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A very rare copy of this, the first appearance of Cutting to Kill, Chapter 3 of Part 2 of Ida Tarbell's ground-breaking History of the Standard Oil Company. This 14-page chapter deals with J.D. Rockefeller's fervent desire to learn every detail of the oil trade, to be able to reach its remotest point, to control even its weakest factor - as this was his ideal of doing business. Illustrated with facsimiles of documents. With this work, Tarbell invented what we know today as investigative journalism. She was motivated to expose the methods of J.D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil as she felt he had unfairly damaged her father's oil business. The New York University Department of Journalism ranked this study as the fifth best work of 20th-century American journalism. Also included is an intersting article by Ray Stannard Baker which examines the corner in labor in San Francisco, where unions hold undisputed sway. The Owl Drug Co. boycott is discussed and photos of Walter Mac Arthur, Eugene E. Schmitz, and P.H. McCarthy are included. Also included is war correspondent Frank H. Schell's personal account of his experience at the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history. Binding intact. Unmarked. Above-average external wear. Moderate moisture exposure. Dozens of glorious illustrated ads. A worthy vintage copy. Book
A very rare copy of this, the first appearance of A Modern War For Independence, Chapter 6 of Part 2 of Ida Tarbell's ground-breaking History of the Standard Oil Company. This 18-page chapter deals with the united opposition of producers which developed against J.D. Rockefeller's heavy-handed dominance of their industry. Illustrated with photos of A.D. Wood, Lewis Emery Jr., Thomas W. Phillips, Peter Theobald, E.H. Jennings, David Kirk, Michael Murphy, James W. Lee, Hugh King, and Clarence Walker. With this work, Tarbell invented what is known today as investigative journalism. She was motivated to expose the methods of J.D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil as she felt he had unfairly damaged her father's oil business. The New York University Department of Journalism ranked this study as the fifth best work of 20th-century American journalism. Also included is a fascinating illustrated article by P.T. McGrath entitled The Peril of the Icebergs which discusses the horrors of ships colliding with icebergs, strongly foreshadowing the Titanic disaster eight years later. Dozens of glorious illustrated ads. Binding intact. Unmarked. Average wear. Lacking covers, backstrip, and half of page 85 which contained ads. A worthy vintage copy. Book
A very rare copy of this, the first appearance of chapter seven, The Crisis of 1878, of Ida Tarbell's ground-breaking History of the Standard Oil Company. This feature of 16 pages includes photos of: the company's tank farm at Olean, NY; John L. McKinney; Torpedoed oil wells with side-flow and upright flow; A.J. Cassatt; M.N. Allen; a 25,000 oil tank on fire; and a one-page illustration of the hanging in effigy of "Buck" McCandless. With this work, Tarbell invented what we know today as investigative journalism. She was motivated to expose the methods of J.D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil as she felt he had unfairly damaged her father's oil business. The New York University Department of Journalism ranked this study as the fifth best work of 20th-century American journalism. Also contained in this issue is a most scathing 15-page photo-illustrated article on the corruption pervasive in Pittsburgh, PA. Also included is a 9-page article entitled Waifs of the (New York) Street which describes, with illustrations, the heart-breaking life of children forced to work as 'newsboys, peddlers, messengers, and bootblacks that swarm by day and night through every crowded street of busy New York.' Binding intact. Unmarked. Above-average wear. This copy lacks: covers; backstrip; pages 1-2 (title page and first half of table of contents); Advertising pages 133-136. Book
659 pages plus advertisements. Includes index and references. "Here are the details - frightening, gory, hilarious - the background and life of the President: How the Bush family made its money promoting Adolph Hitler and the Nazi war machine; Jupiter Island, Skull and Bones, and other bases of power; the 'war hero' story; George Bush and the secret government - from population control, to Zapata's Watergate burglars, to Iran-Contra; Kissinger, China and genocide in the Third World; Bush's Leveraged Buyout Mob, or the theft of a nation.... Breaks the code of silence which Anglo-American financial oligarchs have imposed around their conduct of U.S. Affairs... A vivid x-ray of the private forces dominating both Republican and Democratic parties - and of the man who occupies the highest seat of power in the nation." - from back cover. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Very nice copy. Book
136 pages. Black and white illustrations. "This amazing treatise is written to clarify fulfillments of many Bible prophecies by documenting much world news related to the antichrist king, thusly presenting the evidence that 'the king' may be King Juan Carlos, that his qualifications could be in full accord with the Bible, and that he soon may rule as the antichrist king - Juan Carlos." - from back cover. Gift greetings atop first page else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
4 page leaflet (8.5" x 11" sheet folded in half). Undated but appears to be a 1975 photocopy of the circa 1939 first edition. (Singerman 519). Book
28 pages plus bibliography. Undated. Circa 1990? A scathing indictment of Winston Churchill's personality and policies. Author was born in Saskatchewan in 1923 and served in Italy with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada. Unmarked with light wear. Appears to have been printed on a photocopier. Book
470 pages. Index. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. "Readers of The Great Pyramids and Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids will find in this book about the riddles of the Egyptian obelisks even more fascinating history and lore about the mysteries of the past.... Peter Tompkins explores the entire history of man's association with obelisks; the many early and current theories about them and their magical and physical properties; the adventures encountered in engineering and moving 300-ton monoliths; their association with sexual rites and the hermetic wisdom of ancient Egypt; and their suspected influence on and connection with many secret societies and historic figures - Freemasons, Knights Templar, Rosicrucians, Illuminati, Ficini, Pico, Dee, Bruno, Kircher, Cagliostrok, Saint Germain, and Crowley." - from dust jacket. A heavily worn but still useable former library copy with usual markings. Binding intact. Tompkins co-authored the incredible "Secret Life of Plants". Book
vi, [2], 312 pp. Index. Black and white photographic plates including frontis portrait of Vanderlip who rose from humble beginnings to become head of National City Bank. This work most notable for Chapter XXI entitled 'A Conclave on Jekyl Island' which states: "There was an occasion, near the close of 1910, when I was as secretive, indeed, as furtive as any conspirator... I do not feel it any exaggeration to speak of our secret expedition to Jekyl Island as the occasion of the actual conception of what eventually became the Federal Reserve System." - page 210. Moderate wear to book. Binding intact. Slight lean to spine. Gift greetings, dated 1935, upon front free endpaper. Above-average wear to dust jacket, now in mylar, which lacks a two-inch piece from bottom of spine. Includes news clipping detailing the settlement of Vanderlip's estate. A worthy copy of this historic reference. Book
42 pages. A fascinating and important issue devoted to rousing American anger against Germany, particularly as a result of U.S. lives lost in the sinking of the Lusitania. Clearly, the people behind Life Magazine wanted the United States to become involved in WWI. Readers may draw parallels to recent history when 'fanatical Muslims' allegedly carried out the 9/11 attack, thus providing a pretext for George W. Bush to thrust his country into war in the Middle East. Covers detached from textblock. Last page almost loose. Unmarked. Above-average wear but still a quality copy of this significant piece of the historical record of America's road to entry into World War One. Magazine
160 pages. Features: Castro's War on Capitalism in Cuba; Counting Heads - the first U.S. census was no easy job; Juvenile Integrity Starts in the Home; The Korean Myth - Misconceptions Americans have about Korea; 1960 Version of "The Little Red Hen"; Cold War in International Athletics - opposing Communist athletes intent on propaganda; The Tenth Man - baseball's most important player can be the groundskeeper; Facts Russia Does Not Tell; School Teaching Beats Working for a Living; The Truly Satisfying Life; The China Clipper; Who are the Metrocrats?; Listen to This; Honey - Nutritious Nostrum; Who Wants to Abolish the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)?; They Tamed the Wild Missouri River; Is There Free Speech?; The greatest Train Robbery; Walter, The Adaptable Weasel; A Kentucky Political Education; Don't Let your Shoulder Freeze; This Is Christianity - Young Korean Joon Gon Kim's Ministry to Communists; You Can Do Something; Those Modern Eskimos; A Return to Common Sense in Education - Pennsylvania teacher shuns methods that produce illiterate blockheads; The Organization Mother; January-June 1960 Index. Back cover Flag Day coverage features lovely photo of youngsters Kay and Tony of the Dario Politella family of Lindenhurst, Long Island. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
346 pages. Index. "... Tells the full story of one of the most shameful book-burning episodes of our time (Macmillan's suspension of publication of Velikovsky's 'Worlds in Collision'). This is Velikovsky's final word on the matter, and it forms an important inside account of a scandal that shook the worlds of science and publishing alike." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear and sound binding. Faint soiling to top- and fore-edges. Nice copy. Book
Pages 253-268 (16 pages in this issue). Features: Repudiating Wilson and Root - Administration Candidate in New York Congressional District Runs 13,000 Votes Behind His Party on Neutrality Issue; The Great News Conspiracy - How Unscrupulous Newspaper Owners, at the Behest of Wall Street, Deliberately Deceived the American People, by Charles A. Collman - includes a lengthy list of pro-Ally fake stories published in the New York Times; How the American Truth Society Defeated President Wilson's Congressional Candidate in New York, by Jeremiah A. O'Leary; Germany Opens Road to Turkey; The Death of Edward L. Pretorius; Austria-Hungary Teaches Mr. Lansing a Lesson; Three books to be read; The Most Hyphenated American - Editorial; Ad for war bonds of the German, Austrian and Hungarian Governments; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Pages -97-112 (16 pages in this issue). Features: The Great Conspiracy Exposed - What the Trust Fund Left in Cecil Rhodes' Secret Will is Doing to Spread the Seeds of High Treason - Shall the United States Become an "Integral Part of Great Britain"?, by Frederic Franklin Schrader - includes an interesting graphic entitled "The Poison Plant of Treason That Breeds American Toryism" which links certain notable personalities with Cecil Rhodes' Secret Will; Senator La Follette's Platform - Wisconsin Senator Outlines his Political Principles in Notable Speech; Behind the Scenes of the Capital; The Significance of the War Bazaars; Thoughts of a "Gently Hazed" American; Various Editorial Topics; Financial Forum; War Bond Ads; Financial Forum; Many other interesting ads; and more. Covers loose but present. Unmarked. Average wear. A worthy copy. Magazine
16 pages. Features: The "Militarism" of Germany - a comparison of military expenditures between the participants; Recent Fiction by Arnold Bennett and others; New York Dailies getting tired of being the victims of the London Censor; When We Needed Prussia - A reminder of our obligations to Emperor William's Ancestor, in the undying words of John Quincy Adams; Germany's Case as Stated by an Eminent American Jurist - Judge Peter S. Grosscup; Poem by George Sylvester Viereck; The Outlook justifies Germany's retributive action in Belgium; Where is the flag of England? - poem by Henry Labouchere; England the Arch Conspirator - important documents reveal secret military convention with Belgium - evidence from Authentic Russian and Belgian Sources; and more. Covers detached and separated. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. This issue noteworthy for the fact that it is one of the first to contain several paying advertisers. Most prior issues had none or very few. Magazine
128 pages. Features: Does it Really Matter What is True?; The Orphaned Beauty - strange story behind the song Silent Night; Why Johnny Won't Re-Enlist - communist strategy includes lowering the morale of U.S. fighting men; Red Fire From the Yellow Dragon - a new world power must be reckoned with since China's Dr. Tsien fled from the U.S.; Everybody Knows That; Floating Ghost Ship - The "Baychimo" used to call on Hudson Bay Company trading posts from her home port of Vancouver, B.C.; The Stomach - Turning Point - who is tampering with the soul of America?; Escape from Torture - how John Langdon outwitted Chief Walking Buffalo; The Theatre is a Weapon of War - Melville Burke tells the story of Red infiltration of the stage and screen; Secession Day - how the South missed a big chance to win the Civil War; Restored to Favor - the "Rehabilitation" of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose security clearance was revoked by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954; It's Your Money That's Being Squandered - Keynesian liberal theorists are more powerful than ever in Washington; "Save Me From the Trading Stamps" - premiums given by merchants cost more than customers realize; Our Political Health; Conspiracy in Foreign Affairs - a brillian expose of the influences at work in shaping U.S. foreign policy, by J.M. Shea; 47 Billion $ for Defense - a frank appraisal of our national defense theories; Setback at the U.N. after the death of Dag Hammarskjold; Christmas-card Winter; Volume 93 Index (July - December 1961); and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
377 pages. Annexes, references, index. "A 'must read' for tax cheats, con artists, drug backers and cops." - Institutional Investor. "... A gripping and impeccably researched international drama... The first thorough, professional and detached examination of this market and the commodity in which it deals - secret money." - Lloyd's List. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart cover. Pristine copy. Book
xx,853,viii,899 pages. Index in each volume. First printing. Reflections and recollections of Paul Warburg [1868 - 1932], considered by many to have been the main driver behind the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in 1913. Warburg was reluctant to publish this work until, in the autumn of 1928, "I became convinced that the Federal Reserve System had entered upon a gravely critical period in its career, and that for the discussion about to ensue it was highly important that certain vital facts in the origin and growth of the System be adequately understood." - viii [v1]. Gilt lettering upon spines. Average wear to publisher's navy cloth. Bookplate of prior owner, a Dutch doctor, inside each front board. Laid in is the original handwritten purchase receipt, dated 1931, issued by an Amsterdam book dealer. Front free endpaper of volume 2 neatly removed. Bindings and hinges intact. Dust jackets not included. A sound copy of this essential chronicle of early twentieth century American central bank history. Masui p.1431, Rist p.321. Book
196 pages including bibliography. Asks why Lapacho, an amazing herbal tea from Brazil, has been overlooked in the search for a cancer cure. In spite of a growing body of empirical evidence that nature may have already supplied an answer to the cancer controversy, why is this option being ignored by the medical community? Book clean and unmarked with very light wear. Tight and square. Peeling to lower portion of back panel of dust jacket which is otherwise moderately worn. Nice copy. Book
Signed and inscribed by Gary Webb upon half-title page. xxviii, 548 pages. Footnotes, glossary and index. "Shows how the L.A. crack market flourished through a breathtaking combination of government negligence, greed, and criminal conduct... Demonstrates that U.S. government agencies, including the CIA, DEA and FBI, were aware of the activities of this well-connected drug network and did little or nothing to stop it. Indeed, in several instances documented here, the Justice Department, the CIA, and the secret National Security Council unit run by Oliver North, took extraordinary steps to protect the ring from public exposure. In the final chapters Webb reveals the conflict that led to his newspaper's stunning repudiation of its own series - and at what cost he stood by his story." - from dust jacket. Webb was found dead in his home in 2004 with two gunshot wounds to his head. Curiously, his death was ruled a suicide. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now in archival-grade mylar. A quality signed copy of this heroic work. Book
419 pages. Index. Footnotes. Frontis portrait of Adam Weishaupt. "I have felt impelled to devote one more book to the Revolution as a whole by going this time further back into the past and attempting to trace its origins from the first century of the Christian era. For it is only by taking a general survey of the movement that it is possible to understand the causes of any particular phase of its existence. The French Revolution did not arise merely out of conditions or ideas peculiar to the eighteenth century, nor the Bolshevist Revolution out of political and social conditions in Russia on the teaching of Karl Marx. Both these explosions were produced by forces which, making use of popular suffering and discontent, had long been gathering strength for an onslaught not only on Christianity, but on all social and moral order." - Preface. Bookplate upon front free endpaper. Last two leaves of index loose but present. Back free endpaper missing. Front board loosely attached. Tiny bit of writing atop last blank page. Gilt lettering upon backstrip worn but legible. SINGERMAN 161, WEEMS p.71. Book
x, 206, [4 ads] pages. Glossy illustrated boards. "Populism is a grassroots movement of the producing people against the parasites. It seeks to work within our constitutional framework, though historically it has never been averse to amending that great document, as time and circumstances dictate, to make the government more responsive to the needs of the people." - Introduction. Chapters include: Taxes and Government Spending; Monopoly Capitalism; America First Nationalism; Culture; State & Regional Studies; The Money Question; Conspiracy Facts and Theories; Racial Nationalism; Prominent Populists. No dust jacket as issued. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this valuable reference. Book
265 pages. Index. Sources. "The astonishing story of how a man's life was destroyed by brainwashing experiments funded by the CIA and carried out by Dr. Ewen Cameron at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute." - from dust jacket. Dust jacket very attractive and now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Light wear to clean, unmarked book. Very nice copy. Book
247 pages. Second printing of the 1917 first edition. "The object of the writer and his friends is to reveal a portion of the working of the 'Hidden Hand.' Before the veil is wholly withdrawn it is to be hoped that the King of England will repudiate personal relations with his Majesty's cousin, the head of the Hohenzollerns, and that for the future, sovereigns of these realms will mate with queens of British or Irish stock." - Preface. Claims to expose a plot to Germanize Britain. "Not only must we extirpate Germanism during the period of the war (WWI), but we must see to it that the evil plant never takes root again." - page 247. Average overall wear. Binding intact. Pencilled name atop front free endpaper. Red-lettered teale dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade mylar. A sound copy of this intriguing work. Book
375 pages. Index. Glossary. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. "Reveals how the strategy of indiscriminate bombings against the public was the result of secret NATO accords and was sanctioned at the highest levels of the Atlantic Alliance... Shows the crucial role played by the Hyperion Language School in Paris in the manipulation of the Red Brigades, and the role of the CIA in arming the revolutionary group. Casts a spotlight on Licio Gelli, the head of the now outlawed P2 Masonic lodge, who has been convicted of financing fascist terrorists." - dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Some red markings to contents in first 70 pages. Bit of clear tape inside back board. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
