Sanctuary Col (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: in wraps. Third Edition. Vintage staple-bound Softcover, Stated Third Edition, 1930, [publisher not identified] Published at 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 16 pages. Very Good, in wraps. Minor shelf/edge wear, dust soiling and a touch of foxing to light green paper covers. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. Only flaw is a small tear at the top of the spine of about a half-inch. Handsome small (5 3/4" by 3 1/4") softcover extolling the dangers of smoking and corporate greed in 1930. Rear inside cover quotes a study by the "School Journal" of 40 participants. Twenty smoked and twenty did not. Author was Lt. Col. Eugene Nelson Sanctuary (right-wing publisher, editor, writer). Born in Hinesburg, Vermont in 1870, admitted to UVM in 1889, played baseball for the Green Stockings team that defeated Yale at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Served as the chief engineer for Montpelier and also oversaw the construction of the Bolton Dam before joining the U.S. Army Engineering Corps. Married Grace Spriggs in 1898, moved to Galveston, TX where he was involved in harbor improvements. Relocated to Beaumont,TX and worked for Standard Oil. With the advent of WW1, he obtained an Army commission as a Lt. Colonel and was involved in the operation of the Russian Railway Service Corps. He was an eyewitness to the Bolshevik revolution which had a profound influence on his life. He was also one of the 33 defendants charged with violating the Smith Act in 1940. Included is a two page biographical article print-out from the Times Argus dated August 10, 2017. Very scarce, especially in such a respectable condition. OCLC# 44500585.LOC FB-04.

Handbill. Two 8.5x11 inch handbills, horizontal fold crease, otherwise very good; the second handbill has a penciled note on the blank verso stating that it was received from Sanctuary. Sanctuary was the East Coast operative of the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation and founded the American Christian Defenders in 1934. He worked for a time as Montpelier?s city engineer while organizing anti-Semitic and anti-labor meetings in New England. A supporter of Hitler, during World War II he was one of the 33 right-wing activists tried for sedition. The first handbill here offers selections from his book "Tearing away the veils," while the second is a reprint of a Moscow newspaper that shows Soviet and American leaders in what M.I. Kalinin called "An era of fruitful cooperation.".