And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography
Place_Pub: New York: Harper & Row, c1989. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 638, illus., appendix, index, front DJ flap creased, some creasing to DJ edges. More
Negroes
Report of Working Group on Human Behaviour Under Conditions of Military Service
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Defense, 1953. First? Edition. 426, illus. (fold-out), footnotes, bibliography, declassification stamp on title page (front and back). More
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Easton Press, 2015. Signed Collector's Edition. Leather bound and boxed. [8], 281, [1] pages. Boxed, With Certificate of Authenticity laid in, signed by Maya Angelou and witnessed by Mildred Garris on 2/16/99. Also signed by Roy S. Pfeil, Publisher. Signed on a special signature page by Maya Angelou with the sentiment Joy!. Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult. She was an actress, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. In 1982, she was named the first Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement and worked with Martin Luther King Jr. With the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou publicly discussed aspects of her personal life. She was respected as a spokesperson for black people and women, and her works have been considered a defense of black culture. Her books center on themes such as racism, identity, family and travel. More
American Heroes of Asian Wars
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1968]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 128, illus., maps, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn and stained: sm tears, sm chips, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
All Brave Sailors: The Story of the SS Booker T. Washington
New York: L. B. Fischer, 1945. 208, discoloration inside boards, embossed stamp on front flyleaf, DJ worn and small tears: small pieces missing at spine. More
The Story of the Schenectady Massacre; Published under the auspices of the Schenectady Chamber of Commerce and the Schenectady County Historical Society in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the burning of the palisaded village of Schenectady and the massacre of its inhabitants by the French and Indians during the night of Feb. 8, 1690
Schenectady, NY: Committee on Memorial Publications, 1940. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 24 pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Map. Footnotes. Illustrated cover. List of Ye People kild and Destroyed by ye French of Canida and there Indians. Places of Historical Interest in Reference to the Massacre. List of Books. The Schenectady massacre was an attack against the village of Schenectady in the colony of New York on 8 February 1690. A party of more than 200 Frenchmen and allied Mohawk (from Kahnawake (Sault-Saint-Louis) and réserve de la Montagne) and Algonquin warriors attacked the unguarded community, destroying most of the homes, and killing or capturing most of its inhabitants. Sixty residents were killed, including 11 enslaved Africans. About 60 residents were spared, including 20 Mohawk. Of the non-Mohawk survivors, 27 were taken captive, including five Africans. Three captives were later redeemed; another two men returned to the village after three and 11 years with the Mohawk, respectively. The remainder of the surviving captives were likely adopted by Mohawk families in Canada. The French raid was in retaliation for the Lachine massacre, an attack by Iroquois forces on a village in New France. These skirmishes were related both to the Beaver Wars and the French struggle with the English for control of the fur trade in North America, as well as to King William's War between France and England. By this time, the French considered most of the Iroquois to be allied with the English colony of New York, and hoped to detach them while reducing English influence in North America. More
Nutrition and Food Supply: The War and After. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 225, 1/43
Philadelphia, PA: Am Academy of Pol & Soc Sci, 1943. Hardcover. 24 cm, 279 pages. Tables, diagrams, index, boards somewhat worn, faded, and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper, ink notation ins fr bd. More
The Americans; Volume II: The National Experience
New York: Random House, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. v, [5], 517, [1] pages. Bibiographical notes. Index. Slight weakness to front board. DJ soiled, some wear and small tears along top & bottom DJ edges. Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987. He was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. Repudiating his youthful membership in the Communist Party while a Harvard undergraduate (1938–39), Boorstin became a political conservative and a prominent exponent of consensus history. He argued in The Genius of American Politics (1953) that ideology, propaganda, and political theory are foreign to America. His writings were often linked with such historians as Richard Hofstadter, Louis Hartz and Clinton Rossiter as a proponent of the "consensus school", which emphasized the unity of the American people and downplayed class and social conflict. Boorstin especially praised inventors and entrepreneurs as central to the American success story. More
Television and the Public
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1973]. First Printing. 25 cm, 205, illus. More
One America: The History, Contributions, and Present Problems of Our Racial and National Minorities
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1945. Revised Edition. 24 cm, 717, illus., map, index, ink notation inside board, several pages have been folded at corner. More
The Black Man's Burden
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1943. Rev., Bk Club Edition. 252, maps, tables, pgs darkened, top margin p. 249 torn off (loss of a few words of text), edges of bds & spine worn. More
American Manners & Morals: A Picture History of How We Behaved and Misbehaved
New York: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1969. 29 cm, 399, illus. (some color), facsims., DJ worn, soiled, and torn. More
The South and Segregation
Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1965. 344, chapter notes, index, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ soiled and stained: small tears, small pieces missing. More
Documents on Medical Anthropology (Untrodden Fields of Anthropology), by A French Army-Surgeon. Facsimile 1898 Edition
Huntington, NY: Robert E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1972. Reprint Edition. 24 cm, 343 & 502, 2-vol. set, footnotes, bibliography, index, some marks and scratches to boards. More
Home Away From Home: The Story of the USO
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1946]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 221, illus., diagrams, endpaper maps, pencil erasure on half-title, DJ worn, chipped, and soiled. More
Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby
New York: BasicBooks, c1991. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 286, ink notation on front endpaper, slight wear to DJ edges. More
The Slaughter: An American Atrocity
Asheville, NC: FBC Inc., 1998. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 300 pages. Map, slight sticker residue on DJ. Signed by the author. More
Black Bibliography
Hayward, CA: California State College, [1969?]. 28 cm, 143, wraps, covers stapled, some wear and soiling to covers. More
The Costs of the World War to the American People
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1931. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 316, tables (1 fold-out), diagrams, usual library markings, front board weak. More
Black Soldier
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First Edition. 144, illus., rough spot ins fr flylf, tape stains ins fr bd, lib stamps ins fr & r flylf, rough spot on DJ spine, some wear to DJ. More
The Savage Ideal: Intolerance and Intellectual Leadership in the South, 1890-1914
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, [1972]. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 23 cm, 231 pages, footnotes, bibliographical essay, index, DJ worn and soiled, small tears/chips to DJ edges, large tear in front DJ (repaired inside the DJ with tape). Inscribed, dated, and signed by the author. More
Victorian Lady on the Texas Frontier: The Journal of Ann Raney Coleman
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. First? Edition. First? Printing. 19 cm, 206, illus., footnotes, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, boards slightly worn and soiled. More
Hospital care in the U.S.: A Study of the Function of the General Hospital, Its Role in the Care of All Types of Illness..
New York: Commonwealth Fund, 1947. 24 cm, 631, illus., index, corners bumped and edges soiled, rear board weak. More
Pluralist Democracy in the United States: Conflict and Consent
Chicago, Il: Rand McNally & Company, 1967. Reprint. Fourth printing, 1969. Hardcover. xix, 471 p. illus. 24 cm. Footnotes. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. More
Frontier on the Potomac
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 262, [2] pages. Index. DJ has wear, tears, chips, soiling, and a scuff on front, Jonathan Worth Daniels (April 26, 1902 – November 6, 1981) was an American author, editor, and White House Press Secretary. For most of his life, he worked at The News & Observer, and later founded The Island Packet. Jonathan Worth Daniels was the son of Josephus Daniels and Addie Worth Bagley Daniels. When his father became United States Secretary of the Navy in 1913, the family moved to Washington, D.C.. Daniels attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and graduated in 1921 with a B.A. He continued at UNC for graduate school, earning an M.A. in English in 1921. He edited The Daily Tar Heel Daniels passed the North Carolina bar exam, but never practiced law. After World War II began, Daniels went into government service, first as assistant director of the Office of Civilian Defense and later as one of six administrative assistants for President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who had worked under Josephus Daniels during World War I). In March 1945, less than one month before his death, Roosevelt named Daniels his press secretary, and he continued in the position temporarily under President Harry S. Truman. Daniels' term serving as White House Press Secretary was the shortest since the inception of the position in 1937. Daniels returned to The News & Observer in 1947 and became its editor in 1948. In 1966, he revealed the affair between Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd in his book The Time Between the Wars. More