Search Results: Authors starting with B from D. Anthem, Bookseller

New York: Vantage Press, 1981. First Edition. Children's book from vanity press. Boards, 40 p., illustrated, dust jacket.

Assen: Van Gorcum & Comp, 1967. First edition. 8vo; red cloth titled in gilt to front board, 207 pp, photo frontis of Haushofer, maps, dust jacket. In Dutch. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. A scholarly analysis of German geopolitical aspirations as theorized by Karl Haushofer. This copy owned by historian and scholar, Donald H. Norton, who may have used Bakker's book to inform his own article on Haushofer, "Karl Haushofer and the German Academy, 1924-1945" published in a 1968 issue of "Central European History." Norton's name appears on the ffep, else clean throughout. An about Fine copy in a foxed and slightly rubbed dust jacket.

Stony Brook, L.I., N.Y.: Red Balloon Collective, [1971]. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint, 12 pp, illus. An unnumbered but early issue of the irregularly published organ of the Red Balloon Collective, a radical student group at SUNY Stony Brook described by founder Mitchel Cohen as an "anarcho-marxist direct action group." The paper allegedly started in the fall of 1970 and by 1992 only 23 issue had been published; it later became the Red Balloon Discussion Bulletin. Content for this issue includes a long article on the death of George Jackson by the one-time SUNY professor, Jonah Raskin, who became involved with the Weathermen and Yippies before settling down as a successful writer penning books about B. Traven, Abbie Hoffman, Jack London, Allen Ginsberg, and others. Other content includes reprinted Liberation News Service articles, Attica, Nixon's wage freezes, Stony Brook cops, food co-ops, a molotov cocktail recipe, and more. The group's manifesto of sorts is… Read More

New York: National Renaissance Party, [196-?]. An 8½" x 11" sheet printed on recto only. Reprints a satiric article published in "The Citizen," the journal of the Citizens' Council, in which a liberal journalist tries to interview Martin Luther King, Jr. while continually being pelted by rocks from "peaceful" black demonstrators. The NRP adds a couple of blurbs and slogans, including, "White Man! Unite! Fight!" NRP rubberstamp to verso. Folded for mailing, else Fine. No record for this flyer in OCLC. Scarce.

Berkeley: Committee for the American Revolutionary Movement, 1970. A complete run in two issues of this underground newspaper published by the Committee for the American Revolutionary Movement. The group's program is printed in issue 2. According to an insert, the paper's purpose was "the bringing of an understanding of the need for social revolution in America and of exposing the true nature of contemporary US reality, politics, government, and economics." Both issues primarily focus on the harmful effects of capitalism. The paper appears to have run out of funds and support by issue 2 as we find no more issues published. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint, 8; 12 p., illustrations. Near Fine. Only six institutions in OCLC with either, or both, issue.

[New York: New York University Christian Association], [192-]. Tall, stapled wrappers; 19 pp. Reprinted from "The Jewish Tribune." Three presentations on the nature of prejudice, mostly related to Jews and Negroes: Harry Elmer Barnes ("Sources of Prejudice"), Irwin Edman ("Education and Understanding") and William Biddle ("Psychology of Prejudice"). Some toning and light wear to wrappers; 1" split at the top of the spine, split from the tail to the lower staple, although wrappers still securely attached. A VG copy of an uncommon item. Four copies located in WorldCat institutions (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, NYPL, Harvard & Stanford).

Richmond, B.C.: LSM Information Center, 1973. Third printing. First published in Pensamiento Critico (Havana, 1967), Barnett's Notes on a Strategy for North American Revolutionaries outlined the theory, strategy and tactics for North American leftists interested in supporting international anti-imperialist, armed struggle movements. Barnett was a co-founder of the Liberation Support Movement and the tireless director of the LSM Information Center. Stapled wrappers (8 ½" x 5 ½"), 20 p. Number to the corner of the front wrapper, else Fine.

New York City: International Labor Defense, 1935. A pamphlet that "describes the work done by the Prisoners' Relief Department of the International Labor Defense [the legal arm of the Communist Party and the predecessor to the Civil Rights Congress] to help make the prison days a little brighter for the political prisoners and to help maintain their families while they are in jail." Political prisoners profiled include Tom Mooney, John J. Cornelison, William Hudson, John Sekat, J. B. McNamara, Haywood Patterson, Ned Cobb, Clinton Moss, Sam Moss, Judson Simpson, and Alf White, as well as descriptions and photographs of some of the families. Concludes with a section on how the ILD and the Prisoners' Relief Department fund and sustain their work. Baron was editor of the ILD's magazine, Labor Defender, and District Secretary of the NYC ILD. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (6" x 4 ½"), 30 p., 11 photographs, two illustrations. Near Fine.

Leeds: Northern Lights, 1982. First edition. Tall quarto (29.5 cm). Saddle stapled covers; 42 pp. The inaugural issue of this British new age journal. Includes the supplemental catalogue for the Northern F.A.I.R., but is lacking the free color poster advertised on the front cover. Standard 80s new age fare. We find two copies institutionally at the British Library and Univ. of Cambridge, but we find no evidence that a second issue was ever published. Remnants of old label to rear cover; some general rubbing to wrappers.

Tulsa: Christian Crusade, 1963. A pamphlet from ex-State Department official, Bryton Barron, on the increasingly disreputable State Dept., which he contends is staffed by "fanatically dedicated extremists - a majority of them neither Communists not fellow-travelers - who spread global collectivist theories and are unwittingly the dupes or instruments of Soviet-directed Communism which they thus aid and abet." Barron published "The Untouchable State Department" the same year to further expand on his concerns. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (3 " x 8 ¼"), 22 pp. Owner's stamp to front and rear wrappers, else Near Fine. Three copies in OCLC institutions.

Flushing, N.Y.: Voice of the Federation, 1971. A single issue of the organ of the Federation of American Citizens of German Descent, a fraternal organization found in 1946. Much of the content for this issue relates to the Christmas season and German tradition, but other content illustrates the group's politically dubious tendencies. The group's honorary National Chairman, Austin App, replies to a Washington Post article - reprinted in full in this issue - that "smeared" him as a Nazi apologist and anti-Semite. The revisionist book, "Myth of the Six Million" is discussed favorably in a letter to the editor and there is coverage of The Freedom for Rudolph Hess Association. The most damning contribution comes from an article by an 18-year-old Gerhard Lauck titled, "Two Ethics." Lauck was a member of the National Socialist White People's Party and National Socialist Party of America before founding the NSDAP/OA in 1974. He became a voluminous distributor of… Read More

Hanover, New Hampshire: The Webster Press, 1922. 12mo. ¾" paper over green cloth boards with paper label to the front board, 160 p., photo frontis, many photographs throughout. A near fine copy.

Washington, D. C.: Columbia Publishing Co, 1946. Second Edition. In this book, which is described as the "factual story of the Washington Scene from 1933 to date, sugar coated with breezy satire to forestall an epidemic of bursted blood vessels on the part of persons reading it," the acerbic, right wing journalist Morris Bealle satirizes the many politicians and government agencies he accuses of supporting FDR's Communist New Deal. In Part I: The Collectivistas, he selects 12 politicians to skewer by giving them humorous names (e.g., Doodlebug Wallace, Me-Too Stassen, The Paducah Palooka, Pussyfoot Joe, The Cockroach, Coat Tail Guffey, etc) while describing their dastardly deeds. He also includes a separate section on "Assorted Nuts and Miscellaneous Crackpots." In Part II: The Collectivist Putsch, he describes the various government agencies assisting the politicians in their collectivization schemes. First published in 1944 by Bealle's publishing company, a number of updated editions were issued… Read More

Surrey: British National Party, 1965. A single issue of the organ of the British National Party, which was founded in 1960 as a merger between Colin Jordan's White Defence League and John Bean's National Labour Party. This issue features an article on Britain's decline under the leadership of Prime Minister Harold Wilson; coverage of the BNP's election success in Southall; Andrew Fountaine's "The Worship of the Unclean: The Survival of the Unfit"; and Part 3 of Raymund Bamford's "The Discovery of the Race Soul: Its Notion and Concept." The rear page features the "Nationalist News Round-up," reader letters, and short adverts. Tabloid format printed in red & black, 6 p. Wear to edges, misfolded.

Palm Beach, Fla: MARAH, Inc, 1964. First edition. One sheet of paper folded to make 4 pp. A single issue of this newsletter founded by Upton Close (b. Josef Washington Hall) and edited by Don Bell. Brief articles on the Fulbright Memorandum and the Bilderberg Conference, and with half the newsletter dedicated to Bell's favorite topic: conspiracy theories related to Adam Weishaupt (according to Bell, Satan in another form) and the Illuminati. The American fascist, George E. Deatherage, also worked with Bell and Close on Closer Up after moving to Palm Beach. Closer Up would later become "Don Bell Reports." We don't find any issues available in the trade. A Fine copy.

Pittsburgh: KNOW, Inc, 1971. Originally published as Case study of a nonconscious ideology: training the woman to know her place in Daryl J. Bem's psychology textbook, Beliefs, Attitudes and Human Affairs (1970). Revised with his wife. The Bems taught in the psychology department at Stanford. Corner-stapled 11" x 8 ½" sheets, 16 p. A fine copy.

Costa Mesa, CA: The Noontide Press, 1992. Revised Edition. In The Zionist Factor, veteran British journalist Ivor Benson uncovers long-suppressed evidence of the Dynamic, critical Jewish role in events as diverse, and as momentous, as the Bolshevik Revolution, the formation of the modern state of Israel, the dizzying ascent of both Communism and capitalism, and the anti-colonial and post-colonial upheavals throughout the Third World." Trade paperback, iii, 205 p. A near fine copy.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933. First edition. Octavo (21.5 cm); yellow cloth with green speckles, orange paper label to spine; xiv, 275 pp.; dust jacket. The memoir of Count de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine as told to the feminist British novelist and poet, Stella Benson, who died from pneumonia the year this edition was published. Some sunning to cloth at board edges, a few marks of soiling. Unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket is rubbed with chipping and wear to edges and some minor loss at spine ends. VG in a Good+ jacket.

Elyria, Ohio: Intercessors for America, 1980. Two pro-life pamphlets bound as one written by Gary Bergel, both with remarks by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. In When You Were Formed in Secret, Bergel argues for life at conception and provides a scientific timeline for the 9 month gestation. Abortion in America is a graphic depiction of various abortion procedures. Bergel served Intercessors for America in a variety of capacities from 1973-2010. Stapled, photo-illustrated, glossy wrappers (8 ½" x 5 ½"), I-16 p., II-16 p., photographs. A Fine copy.

New York: Lorenz & Ellen Gude, 1964. The seventh issue of one of the important journals of the mimeo revolution, which featured many of the most prominent New York School poets and artists. C was edited by Ted Berrigan and published from 1963-67 in New York City by Lorenz Gude. 14 issues were ultimately published. This issue features a cover design by Joe Brainard and five preliminary leaves with mimeographed prints byhim. This issue features contributions from Ted Berrigan, Tom Veitch, Joe Ceravolo, Ron Padgett, John Wieners, Tony Towle, Lorenzo Thomas (Toumes), Frank Lima, John Perreault, Frank O'Hara, Kenward Elmslie, James Schuyler, Edwin Denby, Harry Fainlight, and Dick Gallup. Side-stapled 14" x 8 ½" leaves, [50] leaves mimeographed on rectos only. All stapled missing saving one, which is holding all the leaves securely; wear and small closed tears along the edges, small piece lacking from the bottom corner of the cover sheet.