Union and Anti-Slavery Speeches Delivered During the Rebellion.
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth. v, 431pp. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1864 original edition. More
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth. v, 431pp. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1864 original edition. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue and black cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 247pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; small abrasion at upper right of front flyleaf. Early (not first) printing, tight and attractive. More
New York: Routledge, [2000]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 144pp. Numerous color maps and illustrations. Very good. Faint bit of edgewear. A tight and attractive first edition of this volume in the "Routledge Atlases of American History" series. More
Los Angeles: General Publishing Group, [1996]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with red spine lettering, dust jacket. 288pp. Near fine/fine. A tight and lovely first edition of this study of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, boldly signed and inscribed by Elias in black ballpoint on the front flyleaf..... More
Washington, DC: National Park Service, [1990]. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 70pp. Numerous illustrations, maps. Near fine. Tight and attractive later printing of this 1973 text. More
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering. viii, 225pp. Near fine. A tight, handsome copy of this in-depth scholarly study -- a lovely presentation copy, boldly signed and inscribed by the author in blue fineline on the front flyleaf to a colleague: "To Joe..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1999. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxv, 227pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. A superb and tight first edition, signed boldly by Ford in black fineline on the title page, with a squiggle penned after his name that we..... More
Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with paper label and tan/brown patterned paper over boards. 37pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this Christmas keepsake, an essay by the noted Iowa meatpacking company president (1875-1951), remembered for his bookplate collection and as..... More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1988]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xvii, 544pp. Map, illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear; yellow remainder mark on bottom page edges. A tight and nice fourth printing of this thick study. Name/address label inside front wrapper and rear flyleaf of..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with red lettering and cream paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 455pp. Illustrations, tables. Fine/fine. A superb and tight first edition. More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1992]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xi, 450pp. Near fine. First edition -- a tight and handsome copy of the great African-American historian's best essays. More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, [1994]. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xiii, 265pp. Illustrations. Fine. Inoffensive abrasion to half-title page. A tight and perfect first printing of the revised second edition of this 1961 classic. A volume in editor Daniel Boorstin's "Chicago History of American Civilization" series..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. x, 321pp. Near fine. Faintest of edgewear to outer wrappers (only). Tight, lovely first softbound edition. More
New York: Schocken Books, [1971]. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, dust jacket. xi, 328pp. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed, with spine sunned; couple inoffensive light stains on outer page edges. Tight and attractive first edition of this volume in the "Sourcebooks in Negro History" series. Notes the front jacket..... More
Columbus: Ohio Historical Society, 1975. Hardcover. Small 4to. White glazed pictorial cloth. viii, 221pp. Near fine. A dozen or so upper corners were folded (and since unfolded) by some corner-folding miscreant, else tight, clean and lovely. First edition of this bibliographical guide, divided into "Printed Materials," "Dissertations-Theses," "Manuscripts," "Government Records"..... More
New York: The Free Press, [1990]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy buckram with gilt spine lettering. xiii, 370pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight, nice first edition sans jacket. Ownership signature on front pastedown of noted medical history scholar and pediatric infectious disease specialist Ralph C. Gordon, who makes a few margin checkmarks..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, [1976]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xxiv, 364pp. Near fine. First paperback edition, an exceptionally tight and pristine copy. More
New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, [2004]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xvi, 377pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight and attractive first softbound edition. More
New York: Doubleday, 1988. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Cream cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 101pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and handsome, of this "intense drama of a white Southerner and a black slave" -- with a fine archival bookplate with a decorative border bearing Haley's bold signature in black marker..... More
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, [1988]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. xi, 250pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. A tight, handsome copy. This publisher does NOT indicate edition in a consistent, verifiable manner. More
N.p. The Journal of Southern History, November 1972. Paperback. (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4). Small 4to. Self-cover, stapled as issued. Very good. Slightest of wear to outer wrappers only, else clean 'n' pristine. Handsome copy of this scholarly offprint. From the library of noted social protest poet and fine press publisher..... More
New York: Collier Books, [1962]. Paperback. Introduction by Howard N. Meyer. 287pp, (1p ad). Very good. Tight, clean, nice first of this paperback edition, a volume in editor Earl Schenck Miers' "Civil War Classics" series. More
New York: Doubleday, 1997. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 374pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight and nice first edition, handsomely inscribed by the author in black fineline on the title page: "To Roberta / From your great / mother and me /..... More
New York: Harper & Row, [1966]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, dust jacket. xxii, 227pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight, quite attractive first edition of these essays by Arna Bontemps, LeRoi Jones, Harvey Swados, Ossie Davis and other notables. From library of academic/literary critic..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1989]. Paperback. Introduction by Thomas C. Holt. 8vo. Stiff tan glazed wrappers. xiv, 301pp. Near fine. Tight and handsome first paperback edition. More