George Washington Carver: An American Biography.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1943. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth. viii, 342pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Early (not first) printing, a tight and attractive copy. More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1943. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth. viii, 342pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Early (not first) printing, a tight and attractive copy. More
San Francisco: Encounter Books, [2001]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth spine and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 147pp. Fine/fine. Superb, pristine first edition. More
Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, [1990]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 263pp. Fine/fine. Superb, tight and pristine first edition. More
Chicago: Open Court, [1997]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xiii, 421pp. Near fine. A tight and attractive third printing. More
New York: Negro Universities Press, [1969]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. 206pp. Near fine. Facsimile of the 1838 first edition. More
Franklin, TN: Hillsboro Press, [2000]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. xvi, 272pp. Illustrations. Fine. Lacks dust jacket. Tight, superb first edition of this history of Nashville's noted African-American medical institution. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1998]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 494pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A handsome and tight first edition of this accompaniment to the PBS series. More
East Lansing: Georgia A. Johnson Publishing Company, [1994]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling, dust jacket. 254pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this uncommon and unusual study. More
Pine Bluff, AR: Delta Press, [1995]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and graphic, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 238pp. Fine/very good. Jacket faintly rubbed and slightly edgeworn. Tight, nice first edition of this biography of the first African-American U.S. Surgeon General (born 1933), boldly signed and inscribed by the..... More
New York: The Free Press, [1993]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed wrappers. xv, 295pp. Illustrations. Very good. Sixth paperback edition, tight and nice, of the expanded edition of the 1981 classic. "The modern classic of race and medicine," notes the front wrapper, "updated with an additional chapter on the Tuskegee..... More
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, [1995]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xv, 447pp. Illustrations, tables. Fine. Perfectly tight and pristine first edition. More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1993]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 391pp. Maps, illustration. Fine/fine. A tight and handsome second printing of this study of the summer 1861 events in Adams County, Mississippi. More
Athens: The University of Georgia Press, [1986]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xliv, 274pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine. An absolutely pristine third paperback edition -- tight and lovely -- of this facsimile reprint of the 1940 first edition, a Georgia Writers' Project publication featuring stunning photographs by Muriel Bell and..... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Library, [1984]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xxii, 345pp. Illustrations, tables. Very good. Bit of mild edgewear. Tight and nice third paperback printing of this volume in editor August Meier's "Blacks in the New World" series. More
Boston: John Wilson and Son, [1857]. Paperback. Small 4to. Self-cover. 12pp. Very good. Outer wrappers (only) faintly age toned. Clean, attractive first edition of this lengthy diatribe against President James Buchanan's handling of the slavery issue in Kansas, which they considered weak and ineffective, followed by his reply and their..... More
Seattle: Open Hand Publishing Inc., [1987]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xiii, 348pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Near fine. Tight and handsome third, revised edition of this 1971 classic. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, [2000]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and cream paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 670pp. Frontispiece, illustrations (some color). Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and nice first edition of this thick survey. More
Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, 1941. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. xii, 180pp. Very good. A tight and decent first edition of this influential study. Mild, inoffensive ex-library, with very few and discreet markings. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, dust jacket. xii, 425pp. Frontispiece, 2 illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Jacket chipped (mainly at head of spine) but clean and attractive. First edition, tight and nice, boldly signed and inscribed by the author in blue fountain pen on the half-title..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, dust jacket. xii, 425pp. Frontispiece, 2 illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear (mainly at spine head and foot), with chip at top of rear panel. A tight and attractive first edition of what Robert W. Johannsen critiqued as “A..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. 8vo. Red and white paper over boards, dust jacket. xiii, 201pp. Fine/near fine. A tight and superb first edition. More
Knoxville, TN: The Tennessee Historical Commission, [1981]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xii, 124pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this volume in general editor Paul H. Bergeron's "Tennessee Three Star Books" series. More
Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2003. Hardcover. 8vo. Pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 127pp. Color illustrations. Fine/fine. A handsome and tight first edition, bearing a lengthy inscription by the author in black marker on the front flyleaf: "To Sue, / Thank you for visiting / my country! I am..... More
New York: Atria Books, 2003. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine and red paper over boards, dust jacket. xiv, 370pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/fine. Handsome first edition of this study of the controversial Congressperson, boldly signed by both Lester and Norton on the title page; Lester adds "To Denise" as well..... More
New York: Augustus M. Kelly Publishers, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth. xviii, 184pp. Fine. Tight, handsome facsimile reprint of the third edition (1863) of this title first published by A. Williams and Company of Boston in 1862, being a lecture delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society. The anti-slavery stance of..... More