Search Results: Titles starting with A from D. Anthem, Bookseller

n.p.: n.p., 1860. A carte-de-visite of the popular 19th century lecturer, alpinist, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate Anna Dickinson (1842-1932). Dickinson was born to a Quaker family in Philadelphia and at 13 published an essay in William Lloyd Garrison's "The Liberator." At 19 she went on her first lecture tour, which was sponsored by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. She was a popular speaker who stumped for the Republican Party and at the height of her fame earned the equivalent of $440,000 a year, which she mostly gave away. She later became a writer, actress and mountain climber. She became increasingly erratic, paranoid and obstreperous and was briefly committed against her will to an insane asylum by her sister. She lived for over 40 years with George and Sallie Ackley in Goshen, NY, where she died in 1932. It was alleged that she and Sallie were lovers. Albumen photograph (2 " x 3 ½") on crudely trimmed mount. Dickinson's surname misspelled 'Dickenson', as we've seen on… Read More

Chicago: American Socialist Organizing Committee, 1965. The cover sheet is a two-sided flyer issued by the Chicago Committee to Stop HUAC calling for a "militant sit-in" to prevent HUAC from intimidating the Chicago New Left. Hearings were held by HUAC in Chicago from May 25-27, 1965, on "Communist Activities in Chicago, Illinois Area." The Committee accuses President Johnson of encouraging HUAC's "witch hunts." (We've handled this flyer as a separate item previously.) This is followed by a report in the form of a "Dear Comrades..." letter by Howard Farb, New York ASOC, on Local 6 of the Hotel Workers Union; an article on "Chicago Civil Rights" by Bob Brown, in which he discusses a series of sit-ins organized by the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations and participated in by ASOC; adverts for material being sold by ASOC; three pieces by the Japanese Revolutionary Communist League; an ASOC article on Vietnam titled "How You Can Stop It?"; an article on student agitation at Northwestern by… Read More

Munich: Press Bureau of the Antibolshevik Bloc of Nations, 1956. An issue of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations' monthly bulletin. The ABN was founded in 1943 by Alfred Rosenberg's Ostministerium in support of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. The organization became one of the largest post-war, international anti-Communist groups and was riddled with anti-Semites, Nazi apologists, militant anti-Communists and nationalists of every stripe. It was in part founded by both the CIA and MI6 during the Cold War. The ABN was led by Yaroslav Stetsko for most of its existence and was disbanded in 1996. This issue includes an open letter accusing the Soviet Union of barbarity in its treatment of dissidents; Determined Solidarity with the Hungarian Fight for Liberation; Americans for A.B.N.; Veli Kajum Khan visits Turkey; Bolshevism a Russian phenomenon; How Soviet Russia occupied Estonia; and On the Threshold of the Atomic Age. A large single sheet folded and uncut along the top edge. In English.… Read More

Prague: AIZ, 1934. The notorious "Mimikry" issue of the illustrated German magazine Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung featuring a cover photomontage of Goebbels and Hitler by John Heartfield. The caption reads, "When all attempts to convey National Socialist ideas to the working class failed, Goebbels had one last desperate idea: he persuaded the "Führer" to wear a Karl Marx beard in the future when addressing workers." Founded in 1924 by German Communist Willi Münzenberg, AIZ published news and events of interest to workers, and became famous for its worker-submitted photographs. Heartfield became affiliated with the magazine in 1930 and contributed over 200 photomontages over the magazine's final eight years. It was forced to relocate from Germany to Prague in 1933 where it ceased in 1938. Newspaper format printed on coated stock, 242-256 p., illustrated. Wear along fold, small split at spine fold.

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.

Manhattan, KS / Lawrence, KS: AWOL Press / Vortex, 1969. Two issues of this GI paper affiliated with the Vortex, Kansas' underground newspaper. Information for servicemen on the anti-war movement among GIs. The inside pages of Vol. 1, No. 9 include "A Call to the Fall Offensive to End the War." Also included is Vol. II, No. 2. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint, both issues 4 p., illus.

Belmont, MA: American Opinion. 8vo; stapled wrappers, [2], 32, [2], photographs, illustrations. A relatively uncommon offprint from the John Birch Society's "American Opinion." The author, a physician and mayor of Belle Glade, Florida, presents the historical, legal and ethical facts about abortion and concludes, "The liberalization of abortion laws now will ultimately lead to legalized extermination of other humans, and will be another step in the decaying moral values of our current society." Two graphic photographs of aborted fetuses. Some toning to front wrapper, light wear.

Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc, 1979. Eighth edition. Pro-life treatise from the physician, John L. Grady, with a foreword by Senator Jesse Helms. Stapled wrappers (5 ¼" x 8 ¼"), 32 p., photographs of aborted fetuses and full-term babies. About Fine.

Philadelphia: American Civil Liberties Union, 1954. A detailed analysis of the dismissal of educators from Temple Univ., Jefferson Medical College, and the Philadelphia public schools for invoking the Fifth Amendment when called to testify in front of HUAC. Stapled wrappers (6" x 9"), 36 p. About Fine.

Iowa City: Ain't I a Woman, 1973. An issue of the Midwestern lesbian-feminist newspaper in the form of a pamphlet on the disproportionate power wielded by academic women in defining the women's movement. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (8 ¼" x 5 ½"), [2], 21, [1] p.

Springfield, Mass: Press of Springfield Printing Company, 1887. ¾" paper over brown cloth boards, 283 p. Spine label missing; penciled doodling and soiling to paper over boards; paper starting to front hinge, a very good copy.

[Greenlawn, NY?]: [Published by the author], 1950. A somewhat bizarre political/economic treatise from New York Supreme Court stenographer Ned Reuben Harman (1890-1962). Reuben inexplicably writes as his alter ego Mano Mars, an inhabitant of Mars "who sees all things objectively as to Earth, [and who] has succeeded in applying mathematics to Good and Evil..." (p. 2). Reuben/Mars introduces (and copyrights) the "Moralmeter," a measure of the morality of all things, including government and economics, which are the pamphlet's focus. His work appears partially based on Frederick Bastiat's 19th century work, Harmonies of Political Economy, which is referenced extensively throughout. A strange work applying metaphysics to political economy and economics. Stapled wrappers (5 ½" x 8"), 52 p., tables. Label ghost to the top of the front wrapper, slight rippling along the bottom edge from possible moisture exposure. Not in OCLC.

Milwaukee: New Order, 199-. The New Order, the successor to the American Nazi Party/National Socialist White People's Party, presents the "remarkable, prophetic words of Adolf Hitler spoken on February 24, 1945 - less than three months before the combined forces of world Jewry succeeded in overwhelming the heroic, embattled defenders of National Socialist Germany. These words, faithfully preserved in the Bormann-Vermecke, were confided to Hitler's closest associates. As such, they not only reflect the Fuhrer's true feelings about our country [the U.S.], but they also reveal an amazing knowledge of American history, as well as penetrating insight into the American temperament and character, and underscore the tragedy of the Second World War." An 11" x 8 ½" sheet folded to make four 8 ½" x 5 ½" pages. A fine copy.

n.p.: n.p., n.d.. A compilation of excerpts from two books, "Adolph Hitler: My New Order, a collection of speeches, and Mein Kampf, in which Hitler discusses Jewish Freemasonry. There is no indication of who the compiler/publisher was, but it appears to have been printed in the 1950s/1960s. Two corner-stapled, dittoed 11" x 8 ½" sheets. A fine copy. Not found in OCLC, nor in the bibliographic database, Singerman Bibliography of Antisemitic Texts in English (SIBA).

Okemos, Michigan: Published by the author, 1970. First edition. Tall perfectbound paperback (13" x 5"); 206 pp. A bizarre, nearly impenetrable book for the layperson (or at least for this cataloguer) written, illustrated and hand-lettered by the author in Chancery Script with Osmiroid pens. Sub-titled, "A study of quasi-convex, aplanar, tunneled orientable polyhedra of positive genus having regular faces with disjoint interiors, being an elaborate description and instructions for the construction of an enormous number of new and fascinating mathematical models of interest to students of euclidean geometry and topology, both secondary and collegiate, to designers, engineers and architects, to the scientific audience concerned with molecular and other structural problems, and to mathematicians, both professional and dilettante, with hundreds of exercises and search projects many completely outlined for self-instruction." A second edition was published in 1980, although both are… Read More

[Kansas City: Socialist Labor Party of America], 1900. An advertising card for the Kansas City section of the Socialist Labor Party of America, which invites wage workers to use the free reading room and to attend February's free lecture series. The lectures took place on Sunday afternoons at 3pm and included, "History of Socialism in America," "Aims and Objects of the Socialist Labor Party," "The Press in the Political Field," and "Political Organizations and Their Tactics." The Socialist Labor Party is the oldest socialist party in the United States and the second oldest in the world still in existence. <br/><br/>Card measures 4 ½" x 2 ¾" and is printed recto only. Some toning and possible faint dampstaining along the right edge.

[Chicago]: African-American Heritage Association, 1968. A flyer for an Africa Freedom Day rally organized by the Chicago-based African-American Heritage Association at the Tabernacle Baptist Church, 4130 Indiana Ave. Speakers included the Rev. James Bevel (SCLC), Ernest de Maio (Pres., District 1, United Electrical Workers), and Christine Johnson and Ishmael Flory (African-American Heritage Association). Music was provided by folk singer Jimmy Collier. The text-heavy flyer poses eight questions regarding the link between the civil rights movement and anti-imperialist struggles in Africa and Asia (especially Vietnam). The African-American Heritage Association was founded in 1958 through an unlikely collaboration between Nation of Islam school teacher Christine Johnson and Southside Communist Party activist Ishmael Flory. As scholar Ian Maxwell Rocksborough-Smith describes, "more than any other black public history group in the city, the AAHA combined its racial and historical knowledge producing… Read More

New York: American Committee on Africa, Inc, 1965. A single issue of the journal of the American Committee on Africa, an organization founded in 1953 to support liberation struggles in Africa. Content for this issue includes, "Behind Apartheid Bars" by Harold Strachan as told to Benjamin Pogrund, "The Colonel and the King" by Mark Cohen concerning Algeria and Morocco, "Racial Peace and Royalty" by Warren Weinstein about Burgundi, a book review, and some shorter content. Stapled, illustrated wrappers printed on newsprint, 16 p., illus. Newsprint browning, a closed tear along the top edge of the front wrapper, a few tiny nicks.

New York: African Picture and Information Service, 1965. A double issue of this glossy, pan-African magazine considered by one scholar to be the "preeminent journal of latter-day Garveyism (West, p. 269). The magazine was published irregularly from 1949-1976 by the African Picture & Information Service located at 8 West 117th Street in Harlem and advertised itself as "the semi-official organ of the various African National Movements." International in scope, it focused on decolonization, African independence movements, the plight of African Americans in the post-war U.S., and repatriation schemes initiated in both the U.S. and Africa. This included the United Negro Improvement Association's Black Star Line, an advert for which appeared on the rear cover of many issues. Given the magazine's sustained duration, we were surprised to find very little information about it, the African Picture & Information Service, or its editor, the frustratingly named James Brown. This is echoed by scholar Michael… Read More

Hamburg: Georg Westermann, 1917. First edition. Wrappers with some toning to edges; browned spine; the front free endpaper has come loose, but still present; cheap paper browned, although clean throughout. In German. Discusses the economic life of South Africa in the context of its water power. Uncommon.