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Stanley & Patterson. Adrian, MI. 1936 (1938).: Stanley & Patterson Division of Schwarze Electric Co.. Edition Not Stated - Later Printing. 4to. Brad-Bound Stiff Wrappers. Trade Catalogue. Very Good.. np (118pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is a 1936 salesman's trade catalogue issued by the Stanley & Patterson Division of the Schwarze Electric Co. of Adrian, Michigan. Bound in stiff wrappers and clasped with brass brads, it contains copiously illustrated entries showcasing the company's lines of electronic bells, buzzers, chimes, gongs, sirens, howlers, annunciators, alarm systems, relays, telephones, paging systems, loudspeakers, electric clocks, and the like. An internally bright, most handsome example bearing "Reprint June 1938" on the front cover and containing rubber ownership stamps from Stanley & Patterson's New England agent H.W. MacLeod & Co., The South Boston's Gorham Fire Equipment Co., and Academy Award winning Art Director Dean Tavoularis at the front showing some light wear, soiling, sunning, and creasing to its red printed covers. Inventory Number: 027005

Sullivan, Steve. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. First Edition. Square 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. As New.. 320pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. From the author/editor of "Glamour Girls Then and Now", "Va Va Voom" and "Bombshells" comes this all encompassing (if not somewhat arbitrary) illustrated dictionary of the one thousand sexiest Twentieth Century objects of not-so-obscure male desire. From pinups to porn stars, first ladies to strippers, scream queens to bathing beauties, they're pretty much all here beginning with the top ten of Marilyn Monroe, Raquel Welch, Jayne Mansfield, Brigitte Bardot, Rita Hayworth, Bettie Page, Sophia Loren, Jean Harlow, June Wilkinson and Cindy Crawford, then spiraling downward past Diane Webber, Traci Lords, Diana Rigg, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Carol Doda, Jennie Garth, and Gwen Stefani all the way to Isadora Duncan(!) - number 1000... Each entry includes a brief biography, and in most instances a saucy pic. A pristine copy. 0-312-20651-8 Inventory Number: 010239

van Kooij, Barbera, Oswaldo Costa & Robin Resch, Editors. Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art, 1993. First Edition 1/650. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine.. 128pp, 30 b&w illustrations. Text in English. Cover image by Jean-Luc Moulene. The final of three annual volumes, this is a collection of the transcribed contemporary art history lectures presented during 1992 at Rotterdam's Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art. The contents and participants are: Guy Brett, Catherine David, Rodrigo Naves, and Sonia Salzstein-Goldberg - "I Aspire to the Great Labyrinth", Walter Nikkels - "The Catalogue: An Ordered List of Works", Craigie Horsfield - "30.8.92 on Walker Evans", Stephen Prina - "We Represent Ourselves to the World: Institutional Narrativity", Stephan Balkenhol, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Chris Dercon, Ludger Gerdes, Martin Kreyssig, and Jeff Wall - "The Body is the Present", and Bruce Mau - "Beyond Typography". A most handsome example. 90-73362-26-1 Inventory Number: 016953