A History of Our Own Times
Indiana University Press, November 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Complete number string. In dustjacket. Teal cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. Tight binding. More
Indiana University Press, November 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Complete number string. In dustjacket. Teal cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. Tight binding. More
SOUTHERN PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, 1967. Reprint. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} Octavo in heavily edgeworn dustjacket with small tears, creases. Black cloth covered boards with red foil lettering on spine edge. Illustrated map of France with 'Main escape routes employed by the Dutch-Paris Organization' circa WWII front and..... More
Amistad, October 2023. Hardcover. An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball," the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years--a glamorous event rivalling today's Met..... More
University of Oklahoma Press, March 1971. Trade Paperback. Side by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830's was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed against the tribes of the prairies, both breaking the soil..... More
University of Oklahoma Press, January 1974. Trade Paperback. It is unlikely that any single book or document will ever earn a more firmly-fixed position of respect and authority than this distinguished volume by Grant Foreman. Originally published in 1932, on the date of the hundredth anniversary of the arrival in..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2018. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTON ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS' 10 BEST BOOKS LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, CURRENT INTEREST CATEGORY, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES Locking Up Our Own is an engaging, insightful..... More
Archibald Constable and Co. Ltd., 1903. Cloth. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine & red & white floral design across top of front board. Starting to split at gutters of front and rear end pages, though binding remains intact, though tender. Boards worn at edges and the..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1961. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Doubleday Anchor Original. Paperback original. Heavily darkened spine and marginal darkening to cover. Rubbing. [243 pages plus eleven page list of Anchor & Dolphin Anchor paperbacks.]. More
University Press of Florida, October 2018. Paper Back. Fox analyzes Harriet Wilson's Our Nig, Elizabeth Keckly's Behind the Scenes, Anna Julia Cooper's A Voice From the South, and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose. The thinkers highlighted by Fox have been dismissed as elitist, accommodationist, or complicit--yet Fox reveals that in..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1957. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market paperback reprint. Especially heavy wear and chipping along edges of spine with superficial creasing of surface of that spine. Creased lower left corner of rear panel. 2nd edition with new introduction by Albright. [432 pages]. More
Ballantine Books, April 1973. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo {5 & 1/2' x 6 & 1/2'} Clean, sound. Mild user wear. [160 pp.]. More
Yale University Press, September 1964. Trade Paperback. Translated into a dozen languages, printed in hundreds of editions, and read by millions of people, Franklin's autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequaled by any other book by an American writer. Written ostensibly as a letter to his son William, the autobiography..... More
Bedford Books, January 1993. Trade Paperback. This new edition of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is built around J.A. Leo Lemay and P.R. Zall's text. Louis Masur's introduction sets the work in its historical context. Masur also discusses America after Franklin and why the autobiography has had such a tremendous..... More
Easton Press, 1976. Leather. Dark red full leather cover with gilt lettering and design on spine and front and back covers; gilt page edges; tan/orange silk endpages in front and back; tan/gold satin ribbon bookmark; Easton Press bookplate personalized and affixed on inside of front free endpage; printed from the..... More
Franklin Library, January 1984. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon place marker. More
PublicAffairs, May 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Antonia Fraser's Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain's history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller. The era, beginning with the accession..... More
Skyhorse Publishing, August 2014. Trade Paperback. George MacDonald Fraser--beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels--offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma fighting the Japanese during World War II. An excellent popular historian. --Time Magazine In this rattling-good memoir, novelist, historian, and screenwriter Fraser vividly recounts the nerve-racking..... More
The Franklin Library, January 1977. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Moire endpapers. Cover and edges significantly faded. Embossed stamp on title page. Limited edition. More
Charles Scribners' Sons, 1970 / 1971. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in heavily chipped & torn dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. In black cloth covered boards with gold lettering & horizontal devices. Volume one has two inch tear in front pastedown midway in front end pages hinge. Volume two is starting..... More
Touchstone, May 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Knopf, April 1995. Hardcover. Coming of age during World War I and attaining their finest hour in World War II and the Cold War, these men--FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur--transformed America from an isolated frontier nation into a global superpower. As he tells their stories, Fromkin, author of A Peace..... More
Holt Paperbacks, July 2009. Trade Paperback. Published with a new afterword from the author--the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts--including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis..... More
Holt Paperbacks, July 2009. Trade Paperback. Published with a new afterword from the author--the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts--including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis..... More
Holt Paperbacks, July 2009. Trade Paperback. Published with a new afterword from the author--the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts--including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis..... More
Owl Books, September 2001. Trade Paperback. The critically acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into being after World War I, and why it is in upheaval today In our time the Middle East has proven a battleground of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and..... More