Mayor: Notes on the Sixties
Simon & Schuster, June 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Inked note on front free endpaper. Jacket clipped but wrapped to preserve. More
Simon & Schuster, June 1971. First Edition. Cloth. Inked note on front free endpaper. Jacket clipped but wrapped to preserve. More
University of N. Carolina Press, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of..... More
Random House, January 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 1998. Trade Paperback. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, "Rising Tide" tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known-- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes..... More
Top Shelf Productions, January 2015. Trade Paperback. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell, inspired by a 1950s comic book that helped prepare his own generation..... More
University of Illinois Press, May 1982. Trade Paperback. Winner of the W. D. Weatherford Award of the Appalachian Society, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the APSA, Lillian Smith Award of the Southern Regional Council, V.O. Key Award of the Southern PSA, and the Governor's Award from the Kentucky Historical..... More
Duke University Press, January 1994. Paper Back. {'7' x 10'} Clean & sound. [140 pages]. More
Random House, December 1995. Limited. Cloth. Octavo in pictorial paper covered heavy cardstock case. With this number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3, with indicates First/first editions for RH titles of this era. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Pictorial plates affixed to front..... More
University Press of Kentucky, July 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. By the flip of a coin, Thomas Dionysius Clark became intertwined in the vast history of Kentucky. In 1928, Clark received scholarships to both the University of Cincinnati and to the University of Kentucky. Kentucky won the coin toss and the..... More
Hachette Books, August 2017. Paper Back. From celebrated Congressman John Lewis comes an eyewitness account of history from a key member of the Civil Rights Movement and confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. In turbulent times Americans look to the Civil Rights Movement as the apotheosis of political expression. As..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1949. Reprint. Cloth. 4th printing. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Green cloth covered boards with yellow lettering on spine and front panel. Yellow illustration also on front panel. Key to South Carolina Tours front end pages. Rear end pages blank. Dark brown stains/soiling front end pages and..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 2015. Trade Paperback. The award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind, is one of our most important records of the American civil rights movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a "national treasure," this is a gripping first-hand account of the. More
University of Georgia Press, April 2004. Paper Back. John Lane has scaled a granite dome in the Suriname rain forest and waded past cottonmouths in the heart of a Florida cypress swamp. He has shadowed crocodiles in a Yucatán mangrove thicket and paddled the rapids of North Carolina's Tuckaseegee River..... More
Louisiana State University Press, 1958. Hardcover. Gift inscription from the Rudolph Matas Trust Fund on the front free endpaper; else, a clean, very good copy. Jacket is quite worn. Volume 1 only. More
Touchstone, April 1997. First Thus. Trade Paperback. First published by now-defunct New Orleans publisher Robert L. Crager in 1949, the book remains funny and informative, generally accepted as a standard reference about the Crescent City. Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans! details the interesting stories of..... More
Gwinnett Historical Society, January 1992. First Edition. Cloth. Green cloth with gold lettering. Clean, sound, without markings. Tight binding. Transcribed, Edited, Indexed, with Introductory Remarks by John V. Moore, Jr. [320 pp.]. More
S.G. Courtenay & Co., 1859. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Brown umber with gold lettering along spines. Blind stamped or more likely tooled decorative floral corner patterns and borders front board both volumes. Dust staining to boards and textblock edges. Stains most noticable bottom textblock edge at fore-edge lip. Darkening/tanning margins..... More
Rutgers University Press, January 1972. Hardcover. Very moderate wear to book and jacket. Warm, personal inscription on front free endpaper inscribed by John Stone. More
University Press of Florida, November 2001. Hardcover. From the foreword: "[This] well-researched, broadly conceived, and gracefully written narrative charts the economic transformation of the upper Little Tennessee River Valley [and] revises long-standing misconceptions about the people, economy, and culture of southwestern Appalachia. . . . While Taylor's book has much..... More
Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1988. Hardcover. More
Everthemore Books, December 2014. Trade Paperback. More