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1854 – A broadsheet promoting the American Party (the Know Nothings] that includes its American Principles and the American Party Platform

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Title: 1854 – A broadsheet promoting the American Party (the Know Nothings] that includes its American Principles and the American Party Platform
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Cincinnati, Ohio: The Dollar Weekly Times, 1854. Unbound. Very good. This two-page broadsheet promoting the American Party was printed in 1854 by The Dollar Weekly Times, the party’s newspaper headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, promoting its anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic agenda. It is printed as a faux lettersheet and was sent to an unnamed supporter. The party’s “American Principles” and “American Platform are printed at the top. It is pen dated, “Nov. 8th – 1854,” with printed script below. No mailing envelope. In nice shape. The text of the broadsheet reads in part: “In view of the great and important question involved in the late elections in this and our United States, we cannot fail to congratulate you as a member of the great American Party, upon the triumphant result. No, say important, because the issue that tends to the overthrowal of party demagogues . . . must be of the greatest consequence to all true lovers of our Republic. It cannot be denied that this great result was entirely the working of an American spirit beating in American bosoms, and rising under the yoke that had been forced upon it, placed the shackles that had bound it beneath its feet. . .. We must look to the stability of our party – the interest must not . . . be allowed to release for this great election of 1856 when we shall be called to elect an American President to preside over the American People. . .. This is the character of the Dollar Weekly Times. It was the Primer in the movement, and has followed it step by step, urging the necessity of action. . .. It should receive patronage of every one who had enlisted himself in this great cause . . . in regard to the common enemy. . .. Should you feel like casting your aid to the furtherance of this great cause and believe with us that such aid can be rendered through the general circulation of sucH a paper as the Dollar Weekly Times, we shall be happy to hear from you. . ..” . Although the American Party was soundly defeated in the 1852 presidential election, it captured an impressive number of votes and continued to make progress during the off-year elections of 1854 and began to focus on the next presidential election. The American Party viewed the immigrants, especially Irish and German Catholics, as a threat to American self-government because of their ‘allegiance’ to the Pope. It supported restricting immigration, increasing the naturalization residency requirement to twenty-one years, and barring the foreign-born from holding public office. It emerged from the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner, a secret oath-bound organization whose members woould answer all questions about it by stating that they “knew nothing.” Probably, the only extant example as there are no records of other 1854 broadsides or campaign material. Only three 1855 broadsides are recorded, the Rare Book Hub shows two were sold by in 2011, and OCLC shows one held by an institution. Even broadsides and campaign material for 1856 are quite scarce. Reportedly, a much earlier broadside from 1847 is held by the Filson Historical Society. .

1959-1960 – Archive of material related to the University of Wisconsin Marching Bands trip to and participation in the 1960 Rose Bowl festivities

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Title: 1959-1960 – Archive of material related to the University of Wisconsin Marching Bands trip to and participation in the 1960 Rose Bowl festivities
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: University of Wisconsin, 1960. Varies. Very good. This archive contains 18 items. All are in nice shape. 1. 18 Dec 59 – Postcard sent to Wally Degner with information about reporting to the station for the train trip to California. 2. Undated –Unused, four-page “Rose Bowl Trip Expense Record” provided “Compliments of the Milwaukee Journal.” Includes a Rose Bowl seating chart on the last page. 3. 24 Dec 59 – Two-page form letter from the City of Pampa, Texas, welcoming them to the city, which was apparently a long stop on their train trip to the west. 4. Undated – Two-page mimeographed “Information Sheet” from the band’s co-directors providing appearance guidance, physical condition, bed checks, drinking, dome-lounge car use, on-train practice, etc 5. Undated – One-page mimeographed schedule of events from 26 Dec 59 through 3 Jan 60 6. Undated – Two-page mimeographed sheet of “Train Seating and Sleeping Assignments.” There are only men’s names on this roster and the one that follows. At the time, women were not allowed to participate in the band. It wasn’t until Republican President Richard Nixon pushed the Title IX law through Congress in 1972 that university bands were forced to allow women to join. 7. Undated – One-page mimeographed on-site “Room Roster” 8. Undated – Two-page mimeographed schedule for the teams stay at Occidental College while they prepared for and performed at the Rose Bowl 9. 29 Dec 59 – Short note from Wally Denger to his parents about the trip and his expected return 10. Undated – One-page “About the Band. . ..] mimeographed fact sheet 12-14. Undated – Three different newspaper photo clippings showing the band exiting the train in Pasadena 15. Undated – One newspaper photo clipping showing football player Jim Holmes, his wife, and new born daughter, who was born in Pasadena during the trip 16. 2 Jan 60 – First page section from the Milwaukee Journal headlined, “Badgers Buried, 44-8” 17. 3 Jan 60 – Santa Fe Dining Car menu for the Wisconsin Band Luncheon during their return trip 18. 1999 – Wally Denger’s University of Wisconsin Alumni Association name tag used during its 1999 trip to the Rose Bowl festival . At the time of listing, nothing similar is for sale in the trade. The Rare Book Hub and Worthpoint show no nothing similar has appeared at auction. OCLC shows nothing similar is held by any institution. .

1960-1965 - A one-of-a-kind mini-collection related to the love affair between the naïve Midwestern singing star, Phyllis McGuire, and the dangerous Chicago mob boss, Sam Giancana

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Title: 1960-1965 - A one-of-a-kind mini-collection related to the love affair between the naïve Midwestern singing star, Phyllis McGuire, and the dangerous Chicago mob boss, Sam Giancana
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Various. Very good. This archive consists of five items: 1) an autographed program from the McGuire Sisters' 1960 engagement at the Las Vegas Desert Inn where Phyllis McGuire first met Sam Giancana, 2) a press photos of Phyllis when she testified at the 1965 Federal Grand Jury investigating Giancana, 3) a press photo of Giancana at the same investigation, 4) a 1962 postcard of Frank Sinatra's Neva-Cal Lodge where a McGuire-Giancana rendezvous ignited that investigation, and 5) a lobby card from the 1961 Noonan & Marshall film Double Trouble (released as Swingin' Away). The wholesome McGuire Sisters singing act hit the bigtime after they nearly blew the needle off the applause-o-meter during an Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts television show in December 1952. By the time the trio headlined at the Las Vegas Desert Inn along with the Noonan & Marshall comedy team in June 1960, they had a string of gold records including two #1 hits, Sincerely and Sugartime. While performing there, Phyllis caught the eye of the unstable, vicious, and violent boss of the Chicago underworld, Sam 'Momo' or 'Moony' Giancana. It is unclear how the couple were introduced, possibly by Frank Sinatra or a casino pit boss. Regardless, the pair hit it off and began a relationship that, except for a few gossipy scandal-sheet photos, was hidden from the public, although Phyllis's sisters and long-time friend Peter Marshall, at that time a comedic straight-man and fellow headliner, were well aware. Long afterward in a Barbara Walters interview, Phyllis related that "When I met him I did not know who he was, and . . . I didn't find out until sometime later really who he was, and [by then] I was already in love." Perhaps that realization came when in the early 1960s when the couple traveled to Chicago, and they were met at the airport by the FBI who coerced Phyllis into an interview where she was either unable or unwilling to divulge anything about Giancana's illegal activities. However, as other agents waited with Sam while the interview was conducted, he exploded, "I know all about the Kennedys and Phyllis knows a lot more about the Kennedys and one of these days we are going to tell all." It is likely Giancana was boasting about his well-documented (but vehemently contested by Camelot apologists) vote-fixing efforts in West Virginia and Illinois in 1960 that gave John F. Kennedy the presidency over Richard M. Nixon. Some, including the premier investigative journalist of his time, Jack Anderson, have claimed that the deal, probably cut by the family patriarch, Joseph, whose long-time mob-related investments built the family's fortune, required the future president to turn a blind-eye underworld operations in Chicago and allow Giancana to assassinate Fidel Castro who had shut down his lucrative Cuban operations. Later, Frank Church's Senate investigation discovered that follow-on secret Kennedy-Giancano discussions were conducted using messages passed between the president and the mobster by their shared mistress, Judith Campbell Exner. Yet, the above information was not known until later, and the couple's romantic relationship didn't explode in the press until Giancana's visits to Phyllis's chalet, used while she performed at Frank Sinatra's Neva-Cal Lodge (which he may have bought with the assistance of Joseph Kennedy), were discovered by a disabled state gaming commissioner in 1963. By that time, Giancana had been placed on the Nevada blacklist that forbade known gangsters from entering casinos. Upon his discovery, Giancana exploded at the "crippled Son of a Bitch" who confronted him, and the couple's romance could no longer be hidden after Sinatra was forced to give-up his gambling resort and sell his interest in the landmark Las Vegas hotel, The Sands. Worse for Giancana, in an apparent double-cross, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the president's brother, directed the FBI to investigate his Chicago Unit perhaps, as suggested by several historians and journalists, in an attempt to intimidate the underworld into keeping the vote-fixing and Castro deals under wraps. After President Kennedy was assassinated, the federal probe into Giancana deepened to include the possibility that he ordered the 'hit' as pay-back for the Kennedys not fulfilling their part of the mutual deal. When Giancana and Phyllis were subpoenaed by an investigative grand jury in 1965, both remained mum. Although Giancana was granted immunity, he still refused to testify and spent a year in prison for contempt of court, after which he moved to Mexico. Phyllis returned to sing with her sisters, however the damage to the trio was already done. The McGuire Sisters were essentially blackballed by the entertainment world, and they stopped performing in 1968. After Giancana returned to the United States, he was again subpoenaed but murdered before he could appear in court; one shot to the back of his head as he was cooking a meal of sausage and peppers, then five more into his mouth. Others connected to Giancana also met untimely deaths. Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, perhaps into an incinerator or stadium foundation. Warren Reynolds was shot in his head just before he was scheduled to testify. Two reporters covering Giancana were murdered. One potential witness was found hanging in her cell shortly after being arrested for disorderly conduct, and, the dismembered body of Johnny Roselli was found stuffed into an oil barrel floating off the coast of Florida. The McGuire sisters finally returned to the oldies show circuit in 1986. Peter Marshall and Tommy Noonan split after their movie bombed, however Marshall found immense success on television as the host of Hollywood Squares for 17 years. . (For more information, see "The McGuire Sisters win Godfrey's Talent Scouts. . .." at Youtube, "Sam Giancana" at the Spartacus Educational website, "Phyllis McGuire, Singing Star and Sam Giancana Paramour Dies. . .." at the Mob Museum website, Nesteroff's interview of Peter L. Marshall at the Classic Television Showbiz blogspot, Suri's "The McGuire Sisters star Phyllis McGuire dead. . .." at the Daily Mail website, the 18 July 1960 issue of Fabulous Las Vegas Magazine, Colloff and Hall's "Married to the Mob" at the Texas Monthly website, Lane's "The Murder of Sam Giancana" at the CIA website, Chicago ABC-7's "Feds focused on Chicagoans, Outfit figures in JFK files," and Schwarz's "Venomous in the Extreme . . . Frank Sinatra's Acrimonious 1963 Exit from Nevada Gaming" in Vol 24 No 7 of Gaming Law Review. The HBO movie, Sugartime, is an accurate account of the Giancana-McGuire relationship, and Netflix's film, The Rat Pack, covers Sinatra's relationship with the Kennedy family and the mob.) A one-of-a-kind collection documenting the relationship between Phyllis McGuire and Sam Giancana. .

HOW TO TEST READABILITY by Flesch, Rudolf

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Title: HOW TO TEST READABILITY
Author: Flesch, Rudolf
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 56 pages. First edition. Minor rubbing and chipping to the dust jacket, else a near fine copy of this rare book.

SCHRIFT INSCHRIFT DRUCK by Morison, Stanley

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Title: SCHRIFT INSCHRIFT DRUCK
Author: Morison, Stanley
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, 1948. original paper-covered boards. 8vo. original paper-covered boards. 29, (3) pages, followed by 10 additional leaves of illustrations. First German edition of The Art of Printing, translated by Bernhard Bischoff. A fine copy.

The Hare Bell; a token of friendship. Rev. C.W. Everest Henry S. Parsons Hartford, CT by Rev. C.W. Everest

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Title: The Hare Bell; a token of friendship. Rev. C.W. Everest Henry S. Parsons Hartford, CT
Author: Rev. C.W. Everest
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Description: Hartford, CT: Henry S. Parsons, 1849. 192 pp. Gilt cover, frontispiece, gold edging. The Hare Bell is a modest gift book. Contains numerous verses and poems including "Morn at Sea" "The Floweret" " Epitaphs in Rome" OCLC, June 2016-2. 4 1/2" x 3" light fading on cover, occasional foxing, one corner slight bent.

80 Years of Locke Scholarship by Hall, Ronald, Woolhouse, Roger

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Title: 80 Years of Locke Scholarship
Author: Hall, Ronald, Woolhouse, Roger
Seller: Common Crow Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good+ book with Very Good+ dust jacket. All pages clean, unmarked and crisp. Tight spine. Book with stain to front cover, DJ shows minor wear and small stain on front. 215 pp. Ocatvo.

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