Search Results: SLAVERY, RACIAL ETNICITY from YJS BOXES OF BOOKS

E.P. DUTTON, NEW YORK (Apr 1950), 1950. E.P. DUTTON, NEW YORK (Apr 1950). Lime green cloth over boards, black lettering. VERY GOOD/Very Good. Drawings by Nora S. Unwin. Gold Emblem on front cover awarding the Newberry Medal The story of a man who, born free in Africa, was sold as a slave in America. Eventually he purchased his own freedom and achieved recognition as a free man, a worth-while citizen and a public benefactor at a time when slavery with all its abuses was generally accepted. E.P. DUTTON, NEW YORK, copyright 1950 BY ELIZABETH YATES. Stated Published April 1950. SIGNED by author on front paper. Drawings by Nora S. Unwin. Book solid, clean, some staining at lower spine, text vibrant, no writing. Lime green cloth over boards, black lettering. DJ Very Good, clean, vibrant, some staining to lower spine. Front flap clipped; back flap has pen underlining a statement.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, First Edition, Stated Tenth Printing. Cloth/Orangeboards/black spine, blue lettering. Very Good/Very Good. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, First Edition, Stated Tenth Printing, 1971. Very Good +on book, solid, clean, head slightly soiled, no yellowing. DJ Very good, Some shelf wear to top and bottom, some tears, most closed. Very inferior paper used for this DJ, this one fared out better… Read More

KONECKY & KONECKY LLC, 2000. KONECKY & KONECKY LLC. (2000). Blue Paper over boards, gold lettering. Mint/Mint. The only day-by-day portrait of America's tragic conflict as told by soldiers, journalists, politicians, farmers, nurses, slaves and other eyewitnesses. Renowned historian, J. Matthew Gallman, aided by a team of accomplished colleagues, has assembled hundreds of primary sources to examine the Civil War chronologically, beginning with Lincoln's election in 1860, and concluding with the surrender of the last Confederate army in May 1865. In addition to this military and political history, The Civil War Chronicle features rare testimony from both home fronts, including accounts of personal hardships endured by Southerners and the civil unrest that shocked the North. Descriptions from differing points of view, including soldiers's letters and diaries, government dispatches, and newspaper articles, offer readers a kaleidoscopic vision of the war's most critical milestones. With more than 500… Read More

Crown Publishing Inc. New York, 1999. Crown Publishing Inc. New York (1999). Blue and brown glazed book paper over bords, with pictures front and back, white lettering. MINT/NO DJ as issued. Relive the Civil War through the documents that shaped it! The Civil War: Unstilled Voices is a ground-breaking collection of removable letters, memoirs, newspaper clippings, and photographs. For the first time, the war is brought to life in a three-dimensional, interactive format. USE THE SPY WHEEL Confederate troops carried to decode messages. EXAMINE THE NOTE John Brown wrote on the way to his execution. READ A SELECTION of Mary Chesnutt's original diary pages. The Civil War: Unstilled Voices chronicles the savage war that pitted brother against brother and took more lives than all other American. Crown Publishing Inc. New York, 10/19/1999 Stated First Edition, Full # line 1-10. Mint, Blue and brown glazed book paper over boards, with pictures front and back, white lettering. A good teaching tool for children… Read More

A. C. McClurg and Company, Chicago, Frst Edition, First Printing, 1895. A. C. McClurg and Company, Chicago (1895). Dark blue cloth over boards, gold designs and lettering. Very Good ++, spine good and tight, text clean and vibrant/No DJ. Europe in Africa in The Nineenth Century is novel of "short yarns." They will probably be found to have their ends somewhere in the coming century. European imperialism and the history of colonization on the African. France since 1876 has increased her Africa lands eight time -fold, Great Britain seven-fold; Congo Free State a million square mlliles, is a perfect new creation; both Germany and Italy have for the first time in their history taken up African responsbilities, and even Russia , not content with owning half-uninhabited Asia, has made some attempt to gain a foothole in Alyssinia. A. C. McClurg and Company, Frst Edition, First Printing, September, 1895. Very Good ++, spine good and tight, text clean and vibrant. Dark blue cloth over boards, gold designs… Read More

Harper Collins Publishers 2015, 2015. Harper Collins Publishers 2015. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Gray paper over boards, black cloth spine ,gold lettering. DJ Mint, clean and vibrant. Mint/Mint. In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a unit of African-American soldiers, landed on the beaches of France. Their orders were to man a curtain of armed balloons meant to deter enemy aircraft. One member of the 320th would be nominated for the Medal of Honor, an award he would never receive. Drawing on newly uncovered military records and dozens of original interviews with surviving members of the 320th and their families, Linda Hervieux tells the story of these heroic men charged with an extraordinary mission, whose contributions to one of the most celebrated events in modern history have been overlooked. The Nation's highest decoration was not given to black soldiers during World War11, FORGOTTEN is the story of an all-black battalion whose contributions on… Read More

Random House, New York. Stated First Edition, First Printing, 1988. Random House1988. Tan paper over boards, wine cloth spine, gold lettering. Near Mint/Very Good. The prison memoirs of Soviet dissident and Jewish activist Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky, a truly remarkable story of his nine harrowing years in KGB custody, is told with style and wit by a man whose courage has made him an international hero. Random House, New York. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Near Mint, clean bright, Tan paper over boards, wine cloth spine, gold lettering. Oner's label at front free paper. DJ Very Good, clean, vibrant, some shelf at top front cover and back cover, Not clipped $19.95.

Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford University Press 07/04/2006, Stated First Edition. Hard book boards, pictures front and back. VERY GOOD++, Hard book boards, pictures front and back. black marker mark at bottom , some shelf wear at bottom and top of spine, corners slightly bumped./No DJ as issued. First Freedoms" incorporates documents that are drawn from the history of First Amendment rights in America - an ongoing experiment in freedom. Like all experiments, it is full of trial and error. The story of freedom in America recounted here is often painful and contentious - but it is ultimately inspiring. Through it all, the ideal of building a nation 'with liberty and justice for all' keeps pulling America forward, calling its citizens to do better. Incorporating nearly 40 documents relating to First Amendment rights in America, "First Freedom" traces the ongoing efforts to establish the freedoms on which the country was founded. A rich and engaging exploration of the documents that illustrate… Read More

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. New York, Alfred A. Knopf (1938). Black, shiny, and very clean cloth over boards, gold lettering. Lettering at fded.spine , volume II. Verry Good ++, Clean, shiny, text clear, pages bright,corners not bumped/No DJ. Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder) is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann, written over the course of 16 years. Mann retells the familiar stories of Genesis, from Jacob to Joseph (chapters 27-50), setting it in the historical context of the Amarna Period. Mann considered it his greatest work. Mann, who'd been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929, was living in exile in Switzerland when the first volume, "The Stories of Jacob," was published in 1933, the year Hitler came to power in Germany. "Young Joseph" followed in 1934, and in 1936, the year "Joseph in Egypt" came out, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. Both Volume Verry Good ++, Clean, shiny, text clear, pages bright,corners notbumpe, only… Read More

First Updated Harper Perennial Modern Classic 2018, 2018. Harper Perennial Modern Classics 10/16/2018. First Harper Perennial Edition Published 2008. First Updated Harper Perennial Modern Classic 2018. AS NEW/NO DJ as issued. A Nation of Immigrants is a 1958 book on American immigration by then U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The name of the book is a reference to a popular moniker for the United States, as a country whose population, the Americans, is predominantly made up of non-Native American peoples who settled the country following the European colonization of Americas and the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies. The book was written by Kennedy in 1958, while he was still a senator. It was written as part of the Anti-Defamation League's series entitled the One Nation Library.[1] In the 1950s, former ADL National Director Ben Epstein was concerned by rising xenophobia and anti-immigrant rhetoric, so he reached out to then-Senator Kennedy to write a manuscript on… Read More

2011. The New Press (2011). Black paper over boards, black cloth spine, silver lettering. NEAR MINT/SLIPCASE. The ground breaking book-and-audio set. Nearly ten years ago, The New Press published Remembering Slavery, a book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writers' Project, the astonishing audiotapes made available the only known recordings of people who actually experienced enslavement-recordings that had gathered dust in the Library of Congress until they were rendered audible for the first time specifically for this set. New York : New Press ; Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, c1998. /07/26/2011 #no's line 987654321. Mint, clean bright. Black paper over boards, black cloth spine, silver lettering. DJ Mint, tapes incased in its own separate box, book and tapes stored in MINT slip case. Includes live recordings of interviews with… Read More

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, CHICAGO iLLINOIS, 1925. First Edition, First Printing #no's line 1-10. Copyright 1925 by University of Chicago Published October 1925. Olive green cloth over boards, some fading at spine, gold lettering. VERY GOOD/NO DJ. Owsley specialized in Southern history, especially the antebellum and Civil War eras. Owsley argued in his dissertation State Rights and the Confederacy (1925) that the Confederacy "died of states' rights". Owsley held that during the Civil War, key Southern governors resisted the appeals of the Confederate government for soldiers. (wiki). STATE RIGHT IN THE CONFEDERACY, 1925. First Edition, Stated First Printing Copyright 1925 by University of Chicago Published October 1925. Very Good++, solid, clean, text vibrant, no writing or soiling. Names on front end paper. Olive green cloth over boards, some fading at spine, gold lettering.

Simon & Schuster, New York (1997), 1997. Simon & Schuster, New York (1997). Dark, Navy cloth over boards. Near Mint/NO DJ as issued. In a watery grave off the coast of Florida lies the earliest slave ship ever recovered. The English-owned Henrietta Marie plied the waters from Europe to Africa and the New World, sinking in the year 1700. She has waited three hundred years to reveal her story. Taking the wreck of the ship as its dramatic heart, Spirits of the Passage presents the first general-interest history of the early years of the slave trade. Told in part from the decks and the cargo hold of a single merchant slaver, this powerful and fascinating story covers a period that has heretofore been largely the territory of scholars. Simon & Schuster, New York , 02/12/1997 First Edition, First Printing, Full #Line 1-10. Near Mint, Dark, Navy cloth over boards. DJ Near Mint, unclipped. Great History a Good Gift.

Simon & Schuster, First Soft Cover, 09//26/2006, 2006. Simon & Schuster (Sep 26, 2006). Near Mint, black bacground with gold lettering, great pictures on front cover. NEAR MINT/no DJ as issued. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. In 2006, the book was awarded the Lincoln Prize, "awarded annually for the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or a subject relating to their era".[14][15] On March 29, 2006, Goodwin was announced as the winner of the $50,000 Book Prize for American History of the New-York Historical Society.[16] Team of Rivals was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. (wiki). While consulting on a project for director Steven Spielberg in 1999, Goodwin told Spielberg she was planning to write Team of Rivals, and Spielberg immediately told her he wanted the film rights.[22]… Read More

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1962. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc,1962. Stated First Edition, Second. Very Good/No DJ. In the beginning was Mau Mau Now the indomitable settlers of Kenya are faced with the more organized demand- Uhuru-freedom for the African, a couple of Oxford educated Kikuya leaders to whom the UN listens and had better, and the ubiquitous threat of Congolese chaos repeating itself in the British colony Remarkably little else has changed in Ruarkian East Africa since Something of Value The same craggy faced bwanas accompany their horse-faced memsahibs to some bar in Nairobi to debate the issues of the day and say things like: 'My kids are fourth-generation Kenya. They are Africans just as. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc,1962 Stated First Edition, Second Printing #54180 Library Card # 62-7323 Very Good, clean, Body and text bright, no yellowing, very little shelf wear, spine a bit soft at top. No DJ.

Easton Press, Norwalk Connecticut 1979, 1979. Easton Press, 1979 'One Hundred Best Books Ever Written' Collector's Edition. Fully-bound in richly colored, dark green LEATHER, raised bands, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Gilt lettering on spine and covers and all Edges. Near Mint/no dj as issued. ILLUSTRATED with Lithographs by Miguel Gocarrubias. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman (Wiki) Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human. Easton Press, 1979 'One Hundred Best Books Ever Written'… Read More

The Heritage Press, New York, 1970. The Heritage Press, New York, 1970. ,Bown linen over boards/gold design/lettering/picture front cover. Near Fine/Slipcase. Autobiography of Booker T. Washington, a man who was born into slavery, but overcame hardships through hard work and diligence. At 25, he became the first principle of Tuskagee college, founded to teach newly freed slaves the skills to gain employment. In this position he rose to become a nationally known figure, and advocate for American freedmen. His story provides great insight into the condition of the former slaves of the south in the years following the civil war. INTRODUCTION by Booker T. Washington The III, he is the grandson of Booker T. Washington and has made a thorough study of his...The Heritage Press, New York, 1970. With SANDGLASS. Mint Condition, clean, bright, tight, no pulling away of spine. Slipcase Very Good, slight bumping at top. 15 Beautiful, full page Illustrations by Denver Gillen, Binding is Brown Linen over boards,… Read More

Autobiography of Booker T. Washington, a man who was born into slavery, but overcame hardships through hard work and diligence. At 25, he became the first principle of Tuskagee college, founded to teach newly freed slaves the skills to gain employment. In this position he rose to become a nationally known figure, and advocate for American freedmen. His story provides great insight into the condition of the former slaves of the south in the years following the civil war. INTRODUCTION by Booker T. Washington The III, he is the grandson of Booker T. Washington and has made a thorough study of his...The Heritage Press, New York, 1970. With SANDGLASS. Mint Condition, clean, bright, tight, no pulling away of spine. Slipcase Very Good, slight bumping at top. 15 Beautiful, full page Illustrations by Denver Gillen, Binding is Brown Linen over boards, Binding Brown Linen, front cover is recessed in order to set off the illustration, and stamped a brown leaf panel on the shelfback to provide a smooth… Read More

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. (Wiki). Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human...
Easton Press, 1979 'One Hundred Best Books Ever Written' Collector's Edition. In near mint condition. Fully-bound in richly colored brown leather with raised bands, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Gilt lettering on spine and covers. All Edges Gilt. Salmon Silk moire endpapers. Salmon Silk Ribbon Bookmark. An introduction by Raymond Weaver,illustrated by Miguel Gocarrubias. A beautiful gift that wil… Read More

Scholastic Library Publishing, 2001. Scholastic Library Publishing, 2001, First Edition, First Printi. Book in Near Mint condition,no dj as issued. Beautifully executed with many photographs and prints./No dj as issued. With a Banjo on My Knee explores the roots of the banjo from its origination in West Africa to its arrival in the American colonies The author elucidates the social history of African Americans as he traces the evolution of banjo playing from slave quarters to minstrel shows to ragtime halls to jazz clubs to concert stages.