Search Results: Authors starting with L from Bloomsbury Books

New York, NY: Progressive Labor Party. Offered is the May 1, 1975 issue of "Challenge: The Revolutionary Communist Newspaper" (Vol. 11 No. 34) published by the Progressive Labor Party out of New York City. A left-folded newspaper measuring 11-1/2" by 16-1/2" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. Printed in both English and Spanish, and well-illustrated with photographs, packed with labor movement news, contents include: front cover headline on upcoming MARCH ON MAY DAY - May 3 - Fight for Socialism; Progressive Labor Party Editorial - Aim Job Fight at Bosses Not Ball Parks; Kokomo Plan Hits Postal Jobs ("lock-step time and motion studies for fewer routes"); Boston CAR [Committee Against Racism] Demands: ROAR [Restore Our Alienated Rights] Out of Dorchester; Part 2 - Soviet Imperialism: 'Red' Bosses Exploit Workers in The Soviet Union; much, much more. Condition: folded once horizontally, as issued; light to moderately age-toned in places. . Very… Read More

New York, NY: Progressive Labor Party. Offered is the July 15, 1976 issue of "Challenge: The Revolutionary Communist Newspaper" (Vol. 13 No. 7) published by the Progressive Labor Party out of New York City. A left-folded newspaper measuring 11-1/2" by 16-1/2" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. Printed in both English and Spanish, and well-illustrated with photographs, packed with labor movement news, contents include: front cover headline and related inside PLP Editorial NYC: [Local] 1199 Arbitration a Loser - STRIKE IS ROAD TO VICTORY; Pittsburgh: Clairton Coke Works - Pollution Smokescreen for Mass Layoffs; Chicago: The Big - Segregated - City; The Montreal Olympics: A Gold Medal for Fascism; Movie Review: Buffalo Bill [Cody] and The Indians; much more. Condition: folded once horizontally, as issued; lightly age-toned. . Near Fine. Newspaper. 1st Edition. 1976.

New York, NY: Progressive Labor Party. Offered is the May 9, 1974 issue of "Challenge: The Revolutionary Communist Newspaper" (Vol. 10 No. 22) published by the Progressive Labor Party out of New York City. A left-folded newspaper measuring 11-1/2" by 16-1/8" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. Printed in both English and Spanish, and well-illustrated with photographs, packed with labor movement news, contents include: front cover headline and related story Washington, D.C., May 4th - WORKERS UNITE - MARCH ON MAY DAY! - FIGHT FOR SOCIALISM! - Demand 30 Hours Work for 40 Hours Pay!; Auto Wildcat WAMs Bosses, Sellouts [Workers Action Movement]; San Francisco: Teachers' Strike Shows Militancy and Need for Rank & File Union; Brookside Miners' Strike in 9th Month [Eastover Mining Company]; Metal Trades Strike: - Task: Defeat Racism; lengthy article Anti-Communism and the Black Liberation Movement; centerfold information on the upcoming May Day (May 4,… Read More

Palo Alto, CA: Socialist Labor Party, 1963. Book. Fine. Brochure. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Offered is "Which Would You Choose? Capitalism - State Despotism - or REAL Socialism" published in 1963 by the Socialist Labor Party out of Palo Alto, California. A left-folded brochure measuring 8-1/2" by 11" and containing four pages including front and rear covers (dated 1963: "WWYC-63"). In three columns, the brochure compares Capitalism, State Despotism, and Socialism in terms of Property, Classes [Socialism: "No Classes"], Exploitation and the Wage System [Socialism: "No Exploitation - No Wage System"], Class Struggle [Socialism: "No Class Struggle"], Production for Sale [Socialism: "Production for Use"], Democracy [Socialism: "Industrial Democracy"], Political State [Socialism: "No Political State"], and The Future under each. Narrow red stamp of the Newark, Delaware SLP to left margin of… Read More

Brooklyn, NY: Socialist Labor Party, 1966. Book. Fine. Brochure. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Offered is "Vietnam: Understanding vs. Emotion - Do Demonstrations Have Value?" published in 1966 by the Socialist Labor Party out of Brooklyn, New York. A left-folded brochure measuring 6-1/8" by 8-7/8" and containing four pages including front and rear covers (dated 1966: "V: UvE - '66"). An early critique of the Vietnam antiwar movement ("Unfortunately, the demonstrators lack an understanding of the true nature of the problems confronting them. They completely ignore the basic cause of war. In fact, they disdainfully reject every effort made to call it to their attention as 'dogmatic sectarianism.' The result is that they are split up into dozens of factions and jerry-built 'organizations.' Since none of them is based on a correct theory or premise, they cannot establish any unifying principle. This in turn makes it… Read More

Indianapolis, IN: Pitman-Moore Company (Allied Laboratories, Inc.). A quality digest-sized magazine printed on glossy paper stock and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With articles, columns, human-interest stories, humor, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements from the Pitman-Moore Laboratories. Highlights include: article "Introducing Magmoid Sulfalac"; article "Tuberculosis and World Politics"; article "Ernest Bruce Haswell: He Also Served"; article "Anti-Sterility Antics" ("Long before the dawn of recorded history, women wishful of offspring but deprived of the ability to bear them, have turned to mystical methods as a means of overcoming their difficulty"); article "There Really Was a Mad Hatter"; article "Will Supersonics Remake Our Ideas About Medicine?"; article "Dr. Alexander Gardner: His Second Love." . Near Fine. Magazine. First Edition. 1947.

Indianapolis, IN: Pitman-Moore Company (Allied Laboratories, Inc.). A quality digest-sized magazine printed on glossy paper stock and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With articles, columns, human-interest stories, humor, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements from the Pitman-Moore Laboratories. Highlights include: article "Military Medics: What's in a Name?"; article "More About Sex Prognostication"; article "Medicine Marches Backward In [Nazi] Germany"; article "Dr. Allen Mullen: He Might Have Served"; article "A Deathless Murder Victim: It Couldn't Have Happened, But It's In the Literature"; article "William Withering: His Second Love"; article "The Miracle of the Gates" ("Those who are too quick to give credit to the supernatural for phenomena which, if they but knew, can be explained on perfectly natural grounds, might be interested in learning how the priests of ancient Egypt forced… Read More

Indianapolis, IN: Pitman-Moore Company (Allied Laboratories, Inc.). A quality digest-sized magazine printed on glossy paper stock and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With articles, columns, human-interest stories, humor, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements from the Pitman-Moore Laboratories. Highlights include: article "P.-M Co. [Pitman-Moore Company] Influenza Virus Vaccine Licensed for Civilian Use" ("It is no longer a military secret that during the war some 12,500 men of Army training personnel were divided into two groups, one half of which received test inoculations of a new Influenza Virus Vaccine."); article "Medical Progress One Hundred Years Ago"; article "The Power of the Atom"; article "A Contemporary Physician Discusses Washington's Last Illness"; article "Pardon the Error of [Hermann] Kolbe"; article "More Medical Patents"; article "The Dead Live: It Couldn't Happen - but… Read More

Indianapolis, IN: Pitman-Moore Company (Allied Laboratories, Inc.). A quality digest-sized magazine printed on glossy paper stock and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With articles, columns, human-interest stories, humor, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements from the Pitman-Moore Laboratories. Highlights include: article "Christmas, 1642: A Date for Doctors to Commemorate"; article "What Our Doctors Found in New Guinea"; article "Anima Mundi, 1944"; article "Of Mice and Men: Still Another Installment in the Series on Diseases of Animals Communicable to Man"; article "Margaret Watkins Gibbs - She Also Served"; article "Swastika or Fylfot: What's in a Name?"; article "The Hon. Walter H. Judd, M.D. - His Second Love." . Near Fine. Magazine. First Edition. 1944.

Indianapolis, IN: Pitman-Moore Company (Allied Laboratories, Inc.). A quality digest-sized magazine printed on glossy paper stock and containing 28 pages including front and rear covers. With articles, columns, human-interest stories, humor, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements from the Pitman-Moore Laboratories. Highlights include: cover photograph entitled "Preoperative ablutions as performed 'somewhere in Australia' are depicted in the official photo by the U.S. Army Signal Corps"; article "It's a Strange World!" (on Benjamin Franklin and lightning rods); article "Some Ageless Aged"; article "Privies Para Pedro: A tale of disease prevention in South America"; article "Caesarean Section: What's in a Name?"; article "Ubiquitous Brucella Suis"; article "Mothers at Nine - and Less: They're in the Literature"; article "Christopher Wren - He Also Served." . Near Fine. Magazine. First Edition. 1944.

Indianapolis, IN: Pitman-Moore Company (Allied Laboratories, Inc.). A quality digest-sized magazine printed on glossy paper stock and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With articles, columns, human-interest stories, humor, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements from the Pitman-Moore Laboratories. Highlights include: article "Rabies Vaccine Testing"; article "The Danish Mail Clerk: He Also Served" (on Einar Holboell and Christmas Seals); article "His Mother's Posthumous Child: It Couldn't Have Happened, but It's in the Literature"; article "Pardon the Error of the Expose that Didn't Expose" (on the Perkins' Tractor); article "An Appreciation of the Discovery of Penicillin"; WWII article "Some Oldsters Who Opposed Our Enemies." . Near Fine. Magazine. First Edition. 1945.

Indianapolis, IN: Pitman-Moore Company (Allied Laboratories, Inc.). A quality digest-sized magazine printed on glossy paper stock and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With articles, columns, human-interest stories, humor, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements from the Pitman-Moore Laboratories. Highlights include: cover photograph entitled "Tented surgery. An official U.S. Army Signal Corps photo from the South Pacific Theater of War"; article "January: Heyday of the Demons of Disease"; article "Medical Landmarks of a Century Ago"; article "God Bless You!" (on cultural expressions); article "Cotton Mather: He Also Served"; article "A Cure for the Incurable - It's in the Literature"; article "Pardon the Error as to Digitalis." . Near Fine. Magazine. First Edition. 1945.

Indianapolis, IN: Pitman-Moore Company (Allied Laboratories, Inc.). A quality digest-sized magazine printed on glossy paper stock and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With articles, columns, human-interest stories, humor, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements from the Pitman-Moore Laboratories. Highlights include: article "War Time Medical Supplies in Britain"; article "The Diagnosis of Chastity" ("Another Dissertation On"); article "A 19th Century Dorothy Dix: She Also Served" (on Dorothea Lynde Dix); article "Island Doctor" (on Ramon Sablan: "Guam: Not all the heroism on it was displayed by our fighting men"); article "The Case of the Evacuated Forceps: It Couldn't Have Happened, But It's in the Literature"; article "Robert Boyle: His Second Love"; article "Pardon the Error Concerning Cocaine." . Near Fine. Magazine. First Edition. 1945.

Columbus, OH: Ross Laboratories, 1963. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A left-stapled pamphlet measuring 4-7/8 inches by 6-7/8 inches and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. First edition, first printing. The topics are: What do we want for them?; Confusion in social standards; The conflict of generations; From child to adolescent; Tug of war; High hopes; Lack of control; Cigarettes and alcohol; Sexual behavior; Going steady; Feeling different; Teen-age groups; Privileges and responsibilities; Limits; Money; Success in school; Give him time; Give him praise; Let him grow up. Innermost staples lightly age-rusted; small blue pen squiggle to lower front cover..

Indianapolis, IN: Pitman-Moore Company (Allied Laboratories, Inc.). A quality digest-sized magazine printed on glossy paper stock and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With articles, columns, human-interest stories, humor, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements from the Pitman-Moore Laboratories. Highlights include: first page announcement "VICTORY" ("Just as this issue was about to go to press, came the bright good news that peace had come to the world at last."); article "Military Medicine Chests"; article "More Medical Patents"; article "Pardon the Error of [Constantine Samuel] Rafinesque-Schmaltz"; article "Dr. Galileo, His Second Love" (Galileo Galilei); article "Some Serendips that Help to Defeat Japan" (".Still another serendipic discovery which has helped finish off Japan, is the jellied gasoline used in American fire bombs."). . Near Fine. Magazine. First Edition. 1945.

Indianapolis, IN: Pitman-Moore Company (Allied Laboratories, Inc.). A quality digest-sized magazine printed on glossy paper stock and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With articles, columns, human-interest stories, humor, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements from the Pitman-Moore Laboratories. Highlights include: article "The First Atomic Century"; full-page photograph ("On Jan. 2, 1946, Pitman-Moore Co. and TWA combined to make aviation history. On that date air-freight service was inaugurated for the city of Indianapolis - and the only material shipped on that maiden journey was a quantity of Pitman-Moore Influenza Virus Vaccine consigned to Denver, Colorado. The photo shows this precious cargo being stowed aboard"; article "Richard Lasker: He Also Served"; article "John Arbuthnot: His Second Love"; half-page article "That Myth About German Medical Dominance"; article "Fools and Philosophers Alike Essayed to… Read More

Munich, West Germany: Suddeutscher Verlag, 1978. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Small, light damp stain to corner of inside rear dust jacket flap; dust jacket shows two short closed corner tears, light corner wear, else clean and bright..

Tampa, FL: Lighthouse of Universal Truth, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A left-stapled booklet measuring 6" by 9" (the inside pages are slightly smaller) with original covers and 10 mimeographed pages with text on one side. No date, although circa 1970. Rev. Lamb begins: "The night is very dark and long for the lonely." Small, very light waterspot to upper edge of front cover..

Tampa, FL: Lighthouse of Universal Truth, 1965. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A left-stapled booklet measuring 8-1/2" by 11" with front cover and 10 mimeographed pages with text on one side. No date, although circa 1965. Rev. Lamb writes: "Your present state of affairs, your present life, has a divine reason and a divine purpose." Condition: rear (blank) cover missing; last page has a 3" by 2" corner chip affecting a few words of text; front cover is lightly aged..

Chicago, IL: T. S. Denison & Company. With splendid full-page photographs of costumed performers. Laid in is 8-page promotional brochure with color plate of four period costumes. Lacking dust jacket, former owner's name and place (Brownwood, Texas) pasted to inside cover; former owner's name also written to title plate on front cover; private library number taped to lower outer spine; covers show periodic edge wear. . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1920.