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New York, NY: The Fund for the Republic, 1964. 21 x 28 cm. One of a series of Occasional Papers by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Introduction by Harry S. Ashmore. Edward Lamb, labor lawyer,publisher, broadcaster, relates how he was dropped into the McCarthy Communist Witch-Hunt Proceedings. In 1952 he had been prominently identified with the Adlai Stevenson Presidential Campaign, and 1953 was the start of a Republican administration. August Scholle. Louis Budenz. Joseph Kintner. Edward T. Cheyfitz. Nelson Meagley. Marie Natvig. Anti-Communist. Paper booklet, lightly soiled, very good. . Catalogs: Cold War/History/Anti-Communism.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1913. 15 x 23 cm. Selection of a breed; artificial and natural incubation and brooding; common diseases: canker, chicken pox, colds and roup, scaly legs, diarrhea in hens, gapes. Paper booklet, good. . Catalogs: Educational/Agriculture.

New York, NY: The American Council on Soviet Relations, ca. 1941. 13.4 x 20.3 cm. Dr. Corliss Lamont delivered speech in Madison Square Garden on July 12, 1941 at mass meeting on behalf of American-Soviet cooperaiton to defeat Hitler. This speech forms introduction to pamphlet. Introduction includes words from ""Song of the Motherland"" including ""I know of no other country where men can breathe so freely...Our proudest and dearest word is Comrade. We are friends of all races..."" Book compares Nazi Germany to USSR, noting that on June 22, 1941 Nazi Germany launched its unprovoked attack upon the Soviet Union. Soviet Union loves peace, Nazis are permanently ready for war. Soviet Russia is a free brotherhood of peoples; Nazi Germany ruthlessly persecutes minorities. Soviets have socialized economy operated for use; Nazi Germany is a monopolist economy run for profits. Russia: Expaning Trade Unions; Germany: Destroying trade Unions. Russia: Emancipating Women; Germany: Degrading Women. Suggested… Read More

Concord, MA: The Erudite, 1902. 12 x 18 cm. "I know the world, for I have traveled many years in Concord."" --Thoreau. This home of Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Hawthorne and Fuller, was also the place where on April 19, 1689 the Concord Militia assembled in order to march to Boston to assist in the overthrow of Governor Andros. Eighty-six years later, on the same date, the militia was drawn to the common to begin its struggle in the War of the Revolution. Paper periodical, pencil address written on cover, fair. . Catalogs: Travel/History.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903. 15 x 23 cm. Up to now, most of the important research in feeding of horses has been done in Germany and France. Principles of Nutrition. Composition of feeding stuffs. Table includes feeding stuffs and digestible materials in 100 pounds. Corn fodder, alsike clovers, oat, wheat, rye fodder; corn, sorgum, red-clover silage; barley, oat, wheat hay; potatoes, carrots; corn meal, ground oats, corn-and-cob meal, gluten meal, linseed meal and beet-sugar molasses. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Farming/Forestry.

New York, NY: American Tract Society, 1877. 17 x 22 cm. Bible stories: The Holy Child, The Two Brothers, Going into the Ark, etc. Paper booklet, frontis on heavy cardboard, coming loose from staple binding. Good. . Catalogs: Religious/Children.

Chicago, IL: Latz Foundation, Republic Building, �1934. 10 x 15 cm. Discussion of the physiological, practical, and thical aspects of the discoveries of Drs. K. Ogino (Japan) and H. Knaus (Austria) regarding the periods when conception is impossible and when possible. Dark blue cloth on board, very good. . Catalogs: Educational/Scientific/birth control.

St. Louis, MO: The Medical Brief, Ninth and Olive Streets, 1907. 16.8 x 25.2 cm. Medical Journal. ""Pharmacological Actions and Therapeutic Uses of Manganese"" by D.F. Phillips, M.D., F.R.C.S., includes data on experiments with Manganese Bromide on frogs. ""Opium Eating and Smoking"" by Donald MacLaren, M.A., M.D. ..""There is nothing immoral in smoking opium. Morals are pretty much a question of geography."" ""A New Operation for Large Oblique Inguinal Hernias"" by James C. Barnhill, A.M., Ph.D., M.D. ""The Injection Treatment of Syphilis"" by J.W. Handly, M.D. ""Recto-Colonic Feeding"" by Charles J. Drueck, M.D.""Diseases of the Breast"" by Alfred de Roulet, B.S., M.D. includes several illustrations of carcinoma of the breast. Author calls use of caustics and cancer pastes as ""relics of surgical barbarism"". ""General Remarks of the Pelvic Floor"" by Byron Robinson, B.S., M.D. includes detailed illustrations. Ads for Morphine Home Cure, Empire Elastic Bandage for Adominal Support, Armour & Co.… Read More

Portland, ME: L.H. Nelson Co, 1905. 20 x 25 cm. This is an adoring portrait of the founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, intended for children. Frances Willard was born in 1839 in Churchville, NY; when she was two, family moved to Oberlin, OH, then moved to Janesville, WI. In 1871 she became president of Evanston College for Ladies. Frances became involved in the temperance movement, and with Neal Dow, the ""apostle of temperance"" soon organized the WCTU. She died in 1898. Paper booklet, cover worn, lightly soiled, fair. . Catalogs: Biography.

New York, NY: International Publishers, �1934. 12.5 x 19 cm. 8 page introduction by Alexander Trachtenberg, dated May, 1934; ""letter"" by Lenin is dated August 20, 1918. English imperialist cutthroats; German imperialist cutthroats; American billionaires.. Lenin's message of resentment and hate. Propaganda. Paper booklet. Very good. . Catalogs: History/Propaganda.

New York, NY: International Publishers, 1932. 13.5 x 19.6 cm. Alexander Trachtenberg writes the Editor's Foreword, explaining the context in which Lenin wrote these words, in 1917. Lenin warns that a famine is approaching, points to the complete inactivity of the Russian government under Kerensky. He points to the ""bamboozlement"" of the unenlightened, there are measures, and he identifies them: Unification of all banks into one, and nationalisation; Nationalisation of the syndicates (sugar, naptha, coal, etc.); Abolition of commercial secrets; Compulsosry syndication; Compulsory consumers' associations, and control over them. Lenin notes that both America and Germany create a ""military prison"" for the workers. [From Rabochy Put, Sept. 29, 1917, by N. Lenin.] Paper booklet, moderate wear, good. . Catalogs: History/Communism.

Jersey City, NJ: Reed & Carnrick, �1902. 11 x 16 cm. Booklet tells mothers how to care for newborns, with many pages about disease, menus, and advertisements for Carnrick's Lacto-Preparata, Soluble Food, and Zymocide. Paper booklet with picture of girl on cover. Cover creased and worn, spinefold frayed. P.6 has data about baby filled in. good. . Catalogs: Scientific/Educational/Advertising.

Chicago, IL: D.C. Heath & Co, 1940. 11.5 x 17.2 cm. German reader. Cloth cover, some pencil notations (translations) in text, good. . Catalogs: Educational.

Highland, NY: Gardner Publishing Co, 1926. 22 x 31 cm. Cover photo shows aerial view of Brooks Field, San Antonio, TX. Colonel William (Billy) Mitchell Resigns from the Army. Full statement of Pres. Coolidge's Ruling in the case. List of Victors over enemy aircraft during the War (WWI)--top name is Edward Rickenbacker, who shot down 21 airplanes. Periodical, cover lightly soiled, good. . Catalogs: History/Aviation.

Highland, NY: Gardner Publishing Co, 1926. 22 x 31 cm. Cover photo shows biplane with pontoons flying above the clouds. Officials of Boy Scouts of America are teaching airmindedness to youth. The New German Air Transport Combine-- Aero Lloyd and Junkers. Cy Caldwell writes Flying ""Guyed"" about Boston, with an airport designed with firm faith in motors, and the waters filled with bootleggers and enforcement officers. Periodical, cover lightly soiled, good. . Catalogs: History/Aviation.

Highland, NY: Gardner Publishing Co, 1926. 22 x 31 cm. Cover photo shows aerial photo of House of Parliament, Ottawa, Ontario, and Hull, Que. In background. The Cifibbian Contest. Commercial Aviation in the American Tropics.New Curtiss O-1 ""Falcon"" Adv. The Merritt Bill Amends Bingham Bill (opposed by many fliers). Periodical, cover lightly soiled, good. . Catalogs: History/Aviation.

Highland, NY: Gardner Publishing Co, 1926. 22 x 31 cm. Cover photo shows British Aircraft Carrier HMS Furious. Foolhardy stunt, flying under Eiffel Tower, ends in failure. Experiments with an airplane arrester. New Alexander Eaglerock OX5. The Aero Club of Pittsburgh, Robert M. Marlier, President. Flying in Winter by Walter Brennan. The Air Service Radio Beacon. Periodical, cover lightly soiled, good. . Catalogs: History/Aviation.

New York, NY: War Resisters League, 5 Beekman Street, NYC, 1967. 13 x 20.7 cm. Collection of poems by living (in 1967) American and Canadian poets, written in the context of ""longing for peace"", ""we are living at war."" Poems by Galway Kinnell, Hayden Carruth, Barbara Gibson, Barbara Deming, Lewis Turco, Muriel Rukeyser, Sister Mary Norbert K�rte, O.P., James Laughlin, William Lee Coakley, Dick Lourie, Gary Snyder, Harriet Zinnes, Gilbert Sorrentino, Allen Grossman, W.R. Moses, Gary Youree, Eileen Egan, William Burford, Emmett Jarrett, Vern Rutsala, Gail Dusenbery, Louis Zukofsky, many more. Paper booklet with spiral binding, heavy card cover, pages numbered in pen, good. . Catalogs: Cold War/Poetry.

Greenfield, MA: H.D. Watson, 1885. 26 x 33 cm. Opinionated, forceful. Letter to editor bemoans old farms grown over with timber, growth of industrial plants. Destructive Curculio. Oleomargarine. Newspaper, brittle, folds starting to tear. Fair. . Catalogs: Farming.

Chicago, IL: The Chicago Tribune, 1925. 10 x 23 cm. Collection of favorite selections from a column in editiorial page of Chicago Tribune. Jokes about Bolsheviki; Women's Suffrage; Much World War I talk�poems� Paper booklet, edges frayed and worn, 1 cm. Chip in right hand upper corner. Owner name on back cover. Good. . Catalogs: Humor/History/Ephemera/World War I.