University Press of Mississippi, November 1995. Trade Paperback. The late African American novelist Chester Himes (1909-1984) is well known both in America and Europe for his moving depictions of black men destroyed by a pervasive racism and for darkly humorous stories of Harlem's underworld. His novels and stories are all..... More

Louisiana State Univ Pr, May 2009. Hardcover. For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil..... More

Alfred A. Knopf, April 1980. Oversized Hardcover. More

George Lane, January 1841. Hardcover. Hinges weak. Foxing. Ownership name/date (1841) in ink. Otherwise, solid. More

Oxford University Press-India, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Light edge wear and shelf wear on the cover. Binding tight. Text clean and clear. More

Stackpole Books, October 1999. First American. Cloth. From 1799 to 1819 more than 1,000 pages of British naval news and views were published every year in The Naval Chronicle, including action reports, intelligence of foreign naval matters, and biographies of officers. In short, it was the most important original account..... More

Israel Information Services, July 1967. Paper Back. Stapled Pamphlet. More

Monthly Review Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Clean, without markings. More

World Bank Publications, January 2008. Trade Paperback. Brazil is a country of sharp disparities. The gap between the richest and the poorest citizens is one of the largest in the world. Inequality in Brazil is well-known, but its low mobility is not. Until now, few studies have sought to investigate..... More

Siam Society, January 2004. Trade Paperback. More

Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Two corners bumped. Otherwise unmarked. More

Penguin Classics, February 2021. Paper Back. A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young..... More

Penguin USA, May 1974. Trade Paperback. The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs." More

Department of Corrections Press, 1987. Trade Paperback. More

Addison Wesley Publishing Company, June 1995. Hardcover. Awaiting execution for the murder of a Philadelphia policeman, the author describes the brutality and humiliation of prison life and argues that the justice system is racist and ruled by political expediency. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. More

Ballantine Books / Houghton Mifflin Company / Dolphin Edition, April 1966. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First Ballantine mass market paperback edition. Clean, sound, with slight wear. There is a tiny catalogue sticker affixed to spine near the bottom. 32 plates at beginning with Walker Evans photographs (Book One), 29..... More

Seven Stories Press, January 2007. Paper Back. In this lucid political memoir, veteran anti-capitalist activist Michael Albert offers an ardent defense of the project to transform global inequality. Albert, a uniquely visionary figure, recounts a life of uncompromising commitment to creating change one step at a time. Whether chronicling the..... More

Knopf, November 1998. Hardcover. In August 1914, days before the outbreak of World War I, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the..... More

Da Capo Pr, March 1994. Trade Paperback. 2 volume set. More

Free Press, October 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice -- a genuine regard for..... More

Writers & Readers Publishing, March 1996. Trade Paperback. Clean, without markings. More

Bantam, August 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the "New York Times" bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage..... More

The Great Fidelity Press, January 1976. Paper Back. Softcover quarto. Spine cracked & repaired with tape, heavy & darkening with age, sloppy but effective. There is also darkened tape and/or tape residue at bottom edge of front cover and first inside page. Previous owner's name & address top of same..... More

New Press, The, April 2004. Paper Back. The Other Israel is an urgent and passionate intervention by Israeli citizens challenging the continued occupation of Palestinian territory and the failed policies of Ariel Sharon's government. Against a backdrop of increasing violence on both sides, the book presents a broad range of..... More

Grove Press, January 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd printing. Darkening to margins & soiling along bottom edge of front wrapper panel. Curling to cover margins. Textblock edge tinted red. Previous owner's name & address stamped half title page. More

Thames & Hudson Ltd, April 1986. Hardcover. Shelf wear, chips and small closed tears on the jacket. Some creasing on the bottom corner of the print block. More

Harper, November 2017. Hardcover. This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson's entry into World War One and Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution. In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free..... More

Mariner Books, August 2008. Trade Paperback. Asim traces the roots and meanings behind the racial slur and argues that using the word keeps blacks at the bottom of America's socioeconomic ladder. He also proves there is a place for this word in the mouths and on the pens of those..... More

Replica Books, June 1963. Trade Paperback. Captain B. H. Liddell Hart is the foremost authority on World War I. In "The Real War," the author has fused exhaustive research and creative brilliance with brevity and precision. Thus we have in one volume the war transformed into literature - an understandable..... More

Vintage, December 1992. Trade Paperback. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences..... More

Beacon Press, October 2012. Paper Back. #26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African..... More

Sterling Pub Co Inc, April 2002. Trade Paperback. How did average Romans live out each year, conduct their family life, rear and educate their children? What about slaves in the household? How did people enjoy themselves--did they travel or go to the theater? And, how were those famed gladiators trained..... More

University Press of Mississippi, February 2008. Hardcover. By the spring of 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had reached its zenith as the largest, most radical movement of white youth in American history-a genuine New Left. Yet less than a year later, SDS splintered into warring factions and ceased..... More

Ian Randle Publishers, January 2006. Trade Paperback. In this thought provoking collection of essays, anthropologist Barry Chevannes carefully exposes the underlying ideas and values that have given and are giving shape to social life in Jamaica and the Caribbean Region in general. In so doing, he goes beyond a mere..... More

Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2005. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history."--Bill Gates Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale.--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in..... More

Amistad Press, April 2021. Hardcover. From the author of Queen Sugar--now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay--comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America. In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black..... More

Basic Books, November 2020. Hardcover. A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the..... More

Penguin Books, October 1987. Trade Paperback. More

Easton Press, January 1976. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. Previous owner's book plate affixed to front pastedown. More

Pelican, January 1969. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Minimal shelf wear; else, tight, square, clean copy of a very scarce book. More

Custom House, March 2021. Hardcover. FASCINATING. ... Dramatic and timely. -New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus reveals the singular adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I...... More

North Point Press, May 1983. Trade Paperback. "West with the Night" is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. More

Knopf, November 1990. Hardcover. An exploration of the darkest heart of the man who greeted the explorer David Livingstone with the phrase, Dr. Livingstone, I presume? John Bierman, with the help of the newly discovered Stanley letters, leads readers into the interior of both the man and the Africa he..... More

Chronicle Books, May 2010. Hardcover. Cycling is exploding in a good way. Urbanites everywhere, from ironic hipsters to earth-conscious commuters, are taking to the bike like aquatic mammals to water. BikeSnobNYC cycling's most prolific, well-known, hilarious, and anonymous blogger brings a fresh and humorous perspective to the most important vehicle..... More

George Allen & Unwin/Barnes, January 1979. Hardcover. Shelf wear to dust jacket and small closed tear at bottom of spine. More

Anchor, January 2009. Trade Paperback. This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in "The Age of Neoslavery." By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this..... More

J. Barrie, January 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine sunned; moderate cover wear; else, very good. More

Hakluyt Society, January 1988. Hardcover. In 1845 Sir John Franklin's expedition left England, searching for a northwest passage, and vanished into the Arctic forever. Three years later HMS Plover's was the first departure of 21 expeditions searching for Franklin. Although most of the analyses of the Franklin Search have focused..... More

Vintage, August 1974. Trade Paperback. More

William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. First Edition. Cloth. Green cloth cover with mildly rubbed gold lettering on spine. Gold illustration of tiger with elephant & rider in background between gold lettered title & author's name on front board. Slight brush of wear to edges and raised lip at spine. Beautiful..... More