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

Habana: Ucar, García y Cía, 1938. A pamphlet by the Cuban academic on the new historical consciousness Stapled, illustrated wrappers (6 " x 9"), 22 p. Edgewear, rubbing to wrappers.

[New York]: Workers Armed Defense Group, 1970. A single issue of this Marxist-Leninist newsletter and predecessor to "Red Star," organ of the Red Women's Detachment. In this issue, "Class War!" on the realization "that a peaceful solution to the class struggle is impossible;" an excerpt from Lenin's "The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution;" "Historical Notes on Workers and Armed Defense Groups;" reprint from "Liberation, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Marxist-Leninist journal published by the Communist Party of India), "A Few Words About Guerrilla Actions" by Charu Maumdar. Eight corner-stapled 8 ½" x 11" yellow sheets mimeographed on rectos only. ¾" closed tear to front sheet, else Fine.

[Elmira, N. Y.]: The Summary Press, 1927. Octavo (23.5 cm); 92 pp of text; 80 pp. of plates; large fold-out plate of New York State Reformatory Inmate Military Organization measuring approximately 48 x 18.5". Red, gilt-stamped cloth; corners bumped and a trifle worn. Previous owner's name stamped to bottom edge and title page verso. Easily a very good plus copy with the scarce fold-out plate affixed to the front endpaper. Curiously the 1916 edition seems to be less scarce then this later edition of the hand book, but regardless, we find no other copies with the fold-out plate still attached. Elmira was established "for the reception of male felons, between the ages of sixteen and thirty, not previously convicted of any crime punishable by imprisonment in a state prison," and first began receiving prisoners in 1876. This hand book outlines in detail, and with nearly 100 black & white photographs, the duties of the inmates and the physical description of the many buildings and… Read More

Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, 1973. First edition. Thirty-six loose sheets making 72 pp. housed in the original printed envelope. With contributions from Katy Akin, Donna Brook, Jan Clausen, Bette Disttler, Hash Flash & G. P. Skratz, Daniela Gioseffi, Maria Gitlin, Robert Hershon, Faye Kicknosway, Michael Lally, Stephen Leggett, Margo Lockwood, Michael Lopes, Myles O'Malley, Miguel Ortiz, Eugene Pool, John Ratti, Susan Rea, Steven Schrader, Philip Schultz, Aaron Shurin, Ed Stone, Cornelia Veenendaal, Keith Wilson, William Zander. With high school contributions from Samuel Kashner, Naomi Miller and Eve Remba. Contents Near Fine with some creasing to corners of the first sheet. Some creasing and wear to envelope with small chunk missing from flap.

Brooklyn: Hanging Loose, 1972. First edition. Thirty-six loose sheets making 72 pp. housed in the original printed envelope. Timothy Aurthur contributes a poem "To Bayard Rustin; other contributions from Gordon Bishop, Harley Elliott, John Eskow, Claudia Lee Gary, John Gill, Ben Goldberg, Jim Hawks, Halvard Johnson, Susan Cartoun Juhasz, Jim Kobylecky, Jacqueline Lapidus, Clive Matson, Carol Moran, Ron Overton, Rochelle Ratner, Martin J. Rosenblum, James Gustafson, Helen Saslow, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Peter Sears, John Oliver Simon, Arthur Sze, Patricia Traxler, Pete Winslow, and Jay Wright. With high school contributors Richard Carlin, Joe Haddad, William Henry Hogeland III, Naomi Miller and Ronnie Rom. Contents Fine, envelope is rubbed and both flaps are opened.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Octavo. Pastel-striped paper over blue cloth with paper spine label; 140 pp.; dust jacket. First edition, second state binding limited to 215 copies. This was the smallest print run of the 1500 first edition copies spread across three binding states. With the exceedingly scarce, unsophisticated dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with scant rubbing to board edges and one small stain to top of spine label; page edges a trifle browning along the top and small bookseller's ticket to rear endpaper, else Fine internally. The unclipped ($2.00) dust jacket is Very Good with some surface soiling and a small chunk missing to crown (not affecting title); 1" hairline crack along joint fold. We find zero copies of either the first or state binding with the dust jacket currently in the trade (June, 2015).

Salt Lake City: Ensign Publishing Co, 1962. An argument that Kennedy's soft policies toward the Soviet Union relinquished Cuba to Communism. Stapled wrappers (8 ½" x 5 ½"), map to front cover, 11 p. Rubbing to wrappers, foxing to rear wrapper.

St. Albans, W. Va: Published by the author, 1939. A pamphlet accusing Congressman Martin Dies and his Dies Committee of betraying American patriots by smearing them as Nazis and Fascists at the behest of his Jewish handlers. He labels the Committee "a Jewish OGPU" and rebukes it for suppressing the anti-Semitic statement of Major General George Van Horn Moseley. Deatherage, who at this time was operating the Knights of the White Camellia, was investigated by the Dies Committee and was later one of the defendants in the Great Sedition Trial. In 1937, with the backing of Leslie Fry, he established the American Nationalist Confederation to unite many of the disparate groups on the extreme right. He used the swastika as the group's symbol. Stapled, self-wrappers (6 " x 5"), 12 p. A Fine copy. Five copies in OCLC.

Miami: Published by the author, 1965. Tenth edition. 8vo; stapled, illustrated wrappers, 48 pp, photograph. The author rails against Methodism's soft stance against Communism and racial integration. A VG copy with a 1.5" split at the crown, some creasing to rear wrapper.

Istanbul: I il Matbaasi, 1947. First edition. Original printed wrappers (5 ½" x 8"), 44, [2] pp. Faint foxing and wear to wrappers, bottom corner bumped; cheap paper browning, some pages uncut, VG overall. Three copies in WorldCat at Harvard, Oxford and Bogazici Univ. in Istanbul. Scarce. In Turkish. A response by the Turanist-racist writer, Nejdet Sancar, after he was fired from his teaching position for refusing to attend a welcome ceremony for Turkish Minister of Education, Hasan li Yücel. Sancar was a core figure in a militant group of Turanist-racists led by his older brother, Nihâl Atsiz, the most important 20th century racist ideologue in Turkey. Both brothers were arrested during the government crackdown on the Turanist movement and were tried during the so-called 'Racism-Turanism Trials'. They both remained important right wing figures in post-WWII Turkey with both dying in 1975.

New York: HealthRight, Inc, 1976. An issue of this women's health tabloid featuring an article by Sharon Lieberman and the Healthright Collective titled "Labor Pains: Occupational Health in America," an interview with a female Chilean dentist who was tortured under Pinochet's military dictatorship, "Eating Right in America: A Bibliography," regional reports, Health News Briefs, etc. Tabloid format printed on higher quality paper, 8 p., illus. Old folds, light wear.

Philadelphia: [Press of Allen, Lane & Scott], 1905. First edition thus. Republished from the Masonic Disciple and Printed for Private Circulation. Octavo. Original brown, staplebound wrappers stamped in black; 56 pp. A scarce Masonic title. No copies currently in commerce (2015) and not found in OCLC. The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania shows a copy in their OPAC, and other Masonic libraries may have holdings as well, but certainly uncommon. Arthur "Pard" Bloomer (1853-1908) was a printer and member of Columbia Typographical Union No. 101 and a Mason connected with many chapters. His "Ante-room Talks" were "brief suppositious conversations" meant to rectify the surfeit of "Masonic literature that is extremely heavy and runs to preachments." He died suddenly of uremic poisoning An about Very Good copy with some general rubbing, creasing and foxing to wrappers and some chipping at spine ends and small loss to corners. Very Good internally.

New York: American League Against War and Fascism, 1936. An anti-William Randolph Hearst pamphlet courtesy of the American League Against War and Fascism, in which the author quotes many of the founding fathers and other notable Americans as a juxtaposition to the "Americanism" exemplified by Hearst in his newspapers: "Deportation, Government by and for the Rich, Submission and War." Hearst is also accused of being an ally to Hitler and the Nazi Party. The American League Against War and Fascism was a CPUSA front group that existed from 1933 to 1937 when it became the American League for Peace and Democracy. It dissolved in 1939. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (8 ¼" x 5 ¼"), 24 p. Stamp of the Maritime Book Shop, San Francisco to the front wrapper; wear along the spine.

[New York]: American Committee for the Relief of Russian Children, 1921. A grim poster issued by the American Committee for the Relief of Russian Children, one of the first U.S. organizations to raise support for starving children during Russia's famine of 1921-22. Organized by radicals and progressives in NYC, members included Crystal Eastman, John Haynes Holmes, Dr. Henry Neuman, Walter Lippman, Clare Sheridan, and Paxton Hibben. The poster's illustration appears to have come from the Jewish-Lithuanian artist Samuel Zagat, long-time cartoonist for the Jewish Daily Forward, as well as The Masses, the Jewish Morning Journal, and the Hat Worker. Offset lithograph printed in black on fragile white stock (11" x 15 ¾"), which at some point was mounted to more durable brown paper. Union bug to the bottom margin. Creasing, edge tears, and one corner slightly chipped.

[New Delhi]: Arnold-Heinemann, 1984. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). Black cloth boards with silver-titled spine; genealogy chart endpapers; 259 pp.; photographs; dust jacket. Through a biography of her mother, a French woman who married Indian aristocracy, the author "brings alive the city of Hyderabad, a conglomerate of various cultures, religions and backgrounds forming a harmonious whole. The familial, social, cultural and political milieu of the pre-Independence Hyderabad, its Nizams, nawabs, ladies and poor as well as the changes wrought by time, all form part of this delightful book" (from the jacket flap). A Near Fine copy in a Very Good, unclipped, dust jacket. Some rubbing and minor chipping to tail; ink stain to crown, although mostly visible to verso. Uncommon in the trade, with no other copies currently found for sale (Nov. 2016).

Springfield, Missouri: Bible Baptist Tribune, 1964. Third printing. Very Good. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 61 pp. From a series of articles originally published in the "Bible Baptist Tribune," of which the author was editor. A criticism of radio evangelist, Herbert Armstrong, and his hubris and British Israelite theology. Smith brands Armstrong's enterprise as a cult and says that if Peter, John, and Paul were here that they'd clobber him mercilessly. Some browning to wrappers and title page with light dampstaining evident along lower spine.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First edition. Small octavo. Red cloth titled in yellow to spine; 215, [1] pp.; map; photographic plates; dust jacket. Published while the Spanish Civil War still raged, this book sympathetically portrays the successful defence of the Alcázar of Toledo by Colonel Moscardó and his vastly outnumbered troops. A propaganda coup for Spanish nationalists, the defence of the Alcázar became one of the most enduring symbols of resistance toward Spanish republicanism. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good, unclipped dust jacket. Spine browned; some light chipping to spine ends and general rubbing.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. First edition. Octavo (20 cm); viii, [2], 180, [1] pp.; frontispiece; ill. Mustard yellow cloth printed in light blue. A very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Cloth is slightly rubbed and darkened; darkened spine; book seller's label to bottom of front endpaper. A clean and tight copy of this scarce title. First published as a story in the Atlantic Monthly, this allegedly true tale concerns buried treasure in Syria.

Merrimac, Massachusetts: Destiny Publishers. First edition. Fine. Stapled wrappers (7 ¾" x 4"), 10, [2] pp. Biblical exegesis of the term "Overcomer," or the select few who will sit beside Christ when he retakes his throne. From Howard Rand's Destiny Publishers. Uncommon.

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1926. Third printing. New and Cheaper edition. Octavo. Orange cloth stamped in red; blue topstain; xxiii, 296 pp.; frontispiece; dust jacket. A Very Good copy with some errant scuffing; clean internally. The scarce dust jacket is price-clipped, rubbed and browned to spine with chunks missing from spine ends. Good+.