HarperOne, September 2022. Hardcover. A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers--famous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, and more--with biographical reflections, all created and curated by an award-winning graphic designer. Illustrated Black History is a breathtaking collection of original portraits depicting black heroes--both famous and unsung--who..... More
Doubleday, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition in well worn dustjacket especially heavily worn top & bottom of spine. Black cloth covered spine with stamped gold lettering along spine & black paper covered boards. Red end papers. [466 pages]. More
Quadrangle Books, January 1970. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. First Quadrangle paperback edition. Rubbing and shelf wear. Mild damp staining. [292 pages]. More
Basic Civitas Books, July 2007. Trade Paperback. When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease and death. The majority were black, and nearly all were poor. This work examines what Hurricane Katrina reveals about the fault lines of..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1962. Reprint. Paper Back. Revised Anchor mass market paperback edition with darkened, slightly slanted spine. Creased upper right corner of rear cover. [348 pages]. More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Liveright, February 2023. Paper Back. Fintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government--in despair, because all the young people were leaving--opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. In We..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2023. Paper Back. Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers--a previously..... More
Anchor Books, January 1971. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor Original. Mass market paperback with slightly darkened spine. Previous owner's name written in ink top edge of half title page. Stated, First edition. [344 pages). More
The MIT Press, February 2023. Hardcover. From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity--and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author--a..... More
Harper Paperbacks, December 2022. Paper Back. The instant #1 New York Times bestseller The official report and findings of the bipartisan Congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump's related coup conspiracies to overthrow the election, with an original foreword by attorney and Emmy-winning MSNBC..... More
Vintage, July 1975. Trade Paperback. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library's..... More
Harper & Brothers, January 1958. Hardcover. Early printing of Dr. King's first book, without jacket; Solid binding; Sturdy blue cloth boards heavily soiled and foxed w/ gilt at spine significantly faded, mild signs of moisture damage; Foxing present at paste-downs/end pages as well as outer edge text-block; Text free of..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Second Edition, Revised, mass market paperback with darkened spine and margins. [297 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles available.]. More
Doubleday Anchor, 1971. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Clean & sound, but for sticker residue front cover upper right corner. [300 pages0. More
Phaidon Press, 1960. Reprint. Cloth. {4 & 3/4' x 7 & 1/4'} In chipped and spine darkening with tears. Soiling & dust stains. Flap is not clipped. UK sixth printing of 1960 edition. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering framed by black cloth rectangles on spine and front panel. Spine bowed..... More
Indiana University Press, January 1958. Paper Back. Front cover creased and sunned. Top of spine is tape repaired. More
Warner Books, January 2002. Paper Back. A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. includes the text..... More
Folio Society, January 1961. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. Cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine and gold decoration on front panel. Spine side of cover, navy blue. Fore-edge side of cover, steel blue. Illustrated white on blue map end pages front and rear. Top textblock edge, tinted black. In..... More
Universe Books, 1960. First Edition. Cloth. First Amercian Edition. DJ is missing. {7' x 9'} Yellow cloth covered boards with brown lettering on front panel. Spine and margins sun bleached. Soiling & rubbing to rear board. Previous reader's name written in ink upon ffep. [304 pages]. More
G. P. Putnam's Sons, January 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Solid binding; Clean, sturdy gray cloth boards w/ gilt lettering/design at front and spine; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket moderately edge-worn w/ some chipping/tearing near spine; Jacket housed in protective mylar. More
Pegasus Books, January 2009. Hardcover. On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the "Big Push" that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front between British, French and German forces. What resulted was one of the greatest single human catastrophes in twentieth century..... More
Crown, November 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making--from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY..... More
John Murray, January 1995. Hardcover. Very minor shelf wear. Prevoius owners name on the front free endpaper. More
Vintage, May 2007. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner--a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison's acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove--an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose..... More
