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A Popular Western Story

Here's a short shaggy dog story about Ed Ruscha's painting Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, the artist's book Twentysix Gasoline Stations, and a 10¢ rootin' tootin pulp periodical.

image from A Popular Western Story
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LAMBDA
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • monochrome
  • 27.5 x 21.5 cm.
  • [1] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

LAMBDA

Gay Activists Alliance

Initial flyer published in [1970] announcing the lambda symbol as a symbol of the Gay Activist Alliance as it "signifies a commitment among men and women to achieve and defend their human rights as homosexual citizens. ... [details]

$750.00
Condition:  Fair / Good. This copy printed on blue paper. Folded in three, handling marks, 2 cm. fold to right bottom corner. This copy in substantial better condition than the copy held by the New York Public Library's Manuscripts and Archives Division, Gay Activists Alliance Records collection.
[Object # 26401]
Certificate of the Week Bedroom Busybody / Keep Sex Out of the Classroom / Board of Examiners Makes Sexuality an Issue
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • black-and-white
  • 27.7 x 21.5 cm.
  • [2] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Certificate of the Week Bedroom Busybody / Keep Sex Out of the Classroom / Board of Examiners Makes Sexuality an Issue

Gay Activists Alliance

Satirical double sided flyer publicizing Gertrude Unser--chair of the Board of Examiners, who had clearly expressed her opinion on the unfit nature of gay teachers--as someone who actively is "hunting down persons whose private consensual sexual orientation is different from her own" and spews hatred earning her the attention of "800,000 New York homosexuals and countless gay teachers and civil libertarians. ... [details]

$150.00
Condition:  Good / Very Good. Folded in four, light handling marks and edge wear. Word "SEX" inscribed in ink on verso's top right corner.
[Object # 26630]
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