A Thousand Books of Fame
"A Thousand Books of Fame" was a booklist obtained by sending in your name to Gavin Gowrie of The House of Gowrie, and Thurland & Thurland.
Gavin is another pseudonym used by Arthur Desmond selling, importing and printing books in Chicago.
Start your collection of Ragnar Redbeard published books today.
“A THOUSAND BOOKS OF FAME.”
I’ve books of Love and Golden Deed and books of every cult and creed. I’ve books by men who fought and won, and tales of Nations long undone.
I’ve books for young men or the old; books of business, bonds and gold. I’ve doctor books for man and wife and books about the Germs of Life.
I’ve books of battle, blood and war; of voyages, travels, near and far. I’ve books of beer and beef and bread, and books for calling up the dead.
I’ve books that bear a royal name, and books that teach the Iron Game. I’ve books of praise and psalm and pain, and epic books of Dragons slain.
I’ve Rebel scrolls of flame and fate, and books defending church and state. I’ve books of stars and heavenly hosts, of witches, warlocks, gods, and ghosts.
I’ve books of monk and nun and knight, and sibyl books of power and might: Some old, some new, some highly priced: books of Buddha, Joss and Christ.
I’ve books by black and tan Hindoos, and books by Japs, and books by Jews: and picture books of hell and sin, from Paris, London, Rome, Berlin.
I’ve Jesuit books of craft and crime, and heathen books in prose and rhyme: Masonic texts a wonderous store and mystic tomes of ancient lore.
Ten thousand volumes rich and rare, and women’s fiction false and fair. My list —“A Thousand Books of Fame” is yours for mailing in your name.
My list —“A THOUSAND BOOKS OF FAME” is yours for mailing in your name.
—GOWRIE
Books Published by Ragnar Redbeard, Archive & Publisher
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We present our very own "A Thousand Books of Fame," a series of books, as a wink, as a top-shelf tribute, to "The House of Gowrie," "Thurland & Thurland" and "The Gold Coast Book Store." It is a small homage to the man behind it, Gavin Gowrie a.k.a. Arthur Desmond.
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The latest book in "A Thousand Books of Fame Series" by Ragnar Redbeard - archive & publisher is:
IS MARCUS GARVEY THE MAN?
Reprinted from "Redbeard's Review."
By Robert Carmonius
In the pages of history, certain individuals emerge as agents of transformation, kindling the flames of inspiration and rallying masses towards a shared vision. One such luminary is Marcus Garvey (Marcus Mosiah Garvey, 17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), a formidable figure of the early 20th century whose unwavering spirit and visionary leadership made an enduring impact on the quest for racial equality and self-determination.
Join us as we navigate through the history and critique of the life and times of Marcus Garvey, a visionary leader whose legacy transcends borders and generations, igniting a flame that refuses to be extinguished—a lasting testament to the transformative power of an individual on a global scale.
Redbeard’s Review (1896-1929) featured articles and quotations often reprinted in journals like The Lion’s Paw: A Journal of the Gods, edited by Richard Thurland (Arthur Desmond 1859-1929 "Ragnar Redbeard"), Sayings of Redbeard, The Sayings of Nietzsche, The Famous Sayings of Max Stirner, as well as magazines like The Industrial Worker. These publications predominantly promoted Arthur Desmond’s bookselling businesses, known over the years as Thurland and Thurland, The House of Gowrie, and Gold Coast Book Store in Chicago.
Paperback
6" x 9"
ISBN: 978-9198777680
COMRADES: Chronicles of a Socialist Propagandist
GERALD DESMOND
(ARTHUR DESMOND, 1859-1929, "RAGNAR REDBEARD.")
By Robert Carmonius
Obscure and long forgotten writings of Gerald Desmond, who under the cloak actually were Chicago bookseller Arthur Desmond (1859-1929), author of Might is Right, 1896, writing as “Ragnar Redbeard.”
Gerald Desmond was between 1908 and 1911 an active member of The Socialist Party of Canada. A prominent lecturer, organizer and writer for Western Clarion and Cotton’s Weekly.
This is the collected writings, articles, poetry, songs and verse (warts and all), during his years as a revolutionary propagandist and organizer for the S. P. of C.
[Gerald O’Connell-Desmond — HIBERNICUS.]
Paperback
296 Pages
6" x 9"
ISBN: 978-9198777673
EASY LESSONS IN THE SOCIALIST TEACHINGS a study and workbook
GERALD DESMOND
(ARTHUR DESMOND, 1859-1929, "RAGNAR REDBEARD").
By Robert Carmonius
Discover the forgotten writings of Gerald Desmond, an author whose cloak hides the identity of Chicago bookseller Arthur Desmond (1859-1929), author of "Might is Right," 1896, writing as Ragnar Redbeard.
This six-part article series, EASY LESSONS, provides an in-depth study and workbook in the Socialist Teachings. Read, ponder and answer the questions after each chapter, make notes and read the recommended books.
Paperback
6" x 9"
ISBN: 978-9198777666
THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE and THE STATE AND GOVERNMENT political writings of GERALD DESMOND
(ARTHUR DESMOND, 1859-1929, "RAGNAR REDBEARD").
By Robert Carmonius
Obscure and long forgotten writings of Gerald Desmond, lecturer and writer, who under the cloak actually were Chicago bookseller Arthur Desmond (1859-1929), author of Might is Right, 1896, writing as “Ragnar Redbeard.”
These two books The Struggle for Existence, and The State and Government, were first published by The Socialist Party of Canada, 1911.
- THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE
- THE STATE AND GOVERNMENT
- Misc
Paperback
6" x 9"
ISBN: 978-9198777659
ATHEIST and FREETHINKER ERNEST PACK on behalf of MENTAL FREEDOM
By Robert Carmonius
ATHEIST and FREETHINKER ERNEST PACK on behalf of MENTAL FREEDOM
An International Blasphemy Day release!
- Ernest Pack, the man who makes the God Worshippers laugh at their own Religion, and who has made more converts to Freethought than any other Atheist Lecturer alive.
- Ernest Pack’s work on behalf of mental freedom is, by its magnitude, beyond appraizment.
- His knowledge of religious history and theology is extensive, varied, deep and minute, and is all placed at the disposal of his audiences in the lightest way conceivable.
- In the form of a joke his audiences receive the fruits of deep study and long meditation.
Works by Atheist and Freethinker Ernest Pack presented together with rare material from associates “The Man Without a Soul” Malfew Seklew, President of “The Society of Superites” and Truthseeker J. W. Gott.
Paperback
6" x 9"
ISBN: 978-91-987776-4-2
The Devil's Book Agent Arthur Desmond Presents: Radical Books—For or Against ANYTHING! Vol. I.
By Robert Carmonius
The Devil's Book Agent Arthur Desmond Presents: Radical Books—For or Against ANYTHING! Vol. I.
Pamphlets and Books collected from the vaults of Thurland & Thurland, The House of Gowrie, and The Gold Coast Book Store.
Remember, "BOOKS ARE TRUE FRIENDS."
Titled as advertized by Arthur Desmond:
- The Law of Nature
- Delusions of Democracy
- Training the Human Plant
- Why I Am An Infidel
- A Vindication of Anarchy
- Australian Investors Review (Bonus)
Paperback
6" x 9"
ISBN-978-9198777628
THE GOSPEL According to MALFEW SEKLEW
A Revelation of Revaluations
By F. M. Wilkesbarr
Not for 200 years has a book appeared in the English language that contains more thought-thrills, startling truths, and daring explanations of the eternal verities of life, than the
“THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MALFEW SEKLEW.”
Have your Ego X-Rayed and be saved from 6000 illusions, delusions and confused conclusions.
- Have you read the “Gospel According to Malfew Seklew,” the most original and inspiring book of the century?
- Would you like to be a 100% personality, Rich in Reason, Wealthy with Wisdom and Opulent with Optimism?
- Are you a Peter Pantheist or a Personality with a Punch? Are you a Simpoleon or a Superman?
- Would you like to become an EGOIST, able to Audit your own Agonies; Burbankize your own Beliefs; Fletcherize your own Fancies; Pasturize your own Prejudices; Bowdlerize your own Banalities; Minimize Misery and Paralize your own Paralogies?
If so, read the “Gospel According to Malfew Seklew” and find out that the missing link in the human progress has been discovered; the remedy for higher civilization has been found.
This book, “The Smasher of All Shams, illusions, Delusions, Confusions and cankerous Conclusions” will teach you the Supermen. It will acquaint you with the fundamental Laws of Nature: “The Seven Laws That Govern Mankind; The Seven Wonders of the EGO; The Thirteen Affirmations of Supermanity; The Trinities That Mould Mankind” and will give you and index to every man’s mind and actions.
Get the Gold Coast Book Store Edition NOW! ( Printed with warts and all - as original as it gets!)
Paperback
6" x 9"
ISBN-978-9198777611
The Gospel of To-day: Power of Might—the Eternal Right
By Robert Carmonius
The lecture is a searching, scathing review of a book whose author Mr. Brewer classes as a tiger from the jungles, “not a pretty toy tiger, such as still may be found in the mountains of Bengal, but a genuine old saber-toothed tiger of the Pliocene age.”
An outake:
"In daily life, we are often reminded that our heredity runs back among the beasts of prey. Scratch a man deep enough—sometimes a pin will do—and we find the tiger, fox, jackal or hog, as the case may be. But we never see that past in its entirety—a flash of claw or fang, the glare of a startled eye, or a smothered growl from lips attuned to prayer—is about the limit of our social retrospection; and so it was with great interest and pleasure that I read what my Pliocene brother had to say about modern life and its historical development."
A lucid presentation by Charles Louis Brewer of the old and new conceptions of the idea that “Might makes Right.”
“Might is Right Inc.,” articles and letters from workers incorporating the writings of Ragnar Redbeard. (Arthur Desmond, 1859-1929)
Charles Louis Brewer 1873-1952.
Paperback
6" x 9"
ISBN-978-9198777604
The Law of Financial Success: Illustrated Edition
By Edward E. Beals
All progress—whether physical, mental, moral, spiritual or financial—is based on LAW. And he who wins success in any line does so because he has followed the LAW or LAWS pertaining to his business, whether he does it consciously or unconsciously.
Some of the great “Captains of Industry” who have won marvellous success in financial affairs, and for whom we have no great admiration, are miserable failures as moral and spiritual beings. But they have won great Financial Success because they concentrated on that alone to the exclusion of all other kinds.
What the most of us want is all round success, but we must remember that no one can be an all round success without Financial Independence. No matter how much good a person may want to do, he is handicapped by a lack of money. All the air-castles he has built; all the beautiful plans he has created; all the cherished desires to do good go unfulfilled because there is no money to complete them.
But these air-castles can become real buildings; these plans can become realities; these great desires can be fulfilled. The question is “how to do it?”
The writer has seen the need for several years among Advanced Thought circles, of a book to answer this question. In his own life he has found that Financial Success is not a matter of grind and rush and fight and struggle. It is a matter of getting in harmony with the LAW and then following that LAW to its logical conclusion. He has placed this information in the book “THE LAW OF FINANCIAL SUCCESS.” In it he states the LAW, shows how to get in harmony with it, and then gives specific instructions for keeping in the closest possible touch with the powers that be in the World of Finance. It is no magic potion to be swallowed with wonderful results, but is a plain stating of the LAW, so that all who run may read and then act. And he who acts will win success, because he is following the LAW that has been laid down from time immemorial.
Whether rich or poor, successful or unsuccessful—it matters not—this book will be of great value to you. If you are a natural moneymaker, perhaps you have been using the LAW unconsciously. This book will tell you how to handle it consciously. If you are unsuccessful and money seems to come hard, it will guide your thought and actions into the proper channels where you will get the highest possible results.
“THE LAW OF FINANCIAL SUCCESS” combines theory with practical knowledge. It not only states the LAW, but tells how to apply it. It not only informs one how to make money, but also tells him how and in what way to invest it to get the largest possible returns.
Be sure to get a copy of the GOLD COAST BOOK STORE edition today.
Paperback
6" x 9"
ISBN-978-9198777581
THE HOUSE OF GOWRIE and THURLAND & THURLAND: THE DEVIL’S BOOK AGENTS (Second Edition)
Life of a bookseller—the author of “Might is Right.”
By Robert Carmonius
RADICAL BOOKS—FOR OR AGAINST ANYTHING.
IF YOU WANT TO BUY A BOOK of any kind, you should write us. We will hunt it up for you, and you will find our prices surprisingly reasonable, We give special attention to books of a strange und unusual character—books that the ordinary city dealer does not dare to handle. We have a department of suppressed and unorthodox works. We have books for and against all sorts of religions and governments—against individual tyrants and majority despotisms—also against gods and idols of all kinds. We have Socialist books, also heathen and anarchist books by the ton—populist books—books on evolution and revolution—books on Eugenics, Mysticism, Buddhism, Judaism and Witchcraft. We have books upon electricity, Christian Science and airships, upon manufacturing, commerce, finance and business methods; also books upon love, courtship and marriage and the training of the child, etc., etc.
If you would obtain wealth, fame or power as other men have done, don’t fill your mind with newspaper trash and magazine rubbish. If you feed your mind on commonplace authors you yourself will become commonplace. Read the books that lift you up, as it were, fill you with fire and force and make you a living terror to your foes. Volney, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Plutarch, Redbeard, (the sayings of Bonaparte also), these are the kind of books to set your brain working. They will wake your soul (if you happen to have one,) and send you forth to do mighty things before your eyes grow dim and all your powers wane.
“Don’t read drivel—read the books that make you strong to dare and do.” —Arthur Desmond.
Second Edition
Paperback
ISBN: 978-9198777598
The Growing Dawn and Spirit of the Lower North Side
By Edward C. Wentworth
The Growing Dawn and Spirit of the Lower North Side
Plays featuring characters based on Lillian Hiller Udell, Jack Jones, Jim Larkin, Sirfessor Wilkesbarre, and Stanislaw Szukalski.
"To the spirit of idealism and love for the beautiful that lingers in the youth of America."
Place and time Chicago 1922, and 1917. Bohemians, The Dil-Pickle Club, Dances, Lectures and Art
Paperback
8.5" x 11"
ISBN-978-9198777550
RAGNAR REDBEARD'S UNMASKED POEMS: Batteries of pristine scorn and revolutionary songs
By Robert Carmonius
RAGNAR REDBEARD'S UNMASKED POEMS: Batteries of pristine scorn and revolutionary songs
Ragnar Redbeard's words are sung in works by Anton Szandor LaVey, Bernie Babcock, and Covington Hall. Labor papers and workers all around the world have reprinted and shouted out his proclamations with great enthusiasm. But what inspired Redbeard.
THIS IS A MAY DAY RELEASE—Straight from the Devil's Book Agents.
Hardcover
8,25" x 11"
ISBN-13: 978-9198777574
Paperback
8.5" x 11"
ISBN-13: 978-9198777543
MENACE CARTOONS: Fun and Facts (Illustrated)
By Bruce Malcolm Phelps
The Menace Cartoons Book - Compiled from "THE MENACE"—MOST AGGRESSIVE ANTI-CATHOLIC PAPER IN AMERICA
HATED AND FEARED BY THE ROMAN HIERARCHY
(Some Pointed Paragraphs, the Which Was Scribbled to Scan)
EVERY SHOT A BULLSEYE
A big eighty-page book full of pictures that puncture popery, and point a moral concerning Rome in American politics.
Red-hot cartoons sandwiched with pointed paragraphs and pertinent poetry.
Every friend of THE MENACE will want a copy. Why not get it now while they are new and plenty!
THE MENACE PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
Book Department AURORA, MISSOURI
World’s Headquarters for Anti-Papal Literature
Paperback
92 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198777536
FATHER TOM AND THE POPE & Alphonse Daudet's History of the Pope's Mule (Illustrated)
By Sir Samuel Ferguson
Fater Tom and The Pope
by Sir Samuel Ferguson, keeper of the Irish Records. This charming little book is quite a literary gem, a burning satire, easily surpassing “Mr. Dooley.” In fact it is almost Rabelaisean in its rollicking hilarious humor.
“Father Tom and the pope” is not a great book, remember. We do not say it is; but it is a most delightful one. Some rays of the ancient genius of the people scintillate through it. The hero of the tale, Father Tom of Connemara, goes on a visit to the Vatican. He kisses the pope’s housekeeper, raises the dander of His Holiness thereby and creates no end of marvellous complications. —Richard Thurland
Paperback
114 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198777529
THE COMING TERROR; OR, THE AUSTRALIAN REVOLUTION: A Romance of the Twentieth Century
By Samuel Albert Rosa
This book is intended as both a warning and a prediction.
The writer is no Anarchist. He desires to see the inevitable change from capitalism to collectivism, facilitated by the peaceful action of an enlightened populace voting at the polls. The shedding of blood and the destruction of human life is as abhorrent to him as it is to the most humane philanthropist; but he perceives that the present tendency of affairs political, financial and economic in Australia, is towards the annihilation of the middle-class, and the reduction of the proletarians to a condition of abject subjection. Humiliated and degraded slaves have but one remedy, a servile revolt which might and probably would take the form of the violent and bloody upheaval sketched in this book. To avoid such a catastrophe, it is necessary to have an awakening of public spirit, of a sufficiently determined, searching and energetic nature to secure the purification of governments, the making of good laws and their wise administration.
Paperback
48 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198777512
THE AMERICAN ANTI-SOCIALIST
AN ORGAN OF JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY
By John Basil Barnhill
1912-1914. No. 1-6
The inevitable effect of Socialism would be to sacrifice liberty on the altar of a procrustean conception of equality.
In the interest, therefore, a political freedom which it violates and derides; in the interest of commercial freedom which it openly seeks to destroy; in the interest of Art and Genius which it would sterilize; in the interest of the Democratic principles which it contravenes; in the interest of the home which it threatens, Socialism must be destroyed.
The first issue was to be published in 1911, and the title was then The Anti-Socialist. Read more here.
John Basil Barnhill (1864-1929) Noted anti-socialist writer, politician, lecturer, debater, and editor of various journals including:
-The Eagle and The Serpent, "A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology." 1898-1902 (under pseud. John Erwin McCall)
-The Nationalist, "A Journal for Free Peoples and for Peoples Struggling to be Free." 1900-1902
-The American Anti=Socialist, "An organ of Jeffersonian Democracy." 1912-1914
-Humanity First, "The orderly evolution of society can be secured only by the abolition of interest." 1919-1921
Paperback
90 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198777505
RIVAL CAESARS
By Desmond Dilg (Arthur Desmond and Will H. Dilg)
“DON'T TREAD ON ME” edition
RIVAL CAESARS
A Romance of AMBITION, LOVE and War.
Being the tale of a Vice-President, a Major-General and three brilliant and beautiful women.
Ragnar Redbeard's Might is Right ends thus: “Book II will be issued when circumstances demand it.”
Guess what, the 1903 novel Rival Caesars is Book II.
The story begins in the colonial days, when Burr and Hamilton were both young men in New York and continue until after the fatal duel. It is supposed that both the “Rival Caesars” were members of a secret organization known as “The Iron Cross,” and in this way, as well as in some other respects, the story is given suggestion of the weird and occult.
Rival Caesars is more than just a romantic novel starring Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, it was cleverly put together as a recruiting tool for Arthur Desmond and his revolutionary dreams. From Rival Caesars introductory notes; “Therefore the readers of this book are expected to think between the lines. Nay, they are commanded so to do.” Readers were invited to correspond with the author... For the initiated “a recruiting tool for revolutionary dreams.”
YOU can get this “DON'T TREAD ON ME” 2022 edition NOW!
(Artwork by Walter J. Enright. Original text untouched)
Visit the RIVAL CAESARS page
Paperback
316 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198593389
Hardcover
316 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198593396
SOCIALISTS AND SOCIALISM
By Thomas E. Watson
SOCIALISTS AND SOCIALISM
A Book About the Socialists and About Socialism
In his work, Mr. Watson takes up, one by one, each of the propositions of Karl Marx, and discusses them fully and fairly.
He also analyses the great book of Herr Bebel, the world-leader of Socialism, “Woman Under Socialism.”
Mr. Watson cites standard historical works to prove that Bebel, Marx and other Socialist leaders are altogether wrong about,
The Origin of Prosperity,
The rise of the Marital relation,
The Cause of the inequality of Wealth, etc.
Mr. Watson demonstrates that Socialism—as taught by Marx, Bebel, LaSalle, Engel, etc.— would annihilate
Individuality and personal liberty,
Home-life as we know it,
The Marital relation, with its protection to women, and finally
RELIGION OF ALL KINDS.
Mr. Watson proves that SPECIAL PRIVILAGE intrenched in law and in government, is now, and always has been, the Great Enemy of the Human race.
ISBN-13: 978-9198593372
The Eagle and The Serpent: WHY DO THE UNGODLY PROSPER?
By Erwin McCall.
• WHY DO THE UNGODLY PROSPER?
• IS MIGHT RIGHT?
• CAN THE POOR BE SAVED BY THE PITY OF THE RICH?
Redbeard Versus Tolstoy
This brutally outspoken egoist publication includes essays and works by Lord Erwin McCall (John Basil Barnhill), Malfew Seklew, Ragnar Redbeard.
ISBN-13: 978-9198593365
Caesar's Column: A Story of the Future
By Ignatius Donnelly.
Introduction by Arthur Desmond.
One of the most remarkable books ever written. The author, a man of wealth and high social position, and who writes under a nom de plume, “Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D,” presents, in a wonderfully fascinating and startlingly original work of fiction, a profound study of present sociological conditions, and follows these conditions out to what he believes will be their inevitable result. First published in 1890.
A dangerously revolutionary futuristic novel with a dystopian theme in a New York setting.
The book is luridly fascinating. 1988, New York, the scene of the story, is an earthly heaven, where man (or rather, capitalism) has brought nature under foot, and chained science to his car as a slave. Airships scour the atmosphere. Electricity threads the earth. Money is the only god, and human brotherhood has perished from off the face of the earth. One-seventh of the entire population riot in soulless luxury. The great bulk of the people lead and live the lives of brutes lower than the beasts that perish. Then comes the inevitable crash. Civilisation in the twentieth century totters over the brink of Tophet, and falls into an abyss of chaotic Sheol, in which all art, science, beauty and loveliness perish together. The French Revolution is a child’s dream compared to the horrors conjured up by the writer of Caesar’s Column. The outlook for humanity for thousands of years afterwards is blacker than midnight. To-day the ignorant mob triumphs over the brutal plutocracy. To-morrow it will starve. The day after it will devour its own flesh and blood; and civil government of the rudest kind will take long, long centuries to re-establish itself.
Paperback
246 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198593358
Hardcover with Dust Jacket
250 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198777567
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Crime and Punishment” is the greatest of Dostoevsky’s novels, and those who have not read it can have only an incomplete idea of the author’s genius. A great critic of Russian literature, whose affection for Turgenev never allowed him to do more than strict justice to a rival’s work, once declared that this book was the most perfect study in criminal psychology since Shakespeare wrote “Macbeth.” The story is quite simple. A certain student named Raskolnikov is living in miserable poverty. His head is as full of ambitions as his pockets are empty of roubles, and he is constantly chafed by the thought of an old hag who keeps a pawnshop where he has now and then raised a little money. The horrible idea of murder for the sake of coin comes to him, but at first he resists it. His whole nature revolts against any act of cruelty, but a number of small circumstances combine to make it seem that the crime is inevitable. In a tavern he hears a discussion of which the gist is that in a world where young lives are often wasted for lack of help those who abuse their riches should be destroyed. A letter suddenly tells him that his sister is hastening into a miserable marriage simply on account of his family’s penury. Another chance conversation reveals how easily the old woman’s death could be compassed.
Paperback, 433 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198593334
The Sins of Hollywood
By Edward Roberts
Written anonymously and first published in 1922, is perhaps the most prominent anti-Hollywood polemic published during this turbulent time in film history.
The author (later identified as former PHOTOPLAY editor Edward Roberts) takes us on a guided tour through the seedy, disreputable, thoroughly indecent underworld that lurks beneath Hollywood's glistening, glamorous facade. It is a sensational work of moral alarmism that gives us a wild, untamed, unapologetically lurid account of Hollywood's dark side.
Debauchery, sex, crime, secrets, actors and actresses on the silver screen.
Part of Ragnar Redbeard Archive & Publisher's Pamphlet and Booklet Department.
Paperback, 82 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198593341
Anarchy—The Coming Terror: Courage, Freedom, and Revolution
By Arthur Desmond (a compilation)
All around the world flags are unfurled, they might be black, red, bloodstained or showing skulls and bones. Some even fly two triangles on them. Anarchy—The Coming Terror: Courage, Freedom, and Revolution, is a collection of events, essays, articles, and reports concerning Anarchists, Communists, Socialists, Unemployed, Politicians, Revolutionists, Workers, Governments, Prophets, Robbers, Unionists, Capitalists, Individualists, Rebels, Friends and foes.
From New Zealand, Australia, to Chicago and Portland, United States of America, we present historic works by; Arthur Desmond (Ragnar Redbeard), J. A. Andrews (A Handbook of Anarchy), John Dwyer (The Anarchist), Malfew Seklew, No. 7., The Active Service Brigade, Ringleader 27, Henry Lawson, and then some.
For every son of thunder...
Paperback, 272 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198593327
STEFAN VON KOTZE Bullets: Poetry, Verse & Fables
By Stefan Von kotze
Australasian colonial observations including;
*PAPUA DIABOLI. (*Ragnar Redbeard used the last phrase, his own altered version on the cover to his Women and War.)
THE DEATH OF GOD.
MAN'S COMPANION.
ON GOLGOTHA.
THE EVOLUTION OF GOD.
ISLAND LOVER.
and more...
Stefan Von Kotze was born in Germany in 1869 and died in 1909. He was a frequent contributor to THE BULLETIN and other journals both in Australia and abroad in the ’nineties. He wrote in both German and English, and A. G. Stephen said of him that he envied Daley’s facility, as it took him days to write a poem. Much of his work was published during his lifetime in Germany in book-form, and not translated or available in English until years later. He was a keen observer with a sense of humor, and his stories are interesting as showing the impact of the Australian bush and bush-life on Continental Europeans.
Paperback, 100 pages
ARTHUR DESMOND - A RADICAL DEMAGOGUE
By Robert Carmonius
Arthur Desmond (1859-1929), a young local Napier, a common worker, a cattle-drover, came from nowhere as ‘a representative of the small settler and the working man’ when he stood for parliament in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand in 1884. Mr. Desmond caused quite a big stir in the political establishment as an unknown candidate with his strong and radical views. He lost to Captain Russel, and came last at a third place with 190 votes against Capt.Russel’s 564, and Mr. Sutton’s 381.
This compilation will not try to say or explain anything other than what has already been reported by the press between 1884-1885. What it will do is give you Arthur Desmond’s first ever speeches, commentary, correspondence, and articles filled with critique and praise. Poetry, and Politics—Love, and War, well, maybe not soo much love.
Later, we have learned that Arthur Desmond lived a life under many different names, one of the most notorius was Ragnar Redbeard, under which he wrote the infamous, and supressed book Might is Right, published in 1896. Another, and much less widely known nom de plume he used for a brief period was “Keo Kaha,” a Maori signature which means Strong Point.
Enjoy this little “scrapbook,” a time-piece of the political radical Arthur Desmond. From cattle-drover to Radical Demagogue.
This is a great companion to Arthur Desmond - Christ as a Social Reformer & Writings in Red.
Paperback, 204 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198593280
THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS or, How to Philosophise with the Hammer: THE ANTICHRIST Eternal Recurrence and Notes to Zarathustra (A Thousand Books of Fame Series)
By Friedrich Nietzsche
“THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS” AND “THE ANTICHRIST” by Friedrich Nietzsche is the most extraordinary and most destructive assault upon the citadel of “Christian Principles” that we have ever read. It analyzes and assails Christian tradition. Christian philosophy. Christian theology, and Christian morality as part and parcel of a clever religious swindle, worked off upon our forefathers by cunning avaricious yellow skinned Asiatics.
Nevertheless Nietzsche is not an “agnostic” — not a “materialist” — not a “rationalist” — not a “free thinker”, because he is more than any of these and includes them all. In logic, eloquence, profundity, historicity and clearness of statement he far out classes Ingersoll, Paine, Voltaire and Renan. He is a thousand miles beyond any of them. Compared with Nietzsche, they are back numbers and little better than methodists.
Did not Ingersoll praise “Jesus the man” as a noble and beautiful character; and what is such blind and thoughtless adulation but another name for “worship”?
The real fact is that the personality of Jesus was utterly ignoble. There was nothing grand or glorious in anything he said or did. Everything he taught and everything he wrought was faithless and delusive. He was a defamer of all things bold, manly, aggressive and natural. There was no truth in him. His brain was as base as his birth, and he hated all men with iron in their blood.
After you read “THE ANTICHRIST” you will say to yourself that there were no iconoclasts till Nietzsche came.
The very ablest literary critics of our time are as a unit in admitting the stupendous significance of this great Polish thinker.
We regret that his works should be so expensive, because they ought to be reprinted in pamphlet form (at a low price) and scattered broadcast over this religion-mad land with its 100,000 cross-crowned idol-houses, raying forth continuously their poisonous and degrading falsehoods and Chandala superstitions into the ears of the young.
Should you be interested in the mighty, heroic and masculine things of this world, it is imperative, it is absolutely imperative that you should get Nietzsche's works and study them. Verily, he is great. In his own line he has no superior; and he is intellectual honesty itself. He faces every problem fearlessly unflinchingly, and turns aside at nothing, exactly as you should do and probably would do if you had the nerve.
“The Twilight of the idols” and “The Antichrist” both in one volume.
Paperback, 264 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198593273
The Prince and The Art of War: A Thousand Books of Fame Series
By Niccolò Machiavelli
Two important works by this Italian Renaissance diplomat, and father of the modern political philosophy and political science. Ever heard the term Machavillian, the only way to gain knowledge and power for yourself is to read and study. Machiavelli put it, one "ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war."
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise, and the authors best-known work. A version of the manuscript circulated in 1513 but the printed book was first published in 1532. Due to the treatise's controversial analysis on politics, the Catholic Church banned The Prince, putting it on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of forbidden books). His book was denounced as written with the very fingers of Satan himself.
The Art of War was written between 1519 - 1520 in the format of a socratic dialogue and was the only political work by Machiavelli printed under his lifetime. The book published in 1521 contains his most developed ideas concerning military organization and the proper relationship between the army, the state, and the individual.
Paperback, 368 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198593242
Kindle Edition
OSCAR WILDE a selection of six: A Thousand Books of Fame series
By Oscar Wilde (a compilation of some of his famous works)
The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Fischerman and his Soul
The Soul of man under Socialism
Oscar Wilde's Wittisisms
The Ballad of Reading Goal
Salomé
Paperback, 332 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9198593228
Christ as a Social Reformer & Writings in Red
By Arthur Desmond (visit the dedicated website)
Stunning articles about the labor movement, unpublished poetry, and historic Maori translations. Caricature depictions accompanied by writings which caused its author to be accused of plagiarism.
In June 1890 Arthur Desmond got his article “Christ as a Social Reformer,” published in “Zealandia,” a Dunedin magazine. The article quickly became popular and in October he arranged for it to be printed as a pamphlet by Mr. Arthur Cleave, of Vulcan lane. Presented here for the first time since then is Arthur Desmond’s accused article followed by Mr. Van Deusen’s article “Ecclesiastical Christianity versus Jesus.” "Writings in Red" is a collection of Desmond’s writings, poetry, and correspondence. All his published works in Zealandia. His Union and strike articles. Critiques and controversy between the years 1889-1891.
“The author treats the subject in a style that is new to many in this city. He looks upon Christ as a great Hebrew Reformer, who was murdered because he upheld and defended the cause of the poor. The Tribune recommends this pamphlet to its readers.” —The Tribune
From the Contents:
- The King That Is To Come
- The Starving Poor Of Old England
- Shearing The Shareholders
- Political Manifesto Of United Labour
- Who Pays For All?
