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

Washington, D. C.: Blacks Against Nukes, Inc, 1983. An issue of B.A.N.'s newsletter, published to "be an educational center of information for Black, Third World, and poor people to make them aware of the serious implications of nuclear power and weapons." This issue reprints excerpts of a letter from a black engineer in the nuclear industry who claims, "...Chances are there are only two Blacks involved in the anti-nuclear movement, but there are many of us making significant contributions to the development of nuclear technology...," which B.A.N. refutes. Other content includes a cartoon, letters to the editor, and contact information. Substantive content is lacking, but the group had a cool logo. A single sheet folded (11" x 8 ½"), 4 p., illus. ‘Dup' penciled to the top of the cover page, old folds from mailing. Only four libraries in OCLC hold any issue.

[Fort Worth?]: Wonderful Workers of the World, 1947. A small broadside announcing a membership drive for the Wonderful Workers of the World, an African-American benevolent association incorporated in Texas in 1920. The organization established lodges throughout the state, as well as in Louisiana and California and appears to have lasted until the 1950s. Very little has been written about the group, including their curious reference to the Industrial Workers of the World, although they are mentioned in Bernadette Pruitt's book, The Other Great Migration: The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 (2013), as one of the many fraternal organizations, mutual aid associations, and secret societies that were formed in Houston beginning in the 1880s. This broadside announces an event at Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX, featuring speaker J. H. Anderson on "Building a Better World in Which To Live." Other meeting details are included. Offset printed on an 11" x 5 ¼" sheet,… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. First edition. Octavo. Rust-colored cloth lettered in white to spine; map endpapers; 434 pp.; dust jacket. A political analysis of America's role as a superpower and the need to permanently maintain bases throughout the world. By the novelist, playwright and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. A Near Fine copy with corner's gently bumped; name to front endpaper, else clean throughout. In the scarce pictorial dust jacket, which is unclipped. General rubbing and edgewear with a faint pink stain; Good+ or better.

Hillsboro, WV: National Vanguard Books, 1994. A brochure distributed by the National Alliance reprinting Kevin Alfred Strom's radio address on Martin Luther King, Jr. who he describes as a "sexual degenerate, an America-hating Communist, and a criminal betrayer of even the interests of his own people." Tri-fold brochure, photocopies, six panels, illus. A Fine copy.

Berkeley: Printed by Inkworks, 1989. A poster celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Berkeley Community Health Project, a "community-based, volunteer-run organization dedicated to providing quality health care and health education to all in need, regardless of ability to pay." Offset lithograph of a polychromatic silkscreen (18" x 27"). Light wear to edges, about Fine. Not found by us in OCLC, but two copies in OMCA.

New York: Random House, 1939. First printing. Octavo; xi, [1], [4], 5-456 pp.; dust jacket. Blue cloth printed in black and gilt; dark top-stain. A Fine copy. Price-clipped dust jacket has one punched hole to spine and one to rear panel, else Fine. An anthology of ten plays written by many of the most important socially-conscious playwrights of the twentieth century, including Clifford Odets, Irwin Shaw, Marc Blitzstein, Auden and Isherwood, etc.

Portland, Oregon: Viva il Papa Inc, 1978. First edition. This book is intended to indicate the process by which Bishops, clergy, religious and laity are doing Satan's work and promoting the self-destruction of the Catholic Church in the United States." Stapled mustard yellow wrappers (5 ½" x 8 ½") printed in red, 95 p. Light wear and rubbing to wrappers, VG+.

Los Angeles: Citizens Commission on Human Rights, 1995. An uncommon Church of Scientology publication exposing sexual & psychiatric abuse suffered by women at the hands of their psychiatrists. Includes a Rogue's Gallery of convicted psychiatrists. The innocuously named Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) was established by the Church of Scientology in 1969 "to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights." Profiles of six CCHR women are included. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (11" x 8 ½"), 24 p., illus. Cover illustration by Jim Warren. A Fine copy.

Denmark: Feminist Research Network - Gender-Nature-Culture, 1994. Three essays on aspects of feminist spiritualism published in two volumes by an international feminist research network hosted by the Department of Feminist Studies, Odense University, Denmark. Stapled wrappers (8 ½" x 5 ½"), 64 p.; 52 p. Some faint toning to wrappers.

Detroit: Breakthrough & Greater Detroit Student Anti-Communist Coalition, 1969. First edition. A gruesome assemblage of photographs "revealing but a sample of the cruelty, bestiality, murder and terror employed by the Communists to compel submission to their rule." Included are photos from Korea, Vietnam, China, East Germany, & Hungary. The rear page includes two photographs of dead children in Vietnam followed by details of a pro-Vietnam War demonstration in downtown Detroit. The publication's author and the demonstration's sponsor was Donald Lobsinger and his Catholic anti-Communist organization, Breakthrough. Lobsinger was an ex-serviceman who founded Breakthrough in 1963. The group was popular with ethnic whites in Detroit, especially Polish Catholics, and encouraged whites to arm themselves following the 1967 race riot in Detroit. Breakthrough's slogan was ‘America Forever, Communism Never' and is emblazoned on the rear wrapper. A co-sponsor of the demonstration, which took place Oct. 15,… Read More

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.

Amherst, MA: W.E.B. Du Bois Foundation, Inc, 1993. A beautiful magazine published for the October 4, 1993 tribute to the pioneering civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois held at Carnegie Hall. Edited by the writer-activist, Rob Okun, the program features a chronology of Du Bois' life, excerpts from his writings and speeches, testimonials from those who knew and worked with him, many photographs, and much more. The second half of the program features advertisements and statements of tribute. Glossy, stapled, illustrated wrappers (11" x 8 ½"), 48 p., illustrated. Some rubbing to wrappers and faint foxing to a few pages, but an about near fine copy. Less than a dozen copies held institutionally.

New York: The Mershon Company, 1899. Reprint. 12mo. (19 cm); 222 pp. Green ribbed cloth, floral blind-ruling; gilt spine & top edge. A Near Fine copy with some slight rubbing to spine ends; boards a trifle cocked. Although this U.S. reprint is undated, 1899 is the year given for publication in Gibson & Green's bibliography of Doyle.

New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, 1984. First edition. Octavo; brown boards printed in gold to spine; x, 198 pp.; dust jacket. Scarce critical biography of the Indian writer, Bhai Vir Singh, who was a mystical poet, novelist, playwright and biographer. Includes a chronology and bibliography. Some bubbling to cheap binding material, faint musty smell; the price-clipped dust jacket is lightly rubbed with sunning (?) to spine. A VG copy overall.

Wichita, Kansas: Defender Publishers, 1933. First edition. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 50, [2] pp (adverts), illustrations. A series of Biblical stories first discussed with the Wise children, Faith and Temple, and then expanded to include other children in their neighborhood. Written by Mrs. Gerald B. Winrod, the wife of the "Jayhawk Nazi," Gerald B. Winrod, a Protestant fundamentalist pastor who ran Defenders of the Christian Faith. He was a defendant in the Great Sedition Trial of 1944 and was an unabashed anti-Semite and anti-Communist. Adverts in the back are for Winrod's various pamphlets and publications available through his Defender Publishers. Very light wear to wrappers with some sunning along the edges; one penciled note along the gutter of p. 5. Despite going through two printings, we find no other copies offered in commerce (April, 2018) and only one copy (of the second printing) in WorldCat at Michigan State. None of this first printing.

Long Beach, CA: William J. Robson, 1974. An issue of this small press publication featuring an interview with "Queen of the Small Presses," poet Lyn Lifshin, followed by many of her poems. Also included are poems by Tony Quagliano and reviews of other small press publications. Side-stapled 11" x 8 ½" mimeographed sheets, 31 p. Cover photograph of Lifshin.

Los Angeles: "Morning Freiheit, 1963. A seemingly unrecorded broadside (8 ½" x 11" published by the Los Angeles branch of the "Morning Freiheit" and issued in the wake of the Slánský trial in Prague - regarded by many in the Jewish community as an anti-Semitic show trial. Refutes the fear-mongering whipped up by the mainstream Jewish press and instead accuses anti-Semitism of being ignored in West Germany, "Wall Street's partner." Further criticizes Ben-Gurion and the Israeli government of "harness[ing] itself to the war chariot of the American imperialists to make Israel 'an important stronghold against the Soviet union'." Concludes with a statement by the American Zionist leader, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, to a group of Zionist activists, on his refusal to declare Czechoslovakia or the Soviet Union as anti-Semitic. A few short years after this broadside was published, the Freiheit and its supporters would be forced to… Read More

Doylestown, Pa.: McGinty, Book and Job Printer, 1897. First edition. 12mo. (19.5 cm). Red cloth over beveled boards ornately stamped in black & gilt; decorative endpapers; 83 pp.; frontis illus. of the author. The sole edition of the sole novel by the Doylestown, PA, cabinetmaker and woodworker, Oliver Hohlbain. An uncommon title with only four copies located in WorldCat. Some rubbing to cloth with spine ends and corner tips a trifle worn; tissue guard is heavily foxed with lighter foxing to frontis and title page. Overall VG.

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.

San Antonio: Black Truth Journal, 1987. An issue of this conservative black political newsletter with this issue mainly focusing on the deleterious effects of sanctions in apartheid South Africa and the brutality of the ANC / UDF. Other content reports on the number of blacks serving in top level positions in the Reagan administration. We're unsure if this Black Silent Majority Committee was related to the National Black Silent Majority Committee founded by Clay Claiborne in 1970. A single sheet folded, 4 p., illus. ‘Newsletter" written in red along the top edge of the front page, Wilcox Collection stamp; old creases from mailing. Only Kansas holds any issue (this one).