New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Hardcover. [2], xiv, 314, [2] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Beige cover with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Carol Devine Carson. Stated First Edition. Callie House (1861-1928), born into slavery, sought reparations for African-Americans for their time as slaves. She founded the..... More
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988. Paperback. First Midland Book Edition. ix, [3], 147, [1] p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the series Everywoman: Studies in History, Literature, and Culture. The author examines the history of attempts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in the context of previous successful amendments..... More
Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1864. Hardcover. Title continued: "To Which are added Statistics of the Principal Manufacturing Centres, and Descriptions of Remarkable Manufactories at the Present Time." Imprint includes London: Sampson Low, Son & Co. Vol. 2 only. [2], 11-826 p., tissue-guarded frontispiece: portraits, tables; 24 cm. Rebacked with..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Paperback. xviii, 636 p.; 21 cm. Paperback. This is "a comprehensive collection of primary documents covering political, social and cultural aspects of the 1960's. Drawn from mainstream sources, little-known sixties periodicals, pamphlets and public speeches, this anthology brings together representative writings many of which..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1901. Hardcover. 261 p., frontispiece; 29 cm. Original green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; blind-ruled border on both boards. Bulletin 26, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, J.W. Powell, director. Contains the texts and translations of 17 myths and 16 tales collected in 1890 and..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Hardcover. xv, [1], 294 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Frances Willard (1839-1898) was president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and supported women's suffrage and education. "Based on recently released diaries and papers, this..... More
New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press, 1990. Paperback. xxvi, 221 p.: illustrations, tables; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. This history of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1873 to 1900 was the first full-length scholarly study of women and the temperance movement. In Near Fine Condition: cover slightly rubbed;..... More
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 301 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket. Contents: "Written with a Hard and Ruthless Purpose:" Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber, and Middlebrow Regional Fiction by Donna Campbell -- The Cosmopolitan Regionalism of Zona Gale's Friendship..... More
Indianpolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1970. Paperback. First printing. lxx, 568 p.; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Part of the publisher's The American Heritage Series. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed and lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight. More
Albany, N.Y. G.J. Loomis & Co., 1819. Hardcover. 300 p.; 15 cm. Contemporary tree calf; gilt-tooled spine title "Bradley on Revivals" and decoration. Early American Imprints, ser. 2 (Shaw & Shoemaker), 47417. The author, Joshua Bradley (1799-1855), was ordained in 1801; he served as the the minister of the First..... More
Jackson, Miss. University Press of Mississippi, 2003. Paperback. xviii, 322 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes index. The author looks at mass media and the women's movement in the United States from the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique to the tennis match between Billie Jean King..... More
Rutherford, N.J. Associated University Presses; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 266 p.: illustrations, tables; 29 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. A "comprehensive survey of all the known potteries in central and southern New Jersey" from the 17th to the 19th centuries -- dust jacket..... More
San Diego; New York; London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Paperback. xiv, 210 p.; 20 cm. Paperback; illustrated cover. After escaping from slavery in 1842, Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) wrote this account of her life, with the editorial assistance of author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880). For publication in 1861, both..... More
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1909. Paperback. 32 p.; 21 cm. Brown wrapper printed in black; stapled. Description of the American Antiquarian Society's collections and publications. Includes a list of the officers and members. In Very Good- Condition: wrapper is separated for 6 cm. from tail of spine, with closed..... More
Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1866. Hardcover. 512, [2] p., double frontispiece and 32 leaves of plates; 23 cm. Modern binding in bonded leather with gilt-tooled spine label. Original marbled endpapers with modern hinge repair. Advertisement by the National Publishing Co. on page following text for agents to sell the company's..... More
Westport, Conn. Negro Universities Press, 1970. Hardcover. Originally published in 1947 by the Bureau of Municipal Research of Philadelphia. 183 p.: maps, tables; 22 cm. Orange cloth with black spine title. Appendices include the questions used in interviews with "White People Informed on the Topic," "Informed Negroes," and "Members of..... More
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1969. Paperback. xxviii, 98 p.; 21 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. This is the second in the publisher's series Fugitive Slave Narratives. William Wells Brown (c. 1814-1884) was born a slave in Kentucky but escaped when he was 19 and settled in Boston and then..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. Hardcover. Imprint also includes Applegate & Co., Cincinnati. 458, [8] p.: frontispiece portrait and 12 additional leaves of plates; 19 cm. Publisher's dark green wave-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title "Parson Brownlow's book." Blind-ruled borders on both boards. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author engraved..... More
Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2003. Paperback. 95, [1] p.: color illustrations; 24 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. A well-illustrated look at the Palazzo Margherita, which has been the site of the American Embassy to Italy for over 60 years. The Introduction is by the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Mel Sembler, who..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1866. Hardcover. x, [1], 10-296, 3-8 p.; 24 cm. Publisher's dark green pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title "Buchanan's Administration." Blind-ruled border on each board. Pale yellow endpapers. Publisher's advertisements on 6 pages following text. In pencil on front free endpaper: Patterson. Bookplate on..... More
Norristown, Pa. E.L. Acker, 1859. Hardcover. "with an account of the Indians, the Swedes, and other early settlers, and the local events of the Revolution; besides notices of the Progress in Population, Improvements, and Manufactures; prepared chiefly from original materials." 124, iii, [1] p.; 25 cm. Original dark brown bead-grain..... More
New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press, 1986. Hardcover. xvi, [2], 258 p.: tables; 24 cm. Grey cloth with blue spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the Douglass Series on Women's Lives and the Meaning of Gender. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near..... More
Allentown, Pa. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, 1955. Hardcover. [8], 178, [2] p., 1 leaf with a portrait: in-text and full-page illustrations, map; 23 cm. Off-white cloth with red spine and cover titles, and red cover illustration. Title page has decorative red border. Decorated inital letters in red. Contents: Henry Meyer..... More
Washington, D.C. Society for American Archaeology, 1959. Paperback. 229-318 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Light brown paper cover, stapled. The author, Douglas S. Byers (1903-1978), was director of the Robert S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology from 1938 to 1968. In this paper he discusses the remains of Archaic cultures in the..... More
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Philadelphia: James B. Longacre, 1839. Paperback. 19, [1] p.; 22 cm. Without the portrait of the subject. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "9" in ink at upper right-hand corner of first page. This is from vol. 4 of The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. The biographical..... More