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19344334Quakertown PA: Beverly Hall Corporation 1934. Soft cover. Good. Recruiting booklet for the "Original and Authentic Rosicrucian Fraternity." 8vo 4 21pp. Textured beige wraps staple-bound and with Rosicrucian seal and lettering to front cover. Printed in black with green headers and symbols throughout. Good condition with heavy staining and waviness to front cover. Clean internally save for some acid offsetting on the first blank page. Laid in is a two page typed recruiting letter unsigned from the Supreme Grand Master of the Rosicrucian Order The SEE Beverly Hall and Dated Nov. 28 1934. Also laid in is a blank single sheet application and obligation form. Scarce. Beverly Hall Corporation unknown
198681584Decatur GA: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Kappa Alpha Alpha Chapter 1986. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 20 pages plus covers. Illustrated cover. Illustrations and advertisements. Some cover and page soiling noted. Pencil notation on first page. Signed inscription on front cover reads: To a good friend and a great American Julian Bond and Lawrence Douglas Wilder 11/24/86. Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. is a historically African American Greek-lettered fraternity. The organization has over 750 undergraduate and graduate chapters. The fraternity was founded on November 17 1911 by three Howard University juniors Edgar Amos Love Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman and their faculty adviser Dr. Ernest Everett Just. Omega Psi Phi is the first fraternal organization founded at a historically black university. In 1924 at the urging of fraternity member Carter G. Woodson the fraternity launched Negro History and Literature Week in an effort to publicize the growing body of scholarship on African-American history. Encouraged by public interest the event was renamed "Negro Achievement Week" in 1925 and given an expanded national presence in 1926 by Woodson's Association for the Study of Negro Life as "Negro History Week."3 Expanded to the full month of February from 1976 this event continues today as Black History Month. Since 1945 the fraternity has undertaken a National Social Action Program to meet the needs of African Americans in the areas of health housing civil rights and education. Omega Psi Phi has been a patron of the United Negro College Fund since 1955 providing an annual gift of $350000.00 to the program. The Kappa Alpha Alpha Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. begins as a dream a distant but real hope in the minds of 12 Omega brothers in Decatur Georgia. These brothers hoped to have form a fraternal entity under the auspices of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. They dedicated their endeavor to the Fraternity's Founding Fathers - Frank Coleman Oscar J. Cooper Ernest E. Just and Edgar A. Love - and sought to emulate the aspirations that brought the Founders together at Howard University on a fall evening Friday November 17 1911. On a summer day on June 1 1979 the Association of Omega Men which was to become Kappa Alpha Alpha Chapter was organized. The founding brothers of Kappa Alpha Alpha Chapter were; Lloyd P. Atkins Alonza A. Bennett first Basileus Robert Cannon Glenn E. Ford first Keeper of Records and Seal Alfonza L. Gayle James George Edward Hargrave Jr. Ronald Jackson Alvin Sanders Eric Turpin Webster Wallace and James Witherspoon. Throughout the years of existence Kappa Alpha Alpha Chapter has remained true to the Four Cardinal Principles on which the Fraternity was founded. The chapter continues its commitment to social action and Dekalb Community at large - based on programs which are designed to aid and meet the needs of all people thereby hopefully moving our society closer toward the goals of true friendship - Friendship is Essential to the Soul. Lt. Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder was the featured speaker at this event. Julian Bond was not listed on the program but apparently was in attendance at this Georgia event. Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Kappa Alpha Alpha Chapter paperback
194760-00231Bradford-Robinson Printing Co 1947-01-01. Hardcover. New. . Bradford-Robinson Printing Co hardcover
100-41015Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity hardcover
1415878080.Gbundle. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
Z1-U-021-00831Nabu Press. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Nabu Press unknown
1022525301.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
20141-1415878080Lifeway Christian Resources 2014. Hardcover. New. box dvdr/p edition. 111 pages. 10.25x8.25x1.50 inches. Lifeway Christian Resources hardcover
192910151Scarab Fraternity 1929. Original Wrappers. near Very Good binding. 12mo. 79 1 pp. First edition. As issued stapled and in printed wrappers. Light wear to the spine but generally a very nice copy of the constitutional revision of the architectural fraternity established at the University of Illinois in 1909. As laid out in the general organization of the constitution this fraternity was only open to white male Christians where were studying architecture. Lais in as a TLS from Secretary of Archives of the Hathor Temple University of Virginia chapter to the various temples of the fraternity reminding them that reports are due very soon! This letter is in an envelope addressed to Thebes Temple at Penn State. Dated and postmarked 1930. Uncommon item related to the fraternity that was defunct around 1975. Scarab Fraternity unknown
E19G-02718Lifeway Press. Used - Good. Good condition. Volume 1. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates stamps limited notes and highlighting or a few light stains. Lifeway Press unknown
19834682Clinton N. J.: Amwell Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1000 copies; the 4th book in the Big Game Heritage Collection. Signed by John H. Batten Peter Darro And Jim Rickhoff. In very good slip case and inscribed on title page by Batten "---- For my friend---who saved my life in Mongolia" dated 10/3/1983. All edges gilt. Big game hunting on several continents; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages; Signed by All Authors . Amwell Press hardcover
1820TN1792A. H. Maltby & Co 1820. Hardcover. Used; Good. New Haven 1820; marbled paper covered boards; 3/4 leather; edge and corner wear with board exposed; crown of spine bumped; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; hinges split but tightly held together by string binding; interior pages in good condition; foxed but heavier at end papers; interior clean and unmarked; 200 pages. A. H. Maltby & Co hardcover
1934406281New York: The New York Age Press 1934. Softcover. Very Good. Folio. 20pp. portraits photographs. Stapled printed card wrappers. Split at the spine small chips on front wrap very good. Includes photographs and occasionally humorous statements about 32 different members of this now mostly forgotten African-American men's organization. The New York Age Press unknown
193492400New York 1934. Paperback. Very Good. photos portraits 20p. Softcover in original wrapper. 31 cm. Includes photographs and brief tongue-in-cheek statements about 32 Members and Associates of this now mostly forgotten African American men's organization.Also included are a few short articles including "L. U. D. Marches On" two pages; author not identified giving a brief history of the organization since its founding in 1931 and a one page article titled "Your Harlem and Ours" by Thomas St. Clair Bourne a local journalist and then the organization's Master of Finance. Numerous advertisements including several from other men's and women's social clubs. paperback
18293117E.W. Metcalf and Company Cambridge 1829 Bound in half leather and brown cloth-covered boards gilt ruling and spine lettering top edge gilt 9 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches marbled endpapers 26 pp. Very good ring stain cloth front board; slight foxing pages. A beautiful binding and a clean book block. Oliver Wendell Holmes appears in the 1829 list. The Wikipedia entry on Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. is excellent. "Holmes was awarded his M.D. from Harvard in 1836; he wrote his dissertation on acute pericarditis. .He also gained a greater reputation after winning Harvard Medical School's prestigious Boylston Prize for which he submitted a paper on the benefits of using the stethoscope a device with which many American doctors were not familiar. .He often criticized traditional medical practices and once quipped that if all contemporary medicine was tossed into the sea "it would be all the better for mankindand all the worse for the fishes". .he composed a series of three lectures dedicated to exposing medical fallacies or "quackeries". .he took great pains to reveal the false reasoning and misrepresentation of evidence that marked subjects such as "Astrology and Alchemy" his first lecture and "Medical Delusions of the Past" his second. He deemed homeopathy the subject of his third lecture "the pretended science" that was a "mingled mass of perverse ingenuity of tinsel erudition of imbecile credulity and of artful misrepresentation too often mingled in practice". .In 1843 Holmes published "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever" in the short-lived publication New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery. The essay arguedcontrary to popular belief at the time which predated germ theory of diseasethat the cause of puerperal fever a deadly infection contracted by women during or shortly after childbirth stems from patient to patient contact via their physicians. Holmes gathered a large collection of evidence for this theory including stories of doctors who had become ill and died after performing autopsies on patients who had likewise been infected. In concluding his case he insisted that a physician in whose practice even one case of puerperal fever had occurred had a moral obligation to purify his instruments burn the clothing he had worn while assisting in the fatal delivery and cease obstetric practice for a period of at least six months. A few years later Ignaz Semmelweis would reach similar conclusions in Vienna where his introduction of prophylaxis handwashing in chlorine solution before assisting at delivery would considerably lower the puerperal mortality rate. Though it largely escaped notice when first published Holmes eventually came under attack by two distinguished professors of obstetricsHugh L. Hodge and Charles D. Meigswho adamantly denied his theory of contagion. .Charles D. Meigs an opponent of Holmes's theory regarding the contagious nature of puerperal fever wrote that doctors are gentlemen and "gentlemen's hands are clean". .In 1855 Holmes chose to republish the essay in the form of a pamphlet under the new title Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence. In a new introduction in which Holmes directly addressed his opponents he wrote: "I had rather rescue one mother from being poisoned by her attendant than claim to have saved forty out of fifty patients to whom I had carried the disease." He added "I beg to be heard in behalf of the women whose lives are at stake until some stronger voice shall plead for them." The then controversial work is now considered a landmark in germ theory of disease. .In 1846 Holmes coined the word "anesthesia". .While dean Holmes attempted to admit the first African-Americans and the first woman to the Harvard Medical School." 3214027. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. E.W. Metcalf and Company, Cambridge hardcover
193093775n.p. 1930. Very Good. A very small 5 x 7 cm. card printed on one side. Their Citizenship Campaign began in the depths of the Great Depression in 1933 as a National Program for the fraternity. We don't now how long the program continued with this slogan. unknown
