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
Back Bay Books, September 2011. Trade Paperback. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else..... 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
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
University of Pennsylvania Press, September 1973. Paper Back. In bringing together a rich collection of contemporary accounts of the period, this volume chronicles the rise and fall of the cult of witchcraft that swept through Europe between the 11th and 18th centuries. 'Comprehensive, original, scholarly, philosophically searching and meticulously prepared..... 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
Plume Books, September 1987. Trade Paperback. In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction. "Song..... More
John Murray, January 1995. Hardcover. Very minor shelf wear. Prevoius owners name on the front free endpaper. More
Beacon Press, February 2004. Trade Paperback. From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur "Genius" Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts..... 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
Doubleday & Company, 1971. Book Club. Cloth. Quarto. In jacket with darkened spine and edgewear. Front flap not clipped, says, Book Club Edition, lower right corner of same said flap. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering with vertical crease down center. [228 pages plus 26 page index]. More
Doubleday & Company, January 1971. Book Club. Cloth. Quarto. In jacket darkened at spine & margins. Edgewear with tears and chips. Front flap not clipped, says, Book Club Edition bottom right corner. Navy blue cloth with stamped gold lettering along spine. Coth on spine is creased with indentation along vertical..... More
Berkley, November 2015. Hardcover. A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive. In the summer of 1804, two of America's most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised..... More
Penguin Books, June 2008. Trade Paperback. With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war of territorial and cultural resistance for half a century. Noted historian Colin G. Calloway details the political and legal battles and the bloody fighting on both sides for..... More
Broadway Books, September 2019. Trade Paperback. Now the Netflix Limited Series Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever - Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true crime story of a teenager charged with lying about having been raped--and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive..... More
Basic Books, February 2023. Trade Paperback. "A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine's brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future."--Financial Times Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world's energy policies and security architecture. As..... More
Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Christmas, 1970. Cloth. 12mo. {4 & 1/2' x 6'} Dustjacket missing. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine and gold emblem stamped center of front panel. Heavily dust stained with off color blotches. Fold out map at end of book. [252..... More
Basic Books, January 2023. Hardcover. A new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story?of two grassroots organizers? ? The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed On Freedom brings..... More
Random House, October 1998. Hardcover. A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico - the writer-to-be, Susannah; her sister, Magdalena; her father and mother. And there, amid an endangered band of mixed-race Blacks and Indians called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change..... More
Knopf, May 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. In jacket. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered spine with gold stamped lettering along spine and on front panel., Dark grey paper covered boards. Previous owner's name inked ffep. Tightly bound, Textblock topstained pale rose red. Red remainder mark. [[422 pages]..... More
Crown, February 2023. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "addictively readable" (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family's battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years--only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises "Frothy and forthright, a kind of Keeping Up with the Windsors with sprinkles..... More
University Press of Kansas, October 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. This work investigates the facts and fictions of the South's victories and defeats during the American Civil War. It debunks long-standing legends, offers evidence explaining Confederate actions and considers the idealism, naivete and courage of military leadership and would-be founding fathers..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 2015. Paper Back. The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith..... More
Viking Adult, June 1960. Paper Back. Covers and spine mildly worn from use; Spine un-creased; Text faded at spine; Previous owner initials/previous seller stamp present at half title; Text free of markings; An excellent reading copy. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2021. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations..... More
