London: The Social Credit Party of Great Britain (The Green Shirts), 1935. A single issue of the Social Credit Party organ featuring a profile of Green Shirt Officer, Wilfred Townend, Social Credit Party Candidate for S. Leeds and the sole Party candidate to stand in the General Election of 1935..... More
Chicago: SDS, 1969. An uncommon SDS publication calling for a National Action in Chicago on October 11, 1969. This action became famously known as the Days of Rage, an inept attempt by the Weathermen faction of SDS to “bring the war home” by rioting in the streets of Chicago. The..... More
[Philadelphia]: Office of the District Superintendent, District One, Locke School, [196-?]. An 8 ½” x 11” mimeographed flyer announcing a talk at Locke School on the topic of “Inner Tensions and Gang Conflict in the Community.” The event was co-sponsored by the Educational Equality League, which was founded in 1932..... More
Chicago: The Story-Press Corporation, 1914. 4to (25 x 17.5 cm); illustrated wrappers with yap edges; 369-528 pp.; illus. A single issue of this publication initially published as "The Green Book Album" before becoming "The Green Book Magazine" in 1912. According to the "Oxford Companion to American Theatre," it "featured 'novelized'..... More
London: The Judaic Publishing Company, Ltd., 1920. A single issue of the Britons’ anti-Semitic journal, which began as “Jewry Über Alles” in February, 1920, and changed names to “The Hidden Hand” with the August, 1920, issue. All of the content, like that for previous issues, is primarily unsigned or pseudonymous..... More
San Francisco: Kalayaan International, 1972. A single issue of the radical Filipino-American tabloid published in San Francisco. This issue features coverage of flooding in the Philippines, opposition to the Marcos regime, the Statehood Movement, the death of a Filipino-American at the hands of the SFPD, the International Hotel campaign, Central..... More
[Philadelphia]: [National Conference of Black Social Workers], 1969. One 8 ½” x 11” sheet (pre-registration form) and two 8 ½” x 14” sheets, one landscape all mimeographed on rectos only. The pre-registration form is blank and has a small piece missing from the bottom left corner with scribbled notes to..... More
Mount Vernon, Washington: The Concord Press, [ca. 1939]. A small two-sided poster that warns of the Jewish attempt to instigate another world war for the benefit of International Jewry. The recto features excerpts from a 1921 interview with Henry Ford who discusses Jewish involvement in WWI as fulfillment of the..... More
Los Angeles: Keep America Committee, [1956]. A pro-segregation flyer compiled by the Keep America Committee, an anti-Semitic, nationalist organization primarily run by Ms. Helen W. Courtois in Los Angeles. The recto reprints an article that originally appeared in “The County Record” in Williamsburg Co., SC, by Black minister, Rev. Webster..... More
[Los Angeles]: [American White Guard], [1937]. A 4 ¼” x 4 ” sticker featuring the “Coat of Arms of the CIO,” which is an illustration of two Jews sitting back-to-back hiding bombs and cudgels under their winged cloaks. Listed are eight Jewish CIO leaders and an acronym for the USSR..... More
New York: Vim Publishing Company, 1905. First edition. 12mo; red cloth lettered in black, vi, [11], 2-215 pp, [5] pp. (adverts). INSCRIBED by the author to “Dr.” Charles Pichel, an eccentric conman, traditionalist Catholic and obsessive anti-Communist who headed the spurious Shickshinny Knights of Malta. Tipped in to the rear..... More
Worcester, Massachusetts: Printed by Shield Press, ©1970. First edition. A collection of poems by the Worcester poet and playwright, Corrine Bostic (1927-1981), who, in the collection’s first poem, “My Vanity Is the Lord’s,” states her obligation as a Black poet to “pour out / The lamentations of my people.” In..... More
New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1908. First edition. The author describes popular ghost occurrences from a skeptical point of view, providing explanations based on recent scientific research (early 20th century), primarily in the field of psychology, like suggestion and hallucinations, using also his beliefs on mesmerism and telepathy. He..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. First edition. Twelvemo. Red cloth boards with gilt spine; 104 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. An about Near Fine copy with some dust-soiling to cloth and page edges in a Very Good dust jacket, which is rubbed and dust-soiled with some minor chipping to..... More
London: The Annals of Psychical Science, 1909. First edition. 12mo. Green paper-covered boards with title stamped in blue to front board; 52 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. Carrington's investigation into Indian fakirs, in which he endeavored to "examine the evidence for the genuine phenomena, and [to] explain the tricks and fraudulent..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. Octavo (20.5 cm); green cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black over beveled boards; iv, 326 pp., [6] pp., adverts. First published in 1877, de Amicis' evocative account of Constantinople remains one of the most popular depictions of the city and was republished..... More
Boston: T. Bedlington, 1827. First edition. 16mo. (14.5 cm). Limp vellum stamped in black & red to spine; top edge gilt; vii, 345 pp.; engravings. The best known work from the popular London clergyman who was hanged for forgery. Some foxing to vellum and paper; two Shakespeare-related articles pasted to..... More
London: John Murray, 1900. Second printing. Octavo; blue, gilt-stamped buckram; top edge gilt, others deckle; xvi, 298, [4] pp.; frontispiece, plates, maps, color fold-out map in rear. The author, Military Secretary to the Viceroy of India, recounts his service and "tells of a constant struggle to raise a stretch of..... More
Berkeley: Insurgent Press, 1951. Stapled mimeographed wrappers (5” x 8 ½”), [32] pp. Some toning to cheap paper, a few chips and closed tears along the top edge, VG. Four copies of this issue in OCLC (NYU, Harvard, UC Davis, National Library of Australia). Apparently the sole issue of this..... More
Atlanta: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Incorporated, 1928. A single issue of the Klan’s official magazine primarily focused on opposing Gov. Al Smith’s campaign for the Presidency and Roman Catholicism more broadly. Content includes commentary on Smith’s speech before Tammany Hall, including his support of more lax immigration laws..... More
New York: John T. Flynn, 1946. In 1946, the mystery writer Rex Stout, on behalf of the Writers’ Board, sent out a letter to writers urging them to boycott advertising in the Chicago Tribune’s Literary Supplement due to that paper’s “anti-everything the world needs and hopes for” policy. The right-wing..... More
n.p., n.d. Nine corner-stapled 8½” x 11” mimeographed sheets printed rectos only. An influential essay from the one-time Maoist and co-founder of Revolutionary Union, H. Bruce Franklin, which initially appeared in RU’s Red Papers 2, and later “Modern Review.” Franklin resituates the Marxian term ‘lumpenproletariat’ to describe the section of..... More
New York: A. Cloyd Gill, ©1940. A scarce chart (17 ¼” x 22”) created and compiled by A. Cloyd Gill showing the many subversive organizations connected to the American Youth Congress, a youth organization founded in 1935 to address problems facing young people in the 1930s. The AYC attracted many..... More
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Philadelphia: Henry Longstreth, 1860. First American edition. First American edition. Two octavo volumes (23 cm); viii, 478 pp.; viii, 492 pp.; tissue-protected engraved frontispiece of Grellet by John Sartain in vol. 1; vol. 2 has an engraved frontis of the Grellet home in Burlington, NJ. Publisher's brown, pebbled cloth with..... More
Hannover: Niedersächfische Lageszietung GmbH, [ca. 1938]. First edition. 8vo; stapled, swastika-emblazoned wrappers, 47 pp. In German. Some chipping to wrapper fore-edge with a few chunks missing. An enumeration of the 25-point program of the NSDAP, publicly proclaimed by Hitler in 1920. Each point is followed by a list of dates..... More