New York: Free Press, 2006. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, 196, [2] pages. Bibliography. Index. Some pages appear off-white. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Jim and Elizabeth, Best, Mike Tidwell. Predicts a rise in ocean levels throughout the next few decades and more catastrophic weather patterns that are threatening some of the nation's largest cities, identifying the consequences of the past century's consumption of fossil fuels. Mike Tidwell is the founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the impacts and solutions associated with global warming in Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., West Virginia, and nationwide. He is also an author and filmmaker who predicted in vivid detail the Katrina hurricane disaster in his 2003 book Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast. His most recent book, focusing on Katrina and global warming, is titled The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Race to Save America’s Coastal Cities. His 2004 documentary film, We Are All Smith Islanders, vividly depicts the dangers of global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. Tidwell has been featured in numerous national media outlets including NBC’s Meet the Press, NPR, the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, Politico, and the Washington Post. In 2003, Tidwell received the Audubon Naturalist Society’s prestigious Conservation Award. Two years later he received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. More

Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Single sheet, printed on both sides. Format is approximately 4 inches by 7 inches. Illustration of the front of the Negro Hall of Fame building, showing several African-Americans out in front, showing to some degree the scale. On the reverse is a brief article on a car crash victim, Loman "Lobo" Gardner, twenty-one years old who lived at 2028 Russell Street. There is a large photo of the victim, his wife, and his namesake baby in his arms. The text is very brief as the photograph mostly fills the space. No information available on which newspaper this was published in or when it was published. An internet search found many references to the Negro Leagues [Baseball] hall of fame, but no reference to this apparently broader museum that focused on the Negro in general. The Text says "The Exposition Will Pay Tribute to Great Americans Who Have Moulded the Destinies of the Race in This Country. Statues. Busts--4,000 Book, Dioramas--Relics, Occupying 20,000 Sq. Ft." This advertisement has partial text indicating that this article appeared in connection with a Welcome to an A.M.[ ] General Conference and that a Dr. George [ ] may have been a General Chairman and an Eddie T [ ]. More

Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1968. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7.5 inches. 100 pages, counting covers. Illustrations. Front cover worn, torn, chipped, and weak at spine. Some page discoloration. Spine torn and chipped. Page 98 has the following NOTE: Because of space limitations, a complete bibliography of Richard Wright's works was omitted. The bibliography will appear in the January issue of Negro Digest. This issue has a focus on Richard Wright: His Life and His Works with articles by Horace Cayton, John A. Williams, Faith Berry, James Emanuel, Cecil Brown and Addison Gayle, Jr. There is also a work of fiction by Richard Wright entitled Bright and Morning Star, published in this issue. The Negro Digest was a magazine for the African-American market. Founded in November 1942 by publisher John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing Company, Negro Digest was first published locally in Chicago, Illinois. The magazine was similar to the Reader's Digest but aimed to cover positive stories about the African-American community. The Negro Digest ceased publication in 1951 but returned in 1961. In 1970, Negro Digest was renamed Black World and continued to appear until April 1976. Although Negro Digest/Black World gave way to other African-American magazines such as Ebony, Jet and Essence, it significantly impacted the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and early '70s. Negro Digest/Black World constitutes a massive archive. A renewed scholarly interest in these periodicals offers new perspectives and could profoundly change the way we consider the Black Arts Movement and Black activism during this period. More

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 148, [4] pages. Frontis map of Texas. Books and Articles Consulted. Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. In addition to articles and reviews, her other works include Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, Vernon Can Read! A Memoir, a collaboration with Vernon Jordan, Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History, a volume of essays that she edited, Andrew Johnson and, with Peter S. Onuf, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination. Gordon-Reed was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford (Queens College) 2014-2015. Between 2010 and 2015, she was the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She was the 2018-2019 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She is the current President of the Ames Foundation. A selected list of her honors includes a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities, a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, the George Washington Book Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and was a member of the Academy’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. More

London: United States Information Service, 1954. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [6], 32, [2] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Notation on title page states "from Charles E. Feinberg 4/29/73." Paperclip mark on last page. Introduction by Winthrop W. Aldrich. Foreword by Charles E. Feinberg, Detroit, Michigan. Charles E. Feinberg lent the major part of the material described in this catalogue. At the Acknowledgments page is attached a statement that "The descriptive noes of items from the Frieberg Collection ere prepared by the Detroit Public Library in anticipation of the Whitman Exhibition bend held at the Detroit Public Library, Feb.-March, 1955. The exhibition included Manuscripts, Letters, Books and Association copies 118 numbered items with one item as an unnumbered Addendum. The last printed page is an 1892 Tribute in Rhymed Couplets from Punch on Walt Whitman. ALSO INCLUDED, AS LAID IN ITEMS, are a typed letter signed by Nancy Phillips, Librarian to Mr. Justin Kaplan of Cambridge, Mass. dated December 13, 1965 indicating that there was not an available copy in London to provide to him and referring Mr. Kaplan who was seeking a copy of this catalogue to Mr. Feinberg and provided is street address in Detroit, Michigan. Stapled behind is a December 9, 1965 typed letter signed by Daniel Peizer of the United States Information Agency, indicating that if they had forwarded his request for a copy to the U.S. Mission in London. On the back of the second sheet is a typed text of a letter Mr. Kaplan apparently sent to Mr. Feinberg on February 13, 1973 asking to borrow a copy of the catalogue. Per the title page note, it seems he was given a copy. More

New York: Foundation for the Independent Study of Social Ideas. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7 inches by 10.25 inches. 88 pages. Two column format. Decorative front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Red number stamped on page 88. No dust jacket. Among the contributors are: Octavio Paz, Jorge Edwards, Carlos Franqui, Enrigue Krause, Jose Miguel Oviedo, Rodolfo Pastor, Charles Rangel, Gabriel Zaid, Juan E. Corradi, and dialogues with Ernesto Sabato. Irving Howe (June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America. Known for literary criticism as well as social and political activism, Howe wrote critical biographies, a book length examination of the relation of politics to fiction, and theoretical essays on Modernism, the nature of fiction, and social Darwinism. His writing portrayed his dislike of capitalist America. He wrote many influential books throughout his career, such as Decline of the New, World of our Fathers, Politics and the Novel and his autobiography A Margin of Hope. He also wrote a biography of Leon Trotsky, who was one of his childhood heroes. Howe's exhaustive multidisciplinary history of Eastern European Jews in America, World of Our Fathers, is considered a classic of social analysis and general scholarship. Howe explores the socialist Jewish New York from which he came. He examines the dynamic of Eastern European Jews and the culture they created in America. World of our Fathers won the 1977 National Book Award in History and the National Jewish Book Award in the History category. More

Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 1983. Presumed First German Language Edition, Presumed First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.125 inches and 8.25 inches. TEXT IS IN GERMAN. 358 [2] pages. RARE INSCRIBED GERMAN EDITION. Inscribed on the fep by the author. Inscription in English reads To Ed Best wishes Toni Morrison. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. She earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. Morrison became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City in the late 1960s. She developed her own reputation as an author in the 1970s and '80s. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience. The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities, in 1996. She was honored in 1996 with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. President Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. More

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Later printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. 245, [3] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve, and has some wear and soiling. Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry. Walker wrote the poems that would culminate in her first book of poetry, entitled Once, while she was a student in East Africa and during her senior year at college. Walker would slip her poetry under the office door of Muriel Rukeyser, when she was a student at Sarah Lawrence. Rukeyser then showed the poems to her literary agent. Once was published four years later by Harcourt. In 1982, she published what has become her best-known work, The Color Purple. The novel follows a young, troubled black woman fighting her way through not just racist white culture but patriarchal black culture as well. The book became a bestseller and was adapted into a critically acclaimed 1985 movie directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg. Walker's spirituality has influenced some of her most well-known novels, including The Color Purple. She has written of her interest in Transcendental Meditation. Walker's exploration of religion in much of her writing draws on a literary tradition that includes writers like Zora Neale Hurston. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. [12], 174, [6] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. DJ has some wear, soiling, and chip at lower front corner. Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. She earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. Morrison became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City in the late 1960s. She developed her own reputation as an author in the 1970s and '80s. Her work Beloved was made into a film in 1998. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience. The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities, in 1996. She was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters the same year. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 29, 2012. She received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2016. Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2020. More

New York: Random House, 1952. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 439, [1] pages. No dust jacket present. Ex-library with some of the usual library markings. Bookplate. Front board weak and restrengthened with glue. Cover is worn and soiled and spine frayed. Cover decoration. Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). The New York Times dubbed him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus." A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon his death. Ellison's outsider position at Tuskegee "sharpened his satirical lens," critic Hilton Als believes: "Standing apart from the university's air of sanctimonious Negritude enabled him to write about it." In passages of Invisible Man, "he looks back with scorn and despair on the snivelling ethos that ruled at Tuskegee." He met Langston Hughes, "Harlem's unofficial diplomat" of the Depression era, and one—as one of the country's celebrity black authors—who could live from his writing. Hughes introduced him to the black literary establishment with Communist sympathies. Published in 1952, Invisible Man explores the theme of a person's search for their identity and place in society, as seen from the perspective of the first-person narrator, an unnamed African American man, first in the Deep South and then in the New York City of the 1930s. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xv, [1], 400 pages. Quotations. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. The compilers were brothers who spelled their last names differently. Leonard Safir was a veteran radio and television producer who was a public relations executive. In 1952, he became the first associate producer of the early morning "Today" program at NBC-TV, where he originated many of television's first live remote telecasts. Mr. Safir had become known as a quotations anthologist, collaborating on four books with Mr. Safire. William Lewis Safir (December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009) better known as William Safire, was an author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He was a syndicated political columnist for The New York Times and the author of "On Language" in The New York Times Magazine, a column on popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics from its inception. He joined The New York Times as a political columnist in 1973. In 1978, Safire won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. In addition to his political columns, Safire wrote a column, "On Language", in the weekly The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death. Many of the columns were collected in books. According to the linguist Geoffrey Pullum, over the years Safire became less of a "grammar-nitpicker," and Benjamin Zimmer cited Safire's willingness to learn from descriptive linguists. Another book on language was The New Language of Politics (1968), which developed into what Zimmer called Safire's "magnum opus," Safire's Political Dictionary. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Format is 6 inches by 9.5 inches. [10], 167, [1] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Map illustration on title page. Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. She earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. Morrison became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City in the late 1960s. She developed her own reputation as an author in the 1970s and '80s. Her work Beloved was made into a film in 1998. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience. The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities, in 1996. She was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters the same year. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 29, 2012. Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2020. More

New York: Broadway Books, 1998. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 372, [2] pages. DJ flap has a slight crease.Author's Note. This book is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal series. Ronald Steven "Ron" Suskind (born November 20, 1959) is an American journalist, author, and filmmaker. He was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000, where he won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for articles that became the starting point for his first book, A Hope in the Unseen. His other books include The Price of Loyalty, The One Percent Doctrine, The Way of the World, Confidence Men, and his memoir Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism, from which he made an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated feature documentary. Suskind has written about the George W. Bush Administration, the Barack Obama Administration, and related issues of the United States' use of power. Cedric Jennings gives back to the community as a clinical social worker and youth minister. The story of his achievements is required reading in many high schools around the country. In 2004, Cedric obtained licensure to practice social work in the District of Columbia. He began his career in child welfare, as a social worker, serving abused and neglected children in the D.C. foster care system. In 2006, Cedric joined the District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency as an adoption social worker. Cedric worked to ensure the safety and well-being of children through the achievement of permanency with stable and healthy families. More