Treacherous Journey: My Escape from Ethiopia
New York: Shapolsky Publishing, Inc., 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 178 pages. Illus., maps, some wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the co-author (Kushner). More
New York: Shapolsky Publishing, Inc., 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 178 pages. Illus., maps, some wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the co-author (Kushner). More
[New York]: Hill and Wang, [1972]. First Printing. 21 cm, 240, map, footntoes, index, sm area of green marker fr endpaper, ink name & date on title page, some soiling & sticker residue to DJ. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. First Printing. 24 cm, 572, illus., maps. More
Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, Inc., 2011. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 323, [1] pages. Illustrations. Joseph Paul Franklin Timeline. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Mel Ayton has a B.A. Honours degree in Politics and History and a master's degree from Durham University. He is a former Fulbright Teacher and college lecturer. For his M.A. (Dunelm), post-graduate degree, Ayton specialized in the teaching of American history in US schools and colleges. Throughout his teaching career he has taught in schools and colleges. In 1988 he was selected as a Fulbright Teacher and taught in Michigan. In 2003 Mel Ayton was the historical adviser for the BBC’s television documentary, The Kennedy Dynasty, which was broadcast in the UK and the US in November 2003. He also worked as a historical consultant for NBC News, National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Channel and appeared in their documentaries - CIA Secret Experiments, 2008, CIA - Mind Control, 2006, and Conspiracy Test: The Robert Kennedy Assassination, 2008. Ayton has appeared in television programs produced by the BBC’s Newsnight and the UK’s Channel 4 News and has also appeared as a guest on numerous US radio talk shows including: The Peter Boyles Show, The Dennis Miller Show, The Michael Medved Show, The Lars Larson Show, The Janet Mefferd Show, The Brian Thomas Show, The Schilling Show, and The Steve Cochran Show. Ayton is the author of numerous articles for various publications, including History Ireland, Crime Magazine, Max Holland’s Washington Decoded, George Mason University's History News Network, The Los Angeles Times and TIME magazine. More
Loomis, CA: Palmer Enterprises, c1988. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, approx. 175, wraps, illus., references, sticker residue at bottom of spine. More
Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, c1978. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 213, footnotes, notes, ink name on front endpaper, boards somewhat worn and soiled. More
Place_Pub: New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. 367, wraps, illus., footnotes, bibliographic notes, index. More
New York: Random House, c1993. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 532, illus., minor soiling and edge wear to DJ. More
Lawndale, CA: AFHA Publications, c1981. 22 cm, 350, wraps, illus., covers somewhat worn and soiled, pencil erasure on title page, title page stamped "Compliments of the Author" More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 564 pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Foreword, Illustrations, Afterword, Sources and Bibliography (with 7 subelements), Source Notes, Table of Cases, and Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep--"Irv, Don't let the Ox-fordians get you down. Best Wishes. Liva." Liva Baker (1930-2007) was a freelance writer and author of numerous books related to legal history. Her books included biographies of Supreme Court justices Felix Frankfurter and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as works on the topics of women's education, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Miranda decision, and the desegregation of public schools in New Orleans, Louisiana. Florence Olivia Baker, known as Liva, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. in English from Smith College in 1953 and a M.A. degree in Journalism from Columbia University in 1955. After a brief stint with New York Newsday, Baker moved to Washington, DC, where and joined the staff of National Geographic magazine. She left the magazine in 1965, and her first book, a children’s book about world religions, was published two years later. In 1969, Baker's biography of Supreme Court Felix Frankfurter was published, which was followed by a book about the legacy women's colleges in the United States, I'm Radcliffe! Fly Me!: The Seven Sisters and the Failure of Women's Education (1976). Baker’s other books on U.S. legal history included Miranda: Crime, Law and Politics, The Justice From Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes and The Second Battle of New Orleans: The Hundred-Year Struggle to Integrate the Schools. More
New York: Macmillan, [1974]. First Printing. 24 cm, 246, illus., index, abrasion and pencil erasure on front endpaper, book slightly cocked, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears, and chips. More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. ix, [1], 246 pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Fep has tear and small punctures at bottom. Marilyn Baker (1929-20010 covered many major stories during her long career in print and broadcast journalism. After beginning her career as a newspaper journalist, she joined KPIX-TV in San Francisco in 1974. She is best known for her award-winning investigation of the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst by the militant group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and expanded her initial reportage of the case into the book Exclusive! The Inside Story of Patricia Hearst and the SLA. Hearst, a descendant of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped from her Berkeley, California apartment by the SLA in 1974. She alleged that her captors, radical leftists, then brainwashed her and forced her to denounce the capitalist "crimes" of her family. She was also forced, she claimed, to participate in a series of robberies. Hearst traveled across the country with the SLA until September 18, 1975, when she was apprehended by FBI agents in San Francisco. She went on trial and was convicted in March, 1976 of bank robbery and felonious use of firearms. She served three years of a seven-year sentence and was released in February, 1979. Baker was also involved with investigating the controversial Zebra serial murder case, when seventy-one whites in the San Francisco area were killed by black extremists between 1972 and 1974. She had a reputation as an aggressive journalist who did not shirk controversy. Her stories on guns and on Santa Cruz won local Emmy awards. More
New York, NY: Ford Foundation: Foreign Policy Association, 1989. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xiii, 158 p. 23 cm. Illustrations. Map (in color). Chronology. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. More
New York: The Free Press, 1986. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xii, [2], 289 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. More
Berkeley, CA: University of CA Press, 2000. First Printing. 265, index, binding/production mar on rear board and rear endpaper. More
New York: The Free Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 420 pages. Illus., notes, index. Name of previous owner present. DJ slightly worn and soiled. The author, a distinguished sociologist, recovers the full glory of the lost amateur age in this authoritative and affectionate history of men's tennis. For all who love the game, this is both a fascinating history and abadly needed analysis of what made the sport great. Includes detailed accounts of the greatest players and matches in the history of tennis. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [c1934]. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 357, boards worn, especially at edges, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. 307, notes, bibliography, index. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1976. Later printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10.25 inches. Some cover soiling. xxiii, [1], 917, 1[1] pages. Bibliography. Index of Authors and titles. Minor edge soiling. Inscribed by Barksdale on fep. Inscription reads To Steve & Leslie with sincere best wishes! Richard K. Barksdale Grennell, 1987. Richard Kenneth Barksdale (1915-1993) was a teacher, scholar and University of Illinois (UI) professor emeritus credited with pioneering the study of black literature. Richard was a professor and administrator for 47 years. He worked at a number of Historical Black Colleges and Universities to include Tougaloo College, Southern University, North Carolina Central University, Morehouse College, and Atlanta University. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in 1971. Richard was a specialist in 18th Century and African American Literature. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; Master’s Degrees in English from Syracuse University and Harvard University and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Harvard University. In 1972, with Kenneth Kinnamon, Mr. Barksdale published "Black Writers of America," a pioneering anthology that had an enormous impact in shaping the study of Black American literature and culture. Kinnamon was head of the University of Arkansas English Department from 1982-2002 and was head of the English Department at the University of Illinois from 1965-1982. He received a B.A. from the University of Texas and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was Elythl Pumphrey Stevens Chair of American Literature at the University of Arkansas. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1988. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 270 pages. Front DJ flap price clipped, slight wear and soiling to DJ, some page discoloration. Signed by the co-author (Munder). More
New York: The Century Co., 1927. First? Edition. First? Printing. 251 pages, illus., maps (some fold-out), index, boards worn and soiled, spine frayed at edges, some pencil marks and erasures in margin. More
New York, N.Y. Doubleday, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [4], 512 pages. Minor soiling to bottom edge. Includes Illustrations, Footnotes, Acknowledgments, Prelude, Notes, Appendix, and Index. Chapters include Searching for Root; The Free State of Winston; The Growing-Up Years; Manhood Responsibilities; Off to the War; A Good Life in Jasper; Road to Montgomery; A Long Row to Hoe; Johnson and Rives; Early Years in Montgomery; A Trailblazing Court; The Evolving Storm; Freedom Riders; The Break with Little George; Close to Home; Ticking the Last Tick; Selma; Family Sorrows; Neighborhood Schools; Justice Johnson--Almost; The Right to Treatment; A Hell of a Day; Unfit for Human Habitation; Going to the FBI; Putting My Hay Down; Troopers; Overcoming Discrimination; Recognition and Acclaim; Appellate Judge; An Onerous Job; The Death Penalty; and Mark of a Man. Jack Bass is an American author and journalist. He was born in 1934. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1956 with a degree in journalism. He worked at The News and Courier, a co-owned weekly paper, The West Ashley Journal, and The State (Columbia). He received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard for 1965–66. From 1966 to 1973 Bass worked as the Columbia Bureau Chief for The Charlotte Observer and was a lecturer for journalism at the University of South Carolina. He was named South Carolina Newspaperman of the Year in 1968 and 1972. His The Transformation of Southern Politics was on the American Library Association's "Notable Books for Adults List" for 1976, and he received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for "Taming the Storm" in 1994. More
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet, [c1998]. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 359, pages. Illus., chapter notes, index. Presentation copy signed by both authors. More
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, Inc., [c1998]. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 359 pages. Illus., chapter notes, index, front DJ flap price clipped. Signed by the author (Bass). More
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, Inc., [c1998]. First Printing. 24 cm, 359, illus., chapter notes, index, printing defect pp. 31-34 (p. 32 was slightly stuck to p. 33--no loss of text; pp. 33-34 creased). More