New York: Heresies Collective, 1980. Paperback. 95, [1] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback. Contents include: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Socialist Feminism by Barbara Ehrenreich -- Edie and Ruthy by Grace Paley -- Who Needs Woman Heroes? by Berenice Fisher, illustrated by Barbara Nessim -- Black Activists..... More
New York: Artists and Writers Guild; Grosset and Dunlap, 1944. Hardcover. [32] p.: color illustrations; 19 cm. Orange cover with title in yellow and color illustration. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket mirroring cover. A little boy and girl and their kitten, Cinder. Book is in Near Fine Condition: ends of spine..... More
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1969. Paperback. xxxiv, 190 p.; 21 cm. Paperback. Part of the publisher's Fugitive Slave Narratives. First published in 1849 as The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada. Josiah Henson (1789-1883) is said to have inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Hardcover. [2], viii, 133, [1] p.; 24 cm. Maroon and light grey cover with gilt spine title and blind-stamped author's initials on front cover. Top page edges yellow. Dust jacket. A "masterly work by a major poet" -- dust jacket. Book and dust jacket..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1973. Paperback. 322, [4] p., [8] p. of illustrations; 20 cm. Paperback. In 1906 the 25th Infantry Regiment, known as Buffalo Soldiers, were stationed at Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas. After a shooting was blamed on members of the regiment, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered..... More
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1969. Paperback. xxviii, 272 p.; 21 cm. Paperback. Part of the publisher's Fugitive Slave Narratives. First published in 1855 in response to a defense of slavery that had been published the previous year by Nehemiah Adams, A South-Side View of Slavery. The author, Benjamin Drew..... More
New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 738 p.; 22 cm. Green and white cover with black spine title. White dust jacket printed in black and green. This edition was specially created in 1990 for Book-of-the-Month Club by arrangement with HarperCollins Publishers. Book is in Near Fine Condition: very..... More
Boston: South End Press, 1997. Paperback. xxiv, 255, [1] p.; 22 cm. Paperback. In Very Good Condition: cover is slightly rubbed; front cover curves up; one creased page corner; otherwise, clean and tight. More
Brooklyn, NY: Book Mail Services, 1992. Paperback. [14], 226 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback. Appendix contains lists of Black baseball players: the first for each team in the major leagues, named most valuable players, named rookies of the year, and named batting champions. Scarce. In Near Fine Condition: edges slightly..... More
Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2006. Paperback. xiv, [2], 308, [2] p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the series Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives. The author presents a study of over 200 women and their transformations while studying under men at universities, using "the tropes of classical mythology and Jungian..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. Paperback. xiii, [3], 309 p.: illustrations, maps, charts, tables; 25 cm. Paperback. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; light corner creasing; clean and tight. More
New York: MacMillan Co., 1941. Hardcover. xvii, [5, 673 p., frontispiece portrait of the author; 22 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title and author's facsimile signature on front cover. No dust jacket. In Very Good- Condition: slightly shaken; spine is slightly faded; corners lightly rubbed; cover lightly soiled; former..... More
New York: American Bible Society, 1898. Hardcover. 452 p.; 13 cm. Black leather with gilt-stamped cover title. All page edges gilt. Black endpapers. In Very Good- Condition: closed 1-cm. tear from upper edge of front cover; cover is slightly rubbed; clean and tight. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979. Hardcover. xxvi, 719, [3] p., [8] p. of illustrations; 21 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Bollingen Series 87:2. Includes index. Alexis Leger (1887-1975) was a French poet and diplomat, better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse. Book is in..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. Paperback. 208 p.: illustrations (includes 16 pages of color illustrations); 23 cm. Paperback. Stated First Edition. "A Guide to the Los Angeles Olympics and a History of the Games" -- cover. Contents: LA-84: An Olympic Preview -- A History of the Modern Olympics..... More
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1935. Hardcover. 544 p.: illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Light brown cloth with dark brown spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Advertisement for the 13 titles in the publisher's DeLuxe Editions series, including this title, on back section of dust jacket. No date of..... More
New York: George H. Doran Co., 1918. Hardcover. 306 p., frontispiece portrait and 4 leaves of plates; 21 cm. Dark brown cloth with black spine title and gilt cover title. Stamped on the front free endpaper and on the title page: "Editorial Page Library." A biography of American politician Edward..... More
Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1964. Paperback. 6th printing. 104 p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Dark green card covers with illustrations; white comb binding with black spine title. Illustrated endpapers. Small slip bound in between front endpapers with price in dollars and in Japanese yen. One page of publisher's advertisement..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1877. Hardcover. xvi, 300 p.: maps, charts; 22 cm. Light blue cloth with black spine and cover titles, and front cover illustration. No dust jacket (as issued?). In Near Fine Condition: front cover scratched; otherwise, clean and tight. More
New York: Viking Press, 1982. Hardcover. xx, [2], 474 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Red and white cover with red spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes fiction, poetry, and autobiographical accounts relating to the celebration of Christmas. Arranged alphabetically, from Hans Christian Andersen to William Butler Yeats, with contributions by J...... More
Guilford, Conn. Lyons Press, 2003. Hardcover. [8], 326, [2] p.; 24 cm. Red and off-white cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Former professional triathlete and two-time winner of the Ironmen World Championship Scott Tinley describes his journey as a retired athlete with useful advice for others facing that..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. Hardcover. Phaidon Edition. 302 p., frontispiece and 5 leaves of color plates tipped onto grey card; 26 cm. Linen cloth with dark brown spine and cover titles. No dust jacket (as issued?). Primarily full-page black-and-white illustrations, many folded. Introduction consists of a extensive biographical..... More
Berlin: Ernst & Korn, 1855. [7] leaves; 35 cm. Plates are lithographed by Anst von W. Loeillot, Berlin. Disbound. This is the 24th issue of the German architecture serial Architektonisches Skizzenbuch. Six issues were published per year, each issue consisting of 6 architectural plates. Captions are in German. Contents: restoration..... More
Berlin: Ernst & Korn, 1855. [7] leaves; 35 cm. Plates are lithographed by Anst von W. Loeillot, Berlin. Disbound. This is the 23rd issue of the German architecture serial Architektonisches Skizzenbuch. Six issues were published per year, each issue consisting of 6 architectural plates. Captions are in German. Contents: a...... More
Berlin: Ernst & Korn, 1855. [7] leaves; 35 cm. Plates are lithographed by Anst von W. Loeillot, Berlin. Disbound. This is the 22nd issue of the German architecture serial Architektonisches Skizzenbuch. Six issues were published per year, each issue consisting of 6 architectural plates. Captions are in German. Contents: a...... More