Lying Down with the Lions: A Public Life from the Streets of Oakland to the Halls of Power
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2000. Second Printing. Hardcover. 220 pages. Illus., index. Signed by the author. More
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2000. Second Printing. Hardcover. 220 pages. Illus., index. Signed by the author. More
New York: Scholastic, c1991. First Printing. 22 cm, 164, illus., maps. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 205 pages. DJ slightly worn and soiled. Signed by the author. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 205 p. More
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First edition. First edition [stated[. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. [6], 610, [8] p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1971. Reprint Edition. First Thus? Printing. 22 cm, 318, illus., index, sticker remnant on front endpaper, DJ worn. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. First Printing. 285, pencil and ink notations and highlighting on a few pages. More
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993. First Printing. 24 cm, 401, illus., some soiling to rear DJ. More
Atlanta, Georgia: Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, 2017. Bicentennial Edition 1818-2018 [stated]. First Edition [stated, thus], Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. xxxvii, [1], 110, [2] pages. DJ has some edgewear. Endpaper map. Footnotes. Illustrations. Inscribed on page "i" by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. the great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass and great-great grandson of Booker T. Washington. Inscription reads To The Team at Represent Women. In Freedom! K. B. Morris, Jr. Editor's Note. Foreword: A Family's Perspective. What the Narrative Means to me [several authors]. Introduction by Bryan Stevenson. Narrative. Photographs: A Family's Perspective. Douglass Timeline. Further Resources. Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American reformer, abolitionist, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement, during which he gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. He was described by abolitionists as a living counterexample to enslavers' arguments that enslaved people lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent citizens. Douglass wrote three autobiographies, describing his experiences as an enslaved person in his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), which was influential in promoting the cause of abolition, as was his second book, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855). Following the Civil War, Douglass was an active campaigner for the rights of freed slaves and wrote his last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, the book covers his life up to those dates. More
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xii, [2], 201 p. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1946, 1947. First Thus? Edition. First? Printing. 276, maps, bibliographical footnotes, index, DJ worn, soiled, and some edge tears. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 514 pages Illustrations (46 pages of plates). Notes and Sources. Bibliography, Index. DJ somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Ronnie Dugger (born 1931) is an American progressive journalist. Dugger attended the University of Texas and was editor of The Daily Texan 1950–1951. He was the founding editor of The Texas Observer from 1954 to 1961. Later he served as the Observer's publisher, spending more than 40 years with the political newsmagazine. Dugger has published hundreds of articles in Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Progressive and other periodicals. In 2011 Dugger won the George Polk Award in recognition of his lifelong achievements in journalism. The following year he was dubbed the "godfather of progressive journalism in Texas" in an in-depth feature published in the Austin American-Statesman by Brad Buchholz. In 1996, Ronnie Dugger also co-founded The Alliance for Democracy, a national grassroots populist organization. Dugger and his friends decided to build The Texas Observer into an independent liberal weekly paper. From the first "I sought to practice journalism according to three basic standards, accuracy, fairness instead of 'objectivity,' and moral seriousness.." He went on to mentor and influence progressive Texas journalists Willie Morris, Molly Ivins, Billy Lee Brammer, Lawrence Goodwyn, Kaye Northcott, and Jim Hightower. More
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2014. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 248 pages. Acknowledgments, Introduction, four chapters, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. This is number 122 in the Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. Robert Harold Duke was a distinguished University faculty member who after earning his Ph.D. from Western Michigan University devoted his professional life to education and academia as a teacher and administrator. More
University, AL: University of Alabama Press, c1985. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 360, illus., footnotes, usual library markings, DJ pasted to boards The life story of a truly remarkable woman who has been identified by her relationships to prominent men: daughter of Dr. Sterling Foster, wife of Clifford Durr, sister-in-law of Justice Hugo Black. More
New York: Bantam Books, c1995. First Printing. 25 cm, 416, small ink mark on front endpaper. More
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, c1992. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. 23 cm, 97, some soiling and edge wear to DJ. Inscribed by the author. Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for the rights of children. She has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. She is founder of the Children's Defense Fund. Edelman was the first African American woman admitted to The Mississippi Bar. She represented activists during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. Edelman contributed to the organizing of the Poor People's Campaign of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1973, she founded the Children's Defense Fund as a voice for poor children, children of color, and children with disabilities. The organization has served as an advocacy and research center for children's issues. As founder, leader and principal spokesperson for the CDF, Mrs. Edelman worked to persuade Congress to overhaul foster care, support adoption, improve child care and protect children who are disabled, homeless, abused or neglected. She continues to advocate youth pregnancy prevention, child-care funding, prenatal care, greater parental responsibility in teaching values and curtailing what she sees as children’s exposure to the barrage of violent images transmitted by mass media. More
Berkeley, CA: Interstellar Media, [c1988]. First Printing. 24 cm, 274, illus., index, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Foreword by Claude Pepper. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. 38, illus., endpaper maps, foxing ins bds & flylves, stains to front flyleaves, DJ soiled: small tears, small pieces missing. More
HarperTrophy, 1997. Trade paperback. 32 pages. Illustrations. Signed by author. Inscription signed by both author and illustrator. Cover has some wear and soiling. Pamela Duncan Edwards is a British born children's author who now lives in the US. She has published over forty picture books for children, both in America and Britain. More
New York: Basic Books, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 429, [7] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. Douglas R. Egerton is Professor of History at LeMoyne College. His books include Thunder At the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America, The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era (2014), Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War (2010) and Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America (2009). An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War. Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the South and most of the North responded with outrage-southerners promised to execute any black soldiers captured in battle. Meanwhile, Massachusetts, long the center of abolitionist fervor, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history. In Thunder at the Gates, Douglas Egerton chronicles the formation and battlefield triumphs of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry-regiments led by whites but composed of black men born free or into slavery. He argues that the most important battles of all were won on the field of public opinion, for in fighting with distinction the regiments realized the idea of full and equal citizenship for blacks. A stirring evocation of this transformative episode, Thunder at the Gates offers a riveting new perspective on the Civil War and its legacy. More
New York: Times Books, c1991. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 309, sources, index. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 323, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Interesting long gift inscription on fep--does not appear to be associated with the author. Jonathan Eig (born April 26, 1964) is an American journalist and the author of four books. Eig is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, and he remains a contributing writer there. Eig has also written for The New York Times, Esquire, The New Republic, Men's Health, and other publications. Prior to working at the Wall Street Journal he worked as a feature writer for Chicago Magazine. Eig has taught writing at Columbia College Chicago and lectures at Northwestern. He has spoken to audiences on various topics in the United States, including as the keynote speaker at the 2005 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series at Mary Washington University. He has also traveled the country speaking to organizations raising money for the fight against Lou Gehrig’s Disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and was honored on the field at Yankee Stadium for his work in raising awareness of the disease. More
Place_Pub: New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. 352, endpaper illus., price stickers on front DJ flap, DJ soiled and small edge tears, small stains to book edges. More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, c1986. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 288, illus., index, some edge wear and sticker residue to DJ, ink notation on front endpaper, light pencil underlining & notes. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, 368 p. Endnotes. Index. More