Pacifism (28 resultados)

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 36 pages. Kingsley Widmer "The limits of Pacifism" / Colin Johnson "The fallacy of non-violent defence" / Nicolas and Ruth Walter "The Committee of 100 and anarchism" / Francis Ellingham "Automation & individualism" / Bosco Nedelcovic "Automation and work" (SL#122).

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condición: Very good. First Edition. Weekly pacifist publication, this a special issue focused on nuclear disarmament edited by Bruce Birchard, a Quaker activist and leader of the watchdog group National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex. The issue's theme is "peace conversion," the concept of converting war industries to civilian production. Includes articles on three community-based disarmament and peace conversion projects in Denver, Oahu and Santa Clara County, California. Wraps. 8" x 10.75" approx. in self wraps. Light toning, else fine. 31pp.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 36 pages. Kingsley Widmer "The limits of Pacifism" / Colin Johnson "The fallacy of non-violent defence" / Nicolas and Ruth Walter "The Committee of 100 and anarchism" / Francis Ellingham "Automation & Individualism" / Bosco Nedelcovic" (SL#111).

Condición: Very Good. 7 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 7 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 7 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13.5 x 21.5 cms. Category: The Adelphi; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

First Edition. Quarto (28cm); printed wrappers, stapled; 16pp; illus. Modest wear, toning, a few faint corner creases and faint foxed spots to right margin of front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good. Debut issue of Peace & Democracy News, produced by the Campain for Peace and Democracy/East and West, an organization founded in 1982 whose principal purpose "has been to bring together members of the peace movement, trade unionists, environmentalists, feminists, and minority rights activists around the perspective of independence from both superpower blocs" (p.1).…

Condición: VG. 1969. Octavo, 226pp., photo illustrations, wraps. List of participants included. VG.

First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound self-wrappers printed in blue; [12]pp. Upper cover rather unevenly toned, else Very Good and sound. Post-World War II arguments against universal military training; upper cover illustration signed in image by Bernard Seaman, depicting Uncle Sam presenting the U.N. with a document reading simply "Disarmament," while holding behind his back another document which reads "We gotta have conscription!!!" One separately catalogued copy in OCLC as of August, 2018, at the IISH. …

Original illustrated poster, offset printed in colors on white stock, measuring 45.5cm x 60.75cm (18" x 24"). A few faint folds smoothed out, staple holes along left and right margins, with a few faint creases and small stains; Very Good. Poster produced by the New York-based Coalition for a Nuclear Free Harbor, promoting a July 4, 1986 event billed as "an alternative to the July 4th parade of warships led by the Battleship Iowa, flagship of the proposed NY nukeport." Not found in OCLC.…

First Edition. First printing. Brown cloth, blindstamped, titled in gilt; pink endpapers; 252pp. Presentation bookplate of the American Peace Society to front pastedown. Straight, tight, and unfaded, paper lightly browned, with occasional spots, pencil notes to endpapers: Very Good. The structure and outline of the book are very similar to Thomas Upham's Manual of Peace (reprinted with an introduction by Beckwith in 1842), but the text is substantively different. SABIN 4262.…

Original illustrated poster, offset printed in three colors on yellow stock, measuring 45.5cm x 58cm (ca.18" x 23"). Old folds smoothed out, tiny pin-hole to upper margin, with a short tear at lower edge, and holograph local contact information pasted at lower right corner; Very Good+. Poster produced by Mobilization for Survival, a national coalition of peace and justice groups based in Philadelphia, who advocated for denuclearization and an end to the arms race. The group states their demands, above silhouettes of nuclear cooling towers and missiles of various sizes: Stop research, production and use of nuclear weapons; stop operation and construction of nuclear power plants; guarantee adequate heating fuel for the poor during the winter. Not found in OCLC, though we note an example held at OMCA.…

Original illustrated poster, offset printed in four colors on white stock, measuring 40.5cm x 55.5cm (16" x 22"). Mild handling to extremities, faint corner crease and a tiny tear to upper edge, with a staple hole toward upper margin; Near Fine. Poster produced by Mobilization for Survival, a national coalition of peace and justice groups based in Philadelphia, who advocated for denuclearization and an end to the arms race. Planet Earth prominently featured at center, swallowed by a large mushroom cloud in the background. Not found in OCLC, though we note an example held at OMCA.…

Original photographic broadside, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 36.75cm x 55.75cm (14.5" x 22"). Old folds, BOSS Archives rubber-stamp at upper right margin, else Near Fine. Attractive broadside issued by the US arm of The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), a religious nonviolent group founded in 1915 by 68 pacifists, who claim to be "the largest, oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in the United States." The contents, reproduced from their appearance in the New York Times (June 16, 1968) and Los Angeles Times (June 23, 1968), came closely on the heels of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Beside photographic portraits of Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy, the broadside calls the abolition of small artms, and for American citizens to disarm themselves: "But Americans have permitted a climate of violence to grow in their society. They have allowed advertising to fill their television screens with simple-minded glamorization of violence, and pressure groups to block legislation that would make it harder for sick men to possess the weapons of murder." Listed are an "honor roll of self-disarmers," suggestions for how one could get on the honor roll, and a mail-in pledge card at lower right corner. Scarce; not found in OCLC, though we note an example held in the Martin Luther King, Jr. collection at Beloit College.…

16mo (15cm). Sewn self-wrappers; 12pp. A worn copy, stain on first leaf bleeds (with diminishing effect) through entire text; marginal loss to final leaf, not costing text; still, complete and Good. Issued without imprint, but likely printed at Adin Ballou's Hopedale Community, where Wright was a resident (but see note below). Date of composition is given as Jan. 24, 1848 at close of text; this pamphlet was likely printed soon after that date, as Wright's sequel, titled The Employers of Dick Crowninshield, was composed in March of the same year and makes reference to the current work in its foreword. In typical Wright fashion, a contrarian point of view - here, radical non-resistance - is stretched to its logical limits by unflattering analogy. Wright, the idiosyncratic radical abolitionist, feminist, pacifist, freethinker and proto-anarchist, compares Zachary Taylor's actions at the Battle of Monterey to nothing more than murder for hire, building his analogy around the notorious 1830 murder of a Salem ship's-captain, Joseph White, by a paid assassin (the Dick Crowninshield of the title). After laying out the details of each man's purported deeds (including a quite lurid account of the Battle of Monterey), Wright follows with a long list of "The Differences" between them, concluding in the end that there is no difference in kind: ".The assassin killed a man whom he knew to be innocent; the soldier did the same.The assassin killed the innocent at the instigation of his employers; so did the soldier.The assasin entered into a contract with his employers voluntarily; so did the soldier.", etc. In the end, the only noteworthy difference is that "Zachary's deeds are said by the priests and churches to be God-approved and Christ-like; the assassin's are denounced by them as evil, and only evil." At least three separate editions of the pamphlet were issued, with priority likely as follows: (1) a Hopedale imprint, issued with a full title page, dated 1848, in which the title subject's name is misspelled "Crowningshield;" (2) the current edition, undated, issued with drop-title, the subject's name corrected to "Crowninshield"; no imprint, clearly from a different setting of type from the first - but, based on close comparison with digital sources, likely from the same font of type as the first (hence our suggestion of Hopedale as the likely place of printing for this edition); (3) a stated Second Edition, undated, published in Edinburgh, probably the same year. All editions are uncommon; 4 locations noted in OCLC for this edition. No copies traced in commerce.…

First Edition. Original illustrated poster, offset printed in red and black on white stock, measuring 38cm x 59cm (ca 15" x 23"). Mild handling, a few vertical creases smoothed out, with a handful of small closed tears to the margins; unbacked; Very Good+. Poster issued in advance of the New Mobe's November, 1969 March on Washington, with the illustration printed by permission of the artist.…

Offset lithographed poster in colors, 60cm x 45.5cm (ca 24" x 18"). Slight edgewear, with small closed tear and crease at upper right margin (away from central image); Very Good. Striking graphic produced for the anti-conscription rally in Washington, D.C. of March 22, 1980 - a seminal punk-era event that attracted more than 30,000 marchers, many of them young men of high school age who had been mobilized by President Jimmy Carter's proposal to reinstate Selective Service for all U.S. males age 18 and older. The design, striking in its graphic simplicity, marks a clear shift away from the political graphics of the Sixties and Seventies towards a more postmodern, industrial aesthetic that would become a hallmark of much 1980s graphic design. Scarce; not at CSPG; OCLC one copy only (Museum of Modern Art).…

Original screenprint in four colors; 35" x 22-1/2" (ca 89cm x 57cm). Very minor surface rubbing, else Fine, Grade A. Superb mushroom-cloud graphic, with a quotation from folk/rock musician Holly Near, advertising a "Teach-In" at Laney College in Oakland. Designed and printed by the San Diego radical screenprinting collective Insurgent Squeegee.…

First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). In original dark brown cloth, blind-stamped on boards, titled in gold on spine; plain endpapers; xiii, [vi], xii [13] 14-706pp. A straight, tight copy, spine sunned, rubbed at extremities, with inch-long crack to base of lower joint; minor foxing throughout, but otherwise bright: Very Good. In the 1830s the American Peace Society held an essay contest "on the subject of a Congress of Nations," judged by John Quincy Adams, James Kent, and Daniel Webster (iii, v). This volume collected the best essays, as well as Ladd's own contribution--intended as a summary of rejected essays, but in fact an outline of his own concept of a "congress and a supreme court of nations" modeled on the American government. This scheme was "mainly reponsible for engendering the international peace movement of the mid-nineteenth century under the leadership of Elihu Burritt" (ANB). Ladd's essay was also published separately in 1840 as An Essay on a Congress of Nations (priority unknown; see American Imprints 40-3846). See Brock, Pacifism in the United States p.487. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 40-5565.…

First U.K. Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's side-stitched self-wrappers; 11pp. Light dust-soil, tiny soil spot to rear wrapper, else Very Good to Near Fine. Anti-Zachary Taylor pamphlet issued by the pacifist and marriage reform advocate Henry C. Wright (1797 - 1870) during Taylor's successful 1848 bid for the presidency. Here the author compares Taylor's career to that of Richard Crowninshield's (1804-1830), who was hired in 1830 to murder the 82-year-old captain and former slave trader Joseph White.…

First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); removed; 45pp. Some foxing to preliminaries, else Very Good and sound. Errata printed on p. [46]. Uncommon statement advocating the principles of conscientious objection to military conscription composed in a series of six letters. Wilder concludes that "The Conscriptive Military Laws of the State are not only injurious to all whom they oppressively effect, but, also, like all of Nature's Laws, far more injurious to those who covet to themselves some exclusive easements, or indulgences" (p. 35). An uncommon work; about ten copies appear in OCLC, no other copies traced in commerce. SABIN 103983.…

First Edition. First impression. Penny pamphlet, 19cm x 12cm. Sewn self-wrappers; 24pp. Sewing perished; mild wear at corners; still complete and Very Good. Publisher's imprint printed vertically at bound edge of first page of text. A tract on pacifist non-resistance, with strong anti-statist content - a clear presentation of the proto-anarchist Christianity of militant pacifist-abolitionists of the era, of which Wright and Barker were exemplars. Wright (1797-1870), a defrocked Presbyterian minister, would become one of the most radical American voices for abolitionism and pacifism in the years before the Civil War, even being ejected from the American Anti-Slavery Society for espousing too radical an abolitionist viewpoint. Joseph Barker (1806-1875), a British controvertialist clergyman who, like Wright, had been rejected by his denomination, was in many ways Wright's analogue in Great Britain, espousing a militant interpretation of Christ's teachings that repudiated all entities that survived upon compulsion of their members - including enslavement, marriage, most religion, and government itself. Barker would later relocate to the United States, where he became a leader of the abolitionist cause in Ohio before returning to England just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. The present pamphlet very scarce; not traced in commerce, with only five physical holdings noted in OCLC.…

Second edition. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover, with printed paper cover label; 301pp; portrait frontispiece. A few spots of soil and discoloration to cloth, consistent with age; still a tight, unmarked copy, Very Good or better. In pictorial dustwrapper, somewhat soiled and edgeworn with some old celotape reinforcements to verso; just VG. Biography of Gandhi, by this Oxford-educated journalist and memoirist, grandson of the esteemed Gujarati journalist and historian of the same name (author of a well-known history of the Parsis, 1884). Karaka the younger was the first colonial President of the Oxford Union and a vocal advocate for the rights of coloured citizens in Great Britain as well as for Indian independence. The current work, issued by an English-language publisher in Bombay, is decidedly uncommon; rarely seen in commerce, with fewer than 20 copies noted in OCLC of any edition.…

Collection of 63 publications, including 25 numbered pamphlets (ca 12-32pp each) and 38 leaflets (1-16pp each). Generally ca 20cm x 14cm, with slight variations; printed paper wrappers. Variable light to moderate wear, but complete, Good or better overall. A comprehensive collection of materials published under the auspices of the Union of Democratic Control, a British political advocacy group which sought, during the years of the First World War and its aftermath, to increase the role of democratic processes and parliamentary control in British government, especially with regards to its foreign relations. During the Great War, the UDC stopped short of outright pacifism; after 1918, the organization plotted a more intentionally anti-war course, ultimately publishing its pacifist manifesto, Arthur Ponsonby's Now is the Time, in 1925 (not included here). The Union's members included many of the most prominent liberal and labour politicians and intellectuals of the era, including Arthur Ponsonby, Bertrand Russell, Norman Angell, Ramsay MacDonald, and others. Given the prominence of its members, the Union exerted considerable influence on British foreign policy in the interwar period, and though its influence waned steeply after the Thirties, the Union survived well into the post-WW2 era, finally dissolving in 1966. While UDC publications are not generically rare, this is the largest collection of their publications we have encountered at one time, offering a representative view of the group's political advocacy over its most active period. A catalog of the collection follows (all published London: Union of Democratic Control unless otherwise specified). Pamphlet Series: 1. The Morrow of the War. 16pp. n.d. (1914) 2. Angell, Norman. Shall This War End German Militarism? 24pp. n.d. (1914) 3. Russell, Bertrand. War: the Offspring of Fear. n.d. 16pp. (1914) 4. Brailsford, H.N. The Origins of the Great War. 24pp. (1914) 5. Ponsonby, Arthur. Parliament and Foreign Policy. 12pp. n.d. (1914?) 5a. Ponsonby, Arthur. The Control of Foreign Policy. 16pp. (1918) 6. Asquith, H.H.; Winston Churchill, Edward Grey, et al. The National Policy As Set Forth By. 16pp. (1914) 7. The International Industry of War. n.d. 16pp. 8. MacDonald, J. Ramsay. War and the Workers: a Plea for Democratic Control. 20pp. n.d. (1915?) 9. Why we should state Terms of Settlement. 8pp. n.d. 10. Rolland, Romain et al. Towards an International Understanding. Being the Opinions of some Allied & Neutral Writers. 28pp. n.d. 11. Swanwick, H.M. Women and War. 16pp. (NOTE: Covers detached, but present). 1915. 12. By "A Pole." The Polish Problem. 20pp. n.d. 13. Angell, Norman. The Prussian in our Midst. 28pp. (1915) 14a. The Balance of Power. 2nd Edition. 24pp. 1915. 15a. Hobson, J.A. A League of Nations. 20pp. 1915. 16a. Hobson, J.A. Labour and the Costs of War. 16pp. 1916. 18a. Brailsford, H.N. Turkey and the Roads of the East. 24pp. 1916. 19a. Dickinson, G. Lowes. Economic War After the War. 20pp. 1916. 20a. Angell, Norman. America and the Cause of the Allies. 16pp. 1916. 21a. "By a Soldier." The War to End War: a Plea to Soldiers by a Soldier. 20pp. 1917. 22a. Morel, E.D. The African Problem and the Peace Settlement. 32pp. 1917. 23a. Gooch, G.P. The Races of Austria-Hungary. 24pp. 1917. 27a. Peace Overtures and Their Rejection December 1916 - March, 1918. 21pp. 1918. 42a. Demartial, M. Georges. Patriotism, Truth and War Guilt. 30pp. 1921. Leaflet Series: (Unnumbered). Fundraising Prospectus. Broadside (1pp). N.d. (ca 1914-15). Signed in print by E.A. Morel. No. 3: Why Have the People take no Interest in Foreign Affairs. Broadside (1pp). n.d. (1914?) No. 4: What is the Balance of Power? Broadside (1pp). n.d. (1914?) No. 5: "Crushing Germany". 4pp. n.d. (1914?) No. 6: What is a Treaty? Broadside (1pp). n.d. (1914?) No. 8: Our Soldiers and the Union of Democratic Control. Letters from Officers and Men. 4pp. (1915). No. 9: Do Nations Want to Fight? Broadsheet (2pp). n.d. (1915?) No. 10. Ponsonby, Arthur. Why We Should Think About Peace. 4pp. n.d. (1915?) No. 11. Morel, E.D. War and Diplomacy. Being a Speech delivered at a Public Meeting.May 14th, 1915). 12pp. (1915). No. 14b. The Union of Democratic Control What It Is and What It Is Not. Second Edition. Broadsheet (2pp). 1915. No. 15b. Mr. Ponsonby and Mr. Trevelyan in the House of Commons. 11pp. 1915. No. 16b. Earl Loreburn & Lord Courtney of Penwith in the House of Lords. 8pp. 1915. No. 17b. What the Press Now Says: More Support for the U.D.C. Broadsheet (2pp). 1915. No. 18b. Terms of Peace. Mr. C.R. Buxton on a Basis for Discussion. 4pp. n.d. (1915?). No. 19b. Secret Diplomacy a Menace to the Security of the State. The National and Imperial Problem. 8pp. (1915) No. 20b. The Attack upon Freedom of Speech. The Broken-Up Meeting at the Memorial Hall, 29th November, 1915. 3rd ed. 24pp. (1915) No. 21b. The Attack upon Freedom of Speech. Astound Official Defence. House of Commons Sequel to the Broken up Meeting. 2nd ed. 28pp. (1915). No. 22b. Our Ultimate Objects in the War. From a Speech by Mr. E.D. Morel.November 22nd, 1915. 4pp. (1915) No. 26b. The Prime Minister's Declaration. Its Effect on Germany. 4pp. (1916) No. 27b. Trevelyan, Charles. The Case for Negotiation. 4pp. 1916. No. 28b. What Our Allies Think About Economic War. 8pp. 1916. No. 29b. Ponsonby, Arthur. Why Must the War Go On? 4pp. (1916). No. 30b. Resolutions Passed at the Second Annual Meeting of the General Council of the Union of Democratic Control. Broadside (1p). 1916. No. 31b. America and Permanent Peace. Speech of President Wilson to the American League to Enforce Peace.4pp. 1916. No. 32b. Must the War go on till Russia gets Constantinople? Broadside (1pp). (1916). No. 33b. President Wilson's Message to the World. 8pp. (1917) No. 34b. British Working-Men - Observe! French Workers Support Wilson. Broadside (1pp). (1917) No. 35b. French Members of Parliament and the "Knock-out Blow." Broadside (1pp). (1917) No. 36b. Manife.…

5 manila envelopes (12"x9") with printed labels, containing a total of 29 reprinted articles and 6 introductory sheets. All housed within large manila envelope (13"x9.5"), labeled in manuscript. External envelope rubbed and worn, with some dustsoil: Good only. Internal manila envelopes slightly rubbed, with minor rust to metal closures; enclosed articles with mild foxing and browning, one or two bent corners, only gently rubbed: overall Very Good. An information packet distributed by the Committee On New Alternatives in the Middle East (CONAME), a pacifist organization founded in 1969 by a group of Jewish-Americans (among them Noam Chomsky). Their aim was to pursue peace in the Middle East by promoting peaceful dialogue in the U.S. "Founding director Allan Solomonow described it as 'a forum and a resource for peace-seeking alternatives to the currently internecine status quo; we are the gadfly to the consciences of the resigned, of the apathetic, of those mired in propaganda and dogma.' To that end, the organization's principal work was educational: disseminating articles, touring speakers, and organizing Middle East delegations to mitigate "the pervasive polarization of opinion that has characterized the Middle East crisis'". This is one of the informational packets CONAME assembled and distributed, probably in 1972. It contains reprints of previously published articles (dating from 1969-1972), organized in envelopes labeled as follows: 1. Who Are the Palestinians? (6 articles) 2. The Israeli Peace Movement (4) 3. Israel's Arab Minority (5) 4. Alternatives for Middle East Peace (9) 5. In Search of Middle East Information (5) Article authors include Edward Said, Alan Dershowitz, Ahmed Khalidi, Atallah Mansour, M. Cherif Bassiouni, Nora Levin, Edward Said, Shlomo Avineri, Amos Kenan, Siach, Amnon Rubinstein, Israel Shahak, and Sabri Jiryis. The packets also contain copies of a few periodicals, e.g. New Outlook and The Middle East News Review. Though this example equivocates about possible resolutions to the conflict and prioritizes providing background information, CONAME eventually advocated for Israeli-Palestianian dialogue and a two-state solution. The organization collaborated with other American pacifist organizations, such as the Jewish Peace Fellowship, War Resisters League, Quaker Action Group, and Women Strike for Peace. However, after the founding of Breira and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, CONAME's Executive Director and Assistant Director departed and the organization dissolved in 1975. (See the article on CONAME on btvshalom. org, the website for the Jewish Alliance for Justice & Peace). An ephemeral and uncommon survival; we have traced no similar examples. #61845.…

Two pages 8vo, bifolium, blank second leaf laid down on former album page, 22 x 14cm, good condition. Text: "The last time I saw you I spoke to you about the necessity of translating and printing in russian [sic] 'Barclay's Apology'. I think that the sooner it will be printed the better, and ought to be printed in russian without any abriviations [sic]. But I have not the means of paying the translation and printing. | Do you think the Society of Friends would give the necessary money for the translation and printing? | If the S[ociety] of Fr[iends] cannot pay the money then I think of making extracts from the book and will print them at my own expense, but as the work is much the same I would like to earn the money for the printing of extracts by translating the whole book. There would be then two editions. 1/ The whole book and 2/ extracts. | What do you think of my idea? Some time ago I wrote about all this to Aylmer Maude, and asked him to write to you about this affair, but not receiving any answer from him, I now write directly to you and hope you will soon give me a reply [address given and plan for the winter for his family]". Autograph Material by Hilkoff is scarce.…