Stiles B J Editor (14 results)

Stiff Card Stock Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Motive Magazine (January 1967, Vol. XXVII, No. 4) delivers a searing, intellectual critique of American domestic and foreign policy at the dawn of the pivotal year of 1967. Published by the Methodist Student Movement, this influential issue balances progressive theological reflection with sharp, anti-war commentary as the conflict in Vietnam escalates. The volume features a blend of avant-garde poetry, underground graphic illustrations, and analytical essays that challenge institutional racism, socioeconomic inequality, and the ethical moralities of draft resistance, serving as a vital socio-political time capsule of the 1960s campus protest era. Book is illustrated card stock with minor edge wear. Book is clean, tight and bright, no markings. Binding is solid. Pages have yellowed a bit with age. Volume XXVII, # 4. Contents include: New Left Man Meets The Dead God; Islam- Purposeful, But Not Productive. And More!!.…

Stiff Card Stock Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Motive Magazine's November 1968 special issue, "The Great American Election Machine," delivers a countercultural critique of the United States electoral system during the 1968 presidential election. Published by the Methodist Student Movement, the volume uses radical essays, satire, and artwork to examine the disillusionment of the student movement regarding American democracy. We Go From Here?Book is illustrated card stock with minor edge wear. Book is clean, tight and bright, no markings. Binding is solid. Pages have yellowed a bit with age. Volume XXIX, # 2. Contents include: Wallace: The Self Fulfilling Prophecy; Where Do We Go From Here? And More!!.…

Pictorial Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. Book is illustrated card stock with minor edge wear. Book is clean, tight and bright, no markings. Binding is solid. Pages have yellowed a bit with age. Volume XXVII, #2. Stands as a landmark, progressive entry of the highly influential monthly periodical published by the Methodist Student Movement. Embracing avant-garde sensibilities and counterculture politics, this specialized issue moves far beyond traditional religious reporting to deliver a sophisticated, radical critique of mid-1960s international filmmaking. Through academic essays, intellectual film reviews, and bold graphic design, the volume explores cinema as a crucial medium for social revolution, analyzing how emerging directors, independent features, and the Czechoslovak and French New Wave movements challenged establishment morality and institutional taboos.…

Stiff Card Stock Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Motive Magazine (January 1968, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4) delivers a profound, multivalent examination of race, geography, and systemic change at the opening of an incredibly turbulent year in American history. The anchor feature, "The Collapse of the American South" by David Lloyd-Jones, provides a stark intellectual critique of regional power structures, detailing how the foundational economic, political, and social architectures of the Jim Crow South were fracturing under the relentless weight of the civil rights movement. Balanced by critical editorial commentary on Black integration, systemic regional injustice, and avant-garde protest poetry, this issue documents the intense structural friction and shifting cultural landscapes re-shaping the nation. We Go From Here?Book is illustrated card stock with minor edge wear. Book is clean, tight and bright, no markings. Binding is solid. Pages have yellowed a bit with age. Volume XXVIII, # 4. Contents include: Justice-Southern Time; A Gathering Of The Shellschocked. And More!!.…

Stiff Card Stock Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Motive Magazine (March/April 1967, Vol. XXVII, Nos. 6 & 7) - Special Double Issue stands as one of the most famous, radical, and visually striking entries in the history of the Methodist Student Movement's legendary monthly publication. Released at the height of the Vietnam War and the global counterculture movement, this expanded double volume completely sheds conventional religious layout in favor of avant-garde poetry, underground political essays, and striking anti-war artwork. The magazine serves as an intellectual lightning rod for the mid-1960s New Left, tackling structural racism, civil disobedience, changing sexual ethics, and the draft, which ultimately cemented its reputation as a highly sought-after artifact of American social revolution. Book is illustrated card stock with minor edge wear. Book is clean, tight and bright, no markings. Binding is solid. Pages have yellowed a bit with age. Volume XXVII, # 6. & 7 Contents include: Advance Upon Canaan; The University In A Cybernated Era; Confronting The Machine and More!.…

paperback. Condition: Fair. March 1968 paperback. Shelf wear and staining to covers and edges. Pages are tanned, but unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good copy with clean pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Pages are slightly browned. ; "Motive is the magazine of the Methodist Student Movement." Contents include A Mercy Filled and Defiant Christmas, a poem-painting by Kenneth Patchen.

Magazine. 50p., 8.5x11 inches, previous owner's name penciled on table of contents, pages lightly and evenly toned, else very good magazine. Motive was a Methodist student publication.

Magazine. 50p., 8.5x11 inches, fold-out illustration, wraps lightly worn and soiled, pages lightly and evenly toned, else very good magazine. Motive was a Methodist student publication.

Magazine. 56p., 8.5x11 inches, illus., pages lightly toned else very good condition. Mark Lieberman's "So old, so soon, SDS speaks again" is the lead article; he is reporting from Boulder where a 3-day National Council meeting is taking place. Also find an extensive discussion of David Driesbach, a contemporary exponent of Expressionism, with six full page color reproductions and some b&w; a comparison of racism in South Africa and the US by Colin Legum; Jurgen Moltmann on Christian and Marxist expressions in the civil rights movement; and more.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: wraps. Vol. XXIX, No. 6 & 7, Mar-Apr 1969. Previous owner's name and some soiling on the cover and some underlining, not a lot, otherwise a VG paperback copy, white spine. A really nice strong Womans Lib issue. Nice 3-D cover.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 40pp. Newsprint [43cm x 27.5cm / 17" x 11"]. Ten bifolia (sheets folded vertically once to form forty pages). Age toned throughout. Occasional light creasing, fore-edges lightly bumped. Small ink stamped address on the rear cover page, for mailing, reads: "Library for Social and Technological Alternatives | Box 472 | Fairfax, CA 94930." Earth First! is a group of radical environmentalists that formed in the American Southwest in the spring of 1980, founded by Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar, among others. Earth First! quickly came to national attention with their "cracking" of Glen Canyon Dam activist stunt, which was performed and filmed in the spring of 1981. Edward Abbey is considered to be the "literary father" of the group. "Earth First! is the beginning of the new, bold environmental movement. And 'Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal' is its voice" (Dave Foreman, Editor). Rear cover half-page illustration by Lone Wolf Circles dated '88 is untitled and depicts a ranch hand herding a large group of branded cattle in front of mountain peaks, above which shows, in a dreamy puff of clouds, some of the much wilder and disappearing Western animals: a buffalo, a wolf, a fox, a wolverine. Cover story by Howie Woke is entitled "Stop the Forest Service!" Cover illustration entitled "The Forest Service Cometh" by Christoph Manes depicts the grim reaper scything down a patch of old-growth forest. David Gaines (1947-1988) obituary printed on page 3. Full-page ad "EF! Local Groups Merchandise" with "Usual Disgusting Plea for Money" on page 15. Curious article on page 25 entitled "Deep Ecology and Magic: Notes of a Sleight-of-hand Sorcerer" by David Abram ("David Abram, in addition to being a spell-binding magician, is a philosophy teacher at SUNY"). Edward Abbey's review of Wendell Berry's work "Home Economics" is printed on page 32. Wendell Berry's "My Answer to Edward Abbey" follows on page 33. Other credited Earth First! staff for this issue include: John Davis (Managing Editor), Kris Sommerville (Business Manager), Charles Conner (Shipping & Mailing), Helen Wilson (Cartography), Mike Roselle (Roving Editor), David Cross (Roving Editor), Roger Featherstone (Roving Editor), Art Goodtimes (Poetry Editor), Christoph Manes (Associate Editor), and Tucson Earth First! Group (Mailing). A long list of additional Contributing Editors, Correspondents, and Contributing Artists follows on page 2. …

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 40pp. Newsprint [43cm x 27.5cm / 17" x 11"]. Ten bifolia (sheets folded vertically once to form forty pages). Some occasional soft creases and the rare spot of age toning or staining along edges. Else, a nice clean and bright copy. Earth First! is a group of radical environmentalists that formed in the American Southwest in the spring of 1980, founded by Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar, among others. Earth First! quickly came to national attention with their "cracking" of Glen Canyon Dam activist stunt, which was performed and filmed in the spring of 1981. Edward Abbey is considered to be the "literary father" of the group. "Earth First! is the beginning of the new, bold environmental movement. And 'Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal' is its voice" (Dave Foreman, Editor). Rear cover half-page illustration by Lone Wolf Circles dated '88 is untitled and depicts a ranch hand herding a large group of branded cattle in front of mountain peaks, above which shows, in a dreamy puff of clouds, some of the much wilder and disappearing Western animals: a buffalo, a wolf, a fox, a wolverine. Cover story by Howie Woke is entitled "Stop the Forest Service!" Cover illustration entitled "The Forest Service Cometh" by Christoph Manes depicts the grim reaper scything down a patch of old-growth forest. David Gaines (1947-1988) obituary printed on page 3. Full-page ad "EF! Local Groups Merchandise" with "Usual Disgusting Plea for Money" on page 15. Curious article on page 25 entitled "Deep Ecology and Magic: Notes of a Sleight-of-hand Sorcerer" by David Abram ("David Abram, in addition to being a spell-binding magician, is a philosophy teacher at SUNY"). Edward Abbey's review of Wendell Berry's work "Home Economics" is printed on page 32. Wendell Berry's "My Answer to Edward Abbey" follows on page 33. Other credited Earth First! staff for this issue include: John Davis (Managing Editor), Kris Sommerville (Business Manager), Charles Conner (Shipping & Mailing), Helen Wilson (Cartography), Mike Roselle (Roving Editor), David Cross (Roving Editor), Roger Featherstone (Roving Editor), Art Goodtimes (Poetry Editor), Christoph Manes (Associate Editor), and Tucson Earth First! Group (Mailing). A long list of additional Contributing Editors, Correspondents, and Contributing Artists follows on page 2.…