New Milford, NJ: Maranatha Press, 1972. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, 4 pp, photographs. A promotional piece announcing Jesus Joy!, a Jesus movement musical event featuring Maranatha, Rock Garden, Danny Taylor, Andrae Croch and the Disciples, and Lillian Parker. In Jeanne DeFazio's Berkeley Street Theatre: How Improvisation and Street Theater..... More
[Milan?], [1984]. An 11 ¾” x 16 ½” poster for Amebix’s show in Milan at Virus club featuring local support acts Peggio Punx, Diffondere Uguaglianza, FDM and L’Inizio della Fine. This tour followed the band’s “No Sanctuary” 12” released by Southern Records in November, 1983. As vocalist/bassist Rob ‘The Baron’..... More
Milford, Ohio: J. B. Printing Ministry, ©1985. First edition. As opined by evangelist Dr. Joe M. Boyd in his foreword, “Nothing in society has been as vile and destructive to human morals, or more damning to the young people of today, than the rock culture.” Corle describes the ways that..... More
Aransas Pass, Texas: Walter Ardrell Riggs, ©1924. First edition. Unbound illustrated wrappers (9 ¼” x 12 ¼”), 6 pp. A small stain to the margin of p. 2, else a Fine copy. 10 copies in WorldCat. Pro-Klan sheet music featuring a lithographed cover of mounted Klansman holding an American flag and..... More
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New York: Sing Out, Inc., 1959-60. Fourth printings. Two left-wing song compilations published by the radical folk music magazine, “Sing Out.” The People’s Song Book was originally published in 1948 followed by The Second People’s Song Book in 1953. In his Foreword to the original song book, Alan Lomax refers..... More
Moscow: Moscow State Publishing Office, 1932. First edition. 4to., wrappers, 72 pp. Quadrilingual collection of musical scores and lyrics of revolutionary songs divided into old Russian songs and newer compositions.The four languages are English, German, Polish and French. The previous owner’s name is penned to the top of the front..... More
New York: Unicorn Press, Inc., ©1964. First edition. A satirical collection of conservative folk songs meant to “liberate this traditional American art form from the tyranny of assorted Beatniks and Pinkos.” A collaboration between sardonic political journalist, Noel Parmentel, Jr. and Maine humorist, Marshall Dodge, with drawings by satirist, David..... More
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Cambridge: Published by the museum, 1904. First edition. Octavo. Original brown wrappers stamped in black; 23-63 pp. followed by seventeen leaves of plates. A detailed report of two excavations conducted under the auspices of Harvard's Peabody Museum by Mr. W. C. Farabee and Charles Peabody in Coahoma County, Mississippi, in..... More
n.p., n.d. Reprint. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers; 44 pp.; photographs. The definitive biography of Skrewdriver and Ian Stuart Donaldson, by his friend, Joe Pearce, who would later convert to Catholicism, renounce his Far Right views, and pen numerous biographies of leading Catholic writers such as G. K. Chesterton & Hilaire Belloc..... More
New York: Picture Magazine, 1969. 4to; magazine format, 74 pp, illus. A single issue of the strangely uncommon countercultural music magazine, which includes interviews with musicians Grace Slick and Frank Zappa and hobo Richard Wilson, “the Pennsylvania Kid;” an article by Nat Hentoff on Republican John Lindsay and one on..... More
London: Ripped & Torn, 1978. First edition. Corner-stapled, photocopied covers; 12 sheets of paper for 24 pp. (mis-paginated - super punk); photographs throughout. The 10th issue of this seminal punk rock fanzine started in Glasgow in 1976. This issue features a David Bowie interview, a whiny editorial on Richard Hell..... More
New York: Richard Ellington, 1959. Second edition. A collection of satirical songs collected by Dave Van Ronk and Dick Ellington, two NYC-based anarchists and IWW members, who were both members of the Libertarian League. The songs are irreverent and lampoon communists, socialists, capitalists, racists, politics, religion, etc., and include titles..... More
Houston: The Anson Jones Press, 1948. First edition. A biography of New Orleans pianist, Mercedes Le Corgne Paulsen, who was a decades long fixture at Pat O’Brien’s bar in the French Quarter. Written by a young Houston reporter, Fannie B. Campbell Welsh. Inscribed by Welsh and signed by Mercedes to..... More
London, Edinburgh & New-York: T. Nelson & Sons, [ca. 1845]. First edition. 12mo (18cm). Red cloth stamped in gilt to front board; all edges gilt; [26] pp.; engravings. A selection of hymns with accompaniment for the organ or pianoforte by A. Wright, organist at Carr's Lane Chapel, Birmingham. No date..... More