The Empire of the Seas: A Biography of Rear Admiral Robert Wilson Shufeldt, USN
Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, c1984. 25 cm, 468, illus., maps, book is in nearly complete shrink wrap. More
Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, c1984. 25 cm, 468, illus., maps, book is in nearly complete shrink wrap. More
New York: Negro Universities Press, [1969]. Reprint Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 122, illus., endpages soiled. More
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. 2000. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 209, notes, index, publisher's ephemera laid in, minor edge soiling. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1930. First Edition. 363, illus., bibliography, index, ink name & address inside front board, some wear to spine edges, bd corners bent & somewhat worn. More
Washington, DC: NY Ave. Presbyterian Church, [c1962]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 369 pages. Illus., glossary. Signed by the author. More
New York: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1959. First? Edition. First? Printing. 29 cm, 394, illus. (some in color), maps (some in color), facsims., index, DJ worn, soiled, small edge tears, and chips Includes narrative and prologue by Allan Nevins; Alvin M. Jospehy, Jr.; Peter Lyon; and Francis Russell. 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
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: Citadel Press, [1964]. First Edition. 22 cm, 381, DJ worn, soiled, and torn at mid-spine, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1959. 248, footnotes, appendices, index, separate errata sheet, DJ somewhat foxed, plastic cover to DJ. More
New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2008. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, 559, [5] pages. Includes Illustrations. Afterword, Acknowledgments, Sources and Notes, and Index. Daniel Mark Epstein (born October 25, 1948) is an American poet, dramatist, and biographer. His poetry has been noted for its erotic and spiritual lyricism, as well as its power—in several dramatic monologues—in capturing crucial moments of American history. While he has continued to publish poetry he is more widely known for his biographies of Nat King Cole, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bob Dylan and Abraham Lincoln, and his radio plays, "Star of Wonder," and "The Two Menorahs," which have become holiday mainstays on National Public Radio. The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage (2008) was named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Sun Times and the Wall Street Journal, whose reviewer remarked it "may be the best Lincoln book in a generation." More
Jackson, MS: University Press of MS, c1993. Second Printing. 24 cm, 357, very slightly cocked, erasure residue on front endpaper. Foreword by Terry Sanford. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1913. 26 cm, 335, few library markings, library embossed stamp on title page, boards soiled, stained, and worn, especially at rear. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. First Edition. 554, illus., endpaper maps, bibliography, source references, index, some foxing inside boards, DJ soiled: some wear to DJ edges. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Book Club Edition. 554, illus., endpaper maps, bibliography, source references, index, foxing to fore-edge, weakness to rear bd, DJ worn & small tears. More
Place_Pub: Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1968. Hardcover. 317 pages. Illus., notes on sources, notes and references, index, some foxing to top edge, some soiling to DJ, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
New York: Century Music Publishing Company, c1905. Conservatory Publication Society, Conservatory Edition. Sheet Music. 6 pages. Format is approximately 10.5 inches by 14 inches. Decorative front cover, Cover is separated. In addition to Massa's in de Cold Cold Ground (pages 3-5), page 2 contains Up In A Swing by R. A. Montaine (A Sweet Swing Melody full of Rhythm and Expression.) [Copyright 1902] Page 6 contains Flowers and Ferns by R. A. Keiser (A Charming, expressive and interesting Tone Poem.) [Copyright 1905]. This song is by Stephen Foster. The three pieces are music only, with no lyrics provided. Massa's was one of Foster’s most popular songs when it was first published, it is now considered an embarrassment to his legacy, since it is cast as a lament by African slaves for their dead white master. While Foster did draw musical inspiration from spirituals that he heard and sympathized with the North during the Civil War, we can safely say that this song presents a highly sentimentalized portrait of slavery. That did not stop the song from being used in numerous stage productions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the mid-19th century. Originally titled with only Cold used once, sometimes the title is said with the word “cold” repeated, as it was often referred to after the Civil War. This song war reportedly first sung by the Christie Minstrels in 1852. More
New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. First American Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 401, [7] pages. Illustrations. Appendix on Family Trees. Notes. Abbreviations used in notes. Index. Scuff marks (caused by the removal of a pasted dust jacket) inside front and rear boards. Stamp on top edge. Leigh Fought is Associate Professor of History at LeMoyne College. She is the author of Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord and an editor of The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series Three: Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842-1852 . Frederick Douglass' race, his enslaved status, his ability to read, his self-emancipation, his success as a speaker and newspaper editor, the way he lived very aspect of his life in opposition to racism, his understanding of equality between the sexes, his intellectual development--all emerged from the world of women. More
Washington DC: The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2012. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. vi, 217, [17] pages. Illustrations. Notes. This special issue on Reparations was dedicated to the Scholarly Legacy of Dr. Ronald W. Walters. Includes Book Reviews and Essay Review. The Journal of African American History, formerly The Journal of Negro History (1916–2001), is a quarterly academic journal covering African-American life and history. It was founded in 1916 by Carter G. Woodson. The journal is published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and was established in 1916 by Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland. The journal publishes original scholarly articles on all aspects of the African-American experience. The journal annually publishes more than sixty (60) reviews of recently published books in the fields of African and African-American life and history. Starting in 2018, the Journal was published by the University of Chicago Press. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995. First American Edition. 394, map, appendices, notes. More
New York, N.Y. The Viking Press, 1980. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xviii, 329, [3] pages. Occasional footnotes. Small chips to dust jacket edges. Includes Extracts, Preface, and Acknowledgments. Part One covers Loomings; Part Two covers Rites of Passage; Part Three covers Haunts. Also contains Notes on Sources, and an Index. Frederick W. Turner (sometimes Frederick Turner), born in Chicago in 1937,[1] is an American writer of history, including an acclaimed biography of the naturalist John Muir, and historical novels. He has published a revised and annotated edition of Geronimo's 1906 autobiography. Turner received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1976 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981. Beyond Geography is a brilliant reconstruction of the "spiritual history" that led up to the European domination and decimation of aboriginal cultures--native American tribes, Caribbean tribes, the Mayans--as rich in mythic life as the Western culture was barren. Author Frederick Turner contends that it was the progressive decay of Christianity from a living mythology into a historically oriented state religion that created a spiritual vacuum in the West, resulting in a terrific restlessness and energy that eventually manifested itself in explorations, conquest, and conversion. This book works on several levels--as historical narrative, as a psychological interpretation, and as a spiritual odyssey. It has those full dimensions that only great writers produce. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 356, maps, footnotes, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Praeger, 1986. First Printing. 25 cm, 255, light ink underlining on several pages. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Second English Language Edition, Revised. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. lxxi, [1], 537, [1], xliv, [4] pages. Illustrations (including fold-out). Footnotes. Preface to the First English-Language Edition. Preface to the Second English-Language Edition. Translator's Acknowledgments. Plans showing Big House of the Noruega Plantation. Glossary of Brazilian Terms Used. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Subjects. Gilberto de Mello Freyre KBE (March 15, 1900 – July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman, born in Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. He is commonly associated with other major Brazilian cultural interpreters of the first half of the 20th century, such as Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Caio Prado Júnior. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala (literally, "The main house and the slave quarters," as on a traditional plantation, although the book title is usually translated as The Masters and the Slaves). In 1962, Freyre was awarded the Prêmio Machado de Assis by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of Brazilian literature. Over the course of his long career, Freyre received numerous other awards, honorary degrees, and other honors both in Brazil and internationally. Examples include admission to L'ordre des Arts et Lettres (France), investiture as Grand Officier de La Légion d'Honneur (France), investiture as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the Gran-Cruz of the Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique (Portugal), and honorary doctorates at Columbia University and the Sorbonne. More
New York: Knopf, 1970. First American Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 422, illus., maps, glossary, index, some soiling and wear to DJ, ink notation to front endpaper Brazil's transition from monarchy to republic was characterized by the introduction of a new form of government, but not a new social order. More