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

n.p.: [Association of Exempt Firemen of West New York, N.J.], 1930. First edition. Folio-size (31 x 24 cm). Red textured wrappers printed in black; unpaginated (approx. 130 pp.); photographs. A history of the New Jersey State Exempt Firemen's Association; black and white photographs of committee men and members; many NJ adverts. A scarce early issue. Wrappers faded and slightly soiled; some wear to edges, but Very Good overall.

Boston: O. S. Fowler, 1869. First edition. Large octavo (24 cm); vi, 236, [12] pp (bound in); illus. Brown pebbled cloth, blind-ruling to both boards, title gilt-stamped to front board. Very light wear to boards; spine a little sunned; owner's name to front endpaper. Fowler was a famous phrenologist and an amateur architect and inventor of the octagon house. This volume is his "supplement" to the "The Family.

Boston: Old Mole, 1969. A single issue of this Boston underground paper. Content for this issue includes articles on a rent strike, Ft. Dix demo, Weatherman demos, the DoD Cambridge Project, Women and the University, History as Indoctrination, housing issues, many shorter items. Centerfold poster printed in red & black. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 20 p., illus. Center fold, toning to newsprint, a few tiny closed tears, but about Near Fine overall.

New York: Wu-Chiu Liu, 1968. First edition. Perfect-bound wrappers (5 ¼" x 7 ¼"), stapled textblock, 78 pp. Rubbing and foxing to wrappers, vertical crease to rear wrapper, VG overall. Two copies in OCLC (NYPL & Penn. State Univ.). Scarce. In this self-published pamphlet, a Chinese national "forced to flee from his country to America" writes about the threat of international communism spearheaded by Chinese communists and the inevitable war that America must wage to neutralize the Communist threat. Wu-Chiu provides a brief history of international communism, the differences between Chinese and Russian communism, how the U.S. can win in Vietnam (using small bombs and using more small helicopters), and the reasons why it won't be difficult to defeat the Chinese communists. He repeatedly emphasizes the need for a military response to neutralize the Chinese Communist threat. A personal anti-Communist work reflecting the author's negative experience living… Read More

London: n.p., 1950. First edition. Perfect-bound wrappers, 72 p. Small tear to the tail, else a VG copy of an uncommon pamphlet.

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1919. First edition. Octavo; decorative cloth with gilt titling to spine; 277 pp.; with 35 photographs and a map. In this travelogue, the British journalist, writer and educator, Edmund Candler, describes his experiences in Amarnath and Gangabal in Kashmir, around Nanga Parbat and Jawala Mukhi, and other places in Kashmir, India and Iraq. Very light rubbing to cloth, small hole to upper rear joint; offsetting to endpapers with owner's name scratched out on ffep; embossed 'Presentation Copy' to title page; lacking the dust jacket. A VG or better copy.

New York: Gamma Publications, Inc. Collects two speeches by Enver Hoxha and Ramiz Alia delivered at a meeting of the Central Committee on "advancing the complete liberation of the women of Albania." Photo-illustrated wrappers (11" x 8 ½"), 30 p., illus. Crease to the top corner of the front wrapper, else a fine copy.

Lagos, Nigeria: International Secretariat of the Pan African Movement, 1994. The inaugural issue of this Pan African newsletter, which was the short-lived organ of the Pan African Movement. All of the content appears to be by the organization's chairman, the Nigerian, Naiwu Osahon. This includes his keynote address presented to the First Canadian Pan African Conference on June 26, 1993, updates from the movement in Canada, Nigeria, the USA, & Zimbabwe, a review by the author (?) of his own book, God is Black, and other organizational updates. We can find no evidence that any other issues were published. The organization's U.S. headquarters was in San Diego. Two unbound sheets folded (8 ½" x 11 ¾"), 8 p. A Fine copy. Although a record for the newsletter exists in OCLC, no libraries appear to have holdings.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1853. First American edition. Octavo (19.5 cm); v, 274, [8] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with blind-stamped oval device and ruling. Cloth is rubbed; very dulled gilt to spine; bumped corners; some light dampstaining to a few page corners not affecting text; pgs. 23-24 missing very small chunk from corner. A solid Good+ copy despite the age-inevitable flaws. The author was a Swedish novelist and manages here to "weave a pleasing and instructive story from the incidents which would transpire during a single year of matrimony," but "without trespassing upon the bounds of delicacy." She was the most widely read Swedish novelist of her time. Scarce in the trade and only ten copies of the first U.S. edition found in OCLC.

London: The Open Door Council, 1929. A call by this London-based feminist organization for a conference in Berlin, June 15-16, 1929, for the purpose of forming an international organization to further the following objective: "To secure that a woman shall be free to work and protected as a worker on the same terms as a man, and that legislation and regulations dealing with conditions and hours, payment, entry and training shall be based upon the nature of the work and not upon the sex of the worker; and to secure for a woman, irrespective of marriage or childbirth, the right at all times to decide whether or not she shall engage in paid work, and to ensure that no legislation or regulations shall deprive her of this right."The Open Door Council was founded in 1926 and lasted until 1965. It was affiliated with the feminist organization, Six Point Group, founded by the suffragette, Viscountess Rhondda, in 1921. A single sheet of yellow stock folded (8 ¼" x 13 ½"), 4 p. Single hole punch in the top… Read More

Reading, PA: Pennsylvania Vigilance Committee, 1968. An 8.5" x 11" mimeographed sheet by the controversial Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon and alleged agent provocateur, Roy E. Frankhouser. The impetus for Frankhouser's open letter was the murder of Patricia Sholly, a nurse at Reading Hospital, who was killed by a black co-worker on the night of Dec. 26, 1967. Frankhouser regards this as proof of "inadequate protection for our citizenry" against the criminally-minded, subhuman Negro whose only contribution is rioting and for which whites should arm themselves against." Regarding Sholly's murder, Frankhouser avers: "Yes, many such trained and valuable, potential young Mothers, have been brutally raped and murdered by this subhuman scum. Make it perfectly clear to your POLITICIANS, that you demand the death sentence for this worthless nigger, named Talley." Maurice M. Talley was convicted of Sholly's murder and sentenced to life in prison. The Pennsylvania… Read More

Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1979. Small poster from Ken Knabb's pro-situ group citing the spontaneous uprising in Iran as an opportunity for "people to make their own history." Offset printed in burgundy on an 11" x 17" sheet of thin white stock, map. Folded once horizontally, two vertical creases.

Hollywood: Oracle, 1969. A one-off spiritual publication and one of the many ill-fated ventures of the German-born, counterculture philanthropist, Rick Strauss. Strauss emigrated to the U.S. in 1941 and for two decades undertook a variety of jobs before making and losing a fortune in commodities futures. At 46 and down to his last $250,000 Strauss joined the Oracle of Southern California commune and helped with their eponymous newspaper until it dissolved in 1968. He then used his remaining fortune on "crash pads for long-haired street children, rock music festivals, a drug rehabilitation program, a yoga training center, a dune buggy manufacturing scheme and an assortment of other ill-fated enterprises -- all in the name of bringing peace to the world by midsummer night, 1972" (Rosenzweig, p. 20). During this time, Strauss also published one issue of The Oracle, similar in content and appearance to its forebears, The San Francisco Oracle and The Oracle of Southern California, but more spiritual in… Read More

London: The Order, 1992. The third issue of this Combat 18-related, neo-Nazi publication that features an interview with Bob Heick from American Front. Heick characterizes American Front as a "Revolutionary Nationalist organization" that agrees with the racial ideals of National Socialism, but is economically Third Positionist or Strasserist. Two poorly reproduced photographs of dead Serbians. A photocopied 8 ½" x 11" sheet folded, 4 p., illus. Vertical crease from folding. See Jackson, The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate, pp. 25-26.

Berkeley: Himalayan Watershed Properties, Inc, 1971. The next to last issue of this short-lived enigmatic underground newspaper that existed in an "interesting reality that hung between the traditional Berkeley leftist point of view of publisher Christoper Weills and the Eisenhower Republican perspective of editor Gerard Van der Leun" (associate editor Howard Pearlstein). The first half of this issue consists of a "special report" on motorcycle culture and includes an underground comic by S. Clay Wilson. Other content includes interviews with Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead and black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles; articles on dance therapy and natural foods; profiles of artist William T. Wiley (including a centerfold spread of examples of his work) and horror writer H. P. Lovecraft; the transcript of a satirical court case between the United States Government (plaintiff) vs. Sexual Phantasy and Friends (defendants); book and film reviews; and a tarot reading. Tabloid format, cover printed in blue… Read More

n.p.: n.p., 1971. A scarce, unrecorded document written by the militant black power activist, James Forman, during his involvement with the Black Workers Congress. The document is an open letter to "Sisters and Brothers" (in the BWC) on revolutionary theory and its implementation. Forman discusses Vietnamese resistance to U.S. imperialism and the organization of power in China and provides book recommendations throughout. It does not appear that the document was formally published by either Forman or the BWC, but was likely printed internally for BWC members. We could find no copies recorded institutionally or in the trade, and internet searches provided no citation or reference. Corner-stapled 11" x 8 ½" sheets mimeographed from typescript on rectos only; 3 p. Some toning to white stock, tiny chip to the top corner of the first sheet.

New York: Committee to Rebuild the National Welfare Rights Organization, 1973. The inaugural issue The Organizer, formerly the East Coast Organizer, the organ of the rebranded National Welfare Rights Organization after it had been taken over by Lyndon LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees. Much of the content related to the group's re-organizing efforts following Nixon's alleged destruction of the organization and includes the group's Statement of Principles. Includes an article by LaRouche on "Nixon's Plan to Recycle Human Beings and a separate article on the "recycling" of vets, addicts and welfare victims. Call by Jennette Washington for a National NWRO convention and for welfare recipients, vets, and the unemployed to build a new WRO. An important publication for understanding some of the machinations of LaRouche and the NCLC during the turbulent 1970s. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint, 8 p., illus. Machine folded, else Near Fine.

Cork: Eagle Printing Works, 1912. An illustrated program for a traveling missionary exhibition held at Central Hall, Cork, Ireland in 1912. As described in the Foreword, "This Exhibition is an attempt to give information concerning the life and religions, habits and customs, of several lands. Missionaries will speak of what they have felt and seen; different objects and curious will engage attention and quicken interest, while several phases of healthen life will be atually represented." Includes a schedule and a detailed description of the various exhibits, including those of West Africa, Central South Africa, China, West Indies, & India and Ceylon. Besides artifacts and lectures, there were also dramatic presentations of a Brahman Marriage, the healing of a Tamil child by a missionary after exposing the fraudulent local "Devil Priest," and Queen Lexa's Chinese Meeting. Peppered throughout are many interesting adverts for early 20th century Cork area businesses. Stapled, illustrated red wrappers… Read More

Haverhill, Mass.: Destiny Publishers, 1946. 8vo; grey stapled wrappers printed in red, 30, [2] pp. Offprint from Howard Rand's "Destiny" magazine, in which the author explains how the writings of the Bible came into existence, how they were selected for inclusion, and how they've been passed down through the centuries. Some light toning to wrapper, check mark to margin of p. 5, else a Fine copy.

New York: Other Scenes, Inc, 1968. Fourteen issues in a variety of formats of John Wilcock's underground publication, which was issued from 1967-1972. Best known for co-founding the Village Voice and Interview, and editing the East Village Other, Wilcock established Other Scenes as an extension of his East Village Other column and his travel writing. It began as a private newsletter, then a fortnightly newspaper (1967-1969), then a monthly magazine, and finally a series of ‘zine-like special issues before ceasing in 1972. Available in this run are issues Vol. 1, No. 9 (Dec. 1968), Vol. 1, No. 10 (Jan. 1969), Special Digest Issue (May 1969), Vol. 3, No. 10 (Aug. 1-14, 1969), Vol. 3, No. 17 (Dec. 1969 - final newsstand issue); [magazine format]: Vol. 4, No. 8 (Oct. 1970), Vol. 4, No. 9 (Nov. 1970), Vol. 4, No. [10?] (Dec. 1970), Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 1971), Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 1971, Vol. 5, No. 3, Fall 1971 (digest format), and three unnumbered zine-like issues. A variety of formats and… Read More