Scribners, January 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In tattered, torn & marginally darkened dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Foxing & dust staining DJ verso. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine and front panel. Previous reader's name in in ffep. [322 pages]. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2003. Trade Paperback. Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums;..... More
Atria / 37 INK, February 2017. Hardcover. Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction "A fascinating and moving account of a courageous and resourceful woman. Beautifully written and utilizing previously untapped sources it sheds new light both on the father of our country and on the intersections of slavery..... More
Beacon Press, August 2022. Hardcover. An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with..... More
Knopf, August 2022. Hardcover. The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author's life and perception of home. In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home..... More
Washington Square Press, December 2003. Paper Back. World-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem that has prevailed from slavery to the present day. Why do so many African-Americans--whether privileged or poor, urban or..... More
Verso, May 2022. Hardcover. An unconventional history of homosexuality We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben..... More
City Lights Publishers, January 2009. Trade Paperback. Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the rebel underdogs who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. Mexico Unconquered probes the overwhelming divisions in contemporary Mexico, home..... More
Anchor, November 2013. Trade Paperback. A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book of the Year Nearly 140 years ago, in frontier California, photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured time with his camera and played it back on a flickering screen, inventing the breakthrough technology of moving pictures. Yet the visionary inventor Muybridge was also..... More
Univ Of Minnesota Press, August 2008. Trade Paperback. Despite being heralded as the answer to racial conflict in the post-civil rights United States, the principal political effect of multiracialism is neither a challenge to the ideology of white supremacy nor a defiance of sexual racism. More accurately, Jared Sexton argues..... More
Bobbs-Merrill, January 1944. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine and front panel. Dustjacket is missing. Light tanning of end pages. Foxing. Dust staining to fore-edge. First Edition. [558 pages]. More
Charles Scribner's Sons, January 1949. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Heavily edgeworn dustjacket with darkening, soiling & stains. Tears and tape repairs. Flap is not clipped. Grey cloth covered boards with red, black & blue lettering. Previous reader's name in ink on ffep. Boards darkened at edges. Top corners bumped. [387..... More
William Morrow & Company, August 2022. Hardcover. From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America. [A] brilliant and courageous book. --Dr. Cornel West Dangerous Rhythms tells the..... More
Liveright Publishing Corporation, August 2022. Paper Back. In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally assaulted a Seneca hunter near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually..... More
Liveright Publishing Corporation, June 2019. Paper Back. Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June..... More
Little Brown and Company, January 1980. Hardcover. Lavishly illustrated. Jacket a little chipped but wrapped in Brodart. Covers are a bit rubbed, but still a solid copy. More
Simon & Schuster, August 2022. Paper Back. The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the "riveting" (The New York Times) definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century and whose ideological heirs we continue to..... More
Princeton University Press, Princeton. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. 2nd printing. [427 pages]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2022. Paper Back. When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal person to lead the country. He had already cast himself as a...... More
Liveright, June 2022. Hardcover. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet--and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President..... More
Gateway Editions; distributed by H. Regnery Co., January 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Ecco, October 2018. Trade Paperback. "Drawing upon his unique and deep academic work and policy experience, Victor Cha has produced one of the most astute, insightful, and lucid texts on North Korea. Simply put, this book is a must-read for all--experts and casual observers alike--interested in developments on the Korean..... More
William Morrow & Co., January 1965. Hardcover. Leading edge has several splatter stains, not affecting interior. Pages a bit toned. Jacket clipped and chipped. Solid, clean copy of important study. More
Harper Perennial, December 2001. Trade Paperback. "A manual for fixing our culture...In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process."--Black Issues Book Review New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and..... More
David McKay, January 1964. Cloth. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Spine is ligthened by sun. Previous reader's name is in ink verso of front free end page. [207 pages]. More
