[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..... More
Philadelphia: Published by the Grand Lodge, 1935. First edition. Octavo (9" x 6"); 435-884; two photographic plates. Original wrappers stamped in black. Some general scuffing, soiling, with a thin ribbon of dampstaining to the bottom page edges. Only VG. Includes all of the minutiae about the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania..... More
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..... More
Dover, N. H.: George J. Foster & Co., 1927. First edition. 12mo. Green buckram boards with gilt to front board & spine; 232 pp.; frontis; dust jacket. Two stories, one concerning a medical student's life in a Medical College and the other "a tale of love and adventure laid in..... More
Winona Lake, Indiana: The Brethren Missionary Herald Company, [ca. 1924]. Fourth Edition. A sermon delivered by the author at the First Brethren Church, Philadelphia, on April 3, 1921, in which he outlines the incompatibility of Masonry and Christianity. McClain bases his argument against Masonry on the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. Small, stapled..... More
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Union, N.J. Ivan Petrov, [196-]. In Who Belongs to Hate Groups, Petrov reprints 24 excerpts from the Talmud as "proof" of the Jews' desire to murder and enslave Gentiles. Further excerpts from various far right publications, including his own newspaper, “Borba,” document the inextricable link between Judaism and Communism. A...... More
[Philadelphia]: The Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, [1885]. First edition. Two early event announcements for the Philadelphia branch of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, a Mason offshoot better known today as the Shriners. The A.A.O.N.M.S. was first established in..... More
Washington, D.C.: The Supreme Council 33°, A.A.S.R., 1939. Reprint. Saddle-stapled orange wrappers printed in black; 31 pp. Freemasonry vs. the Catholic Church over education. First issued in 1930 following Pope Pius XI's encyclical letter on education, the Southern Jurisdiction of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry issued this..... More
[Chicago]: [Women's Voice], [ca. 1953]. An epistolary publication by Lyrl Clark van Hyning, in which she exposes Freemasonry as Jew-controlled, anti-Christian & anti-American. Although her father-in-law and husband were Masons, she claimed to have written 35 articles exposing Freemasonry's evil & destructive elements. van Hyning was one of the founders..... More
Philadelphia: Press of George C. Buchanan Company, 1919. First edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards with gilt-stamped front board; 91 pp.; plates. Welcome Lodge member, Robert Maxwell's copy. Maxwell appears to have been admitted in 1917. Provides an overview of the first 50 years of history of this Philadelphia-based Lodge. Also..... More