Romanticism and Nationalism in the Old South
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1949. 24 cm, 275, illus., index, underlining on a few pages, pencil notation on flyleaf, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1949. 24 cm, 275, illus., index, underlining on a few pages, pencil notation on flyleaf, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York, N.Y. William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1987. Uncorrected Bound Galleys. Wraps. 368 pages. Date written in black ink on front cover (apparently in the author's handwriting). Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Inscription reads "Joe Try This One, Rich". White Slave is a classic adventure story of modern-day heroes and villains, with a daring heroine who battles against terrible odds for her youth and lost innocence. In a ruthless act of revenge, the teenage Kim Mitchell is abducted from her school's locker room and held prisoner on a remote West Indies island. For seven years, her girlhood is enslaved to Wilson Kane, a fugitive drug czar. A victim of Kane's murderous moods and frequent beatings, Kim grows to maturity waiting only for an opportunity to escape the island stronghold. When she finally grabs her chance for freedom, readers will be rooting for her all the breathless way. The rest of the story is a heart-stoping chase through the steamy Venezuelan jungle, culminating in a daring rescue on the squalid island of Carib. Along the way, Richard Owen's beautiful young heroine learns to trust--and love--again. White Slave is a roller-coaster read, from a consummate storyteller. Richard Owen's momentum will carry his readers, along with his other victims, to an explosive climax. More
Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press, 1997. Modern reprint edition. Hardcover. [14], xiv, 3-322 pages. Illustrations. Afterword. Chronology. Index. Introduced by Derrick Bell and Michael E. Dyson. Embossed stamp on title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. William A. Owens, (November 2, 1905 — December 9, 1990), was an American author, folklorist and educator. He worked his way through college attending East Texas State Normal College in Commerce, Paris Junior College and graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BA in English in 1932. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa in 1941. Owens served in the US Army from 1942 to 1945 and was awarded the Legion of Merit for his work in the intelligence service in the Philippines. Owens taught at Wesley College in Greenville, Texas, Mississippi State College in Starkville and Texas A&M College in College Station, Texas. He taught at Columbia University from 1945 to 1974. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xviii, [2], 252 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Editor's Note. Notes. Index. This is one of the Pivotal Moments in American History series. Lynn Parsons is an American educator and author. He is a professor at the State University of New York. Parsons received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Grinnell College in 1958. Four years later he earned his Master of Arts degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1967 from Johns Hopkins University. Parsons began his career as an instructor of the history department at the University College Dublin in 1962. Two years later he took the same position at Grinnell College. Lynn served as an assistant professor of history at Wayne State University from 1965 to 1971. In 1971, he was appointed an associate professor of history at State University of New York. Since 1993 Lynn has been a professor at the same university. Parsons is known for his books, including "John Quincy Adams", "The Birth of Modern Politics" and "Missions and Meeting Houses, Chapels and Churches" More
Zanzibar Publications/Published by the Author, 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 108 pages. Illustrations. Maps. abbreviations and Glossary of Terms. Bibliography. Signed by the author on the title page. Cover has sticker residue at back. Kevin Patience grew up in Kenya and served in the Royal Air Force, who also taught him to dive. A Malta posting introduced him to many historical aircraft and shipwrecks. On leaving the service he completed a commercial diving course, returned to Mombasa and was involved in salvage operations on the Kenya coast. In 1976 he published his first book on East African railway history and in 1977 became a commercial diver in the Arabian Gulf based in Bahrain and later established a marine salvage company. As part of his interest in military history he was involved in the restoration of British forces graves in Bahrain, and the recovery at sea of a propeller from a crashed Air France airliner as a memorial to those killed and was honored by the French government. In the 1990s he published a number of books on the military and transport history of East Africa and an acclaimed study of the German cruiser ‘Königsberg’ sunk in East Africa in 1915. Now resident in the UK, writing and research continues, together with presenting talks on a variety of subjects. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1865. Fifth Edition. 812, index, worn and soiled, page xv/xvi disbound, pages discolored, boards frayed and torn in places, some foxing. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Second Edition, later printing. Trade paperback. xi, [4], 539 pages. Map. Tables. Political Chronology. Selective Guide to the Literature. Index. Ink marks and notations to text. Name in ink on half-title. Louis A. Pérez, Jr. is the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History and the Director of ISA. His most recent books include On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture, winner of the 2000 Bolton-Johnson Prize, The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography, Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba, winner of the 2001 George Perkins Marsh Prize, and To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society, winner of the 2007 Elsa Goveia Prize. Pérez’s principal research interests center on the nineteenth and twentieth-century Caribbean, with a research emphasis on Cuba. More
New York: Crown Publishers, c1987. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 294, illus., sources, appendix, index, some soiling/wrinkles to DJ, notation inside front board, some soiling to edges & fr endpaper. More
New York: Crown Publishers, c1987. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 294, illus., sources, appendix, index, some wear and small tears to DJ edges. More
Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1938. Hardcover. [32] p. illus. 24 cm. Illustrations (Some in color). More
Hermitage, TN: Ladies Hermitage Association, 1997. First? Edition. First? Printing. 48, wraps, profusely illus. in color, diagrams. More
New York: Hill and Wang, 1964. First American Century Series Edition. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. xi, [3], 176, [2] pages. Footnotes. Includes Foreword, Introduction, The Central Theme of Southern History, and Index. Chapters cover Daughters of England; The Frame of Independence; The Virginia Dynasty; A Question of Ethics; An Answer of Race; and The Fire-eaters. Also includes The Central Theme of Southern History, and an Index. Reprint of the original 1939 edition. After the death of the author, his widow allowed the Georgia Historical Quarterly to publish these lectures, beginning in the issue of December, 1936, and continuing consecutively through March, 1938. To make them more available, the Committee on the Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund of the American Historical Association decided to republish them as a book. They are here presented as they were left by Professor Phillips, with slight editing, and as they were published originally in the Georgia Historical Quarterly. Ellis Merton Coulter (1890–1981) was an American historian of the South, author, and a founding member of the Southern Historical Association. For four decades, he was a professor at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, where he was chair of the History Department for 18 years. He was editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly for 50 years, and published 26 books on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Ulrich Phillips' The Course of the South to Secession traces the development of southern political philosophy from colonial times to the Civil War. Jefferson's political philosophy appealed to southerners because it exalted agrarian virtues and promoted a live-and-let-live ideology. More
New York: Bonanza Books, c. 1974. Reprint Edition. 752, frontis illus., some soiling to fore-edge, some wear and small tears to DJ edges. More
Place_Pub: New York: E. B. Treat & Co., 1867. 752, illus., text foxed, discolor ins bds, bds scuffed & faded & edges worn, edges of spine quite worn & threadbare: small tears. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1970. 313, bibliography, index, library stamps (some crossed out with marker), boards & spine foxed & soiled, library sticker on spine. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1970. 313, bibliography, index, boards and spine somewhat soiled and scuffed. More
New York: Doubleday, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 631 pages. Signed by the author. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, [1953]. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 379, illus., index, worn DJ in plastic sleeve, tape stains on DJ and endpapers. More
New York: Crown Publishers, c1994. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 320, references, index. More
New York, N.Y. Henry Holt and Company, 1993. First Edition [stated], Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xix, [3], 708, [6] pages. Minor wear and soiling. Includes Acknowledgments, Introduction, Key to Abbreviations in Notes and Bibliography, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Topics include: I Cannot Live Without Books; I am Surrounded With Enemies; A More Universal Acquaintance; I Was Bold in the Pursuit of Knowledge; An Untiring Spirit of Investigation; All Men Are Born Free; The Pursuit of Happiness; God Gave Us Liberty; Let Those Flatter Who Fear; I Speak the Sentiments of America; An Expression of the American Mind; With a Single Eye to Reason; It is not in My Power to do Anything; I Tremble for My country; I Do Love This People; A Situation Much More Pleasing; My Head and My Heart; A Master of My Own Secret: The Blessings of Self-Government; The Empire of Liberty; and A Fire Bell in the Night. Willard Sterne Randall is an American historian and author who specializes in biographies related to the American colonial period and the American Revolution. He teaches American history at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. This authoritative, single-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson captures the public and private man as well as the tumultuous age in which he lived. Throughout the narrative, with stories of Jefferson's earliest youth in colonial Virginia to his tragic final days at Monticello, we encounter a dynamic man committed to a search for a meaningful and authentic way of life. In addition to the author's scholarship and the detective work on the Jefferson papers at Princeton University, the author calls on his skills as an investigative journalist to unearth new material. More
Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Found./Economic Education, 1979. 20 cm, 128 pages. Footnotes, index. Signed by the author. More
Boston, MA: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860. 408, steel engraving of J. Brown and tissue paper missing, boards weak, rear flyleaf stained, boards worn, sm stains on a few pgs. More
Place_Pub: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 254 pages. Illus., notes, bibliography, index. Name of previous owner present. Minor edge soiling. More
Memphis, TN: Memphis State University Press, 1976. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Two volume set. Volume One, viii, 274, [2] pages and Volume Two, [eight], 28, [5] pages. Whitelaw Reid (October 27, 1837 – December 15, 1912) was an American politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War. After assisting Horace Greeley as editor of the powerful Republican newspaper, the New York Tribune, Reid purchased the paper after Greeley's death in 1872 and controlled it until his own death. The circulation grew to about 60,000 a day, but the weekly edition became less important. He invested heavily in new technology, such as the Hoe rotary printing press and the linotype machine, but bitterly fought against the unionized workers for control of his shop. As a famous voice of the Republican Party, he was honored with appointments as ambassador to France and Great Britain, as well as numerous other honorific positions. Reid served as the party's nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 1892 election. In 1898, President William McKinley appointed him to the American commission that negotiated peace with Spain after the Spanish–American War. During the U.S. Civil War, Reid wrote under the by-line "Agate", acting as a correspondent at several battlefields, including the Battles of Shiloh and Gettysburg. His account of the Battle of Shiloh contains tales of confusion, courage, and disaster narrowly averted, was described as classic war reporting. More
New York: Times Books, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 172 pages. Frontis illus., notes, milestones, bibliography, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ. Robert Vincent Remini (July 17, 1921 – March 28, 2013) was an American historian and a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He wrote numerous works about President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian Era. For the third volume of Andrew Jackson, subtitled The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845, he won the 1984 U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction. He also wrote biographies of Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Joseph Smith and Daniel Webster. On April 28, 2005, Remini was appointed the Historian of the United States House of Representatives, a post he held until 2010. Earlier, Remini had been asked by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington to write a Congressional history, The House, which was published in 2006. He retired in 2010. More