The University of North Carolina Press, February 1984. Reprint. Cloth. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly recreates and..... More
Random House Value Publishing, December 1988. Hardcover. {8 & 3/4' x 10 & 3/4'} In clean dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering and black faux-leather boards with blind stamped lettering. Tight binding. [342 pp.]. More
University of Washington Press, 1970. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Blue end pages. Dust stains to boards. Bumped top corners front & back. Foxy/dust stains textblock edges. [328 pages]. More
Griffin, October 2008. Trade Paperback. The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. Known as The Mayor of Castro Street even..... More
Spiegel & Grau, August 2015. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX - A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one..... More
Ecco, February 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm--as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America The president of the United States made headlines around the world..... More
University of Missouri Press, June 1972. First Separate. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with heavily darkening spine with edgewear, creases and a few tears. Ring stain likely from coffee cup on front panel. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering upon spine. Tanning to end pages..... More
Oxford University Press, February 1976. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean interiors. Darkening to margins of pages. First Oxford paperback edition. [209 pages]. More
Doubleday, May 1978. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Foxing & dust stains to cover. Previous owner's name inked front cover and first inside page. [398 pp.]. More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, February 1980. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd printing. Dustjacket is missing. Artichoke green cloth covered boards with letters of a darker green along spine. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked interiors. [273 pages]. More
Louisiana State University Press, January 1969. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with light edgewear and marginal darkening. Heavy foxing & tanning to verso. Front flap is not clipped. Air Force blue cloth covered boards with small somewhat faded gold lettering on spine. Tanned end pages with previous owner's name..... More
Doubleday, April 2017. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul. --Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review SHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017 Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco..... More
Yale Nota Bene, April 2003. Trade Paperback. The authoritative edition of Franklin's autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan "The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography]."--J. H. Plumb, New York Review of Books "Among the many editions available-read Yale's. Its text is the..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1973. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn, marginally darkened dustjacket with heavily tanned verso. Front flap is not clipped. Tan cloth covered boards with black lettering with gold floral decorations upon end pages. Cerulean blue end pages with previous owner's name inked FFEP upper right corner..... More
Oxford University Press / Galaxy Book, 1962. First Thus. Unknown. Octavo. First Galaxy paperback. Moderate wear, scuff marks and darkening. Dust stains/foxing and soiling to textblock edges. Previous owner's name rubber stamped top edge, verso front cover and inside first page. [550 pp.]. More
Quadrangle Books, January 1972. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily foxing/marginally darkened dustjacket with edgewear and small tears. Front flap is not clipped. Navy blue cloth. Tanned end pages. Previous owner's name inked FFEP. Darkened/dust stained textblock edges. [336 pp.]. More
University of Georgia Press, April 1986. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with previous owner's name inked front panel. Else DJ is clean and very good overall. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Brown end pages with previous owner's name (again) inked FFEP top right corner. Tight..... More
Vintage, February 2004. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. "Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonfiction..... More
Knopf, October 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Johnny Dwyer examines the New York crimes we've seen in the news, in movies, and on television--drug trafficking, organized crime, terrorism, corruption, and white-collar crime--while weaving in the nuances that rarely make it into headlines. "Told in the kind of pointillist detail that can..... More
Mariner Books, April 2022. Hardcover. The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin's parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia--a deathbed wager that captures the Founder's American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age. Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his..... More
Beacon Press, January 2022. Hardcover. An Electric Literature "Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022" Selection A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture, uncovering its abundant legacy and influence in popular culture. What is Ballroom? Not a song, a documentary, a catchphrase, a TV show, or..... More
Harvard University Press, October 1986. Hardcover. In exploring the origins and characterof the American liberal tradition, MyraJehlen begins with the proposition thatthe decisive factor that shaped the European settlers' idea of "America" or the"American" was material rather than conceptual--it was the physical fact of theland. European settlers came to a...... More
Yale University Press, January 1968. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket slightly worn/rubbed with mild edgewear & foxing. Red cloth covered boards with silver & gold lettering along spine. Tanned end pages. Previous owner's name inked top right corner FFEP. Dust stains textblock top edge. There are quite a few pages foldee at..... More
University of Notre Dame Press, June 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with considerable wear top edge. Small tears. Sun bleached spine. Scuff marks. Darkening/foxing at jacket margins & folds. More foxing to DJ verso. Salmon orange cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Black end pages. [260..... More
Grosset's Universal Library / Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Well worn, especially top & bottom of spine. Dust staining. Darkening & dust stains to textblock edges. Interior text not marked. Gutter prior to half title page is split and bound in place only by threads. At top..... More
