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.....
Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., 1874. Hard Cover.
ink name on front free endpaper and on first blank, general wear.
226, 29 pp. Engraved frontispiece. Temperance novel by the author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room.
New York: Dell, 1964. 2nd Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
1964 2nd printing. Edge wear, faint toning.
141 pp. "A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's.....
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.
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.
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......
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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.....
New York: Delta, 1968. 10th Printing. Trade Paperback.
10th printing. Wrappers rubbed.
xv, 210 pp. "Soul On Ice is a memoir and collection of essays by Eldridge Cleaver. Originally written in Folsom State Prison in 1965, and published three years later in 1968, it is Cleaver's best known writing and.....
New York: Hill and Wang, 1999. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback.
Revised edition. Light smudge on front cover.
x, 246 pp. A lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women's rights at a vital time in our national history. The American women who worked for our country's indepence in 1776 hoped.....
New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1990. Hard Cover.
Highlighting.
x, 212 pp. Smokestacks Allegro is the first major work published about the Solvay Process Company – one of America's pioneer science-based industries and predecessor of Allied Chemical Corporation, a forerunner of Allied-Signal. This book, partially based on oral history.....
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.....
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1980. Bearden, Romare. Reissue. Full-Leather.
Faint blemishes to gilt on edges and to spine bands.
xxxv, 355 pp. Dark blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with the work of Romare Bearden, selected.....
. 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.....
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.....
Rochester, New York: Ronald G. Pettingill Labor Education Fund, 2005. Signed Copy. Large Softcover.
Signed by both authors on copyright page with inscription, "For John Westerberg Our Yankee Peddler." A fine copy.
iv, 152 pp. "Even before the first national labor federations, workers in many American communities formed central labor.....
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: 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.....
New York: Hill and Wang, 2002. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Covers creased, highlighting and ink marginalia.
xiii, 408 pp. Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." A century ago, Mother Jones was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very.....
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1875. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front free endpaper, first blank and final text page missing. Minor loss to spine head and to spine base, crayon marks on paste-down endpapers.
270 pp. Includes discussion of women's suffrage, currency and banking, sex education, labor reform.....
New York: Signet, 1961. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback.
Reprint. Ex-library, ink underlining.
192 pp. A white male pigments his skin to appear black, and quickly realizes that black people are held to a different set of standards.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. Recent Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Recent reprint. Highlighting throughout.
Translated by Thomas Burger with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence. This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to.....
Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spot on top edge, otherwise near fine.
xx, 479 pp. Provides brief biographical sketches of women civil rights activists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and includes listings of bibliographical sources for each woman.
Williamstown: Corner House Publishers, 1982. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Jacket spine previously reinforced with tape, sticker on rear jacket panel, front jacket panel rubbed, front jacket flap price-clipped. Top page ridge faintly foxed.
xvi, 319 pp. 1982 reissue of 1922 original. What was life like for women in the American colonies.....
Mineola: Dover Publications, 2011. 2011 Reissue. Trade Paperback.
Modern reissue of 1951 original. Faint edge wear.
Fascinating accounts of the history of the most important and typical American utopian communities include surveys of Shaker, New Harmony, and Brook Farm; Fourieristic phalanxes; and Oneida settlements. Details of human interest and daily.....