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

Providence: Burning Deck, 1974. First edition. Octavo. Plain wrappers in purplish, letterpressed dust jacket; unpaginated. Limited edition of 300 copies letterpress printed and designed by Rosmarie Waldrop. This copy 1/7 review copies that were sent out. Sunning to spine, else Fine.

Edinburgh: W. M. Urquhart & Son, 1928. First English language edition. Original black-stamped green wrappers; 60 pp., [1] (glossary). A well-preserved, unclipped, Near Fine copy with some faint toning along wrapper edge; many pages still uncut. Scarce in commerce.

[London]: Casanova Society, 1925. First edition thus. Small octavo. Black cloth with paper label to spine; deckle edges; [16], 175 pp.; illustrations; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with scant rubbing to board edges; offsetting from jacket flaps to endpapers. In the Very Good, printed dust jacket with some rubbing and loss to spine ends.

New Haven: PastTimes Press, 1997. The story in this book begins with the first letter in the year Eliza Champlain was born, 1797, in New London. It unfolds through her own, her mother's, and her aunt's correspondence - hundreds of letters now first published with explanatory chapters, commentary, and notes around them. Her aunt, at first in their home town and then (from 1811) for eight years in New York, was the first professional artist of her sex in the United States - Mary Way, a painter of miniature portraits. Eliza's mother, remaining at home, also earned her living by her brush. The two older women taught all they knew to Eliza, sometimes looking over her shoulder, sometimes in their letters. To show how artists went about their work in the period, nothing matches this collection. Paintings by all three can be found in various private collections and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The book through its color plates introduces an equal number of paintings hitherto… Read More

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1915. First edition. 12mo.; red cloth titled in black; xiv, 344 pp. A novel set in Kashmir during "The Great Anarchy," when British colonialism competed with various local chieftains to fill the power vaccuum left by the death of Emperor Aurangezebe in 1707. Some foxing, owner's name to title page, a few notes to glossary, else a Near Fine copy lacking the dust jacket. Scarce in the first edition.

Chicago: Pioneer News Service, 1945. A single issue of this anti-Semitic newsletter edited and published by Homer Maertz. Although published in Maertz's home of Chicago, much of the content reports on events in NYC - all related to Jews. Maertz's fellow traveler, Eugene Brand writes about his approach to "free press" in peddling nationalist and anti-Semitic material in his newspaper store in the heart of Yorkville, unlike the Friends of Democracy, Inc. who he accuses of "peddl[ing] their poison like dopesters." Herman Homer Gustus Maerz was a founder of the Dearborn Crusaders, leader of the Chicago Silver Shirts, and the first secretary of the German American National Alliance, which attempted to replace the Bund. He was imprisoned numerous times for the distribution of anti-Semitic material and in 1939 led a fascist gang who broke windows and daubed swastikas on a Jewish department store. At a 1944 America First meeting he proposed the deportation of all Jews from the U.S. and the sterilization of… Read More

New York, 1949. A tribute "dedicated to the memory of Benjamin H. Fletcher, veteran Negro revolutionary Industrialist Unionist...and to all other valiant ones who died in the fight for Freedom." Read by fellow Wobbly, Herbert Mahler, at Fletcher's funeral, which was attended by 100 men and women, most of whom were fellow Wobblies, this tribute was likely circulated at the funeral (Foner, "The IWW and the Black Worker," p. 63). Ben Fletcher was the leader of the Philadelphia branch of the Marine Transport Workers and a tireless IWW organizer. He, along with Mahler and 182 other IWW members were tried by the U.S. government for interfering in the war effort during WWI. Fletcher was sentenced to 10 years, but had his sentence commuted by President Harding in 1923, and was later fully pardoned by FDR. He died on July 10, 1949, in Brooklyn. An 8 ½" x 11" sheet mimeographed on recto only. Some toning to fragile stock, but Near Fine. One copy in OCLC at UIUC. Scarce.

Perfectbound (24 cm), printed in red and black; 197 pp. In French. A single issue of this long-standing French quarterly established in 1960 by Jean Maitron. This issue focused on anarchism, with an interesting contribution from the American anarchist, Sam Dolgoff, on American neo-anarchism ("Le néo-anarchisme américain. Nouvelle gauche et gauche traditionnelle). Other reports on Spanish, Italian and Dutch anarchism, with French anarchist history by Maitron. Coffee ring and some foxing to front wrapper; small gouge to rear wrapper not affecting text; very slight musty smell.

Kingstown, New South Wales: Institute of Economic Democracy, 1974. First edition. Twelvemo. Saddle-stapled wrappers; 15 pp. The Institute of Economic Democracy was a specialist division under the Australian League of Rights, the social credit-based, Far Right organization founded by Eric Butler in 1946. J. D. Malan was an engineer who wrote extensively on economics and in this pamphlet examines the causes of inflation and how to eradicate it. Small price sticker to front cover, address to bottom of inside front cover, Near Fine.

New Canaan, Conn.: The Long House, Inc, 1958. First edition. A book by the Republican Senator on what he terms the Global Pincers Movement, which threatens the protectionist economic policies of the United States. Perfect-bound green linen wrappers (6" x 9"), 126 p. INSCRIBED by the author to future death penalty scholar, Hugo A. Bedlau, when he was still on the Right. Light edge wear, Near Fine.

New York: A & C Boni, 1932. First edition. Twelvemo. Light grey cloth stamped in black and silver; dark topstain; green & black-printed title page; xii, 306 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with some sunning to board edges. The unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket is a trifle rubbed with a small chunk missing from the bottom of the front panel; spine browned. [John Joseph] Sherry Mangan (1904-1961) was a Trotskyist writer and poet whose first published novel, Cinderella Married, lampooned the social conventions of the rich and was based on his experiences tutoring the prominent Garland family. We find no other copies available in commerce with just over a dozen institutional copies found via OCLC.

New York: National Education Dept., Communist Party, U.S.A., 1953. The CPUSA looks to the Soviet Union and the writings of Joseph Stalin to "state or rather re-state our position on a number of propositions which are currently the subject of unclarity, confusion and, in some cases, deviations, bearing upon our basic theory ont he national question in general and the Negro question in the United States in particular" (p. 2). Stapled wrappers (10 ¾" x 8 ½"), 47 p. A Near Fine copy.

Hinsdale, Ill: Christian Patriots Crusade, 1950. The Christian Patriots Crusade was founded in 1956 by Forrest Allen Mann, Jr. (1936-2019) as the American Christian Patriots Party. Mann published a newsletter called "The Revere," led a small Klan group, and consorted with many prominent racists and nationalists during the 1950s, including Lyrl Clark van Hyning, Eustace Mullins, Ed Fields, J. B. Stoner, Joseph Beauharnais, etc. When the National States Rights Party was founded in 1958, Mann became the chairman of the Illinois branch. He was under constant FBI surveillance until 1960 when the CPC appears to have disbanded. Included in this small, but significant, collection are two issues of "The Revere" (Vol. 4, No. 10 and Vol. 5, No. 1), a double-sided flyer titled "Jews and You" / "Jew Religion Exposed," and three handbills: Exposing the Enemy, Freedom or Jewish Tyranny?, and Death to the Traitors: Communism and Race-Mixing Are JEWISH. All scarce.

London: Emergency Committee for Democratic Spain, 1947. Articles by three British women (Leah Manning, Labour M.P., Monica Whately, a Catholic, and Nan Green, Secretary of the International Brigade Association) describing their impressions of traveling to Spain to speak with anti-Fascist women imprisoned in one of Franco's jails (Las Ventas in Mandrid). The women's visit was in response to an appeal by the Union of Spanish Women, particularly concerning the fate of three Republican women alleged to have been tortured and held without trial. A single sheet folded (10" x 7 ½"), 4 p., four photographs, one illustration. Near fine.

Toronto: International Publishing and Distributing Co, 1998. First English Language Edition. First published in Arabic in 1993, the author argues that "penalty of apostasy" should not be part of Islamic jurisprudence since the Quran does not define such a penalty for this world. Inscribed by the author to the title page. Perfect-bound, xviii, 151 p. Fine.

Westport: New York State Branch of the National Woman's Party, 1944. A postcard from National Woman's Party State Chairman of New York, Jeannette Marks, urging supporters to send editorials to local papers in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. One of the many times the ERA legislation was before Congress and failed to pass. A 5 ½" x 3 ¼" card printed in black on the recto and in blue and red to the verso. Fine.

New York: ICOR, 1935. Second Edition. Lord Marley's first hand account of Biro-Bidjan (Birobidzhan), the Jewish autonomous region located near the Soviet-Chinese border, which he visited in October 1933, five years after it was established by the Soviet Union as a safe haven for international Jewry facing repression in Germany and elsewhere. One of the project's biggest supporters was ICOR (Organization for Jewish Colonization in Russia) which sent money and materials to the region. It dissolved in 1951. Stapled, photo-illustrated, newsprint wrappers (6" x 4 ½"), 14 p. Tiny chip to the crown, toning to newsprint. A Near Fine copy of a fragile item.

Seattle: Seattle Radical Women, 1970. The discussion draft of a paper presented by feminist Gloria Martin to the Seattle Radical Women Conference held on February 23, 1970, in which she describes the increasing vanguard role played by women in the revolution. Side-stapled 11" x 8 ½" sheets, mimeographed from typescript, 4 p. Near fine. Five copies in WorldCat.

n.p.: Published by the author, 1961. First edition. Illustrated, stapled wrappers (5 ½" x 8 "), 23 pp, illus. Shallow grazing evident to the bottom corners near spine, else a clean Near Fine copy. Not found in OCLC. A scarce and early pamphlet from the renowned doctor, osteopath, chiropractor and former gymnast, Robert Manatt Martin, who is best known as the originator of the Gravity Guiding System, inventor of many inversion devices, and the author of Cum Gravity (1975). In this pamphlet he outlines his Contour Correction Course and its emphasis on Nutrition (Diet), Rest and Exercise. He unveils his Guide Gravity System "based upon Newtonian Law and Order" and provides instructional illustrations for inversion poses and posture. An important contribution to inversion practice and early insight into Martin's methodology.

New York: The Jewish Anarchist Federation of America, 1935. A primer on the principles of anarchism and its two main schools of thought: Proudhonian and Kropotkinian. Jacob Abraham Maryson (1866-1941) was a Jewish doctor and anarchist and a member of the Pioneers of Liberty, the first Jewish anarchist group in the U.S. He edited the Fraye Arbeter Shtime and Dos Fraye Vort and contributed to many other anarchist periodicals, and later organized the Kropotkin Literary Society for which he translated many important works into Yiddish. The Principles of Anarchism was one of his last publications. Translated from the Yiddish by fellow anarchist and Modern School participant, Abe Grosner. Stapled wrappers (6" x 9"), 32 p. Toning to wrappers, but a Near Fine copy.