New York: MacMillan, 1926. Hardcover. xviii, [2], 821, [5] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Dark green leather spine with dark green linen boards. Gilt-stamped spine title and decoration. Top page edges gilt. List of titles in The Modern Readers' Series on final, unpaginated page. Illustrated endpapers. Decorative border on title page..... More
New York: MacMillan, 1927. Hardcover. xv, [1], 392, [4] p., 1 leaf with a portrait of the author; 19 cm. Dark green leather spine with dark green linen boards. Gilt-stamped spine title and decoration. Top page edges gilt. List of titles in The Modern Readers' Series on final, unpaginated page..... More
New York: MacMillan, 1926. Hardcover. xix, [2], 543, [5] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Dark green leather spine with dark green linen boards. Gilt-stamped spine title and decoration. Top page edges gilt. List of titles in The Modern Readers' Series on final, unpaginated page. Illustrated endpapers. Decorative border on title page..... More
New York: MacMillan, 1926. Hardcover. xviii, [2], 446, [4] p., 1 leaf with a portrait of the author; 19 cm. Dark green leather spine with dark green linen boards. Gilt-stamped spine title and decoration. Top page edges gilt. List of titles in The Modern Readers' Series on final, unpaginated page..... More
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. 187 p.; 22 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. First published in 1901. Contents: The Natives of Hawaii: A Study of Polynesian Charm by Titus Munson Coan -- The Races of the Phlippines: The Tagals by the..... More
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Hardcover. vii, [1], 176 p.: tables; 22 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. First published in 1915 by the Public Education Association of the City of New York. Frances Helen Blascoer (1873-1938) was born into a a Sephardic..... More
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. xii, 205 p.: tables; 22 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. First published in 1936. Abram L. Harris (1899-1963) taught economics at Howard University from 1936 to 1945 then at the University of Chicago for the rest..... More
New York: David McKay Co., 1975. Hardcover. 368, [10] p.: black-and-white illustrations, color maps; 19 cm. Green cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Drawings by Minos Argyrakis and Graham Byfield. Information about Fodor's Modern Guides series on back section of dust jacket. Book is in Fine..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 1983. Paperback. 320 p.; 20 cm. Paperback. First published in 1981. "With explosive new evidence, David J. Garrow reveals the FBI's relentless surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr. .. . Garrow chronicles a decade of vicious FBI harassment that employed electronic eavesdropping devices, an army of..... More
Westport, Conn. Negro Universities Press, 1970. Hardcover. [10], 181, [1] P.; 22 CM. Black cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. First published in 1957. Reporter John Bartlow Martin analyzed the immediate response by white southerners to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the 1954 unanimous..... More
New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1966. Paperback. xvi, 74, 12 p.: tables, charts; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. First published in 1949. Publisher's catalog on final 12 pages. The Tennessee Valley Authority was established by Congress in 1933 to generate electricity, support economic development, and provide flood control and improved..... More
Westport, Conn. Greenword Press, 1977. Hardcover. xviii, 301, [1] p.: maps, tables, illustrations; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. No dust jacket, as issued. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, no. 31. Contains essays by Ann M. Pescatello, Mary C. Karasch, B. Edward Pierce, Michael..... More
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. xxiv, 323 p.: illustrations, tables, map; 22 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. This pioneering study by Paul K. Edwards (1898-1959) was first published in 1932. He used research conducted by Fisk University faculty and students on..... More
New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987. Paperback. Second Printing. xvi, [2], 294 p.: map, graph, chart; 23 cm. Paperback. A volume in the Class and Culture series. The author uses Flint, Michigan, as a case study in the impact of the automobile age on American socity and political..... More
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Hardcover. xvi, 320 p.; 22 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. First published in 1906. Jean Finot (1858-1922), French journalist and sociologist, sought to disprove the "modern" theories of race that developed in the early 20th century, which..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Hardcover. Second Edition. 279 p.; 22 cm. Brown cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author examines the rise of fascism in Europe in the 20th century. "In this revised edition Professor Carsten has added a new chapter bringing the account up..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Paperback. xvi, 462, [2] p., [32] p. of black-and-white photographs; 23 cm. Paperback with cover illustration by John Martinez. Stated First Edition. In Near Fine- Condition: edges rubbed; first page (half title page) browned along upper edge and fore-edge; otherwise, clean and tight. k.... More
Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Hardcover. Part of the Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. xix, [3], 305, [1] p.; 24 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. The author examines public events that occured in New York City from..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Paperback. Fourth Impression. x, 262 p.; 20 cm. Paperback. The author describes slavery as it existed in the northern American colonies before the Revolution and its gradual abolition in the states after that. "Although historians have assumed that the unprofitability of slavery in the..... More
Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press, 1982. Hardcover. xviii, 200, [2] p.: tables, graphs; 22 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, No. 68. The author provides an interesting look at a small Black community in a northern state prior to the Civil War..... More
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 225 p.: illustrations, map, tables; 24 cm. Black cover with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Nearly 370,000 Black soldiers served in the military during World War One and about 400,000 Black civilians came north for defense jobs. After the..... More
New York: New York University Press, 2007. Paperback. xi, [1], 308 p.: illustrations, maps, graphs, table; 23 cm. Paperback. The author examines the history of Newark, N.J., from the perspective of Black political activity. In Very Good Condition: former owner's name on title page; marginal marks in red ink on..... More
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005. Hardcover. xi, [1], 363 p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Black endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Title page repeats portrait from dust jacket. The Ohio legislature passed the first in a series of discriminatory laws known as Black Laws in..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Paperback. xiii, [1], 320, [2] p.; 23 cm. Paperback. The author "explores the ways that the constant influx of Mexican immigrants influenced Mexican Americans' sense of social and cultural identity and thus shaped their politics and the trajectory of the Mexican American civil rights..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Hardcover. x, [2], 338 p.: illustrations, tables; 24 cm. White cloth spine with red spine title; black paper over boards. Green endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. The author "traces the fluidity of racial categories from an immense body of research in literaure, popular culture, politics..... More