Search Results: Nebraska from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Hardcover. xxiii, 242p., very good condition in an unclipped dust jacket with a sunned spine panel. Studies in Rural Culture.

Omaha, Nebraska: Chas. B. Hudson, 1948. Newsletter. Seventeen issues of the mimeographed newsletter, a "Weekly expose of un-Americanism in education, finance, labor, politics, and religion." Most issues are 8.5x11 inches, the last two being 8.5x14 inches. Some issues are edgeworn; some with oxidation around the staple. Issues present are nos. 126-129, 158, 182, 183, 210, 215, 218, 234, 247, 248, 254, 337, 420 and 422. Fervently anti-Communist and anti-Semitic fundamentalist newsletter. Includes local news about midwestern far right groups and preachers, as well as discussion of international affairs (calling for Jewish resettlement in Madagascar, etc.) Hudson was indicted for sedition during World War II.

Chicago: YourStyle Pub, 1982. Newspaper. 20p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, columns, news, ads, services, edgeworn and toned newsprint. Chicago LGBT weekly, previously bi-weekly and titled "Blazing Star" aka Gay Life and Chicago Gay Life.

Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska, 1980. Paperback. 209p., softbound, slightly shelfworn 9x6 inch wraps, covers and textpaper mildly toned, a little silverfishing and handling soil to front cover which also bears a library accession and withdrawn stamps. A sound, useful copy. Unversity of Nebraska studies, new series no. 63.

Omaha, Nebraska: Congress of Freedom, Inc, 1959. Newsletter. Six issues of the newsletter, in varying formats, some mimeographed. Issues present are vol. 1 no. 2-4, no. 5 (stapled together with two small pamphlets from the organization), vol. 2 no. 4 (a Convention issue, professionally printed 12 pages), vol. 3 no. 1, stapled together with cover letter, vol. 4 no. 2, and vol. 4 no. 5 (another Convention issue, 10 pages, professionally printed). A couple of issues have penciled notation describing them as anti-Semitic. Minor toning and handling wear. Includes criticisms of school desegregation, opposition to the UN, support for States Rights forces, etc.

Kearney, NE: Self-published by the author, 2013. Paperback. 102p., introduction, very good first edition trade paperback original in blue pictorial wraps. Collection of stories based on experiences of the Nebraska author including addiction to speed and a bisexual affair/friendship.

Lincoln, Nebraska: Charles W. Phillips, 1942. 4p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at corner, last page loose but present; three holes punched at left, handwritten notes on cover sheet. "Peek knows! Seditious? No! Revolt stuff!" This issue almost entirely devoted to reprinting a memorandum by Peek, "The drive for a new world order," warning of plots by the "internationalist bankers" and casting doubt on reasons for the US fight against the Axis. Formerly a New Deal Democrat, Peek had rejoined the GOP and turned sharply against the Roosevelt administration. "Devoted to past history and present news of the conflict between individualism and collectivism. In favor of the preservation of the American system, Christianity, and the right to private ownership of property. Against any collectivist 'ism.'

Aurora, CO: Inspire Higher International, 2005. Paperback. viii, 49p., wraps, illus., first edition of 500 copies, a clean sound copy. African American author; characters in her tale are named after emotional/psychic aspects of the protagonist, a feature surely inspired by Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

London: Privately Printed, 1976. Paperback. 147p., "one hundred copies printed for private distribution", a handsome expensive production, softbound in 10x7 inch blank wraps enclosed in a plain printed dust-jacket, illustrated by two fullpage photoportraits (well-reproduced), presswork on laid-lined paperstock. Cover is marred with a long sprinkle of red-ink dots (it barely missed title lettering) and streaks of offset dust-soil. Covers and to some extent the textblock itself are crimped and mishandled, and there is an inked presentation on ffep in an elderly hand. Not the greatest copy but a better-than "reading copy" and probably the only copy we'll ever see.

Lincoln, Nebraska, 1975. Newspaper. Six issues of the tabloid format newspaper, address stamp on cover, toned and somewhat edgeworn. Issues present are Vol. 3 nos. 19, 21-23, vol. 4 nos. 1 and 2. Coverage of the anti-war movement, gay liberation, local activism, etc.

Omaha: United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers, 1962. Pamphlet. 180p., card covers, "Local no. 60" penned on cover, else very good condition.

Washington: GPO, 1941. 8361-8693p., wraps slightly worn, occasional foxing throughout. On the movement of workers occasioned by shifts in defense-related employment (mainly agricultural) around Omaha, Nebraska.

Washington: GPO, 1941. 8219-8359p., wraps slightly worn, occasional foxing throughout. On the movement of workers occasioned by shifts in defense-related employment (mainly agricultural) around Hastings, Nebraska.

Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1942. Paperback. pp308-402, illustrated with b&w plates from photos, very good journal in trade paperback format, green printed wraps. Dykes not noted, Powell 940.

Ord. Nebraska: Ural R. Murphy :: Orion Magazine, 1955. Magazine. 32p., 5.5x8.5 inch magazine wraps; a couple small pen marks on front wrap, else in very good condition.

Lincoln, NE: Best Cellar Press, 1972. Pamphlet. [20]p., wraps. 8.75 x 5.5 in. Very Good. Poems, the author's first book, published while a sophomore at the University of Nebraska.

Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004. Paperback. vii + 244p., trade paperback, very good.

Omaha, Nebraska: the author, 1919. Ephemera. 7p., 8.5x11 inch sheets, apparently blue carbon copies of typed pages; signed on the last page. A duplicate from the archive of Olerich's friend, the anarchist Cassius V. Cook. Olerich states, "This is a brief synopsis of a chapter of my typewritten and artistically bound volumes of my "Philosophic History of the World-War," which I have just completed for publication. I treat the aspect of the World-War from the standpoint of the individual, the family, the municipality, the Nation, and the international relations as to the proper Peace Terms, Reconstruction Methods, the League of Nations and the present and probable future upheavals along the lines of social and industrial Evolution; that practically all wars have been Rulers' Wars and that the plain common people who fought the battles and paid the enormous bills have invariably been the dupes and burden-bearers." Argues that "Besides the Reconstruction of International and National character before… Read More

Lincoln: Sponsored by the Ben Franklin Club of Lincoln, Woodruff Printing, 1940. Paperback. 80p., preface, appendix, illustrated with b&w photos ,first edition trade paperback in lightly worn tan pictorial wraps with bump to front wrap along right deckled edge, small stain to right of title. [American Guide Series]. Dykes 176, Powell 948.

[Lincoln, NE]: D&L Publications, 1994. Pamphlet. 42p., wraps, one page creased else very good condition, 5.5x8.5 inches. Promotional piece for water distillation equipment made by Pure Water, Inc.