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

Kansas City, Mo: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co, 1914. Very good -. 6¾" x 4 5/8". Red cloth. pp. 81. Very good minus: moderate wear and soiling to boards, small owner stamp to all four endpapers as well as eleven pages in the text; textblock split but holding b/t pages 50/51; heavy dampstain in margin of last few leaves; faint dampstain in upper margin of most leaves. This is an uplift book by a little known African American lawyer and activist whose work involved the founding of a short-lived movement in Kansas, as well as being an officer of an activist organization in California. Most of what we know of Roscoe Wassom comes from contemporary newspaper accounts: he graduated from Austin High School in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1901 and as of 1904 he was the watchboy for an all-Black team of firemen in Kansas City. In 1909 he was the keynote speaker at an Emancipation Day celebration in Paola, Kansas. We know Wassom attended the University of Kansas School of Law and according to a 1911 article in… Read More

Glendora, California: R.F.M., 1978. 11" x 8½". Stapled thin card self-wrappers. pp. 48. Fine: fresh with minimal wear. This is a catalog for R.F.M., a BDSM mail order company and publishing house. According to the text, RFM made some of the products himself and offered to find anything a customer needed that wasn't already in the catalog. Approximately 200 items are shown in exceptionally graphic drawings as well as around 30 photographic images. Included for purchase were various genital torture implements, harnesses, hoods, gags, paddles, whips and other tools. The catalog also offered bottles of something called "Locker Room, The Aroma of Men" as well as a number of books and still photos. Per OCLC records, R.F.M. Products issued at least eleven other publications between 1975 and 1980. Based on an advertisement in Drummer 58,R.F.M. provided "everything for the S and M COMMUNITY from large racks to small leather toys, books, novelties, etc." This book and its publisher may have been the work… Read More

Glendora, California: R.F.M., 1976. 11" x 8½". Stapled thin card wrappers. pp. 40. Very good plus: minimal wear; some toning to wrappers; small crease to lower outer corner of leaves. This is a catalog for R.F.M., a BDSM mail order company and publishing house. According to the text, RFM made some of the products himself and offered to find anything a customer needed that wasn't already in the catalog. Approximately 200 items are shown in exceptionally graphic drawings as well as around 30 photographic images. Included for purchase were various genital torture implements, harnesses, hoods, gags, paddles, whips and other tools. The catalog also offered bottles of something called "Locker Room, The Aroma of Men" as well as a number of books and still photos. Per OCLC records, R.F.M. Products issued at least eleven other publications between 1975 and 1980. Based on an advertisement in Drummer 58,R.F.M. provided "everything for the S and M COMMUNITY from large racks to small leather toys, books,… Read More

Chicago, Ill: A.L.R.K. Federacijos Chicago Apskrities Spaudos Sekcijos, 1944. Stated First Edition. Very good. 8½" x 5¼". Stapled thin card wrappers. Pp. 51. Very good: wrappers toned at extremities and lightly soiled with a bit of corner wear; light dust-soiling throughout. This is a strong and poetic appeal on behalf of Lithuania's fight for independence, relating current and former atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi and Soviet occupations of the nation. It was written by a noted Lithuanian American priest and author in Chicago and the text is entirely in Lithuanian. Lithuania is a small European nation that was dominated by Russia's invasions throughout the 18th century and by a subsequent century of wars between Germany and Russia on its soil. Due to its long history of being governed by outside forces, it was a victory when it declared independence at the end of World War I. But from 1940 throughout World War II, Lithuania was occupied three more times - by the Soviet Union (1940-1941), by… Read More

New York: Sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, 1858. Good. 7 3/8" x 5¼". Brown cloth over boards. Pp. 312. Good: front cover split at joint, nearly detached but holding; light to moderate wear, spotting and small stains to covers and throughout; owner name inked to front free endpaper and penciled in two spots. This is a travelogue written by an American woman who spent several years working as a missionary, humanitarian and writer in the United Kingdom and Europe, Asenath Nicholson. Asenath Hatch Nicholson was born in Vermont in 1792. She was trained as a teacher in her hometown before she married and moved to New York. She opened a boardinghouse based on the tenets of temperance and vegetarianism, and in 1835 penned what is believed to be the first American vegetarian cookbook, Nature's Own Book. Widowed in 1844, Nicholson left for Ireland and spent 15 months walking the country. She distributed bibles, lived among the poor and witnessed the early days of the potato blight. She returned to… Read More

N. P.: The James O. Jones Company, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good+. Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 11 1/2" x 8 1/2". Faux leather covers, three hole punched and string tied. 426 pages on heavy coated paper. An immense snapshot of Louisiana as of 1939. The first 115 or so pages are devoted to descriptions of present conditions related to industry and progress as well as some city histories and a section of short parish histories. There are several great birdseye and street level views of cities. The rest of the book is devoted to biographies. Scarce in commerce, with no other available online copies as of December 2016. Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, otherwise very good plushwith covers showing light overall wear and moderate edge wear; pages clean and bright throughout with 4 having a few stray blue ballpoint marks. Please do not hesitate to contact us for additional information and/or photos and we will respond promptly. We package our items carefully, ship daily, and have a no hassle… Read More

Grambling, Louisiana, 1941. Very good. 24" x 18" poster printed both sides and folded to a 9" x 6" brochure. Very good: some insect predation at and near the bottom edge not affecting any images or text; a couple of tiny separations at intersections; light spotting and a few small stains. This is a photographically illustrated brochure, which opens to a poster, for Louisiana Negro Normal (LNN), the school that eventually became Grambling State University. LNN was established as the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School in northern rural Louisiana in 1901. By 1928, it was a state junior teacher's college, focused on rural education and community development. The school expanded, added curricula and became Grambling College in 1946. This brochure invited "graduates of approved high schools who are desirous of living a more useful life." It also shared that the school was "situated in one of the few all-Negro communities in the United States" and offered "a low-cost college in an environment… Read More