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

[Cairo]: U[united] A[rab] R[epublic], Ministry of Labour, 1964. First edition. Small, perfect-bound, stapled wrappers (4¼" x 6¾"), 109 pp. A bureaucratic, but no less fascinating, document from the Ministry of Labour of the relatively short-lived United Arab Republic. The reorganization of the UAR's trade unions evolved out of a series of socialist decrees issued in 1961, which nationalized a significant portion of the manufacturing and commercial enterprises. The Ministry of Labor was established the following year and one of its two primary roles was to reorganize the trade unions. Some consequences of the new law (no. 62) were further centralization of unions, a loss of income for local unions, and "weak organizational links between the local union, federation and confederation structures." By 1971 the UAR had dissolved. Some wear to wrappers with a small tear at lower spine, a few pages with underlining, VG. 11 copies found in OCLC.

[New York?]: n.p., 1931. A scarce pirated edition of the first English translation of the controversial erotic novel first published in Vienna in 1906 and generally attributed to Bambi author Felix Salten. The book is told from the perspective of an aging Viennese prostitute who recounts in graphic detail her many sexual escapades. It was banned in Austria from 1913-1971 and was at the center of numerous legal cases. It was also the basis for a number of literary sequels, pornographic film adaptations, theater productions, and scholarly articles. The first English language edition was published in Paris in 1931 by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press and was quickly pirated in New York City (publisher unknown, but thought to be either Sam Roth or Jake Brussell) and illustrated by Mahlon Blaine. But although our copy has some corresponding points for this edition, ‘Mutzenbacher' is misspelled ‘Mutzerbacher' to both the cover and title page, which is not mentioned in any of the official or unofficial… Read More

Istanbul: I il Matbaasi, 1947. First edition. Original printed wrappers (5 ½" x 8"), 44, [2] pp. Faint foxing and wear to wrappers, bottom corner bumped; cheap paper browning, some pages uncut, VG overall. Three copies in WorldCat at Harvard, Oxford and Bogazici Univ. in Istanbul. Scarce. In Turkish. A response by the Turanist-racist writer, Nejdet Sancar, after he was fired from his teaching position for refusing to attend a welcome ceremony for Turkish Minister of Education, Hasan li Yücel. Sancar was a core figure in a militant group of Turanist-racists led by his older brother, Nihâl Atsiz, the most important 20th century racist ideologue in Turkey. Both brothers were arrested during the government crackdown on the Turanist movement and were tried during the so-called 'Racism-Turanism Trials'. They both remained important right wing figures in post-WWII Turkey with both dying in 1975.

New York: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1960. A report on the many political prisoners held in Spain by a former Univ. of Madrid mathematics professor. A refutation of a claim made by Franco in an interview with Le Figaro in June 1958. The rear cover includes an open letter to President Eisenhower on behalf of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade expressing regret at Eisenhower's decision to meet with Franco. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (8 ½" x 5 ½"), 32 p., one photograph. A fine copy.

Chicago: Published by the author, 1941. Second Edition. A study of money and its purpose, the history of United States Notes and their comparison to Federal Reserve Notes, interest and checkmoney, the U.S. national debt, and the private ownership of money by the banks. The author argues for a return to a true democratic financial system. Karl Ferdinand Marius Sandberg was an active Chicago socialist, surgeon-in-chief at the Norwegian Tabitha Hospital, and a member of the Norwegian Nationalist League. He wrote and self-published a number of pamphlets on socialism, the Soviet Union, and the banking system, and in 1919 was a delegate to the founding convention of the Communist Labor Party. Stapled brown wrappers (6 ¾" x 5 ½") printed in brown, 32 p. Stamp of The Constitutional Money League of America, Minden, Nebraska, to the Introduction page.

New York: The Dick, 1967. A one-off tabloid "created, published & edited by an anonymous spurt-phantom at a secret location in the Lower East Side." The anonymous spurt-phantom was Ed Sanders, with contributions from Leonard Lyons and poet Michael McClure. Content includes a 13-point Statement of Purpose (all related to genitalia or sex); "The Lyons Den" by Leonard Lyons, with bits of gossip related to well-known counterculture personalities and poets; an obscene centerfold comic by Sanders titled "The Adventures of Supersnatch"; a Dick Literary Quiz; a poem by McClure, "McClure! For Anger"; etc. Tabloid format printed on higher quality paper, 8 p., illustrations by Sanders, a William Beckman fellatio photograph. Crease from folding, some faint toning, else a well-preserved copy.

Boston: The Institute for Social and Cultural Change, 1987. 4to; stapled wrappers, 96 pp, illus. The inaugural issue of the long-running libertarian socialist magazine. Its name was later changed to 'Z' Magazine in 1989. See photo for Contents page. Some rubbing to wrappers, mailing label to rear wrapper, else a Near Fine copy.

Ánanda Márga Pracáraka Sa gha, 1967. Fourth edition. A collection of speeches made by the Indian spiritual leader Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. Sewn wrappers (4 " x 7"), 127, [3] p. In English. Some rubbing and creasing wrappers, one penned note to the back of the last page. No copies of any edition currently offered in the trade (Aug., 2020) with only the fifth edition and later found in OCLC.

Chicago: Published by the author, 1932. Eighth Edition. A scarce Rosicrucian title, in which the author discusses the psychological, physiological, and sexual components of a happy marriage and compatible sexual union. First published in 1925, the author offered a correspondence course by the same name. In his foreword, the author claims to want no credit for the secrets held therein, but only that he "desires to see humanity a super race of beings." The book was later included as a chapter in the anthology Rosicrucianism in America (1990) edited by Gordon Melton. A scathing review in the Oct. 1925 issue of The Occult Digest provides some indication of how the book was regarding in occult circles:: This gem shines with all of the luster of calosoma scruta­tor, which nightly intrigues passersby with its shimmering coat of green, molded of pigment acquired in the walls of the sewer in which it lives. It is useless for such purveyors of "sex information" to attempt a defense. Their abysmal ignorance… Read More

New York: Jewish Currents, 1962. An article originally appearing June, 1962 issue of Jewish Currents on the anti-Semitism inherent in Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice. Stapled wrappers, 12 p. A fine copy.

Spokane: Prophetic Herald, 1944. A British-Israelite pamphlet from one of its primary proponents, Dr. Alexander Schiffner. Schiffner argues that Jews are not Israel, or God's chosen people, but a "rejected nation." Stapled, illustrated wrappers (3 ½" x 6 "), [12] p. Uncommon.

Spokane, Wash: Prophetic Herald, 1958. Two addresses from the Anglo-Israelite pastor Dr. Alexander Schiffner on the prophetic nature of the beast in Revelation. Stapled sheets (11 x 8 ¼") printed on coated stock, [8] p. Toning to stock, some splitting along spine.

Clifton, New Jersey: American Third-Position, 2002. The second, and final, issue of this American Third-Position publication edited by white nationalist, Kenneth Schmidt. Content for this issue includes articles by M. Raphael Johnson ("Christian Nationalism and Counterrevolutionary Practice"), James Ives ("The Contested Ideal," on the concept of 'nationalism' and "Tenets of the New Dawn"), Nicholas Tanery ("Israel-Turkey: Costas' Blair House Affair..."), and Tomislav Sunic ("Marshal Tito's Killing Fields (Croatian Victims of Yugoslav Secret Police Outside Former Communist Yugoslavia: 1945-1990"). Also included is a short note by Schmidt on the plagiarism scandal of "warmonger" historian, Stephen Ambrose. Kenneth Schmidt hosted the Third-Position website, www.politicalsoldier.net, distributed the British International Third Position (ITP) magazine, "Final Conflict," and issued "National Dissent" from his… Read More

[Washington, D. C.: Agency for International Development, Department of State?], [1966]. First edition. Corner-stapled, mimeographed sheets; 13 pp. In this paper prepared for the Ninth Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, the author argues that the Liberian-based educator, journalist and diplomat, Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912), was the first Pan-Africanist. Although Blyden is widely considered the father of Pan-Africanism today, Schott's contention was novel at the time since W. E. B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey and even the British George Padmore were all better known in both Pan-Africanist and academic circles. Schott is primarily interested in the influence of Christianity and the American Colonization Society on Blyden's thought, including his later belief that European Christianity and African spirituality were largely incompatible. This paper was presented a year before the publication of black historian, Hollis Lynch's, definitive biography of Blyden, "Edward Wilmot Blyden:… Read More

Milwaukee: Allen-Bradley Company, [1957]. A large offset printed poster (29" x 22.5") reprinting the testimony of Dr. Fred Schwarz, executive director, Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, with members of HUAC on May 29, 1957. Salient passages have been bolded by the publisher, the Allen-Bradley Company, a large manufacturing company that continues today as Rockwell Automation. A statement at the bottom affirms the company's position on the Communist menace: "With this advertisement, this company is trying to sell you nothing except the importance of holding fast to your American freedoms including the freedom to live, the freedom to worship your God, and the freedom to work as you choose, which freedoms are still here in America, but have disappeared over a great part of the rest of the world." Schwarz himself published the contents of his testimony as a 32 pp. booklet. Old folds, but about Fine. Less than a dozen copies of this found in OCLC.

Washington, D. C.: Various publishers, 1934. Five publications related to James Brown Scott (1866-1943), an authority on international law, who became involved with Doris Stevens and the National Woman's Party during the late 1920s. As the NWP expanded its scope to include an international recognition of equal rights for women, Scott, who'd already worked in the international peace movement, was promulgating a new standard of nationalism that included "the adoption of nationality rules based on full individual equality" (Amorosa, p. 286). The publications below focus on this intersection and at least two of them were originally published in "Equal Rights," the National Woman's Party's magazine. Scott became Doris Stevens' law teacher and mentor at Columbia and they maintained a very close working relationship in the fight for equal rights. (For the best account of Scott's involvement with the NWP, Paolo Amorosa, Rewriting the History of the Law of Nations: How James Brown Scott Made Francisco de… Read More

Washington, D. C.: National Woman's Party, [ca. 194-?]. A two-sided membership card for the National Woman's Party listing the different levels of membership with a space to apply. Verso includes the NWP's object "to secure for women complete equality with men under the law and in all human relationships" and a quote from The Equal Rights Amendment. Signed in type by Margaret Sebree, Membership Chairman (Sebree is misspelled on the card "Seebree"). Offset printed in purple and yellow on a 3" x 5" card. Fine.

Brooklyn: Segal-Kamen, 1968. Four greeting/holiday (?) cards issued by the radical Jewish poet and dancer Edith Segal and her husband, the artist Samuel Kamen. The cards were likely produced each year for the couple's wide circle of friends, comrades and family and possibly issued as holiday cards since these four are all dated in December. They appear to have issued them until at least 1981. The earliest card in our grouping is from 1968 and features Segal's poem "Challenge" and a cover illustration by Kamen showing a trio of multi-racial babies reaching for a white dove. The 1969 card includes the poem "March Against Death," which along with the cover illustration documents the couple's participation in the November 14, 1969 Moratorium Againt the Vietnam War. The 1972 card includes the poem "Recognition," with a cover illustration of a multi-racial group of adolescents in a field and reprints an illustra features an illustration of three multi-racial children in a field of flowers. The 1976 (?)… Read More

New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1937. First edition. Staplebound wrappers; 40 pp.; four black & white photographs. This issue of the League for Industrial Democracy's periodical features two articles: Joel Seidman's "Sit-Down" and Robert Morss Lovett's "A G. M. Stockholder Visits Flint." A Very Good, heavily browned copy with short crease to edge of front wrapper; clean internally.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. First edition. Octavo (20 cm); 312 pp. Author's wonderfully self-effacing inscription to the half-title page: "To James E Gra? this novel no one has read - 1969 - It might have been worse - but oh, it might have been better. Gilbert Seldes" The initials V.F. (or J?) N. appear in the corner and Seldes has written an arrow with the words, "I wonder who?" Green cloth is only lightly rubbed; corner tips gently bumped; fore-edge a trifle foxed; fine throughout. Lacking the dust jacket.