Search Results: Politics & Government from W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera

[German Democratic Republic: s.n., ca. 1982]. Poster, 81 x 57 cm. Offset print in blue, black, white, and yellow. Minor tears and wear at edges, else near fine. "No more teeth for this hyena." Early-1980s anti-American East German protest poster adapted from John Heartfield's 1932 photomontage, KRIEG UND LEICHEN - DIE LETZTE HOFFNUNG DER REICHEN ("War and corpses - The last hope of the rich") depicting a snarling hyena in a top hat. The poster replaces the hyena's teetch with white missiles and adds the caption, "USA-Raketen aus Westeuropa raus!" ("USA missiles out of western Europe!"). A rare survival.

Paris: Le centre de documentation anti-maçonnique et anti-marxiste, 1935. 7,[2],8-91 pp., including double-page chart, plus [2] pp. of publisher's advertisements. In French. Original printed wrappers. Newspaper clipping from August 29, 1940, on "Les responsabilités de la Maçonnerie" laid in.Wrappers moderately worn, front wrapper creased at upper-outer corner, contents toned, occasional contemporary pencil marks. Very good. A far-right, anti-Masonic, anti-Semitic screed listing scores of pro-masonic organizations and hundreds of contemporary "agents of freemasonry" in contemporary French politics and media by name. An illuminating double-page chart, "Pouvoir Occulte Judeo-Maçonnique," maps the collaboration between the Freemasons, Socialists, Communists, and bankers from their international organizations to their representation in the French Senate. The author, Henri Coston (1910-2001), enjoyed a long career of writing anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic tracts before, during, and after his enthusiastic… Read More

Paris: Librairie Maç, V. Gloton, 1930. 18.5 cm. 430,[2] pp. In French. Publisher's printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn at edges and lightly scuffed, leaves toned. Very good. Anti-Fascist work by the Italian journalist and anarcho-syndicalist Maria Rygier (1885-1953), examining the history of Freemasonry in Italy and the rise of Fascism in the context of anti-Masonic persecution. In 1914, committed to Italian interventionism in World War I, Rygier briefly worked as an editor at Mussolini's IL POPOLO D'ITALIA newspaper but was jailed the same year for syndicalist activism. By 1926, Rygier was openly opposing Mussolini and Fascism and fled to France, where she remained until the end of World War II. The preface of the book is written by noted French pacifist Lucien Le Foyer (1872-1952), who at the time of its publication was serving as the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of France.

[Jackson, Mississippi]: [Journal of Mississippi History], 1951. [13] pp. Self-wrappers, saddle-stapled. Lightly creased in upper margin, else fine. Offprint from THE JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI HISTORY, April, 1951. An paper on the lives and careers of Confederate military and political leaders from Mississippi after the Civil War, including Jefferson Davis, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, James L. Alcorn, Henry Stuart Foote, Francis Asbury Shoup, Stephen Dill Lee, and various others. The article concludes with the observation that "[i]n the years following Appomattox these men of ability regained their positions of leadership in the political, religious, educational and cultural life of the State .... [t]hose who fought under the Southern Cross remained to help and rebuild the state and to direct its destiny." The authors, William B. Hesseltine (1902-1963) and Larry Gara (1922-2019) co-wrote several articles together during at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, Hesseltine served on the faculty and Gara received… Read More

New York: [The author], 1970. First Edition. Broadside, 14 x 11 inches. Light toning at right edge, else fine. Poetry broadside by writer and photographer Denis Sivack, recounting scenes of the day of the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam mass demonstrations in New York. He drives in the morning from Staten Island, where he sees a Black army recuit staring into the distance, to Brooklyn, where he listens to variety of voices, including a representative of Women Strike for Peace, members of the Black Panthers, and the poet David Henderson, and finally to Washington Square in Greenwich Village, where he sees the statistics of the war dead on the Judson Memorial Church bulletin board and is left with the image of the darkness after a vigil's last candle "had burned to nothing and the last man had walked away." OCLC records two copies, at Brown and SUNY Buffalo (2017).

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1823. 24 pp. Original plain green wrappers, stitched. Contemporary ink ownership signature of "G. Bond" on front wrapper. Wrappers lightly chipped at spine ends and corners, light soiling to front wrapper and extreme fore-edge, else near fine. An anti-Calvinist pamphlet from the Unitarian Controversy of 1805-1835, insisting upon "right of thought" and separation of church and state as fundamentally Christian principles. The author targets Massachusetts's "orthodox party" of Congregationalist clergy as heirs to Constantine and Rome in their abuses of Christianity and mental enslavement of their churches' laity. Sabin attributes the work to John Lowell, Jr. (1769-1840), the prominent Federalist Massachusetts lawyer, prolific pseudonymous pamphleteer, and author several years earlier of "Are You a Christian or a Calvinist?" Sabin 42457.

[Cleveland]: [Printed by B. & R. Printing Co. for] Bérmunkás, [1932]. First Separate Edition. 16 pp. Pictorial wrappers, saddle-stapled. Later inscriptions in Agnes Inglis's hand (see below) on p. [1] noting pamphlet as gift from John Zara to the Labadie Collection. Lower-outer corner bumped, wrappers lightly worn. Very good. A talk, "Technocracy or Industrial Unionism," delivered on Cleveland's West Side for the local Hungarian arm of the I.W.W. by one of its members. The author, Andor Wiener (printed in the pamphlet in the Hungarian style, with surname first), presents the new Technocracy movement of Howard Scott et al., which advocated the replacement of price system-based forms of economy and government with industrial systems designed and maintained by scientists and engineers. Wiener supports the general theories of the Technocrats and belief that their proposed system could successfully replace capitalism in the industrial world but argues that the ideas will remain merely academic if they… Read More