Search Results: Titles starting with G from Langdon Manor Books LLC

[New York City]: [Come-Unity Press]/[Gay Revolution Network?], 1972. Near fine. Single sheet, folded horizontally at center, measuring 17" x 11", printed both sides. Near fine or better: fresh as the day it was made, with a crisp fold, but we're not sure if it was issued that way. This is a gorgeous enigma that contains promotionals for LGBTQ resources and projects, poetry and a short manifesto. While we are fairly certain that it was printed by the Come!Unity Press, its text presents a conundrum that needs further research as to which group may have been behind it. The flier opens to one full page of text and art with a large flower just below the fold which reads "Gay Revolution Networker." Vines emanating from the flower point to projects, resources and articles targeted to the gay community. Written late in the year, the section on the Gay Anarchist Survival Project was a call for volunteers to help create a soup kitchen and food distribution service for the LGBTQ community in need. There are… Read More

[New Salem, Massachusetts]: [Hop Brook Commune], 1976. Very good. 11" x 8½". Corner-stapled packet of five leaves of mimeographed typescript on paper and one single sheet of thin card stock. Publication sequence: Vol. 1, Nos. 1-3 (1975); Vol. 2, No. 1 (1976)]. All but one issue is a single leaf, printed both sides. Very good: light center crease from old fold; edges lightly toned; tiny corner dogears and a few penciled notations. This is a group of four consecutive issues of a publication issued by a gay community in rural Massachusetts, the Hop Brook Commune. The Hop Brook Commune, a self-described "anarchist community," consisted of nine members living in a large farmhouse on 31 acres in New Salem, Massachusetts. They were anti-consumer, anti-business and an ad they placed in the rural gay magazine Rural Free Delivery (RFD) stated: "Rules, we have no rules. If we were to draw up a rule, it would be that no one here will objectify another." This packet consists of (possibly the only) four… Read More

Washington DC: Guild Press, LTD, 1971. Near fine. 17½" x 11¼". Bifolia printed on regular paper stock. pp. 24. Near fine: folded horizontally at center as issued, fresh with minimal wear. This is an issue of a short run gay periodical that signaled the downfall of a gay publishing empire. Its publisher, the Guild Press, was founded by H. Lynn Womack, who had turned a small printing plant purchased in 1957 into a major operation which included more than one periodical, book publishing, a chain of gay bookstores, a mail order business--even a movie theater. Womack's accomplishments were not without significant sacrifice: he was arrested more than once for conspiracy to send obscene materials through the mail and his print shop was raided by the Morals Division of the Washington police in 1960. That series of events led to a federal prison sentence, which led to the first case related to homosexuality that went to oral argument before the United States Supreme Court. Womack prevailed in MANual… Read More

San Francisco, California, 1978. Near fine. 8½" x 11". Flier printed one side. Near fine with light toning at extremities. This is a flier for a poetry reading fundraiser for the Council on Religion and the Homosexual. While we locate little about the event, it featured a blockbuster lineup of important LGBTQ+ literary figures including Elsa Gidlow (misspelled here as "Giglow") whose "On a Grey Thread" is considered to be the first book of openly lesbian poetry published in North America. It also featured Judy Grahn and African American Pat Parker, both fairly early in their careers. Founders of Manroot, Paul Mariah (mispelled here as "Moriah") and Rich Tagett are also shown on the bill. While not noted as such, this was Mariah's copy. This item is offered by Langdon Manor Books, LLC, antiquarian booksellers. We package our items carefully, ship daily, and have a no hassle returns policy--your satisfaction is guaranteed. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America… Read More

Nashville, Tenn: Publishing House A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1895. Very good. 8" x 5½". Blue cloth, title gilt. Pp. 288.. Very good: rear board with light paint splotches; lower inner margin of each leaf with a light crease; a few owner notations. Inscribed by the author to W.A. Hunton on the first blank page. This is a travelogue of a late nineteenth century journey to Africa written by an African American minister and educator, C.S. Smith. Part historical treatise, part personal diary, the book relates information and observations about Africa with a focus on European colonization. Charles Spencer Smith was born in Canada in 1852 and moved to the United States after the Civil War. He taught school under the Freedman's Bureau in Kentucky and Mississippi and became a minister for the A.M.E. Church. He relocated to a pastorate in Alabama and became active in politics, serving in the state House of Representatives from 1874 to 1876. In 1882 Smith founded the Sunday School Union of the… Read More

New York: The Glines, 1981. Fine. 8½" x 6" unfolds to 34" x 6". Four panel brochure folded in half twice, printed both sides. Fine. The Glines in New York City was a non-profit agency that provided a platform in the arts to promote positive images of gays in the community. Founded in 1976, it was successful in several notable productions, including Torch Song Trilogy with Harvey Fierstein, which won Best Play and Best Actor at the 1983 Tony Awards. This brochure for their month long festival in June, 1981 contains a proclamation from Mayor Koch and when fully opened reveals an illustrated calendar of events nearly three feet in length. A remnant of a short-lived gay arts festival. Not found on OCLC. None in the trade as of August 2019.

New York, New York: Ne*ro Youth [Magazine], 1941. Very good. 8½" x 5½". Single sheet, folded, printed all four sides. Pp. [4]. Very good: tiny staple hole; moderate vertical crease; edges lightly toned. This is an illustrated promotional flyer issued by the publisher of a rare Black periodical. The flyer was distributed by the publisher of Ne*ro Youth which was established in New York in 1940 and purported to be the mouthpiece of such organizations as the "National Organization of Ne*ro Youth," the "Afro-American Consumers Economic Union," the "Afro-American Institute of Research, Technology and Culture," and the "Black Legions of the Nile." The magazine's founder, Samuel W. Daniels, had established the Pan African Reconstruction Association in New York in 1934, to rally African American support for Ethiopia when Italy was preparing to invade the nation. Ne*ro Youth itself, per OCLC records, is quite rare, with only a few known copies spread among four institutions. The flyer's main promotion… Read More

[Philadelphia, PA/Dallas, TX/Berkeley, CA], 1959. Very good +. Five groups of stapled mechanically reproduced typescripts totaling 48 pages of text + six loose leaves containing nine pages of handwritten notes + three loose leaves containing four pages of mechanically reproduced Mongolian text (all measuring 11" x 8½") + photocopy of a map. Generally very good plus, with some toning and fading to pages. This is a group of materials concerning the study of the history, language and culture of the Kalmyk people, an oppressed Mongol subgroup. While the political oppression of the Kalmyk people dates back centuries, these materials begin just after the Kalmyks were allowed to return home from a World War II-enforced Siberian exile in 1957. In June 1941, the German army invaded the Soviet Union, and gained partial control of the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In December 1943, the Soviet government accused the Kalmyks of collaborating with the Germans and deported the entire population to… Read More

Besant, Annie. Group of Rare Pamphlets. Mostly Adyar, Madras, India: various publishers, 1912-1914. All measure approximately 7 3/8" x 4 7/8", all in wrappers. Detailed descriptions below. Annie Besant was a British women's rights activist who was prosecuted in 1877 for publishing a book on conception and birth control. She succeeded Helena Blavatsky as president of the Theosophical Society. Besant was the legal guardian of Jiddu Krishnamurti whom she believed was "The World Teacher", Theosophy's rough equivalent of the Buddha. The Citizenship of the Coloured Races in the Empire. Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1913. pp. 20. Good: wrappers chipped. OCLC locates three copies, none in the United States. Education in the Light of Theosophy. Adyar, Madras, India: The Theosophist Office, 1912. pp. 23. Very good, wrappers a bit dust soiled, owner stamp of Helen Jasper Swain ( Swain ran a gym for women and children in Boston in the late 19th and early 20th centuries) on front… Read More