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The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities
NYU Press, July 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Uncovers the ways the United States government responds to natural and human-induced disasters in relation to race over the past eight decades When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent..... More
Measure of Our Success: Letter to My Children and Yours
Harper Perennial, May 1993. Paper Back. "The Measure of Our Success" is a book to turn lives around: a compassionate message for parents trying to raise moral children, a tough and searching book that ought to be required reading for every young American. More
Changing Stages: A View of British and American Theatre in the Twentieth Century (American)
Alfred A. Knopf, August 2001. First American. Hardcover. In this companion volume to the six-part PBS series, two of today's most distinguished men of the theatre offer a view of British and American modern theatre across the century. Here is the vital mixture of Shakespearean heritage, Irish magic, and American..... More
The Book of the Acts of God (A222)
Doubleday Anchor, January 1960. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback, a Doubleday Anchor first issue in soft cover. Leaning spine with darkening and creases. Dust stains, soiling, creased corner. Previous owner's name in ink on cover verso. Pencilled underlining scattered heavily throughout text. [420 pages plus three page..... More
White Collar
Oxford, January 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. Second printing. Book cocked and edgeworn; previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper. Still, a good, sturdy copy. Jacket clipped and quite worn with significant paper loss especially at bottom of spine; still largely intact with young author photo on rear panel. One of..... More
The Home Place
Bison Books/ University of Nebraska Press, October 1968. First Thus. Paper Back. Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers. This account in first-person narrative and..... More
Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
Penguin Press, November 2020. Hardcover. The New York Times bestseller! "A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand the test of time." --Eric Asimov, The New York Times "Bourbon is for sharing, and so is Pappyland."--The Wall Street Journal The story of how Julian Van Winkle III..... More
Pudd'nhead Wilson (Signet Classic CW 1229)
Signet / New American Library, 1980. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. With Revised & updated bibliography. Vertical creasing. Slightly leaning spine. A large previous dealer's stamp. [175 pages]. More
Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper
Basic Books, June 2026. Hardcover. A sweeping history of America's first media revolution: the rise of the newspaper, and the transformation of a fledgling republic into the world's first information superpower. "Takes us beyond the familiar New York papers and editors to a whole continent bursting with the thirst for..... More
Twentieth Century Impressions of Siam: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources
White Lotus, January 1994. Hardcover. Quarto in dust jacket. More
Steal Away: Selected and New Poems
Copper Canyon Press, May 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. C.D. Wright is a fearless poet long admired for her authentically erotic verse. With a Southern accent and cinematic eye she couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy, bundling fragments of stories to create poems that are, as she describes them, "succinct novels." Wright's..... More
Lost Roads Project : A Walk-In Book of Arkansas
Univ of Arkansas Pr, October 1994. Soft Cover. More
Black Zodiac: Poems
Farrar Straus Giroux, July 1997. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing--lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects by way..... More
Caribou: Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2015. Paper Back. A powerfully moving meditation on life and the beyond, from one of our finest American poets Charles Wright's truth--the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging--is at the heart of the renowned poet's latest collection, Caribou. This is..... More
The Fire of Liberty
Folio Society, January 1983. Hardcover. Third impression; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy red cloth boards w/ navy/gilt design and lettering at front cover and spine; Mild foxing at outer edge text block; Text free of markings; Pictoral slipcase present, showing mild to moderate edge wear. More
Wheeling Motel
Knopf Publishing Group, September 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. From the indomitable Franz Wright, a luminous book of reconciliation with the past and acceptance of what may come in the future. From his earliest years, he writes in Will, he had the gift of impermanence / so I would be ready..... More
Ordeal of Total War, 1939-45
HarperCollins Publishers, December 1968. Paper Back. More
Building the dream: A social history of housing in America
Pantheon Books. Hardcover. Mild edgewear. Pages clean and free of marginalia and underlining. More
Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory (Vintage Books)
Vintage, April 1995. Trade Paperback. At once a true psychological detective story, a family tragedy and a mordant comedy about what happens when modern psychiatry succumbs to hysterias as old as Salem. This is the story of Paul Ingram, a sheriff's deputy in Olympia, Washington, whose grown daughters suddenly accused..... More
The Terror Years
Knopf, August 2016. Hardcover. With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East..... More
These Will Chill You
Bantam Books, 1967. Mass Market PaperBack. More
CUlture on the Moving Frontier
Harper, 1961. Trade Paperback. More
Black Boy
Harper Perennial, September 2025. Paper Back. "Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives."--New York Times Book Review Celebrating its eightieth anniversary, Richard Wright's eloquent autobiography about growing up in the Jim Crow South..... More
Black Boy
Harper Perennial, September 2025. Paper Back. "Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives."--New York Times Book Review Celebrating its eightieth anniversary, Richard Wright's eloquent autobiography about growing up in the Jim Crow South..... More























