New York: Perennial [An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2002. First Perennial edition [Stated]. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. [14], 412, [6] pages. Acknowledgments and Sources. Cover has spine tear, wear and soiling. Staining at bottom edge. Ink marks on pages 411 and 412. Richard Rayner (born 1955) is a British author who now lives in Los Angeles. He has worked as an editor at Time Out Magazine, in London, and later on the literary magazine Granta. Rayner is the author of nine books. His first, Los Angeles Without A Map, was published in 1988. Part-fiction, part-travelogue, this was turned into a movie L.A. Without a Map. In 1996, Rayner published The Blue Suit, a memoir about his early life that won an Esquire Non-Fiction Award in the UK, and was described as 'a beguiling portrait of the artist as a writer' by the New York Times. Novels like The Cloud Sketcher and Devil's Wind followed. Murder Book, another novel, grew out of a time that Rayner spent riding with the Los Angeles Police Department. In 2009, Rayner published A Bright And Guilty Place, a non-fiction historical narrative set in Los Angeles in the late 1920s and early 1930s, featuring various true-life tabloid crimes of the era. He has published in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, Esquire, The Times, The Guardian, The Observer and Granta Magazine among others. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Rayner co-wrote 'The Rift', the first episode of the Steven Spielberg produced reboot of 'Amazing Stories' for Apple TV, aired in April 2020. Rayner has taught creative writing at King's College Cambridge and the University of Southern California. Currently he teaches in the Theater, Film and Television Department at UCLA. More

Austin, TX: Slough Press, 1986. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Trade paperback. Format is 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. [8], 150, [2] pages. Decorative front cover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To Pauline, with great admiration and affection. Pat Carr. Pat Carr has a B.A. and M.A. from Rice, a Ph.D. from Tulane, and sixteen published books, including the Iowa Fiction Prize winner, The Women in the Mirror, and the PEN Book Award finalist, If We Must Die. She’s published over a hundred short stories in such places as The Southern Review, Yale Review, and Best American Short Stories. Her latest short story collection, The Death of a Confederate Colonel, a nominee for the Faulkner Award, won the PEN Southwest Fiction Award, the John Estes Cooke Civil War Fiction Award, and was voted one of the top ten books from university presses for 2007 by Foreword Magazine. She’s won numerous other awards, including a Library of Congress Marc IV, an NEH, the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award, an Al Smith Literary Fellowship, and a Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt Writing Fellowship in Lausanne, Switzerland. She’s taught creative writing and literature in numerous universities across the South, and in August, 2011, taught the Civil War novel at New York’s Chautauqua Institute. Her writing text, Writing Fiction with Pat Carr appeared from High Hill Press in 2010, and her memoir, One Page at a Time: On a Writing Life, also published in 2010 by Texas Tech University Press, was a finalist for both the Willa Cather Award and the PEN Southwest Non-fiction Award. She lives and writes on a thirty-six acre farm in Arkansas with her writer husband, Duane Carr. More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. viii, 688 pages. DJ somewhat worn/soiled with small edge tears/chips. Haley's epic about several generations of African-Americans was made into a blockbuster television mini-series. Perhaps more than any other single work, this one changed American perceptions of the past. Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with Malcolm X. He was working on a second family history novel at his death. Haley had requested that David Stevens, a screenwriter, complete it; the book was published as Queen: The Story of an American Family. It was adapted as a miniseries, Alex Haley's Queen, broadcast in 1993. More

New York: University Books, 1958. Second Edition. First edition from this publisher. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. 288 pages. Introduction by Dr. Charles Francis Potter. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Some page discoloration and edge soiling. Inscribed by the author on fep, To Sarah and Dick--Ben 3/15/59. DJ has some wear, tear and soiling. B. Z. Goldberg was a writer, journalist and columnist for more than 50 years for The Day Jewish Morning Journal, which was the largest “Yiddish language daily newspaper in the United States until it ended publication. Mr. Goldberg was a writer for several Jewish publications as well as correspondent. A native of Olshani, Russia, Mr. Goldberg was brought here as a boy in 1907. He received a Bachelor of, Science degree at Columbia University in 1918 and a master's degree in psychology a year later. While studying at Columbia, he joined with a group of students who knew Yiddish and who had organized to help newly arriving immigrants with language problems in the new country. He and the former Marie Rabinowitz, Sholom Aleichem's daughter, were married. Aleichem's real name was Solomon Rabinowitz. B. Z. Goldberg's legal name was Ben Zion Waife but it was as B. Z. Goldberg that he achieved journalistic prominence. Mr. Goldberg wrote on every phase of Jewish life and did numerous articles about his visits to the Soviet Union to study the situation of Soviet Jews. In his later years, he was writing for The Jewish Week, an English language paper, and other Yiddish publications. In 1964, Mr. Goldberg played a major role in the building of Beit Sholom Aleichem, a building in Israel that today houses more thin 300 manuscripts and memorabilia of Sholom Aleichem. More

New York: Pantheon Books [ A Division of Random House, Inc.], 1967. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxix, [1], 474, [4] pages. Frontispiece. Tables. Notes. Appendix. References. Index. Some cover wear. Ink notations inside front board and fep. Stamp on fep and second fep. Herbert J. Gans (born May 7, 1927) is a German-born American sociologist who taught at Columbia University from 1971 to 2007. One of the most influential sociologists of his generation, Gans came to America in 1940 as a refugee from Nazi Germany and has sometimes described his scholarly work as an immigrant's attempt to understand America. He trained in sociology at the University of Chicago and in social planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Although Gans views his career as spanning six fields of research, he initially made his reputation as a critic of urban renewal in the early 1960s. His book, The Urban Villagers, described Boston's diverse West End neighborhood, where he mainly studied its Italian-American working class community. The book is well known for its critical analysis of the area's clearance as an alleged "slum" and the West Enders' displacement from their neighborhood. His book The Levittowners was based on years of participant-observation in New Jersey's Levitt-built suburb in Willingboro, observing how a set of new homeowners came together to establish the community's formal and informal organizations. Demonstrating the inaccuracy of the depiction of the postwar suburbs as homogeneous, conformist and anomic, Gans showed that Levittown was a typical lower middle class suburb, the residents' class and other differences structuring the social and political life of the community. More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 740, [2] pages. John William Jakes (born March 31, 1932) is an American writer, best known for American historical and speculative fiction. His Civil War trilogy, North and South, has sold millions of copies worldwide. He is also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles. He has used the pen name Jay Scotland. Thrilling Wonder Stories, edited by Sam Merwin, published two 1949–1950 letters from Jakes and two of his stories were published in pulp magazines edited by Howard Browne late in 1950, The Dreaming Trees (Fantastic Adventures, November) and "Your Number is Up!" (Amazing Stories, December). Jakes sold his first short story in 1950. ISFDB catalogs 28 more speculative fiction stories published 1951 to 1953. Jakes published dozens of stories and several novels during the twenty years following completion of college, many of them fantasy fiction, science fiction and westerns and other historical fiction. He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of heroic fantasy authors founded in the 1960s and led by Lin Carter. Jakes gained widespread popularity with the publication of his Kent Family Chronicles, which became a best-selling American Bicentennial Series of books in the mid to late 1970s. He has since published several more popular works of historical fiction, most dealing with American history, including the North and South trilogy about the U.S. Civil War, which was adapted as an ABC-TV miniseries. In September 2013, Jakes was named a Florida Literary Legend at the Florida Heritage Book Festival. More

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. Book Club Edition [Verso states Second Printing]. Hardcover. xxxvi, [2], 441, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. Richard (Barksdale) Harwell (1915-88) was Bowdoin College's librarian from 1961-68. Before coming to Bowdoin, Harwell was educated in Atlanta Public schools. Born on June 6, 1915 in Washington, Ga., Harwell furthered his education at Emory University, where he received his Library of Science degree (1938). For the next two years (1938-40), he was assistant to the director of the George Washington Flowers Memorial Collection of Southern Americana at the Duke University Library. He served his country as lieutenant for the U.S. Navy during World War II (1943-46). He returned to his alma mater and was named assistant librarian in 1948. From 1954-56, he was the director of the Southeastern Interlibrary Research Facility; from 1956-57, he was the director of publications for the Virginia State Library. A noted Civil War historian, Harwell was also author of several books, numerous articles and hundreds of reviews. More

Cambridge: The M. I. T. Press, 1967. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xviii, 493, [1] pages. Tables. Footnote References. Index. Ink underlining and comments noted. DJ is worn, soiled, and chipped. Among the contributors are: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Lyndon Johnson, Mary McCrory, Charles Silberman, Bayard Rustin, Whitney Young, James Farmer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rowland Evans, Robert Novak, Herbert Gans, and Laura Carper. Lee Rainwater (7 January 1928 – 4 July 2015) was an American sociologist. He was a professor of sociology at Harvard University for twenty-three years and was a co-founder of the Luxembourg Income Study, for which he was research director between 1983 and 2005. He was the author, co-author, or editor of over twenty books, including Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Families in a Federal Slum (1970), a study of the notorious St. Louis, Missouri, housing development Pruitt–Igoe. A series of memorial lectures has been founded in his name at CUNY and began in 2017. More

New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1994. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 432, [2] pages. Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the protagonist V. I. Warshawski. Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa. Her relationship with her parents was strained; her mother was an alcoholic and her father was a harsh disciplinarian. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Kansas, she did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there. She completed her AM degree at the University of Chicago in 1969 and completed a Ph.D. in history there in 1977; her dissertation was titled "The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War". She also earned an MBA in 1977 from the University of Chicago School of Business. Her husband, Courtenay Wright, was a professor of physics at the University of Chicago; the two were together from 1970 until his 2018 death. The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is the female private investigator V. I. Warshawski, and the author is credited with transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel. She is also considered the founding mother of Sisters in Crime, an organization that supports and promotes women in the mystery field. Tunnel Vision marks the eighth appearance of V.I. Warshawski, who’s been called “the most engaging woman in detective fiction since Dorothy Sayers’s Harriet Vane” (Newsweek), “the detective mystery fans have been waiting for” (Time), and “a gumshoe for modern times” (People). More

New York: Arno Press, 1977. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xix, [1], 372 pages. Inscribed on fep by author on fep. Footnotes. Discussion. Interscript. Text is primarily in English with some text in Hebrew. Foreword by Professor Ephraim Katzir, President of the State of Israel. This is Volume II of the Publications of the Continuing Seminar on World Jewry. Moshe Davis (January 12, 1916 in Brooklyn, New York – 1996) was a rabbi and a scholar of American Jewish history who taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) and Hebrew University. He was recipient of a BA from Columbia University in 1936, a BA from the Jewish Theological Seminary's Teachers Institute in 1937 and a Ph.D. from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1945. Davis was the first American to earn a doctorate at Hebrew University. He served as professor of American Jewish history, and at Hebrew University, where he was named the Stephen S. Wise Chair of American Jewish History and Institutions. In 1959, Davis established the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His numerous books include The Emergence of Conservative Judaism (1963) and Israel: Its Role In Civilization (1956). Davis has been credited with being the creator of the academic field of America-Holy Land Studies, the field of studies focusing on the relationship between America and the Land of Israel. As part of his efforts to build Hebrew language institutions in the United States, Davis also played a role in founding the college student organization Histadrut Hanoar Ha'Ivri, the Hebrew Arts Foundation, the Massad camps, and the Hebrew Arts School for Music and Dance. More

New York: American Heritage Press, 1971. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 127, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Chronology of Events. Index of main people, places, and events. Author's suggestions for further reading. This is one of the Library of the 20th Century. Louis Allen fought in Burma from 1941-45 and has a thorough understanding of Japanese language and culture. He writes from his own experiences and draws upon exhaustive research from Japanese, British and US official histories, apologias, reminiscences, generals' biographies, diaries and newspaper reports. While serving with the 17th Division in Burma in 1945, Levy recognized that a Japanese document captured by a forward patrol was a vital operation order outlining the plans for a massive Japanese break-out across the Sittang River. This was a crucial intelligence coup, and Levy was mentioned in despatches. After the Japanese surrender he was employed on liaison work, persuading Japanese soldiers in the jungle that hostilities had ended, and as a language officer for four months at Payagyi camp for Japanese surrendered personnel, north of Pegu in southern Burma, where he was involved in interviewing Japanese staff officers on the development of Japanese strategic planning. He kept in touch with some of the Japanese soldiers he encountered until the end of his life, and his war-time experiences set in train his life-long efforts for reconciliation and mutual understanding between British and Japanese. He returned to academic life, and a career as lecturer (later Reader) in French at the University of Durham, but became best known as a historian of Japan and World War II. More

Moscow: Perspektiva, 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing one of only 10,000. Hardcover. 203, [2] pages. Text is in Russian. Illustrated endpapers. DJ has wear, soiling, chipped and several large tears. Part 1 addresses Nicholas II and family, Nicholas' Diary 1894 and Nicholas' Letters 1891-1917. Part 2 addressed Emperor's family and Letters of the members of Imperial House. Includes attachments and Index of names. Laid in is a packet of a dozen postcard size black and white photographs, Ikh ubiliv dome Ipat'eve (They were killed in Ipat'en's House)[1996]. Also laid in a photograph of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth (approximately 6.25 inches by 9.25 inches, with small photographic image) and one believed to be the Tsar's son in uniform (approximately 6.5 inches by 8.75 inches with no 'white space'. More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. First Owl Book Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. viii, [2], 481, [3] pages. Illustrations. A Jefferson Chronology. Notes. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. John [Jack} McLaughlin is an Emeritus Professor of English at Clemson University, where he was head of the Humanities Division. He is the author of Jefferson and Monticello, about the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his fifty-year love affair with Monticello, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1988. McLaughlin also wrote To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Letters to a President, and has contributed to such scholarly journals as Shakespeare Quarterly and Modern Drama. More