THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Easton Press
Easton Press, January 1976. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. Previous owner's book plate affixed to front pastedown. More
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What Manner of Man, a Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pocket Books, January 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound, mass market paperback edition with slightly darkened margin. Rubber stamped names of previous owner's top right of title page. Textblock edges tinted rose red. Abridged Pocket edition/Memorial edition. Note in blue ink last page of textblock upper left at edge of..... More
Ultra and Mediterranean Strategy
William Morrow & Co, January 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands
Harvard University Press, March 2011. Trade Paperback. "Are you an American, or are you not?" This was the question Harry Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, used to choose his targets in one of the most remarkable vigilante actions ever carried out on U.S. soil. And this is the question..... More
Holy War: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden
Orion Publishing Group, November 2001. Hardcover. More
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985, Volume 1)
Rutgers University Press, December 1987. Trade Paperback. Winner of the American Book Award, 1990. Could Greek philosophy be rooted in Egyptian thought? Is it possible that the Pythagorean theory was conceived on the shores of the Nile and the Euphrates rather than in ancient Greece? Could it be that Western..... More
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
Harper Perennial, January 2003. Trade Paperback. For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief..... More
The Lean Years, a History of the American Worker 1920-1933 (Paperback)
Pelican / Penguin, January 1970. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Marginal darkening and dust staining to cover. Large green rubber stamped previous bookseller advertisement on verso of front cover: 'The Bargain Bookshelf:... of ....'Decatur, GA'. Previous owner's name & other markings inked front cover and half title page. Scattered about within..... More
A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives
Thames & Hudson, June 2023. Paper Back. A vibrant portrait of a lost world, A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives reveals the mightiest civilization of antiquity through the eyes of one hundred of its citizens. The book gives a voice not just to Rome's most famous generals and..... More
Klondike Fever
Carroll & Graf Publishers, May 1998. Trade Paperback. Narrates the events which preceded the gold rush of 1897, the growth and decline of Dawson, and the fates of some of the thousands who left their homes in search of fortune. More
THE LIFE OF JOHN MARSHALL, VOLS. 1-4 COMPLETE
Houghton Mifflin Co., January 1919. Hardcover. Gilt-titled green cloth. Top edge gilt. Minimal shelf wear. Handsome set. More
The History of Bangkok
Department of Corrections Press, 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Saving Angkor
White Orchid Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Frederick Jackson Turner: historian, scholar, teacher
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
Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, and the Race to Own Las Vegas
Hyperion Books, March 2009. Trade Paperback. Sin City. Bright lights, high stakes, and no sleep. Home to some of the world's grandest, flashiest, and most lucrative casino resorts, Las Vegas, with its multitude of attractions, draws some forty million tourists from around the world every year. But Vegas hasn't always..... More
American Prometheus : The Triumph And Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Vintage, May 2006. Trade Paperback. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER - "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of..... More
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
William Morrow, April 2023. Hardcover. New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts..... More
Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America
Hanover Square Press, January 2023. Hardcover. *A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of 2023**A "Next Big Idea Club" Must-Read Book for January**An Essence "Books by Black Authors to Read This Winter" Pick**An Ebony Entertainment "Required Reading" Book for January**A Lambda Literary "Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature" for January**A Southern Review of Books..... More
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000
Liveright, June 2023. Hardcover. With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification--and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany's evolution from..... More
I Know This to Be True: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Chronicle Books, March 2020. Hardcover. I Know This to Be True is the basis for the Netflix documentary series Live to Lead created and directed by Geoff Blackwell and executive produced by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Featuring heartwarming advice from celebrated figures, this stirring series helps readers discover..... More
Rather Die Fighting: A Memoir of World War II
Arcade, April 2011. Trade Paperback. This is a harrowing, utterly moving memoir of a young Polish Jew who chose not to go quietly and defied the mighty Nazi war machine during World War II. Frank Blaichman was sixteen years old when the war broke out. In 1942, the killings began..... More
Causes of War
Simon & Schuster, October 1988. Trade Paperback. The third edition of Geoffery Blainey's highly acclaimed study on the causes of war has been expanded and updated to include a complete discussion of World War II and the road towards nuclear war. Analyzing all international wars since 1700, Causes of War..... More
Pistoleer
Berkley Publishing Group, August 1995. First Thus. Paper Back. In a novel of uncompromising depth and power, Blake recreates the life of John Wesley Hardin, from his youth to his final days. An ingenious reconstruction.--Dale L. Walker, Rocky Mountain News. In a novel of uncompromising depth and power, Blake recreates..... More
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
Crown, September 2008. Hardcover. A masterpiece of narrative history that vividly brings to life the original crime of the century, American Lightning shows the lasting impact the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times offices had on three remarkable individuals and, through them, the country itself. b&w photo insert. More
Twenty Years in Underground Russia, Memoirs of a Rank-and-File Bolshevik
Proletarian Publishers, January 1934. Paper Back. 12mo. Light foxing. [227 pages]. More
