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..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. Three articles on the success achieved by Chao Pu-yu and colleagues in using acupuncture to treat deaf-mutes in China. Their research and observation was based on their commitment to Mao's philosophical works and the use of materialist dialectics. Stapled, illustrated wrappers, ii, 35 pp. Small..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. Three articles on the success achieved by Chao Pu-yu and colleagues in using acupuncture to treat deaf-mutes in China. Their research and observation was based on their commitment to Mao's philosophical works and the use of materialist dialectics. Stapled, illustrated wrappers, ii, 35 pp. Small..... More
Denver: American Inventors Corp. 1979. A comprehensive report for an invention by a Mrs. Jean Watson called the “Tylerloo,” a “combination exerciser/toy for people of all ages, [which] consists of rubberized or plastic tire which is guided and maneuvered with dual sticks.” The report begins with a letter from American..... More
Millbrae, CA: Tesla Book Company, [1982?]. This scarce publication from the Tesla Book Company features T. E. Bearden's paper, "Comments on the New Tesla Electromagnetics, Part I: Discrepancies in Present EM Theory and Part II: The Secret of Electrical Free Energy" (based on his Scalar Electromagnetics) followed by Dr. Rolf..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First American edition. Although the Czech writer Karel Capek (1890-1938) was best known for his early science fiction stories, in The Gardener's Year he writes with wit about his passion of gardening, With illustrations by his brother, Josef. 12mo. Green pictorial paper boards..... More
[Philadelphia]: Press of J. B. Lippincott Company, 1916. Offprint from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, Feburary, 1916. Stapled wrappers, 163-190 pp. Author's compliments card laid in. Some light wear to wrapper edges. More
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Santa Barbara: Annular Publications, 1970-73. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format printed on newsprint; various pagination, from 8 to 18 pp.; all illustrated. A scarce semi-unbroken run of this newsletter edited and published by engineer and amateur space enthusiast, Donald Lee Cyr. Cyr self-published Life on Mars (1944) at the age..... More
East Stroudsburg, Pa. Press Publishing Company, [1930]. A pamphlet on the increasing adoption of Darwinian scientism both within the Christian church and among the public. The author argues that if progress is the result of survival-of-the-fittest evolution that scientists should cease trying to find cures for disease and pastors should..... More
London: Britons Publishing Society, 1961. First printing. This booklet combines a lecture given by George at Dartmouth College in 1956 (Human Progress and the Race Problem) and his pamphlet, “Race, Heredity and Civilization.” The publisher’s forward addresses a British audience and the “major colour problem in Britain.” George’s consistent thesis..... More
London: The Fuller Engineering Company, 1920? 24.5 x 18.5 cm; 24 pp.; illus. Saddle-stapled booklet, staples oxidized and bleeding a little. Some general rubbing with a few marks of soiling to rear cover, but overall a Very Good copy. This article was originally printed in "The Textile Recorder" and seems..... More
[New York?]: n.p., [1950]. A dense Marxist critique of bourgeois race essentialism and the subsequent white chauvinism and racism that distorts science and medical research. The authors views race through an anthropological, serological, and physical lens and "criticize Dobzhansky's genetic definition of race, as presented in Heredity Race and Society..... More
Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., 1927. First Edition. In his pioneering book, ex-Michigan governor and world traveler Chase Salmon Osborn expounds on the Earth's movements citing many historical examples of earthquakes, ancient continents, ice sheets, the effect of the moon, etc. He devotes a later chapter to Dayton Miller's Etherdrift experiments..... More
Trenton: John L. Murphy Pub. Co., 1892. First edition. Folio (30 cm); 402 pp.; L (50) plates, most with numerous figures. Black, gilt-stamped cloth with gilt to spine nearly worn away. Cloth is dust-soiled with wear and fraying to edges and upper front joint; front hinge cracked, but secure, rear..... More
San Francisco: Nova News, ©1971. A bizarre argument for nuclear disarmament in the form of scientific, occult, and political images and diagrams that are somehow related to the author’s Nova Formula. Comic book format (6 ¾” x 9 ¾”), [24], illus. Split from the bottom of the spine up to..... More
[Vista, California]: [Borderland Sciences Research Associates], [1960]. The publisher refers to this as “one of the earliest and most curious of all Borderland projects.” “Two Inventors Return” was originally published in the May 1949 issue of “Round Robin,” the newsletter of Borderland founder, Meade Layne, and was written by J...... More