The Workers of Namibia
Place_Pub: London: Intern'l Defence & Aid Fund, 1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 135, wraps, illus., maps, references, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Place_Pub: London: Intern'l Defence & Aid Fund, 1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 135, wraps, illus., maps, references, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. First Printing [Stated]. Hard Cover. xvi, [2], 414 pages. Ink notation on fep. Minor pencil underlining noted. Preface and Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliographical Note, and Index. Includes chapters on The Formative Years; Public Life and Private World; The Road to Revolution; At Philadelphia; Virginia Reformer; Wartime Governor of Virginia; Withdrawal, Sorrow, and Return; The Scene of Europe; Romantic Interlude and New Adventures; Witness to Revolution in France; First Months at the State Department; Conflict in Washington's Cabinet; A Trying Year; Renewal at Monticello; Vice President; The Election of 1800; A President in Command; Presidential Zenith; Trials of a Second Term; Closing a Political Career; The Sage of Monticello; and A Final Legacy. Contains Illustrations: Bust of Jefferson by Houdon; First page of draft of the Declaration of Independence; The Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull; Miniature of Jefferson by John Trumbull; Martha Jefferson; Maria Cosway; Jefferson as secretary of state; Jefferson on the eve of his presidency; Engraving of Jefferson by David Edwin, 1800; Engraving of Jefferson by Cornelius Tiebout; Model of the Virginia state capitol; Monticello. Also contains illustrations following page 300, including Invitation to dinner at the President's House; Title page and frontispiece of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia; Profile of Jefferson by Saint-Memin; Jefferson as president; Jefferson's drawings for the Rotunda of the University of Virginia; Jefferson's study for Pavilion VII, University of Virginia; The University of Virginia; Jefferson's design and inscription for his tombstone; Jefferson at age 78. More
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 246 pages. Illustrations. pencil erasure on front endpaper. James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman who served from 1817 to 1825 as the fifth President of the United States. Monroe was the last president among the Founding Fathers of the United States. Monroe fought in the American Revolutionary War. He was wounded in the Battle of Trenton. He served as a delegate in the Continental Congress. He took an active part in the new government, and in 1790 he was elected to the Senate of the first United States Congress. He gained experience as an executive as the Governor of Virginia and he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. During the War of 1812, Monroe served as Secretary of State and the Secretary of War. Monroe was easily elected president in 1816, winning over 80 percent of the electoral votes. As president, he sought to ease partisan tensions, embarking on a tour of the country that was well received. In addition to the acquisition of Florida, the 1819 Adams–Onís Treaty secured the westernmost section of the southern border of the United States along the 42nd Parallel to the Pacific Ocean. The "Era of Good Feelings" ensued. Monroe won near-unanimous reelection. In 1823, he announced the United States' opposition to any European intervention in the recently independent countries of the Americas with the Monroe Doctrine, which became a landmark in American foreign policy. More
New York: Free Press, c1995. First Printing. 25 cm, 724. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2002. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xiv, 218, [8] p. Notes. Index. More
Chicago, Il: Rand McNally & Company, 1967. Reprint. Fourth printing, 1969. Hardcover. xix, 471 p. illus. 24 cm. Footnotes. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. More
Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1949. 35, wraps, slight wear at spine. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. First Edition. 24 cm, 363, illus., notes, bibliography, index, name of previous owner, fr DJ flap price clippped, some DJ wear/soil: edge tears/chips. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 530 pages. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ is price clipped and in a plastic sleeve, has wear, tears, chips, and some soiling. Some edge soiling. Ink notation and pencil erasure on fep. George Bubb Dangerfield (28 October 1904 – 27 December 1986) was a journalist, historian, and the literary editor of Vanity Fair from 1933 to 1935. His book on early 19th century US history The Era of Good Feelings, won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for History. He is known primarily for his book The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935), a classic account of how the Liberal Party in Great Britain ruined itself in dealing with the House of Lords, woman suffrage, the Irish question, and labor unions, 1906-1914. After serving in the United States Army with the 102nd Infantry Division during World War II, he The Era of Good Feelings (1952), the period between the presidencies of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, covering from the start of the War of 1812 to the start of Jackson's administration. More
London: Methuen & Co. LTD., 1953. Presumed first U.K. edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 530 pages. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Some edge soiling. Name of previous owner in ink on fep. Pencil comments at various locations noted. George Bubb Dangerfield (28 October 1904 – 27 December 1986) was a journalist, historian, and the literary editor of Vanity Fair from 1933 to 1935. His book on early 19th century US history The Era of Good Feelings, won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for History. He is known primarily for his book The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935), a classic account of how the Liberal Party in Great Britain ruined itself in dealing with the House of Lords, woman suffrage, the Irish question, and labor unions, 1906-1914. After serving in the United States Army with the 102nd Infantry Division during World War II, he The Era of Good Feelings (1952), the period between the presidencies of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, covering from the start of the War of 1812 to the start of Jackson's administration. More
Company: Little, Brown & Company, 1961. Trade paperback. xxvii, [1], 311, [11] pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Some cover wear. This was originally published as Black Mother. This is an Atlantic Monthly book. Basil Risbridger Davidson MC (9 November 1914 – 9 July 2010) was a British historian, writer and Africanist, particularly knowledgeable on the subject of Portuguese Africa prior to the Carnation Revolution. He wrote several books on Africa. Colonialism and the rise of African emancipation movements were central themes of his work. He was an Honorary Fellow of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. From late 1942 to mid-1943, he was chief of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) Yugoslav Section in Cairo, Egypt. He parachuted into Bosnia on 16 August 1943, and spent the following months serving as a liaison with the Partisans, as he would describe in his 1946 book, Partisan Picture. Davidson had enormous appreciation for the Partisans and Tito. From 1951, he became a well-known authority on African history. More
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. First edition stated. May be second printing. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 288 p. Genealogy. Author Index. Title Index. Subject Index. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1978. Book Club Edition. Book Club edition stated on DJ. Hardcover. Text in English, Hebrew. 232 p.26 cm. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Index. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1978. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.25 inches by 10 inches. 232 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Prologue. Part One The patriarchs. Part Two From Slavery to Freedom. Part Three The Promised Land. Part Four The Kingdom of Israel. Part Five The House of David. Index. DJ has wear, tears, chips, and soiling. Inscribed on inside of fep "To Secretary Vance, With Friendship and Appreciation. Moshe Dayan. An exploration of the archeology of the Holy Land and a reinterpretation of Bible stories. Moshe Dayan (20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, but mainly as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became a worldwide fighting symbol of Israel. In the 1930s, Dayan joined the Haganah, the Jewish defense force of Mandatory Palestine. He served in the Special Night Squads under Orde Wingate in Palestine and later lost an eye in a raid on Vichy forces in Lebanon during WWII. Dayan was close to Ben-Gurion and joined him in setting up the Rafi party in 1965. Dayan became Defence Minister just before the 1967 Six-Day War. After the Yom Kippur War of 1973, during which Dayan served as Defense Minister, he was blamed for the lack of preparedness. In 1977, following the election of Menachem Begin as Prime Minister, Dayan joined the Likud-led government as Foreign Minister, playing an important part in negotiating the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. Book Club Edition (assumed). Hardcover. xviii, 429, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. No price on DJ. No edition/printing information on verso. Charles B. Dew (1937) is an American author and historian, specializing in the history of the Southern United States and the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era. He has published three books, one of which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He received his Ph.D. in History from Johns Hopkins University in 1964. He is the Ephraim Williams Professor of American History at Williams College. Dew grew up in a white family in St. Petersburg, Florida. His family had an African-American help, who ate and drank from her own plate and cup, and who used a "grossly unequal" bathroom for her only. In an essay he wrote on the occasion of the publication of The Making of a Racist, he commented that he hadn't crossed the Mason–Dixon line until he went to college in 1954, and that his experiences at Williams College — where he studied history (which "blew [his] assumptions about Confederate glory out of the water") and had black classmates — were formative for his developing a critique of what he termed "collective white blindness". Dew is a descendant of Thomas Roderick Dew (1802–1846), who was a "passionate apologist" for slavery, and he writes about his family heritage in his 2016 book The Making of a Racist. The book was the result of a self-examination which he said was prompted by his coming across a price list for slaves from 1860. 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 Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxi, 330 p. Notes. Index. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1989. First? Edition. First? Printing. 29 cm, 312, illus., maps, chronology of events, index. Senate Document 100-35. Foreword by Senator Robert C. Byrd. More
New York: Time: The Weekly Magazine, 1976. Second Special Bicentennial Issue. Wraps. 72 p. Includes illustrations. Fold-out. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 469, index, edges soiled, DJ worn and soiled, DJ in plastic sleeve. 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
Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, Inc., 1968. Reprint edition. Hardcover. xxxv, [3], 386 pages. Frontis illustration. List of Illustrations. Illustrations. Index. Sticker inside rear cover. Introduction by Capt. Ernest H. Pentecost, R. N. R. DJ has slight soiling but a tear at the top edge back. This is reprint of publication number fifteen on the Marine Research Society. George Francis Dow (January 7, 1868 – June 5, 1936) was an American antiquarian for the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Dow was instrumental in the creation of the Pioneer Village for the 300th anniversary of the founding of Salem, Massachusetts. Joseph Everett Chandler, an architect, and George Francis Dow conceived Pioneer Village as a means to demonstrate life in 1630. They created one of America's first living history museums which the city of Salem committed to preserve in perpetuity. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956, c1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 438 pages. Endpaper maps, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ badly worn andtorn. Signed by author. More
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. Hardcover. x, 152 p. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Notes. Dramatis Personae. 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