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

FLUXUS Editorial Council, 1979. The terminal issue of this Fluxus tabloid published as a tribute to its doyen George Maciunas. With contributions from Geoff Hendricks, Peter Moore, Henry Flynt, Mieko Shiomi, George Brecht, and others. Illustrations insert laid in. Tabloid format (11 ¼" x 14 ¾"), [16] p., illus. Light wear, small split at the tail, 1 ¼" closed tear at lower fore-edge, never folded.

New York: The Feminists, 1968. A rage-filled speech given by radical feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson in Philadelphia the day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Atkinson begins, "I suppose we all have [sic] put aside the speeches we prepared before last night. In the face of Martin King's death, one must tell the truth as plain as one can." She goes on to claim that "the oppression of women by men is the source of all the corrupt values throughout the world," that marriage and the family are institutions of slavery, that the vaginal orgasm is a way that men oppress women, and that love is the "pay-off for the consent of oppression." Two 11" x 8 ½" pink sheets mimeographed from typescript, 3 p. of text. All Feminists documents scarce.

[Los Angeles?]: [German-American Bund?], 1941. A small sticker featuring a Star of David with an accentuated ‘V' and the slogan ‘Ve Vant Var'. These stickers were distributed by Bundists, fascists and isolationists in opposition to the "V is for Victory" campaign, which they believed was a plot by the international bankers (Jews) to capitalize on another world war. One group who distributed the stickers was the Friends of Progress, a Los Angeles-based anti-Semitic organization founded by Robert Noble and Ellis Jones. In a 1945 court case against members of the group for for violating the Subversive Organization Registration Act, witnesses stated that the stickers were sold by the bundle at Friends of Progress meetings, that member James McBride had distributed them, and that the sticker had been seen on the desk of West Coast Bund leader, Hermann Schwinn. In the Nov., 1941 issue of The Beacon Light, American fascist, William Kullgren, published a long article on the V campaign and explained it… Read More

Noblesville, Indiana: Justice for Pelley Committee, 1948. A pamphlet in support of an imprisoned William Dudley Pelley who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1942 for high treason and sedition. The author claims that Pelley was imprisoned for his outspoken opposition to the war-mongering Roosevelt. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (3 ¾" x 8 ¼"), 14 p. Penciled notation to the front wrapper and penciled marginalia to p. 6. One copy in OCLC at Michigan State.

New York City: The Writers Workshops of Arts, Sciences & Professions, 1954. An early - and nearly continuous run - of the literary magazine associated with Joseph Friedman's writer's workshop in NYC. Friedman published the magazine from 1954-1960 before becoming an English literature professor at Long Island University. He taught there from 1965 until his retirement in 1984. Notable contributors to the magazine included Allen Ginsberg, John Ciardi, Kay Boyle, and Conrad Aiken. Included in this run are Vol. 1, Nos. 1-4; Vol. 2, Nos. 1-2, 4; Vol. 3, No. 3. Most in stapled wrappers (8 ½" x 5 ½"), various pagination. Some issues with soiling and wear, but a very good run.

Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Publicity Service, Department of Conservation and Development, 1936. This booklet is issued as a guide to places furnishing food and shelter to visitors in Vermont. The information is furnished by the proprietors and includes a description of the location and amenities, prices, and featured attractions nearby. Included is a 1932 map of Vermont. Grey wrappers printed in green, 116 p. A very good copy.

New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc, 1941. This pamphlet contains the complete text of the radio address made on July 3, 1941, by Joseph Stalin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and of the State Committee of Defense of the U.S.S.R." With an introductory editorial titled "Stalin's Pledge: Tomb of Fascism" first published in the Daily Worker, July 5, 1941. Stapled photo-illustrated wrappers, 15 p. Some browning to newsprint wrappers, else a remarkably fine copy.

New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, CIO, 1944. A detailed report "directed to Delegates of the Tenth Constitutional Convention, to the members, shop stewards, local and district officers" of the achievements of the UE and CIO over the preceding year. Includes sections on war production, war & peace economies, employment for veterans and women, political campaigning to re-elect FDR, publicity & public relations, and the union's structure and leadership. Also includes a center section of tables, maps and charts printed in color showing membership, plants under contract, progress within various companies, elections, contract provisions, and War Labor Board record. Black & white photographs throughout. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers (6" x 9"), [4].5-36, [8], 37-70 p., illus. Light toning and wear to wrappers; faint pencil scribble to front wrapper and first blank.

Dallas: The Voice of Healing Publishing Co, 1966. First edition. Very Good. 8vo; stapled, illustrated wrappers, 36 pp, centerfold chart titled 'The Amazing War-cycles of America' taken from "The United States in Prophecy" (1965). The revivalist pastor, [James] Gordon Lindsay, discusses America's role in Vietnam as the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. He maintains that the U.S. has failed to defeat Communism (both in Vietnam and elsewhere) due to her sinful nature, but that Christians can protect American soldiers through prayer while proselytizing to the Vietnamese population through mailed literature. Lindsay later founded the Christ for the Nations Institute before dying in 1973. Some rubbing, wear and soiling to wrappers.

New York: The American Purity Alliance and National Vigilance Committee, 1910. Content for this issue includes short news items on various campaigns to halt immoral activity in cities such as Atlantic City; an article on combating the Chinese white slave trade in San Francisco; editorials on the white slave trade in New York City, the National Vigilance Committee's legislative efforts, the campaign for a safer Fourth of July holiday, a warning to parents on the moral dangers to their high school age children, on the National League of Women Workers, and on morality laws in Toledo, OH. Also included are reprints of letters confirming the passage of White-Slave Bills, and the Program of the Fourth International Congress for the Suppression of White-Slave Traffic. The issue concludes with a long book review of "The New Moral Order." Stapled wrappers (6 ½" x 9 "), 16 p. Small closed tear along the bottom edge of the front wrapper, light edge wear.

Chicago: American Vigilante Intelligence Federation, 1933. A single issue of the semi-monthly organ of the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation, a dubious investigative body founded by ex-private investigator, Harry Jung, that compiled files on subversive individuals and organizations, which were then sold to concerned industrialists. Donald Strong describes the sheet's purpose as "present[ing] ‘radical' trends in such a menacing light that its readers will be kept in constant state of delirium tremens" (Organized Anti-Semitism in America, p. 51). Content for this issue includes a report on a speech by a shadowy Communist named Professor Szanto, the consequences of trading goods with the Soviet Union, a lengthy alphabetical list of "internationalistic, pacifistic, Communist, Socialistic, atheist, anti-national, anarchist, pseudo-religionist, government ownership and other miscellaneous groups," a report on the ‘Special Department' of the Communist International, a continuation of a previous… Read More

Chicago: New University Conference, 1970. First edition. One sheet folded, 4 pp. One in a series of crisis papers issued by NUC to address the political and tactical differences between different factions of student radicals. This paper focused on the question of violence on college campuses. The author(s) discuss seven of the common statements heard on campus during Strike Week, including whether its democratic to call a strike if most students want to attend class, the abolishment of ROTC, the prevention of students from going to class, violence in response to violence, whether students will be listened to if they employ violence, violence as self-defeating and violence as corrupting. The author(s) ultimately refuse to condemn the tactic of violence in the face of "400 years of American racism and 10 years of war in Vietnam." Some wear across the top edge, toning to final page. Three copies in WorldCat at Temple, Northwestern and the Univ. of Kansas.

Fourth edition. Square octavo (24.5 x 20 cm). String-bound onion skin dust wrapper over red-printed wrappers; 65 pp.; two leaves of chromolithographs; photographic plates. A somewhat confounding title from the food faddist and inventor of shreeded wheat, Henry D. Perky. Includes 254 recipes with most including shredded wheat in some variety, a sample menu from Perky's New Era Cooking School in Worcester, MA, and chromolithographs of sample dishes. Perky follows this with an anti-war treatise and the opinions of fifty great men on war, along with photographs of naval ships and their respective crews. Soiling to slightly chipped dust wrapper; wrappers browned with some grazing and loss to one corner of front wrapper; chipping to fore-edge of rear wrapper; a Good+ copy. We haven't seen another copy with the onion skin dust wrapper.

Canyon, CA: Vocations for Social Change, 1974. A broken run of 19 issues of two periodicals from Vocations for Social Change, a communal social justice organization that began publishing resources for activists trying to find employment, living situations, and other resources that aligned with their values. Their first magazine, Vocations for Social Change, was published from 1968-1972, when its name was changed to WorkForce. WorkForce was issued through at least 1974. Included here are Vocations for Social Change nos. 14, 20-28, continued by WorkForce, nos. 33-39, 41, 42. The group supported the gay liberation movement and the Jan.-Feb. issue of Vocations for Social Change is on "gay folk" while the Sept.-Oct. issue of WorkForce is focused on gay workers/professionals. Other thematic issues of WorkForce include research, science, youth liberation, libraries, the elderly, blue-collar workers, planning community, office workers Magazine format, stapled newsprint wrappers (generally 11" x 8 ½"),… Read More

New York: George H. Doran, 1927. 12mo. (19.5 cm); orange cloth stamped in black; viii, 314 pp. Lost-race novel from the Anglo-Indian soldier and writer, Martin Louis Gompertz. Adventure, prophecy, and the repeatedly articulated theory that Aryans and Mongoloids are natural enemies with Aryans superior (Bleiler, 836). Cloth slightly worn, bump to top edge, a few white marks of soiling to front board; corner lacking from pgs 13/14 (but not affecting text), some very light penciled marginalia to a few pages; lacking the dust jacket. A Good+ copy.

Flushing, N.Y.: Voice of the Federation, 1971. A single issue of the organ of the Federation of American Citizens of German Descent, a fraternal organization found in 1946. Much of the content for this issue relates to the Christmas season and German tradition, but other content illustrates the group's politically dubious tendencies. The group's honorary National Chairman, Austin App, replies to a Washington Post article - reprinted in full in this issue - that "smeared" him as a Nazi apologist and anti-Semite. The revisionist book, "Myth of the Six Million" is discussed favorably in a letter to the editor and there is coverage of The Freedom for Rudolph Hess Association. The most damning contribution comes from an article by an 18-year-old Gerhard Lauck titled, "Two Ethics." Lauck was a member of the National Socialist White People's Party and National Socialist Party of America before founding the NSDAP/OA in 1974. He became a voluminous distributor of… Read More

Mohawk Nation via Rooseveltown, N.Y.: Akwesasne Notes, 1979. Fifth printing. A particularly insightful first-hand account of the Wounded Knee siege documented primarily through recorded interviews with participants and extensive photographs. Perfect-bound, photo-illustrated covers, viii, 263 p., profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. Some minor soiling to the front cover, else a near fine copy.

[Berkeley, Calif.]: [Rubin for Mayor Committee?], 1967. Jerry Rubin's mayoral campaign outlines its vision of Berkeley and describes Rubin's approach to the Vietnam war, American foreign policy, China, the draft, rents & housing, poverty & unemployment, police, education, racism, drug laws, abortion, capital punishment, etc. Beautifully designed and printed. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (8 ½" x 6 ¾"), 24 p. offset printed in color throughout, illus. A Fine copy.

New York: [Communist Party], 1972. A small piece of campaign literature for Communist Party member and Vice Presidential candidate, Jarvis Tyner, who ran alongside Gus Hall in both 1972 and 1976. We assume this is from 1972 since no previous campaigning is mentioned in the men's biographies. The internal pages outline "A Program for Peace, Jobs, Freedom" and "Jarvis Tyner on Black Liberation." Folded yellow stock (7" x 3 "), photograph of Tyner to front cover. Faint offsetting to rear panel, else Fine.