, 1944. Single quarto sheet folded to make four pages. Charming cover photo of Cab Calloway and a young child dressed in white tux and top hat and holding a conductor's wand. Sheet music and lyrics for this song about Cab Calloway's famous booklet, "The New Cab Calloway's..... More
No place: Privately published by the author, 1939. Small pamphlet (measuring ca. 4.25" x 2.75"). Second edition of this legendary title, the "revised 1939 edition," published a year after the first (the book went through six printings until 1944). Regarded as the first dictionary by an African-American, and the first..... More
No place: Cab Calloway Inc., 1939. Small pamphlet (measuring ca. 4.5" x 2.75"). First (and only) edition. Illustrated with charming small drawings. Calloway wrote this as a sequel to his classic "The New Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue: A Hepster's Dictionary" published to great acclaim a year earlier. The purpose of this..... More
n.p.: n.p., n.d. Seen painted this train with two "Flintstones" characters against a tropical background. The wide-format photograph is printed on thick Arches paper and is limited to 50 numbered copies signed by Seen. As new (40" x 11.5"). More
n.p.: n.p., n.d. Seen tagged this train with large block letters, a cartoon character, and the logo: "The retaking of Pelham 1-2-3." The wide-format photograph is printed on thick Arches paper and is limited to 50 numbered copies signed by Seen. As new (40" x 11.5"). More
n.p.: n.p., n.d. Seen painted this train with a multicolor motif incorporating his own name. The wide-format photograph is printed on thick Arches paper and is limited to 50 numbered copies signed by Seen. As new (40" x 11.5"). More
n.p.: n.p., n.d. Seen tagged this train with a death theme featuring gravestones, a skull and crossbones, and the logo: "Murder Express." The wide-format photograph is printed on thick Arches paper and is limited to 20 numbered copies signed by Seen. As new (40" x 11.5"). More
[Chicago: M.M. Cole Publishing, 1928]. Pamphlet. First edition. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Some splits to spine but still solid, couple of corner creases to cover, else very good. An early book on blues harmonica before it became wildly popular in the folk and rock movements of the '50s..... More
Rydal, PA: H.R.B. Inc.. [1965]. 45rpm record in photo-illustrated jacket.. A bizarre Doo-Wop novelty record by The Smiley Brothers about brushing your teeth! The other side features "Club Marching Song" by the St. Rose of Lima Children's Choir that continues with the clean-teeth theme. Cover states "Do the Brush 'March..... More
Chicago: Checker, n.d. [ca. 1950's]. 45rpm record. Checker was a subdivision of the famed Chess Records label---the preeminent blues label. Tiny hole punch through labels, else fine in plain white generic sleeve. More
