News of Spain: Newsletter Collection - Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Information Bureau in New York during the late 1930s published a weekly newsletter with reports on the civil war in Spain. Only a few single issues of that newsletter, and one hardbound collection, can be found presently online. We are pleased to offer now a rare collection of thirty-four newsletters from June 1, 1938 to February 23, 1939, each in an archival sleeve and housed in a three-ring binder. Collectively, they contain numerous articles and photos documenting the war.

Joseph B. Code of Catholic University, in is 1938 pamphlet, The Spanish War and Lying Propaganda, had this to say about the Spanish Information Bureau and its newsletter:

The publisher of the newsletter, Spanish Information Bureau in New York, is the propaganda office in New York City of the Spanish Embassy. Its director is the well-known radical, William P. Mangold. The principal function of this organization is to edit, print and distribute "News of Spain," a clip sheet issued fortnightly, printed on a good grade of paper, well-edited and filled with the usual Spanish Leftist propaganda distortions. Originally issued as "background" or "explanatory" material for newspaper editors, it is now sent to thousands of influential Americans.

View images of this historical newsletter collection HERE.

Trade literature for the petroleum geologist

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) has a long publishing history, starting with the AAPG Bulletin in 1917. Their reprint series collected articles pertaining to a particular subject from their various publications and published them in both hardcover and paperback formats.

We have recently listed a few dozen or so of these paperback reprint series publications. Click HERE to see what we have in stock.

And for the collector of AAPG publications, please see A Collector's Guide to AAPG Publications.

History of the Masters Golf Tournament

Missing the Masters Golf Tournament already?

Now that the 2013 Masters Golf Tournament is history, check out these books on Masters history, which we currently have in stock (click on title for store listing and more photos):

2001 Masters Media Guide April 2-8

Augusta National, Inc., 2001

296 pages, illustrated with photos. Contents divided by with tabbed dividers: Founding, GOLF COURSE, MASTERS TOURNAMENT, STRUCTURES, LANDMARKS, RECORDS and STATISTICS AND MASTERS RESULTS (year by year results). 

This media guide is notable for the year Tiger Woods won the tournament for his fourth consecutive major tournament championship. Had he done it in the same calendar year, Woods would have become only the second player to ever win golf's Grand Slam. However, his victory string started in the previous calendar year and his version of the Grand Slam became known as the Tiger Slam.

Augusta National and the Masters : A Photographer's Scrapbook 
by Frank Christian, with Cal Brown

Sleeping Bear Press, 1996

207 pages of photos documenting the history of the Master Golf Tournament.












Masters: The First Forty One Years
by Clifford Roberts
Augusta National Golf Club, 1978

Green leatherette with gilt lettering and stamping. 128 pages, illustrated with numerous color and black and white photos. Endpaper illustrations of the course; the front endpaper depicts the general plan of Augusta National Golf Club with a map of the first course. The book is a tribute to co-founders Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. and Clifford Roberts. Roberts would write a summary after each tournament for historical record and those writings are recorded here in this book in their original form. 

Darrell Royal and the University of Texas Longhorns

Darrell Royal passed away recently at age 88. A college football legend and Texas iconic figure, Royal coached the University of Texas Longhorns to two national championships, Southwest Conference championships and numerous bowl appearances.

Click here to see our books about Coach Darrell Royal and the storied University of Texas football program.

For more information on the book shown at the left, click on the link below.

Coach Royal: Conversations With A Texas Football Legend, by Darrell Royal, with John Wheat

Native American Poetry from the Blue Cloud Abbey

Whiting Books has recently listed a number of issues of the Blue Cloud Quarterly, an out-of-print, important journal of Native American poetry. These issues are from the 1980s: 

Blue Cloud Quarterly issues

The Blue Cloud Abbey, near Marvin, South Dakota, recently closed (5 August 2012). At their Web site, this notice is now posted:

The monastery was founded by monks from Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana in 1950. Benedictine monks were involved in ministry on several nearby Indian reservations, an association that gave rise to the publication of a quarterly journal devoted to the literature of Native Americans. The abbey also had an historical collection of glass plate negatives featuring Native Americans from the late 1800s to early 1900s, which can be seen on the U.S. Geological Survey site.