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Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989. (xxvii) 664 pp. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with line drawings and maps. The Contents are: Early Days; First Manassas or Bull Run; Seven Days; Second Manassas Campaign; The Fall of 1862; The Battle of Fredericksburg; Winter after Fredericksburg; Battle of Chancellorsville; The Gettysburg Campaign; Chickamauga; Cattanooga and Knoxville; Spring of 1864; Wilderness and Spottsylvania; North Anna and Drury's Bluff; Totopotomoy and Cold Harbor; Passage of James River; Siege of Petersburg; Fall of 1864; Fall and Winter of 1864 and 1865; and Appomattox; followed by an index.. ISBN: 0807847224. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. american civil war; blue gray grey; union; confederate; confederacy; north south; military history; collectible;. more information

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Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1990. (vii) 305 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: The Social Context of Black Power; Black Nationalism; Black Power and Bourgeois Black Nationalism; Corporate Imperialism versus Black Liberation; Black Radicals: Rhetoric and Reality; and Conclusion: Toward a Transitional Program; followed by a bibliography and an index. . ISBN: 0865431574. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. african american; black studies; negro; social revolution; americana;. more information

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Washington, DC: Review and Herald Publishing, 1915. 128 pp. Red-cloth with a pasted on pictorial on the front panel. New endpapers; edge and corner wear with some chipping at the corners of the pictorial; some foxing; a tear on page 21/22. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. The Chapters are: The Shadow of the Bottle by G. B. Thompson; A Bottle of Tears - A True Incident; Down With the Bottle and Up With the Man by John B. Gough; Bustin' the Temperance Man - from the Star Speaker; A Bloody Monster by T. De Witt Talmage; The Saloon Keeper's Advertisement; Tom Darcy or, Only the Husk; Drinking a Home; Sermon at a Maryland Drunkard's Funeral by Rev. G. R. Williamson; A True Story of One Woman's Life; The Drunkard's Daughter; The Bridal Wine Cup; The Old Temperance Lecturer; The Prisoner at the Bar; The Fence of the Ambulance by Joseph Malins; Why Prohibition by W. A. Colcord; It Is Not My Business; National Prohibition and State Rights by Rev. Sam W. Small; Your Sign Is Down Mister by J. George Frederick; Tommy Brown; How Ned Barred Out Alcohol; Story of a Dry Town by M. C. Wilcox; The Deacon's Sunday School Sermon by James Clement Ambrose; The Four Mills by George R. Stuart; and The Growth of the Prohibition Movement. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Only. 8vo. booze; liquor; whiskey whisky; prohibition; alcoholism; alcoholics anonymous;. more information

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New York: Bantam Books, 1969. 151 pp. Bantam Book HP4852. Minor edgewear; slightly darkened pages. Biographies from Tuesday Magazine. Not store stamped. The chapters are: Queen of Sheba; Hannibal; Askia the Great; Esteban; Benjamin Banneker; Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable; Le Chevalier de Saint George; Phillis Wheatley; Alexandre Dumas; Frederick Douglass; Cinque and the Amistad Mutiny; Daniel Hale Williams; Matthew Henson; Paul Laurence Dunbar; and John Luthuli. Scans are available for all books.. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+. african-american; black history; studies; swashbucklers; doctors; explorers; rulers; writers; collectible;. more information

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New York: Avon Books, 1950. 217 pp. followed by a glossary of slang. First Thus. Canadian Avon edition with no number. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; not store stamped. Scans are available for all books. . First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. gangs of new york; bowery; five points; river pirates; bill the butcher; dead rabbit riots; draft riots; tongs; movie film motion picture hollywood cinema tie in; vintage paperback; collectible;. more information

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Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1986. 96 pp. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine and some rubbing on the front cover; no interior markings. The scan of the book turned out grey but the front cover is actually brown. The Chapters are: The Historical Background; The Position of Workers; Anti-Labor Actions; The First National Associations of the Working Class; Ideological and Political Trends; On the Eve; Chicago May 1886; and The Haymarket Affair. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0901010000. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 16mo. american labor labour movement; chicago; haymarket square; may day; workers; first congress of second international; solidarity; albert parsons; august spies; samuel fielden; michael schwab; adolph fischer; george engel; louis lingg; oscar neebe;. more information

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New York: New World Paperbacks - International Publishers, 1975. 144 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings.. ISBN: 0717802736. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. molly maguires; pennsylvanie; coal mine mines; coalmine; coalmines; coalfields; working conditions; labor labour movement; pinkerton spies; gallows; anthracite;. more information

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Leadville, Colorado: Timberline Books, 1971. 41 pp. Staple-bound in pictorial card covers. Light wear on the corners; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and maps. The Chapters are: The Birth of a Legend; Chicken Bill Lovell - Master of Deceit; John L. Routt - Governor Turned Miner; Susan B. Anthony - Suffrage in the High Country; The Tabors - The Family Silver Made - and Broke; Tom Lavery - Two-Gun Mine Guard; Martin Duggan - Leadville Lawman; Broken Nose Scotty - Generous to a Fault; Orth Stein - Fantastic Journalist; Meyer Guggenheim - Father of Seven Millionaires; Oscar Wilde - Culture Comes to Leadville; Soapy Smith - Colorado's Con Man Extraordinary; Molly Brown - The Unsinkable; Doc Holliday - Gambler and Gun-Fighter; and The Legend Lives On; followed by an index. . First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. emphemera; wild west; americana;. more information

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. (xvi) 410 pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; blue endpapers; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: George Washington; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; James Monroe; John Quincy Adams; Andrew Jackson; Martin Van Buren; William Henry Harrison; John Tyler; James K. Polk; Zachary Taylor; Millard Fillmore; Franklin Pierce; John Buchanan; Abraham Lincoln; Andrew Johnson; Ulysses S. Grant; Rutherford B. Hayes; James A. Garfield; Chester A. Arthur; Grover Cleveland; Benjamin Harrison; William B. McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; William Howard Taft; Woodrow Wilson; Warren G. Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Harry S. Truman; Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Lyndon B. Johnson; Richard M. Nixon; Gerald R. Ford; Jimmy Carter; and Ronald Reagan. . ISBN: 0195029151. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Edward Sorel;. 8vo. american presidents;. more information

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New York: William Morrow, 2006. (xix) 716 pp. Signed on the front free endpaper by Douglas Brinkley. Quarter-bound in black on green boards; lettered in blue on the spine; headband; illustrated with colour plates. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. The Chapters are: Ignoring the Inevitable - Saturday August 27th; Shouts and Whispers - Saturday August 27th; Storm vs Shoreline - Sunday August 28th; The Winds Come to Louisiana - Sunday/Monday August 28th/29th; What Was the Mississippi Gulf Coast - Monday August 29th; The Busted Levee Blues - Monday August 29th; I've Been FEMA-ed; Monday August 29th; Water Rising - Tuesday August 30th; City Without Answers - Tuesday August 30th; The Smell of Death - Wednesday August 31st; Blindness - Wednesday August 31st; The Intense Irrationality of a Thursday - Thursday September 1st; It's Our Time Now - Thursday September 1st; The Friday Shuffle and the Saturday Relief - Friday/Saturday September 2nd/3rd; and Getaway - or X Marks the Spot - Saturday September 3rd and Beyond; followed by a timeline and an index. . ISBN: 0061124230. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. natural disaster; hurricane katrina; gulf coast; storm surge flooding;. more information

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Independence, Missouri: Herald Publishing House, 1985. 170 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The Chapters are: Nauvoo Ladies' Relief Society 1842 - 1844; Shall the Sisters Vote 1852 - 1886; To Sustain One Another 1886 - 1893; Daughters of Zion 1893 - 1914; To Be or Not to Be 1914 - 1934; Power Ebbs and Flows 1934 - 1958; Communications - Ties That Bind 1958 - 1971; A New Vitality 1971 - 1983; and Uncharted Course 1978 - 1983; followed by Appendix A: Women Who Were Leaders; Appendix B: Typescript of Marietta Faulconer Document; Appendix C: A Program for the Women's Work; and Appendix D: The Roles of Women.. ISBN: 0830904018. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 12mo. women's issues; reorganized church of jesus christ of latter day saints; mormon; brigham young;. more information

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Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. (xxiv) 312 pp. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and with line drawings by Lorence Bjorklund. Includes a dropped-in pamphlet from the U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Park Service featuring the Little Bighorn Battlefield. The Contents are: Theodore W. Goldin to E. A. Brininstool; Extracts from Letters Written by Theodore W. Goldin to Albert W. Johnson; Theodore W. Goldin to Phillip G. Cole; Fred Dustin and Theodore W. Goldin Correspondence; Frederick Benteen's Letters to His Wife; Little Big Horn Narratives; and The Benteen-Goldin Letters; followed by an index.. ISBN: 080326335X. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Lorence Bjorklund;. 8vo. american indian wars; bull run; custer's last stand; little bighorn; dakota; military;. more information

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Rochester, New York: The Nutshell Library, 1930. 112 pp. First Thus. Marbled softcover. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+. 24mo. nutshell library; abraham lincoln;. more information

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New York: Rugged Land, 2003. 203 pp. Beige patterned boards decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; illustrated endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs. Very lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Vigil; John and Nellie Jack and Jackie; I Never Called Him Lyndon; Life After Death; Secrets and Anxiety; Texas Hospitality; A Beautiful Day in Dallas; The Split Screen; Burying a President; John Sharon and Mark; Testimony; The Discovery; and Unspoken Words.. ISBN: 1590710142. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. president john fitzgerald kennedy; jfk; political assassination; murder; jackie jacqueline; new england;. more information

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New York: Avon Books, 1982. (xii) 385 pp. First Thus. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with drawings, maps and rare photographs. The Chapters are: The Spanish Roots; Moving North; The Californio Culture; The Texian Culture; The Mixing of Cultures; Texas Trails North; The Civil War and Change; On the Open Range; Trail Herds to Railheads; Where the Trails Ended; On the Northern Ranges; Ranch House Culture; Bunkhouse Culture; End of the Open Range Culture; followed by an Epilogue; Notes; A Bibliography for the General Reader; and an index. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0380606321. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. cowboys; cowboy; wild west;. more information

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Honolulu, Hawai: Mutual Publishing Company, 1984. (xvii) 363 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by James Cook; The Last Days of Captain Cook by James Burney; With Vancouver at Kealakekua Bay by Thomas Manby; A Queen of the Sandwich Islands by Otto Von Kotzebue; Missionaries vs Man-of-Warsmen by Hiram Bingham; Leaves from a Missionary's Diary by Laura Fish Judd; Between Heathenism and Missionaryism by James J. Jarvis; Bullock Hunters of the Kohala Range by F. A. Olmsted; Two Victorian Ladies Visit Honolulu by Sophia Cracroft; Equestrian Excursion to Diamond Head; and A Visit to a Volcano by Mark Twain; The House of the Sun by Charles Warren Stoddard; Two Hawaiian Households ont he Hamakua Coast by Isabella Bird; The Isle of Voices; and To Princess Kaiulani by Robert Louis Stevenson; His Oceanic Majesty's Goldfish by Austin Strong; Koolau the Leper; and Chun Ah Chun by Jack London; The Pali - a Shark - and a House Party by Una Hunt Drage; The Plague; Hiawatha in Hawaii; and The Luau by Genevieve Taggard; Waikiki by Rupert Brooke; Honolulu by W. Somerset Maugham; Bombs Fall on Hawaii: Dec. 7, 1941 by Gwenfread Allen; The Way it Is by James Jones; Lunch at Honolulu by J. P. Marquand; The AJA's Come Home by Thomas D. Murphy; An Account of a Visit to Hawaii by William Meredith; Sukiyaki on the Kona Coast by May Sarton; Father Damien's Village by Kathryn Hulme; Statehood Service at Kawaiahao Church - March 13, 1959 by Rev. Abraham K. Akaka; Ancient Hawaii: The Kumulipo - translated by Martha Beckwith; The Water of Kane - translated by N. B. Emerson; The Alii and the Common People by David Malo, translated by N. B. Emerson; The Marchers of the Night by Mary Pukui and Martha Beckwith; and Menehunes - the Little People by Katharine Luomala; followed by a glossary of Hawaiian words.. ISBN: 0935180079. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. hawaiian islands; south pacific; south seas;. more information

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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Private Printing, 1970. (iv) 56 pp. Staple-bound in pictorial card covers. Light wear on the corners with a small scuff mark on the back cover; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The Chapters are: The Horse Car Era; Capital City Trolleys; Beyond the Mountains; Chocolate Bars and Trolley Cars; Lebanon Had Motorneers; The South Mountain Route; Around Reading by Trolley; Palace Cars to Oley; Trolley Ride to Allentown; A Ride on the Gravity; Up the Neversink; The Adamstown Dummy; Amish Land Trolleys; The Rugged Climb to Chickies; The Pequea Trolley; The Camp Meeting Line; Trolley Days in York; Interurban to Hanover; Strike Up the Band; Battle of the Gettysburg Trolley; and Trolley Freight. . First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to. rail travel; ephemera;. more information

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New York: Appleton Century, 1939. (xiii) 440 pp. First Thus - Revised Edition. Dark green cloth with a pasted-on cream and black pictorial on the front panel; lettered in black on the front panel; lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers. Light chipping on the corners of the dustjacket with some wear around the edges; price intact. Illustrated drawings by E. H. Suydam. The Chapters are: THE PAST: Prelude; Exodus; Through the Wilderness; The Promised Land; A Maritime Beggar; Beauty and the Diplomat; A New Flag and a New Settlement; Yerba Buena; Revolutionists Bandits and Gangsters; Oh Say Can You See; Gold; The Vigilantes; Bonanza Days; Disaster. THE PRESENT: North Beach; Little Italy; The Quick and the Dead; Little Pete; A Trip to Old Chinatown; The Street of the Bazaars; South of Market; Lotta's Fountain; The Mission; The Western Addition; Heights; Flesh Pots; The Beach; Breathing Spaces; The House of Mystery; Politicians Poker and Pisco Punches; Scattering Landmarks; The Contra Costa; Marvelous Marin; and Postcript and Prophecy; followed by a bibliography and an index. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. Illus. by E. H. Suydam;. 8vo. san francisco; california; golden gate;. more information

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New York: Barnes and Noble, 2003. (xxvii) 212 pp. First Thus. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; not store stamped. The Chapters are: Of Our Spiritual Strivings; Of the Dawn of Freedom; Of Mr Booker T. Washington and Others; Of the Meaning of Progress; Of the Wings of Atalanta; Of the Training of Black Men; Of the Black Belt; Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece; Of the Sons of Master and Man; Of the Faith of the Fathers; Of the Passing of the First Born; Of Alexander Crummell; Of the Coming of John; The Sorrow Songs; and The Afterthought. Scans are available for all books. . ISBN: 159308014X. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo. black studies; african american; slavery;. more information

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New York: Dell Laurel Leaf, 1964. 448 pp. Dell Laurel Edition 0574. Edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: The Negro Dilemma; The Nationalist Tradition; The Nation: Its Rise and Growth; The Way Out; The Eschatology; Organization; Recruitment and Initiation; Religious Ritual and Ceremonial Life; Education of Muslims; Black Zionism; Pressures and Constraints; and Conclusions and Trends; followed by appendices; notes; bibliography; and an index. . First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. black studies; muslim; negro; america; muhammed; noble drew ali; brother karriem allah; islam; moslem; brother john w. anthony; communist party; hajji talib a. dawud; shaikh jamil s. diab; john hawkins; martin luther king jr; james r. lawson; thurgood marshall; moors; garvey negro improvement; elijah muhammad; wallace delaney muhammad; black nationalism; malcolm x; koran; qur'an;. more information

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New York: Ace Books, 1970. 317 pp. Ace Book 24970. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. Scans are available for all books.. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+. mississippi burning; medgar evars; civil rights; assassination; fbi; naacp; black studies; negro; african american; racism; bigotry;. more information

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Princeton, New Jersey: Auerbach Publishers, 1972. (ix) 150 pp. Red cloth lettered in black on the spine; illustrated with drawings and facsimile documents. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a few short nicks around the edges; previous owner's name inside; no other interior markings. The Chapters are: Raising a Revenue; Bonfire A-Building; Thomas Hutchinson: Born and Educated Among Us; Boston Under Pressure; The Ships - The Body Meetings - And the Laws; Boston Harbor a Teapot; Aftermath; How the News Was Received in London; Lord North; Riots and Proceedings; Measures Against Boston; Will Boston Submit; Condemned Without a Hearing; and A Congress Meets; followed by appendices and an index.. ISBN: 0877691142. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. american revolution revolutionary war; americana;. more information

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New York: Vintage Books, 1971. (x) 274 pp. Vintage Book V676. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased and slightly faded spine; creased on the lower right corner of the front cover; not store stamped. The Contents are: THE AMERICAN SLAVE SYSTEMS IN WORLD PERSPECTIVE: Preliminary Observations on Afro-American Slavery and the Rise of Capitalism; The Slave Systems and Their European Antecedents; Class and Race. THE LOGICAL OUTCOME OF THE SLAVEHOLDERS' PHILOSOPHY - An Exposition Interpretation and Critique of the Social Thought of George Fitzhugh of Port Royal Virginia: Preliminary Observations on a Man and His World; The Slaveholders' Philosophy; The Critique of Capitalism; The Defense of Slavery; and Last Thoughts; followed by an index. . ISBN: 0394716760. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. black studies; slavery; negro; deep south; southern states;. more information

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New York: Vintage Books, 1972. (xii) 435 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with faint creasing on the spine; store stamped. The Contents are: On Being a Socialist and a Historian; Materialism and Idealism in the History of Negro Slavery in the Americas; Class and Nationality in Black America; Rebelliousness and Docility in the Negro Slave: A Critique of the Elkins Thesis; American Slaves and Their History; The Legacy of Slavery and the Roots of Black Nationalism; The Treatment of Slaves in Different Countries: Problems in the Applications of the Comparative Method; Black Culture versus St Gronlesex Paternalism; Black Nationalism and American Socialism: A Comment on Harold Cruse's Crisis of the Negro Intellectual; William Styron Before the People's Court; Black Studies: Trouble Ahead; The Influence of the Black Power Movement on Historical Scholarship: Reflections of a White Historian; Ulrich Bonnell Phillips: Two Studies; Potter and Woodward on the South; Marxian Interpretations of the Slave South; Saughton Lynd as Historian and Ideologue; A Question of Morals; The Comparative Focus in Latin American History; and On Antonio Gramsci; followed by an index. . ISBN: 0394718119. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. black studies; slavery; negro; deep south; southern states; marxism;. more information

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New York: Crown Publishers, 1971. 328 pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Overture; The Booklet Days; The Trade Paper Days; The Magazine Days; The Second Time Around; Such Interesting People; and Oh Memory; followed by an index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. f. scott fitzgerald; ernest hemingway; john dos passos; ezra pound; theodore dreiser; h. l. mencken; george jean nathan; sinclair lewis;. more information

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Cleveland: World Publishing, 1967. (xx) 479 pp. Beige cloth lettered in dark brown on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. This collection contains: PART ONE: MEMO FOR AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: The First Decade on the Lower East Side of New York. PART TWO: THE CALL GIRL AND THE DEATH OF A KING: Why I Never Bawl Out a Waitress; A Lesson in Bread; The Show Must Go On; Our Delegate to the Fair; Getting Old; He Misjudged Me; To Parents and Grandparents; The Beautiful Women; War's Terrible Secret; Birth Control; This Does Not Look Familiar; Common Ground; The Little Girl; Courtroom Scene; The Retired; So What Else Is New; The Universal Foreign Policy; Do Not Get Excited; Phenomenon at the Fair; Be Not Daunted; Getting Paid for Her Favors; Causerie on Death; A Yiddishe Mama; Commercials Will Endure; The Best Dressed Woman; On Factory Hill; Fathers and Sons; A True Short Short Story; Wink at Some Homely Girl; We Are Not Alone; First Day of School; May It Be a Boy; We're On a Single Ball of Twine; They Left the Women with the 4-Fs; Don't Look; America - Sexual Sahara; A Nice Place to Live; Visitors; The Ulitmate Reality; No More Flirting; Rats Would Take Over; My Duet with Meredith Willson; A Secret of Long Life; In a Plain Wrapper; You Had to Have Baggage; Where Are the Nymphomaniacs; Notes in Passing; Women Never Tell All; Prayer Love and Food; The Pin Ups; Future of the Jews; Self Esteem; Sex; The Short Cool Summers; Machismo; The Doors We Open; For Anonymous Callers; A True Short Story; Etiquette for Teen-agers; Charcoal Steaks; Winner by a Mule; John F. Kennedy. PART THREE: FOR 2 CENTS PLAIN: Buying a Suit on the East Side; For 2 Cents Plain; My Uncle Koppel and Free Enterprise; The Passion of Morris Kaplan; The Fifth Avenue Bus - and America; The Greenhorns Slept on the Lunch; The Suckers Escaped; Little Girls on the East Side; The Triangle Fire; Ess Ess Mein Kindt; You Paid Fifty Cents and Kissed the Bride; The Rent; Raising Pigeons; Post No Bills; Rivington Street; Red Kerosene; The Triple Threat Actor; Eyeglasses for a Quarter; How's That Again; A Glass of Warmth; Unforgettable Quartet; No. 8721; Scrubbed Floors; Bronco Billy; Mouthful of Kosher Sapolio; Christmas at P.S. 20; My Mother's World; Mr Unterman Mr Zweilling and Mr Schimier; The Hotels in Ambush; Early Memories; Broadway Rose; Beer and Clams; The First English Words; Music Everywhere; Election Fires; America is Still America; The East Side Revisited; The Miracle of Goerick Street; Enjoy Enjoy; No Opium in the Elevator; Poison Ivy Terrified Tammany; A Klug Zu Columbus'n; Enoch Arden and the Clothing Industry; I Was a $300 Angel; The Verein Doctor; Soup Greens and Caruso; The Pencil Was a Prop; From Door to Door; When Skirts Covered Ankles; To Drive a Hack - $20,000; The Evil Eye and Baseball; Chicken Soup Was the Cure-all; The Poets Were Paid. PART FOUR: IN BEHALF OF ICE CREAM BELLS: The Ice Cream Vendors; Ticker Tape on Broadway; You Mean a Challe; I Thought of Xanadu; Cleopatra and the Moderns; Warren Harding: Double Disaster; Parents and Communications; Tip to the Lovelorn; Knishes for the Chinese; No Hiding Place; The War on Poverty; What's Life with no Post Office; The Pacific Union Club; Why Women Live Longer Than Men; Are Things Too Good; I Miss the Holy Men of the 1930s; Wishing You Long Years; Li'l Ole Tin Pan Alley; Boiled Beef Flanken Comes to Charlotte; Does It Sell Flour; The Organization Men; TV Antennas on Tobacco Road; The Tyranny of the Telephone; Education of an Immigrant's Son; Men and Morning; The Schnorrers; Son of Dixie and Some Daughters; Ginger Rogers and Napoleon; Life in the American Middle Class; A Nice Old Lady; Company's Coming; The March to the Sea; We're Completely Homogenized; There's Nothing to Do; Swimming in the Suburbs; My Son-in-law the Doctor; The Tears of Mobility; The Chosen People; Singing with the Salvation Army; To Baseball Long Life; Will Success Spoil; A New York Myth; Prohibition at Sunset; Sales Manager's Tempo; The One Legged Treasurer; Los Angeles Los Angeles; Quitting the Job; The Trouble with Radar; The Red Kleenex; The Field Trip; Ah America; Background Everywhere; Un-co-operative Dixie; Jack and Yonkele; Madison Avenue; The Car Salesman; The Bookstore Raid; Why Tom Waring Is Mad at Me. PART FIVE: THE VERTICAL NEGRO: The Vertical Negro Plan; Timothy Mulcahy Hitler and Skelley's; A Short Story of America; Everybody Is Running Away from Everybody Else; I Felt Very Close to This Man; A Plan for White Citizens; The Negro Question is a Matter of Social Status; My Positive Cure for Anti-Semitism; The Downtown Luncheon Club is More Exclusive Than Heaven; How to Get a Note Re-newed at the Bank; Massas in de Cold Cold Ground; The Turban is a Very Big Thing; Movies for Adults Only; Countess Mara and I; We'll Soon Run Out of Non-Jews; From the Shpitzinitzer to the Rotary; I Paid My Dime; In Quest of a Linotype Machine; Point of Order; My Plan to Save the Quiz Show; The Complexity of Protocol; Montgomery Sells Its Zoon; Token Integration; Oil Strike at the Country Club; A Book on the Schwartzes; Negro Voting; Atlanta's Standish; Flowers for Wilberforce; A Golden Plan; Injustice at Lunch; John Marshall John Marshall; The Black Rabbit and the White Queen; Anti-Semitism; The Secret of Interfaith Work; The Absence of Logic; Only in California; Negro Anti-Semites; To Be Where the People Are; Interracial Gesture; Perpetual Drowning; Jefferson and Cousin Wayland; Wanting to Be President; Mr Nixon and Crisis; Concert on Elizabeth Avenue; Negro Morality; The Golden Insurance Plan; Things We Didn't Know About the Negro Till Now; Sex and the Stranger; The D.A.R. and the U.N.; Let Jews Forgive Christians Too. PART SIX: MR KENNEDY AND THE NEGROES: Segregation and the Renunciation of Logic. PART SEVEN: CARL SANDBURG: Carl Sandburg; The Death of Carl Sandburg. PART EIGHT: A LITTLE GIRL IS DEAD. PART NINE: MERRY CHRISTMAS BILLY GRAHAM: My Baseball Days and Ty Cobb; President Herbert Hoover; To Mae West and the Truck Drivers; Long Life to Harry Truman; David Dubinsky and His Accent; Of Popes and Presidents; Indecisive Adlai Stevenson; Mayor William J. Gaynor; A Day with Carl Sandburg; Williams Travers Jerome; Merry Christmas Billy Graham; When Iriving Berlin Wrote His First Song; Isreali Short Story; W. C. Handy; The Status Wanderer - The Story of My Father; Mr Daniel's Decision; Bishop Sweet Sweet Daddy Grace; Biography of an Upstart; Caruso at the Met; Hemingway the Hunter; Wolfie Gilbert and the Chairlady; Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen; Doc Rockwell's Son; The Boxing Announcer; Brendan Behan; Eighteen Mistresses; Jack Johnson; Pope John xxiii; Adlai E. Stevenson. PART TEN: TAMMANY TAMMANY: No More Clam Chowder; A Visit of State; Unequal Spheres of Influence; Eisenhower and Truman; Ben Nit Mitch Hell Hill Quitt: Hyl in; The Republicans and the Post Office; Wither the Pamphleteer; How Tammany Hall Did It; The Death of Senator McCarthy; When Adultery Was Proof of Loyalty; When It's Raining Have No Regrets; History Pro and Con; Politics of Old New York; Protest in the Streets; The Southern Liberals; On Medicare; No more Hong Shew Gai; The Turban Plan; A Liberal's Creed; Excommunication and Integration; On Mark Twain; No Room at the Landings; Across the River and Into the Trees; Judith and Ruth; The Triumph of Shame; R.F.K. Aftermath. PART ELEVEN: GALLI CURCI KING KONG AND BUBBLE GUM: Let's Take Bubble Gum Out of the Schools; Galli Curci Lingers; Need We Defend Books; You Licked the Honey; Caesar the Humanist; Alexander Hamilton and Mrs Reynolds; The Journalism of Joseph Pulitzer; The Indians Called Him Egg Eater; Belshazzar's Feast - with Real Cannon; The Workshop is a Bore; They Never Met a Payroll; The Newspaper Game and the Big Story; Memorable Events; Ethel's Finest Hour; Gentlemen of the West; Shakespeare's Anniversary; The Low State of High School; The Revolution's Last Battle; Miscengenation; They Don't Make Ambassadors Like That Anymore; The Miracle of Africa; The Negro Golfers; The Importance of Plutarch; Israel's Press. PART TWELVE: GOD BLESS THE IRISH AND THE YEMENITES IN DISNEYLAND: The Ten Lost Tribes - They Are the Presbyterians; God Bless the Irish; The Yemenites in Disneyland; A True Short Short Story; The Delights of Denmark; Library Week in Korea; The Jews of London; The Eichmann Trial; Causerie of Germany; America is Not What's Wrong with the World; It Didn't Last a Thousand Years; The Jews at Christmas; The Jewish City. PART THIRTEEN: COMPLAINTS AND FREE ADVICE: How to Buy Cigars; Monto and Keyserling on the Stock Exchange; Cato's Cure for a Hangover; I'll Take Care of the Tip; Instead of Leadership; The Village Atheist; What Happened to Debating; The Church Kitchen; The Reverend Mr Cahill; The Superhighway; A Kind Word for Drinking Alone; Stanley Isn't Happy; I Miss the Family Fight; How to Win the Pennant; The Integrity of the Post Office; The Road to Safety; and The Individual. . First Edition. Hard Cover. 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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. (xiii) 506 pp. Blue cloth with the title stamped into the front panel; decorated in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners and rear panel; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Part One: Political Problems: Kinds of Government; American Citizenship and Immigration; Political Parties and Elections; City Government; The State Executive; The State Legislature; The State Judiciary; Education; Relationship of States to National Government; The National Administration; The Federal Judiciary; Limitation of Armaments; Territorial Government and Insular Possessions; International Relations. Part Two: Social Problems: How the Past Influences the Present; The Importance of Family and Church; The Divorce Problem; The Liquor Question; The Rural Problem; Crime and Its Treatment; Poverty and the Living Wage; Unemployment. Part Three: Economic Problems: Large Scale Production and Monopoly; Marketing and Prices; Transporation; The Conservation of Natural Resources; Taxation and Distribution of Wealth; Socialism versus Social Reform; Organized Labor and Industrial Democracy; International Commerce; and Helping to Make the United States of the Future; followed by Appendix A: The Constitution of the United States; Review Questions on the Consitution; Appendix B: A Library List for a Small School; and an index. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. american history; politics; americana;. more information

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Chicago: Our Possessions Publishing, 1898. 512 pp. Gray cloth with a gilt, red and blue pictorial and gilt lettering on the front panel and spine; gray endpapers; headband; glossy black and white frontis of General Merritt, the first Governor-General of the Philippine Islands; illustrated throughout with black and white plates. Light wear on the corners with some minor fading on the spine; no interior markings; the front hinge is loose but the gutter is intact; the rear hinge is slightly loose and the gutter is intact. The full title is: THE STORY OF THE PHILIPPINES and Our New Possessions including The Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico - Natural Riches, Industrial Resources, Statistics of Productions, Commerce and Population; The Laws, Habits, Customs, Scenery and Conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies and the Thousand Islands of the Archipelagoes of India and Hawaii, with Episodes of Their Early History - The El Dorado of the Orient - Personal Character Sketches and Interviews with Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, General Aguinaldo and the Archbishop of Manila - History and Romance, Tragedies and Traditions of Our Pacific Possessions - Events of the War in the West with Spain and The Conquest of Cuba and Porto Rico - splendidly and picturesquely illustrated with half-tone engravings from photographs, etchings from special drawings, and the military maps of the Philippines, prepared by the War Department of the United States. The Chapters are: The Origin of This Story of the Philippines; Admiral Dewey on His Flagship; Life in Manila; From Long Island to Luzon; Interview with General Aguinaldo; The Philippine Mission; The Proclamations of General Aguinaldo; Interview with Archbishop of Manila; Why We Hold the Philippines; The Philippine Islands as They Are; Official History of the Conquest of Manila; The Administration of General Merritt; The American Army in Manila; The White Uniforms of Our Heroes in the Tropics; A Martyr to the Liberty of Speech; Events of the Spanish American War; The Peace Jubilee; Early History of the Philippines; The Southern Philippines; Specifications of Grievances of the Filipinos; Hawaii as Annexed; Early History of the Sandwich Islands; The Start for the Land of Corn Stalks; Kodak Snapped at Japan; Our Picture Gallery; Cuba and Porto Rico; The Ladrones; The Official Title to Our New Possessions in the Indies; Battles with the Filipinos Before Manila; and The Aguinaldo War of Skirmishes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. conquest; invasion; military; americana;. more information

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New York: Bantam Books, 1991. (xx) 692 pp. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Emmett Till 1955: I Want the Whole World to See; The Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955 - 1956: Like a Revival Starting; The Little Rock Crisis 1957 - 1958: I Had Cracked the Wall; Student Sit-in in Nashville 1960: A Badge of Honor; Freedom Rides 1961: Sticks and Bricks; Albany Georgia 1961 - 1962: The Mother Lode; James Meredith Enters Ole Miss 1962: Things Would Never Be the Same; Birmingham 1963: Something Has Got to Change; Organizing in Mississippi 1961 - 1963: The Reality of What We Were Doing Hit Me; The March on Washington 1963: They Voted with Their Fee; The Sixteenth Street Church Bombing 1963: You Realized How Intense the Opposition Was; Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964: Representation and the Right to Participate; Selma 1965: Troopers Advance; Malcolm X 1925 - 1965: Our Own Black Shining Prince; The Lowndes County Freedom Organization 1965 - 1966: Vote for the Panther Then Go Home; The Meredith March 1966: Hit Them Now; Chicago 1966: Chicago Was a Symbol; Muhammad Ali 1964 - 1967: I Am the Greatest; King and Vietnam 1965 - 1967: His Philosophy Made It Impossible Not to Take a Stand; Birth of the Black Panthers 1966 - 1967: We Wanted Control; Detroit 1967: Inside of Most Black People There Was a Time Bomb; The Election of Carl Stokes 1967: We Had to Be Organized; Howard University 1967 - 1968: You Saw the Silhouette of Her Afro; King's Last Crusade 1967 - 1968: We've Got Some Difficult Days Ahead; Resurrection City 1968: The End of a Major Battle; Ocean Hill - Brownsville 1967 - 1968: Everything Became More Political; The Black Panthers 1968 - 1969: How Serious and Deadly the Game; Attica and Prisoners' Rights 1971: There's Always Time to Die; The Gary Convention 1972: Unity Without Uniformity; Busing in Boston 1974 - 1976: As if Some Alien Was Coming into the School; and Atlanta and Affirmative Action 1973 - 1980: The Politics of Inclusion; followed by: Epilogue: From Miami to America's Future; and an index. . ISBN: 0553352326. Sixth Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. black studies; african american; ku klux klan; rosa parks; tom hayden; angela davis; jesse jackson; martin luther king; black power;. more information

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New York: American Heritage Press - Perennial Library, 1969. 384 pp. Green cloth decorated with burgundy lettering; headband. The dustjacket is price clipped with edgewear. Illustrated with black and white plates. This anthology contains: I Gave Him Barks and Saltpeter by Paul Russell Cutright; How Lost Was Zebulon Pike by Donald Jackson; A Man to Match the Mountains; Ordeal in Hell's Canyon; First Dude Ranch Trip to the Untamed West by Alvin M. Josephy Jr.; The Ballad of Cynthia Ann by Donald Culross Peattie; The Storming of the Alamo by Charles Ramsdell; The Smart Ones Got Through by George R. Stewart; Murder at the Place of Rye Grass by Nancy Wilson Ross; Here Is My Home at Last by Carl Carmer; Gold by Ralph K. Andrist; Great Days of the Overland Stage by W. Eugene Hollon; Go It Washoe by Remi Nadeau; The Iron Spine by Henry Sturgis; Don't Let Them Ride Over Us by George M. Heinzman; Pharaoh Had It Easy by Warren G. Magnuson; The Great Diamond Fraud by Harry H. Crosby; The Bloody End of Meeker's Utopia by Marshall Sprague; Geronimo by E. M. Halliday; and The Johnson County War by Helena Huntington Smith. . ISBN: 0828100101. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo. exploration; cowboys; gunfighters; gun fight; old west;. more information

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Boston: Little Brown, 1973. (xiv) 337 pp. Red cloth with gilt and blue foil lettering on the spine; decorated endpapers. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around the edges; price intact. The Chapters are: Early Years; The American Museum; The Operational Aesthetic; International Triumphs; The Swedish Nightingale; Disasters Encountered; Business and Politics; The Man of Confidence; The Circus; and The Compleat Showman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo. p. t. barnum;. more information

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New York: Armed Services Editions, 1945. 384 pp. First Thus. Armed Services Edition S-30. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; earlier price in ink on the front cover; some darkening. Scans are available for all books. . First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good-. great lakes; superior; michigan; huron; erie; ontario; lake; nicollet; joliet; marquette; lasalle; Vintage Paperback;. more information

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Old Tappan, New Jersey: Spire Books, 1977. 128 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; not store stamped. Scans are available for all books.. ISBN: 0800782704. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+. white house; washington dc; president united states; richard nixon; watergate;. more information

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Boston: Beacon Press, 1969. (xxix) 368 pp. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: The Significance of Africanisms; The Search for Tribal Origins; The African Cultural Heritage; Enslavement and the Reaction to Slave Status; The Acculturative Process; The Contemporary Scene: Africanisms in Secular Life; The Contemporary Scene: Africanisms in Religious Life; The Contemporary Scene: Language and the Arts; and Conclusions; followed by: References; Bibliography; Supplementary Bibliography; and an index.. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. black studies; negro; racism; african american; slavery; americana;. more information

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Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1968. (xiii) 241 pp. Quarter-bound with black and green cloth; decorated with gilt on the front panel and spine; headband; endpaper maps. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with some chipping along the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: Section One: The Destiny Makers: The Ice Plow; The True People. Section Two: New France: A Road to Mexico; The Charred Cross; The White Indians; The Beautiful River. Section Three: A Daring Kind of War: A Man of Meath; The Pincers; Whaleboat Armadas; Death at the Shrine. Section Four: The Birth of Upper Canada: Race War; Refugee Vengeance; The Niagara Plan of Edible Annex. Section Five: The Fight for the Lakes: Detour Decades; Mr Madison's War; There Were These Two Men Named Brown; Stalemate. Section Six: All the Past We Leave Behind: Patriots and Slaves; The Memory Places. Followed by: A Chronology - At This Spot; a bibilography; and an index. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo. american forts;. more information

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New York: Vintage Books, 1979. (xiv) 252 pp. Edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: African Beginnings: The Seamless Web; The Rupture and the Ordeal; Strange New World: Afro-Americanization; The Changing Context; Master and Slave; The Slave Community; Nominal Freedom; and Adaptation Resistance and Virtue; followed by an epilogue: Sic Semper Tyrannis. . ISBN: 0394726871. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. black studies; african american; slavery; americana;. more information

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New York: Dover Publications, 1977. (xii) 684 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Contents are: Part One: The Steamboat as an Economic Instrument: The Introduction and Extension of Steam Navigation in the West; The Structural Evolution of the Western Steamboat; The Mechanical Development of the Western Steamboat; The Improvement of the Rivers; The Techniques of Steamboat Operation; Steamboat Accidents. Part Two: The Steamboat as a Business Institution: The Organization of Steamboat Transportation; Ledgers and Balances; Cabin Passage; Deck Passage; Steamboat Labor. Part Three: Peak and Decline: The Critical Decade; The Movement fo Steamboat Regulation; War and Postwar Years; The Triumph of the Railroads; and Years of Adjustment; followed by an appendix: A Note on Tonnage Measurement; and an index.. ISBN: 0486278638. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. american frontier; mississippi basin; waterways;. more information

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New York: Popular Library, 1976. 125 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Non-fiction about the Salem witchtrials, the Chapters are: The Long Life of the Devil; The Uneasiness of Salem Village; The Devil Comes Closer; A Black Man from Boston; Great Noises by the Afflicted; The Road to Gallows Hill; and The Devil Departs; followed by an index.. ISBN: 044503162X. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. supernatural literature; weird terror tales; salem massachusetts; witch trials;. more information

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New York: Armed Services Editions, 1945. 382 pp. First Thus. Armed Services Edition K-23. Edge and corner wear with some rubbing on the front cover and creasing on the spine.. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good-. andrew jackson; revolution; north carolina; tennessee; congressman; senator; judge; burr conspiracy; dickinson duel; natchez; old hickery; creek war; new orleans; florida governor; Vintage Paperback;. more information

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New York: Washington Square Press, 1970. (xv) 176 pp. Edge and corner wear with a small dent in the front cover and an uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. Based on the Westinghouse radio series, this collection contains the following: Benjamin Banneker - Mathematician; Frederick Douglass - Abolitionist; Harriet Tubman - Liberator; Paul Laurence Dunbar - Poet; Daniel Hale Williams - Surgeon; Charles Clinton Spaulding - Industrialist; Jan Ernst Matzeliger - Inventor; Charles Drew - Scientist; William C. Handy - Composer; and George Washington Carver - Scientist. . ISBN: 0671470043. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. african american; black studies; negro; group w; westinghouse broadcasting company; americana;. more information

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New York: Macmillan, 1971. 174 pp. Black cloth with a silver pictorial and silver lettering on the front panel; lettered in silver on the spine; olive green endpapers. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with a crease on the front flap; price intact. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Scans are available for all books.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. john kerry; democrat democrats; democratic party; presidential; george w. bush; loser; noisbn;. more information

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New York: Macmillan, 1971. 174 pp. Black cloth with a silver pictorial and silver lettering on the front panel; lettered in silver on the spine; olive green endpapers. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket with a crease on the front flap; price intact; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. john kerry; democrat democrats; democratic party; presidential; george w. bush; loser; noisbn;. more information

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Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1999. (xiii) 172 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a crease on the front hinge and a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. The Chapters are: Where Is Everybody; The Long Road to Texas; Under the Pinon Trees; Exploring the Basin; Terlingua; Dignitaries; Pets; Polecats and Horses; Boquillas; Of Mountains and Basins; The Broken Blossom; Mama Has a Birthday; The Winter of Change; Reflections on the Rio Grande; The Spa; Into the Limestone Lodge; Maggy; Menagerie; The Mail Comes on Monday; First Go Fill the Water Bucket; A Lizard Mice and Other Winter Visitors; Mexican Wedding; The Steps that Led to Spanish; Have Some Beans; Rocks of the Ages; Water Tales; A Christmas to Forget; Flight; Second Summer; On Top of Mr Bailey; and Kaufman's Draw; followed by an epilogue.. ISBN: 0292743394. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. american west; 1940s; big bend national park; texas; camping; arizona; rock house; etta koch; pioneer lifestyle; park service;. more information

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New York: Doubleday - Anchor Books, 1971. (xiii) 262 pp. Doubleday Anchor book A773. Light wear on the corners with a faint crease on the spine; no interior markings. Cover by Michael Horen. The Chapters are: The History of the Suffragist Organization; The Rationale of Antisuffragism; The Two Major Types of Suffragist Argument; Woman Suffrage and Religion; Woman and the Home; The New Immigration and Labor; The Southern Question; Political Parties and Suffragist Tactics; and Woman Suffrage in Perspective; followed by an appendix of biographical date; a bibliography; and an index. . First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Michael Horen;. women women's movement; suffrage; white supremacy;. more information

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New York: J. B. Lippincott - Great Battles of History, 1956. 252 pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver on the front panel; decorated in silver and gilt on the spine; red endpapers; green upper edge. Illustrated with maps. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Foreshadowings; Antagonisms; The Drift to War; Collision; Wishful Planning; Bitter Victory: Monterrey; Shifting Strategy; Out on a Limb; Deployment; Crisis; Recovery; and Results; followed by Appendix: The Guns at Buena Vista; and an index. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. agua nueva; general pedro de ampudia;. more information

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New York: Bantam Pathfinder - Bantam Books, 1968. 199 pp. First Thus. Bantam Pathfinder Book SP4244. Light edge and corner wear with some minor creasing on the spine; light foxing on the inside covers; no interior markings.. First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. declaration of independence; american revolution; revolutionary war; continental congress; thomas jefferson; benjamin franklin; john adams;. more information

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New York: Washington Square Press, 1969. 242 pp. Archway Paperback 29265. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: The Torch Is Passed; Roots of the Past; Prep School Days; The Spark Is Struck; Why England Slept; Aboard the PTs; Pacific Ordeal; On the Hustings; Jacqueline; A Time for Courage; Reaching for the Peak; Mr President; Life in the White House; The New Frontier; and Tragedy in Texas; followed by a bibliography and an index.. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+. american politics; jfk; john fitzgerald kennedy;. more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. (x) 262 pp. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. The Chapters are: PART ONE: THE COMING OF THE WAR 1830 - 1860: A Nation of Sections: Shaping America's Growth; The Sections Take Shape: Northeast, Northwest, South. Dilemmas of Democracy on the Move: Slavery Casts a Dark Shadow; Jacksonian Democracy at Work; Free Negroes as Society's Orphans; Manifest Destiny Propels America to the Pacific. The Drive Against Slavery: The Antislavery Crusade Launched; Negroes and the Antislavery Drive; The Antislavery Tide Swells; Slavery Issue Pushes into Politics; Polk Wilmot and the Rift in the Democracy. Sectional Confrontation: The First Crisis of the Union - 1850; Economic Growth and Distractions Abroad. Mounting Sectional Crises: The Crime Against Kansas; Forging the Republican Party; Critical Years 1857 - 1859. PART TWO: THE CIVIL WAR 1860 - 1865: War Erupts 1860 - 1861: Battle by Ballot: Election of 1860; Dark Winter of Secession; Lincoln Braves the Storm over Sumter; Turmoil in the Borderland; Why War; Combatants Gird for war: Manpower and Resources. The Fighting Rages 1861 - 1863: Struggle on Sea and Land 1861 - 1862; Union Gains in the West 1862; Confederate Success - Union Despair in the East 1862; Union Crescendo at Vicksburg and Gettysburg 1863. War Becomes Revolution 1863 - 1865: The Home Front: Mobilizing for War; War Reshapes Law and Constitution; Death Blow to Slavery; The Negro and the War. The Fighting Ends: Politics Abroad: Keeping Europe Neutral; Politics at Home: Reshaping the Economy; The Bloody Road to Appomattox 1864 - 1865. PART THREE: RECONSTRUCTION 1865 - 1877: Restoring the Union Under Lincoln 1862 - 1865: Wartime Beginnings of Reconstruction; War's Aftermath; Presidential Reconstruction: Lincoln Style. Congress Makes a New Start 1865 - 1866: Presidential Reconstruction: Johnson Style; Congress Checks President Johnson; Radical Republicans Gain Allies; Congress Takes Command: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Critical Election of 1866. Revolution at Full Speed: 1866 - 1868: Radical Reconstruction at Full Throttle; Fight for Negro Rights; Radicals and the Presidency 1868. New Road in the South - Distractions in the North 1869 - 1873: The South Starts a New Path; Southern Whites Fight Back and Congress Answers; Northern Distractions Dim the Spotlight on the South; Economic Expansion Moves Ahead. Revolution Abandoned 1873 - 1877: Business Panic and Politics; Reunion and Reaction - Making a President and Unmaking a Revolution; and Aftermath of the Compromise of 1877; followed by a bibliographic essay and an index. . ISBN: 0395140684. First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. civil war; war between the states; north south; slavery; black studies; negro; african american;. more information

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Nashville, Tennessee: Kettle Mills Press, 1994. (iv) 108 pp. Light rubbing on the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings and maps. The Contents are: Drawn to Shiloh; Saturday: The Eve of Battle; Sunday Morning: Surprise Attack; Prentiss Gives Ground; Defeat at Shiloh Church; The Hornets' Nest; Trapped in the Nest; Grant's Last Stand; Night in the Union Lines; Night in the Confederate Lines; Grant Strikes Back; Retreat to Corinth; Debris of Victory; The Wounded; and The Dead; followed by an index.. ISBN: 0962601829. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to. american civil war; blue gray grey; union; confederate; confederacy; north south; military history;. more information

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New York: Signet Books, 1963. (x) 288 pp. Signet Book Q3149. Light edge and corner wear with a bindery ripple on an otherwise uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: A NEGRO VIEW OF AMERICAN HISTORY: Background of the Revolt; The American Revolution and its Aftermath; The Civil War; The Faiths that Failed; The Emerging Tribe; Beyond the Southland. THE NEGRO REVOLT: The Negro in the Fifties; The Birth of the Revolt; The NAACP; The Sit Ins; The Freedom Rides; The Crisis in Negro Leadership; The Black Muslims; The White Liberal; Pain and Progress. THE WAY AHEAD: The Urban League; The American Negro and His Government; The International Context of the Revolt. . Sixth Printing. Paperback. Very Good. black studies; african american;. more information

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