Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding: Community Action in the War on Poverty
New York: Free Press, [1969]. 22 cm, 218, ink notation and erasure residue on front endpaper, few library markings. More
New York: Free Press, [1969]. 22 cm, 218, ink notation and erasure residue on front endpaper, few library markings. More
New York: Basic Books, c1984. First Printing. 25 cm, 323, illus., bibliography, index, stamp inside front board, bookplate on front endpaper. More
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2001. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 261, [11] pages. Paperclip mark on fep. Bob Muzikowski is founder and president of Chicago Hope Academy, a private high school on the west side of urban Chicago seeking to serve children in high risk neighborhoods. Having achieved success as the owner of an investment and insurance company, Muzikowski has a passion for lifting kids out of desperate situations and forming them into "leaders of character." There was an empty ball field near the author's home that nobody used. So in 1991, he advertised in the community that they were starting up a baseball little league. Three hundred boys signed up the first day! Today there was a program with 1,100 kids playing on 64 teams! We've got the biggest black little league in America. The bottom line is that we connect these kids to successful, well-to-do people who can mentor them. That wasn't originally our intention; it just kind of happened. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1995. 28 cm, 28, wraps, illus., references. Marines in World War II commemorative series. More
n.p. n.p., 1968. 30, wraps, rear cover somewhat foxed and soiled. More
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 8 inches by 10 inches. xv, [1], 425, [7] pages. Wraps. Illustrated Front cover. Illustrations. Charts. Chapter notes. Appendices. Index. Minor cover wear and small fore-edge crease. Most of the report is in a two column format. Members of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, appointed by President Johnson, included Senator Edward W. Brooke, Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois, Senator Fred R. Harris and Mayor John Lindsay of New York City. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member Presidential Commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Executive Order 11365 to investigate the causes of the long, hot summer of 1967 in the United States and to provide recommendations for the future. The report was released in 1968, after seven months of investigation. For causing the riots, it blamed lack of economic opportunity, failed social service programs, police brutality, racism, and the white-oriented media. The 426-page report was published by the Government Printing Office and by other firms since it was 'in the public domain'. The official Government Printing Office edition is by far the scarcest, and due to its large format, widely sought after. In his remarks upon signing the order establishing the commission, Johnson asked for answers to three basic questions about the riots: "What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again?" More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1983. Quarto, 82, wraps, color illus., ink notations pp. 56 & 58, some wear to cover edges, small tears to rear cover edges. More
New York: Nat Conf on Religion & Race, n.d. First? Edition. First? Printing. 36, wraps, footnotes, bibliography, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Chicago, IL: Noble Press, c1993. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 243. More
Chicago, IL: Noble Press, c1993. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 243, small stains inside rear board & flyleaf, DJ somewhat worn, DJ flaps creased. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion (An imprint of Disney Book Group), 2008. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 88 pages. Color illustrations. Large Format book (approximately 11.5 inches by 11.5 inches). Foreword by Hank Aaron. Kadir Nelson (born May 15, 1974) is an African-American artist, illustrator and author. His work is focused on African-American culture and history. Nelson was born in Washington, DC,. He received his early training in art from his uncle, Michael Morris,who was an artist and art instructor. ]Nelson graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Nelson has had exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States and the world, including the Museum of Tolerance and the Society of Illustrators. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1973]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 304, illus., note on sources, ink notation on front endpaper, somewhat shaken, edges soiled. More
Fairfax, VA: Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, 1979. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 700 pages, illus., footnotes, bibliography, index, ink notation on front endpaper, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, edge tears, and creases. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Tables. Graphs. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has soiling, wear, tears, and chips especially at the top edge. Ink notation inside front board. Some edge soiling. This volume has sections on 1649-1800; 1800-1840, 1840-1870, 1870-1925, and 1925-1976. This monumental volume was issued to coincide with the Bicentennial of the United States. More
New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & CO., Inc., 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing Thus. Sheet Music. 6 pages. Small portion of top center of pages torn/chipped. Item has wear/soiling. Front is Silver and Black with mostly white lettering, except for the some title, composers and lyricists, and publisher's information). Front cover contains: "Lew Leslie's Rhapsody in Black: A Symphony of Blue Notes and Black Rhythm Starring Ethel Waters. Entire production conceived and staged by Lew Leslie. Songs by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh and Mann Holiner & Alberta Nichols." Striking art-deco cover graphics design in black, white and silver done by Barbelle. Albert Wilfred Barbelle (1887–1957) was an American artist known well for his work in advertising, particularly cover art for sheet music of Tin Pan Alley. The second song in this item is Rocky Mountain Lullaby with word by Marvin Lee and Music By Robert A. King. The music for this is on page 2. Pages 3-5 have You Can't Stop Me From Lovin' You. Page 6 has snippets of six songs with brief commentary and photos of the sheet music covers. While the cover mentions Fields and McHugh, who apparently contributed to Leslie's Rhapsody in Black, neither of the two songs includes were by them. Alberta Nichols (December 3, 1898 – February 4, 1957) was a popular songwriter of the 1930s and 1940s. Together with her husband, lyricist Mann Holiner, they composed over 100 songs, of which their most famous was "A Love Like Ours". Her career spanned writing for vaudeville, radio, musical theater and the movies. In 1931 Nichols and Holiner collaborated with Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin and L.E. Freeman for the Broadway show "Rhapsody in Black" More
New York: Random House, 1954. First Printing. 235, bibliography, index, DJ scuffed and worn along edges, small tear in rear DJ. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 171, illus., discoloration inside boards, boards stained & scuffed & slightly warped, front flyleaf missing. More
Washington, DC: Robnor Publishing, LLC, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 286, [2] pages. Family Tree. Illustrations. Appendixes. Bibliography. Notes. Some soiling to DJ. Inscribed and signed by the author and by Curtis Robinson (stamped signature?). George Norfleet is an author and publisher based in Washington, DC. He spent 23 years as a telecommunications economic and financial analyst, and network planner. In July of 2003 he began a series of taped interviews with the late Curtis C. Robinson - a Tuskegee Airman fighter pilot and a member of the 99th Fighter Squadron. Curtis Robinson was a son of the burgeoning black middle class, two generations removed from slavery. For Robinson, as for the other members of the Tuskegee Airman Program, prior preparation provided by family, institutions, and community equipped him individually, and the Tuskegee Airmen collectively, to succeed. More
Washington, DC: Robnor Publishing, LLC, 2010. May be second or later edition. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 252 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed and signed by the author on the fep. Additional notation on fep. Curtis Robinson was a son of the burgeoning black middle class, two generations removed from slavery. For Robinson, as for the other members of the Tuskegee Airman Program, prior preparation provided by family, institutions, and community equipped him individually, and the Tuskegee Airmen collectively, to succeed. The author was a family friend of Curtis Robinson and this is his first published work. He is a 1980 graduate of Hampton University and an inventor who spent more than two decades in the telecommunications industry. More
Raleigh, NC: NC Office of Archives, 2006. 44, wraps, illus., indexPrinting limited to 20,000 copies. More
Philadelphia, PA: The Wharton School, 1979. First Edition. 242, figures, tables, appendices, index, DJ taped inside boards, tape stains ins bds, DJ worn along edges & small tears. More
Place_Pub: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Printing. 254, illus., index. Foreword by Ken Burns. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1977. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 492, illus., reference notes, index, ink name and pencil erasure on front endpaper, DJ worn, soiled, and small tears. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1977. Book Club Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 492, illus., reference notes, index, DJ scuffed & worn: small edge tears/chips. More
Chicago, IL: Aldine Pub. Company, [1971]. 21 cm, 180, some wear and soiling to DJ, review copy card laid in. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 259, [3] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. After a personal tragedy sends him into depression, Walker Fann once again finds a cause for living when he steps in the breach between two Southern communities, torn asunder by the act of a Black teen. Howard Owen (born March 1, 1949) is an American author. He is a writer of literary fiction, mystery, and thrillers. In 2002 Owen won Richmond Magazine's Theresa Pollak Award. He was the winner of the 2012 Hammett Prize awarded annually by the International Association of Crime Writers. He was a 1971 journalism graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he earned a master's degree in English from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1981. Owen was a sports editor at The Richmond Times-Dispatch and editorial page editor of the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He retired in 2015 after 44 years as a reporter and editor. His fourth novel, The Measured Man, was published in hardcover by HarperCollins in 1997. It was praised in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, the Raleigh News & Observer, the Orlando Sentinel, and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Chosen as one of the Los Angeles Times Book Reviews' "Recommended Titles" for 1997, it was also included in The Best Novels of the Nineties: A Reader's Guide. More