2003, ISBN: 9781893554665

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Berlin: Freie Volksbühne, 1919. First edition. Softcover. g. Octavo (3), Quarto (1), Octavo (3). 46 (1), 16, 16, 38pp. Original llustrated aubergine wrappers with black lettering on cov… Mehr…

Berlin: Freie Volksbühne, 1919. First edition. Softcover. g. Octavo (3), Quarto (1), Octavo (3). 46 (1), 16, 16, 38pp. Original llustrated aubergine wrappers with black lettering on cover (Voklsbühne/Wesen) and three stapled tan wrappers with black lettering on covers, two with decorative frame, one illustrated and black lettering on cover. The aubergine pamphlet contains various contributions by Max Osborn, Leo Kastenberg, Max Deri, and August Müller on the essence and the history (Wesen und Geschichte) of the Theater movement starting with its founding in 1890, a contribution of the music at the theater, the actual building and location, and the bylaws of the theater. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs of the theater building which was designed by Oskar Kaufmann. The pamphlet concludes with a number of indexes, e.g. the list of plays performed at the "Freie Volksbühne" from 1891 - 1914, a second for the same time frame of the "Neue Freie Volksbühne," and a third with plays produced after September 1914. Laid in two postmarked postcards (one addressed to Grete Nordegg signed by Licho, director at the Neue Volks-Theater, the other a request for tickets addressed to the theater and signed by Gert Koch), a member newsletter, an offset color reproduction of the auditorium, and a bookmark asking "Are you a member of the Volksbühne yet?" with information about the theater program. The two issues of Die Volksbühne featuring playwright Hermann Sudemann in one and the play "Das Fest auf der Bastille" in the other. And finally a promotional pamphlet from 1913 with mission statement, prognosis, organization of the Freie Volksbühne and a description of incidents of harassment by the Berlin police and judiciary relating to some of the religiously slated performances including a number of vehement voices in the Theater's defense, e.g. Alfred Kerr's and Richard Strauss' among others. Light wear along edges of these publication, small chips, tears and creasing and sunned spine of the quarto publication. Pamphlets in overall good condition., Freie Volksbühne, 1919, 2.5, London: Pallas Publishing Co. Ltd.. Good. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. 287 pages. "Perhaps the most startling of all books about Germany under the Nazi regime. Author worked for several years as a Gestapo agent, where he was immediately subordinate to Himmler. Provides a detailed account of the general organisation of the whole of the German Secret Police, and the inside story of the notorious purge (Night of the Long Knives) in June 1934. Author worked as a spy in the Saarbrucken territory before the plebiscite, and in Spain while Germany planned the Franco revolt. Most sensational of all is the story of the "White Book", collected by Dolfuss and Schuschnigg as a weapon against Hitler." - dust jacket (not included). Portions of four pages blacked out by publisher for legal reasons. Book unmarked with average wear to red cloth-covered boards. Bright yellow lettering upon spine. Foxing to edges. Endpapers toned. Moderate cant to spine. Binding intact. Includes replica dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. [Kehr & Langmaid 3270; Madden p.345].; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Gestapo Geheime Staatspolizei History Adolf Hitler Heinrich Himmler Germany Nazi WWII White Book Solfuss Schuschnigg ., Pallas Publishing Co. Ltd., 1940, 2.5, [LATIN AMERICA EARLY 1900s; 10 TYPESCRIPT MANUSCRIPT ARTICLES BY MARSHALL HOWARD SAVILLE] TEN/10 ESSAYS ON VARIOUS CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES initialed in pencil "MHS" below title and also variously in pencil or typescript at the end of some essays, typescript original ribbon or carbon copy with handwritten initials and edits, varying lengths and topics averaging 2 pages double space with numbers in pencil at upper left corners and occasional handwritten brief edits, nonconsecutive numbers for essays that were part of a series written by Marshall Howard Saville in 1918 as indicated by dates variously in pencil or typescript, all essays held by paperclip at top as found, (1) #1 [MHS number in upper left corner], THE NICARAGUAN SITUATION, 2 pages, double space, issues relating to American building an "interoceanic canal" in this country including a treaty with Costa Rico affecting the issue, anti-American sentiment in the region, and decisions by courts and president Cleveland, "Weekly" pencil notation at end of essay; (2) #2, IMPENDING COSTA RICAN REVOLUTION, 2 pages, double space, conditions leading to revolution to "oust President Tinoco" noting different groups and individuals such as "stream of emigrants" and "Ricordo Monge, former chief of police in San Jose", five lines in pen at end, notes in pen at end "Oct.29, 1918, Weekly, ms. 2 col[umns], MHS"; (3) #4, THE EXTENSION OF AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN PARAGUAY, 1 page, single space, about opportunities for American aid and business development even though German influence is significant since Paraguay is largely undeveloped, "though essentially an Indian countrythe government as a matter of course is in the hands of the white majority"; (4) #6, DUTCH GUIANA OR SURINAM, 2 pages, double space, about the geography of the "Crown colony of Holland", resources, "It is our only chance to gain a foothold in South America with the exception of the adjoining eastern French Colony of French Guiana",; (5) #7, THE PROPOSED UNION OF SALVADOR AND HONDURAS, 1-1/3 pages, single space, about the "union of the five republics [of Central America] under a central government strong enough to maintain order" to reduce costs of five separate governments with respective cabinets, diplomatic corps, etc., "There are conflicting reports as to the origin of the present movement to unite Salvador and Honduras as one republic", U. S. moral support is looked for in exchange for right to establish a naval base in the Bay of Fonseca; (6) #8, CUBAN POLITICAL TENDENCIES, 2 pages, double space, "It has become increasingly evident that the conditions attending Cuban autonomy in the concert of American nations have about reached a climax of puerility and rottenness, another proof of the inherent inability of the smaller Latin American states to maintain decent and stable governmentsoutcry of fraud by the local papersfarcical elections", U. S. must maintain a detachment of Marines to protect Cuba's sugar crop which is important to the world's economy; (7) #9 (Political) THE COLUMBIAN PROBLEM, 1-1/4 pages, double space, Columbia's new president Marco Fidel Suarez hopes to resolve "the paramount problemof the settlement of the Colombian claims against the United States", at the center of this is reparations to Columbia for the "loss of the isthmian province of Panama" and apologies from the U. S. for its part in this, which apologies are "unthinkable" because this would "irreparably injure" U. S. prestige, a statute of Simon Bolivar in Washington, D. C., "would be a graceful recognition of the part Columbia played in the great drama of independence in the early part of the eighteenth century."; (8) #10 (Political) THE SOUTH AMERICAN ALSACE-LORRAINE, 1-1/3 pages, double space, the Chile-Peru Tacna-Arica boundary dispute is "strongly analogous to the Alsace-Lorraine dispute between Germany and France; (9) #12, (Political) THE RELATION OF CHILE AND ARGENTINA, 2 pages, double space, "The peculiar geographical configuration of Chile has a strong bearing on her material progress", survey of the different geographical zones, Argentina realizes Chile may be a menace and is enlarging its navy, while Chile is enlarging its army and building submarines; (10) #13, CHILE-PERUVIAN DISPUTE, 1-1/3 pages, double space, differences between Chile and Peru over control of the Tacna-Arica area are heating upthe perspective of the essays and their content reflect American political and commercial interests of the early 1900s period with the exploitational-colonial mentality inherent in this, notably concern over German influence, wanting stability in Latin America, and commercial possibilities entailing American hegemony (see Notes and Provenance); NOTES: MARSHALL HOWARD SAVILLE: 1867-1935, "He studied anthropology at Harvard (18891894), engaged in field work under F. W. Putnam, and made important discoveries among the mound builders in southern Ohio. After 1903 he was professor of American archaeology at Columbia University. He also became director of an important private museum in New York, the Museum of the American Indian (Heye Foundation). Saville conducted many explorations to various places such as Yucatan, Honduras, Mexico, Ecuador and ColombiaSaville was a founding member of the Explorers Club, an organization formally established in 1905 and dedicated to promoting exploration and scientific investigation in the field." (wikipedia)Saville has been said to have inspired the movie character Indiana Jones; PROVENANCE: This group of Saville manuscripts was among an archive of Marshall Howard Saville typescript and handwritten manuscripts acquired at an estate sale in Fairfield County, Connecticutalthough Saville is known mainly for his archaeological explorations and writings, as evident by about half of the manuscripts in the archive, he was also looked to as a source of information on politics, social conditions, and commercial development and prospects in Central and South American countries by newspapers, periodicals, businesspersons, and corporations of the early decades of the 1900sa few of the manuscripts in the archive, for instance, are on the development of railroads in Columbia ///// CONDITION: relatively well-preserved, light normal wear., Marshall Howard Saville, typescript for submission to periodicals, 1918, 0, Verlag der Nation, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Verlag der Nation, Berlin. 1967. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First edition, First Printing. 7 3/4 x 9 1/4 ". 272 pages with numrous black and white and colour photographs throughout. Text by Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann. Photographs by Gerd Heidemann, Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann and various other photographers. Cited in Parr & Badger, Vol. 3, p.192 BOOK CONDITION: Near Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy with a slight lean to text block; in a Near Fine dust jacket showing light edgewear and a small closed tear to head of spine at front joint. Overall a solid, clean, collectible copy in the original dust jacket. Published in communist East-Germany, Kannibalen details the Congo/Ruanda-Urundi crisis, a period of turmoil, massacres, violence and crimes against humanity, that began in Congo-Léopoldville that began with national independence from Belgium in 1960 and ended with the seizing of power by Joseph Mobutu. The images and text focus upon foreign mercenaries, local african regular troops and police-forces and african child-sodiersforced into privately funded and organized by locally formed armed groups, German language album which is a photo-record with extensive text compiled by Heynowski and Scheumann, after original photographs originally collected by those individuals that took part in the mass-killings of anyone who did not fit the "patterns", men, boys, girls, women, old peolple, military and civilians. Photographs were taken and collected in private albums by common troops and higly educated belligerents from african descent. The nature of the illustrations is of unspeakable cruelty., Verlag der Nation, 1967, 4, [Jerusalem]: Hebrew University, 1961. First edition. Softcover. g+ to vg+. Quarto. [4] 59pp. Tan heavy stock paper wrappers, with stapled binding. Handwritten text in pen on the front cover. Inscribed and signed by the author to Dr. Aryeh Bauminger, in pen at the top of the first page. This scarce mimeographed work was submitted by the author as his thesis for a degree in Public Administration, at the Eliezer Kaplan School of Economics and Sciences at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It examines the history, organization, and activities of the Judenrat in the Bialystok ghetto (1941-1943) during the Holocaust. The Judenrat (meaning "Jewish Council" in German) was comprised of a group of 24 Jews who presided over and administered the Jewish population of the ghetto, and was one of many such similar groups set up by the Nazis in Jewish communities across eastern Europe.Text throughout in Hebrew.Wrappers with some sunning, creasing and some light foxing along the right edge of the front cover. Title page with a light water stain on the left side. Pages otherwise extremely clean and tight. Wrappers in good+, interior in very good+ condition overall. Protected in modern mylar. Scarce. Hebrew title: )( [sic]Alternate spelling : )( Author: Alternate transliteration: Yaacov Shilhav., Hebrew University, 1961, 3, [Lansdowne, Pa]: Published by the author, 1943. First edition. Softcover. vg. Quarto. [3], III, 237 loose leaves, as issued. Original printed wrappers. Staff study published only for OMGUS (the Office of Military Government, United States), in which Robert Max Wasilii Kempner publishes for the first time three documents that he was able to bring out of Germany, and which are intended to help "exterminate the coming Nazi underground and to maintain public safety in post-WWII Germany." Mr. Kempner was a successful lawyer in Berlin during the 1920s who became the chief legal advisor to the police in Prussia and an opponent of Nazism. He left Germany after Hitler came to power and settled in the United States*. After World War II Kempner returned to Germany, the land of his birth, to serve as assistant US chief counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg**. In a spectacular reversal of fortune, Kempner would prosecute two of his former superiors and persecutors - Hermann Goering and Wilhelm Frick. The three documents, published in their entirety, are the following: - Document A: Confidential Report of the Prussian Secret Police. This document explores the 'treasonable character of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP)' - Document B: Confidential Report of the Bavarian Police. A 1924 document suggesting the deportation of Adolf Hitler. - Document C: Correspondence Between the Reich Attorney General and the Author (regarding law enforcement against the NSDAP). Wrappers and leaves are loose and hole-punched, as the book was intended to be placed in a binder. Text in typed script. Wrappers and interior in overall very good condition. * After the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Hermann Goering fired Kempner from his position because of his anti-Nazi activities. Kempner was then arrested and held for two months in a concentration camp after being accused of leaking information about Germany's rearmament, activities forbidden under the post-World War I Treaty of Versailles. In 1935, Wilhelm Frick, then the Interior Minister, used Kempner's Jewish background to revoke his German citizenship. Kempner was then expelled from Germany. He taught law for a few years in Italy before immigrating to the United States. ** At Nuremberg, Mr. Kempner's work included heading the prosecutorial unit that drew up the case against Hermann Goring, one of the main figures in the Hitler regime, and against other Nazis who were defendants at the principal war crimes trial there. He also was credited with finding, in 1947 among diplomatic archives in what was then West Germany, what became widely known as the Wannsee Protocol. This was a record of a conference in January 1942 at which high-level Nazis approved plans for what later became known as the Holocaust but in Nazi jargon was termed "the final solution" of the Jewish problem., Published by the author, 1943, 3, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Encounter Books. New. 2003. Hardcover. 189355466x .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 318 pages -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword 1 Most dangerous and desperate treason: Elizabethan and Jacobean surveillance 9 The birth of the Modern: French surveillance from Richelieu to Fouche 67 The engineers of human souls: tsarism and communism 113 Show me a no-man not six feet under: German National Socialism 189 You don't fire God: J. Edgar Hoover's eye on America 237 Afterword 315 Acknowledgments 321 Notes 323 Bibliography 343 Index 355. -- DESCRIPTION: -- "While there are many books about espionage, until now very little has been written about the history of secret policing, which played such a grim role in the totalitarian movements of the twentieth century." "Robert J. Stove begins his story of how secret police became a central institution of modern life with Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster to Elizabeth I of England who created a network of secret agents and assassins to subvert the queen's Catholic opponents. He concludes with a portrait of J. Edgar Hoover, whose surveillance of "enemies within" put American democracy to the test." "At the heart of The Unsleeping Eye is a provocative account of how secret police helped to build and sustain the modern totalitarian state. Joseph Fouche, Napoleon's minister of police, made surveillance and informing into an art form and coupled spying with propaganda techniques that made it doubly effective. Stove chronicles the development of domestic surveillance in Russia, from the time of Ivan the Terrible to its final refinement under Stalin, who brought Lenin's ideal of "organized terror" to perfection in collaboration with his brutal head of secret police, Lavrenti Beria. He also shows how the Gestapo and other police organizations led by demented individuals like Heinrich Himmler defined the essence of Nazism, part of which was Himmler's deluded notion that "the members of the Gestapo are men with human kindness, human hearts, and absolute rightness." " The inside story of the secret policemen who defined the state of their art, The Unsleeping Eye takes us into the darkest corners of government. It is a narrative filled with forceful personalities and unsettling anecdotes, which leaves us wondering about the brave new worlds of manipulation and terror that may await us. -- -- with a bonus offer-- ., Encounter Books, 2003, 6<

2003, ISBN: 9781893554665

Petrograd: Zhizn' i znanie, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (21.2 × 14.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Signature of Sigizmund Valk to title (and his annotation in pencil to front wr… Mehr…

Petrograd: Zhizn' i znanie, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (21.2 × 14.6 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Signature of Sigizmund Valk to title (and his annotation in pencil to front wrapper?); a very good, uncut and unopened copy; tiny Soviet bookstore mark inside rear wrapper. First edition of Lenin's in depth analysis of the development of US capitalism in agriculture, based on a comparison of the 1900 and 1910 censuses. "Lenin's interest in the question of what statistical methods were appropriate for the analysis of agriculture was maintained throughout his life, and on the eve of the Revolution of 1917, he took the trouble to study and re-analyse the 1910 Census in the USA, which had extensive data on agriculture, and published a most penetrating piece based on his re-analysis" (Utsa Patnaik, "Lenin and the Agrarian Question," 75). The book was yet another work used to justify the strategy of seizing country estates and nationalizing the land. Curiously, The wrappers give the publication date as 1918. From the collection of Sigizmund Natanovich Valk (1887-1975), the Vilnius-born Soviet historian and scholar of the Russian revolutionary movement. In 1918-1927, he served as the head of the Revolutionary History Archive in St. Petersburg and was one of the founders of Soviet historiography, publishing numerous key works throughout his life. The bulk of his collection is today housed at the Russian Academy of Sciences. This title is no. 768 of the Souvarine and Bernshtein catalog (Dekker & Nordemann BV, 1980), and pictured on p. 137 (annotation: "Lenin's views on the development of capitalism in the United States"). KVK, OCLC only show nine copies in libraries worldwide., 0, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Encounter Books. New. 2003. Hardcover. 189355466x .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 318 pages -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword 1 Most dangerous and desperate treason: Elizabethan and Jacobean surveillance 9 The birth of the Modern: French surveillance from Richelieu to Fouche 67 The engineers of human souls: tsarism and communism 113 Show me a no-man not six feet under: German National Socialism 189 You don't fire God: J. Edgar Hoover's eye on America 237 Afterword 315 Acknowledgments 321 Notes 323 Bibliography 343 Index 355. -- DESCRIPTION: -- "While there are many books about espionage, until now very little has been written about the history of secret policing, which played such a grim role in the totalitarian movements of the twentieth century." "Robert J. Stove begins his story of how secret police became a central institution of modern life with Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster to Elizabeth I of England who created a network of secret agents and assassins to subvert the queen's Catholic opponents. He concludes with a portrait of J. Edgar Hoover, whose surveillance of "enemies within" put American democracy to the test." "At the heart of The Unsleeping Eye is a provocative account of how secret police helped to build and sustain the modern totalitarian state. Joseph Fouche, Napoleon's minister of police, made surveillance and informing into an art form and coupled spying with propaganda techniques that made it doubly effective. Stove chronicles the development of domestic surveillance in Russia, from the time of Ivan the Terrible to its final refinement under Stalin, who brought Lenin's ideal of "organized terror" to perfection in collaboration with his brutal head of secret police, Lavrenti Beria. He also shows how the Gestapo and other police organizations led by demented individuals like Heinrich Himmler defined the essence of Nazism, part of which was Himmler's deluded notion that "the members of the Gestapo are men with human kindness, human hearts, and absolute rightness." " The inside story of the secret policemen who defined the state of their art, The Unsleeping Eye takes us into the darkest corners of government. It is a narrative filled with forceful personalities and unsettling anecdotes, which leaves us wondering about the brave new worlds of manipulation and terror that may await us. -- -- with a bonus offer ., Encounter Books, 2003, 6<

2003, ISBN: 9781893554665

Gebundene Ausgabe

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Encounter Books. New. 2003. Hardcover. 189355466x .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY … Mehr…

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Encounter Books. New. 2003. Hardcover. 189355466x .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 318 pages -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword 1 Most dangerous and desperate treason: Elizabethan and Jacobean surveillance 9 The birth of the Modern: French surveillance from Richelieu to Fouche 67 The engineers of human souls: tsarism and communism 113 Show me a no-man not six feet under: German National Socialism 189 You don't fire God: J. Edgar Hoover's eye on America 237 Afterword 315 Acknowledgments 321 Notes 323 Bibliography 343 Index 355. -- DESCRIPTION: -- "While there are many books about espionage, until now very little has been written about the history of secret policing, which played such a grim role in the totalitarian movements of the twentieth century." "Robert J. Stove begins his story of how secret police became a central institution of modern life with Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster to Elizabeth I of England who created a network of secret agents and assassins to subvert the queen's Catholic opponents. He concludes with a portrait of J. Edgar Hoover, whose surveillance of "enemies within" put American democracy to the test." "At the heart of The Unsleeping Eye is a provocative account of how secret police helped to build and sustain the modern totalitarian state. Joseph Fouche, Napoleon's minister of police, made surveillance and informing into an art form and coupled spying with propaganda techniques that made it doubly effective. Stove chronicles the development of domestic surveillance in Russia, from the time of Ivan the Terrible to its final refinement under Stalin, who brought Lenin's ideal of "organized terror" to perfection in collaboration with his brutal head of secret police, Lavrenti Beria. He also shows how the Gestapo and other police organizations led by demented individuals like Heinrich Himmler defined the essence of Nazism, part of which was Himmler's deluded notion that "the members of the Gestapo are men with human kindness, human hearts, and absolute rightness." " The inside story of the secret policemen who defined the state of their art, The Unsleeping Eye takes us into the darkest corners of government. It is a narrative filled with forceful personalities and unsettling anecdotes, which leaves us wondering about the brave new worlds of manipulation and terror that may await us. -- -- with a bonus offer-- May be either: out of print (OOP) and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition ., Encounter Books, 2003, 6<