Philadelphia: M. Fithian, 1844. Paperback. 12 p.; 22 cm. Lacking wrapper. Stamped on title page: "Case 42 Shelf E." In early May 1844, Protestant nativists in Philadelphia, feeling threatened by the inscreasing number of Catholic immigrants, held public meetings accusing Catholics of seeking to have the Bible removed from public..... More

Washington, D.C. Gales and Seaton, 1832. Hardcover. 861, [1], lxxxiv pages; 34 cm. Contemporary half calf with gilt-tooled spine title; marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Series titles: American State Papers. Documents, Legislative, and Executive of the Congress of the United States, From the First Session of the First to..... More

Philadelphia: Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, 1984. Paperback. 30 p.: color and black-and-white illustrations; 25 cm. Stapled wrapper; inside of front and back wrapper are included in pagination. Contents: Trade Cards by John J. Appel -- The American Dream for Sale: Ethnic Images in Magazines by Amy Rashap -- Packaging..... More

New York: Geo. W. & Jno. A. Wood, 1860. Paperback. 4, [1], 402-528, [4] p.: tables, illustrated advertisements; 23 cm. Illustrated salmon wrapper. Imprint includes: Boston: A. Williams & Co., Redding & Co., and Crosby & Nichols; Philadelphia: W. B. Zieber; New Orleans: J. C. Morgan; Montreal: B. Dawson; London..... More

New York: New-York Daily Tribune, 1860. 8 p.; 55 cm. Pages are unopened. Contains many advertisements, including for Barnum's American Museum; Adelina Patti appearing in Flotow's opera Martha; General Tom Thumb; and Geo. Christy's Minstrels. Also contains articles on politics including on the Lemmon Slave Case; and the Democratic National..... More

Washington, D.C. U. S. Government Printing Office, 1993. Paperback. 4 volumes; 23 cm. Green paper covers with black spine and cover titles. Document J-102-40. The hearings were held in September and October 1991. Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court by President George H. W. Bush to succeed thurgood..... More

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Housing Authority, 1951. 7, [1] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Contains the architect's design of the Abbotts Housing Project and the site plan for the Wilson Park Development, as well as two photographs of the presentation of the Citation of Merit by the Chamber of Commerce to the residents..... More

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Housing Authority, 1951. 4 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Discusses approval of housing developments at the former Abbotts dairy site in West Philadelphia and the Schulkill Falls area in the Northeast, and rejection of approval for the Wilson Park site at 25th and Ritner streets. The illustrations are photos..... More

Chicago: Merrill Company Publishers, 1950. Paperback. [48] p.: illustrations; 38 cm. Stapled card covers with color illustration and die-cut upper edges. "1515-15" -- upper edge of front cover. After a brief overview of American history ("Indians were the first Americans. Then the white men came."), the illustrations depict aspects of..... More

Philadelphia: Temple University, 1996. Hardcover. 2 volumes with leaves numbered continuously: xxxv, [1], 842 leaves; 28 cm. Brown cloth with author's name in white on spine. "This dissertation provides a new interpretive framework for understanding the historical origins of the American reaction to Chinese immigration from 1848 to the passage..... More

Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Hardcover. xi, [1], 289, [1] p.; 24 cm. Off-chite cloth with red spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author uses the experiences of a real family in North Lawndale, a suburb of Chicago, to demonstrated the "gaps, inconsistences, and inequalities the poor..... More

New York: Amistad, 1993. Hardcover. First published in 1988; this is the updated Amistad Press hardcover issued in May 1993. Vol. 1 only: xx, 194 pages, 32 pages of illustrations; 24 cm. Black cover with gilt spine title and publisher's emblem on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes..... More

New York: The Dial Press, 1979. Hardcover. [10], 597 p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title and facsimile author's signature on front cover. No dust jacket. Stated First Printing. The sixth and final novel by American author James Baldwin (1924-1987). In Very Good Condition: cover and fore-edges slightly..... More