New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. No jacket. Minor general wear.
xiii, 413 pp. An important title by the well-known advocate of women's suffrage and world peace, published the year before she became the first female Nobel Peace Prize winner. "Jane Addams' famous autobiographical.....
New York: The New Press, 2012. Trade Paperback.
Edges worn.
xvii, 312 pp. Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads;.....
Oklahoma: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Ink gift note on half-title page.
xi, 323 pp. "The American West looms large in popular imagination-a place where men were rugged and independent, violent and courageous. In this mythic West all the men were white, and the women were.....
Lowell: The Vox Populi Press. - Thompson & Hill. 1896. Hard Cover.
Stain to top corner of front board and frontispiece, front hinge weakening (title page loose but included).
xviii, 586 pp. The memoirs of the founder of the Hopedale Community, who advocated for pacifism, socialism, and abolition.
New York: Bantam Books, 1976. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
1st printing. Pages toned.
A work by three Woman's Rights activists who were arrested for their shocking literary output.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Edges slightly worn.
xxi, 438 pp. A sweeping examination of the role of "Black Power" in the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City reveals the emergence of militancy and political consciousness in American sports.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author with inscription, "To Irene--with love, Amy 11/15/09 Rich---" A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Minor general wear.
xxiv, 198 pp. "On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington.....
New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2017. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
Third printing. A few minor surface tears on jacket.
xi, 115 pp. "At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself.....
New York: Signet, 1966. Mass Market Paperback.
Front wrapper lightly foxed, spine creased, rear wrapper creased, pages lightly toned.
viii, 429 pp. Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable stories of our time. This is a thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a......
Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Sabin 8595). Corners rubbed, hinges weak, owner bookplate on front endpaper.
xvi, 380 pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles. The first history of African Americans during the Revolutionary War, though it covers many years preceding and following that event.....
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Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1909. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. An exceptional copy.
309, [5] pp. Frontispiece of Wendell Phillips, from a photograph by J.W. Black. An early volume from the collectible Lakeside Classic series, collecting four important speeches regarding the discussion of.....
Trenton, N.J. Board of Trustees of the Deserted Village at Allaire, 1967. Stapled Binding.
Very faintly toned.
24 pp. "Howell Works (later the Howell Works Company) was a bog iron-based production facility for pig iron which was established in New Jersey in the early 19th century by American engineer and.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. Harris, Charles "Teenie" 2nd Printing. Large Hardcover.
Second printing. Top edge of rear jacket joint taped.
167 pp. From the 1930s to the 1970s, Charles "Teenie" Harris traveled the alleys, workplaces, nightclubs, and streets of his native city of Pittsburgh with a Speed Graphic.....
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Minor ink spots on bottom edge of boards.
297 pp. "Twelve-year-old Willie Tarrant, a black girl in Turner, Virginia, sees her family--and her whole world--turned upside down when eight college students stage a sit-in.....
Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, 1889. Hard Cover.
Owner bookplate on front endpaper (Julia Bryant Toohy, daughter of author William Cullen Bryant), faint stain to top and bottom marginal edges, rear board lightly soiled.
317 pp. 8vo. A story relating to the Molly Maguires, with a good.....
Boston: Beacon Press, 2008. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. An exceptional copy.
In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in American history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S......
. Columbia University, 1981. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
3rd printing. Light edge wear.
In this prize-winning study, Thomas Dublin explores, in carefully researched detail, the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism. Dublin describes and traces the strong community awareness.....
New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1874. Hard Cover.
Spine & edges toned, boards rubbed, light stain along top edges of endpapers, ink name on front flyleaf.
96 pp., 8-page terminal publisher ad. 8vo. Original orange cloth, gilt titles. A medical assessment of the affects of alcohol on.....
Macon: The J.W. Burke Company, 1920. Hard Cover.
Minimal loss of gilt from front board, brief pencil note on rear endpaper.
47, [1] pp. "Eneas Africanus is perhaps the most popular pro-slavery text in United States' history. Published by Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855-1938) in 1919, this tract's claimed astronomical sales.....
New York: Pocket Books, 1970. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
First printing. Minor general wear.
245 pp. "While the supremely popular Steal This Book is a guide to living outside the establishment, Revolution for the Hell of It is a chronicle of Abbie Hoffman's radical escapades that doubles as a......
Rochester, New York: Ronald G. Pettingill Labor Education Fund, 2005. Signed Copy. Large Softcover.
Signed by Jonathan Garlock with inscription. A fine copy.
iv, 152 pp. "Even before the first national labor federations, workers in many American communities formed central labor bodies that brought together workers across the boundaries between.....
Fairport, New York: Verbal Images Press, 1994. Hard Cover.
Corners creased.
120 pp. "An introduction to the life of the suffragist, abolitionist, and temperance crusader, the book offers a look at the personal life and conventional upbringing of Anthony and examines her involvement in the women's suffrage movement. Illustrated with.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, ink name on front endpaper.
474 pp. A novel by the American suffragette known for her portrayals of the changing world of the South. "Born, raised and educated in Richmond, Virginia, novelist.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Trade Paperback.
Book club edition. Crease on back corner, bumping on wrapper edges.
531 pp. "From the author of 'Little Gloria... Happy at Last' comes a stunning combination of history and biography, a book that interweaves the stories of some of.....
Chicago, Illinois: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1898. Hard Cover.
Boards soiled, hinges starting.
416 pp. A memorial biography of an important member of the women's suffrage movement. "Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. In 1871 she.....