Woman to the Rescue: A Story of the New Crusade
Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., 1874. Hard Cover.
Ink name on front endpaper and first blank.
226, 29 pp. Engraved frontispiece. Temperance novel by the author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room.
Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., 1874. Hard Cover.
Ink name on front endpaper and first blank.
226, 29 pp. Engraved frontispiece. Temperance novel by the author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1999. 8th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Eighth printing. Pages lightly toned.
505 pp. " Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an.....
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.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Light edge wear to jacket.
374 pp. Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years.....
Columbus, Ohio: H. Miller. 1860. Hard Cover.
1860 printing. Sabin 5800. Binding repaired by previous owner, edges rubbed, 1 inch split to top of front joint, front and end matter lightly foxed, pencil name and date on front flyleaf.
xvi, [17]-866 pp. 8vo. An early American study of the institution.....
New York: Amistad / Harper Collins, 2006. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Remainder mark, small tear on front cover, edge wear.
xvii, 540 pp. An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change. The civil war brought to a climax the country's.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Sabin 6828). Pencil name on front flyleaf, one gathering sprung but holding firmly, minor blemishes to corners.
xxviii, [29]-402, 2, 2, [6] pp. 12mo. Green cloth, gilt titles and rules, brown endpapers. A contemporary account of the American.....
New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 1989. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Cover corners reinforced with tape, spine creased, pencil name on blurb page.
xii, 1064 pp. In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the.....
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......
New York: Signet, 1965. 15th Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
15th printing. Faint toning, light edge wear.
During his first year at Howard University, Claude Brown wrote an article for the magazine Dissent about growing up in Harlem. The piece attracted the attention of a publisher, who encouraged him to write.....
New York: Anchor Books, 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Remainder mark, light edge wear.
xi, 801 pp. "The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who.....
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: Oxford University Press, 2007. 6th Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
Sixth printing. Edge wear to some pages.
193 pp. From the controversial incarceration of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, to the brutal ethnic cleansing being practiced in Darfur, to the widespread denial of equal rights to women in many areas.....
New York: Delta, 1968. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback.
6th printing. Faint edge wear.
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.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder marks.
302 pp. A British stage star turned Georgia plantation mistress, Fanny Kemble is perhaps best remembered as a critic of slavery--and an influential opponent of this institution during the years leading up to the Civil War.....
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.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine head bumped, jacket lightly soiled. Page ridges lightly foxed.
604 pp. "Moving the Mountain" tells the story of the struggles and triumphs of thousands of activists who achieved 'half a revolution' between 1960 and 1990. 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.....
Indianapolis / New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. 1980 issue of WRL News laid in. Jacket rubbed with crease to front flap corner.
xxiii, [3], 390 pp. A collection of essays by the American pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change, who was.....
Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2016. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine base bumped.
xi, 185 pp. In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in.....
Rochester, New York: Landmark Society of Western New York, 1995. Soft Cover.
Covers lightly rubbed.
50 pp. "This publication documents the distinguished record of accomplishment by local African-Americans. ...truly a landmark account of the many historical contributions blacks have made to the growth and prosperity of the City of Rochester.....
New York: Random House, 2016. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A near fine jacket. Remainder mark.
xiii, 286 pp. "The first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children.....
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed.
viii, 315 pp. For the People offers a new interpretation of populist political movements from the Revolution to the eve of the Civil War and roots them in.....
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.....