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

Hannover: Paul Steegemann, 1920. First edition. The last book of poetry by the troubled Expressionist poet and morphinist, Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1892-1931). Wagner was associated with the Dada movement and co-edited Der Zweemann with Christof Spengemann from 1919-1920. He also did a few stints in an insane asylum. Stapled wrappers (5 " x 8 ¾"), 17, [7] p., cover illustration by Joseph Viktor Kuron. In German. A Near Fine copy with the Esperanto stamp of the German artist, Willy Sieler to the title page.

San Francisco: The Tenth Muse, 1970. A broadside featuring Diane Wakoski's poem, "Love, You Big Fat Snail" with a photograph by Betty Berenson. Offset printed on 15 ¼" x 11 ¼" stock. A number of horizontal creases and light edge wear.

[New York]: Targ Editions, 1982. Limited ed. Square 12mo.; photographic paper over burgundy cloth boards with silver-stamped spine, unpaginated; glassine dust jacket. One of 250 copies SIGNED by the author to the colophon. An exceptionally Fine copy complete with the scarce glassine jacket, which is slightly chipped to spine ends with one sliver missing to the bottom rear panel.

New York: Red Ozier Press, 1981. Limited ed. Grey letterpressed envelope housing two folded, letterpressed sheets. Limited to 200 copies made by hand in New York City. Includes a single Wakoski poem, "Looking for Beethoven in Las Vegas." SIGNED by her. The slightest crease to bottom, but Fine.

New York: American Jewish Committee, 1944. Offprint from the June 1944 issue of the Contemporary Jewish Record, in which Morris Waldman argues for an international bill of rights for the "national self-determination" principle and its attendant "rights of national minorities."Plain stapled wrappers (6" x 9"), 227-238 ([12 p.]). Light wear, tiny piece missing from the bottom of the rear wrapper at tail.

New York: Edwin C. Walker, 1908. A single issue of this anarchist journal, "Published sometimes, when the good spirit of currency moves." Walker writes a long critique to Clarence Darrow's famous address to prisoners at the Cook County Jail; a tribute to social reformer Hugh O. Pentecost; on the sex question; two critiques of the individual anarchism of Benjamin Tucker; free love vs. monogamy; racephobia and racemania; and many other smaller essay. Edwin C. Walker was an anarchist and inveterate pamphleteer. He first began Fair Play in 1887, but it ceased in 1890. He re-started the journal in 1907. He was in a "free love" relationship with Lillian Harman, the daughter of anarchist Moses Harman, editor of Lucifer the Lightbearer. Wrappers (5 ½" x 8"), [72] p. Chipping to the bottom corner, rear wrapper pulling from text block, but still firmly attached to spine.

New York: Edwin C. Walker, 1913. First edition. An address by the anarchist Edwin C. Walker at the dinner of the Sunrise Club, February 24, 1913 on the nature of liberty. With post-discussion reflections on the objections of critics and an appendix that includes two letters by Walker to various newspapers on free speech between anarcho-communists and socialists and on smoking. Stapled grey wrappers printed in black, 24 p. Faint toning to wrappers, else a Fine copy. Less than a dozen copies found in OCLC.

Newark: The People's Lobby of New Jersey, 1908. A populist proposal by the People's Lobby of New Jersey for a Public Opinion Law, in which "the people would have the power to force such consideration of such issues as are demanded by the public interests, by taking the questions out of party politics and out of the hands of the politicians" (p. [4]). The People's Lobby formed in 1907 to examine bills proposed to the legislature and to propose legislation based on the will of the people. The group appears to have been active from 1907-1909. Walker was a journalist for the Newark Evening News. Stapled wrappers, 21, [3] p., photo frontis of the author. Light wear, offsetting to wrappers, about Near Fine.

Amherst: Drum, 1975. A single issue of this long-running, irregularly published black literary magazine published by students UMass-Amherst from 1969-1988. Featuring poetry, photographs, a short story, and an essay. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers (11" x 8 ½"), 32 p., illus. A fine copy.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. First edition. Thick 4to; blue paper boards stamped in silver to spine, 1079 pp, dust jacket. With full number line in an unclipped ($29.95) dust jacket with 'Vollman' misspelled on rear panel. Virtually Fine excepting previous owner's name and date penned to fep.

Pittsburgh, Pa: KNOW, Inc, 1971. Walstedt concludes her analysis by stating: "There is inevitably a period of social upheaval and Idsorganization during any major social change but I have great faith that the ultimate changes will be positive. Out of the ashes of a twisted feminine psychology of penis envy must come a radical new therapeutic psychology which gives women the courage to go counter to a culture that has consistently betrayed their selfhood." Corner-stapled 11" x 8 ½" sheets, 11, [1] p.

Athol, Mass: W. Paul Cook, The Recluse Press, 1928. Limited Edition. The first book by Donald Wandrei, a collection of poems published when the author was 20. Two poems are dedicated to fellow "weird" author Clark Ashton Smith and poet George Sterling. Andrei was a friend of H. P. Lovecraft and along with August Derleth founded Arkham House, which posthumously published many of Lovecraft's books. 8vo. Purple cloth boards with paper label to the front board. Limited to 322 copies. An exceptionally fine copy that includes the glassine dust jacket, which has one tiny closed tear, but is otherwise fine.

Uitenhage, [South Africa]: Printed for the Author by "The Chronicle, [195-]. Wannenburg, a South African expositor of British Israelism, refutes the notion that Christ was black, promotes the Biblical mandate for racial separatism, and echoes the theory that the Jews are the Synagogue of Satan. Stapled, illustrated wrappers, 32 p. Light wear to wrappers, stain at the lower spine. Five copies in OCLC.

Chicago, 1939. This Congress Journal was issued at the Youth Committee Against War's (YCAW) third national youth anti-war congress held from Dec. 27-30, 1939 at the International House in Chicago. It includes the YCAW's program, comments from YCAW officers Frank Littell and Fay Bennett, the congress agenda, various adverts and greetings, sections to note attendees to remember and congress notes, and other items. The Youth Committee Against War (YCAW) was founded in 1938 as a federation of socialist, Protestant and student youth groups. Originally called the Youth Committee for the Oxford Pledge, it was militantly pacifist and anti-imperialist and attached itself to the equally isolationist Keep America Out of War Congress - and more controversially, the America First Committee. Stapled wrappers (11 ½" x 8 ¾"), offset printed, [16] p. (includes wrappers). Light wear. We could find conference publications for all other years except this one in OCLC.

London: Freedom Press, 1967. A single issue of the well-regarded anarchist magazine edited by Colin Ward and featuring cover designs by Rufus Segar. 118 issues were published from 1961-70. This issue features an article by Peter Brown about his civil rights work in the Mississippi Delta, I. R. Mitchell's "Thoughts on the Third Russian Revolution, with much of the rest of the issue devoted to commentary and hair splitting around content from issue 68. Albert Meltzger is a contributor. Stapled, illustrated wrappers, 33-64 p. A Fine copy.

London: McBride, Nast & Company, Ltd, 1916. First edition. A sequel to the pseudonymous author's previous work, "Rome and Germany, and the Plot for the Downfall of Britain" (1909), which endeavors to "show that the real authors and instigators of The Great War have been Rome and Rome's Army of Jesuits, who, for the last fifty years, have completely dominated and directed the policy of the Vatican" (from the Preface). Some OCLC records erroneously list "Watchman" as Conservative MP, Vyvyan Adams, who authored a few books under the same pseudonym, but who would have been far too young to have written either of these titles. 8vo., red cloth stamped in gilt, 291, [3] p. Cloth is soiled and worn with fraying along the lower front joint, rear hinge cracked, cheap paper browning; a couple marginal notations. A Good, serviceable copy. Uncommon in the trade with no other copies currently available (Mar., 2020); and although not scarce institutionally, less than two… Read More

Madison: John E. Waters, [195-]. An uncommon anti-Communist treatise written and published by John E. Waters of Madison, Wisconsin. Waters describes himself on the cover as a former employee of the Soviet government. He blames Communism's growth in the U.S. to sympathetic policies by the Roosevelt and Truman administrations and through the Communist-directed labor movement. Stapled wrappers (4" x 9"), 19 p. Folded order form laid in. Some underlining in colored pencil. Only two copies found in OCLC (Wisconsin Historical Society & Kansas).

Washington, D. C.: Mrs. Agnes Waters. Unbound wrappers as issued; [1], 165-171 pp. Waters' reprint of her own testimony before Congress in 1947 as published in the Congressional Record. In her statement, she opposes Bill S. 938, Foreign Aid to Greece and Turkey, on the grounds that it's "another Jewish trap" and encourages, what must have been her very amused listeners, to "expel the Jews and deliver America." Each page is peppered with patriotic and anti-Semitic quotations and quips. A nice example of Waters' inveterate anti-Semitism coupled with her flare for self-promotion. Vertical crease from folding with some light rubbing and occasional soiling to wrappers.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1919. A compilation of true tales of mystery organized into the following sections: I. Blood Royal or Common Clay? II. Mysteries of Six Famous Queens III. Unsolved Riddles of Four Kings IV. Hidden Victim of Autocracy V. Diplomatic Mysteries VI. Mysteries of the Literary World VII. Five Women of Mystery VIII. Death or Escape IX. Mysteries of the Sea X. Where Murder Would Not Out. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt, blue and black, 271 p., four plates, dust jacket. Bump to the top edge of the front board; contemporary newspaper articles on mysterious cases affixed to front and rear pastedowns. The scarce dust jacket is rubbed and slightly edgeworn with a few small closed tears.

San Francisco: Bay Area Radical Education Project, 1970. This interview originally appeared in the Fifth Estate, a Detroit underground newspaper. Reprinted from the Movement, July 1969. John Watson, editor of Sauti - The Inner City Voice, and director of the West Central Organization in Detroit, has been involved in Detroit revolutionary politics for a number of years. One of the original founders of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, he is currently serving as a member of the Central Committee of the League." Stapled wrappers, 22 p. A fine copy.