Munson Gorham Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 294 pp., xvii. No citing of Edition, printing or number line, but Publisher "FR" logo printed on Title page above Publisher name at foot of Title page. Following the Editor's Preface, Contents divided into 14 Essays: [1] Louis Trenchard More, "The Pretensions of Science"; [2] Irving Babbitt, "Humanism: An Essay at Definition"; [3] Paul Elmer More, "The Humility of Common Sense"; [4] G.R. Elliott, "The Pride of Modernity"; [5] T.S. Eliot, "Religion Without Humanism"; [6] Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., "The Plight of Our Arts"; [7] Alan Reynolds Thompson, "The Dilemma of Modern Tragedy"; [8] Robert Shafer, "An American Tragedy"; [9] Harry Hayden Clark, "Pandora's Box in American Fiction"; [9] Stanley P. Chase, "Dionysus in Dismay"; [10] Gorham B. Munson, "Our Critical Spokesmen"; [11] Bernard Bandler II, "Behaviour and Continuity"; [12] Sherlock Bronson Gass, "The Well of Discipline"; [13] Richard Lindley Brown, "Courage and Education"; "A List of Books", pp.291-294. // NO JACKET. Dark blue cloth with very dulled gilt on spine (nearly unreadable); Deckle fore-edge. Strong spine (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear, but for vague hints at spine corner topmost edges; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Despite dulling of lettering on spine, in remarkable condition for a book more than 95 years old. The way to read Classic Essays on the subject, still relevant, by distinguished writers. From Amazon: "This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.".…

Newsletter. 2 leaves, stapled at upper left corner. 14x8.5 inches. Some browning, spotting, and small tear to extremities. Old fold lines. Gorham Munson circulates his "Bill of Economic Rights" drafted "in consultation with Social Credit leaders." The provisions include the right to food, clothing, housing, and healthcare whenever there is a surplus of product or labor and regardless of the ability of the consumer to pay. …

Newsletter. 2 issues (2 leaves; 2 leaves), printed recto only, stapled at upper left corner. Stapled with a copy of the Remarks of Hon. Jerry Voorhis of California in the House of Representatives, Monday, January 22, 1940 from the Congressional Record. Very Good. Both parts of Gorham Munson?s essay on the financing of national defense on the eve of US entry into World War II. Munson supported the Voorhis plan, which opposed taking on new debt, and criticized the Keynes plan.…

Newsletter. 2 issues (3 leaves; 3 leaves), printed rectos only, loose leaf. With a printed envelope, stamped but unmailed. Old horizontal fold lines from mailing, as issued. Minor age toning. Very Good. Two issues of a Social Credit newsletter. Issue 6 contains a long article by New Democracy president Gorham Munson detailing a split with another wing of the American Social Credit movement: the New Economics Group of New York, whose board passed a resolution forbidding any interactions with New Democracy. Issue 7 contemplates the reestablishment of a more formal journal as well as an ad-hoc committee and resolution in support of Goldsborough?s Bill (HR 7188). Issue 7 also announces and celebrates James Laughlin?s new publishing venture New Directions which sought to publish ?books of permanent literary value? and continues to do so to this day. New Directions had been a literary column that published poetry in an earlier incarnation of Munsons?s New Democracy.…

Newsletter. 13 issues (1-3 leaves each, stapled). 14x8.5 inches. Some browning, spotting, and small tears to extremities. Old fold lines. The inaugural issue posits Social Credit as a "third way" solution superior to both socialism and Fascism, and approvingly cites Ignazio Silone and Peter F. Drucker. An announcement stapled to issue 1 declares the newsletter will begin with a circulation of only 200 as it seeks to foster discussion only among the "American intelligentsia." Early issues appear on paper with "American Social Credit Movement" at the head, which is changed in later issues. Gorham Munson is the chief author and responds to correspondence from readers. The supplement appeared sometime in January 1941 and reproduces the text of the Voorhis plan for war financing which includes a scheme for "debt-free credit issuance." Includes issue numbers 1, 2, 5, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 27, 35, 124, 129. Holdings are scarce, with WorldCat reporting only four locations (3 in New York, one at Yale), though we note one additional holding as part of the Gorham Munson papers at Wesleyan University. …