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

Hawthorne, Calif.: Omni Publications, 1968. First edition. An uncommon Wickliffe Vennard publication, although thematically similar to his other pamphlets: the machinations of the International Bankers and their attempt to bring about a One World Government. Stapled wrappers (5 ¼" x 8 ¼"), 24 p. Toning to wrappers, penciled owner's name and redacted stamp to title page, else clean throughout. Only two copies in OCLC. Not in SINGERMAN.

Moscow-Leningrad: State Art Publishing House, 1939. A desirable double-issue of the influential Soviet propaganda magazine published from 1930-1941 - and again, briefly, in 1949. This issue is devoted to Lenin's life and influence and is heavily illustrated with photographs, illustrations, and documents (some facsimile, tipped-in). The issue begins with a profile of the Lenin Museum followed by sections documenting Lenin's life from 1870-1924. The center pages include two full page photogravures of Lenin & Stalin. All text in English. A beautifully designed tribute to the architect of Bolshevism. Large format stapled, illustrated wrappers (16 ½" x 11 ¾"), [54] p., illustrated throughout. Some wear and toning to wrappers, 1 ½" closed tear along rear wrapper fore-edge and at the first staple, but a VG+ copy. No other copies of this double issue currently available in the trade (Nov., 2022).

Salina, Kansas: Black American Citizens Organization of Salina, 1978. Ubiquity was the newsletter of B.A.C.O.S. (Black American Citizens Organization of Salina), a Kansas-based community organization run by Chuck Massie. The newsletter was originally called The Black Word Is.. and was superseded by Ubiquity in 1976. This issue features an editorial by Massie, which includes an excerpt from Shirley Chisholm's "What Do We Want Now"; an article on the significance of Black History Week; an interview with Scott Manion of the Legal Aide Society; a centerfold calendar for Black History Month 1978 featuring the birthdays of influential blacks or notable events in black history; information on financial aid, housing complaints, jobs, free tax assistance, etc. The rear cover urges black Americans to vote. Folded sheets (11" x 8 ¾"), 12 p., illus. A Fine copy. Only the Univ. of Kansas appears to hold any issues. DANKY 1086.

Annville, PA: Press of A. C. M. Hiester, 1900. First edition. Octavo. Saddle-stapled yellow wrappers stamped in black; [275]-288 pp. A Very Good copy of this early issue with some toning to wrappers and two holes punched near spine; staples are rusted and slightly bleeding; clean throughout. Includes the Pennsylvania-German poem, "'Uf 'm Owerste Speicher," in that language.

Editorial Alas, 1946. First Spanish language edition. Plain wrappers (6" x 8 ¾") printed in blue, 183, [9] pp. Some toning and smudging to wrappers, but a VG+ copy. Only eight copies of this edition found in WorldCat institutions. In Spanish. Ten short stories by the enigmatic B. Traven translated from the German by Esperanza López Mateos who later became his literary agent and secretary. Mateos was almost single-handedly responsible for the translation of Traven into Spanish, and along with Canasta, she translated six other titles for various Mexican publishers including his most famous work, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which was published the same year (1946). This collection includes La Canasta, No hay burro que se regale, San Antonio le falló, Un negocio malísimo, Una solución inesperada, Alma de perro, Una medicina muy efective, La historia de una bomba, Ceremonia legeramente retardada, and Así nació un nuevo Dios. The… Read More

Washington, D. C.: Office of War Information, 1942. War propaganda from the U.S. government on the heroic resistance to Nazism across occupied Europe. Four illustrations (including the cover) by the thrice winning Pulitzer Prize cartoonist Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (10 ½" x 8"), 12 p., illus. Bottom corner bumped, foxing to wrappers.

London: K.R.P. Publications, 1971. Commentaries on the European Economic Community from a nationalist, anti-EEC perspective. Stapled wrappers (4 ¾" x 7"), 20 p. Old price sticker to the front wrapper, else Fine.

Tel Aviv: Karni Publishers, Ltd, 1962. First Edition. The first printing of Geulah Cohen's unapologetic memoir of her life as a terrorist for the Stern Gang, or Lehi, the militant Zionist fanatics intent on bombing the British out of Palestine to make way for the Jewish state. The book was published in English in 1966 by Holt, Rinehart as Woman of Violence: Memoirs of a Young Terrorist, 1943-1948. 8vo., boards, 310 p., dust jacket. In Hebrew. Corners are bumped, else book is Near Fine; the dust jacket is rubbed and lightly worn with heavy dampstaining to a portion of the rear panel, Good only.

New York: New Century Publishers, 1958. The Communist Party's position on unemployment. Stapled, illustrated wrappers, 22 p., one illustration. A fine copy.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1937. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth with gilt spine; 244 pp.; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with a slightly dust-soiled, foxed top edge in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket is a trifle rubbed, spine a bit browned and a small closed tear at top spine fold. The author traces the divisive historical conflicts of the Spanish people culminating in the Spanish Civil War.

Chicago: Socialist Party of U. S. A., [ca. 1933]. First edition. 8vo.; red, stapled, letterpressed wrappers, 15, [1] pp. The author, chairman of the Socialist Party USA and vice president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, argues for cooperation between unions and Socialists in their two-pronged approach "to gain for working people the largest possible amount of wealth which labor creates." A couple of marks to the front wrapper, else a fresh, Fine copy.

Chicago: Revolutionary Union, 1972. A response to the 1972 assassination attempt on Presidential candidate George Wallace by the Communist Revolutionary Union. RU contends that despite Wallace's supposed populism that he's really a pawn of the ruling class, and that the working class of Alabama - both black and white - suffers under Wallace's leadership. Stapled, illustrated, newsprint wrappers (8 ½" x 5 ½"), 16 p., illus. A Fine copy.

[France]: United, 1998. The inaugural issue of this bilingual (French & English) R.A.C. & Oi! music magazine published in France. Includes interviews with Bound for Glory (U.S.), Skuld (France), Landstorm (Holland), Iron Fist (France), Elsass Korps (France), Nouvelle Croisade (France) Kontatto Estsremo (Italy), Frakass (France) and Panzer Symphonie (France). Other content includes a long article on pitbulls and an interview with a pitbull breeder; the history of the Celtic peoples; news; reader submitted tattoos; a centerfold comic on skinheads; adverts; etc. Glossy, stapled wrappers, 34 p., illustrated throughout with photographs. We're unsure if any other issues were published.

New Rochelle, N. Y.: America's Future, Inc, 1970. Octavo (22 cm.). Plain, saddle-stitched wrappers printed in black; 27 pp. The author contends that the UN acts as "an important way station in the communist underground war of espionage and subversion." First published in 1964 and reprinted in 1970 and '74. Wetzel was treasurer of America's Future, Inc., the anti-Communist publishing imprint started by right wing journalist, John T. Flynn. Slight rubbing to wrappers, some toning to edges. Very Good+.

Los Angeles: Freedom Club, 1952. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). Plain, saddle-stitched wrappers; 32 pp. From an address given by Frank Holman to St. Alban Conclave No. 18, Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine, Seattle, Washington, March 8, 1952. The author argues against the U.S.'s membership in the U.N. as a threat to the rights and liberties of U.S. citizens. A Fine copy.

Portland: Universariun Foundation, 1961. Two scarce issues of Universariun Space Messages, the telepathic communications bulletin issued by the Universariun Foundation. The Universariun Foundation was founded in 1958 by Zelrun Karsleigh and his teenage wife, Daisy, and headquartered in Portland, Ore. The Karsleighs were the recipients of telepathic messages from the Ascended Masters and from extraterrestrials, which they disseminated to their followers. Universariun Space Messages was later superseded by the group's newspaper, The Voice of Universarius. Included here are the July and September issues from 1961. Side-stapled 11" x 8 ½" mimeographed sheets, 19 p.; 25 p. Light wear, a few marks of soiling, but well-preserved. Only UC Santa Barbara holds any issue in OCLC (neither of these).

Brooklyn: The Universe Hometown News, 1971. A strange presumably one-off newspaper from Brooklyn "crusading for Universal Salvation" and predicting an end to war on 11-31-71, marking the transition from the Age of Apes to the Age of Man. The policies of this new age include the transition of soldiers to policemen, the capacity for politicians to only kill themselves, and an earthwide enforcement of open communication. Content includes the paper's Standard Positioners [sic]; a lengthy Editorial section with much on the suppression of the idea that "we are apes trying to become men and women," open communication, and war (and on Brooklyn as the "Holy Land of the West"); a State of the Universe Address; a Bulletins section, which announces that on Star Kozycookie peasants settle disputes by having their kings murder each other, that 40% of vegetarians are prejudiced against man, but not animals, and that women's lib will end with the Age of Man; a two-panel comic called Jo-Jo featuring Jo Eartho and Jo… Read More

Germantown, PA: [Order of Washington], 1950. First edition. Staplebound wrappers; 50 pp.; large fold-out genealogical chart of 'The Descent of the Washington Family from Ten Sureties for Magna Charta A.D. 1215 and Other Leaders in World History." A scarce publication of the Order of Washington (established in 1895) intended to "stir our people and our leaders alike in today's era of confusion to a clearer understanding, a more rugged determination, and a surer wisdom in meeting our present problems of uncertainty, discord, and national danger both within and without." No other copies found in commerce (2014) with only four found institutionally via WorldCat. Some light rubbing and soiling to front wrapper, Very Good. Fine internally.

Washington, D. C.: Fundamental American Freedoms, Inc, 1963. First edition. Question-and-answer format on the pending 1963 Civil Rights Bill and the dissenting views of six Congressmen. Published by the Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms, Inc., which featured many prominent segregationists including newspaper publisher, William Loeb, journalist and founder of the Patrick Henry Group, John J. Synon, journalist and Massive Resistance proponent, James J. Kilpatrick, and American Bar Association President, John C. Satterfield, who Time described as the "most prominent segregationist lawyer in the country." Stapled wrappers (9" x 4") printed in red, grey, and black, 23 p. Initials to the top corner of the front wrapper, light wear.

Crawfordsville, IN: The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1989. Two brochures from the 1980s era Klan. "The Untold Story" focuses on the many civic and philanthropic aspects of the Klan and argues against its violent, hateful image in the mainstream media. "The Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan" has been slightly re-edited from the previous editions going back to the 1920s to reflect its rebranding: "We sing no hymns of hate against the Jew" and "The Invisible Empire has no fight to make upon the Negro." Printed in red and blue on white stock, 8 panels. Both in fine condition.