James Stark

More than just a new direction in music, punk rock ignited a cultural revolution. Its intense, exciting emergence in the Bay Area is captured in Punk 77. In more than 100 searing, fully-captioned photos — including early shots of The Damned, The Ramones, Blondie, Nico, and Devo — the book traces the punk movement in San Francisco from its earliest days through the January 1978 Sex Pistols concert. Interviews and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the Dils, Penelope Houston, Negative Trend, the Nuns, Dirk Dirksen, V. Vale, and others provide insights and illumination into both the music and the social, political, and economic factors punks rebelled against. While many of these colorful early adopters have died, their influence is still felt in the music of East Bay artists like Green Day and Rancid, and their incendiary thoughts live on in this inspiring, essential historical document — a counterculture manual for subversion.… (more)

A collection of pamphlets, pages, journal issues, all bound in one volume:

Articles of constitution of the proposed association to be called the National Bible Society of Scotland

The Tract and Book Evangelist, Vol. 1, no. 4, 1860

Contributions to Bible Societies from towns in Scotland having a population above1000

Summary of the contributions to the Bible Societies in England and Scotland respectively for the year 1858-9

Directions to observers reading the instruments

Address to the Meteorological Society of Scotland by James Stark, 1857

Report of the Meteorogical Society of Scotland, 1857

Address by the promoters of a proposed National Bible Society of Scotland, 1859, (proof with accompanying letter)… (more)