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Handy Dictionary Of The Latin And English Languages

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, David Mckay: 1960

Seller ID: 22919

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

16mo 6" - 7" tall; 212 pages; 22919
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Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of This Century's African-American Migrations

By: Adero, Malaika

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New Press: 1993

Seller ID: 28488

ISBN: 1565840208

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

Gathers a vast range of documents and photographs -- from letters and turn-of-the-century items in the Chicago "Defender, Crisis, and Opportunity, to scholarly research and selections from some of the finest American literary writing, including work by Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and Ralph Ellison, as well as Wright, DuBois, and Bontemps. A uniquie resource for students and teachers of urban and American studies, this volume is also a moving and eye-opening anthology of African American literature, scholarship, and journalism from the first half of this century. Two page spre...
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The Social Contract A Personal Inquiry Into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder

By: Ardrey, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, McClelland and Stewart Ltd.: 1970

Seller ID: 27646

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

In new mylar. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 448 pages; 27646
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Art Speak A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords

By: Atkins, Robert

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Abbeville Press: 1990

Seller ID: 29582

ISBN: 1558590102

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Contains nearly 120 entries which clearly explain the who, what, where, and when of American and European art since 1945. Fifty-six black-and-white illustrations and 28 color plates are interwoven with an invaluable timeline of world and art world events from 1945 to 1996. A one-page ArtChart provides a handy overview of the major art movements during the same period. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 176 pages
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The Kingfisher First Thesaurus

By: Beal, George

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY, Kingfisher Books: 1993

Seller ID: 24034

ISBN: 1856979148

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 144 pages; 24034
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Faces At The Bottom Of The Well

By: Bell, Derrick

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Basic Books: 1992

Seller ID: 15986

ISBN: 0465068170

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Remainder mark. No creases or writing. Very clean, tight, bright. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; 15986
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Good Girls / Bad Girls Feminists and Sex Trade Workers Face to Face

By: Bell, Laurie

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Seattle, WA, Seal Press: 1987

Seller ID: 27595

ISBN: 0931188571

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Previous owner's name; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 231 pages; 27595
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THE GROLIER CHILDREN'S THESAURUS

By: Bellamy, John

Price: $14.51

Publisher: Grolier: 1992

Seller ID: 27040

ISBN: 0717282600

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light edgewear. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 198 pages; 27040F
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A Caring Society The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression: a History of the American Worker 1933-1941

By: Bernstein, Irving

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Houghton and Mifflin: 1985

Seller ID: 21516

ISBN: 0395331161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

A History of the American Worker Series; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 338 pages; 21516
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Desegregation And The Law: The Meaning And Effect Of The School Segregation Cases

By: Blaustein, Albert P. and Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr.

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Rutgers University Press: 1957

Seller ID: 30270

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good Dust Jacket

The most significant decision ever rendered by an American court. The problems of desegregation touched the lives of every American citizen. The response to it involved political, moral, and social attitudes. But regardless of individual personal feelings about racial segregation, the authors prove there was no discounting the fact that the Supreme Court had spoken. Whatever has been done toward integration was probably done within the legal framework of Brown v. Board of Education. Chipped and stained DJ's spine is sunned, in new mylar, previous owner's name and the date he read it. Underlini...
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Negro Heroes Of Emancipation

By: Bond, Mildred, Roy Wilkins, Paul Schwartz, Et Al

Price: $45.00

Publisher: NY, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: 1976

Seller ID: 21762

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

This book is the unforeseen product of one of the activities conducted by the NAACP as part of its year-long observance of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Biographical sketches were prepared and distributed as part of the Association's regular press service to hundreds of newspapers. The response to them overwhelmingly justified this compilation of those biographies. Four or five small rubbed spots on orange covers; pages were hand-numbered; minor wear and moderate foxing; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 35 pages; 21762
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Story Of The Negro

By: Bontemps, Arna

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1969

Seller ID: 30893

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket

Begins with the first twenty Africans traded to Jamestown colony in 1619. Slavery came later. A rich and colorful picture of the Negro in Africa is background for what was to follow: the boatloads of stolen men brought to the shore of America to be sold as slaves. The long, hard struggle that ensued is a story filled with courage and heroism. Aside from the drama that fills every chapter, there is an inherent dignity through the book--the dignity of a people fighting for freedom....Gibralter library binding, but not an ex-library edition. Initial and date on ffep; tiny scuff at rear joint of s...
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Long Time Gone A Black Panther's True-Life Story: of His Hijacking and Twenty-Five Years in Cuba

By: Brent, William

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Crown: 1996

Seller ID: 29725

ISBN: 081292486X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

The absorbing story of one man's journey from his dirt-poor childhood in Franklin, Louisiana, to his coming of age on the streets Oakland, California. Along the way, Brent finds himself scrapping with the law, learning to survive in San Quentin, growing steadily more politically aware of the many ways his own individual course is bound up with the destiny of African-Americans generally. Brent's intuitive resentment of unjust and abusiv authority marked him as a troublemaker from an early age. It would leave Its stamp upon his character as a man. Deckled edges. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9&#...
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The Grammar Lady How to Mind Your Grammar in Print and in Person

By: Bruder, Mary Newton

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Hyperion: 2000

Seller ID: 30838

ISBN: 0786884355

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Stated first paperback edition. Frankly, I wish more English teachers would make their students study this book. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 278 pages; 30838
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Mexico in Its Novel A Nation's Search for Identity

By: Brushwood, John S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Texas Press: 1975

Seller ID: 30731

ISBN: 0292736088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Written in a clear and graceful style, this study examines the life of the novel as a genre against the background of Mexican chronology. It begins with a survey of the present-day novel, the Mexican novel which came of age in the period following the 1947 publication of Agustin Yanez's "The Edge of the Storm". During this time the novel has resolved some of its most complicated problems and, as a result, offers a wider and deeper view of reality. Bump on foredge of book, tearing a small piece of the DJ. ; Texas Pan American Series Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 292 pages; 30731
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Encyclopedia Of Ancient Mesoamerica

By: Bunson, Margaret R. , and Stephen M. Bunson

Price: $30.00

Publisher: NY, Facts On File: 1996

Seller ID: 25019

ISBN: 0816024022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

4to 11" - 13" tall; 322 pages; 25019
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Mexican-americans In The United States

By: Burma, John H. (Ed. )

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Schenkman Publishing: 1970

Seller ID: 24995

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor wear along bottom edge, faint rubbing to front cover. Previous owner's label on inside front cover and stamped on top edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 487 pages; 24995
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SELF-ASSERTION FOR WOMEN

By: Butler, Pamela

Price: $8.10

Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers: 1978

Seller ID: 25492

ISBN: 0062501208

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Edgewear, previous owner's name blacked out. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 307 pages; 25492Vshw
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The Second Ring Of Power

By: Castaneda, Carlos

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, Simon and Schuster: 1977

Seller ID: 24782

ISBN: 0671229427

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Witchcraft, spells... ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages; 24782
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Bring Home The Ghost

By: Cheatham, K. Follis

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1980

Seller ID: 17685

ISBN: 0152124853

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Traces the adventures of two boys, one the slave of the other, in the first half of the nineteenth century as they grow to manhood on an Alabama plantation, experience its devastation, and move west to find a freer way of life. The author states about herself: "I am the biological remnant and spiritual product of tribal peoples -- Native American and Afro-American. My soul is this country." Tiny tear in DJ, in new mylar. "not for resale" stamped on top edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages; 17685
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Category: SOCIOLOGY