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della Malva, Joseph . SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTARIES
Minneapolis 1960 first edition. Foreword by Bill Stewart, President and General Manager of Radio Station WPBC. Octavo, 86pp., wraps. **Laid in: 2 page autograph letter signed by della Mava about places refusing to sell his book due to Catholic pressure against it. Author broadcasted radio shows on Loyalty Oaths, Church-State Relations, American-Soviet Relations, Overpopulation etc. Good, front wrap had been folded in half. (a10964)
$49.00 Morgan, Charles Langbridge . THE GUNROOM (Signed)
London 1919 First edition, First Issue (missing 'n' p. 78) Black. Hardcover. Octavo, 488pp., blue cloth. Morgan served as a midshipman in the British Atlantic Fleet and in China. He also served in the British Navy during WW1. According to Kunitz this book, a candid account of conditions among midshipmen in the Navy, was not officially suppressed, but was mysteriously withdrawn soon after publication and hence is quite rare. **Signed by Morgan on the title page (in 1933). Two bookplates--Scott Cunningham and Frederic Prokosch. VG, some fading on very top edge of spine, lacks illustrated DJ. (a19241)
$490.00 Palmer, John . THE CENSOR AND THE THEATRES
NY 1913 first edition Kennerly. British censorship. Hardcover. Octavo., 307pp., cloth. Good, some spine end fraying. Text clean and binding secure; no ownership marks. Original printing. (a32859)
$25.00 (censorship) . INDEX OF CENSORSHIP (4 ISSUES)
London 1975-1977. Four issues of this important journal of worldwide censorship and repression. Vol, 4 Number 2 (Summer 1975); Volume 5 Number 4 (Winter 1976); Volume 6 Number 2 (March/April 1977); Volume 6 Number 5 (September/October 1977). Published quarterly until 1977, then 6 times per year. A fascinating collection of articles. Covers many cases of little known episodes of repression, such as the murder of Konstatin Bogatryev by the KGB (see, Why Kostya Had to Die, by Geoffey A. Hosking, in Vol. 6 Number 2 at pp. 47-51). Issues are Lg.8vo., about 120pp. per issue, printed in double column, wraps. VG. Set of 4 issues: (a36446)
$95.00 (law) . ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
NY 1973 Praeger. An evaluation of Government Information Programs under the Act, 1967-72. Hardcover. Octavo, 175pp., printed boards. VG, no DJ. (a40512)
$35.00 Rej, Mikolaj . POSTYLLA CZESC I, II (TWO VOLUMES)
Warsaw 1965. Dziela Wszystkie Tom IV. In Polish. 2 volumes. Folio, 321pp., errata, about 700pp. (facsimile of Postylla published by Rej in 1566), hardcovers. VG, the binding in each volume is a bit pressed down. VG DJ on Volume I, Fair DJ on Volume II, chipped and worn. 2 volumes. (a53846)
$250.00 Morum, Speculator . BIBLIOTHECA ARCANA BRIEF NOTICES OF BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN SECRETLY PRINTED, PROHIBITED BY LAW, SEIZED, ANATHEMATISED, BURNT OR BODLERISED
1971. Reprint by Piscean Press distributed by Charles Skilton. Copy number 335 of 700. 8vo., 141pp., index, hardcover. Fine in neaer VG plus DJ, price clipped on dj. (a55705)
$35.00 Schroeder, Theodore . A CHALLENGE TO SEX CENSORS
New York City 1938 1st. Privately printed to promote the aims of the Free Speech League.' Sm.4to., 159pp., author portrait as frontispiece, original stiff wraps. VG, cover unevenly browned and lightly worn. (a57278)
$40.00 Rostenberg, Leona . ROBERT STEPHENS: MESSENGER OF THE PRESS, AN EPISODE IN 17TH-CENTURY CENSORSHIP
1955. Article at pp. 131-152 in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Included in a complete issue with several additional articles. Octavo, original printed wraps. VG. (a70626b)
$25.00 Elwall, Edward . THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH; BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL OF MR. ELWALL BEFORE JUDGE DENTON, FOR PUBLISHING A BOOK IN DEFENCE OF THE UNITY OF GOD AT STAFFORD ASSIZES IN THE YEAR 1725
London 1791. Reprint by Joseph Priestley of original edition. 12mo., bound in later hardcover with title carefully written by hand in black ink on spine. Copy signed by Jos. Shays on top margin of titl epage. VG, faint foxing. (a74757)
$300.00