E-list #4 - ’21 Political Propaganda, Space Shuttle Challenger Archive, the Cola Call Collection, Unpublished manuscript [E. Goldman]…etc. Copyright © 2021 Tomberg Rare Books, All rights reserved. My mailing address is: Tomberg Rare Books 11506 Claymont Circle Windermere, Fl 34786 203-223-5412 [email protected] www.tombergrarebooks.com unsubscribe from this list. Rare Coffee Seminar Memorabilia [International] 1. Memoria del 1er Seminario del Cafe. 12-19 Octubre 1973. [Memory of the 1st Coffee Seminar. October 12-19, 1973] San Salvador, El Salvador: Asociacion Cafetalera de El Salvador, 1973. 117pp. Single-sided. 7 1/4 x 9 3/4“. Small stains and overall tanning on both sides of softcover, cream; multiple seminar documents and photographs of participants. Illustration of coffee beans and a steaming cup in brown, red and green on cover with brown text. Spine worn, inside clean. Very good. OCLC locates only one copy in the Netherlands (5/26/2021). The red berries on the cover are native to Africa, the coffee berry borer, (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), and has gradually invaded most coffee-growing areas worldwide. Adult females colonize the coffee berry and oviposit within galleries in the coffee seeds. Larvae and adults consume the seeds, resulting in drastic reductions in yields and quality, negatively affecting the income of approximately 20 million coffee-growing families (∼100 million people) in ∼80 countries. This must have been one of the many topics during the eight-day conference. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4535578/ down loaded on 5/17/2 $1,200 Unpublished Manuscript about Emma Goldman [Anarchists] 2. [Wood, Lea Walker]. Emma Goldman, Daughter of the Dream. An Original Screenplay Based on the Life of Emma Goldman First Draft 25 August 1984 Registered WGoA,W. by Leah Walker Wood Aptos, CA: Not Published, 1984. This is the first draft of an unpublished screenplay of 138, single-sided pages of photocopied text. Triple hole-punched, bound by brads in cream colored blank wraps. The title is written in ink on the bottom edge. Goldman was an anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, and homosexuality. Although she distanced herself from first-wave feminism and its efforts toward women's suffrage, she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism. After decades of obscurity, Goldman gained iconic status in the 1970s by a revival of interest in her life, when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest. Born in 1916, Lea Walker Wood grew up in Ohio and worked as a news reporter and stenographer. She attended Bowling Green State University, Ohio, in 1938-40. To experience life, she hitchhiked across the country, and in 1943 during World War II she joined the Women's Army Corps and served in New Guinea and Manila, Philippines, where she was secretary to the U.S. defense team for the trial of Gen. Yamashita. From 1946-49 she worked for the U.S. occupation forces in Berlin, Germany, as a civilian conference reporter on a four-nations committee governing Germany. She finished her Bachelor of Arts at San Jose State University in 1960. In 1950 Lea moved to Los Gatos, California, taught elementary and junior high school in California. Upon retiring at 60, Lea became an environmental activist and was arrested for civil disobedience against the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, the Vandenberg Air Force Base X Missile, and four trespasses at the Nevada Test Site. She was arrested in Barre, Vermont, protesting the recruiting center sending men to the Iraq War, and at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in 2011 and 2012. In California she worked on environmental and political issues, wrote a column, "Nature Walk," for local papers, and authored social issue plays presented to the community in readers' theater style. After moving to Vermont in 1993, Lea became a member of the Underhill Conservation Committee; joined the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; and continued writing social issue plays, among them "Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," "Women Say No to War," and "Bread and Roses" about the Women's Garment Union and Triangle Fire. She moved to Montpelier in 2003. She is the author of a book of poems, "Wind & Water, Fire & Stone," and an autobiography, "The Adventure of My Life.” She passed away in 2014 at the age of 97. A rare piece. $1,500 A treasure trove for the aficionado [Collecting - Coca Cola] 3.The Cola Call ..... (Coca-Cola). Np:The Cola Clan, (1975). Quarto. Soft Cover. Approximately 100 issues of The Cola Call, a journal put out by the members of The Cola Clan, an organization of collectors and dealers of Coca-Cola memorabilia. An almost complete lot starting with issues 2 to 6 of Volume I (1975) through two issues of Volume XIII (1987). A few issues seem to have been mis-numbered and some monthly "issues" may have been supplementary materials rather than issues per se. Most journals are very good with photographs, history, articles on collecting. the Cola Call is a newsletter for Coca Cola collectors, when not seeking collectibles, such subscribers may be found pursuing information which provides significant for their endeavors to become knowledgable collectors. A treasure trove for the aficionado. $1,500 [NASA] 4. 1986 SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER DISASTER: 1000-PAGE NASA ARCHIVE 136 NASA documents, memoranda and letters, with some handwritten notations (approximately 1000 total pages) dating from January 24, 1986, four days before the STS 51-L Challenger accident, to September 9, 1986, three months after the Presidential investigating Commission chaired by former Secretary of State William Rogers submitted its report on the disaster to President Reagan. These papers offer an “inside” view of NASA, unseen by the public, with the shocking image of the explosion viewed by millions locked in the nation's collective consciousness, from the perspective of a top engineer and NASA executive. Provenance: personal papers of Don Puddy, NASA’s 10th Flight Director, who served in that capacity in the three Missions of Skylab, the first US Space Station (1973), the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975), and the first Space Shuttle Mission, STS-1 (1981). At the time of the Challenger launch, in which he was not involved, he was Associate Director of NASA at the Johnson Space Center at Houston and was preparing to head the Flight Crew Operations Directorate at Houston, responsible for selecting Astronauts for future Space Shuttle missions. Before retiring from NASA 10 years later, he would play a key role in laying the diplomatic groundwork for the Shuttle-Mir collaboration between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Most of the papers are dated during the three months when the presidential investigation was in process and the great variety of subjects covered reveal what Puddy, in his only public statement, on February 21, called the enormous complexity of Space Shuttle decision making – the most complex in the history of NASA manned spaceflight – with management of different Shuttle components divided between the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where Puddy was headquartered, the Marshall Center in Alabama, and the Kennedy Center in Florida. Since Marshall had responsibility for rocket engines, propulsion systems and external fuel tanks, there is no discussion in the Puddy-Houston papers of the infamous “O-Ring” seals of the Solid Rocket Booster, the failure of which was eventually found to be the main cause of the explosion of the fuel tank that killed all seven crew members. Houston, on the other hand, was responsible for flight control operations and astronaut training so that his papers reveal Houston’s consideration of issues not publicly discussed such as the possible overwork of flight personnel, deficiencies in training and varied “erroneous” procedures. Here also are hints of the distraught and dismal post-accident atmosphere at NASA when, immediately after the disaster, systems and facilities were legally “impounded” and bureaucratic jargon crept into documents, with one unfortunate reference to the disaster as a “mishap”, and the recovered torn and twisted remains of the Shuttle categorized as “debris”. Of particular interest are documents scattered throughout the papers about design changes necessary to allow future Shuttle flights, and, indeed, the larger question of when such flights might resume. In the end, while the Puddy papers indicate NASA’s expectation of imminent flight resumption, the Shuttle Fleet was grounded for two years, the next flight not taking place until September 1988. For a list of inventory, contact me at [email protected] $4000 [Civil War] 5. [Civil War] Confederate Rebel Song Celebrates Confederate Geneva Girls Who Aided Wounded And Sick E.R. Manron “Geneva Girls” was apparently a title given to Confederate women who were devoted to helping wounded and sick soldiers regardless of the side they were fought for. 2 pp, 5 3⁄4 x 14 3⁄4. Splits repaired with archival tape. Even toning, soiling. 2 pp, 5 3⁄4 x 14 3⁄4, E.R. Manron, writes to W.C. Morrison “Right out of the rebel camp...Well, Mr. ‘Billy’ here is the song you wanted. You must excuse the bad writing for I write in great haste. If you are out of the notion of wanting this song yourself please give it to one of the boys who know the Geneva Girls. “Yours ever...Geneva Girl No. 2.” On the verso, Manron, titles the song, “Geneva Girls/Air of Fairy Belles” The song, “Now please give attention to what I am going to say about our Geneva Girls in my own peculiar way; Now pretty girls one by one everybody knows, that you are always taking on about your precious beaus; Chorus.