[light handling wear only]. This is an assemblage, I guess you'd call it, of the relevant pages from four issues of Congressional Quarterly, in which were printed the full transcripts of the four debates between Presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, held on September 26, October 7, October 13, and October 21, 1960. The four sections have been neatly stapled together, and cumulatively present 28 double-columned pages of text (with a large red X drawn across the extra pages on which no debate text appears). These were, of course, "historic" events in every sense... View More...
[nice clean copy, short closed tear in bottom edge of front cover, slight bumping/bending to lower fore-edge, some discoloration to a couple of pages from a laid-in magazine clipping about an Oppenheimer-related play by Heinar Kipphardt]. Trade PB A passionate defense of Oppenheimer in the wake of the politically-motivated revocation of his security clearance following hearings by the Atomic Energy Commission in April-May 1954, the book also presents "an indictment of the government's present security system." An Appendix reproduces some of the key supporting documents for the author... View More...
(price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear to book, previous owner's commercial bookplate on front pastedown; jacket a little edgeworn, a bit of paper loss at both ends of spine, light soiling to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) A history of the early Civil Rights era in the South, focusing not directly on the movement itself but rather on the fight put up against it by the segregationist/white supremacist elements in the region. In the book, blurbed as "the first scholarly work to deal definitively with the politics of southern resistance to public school desegregation," "the author view... View More...
[good solid copy, minor wear to extremities, one-time owner's signature at lower corner of front endpaper, vintage bookseller's label (Winch & Marshall, San Jose, California) on rear pastedown; jacket heavily browned at spine (which also has a couple of puncture-tears), some minor chipping at spine ends]. (woodcuts; endpaper maps) This "first comprehensive popular account of the march of exploration, settlement and development toward the West, from the early days of the colonies to the disappearance of the last frontier at the end of the past century" is, pretty much, the white man's version o... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderate wear at extremities, both hinges cracked (the front more severely than the rear), private "Ex Libris" bookplate on front pastedown; all photographic plates are present (one illustrating the beginning of each major section of the book), but one is detached from the binding]. (11 B&W photographic plates) A collection of papers presented at the conferences referenced in the book's subtitle, held during two weeks in May 1911. Following some introductory matter (including the comments of Jane Addams regarding the "Opening of the Exhibit"), the papers are... View More...
[minimal shelfwear to book; jacket has a couple of tiny closed tears at top edge, minor scuff wear along spine]. (B&W photographs) "In the moving book, Japanese Americans tell in their own words of their experiences during the evacuation to internment camps" in the months following Pearl Harbor. Although not explicitly stated as such, this would appear to be targeted to high school-age readers. Source notes; glossary; selected bibliography; index. View More...
[very faint soiling to top edge; jacket shows minimal surface wear]. (B&W photographs, cartoons) History of the 1950's that "rescues this much-maligned decade from the oblivion to which it has undeservedly been consigned. Far from being stagnant, [the author] argues, the fifties had a richness, both political and cultural, that we are only now beginning to appreciate. It was an era of self-confidence and growth, when Americans were attempting to tell each other--and the world--who they were and where they thought they were going." View More...
[a trace of wear to bottom edge, minor soiling to top edge, in all other respects a nice clean book; jacket a little edgeworn, red lettering on spine faded to pink but still readable, one tiny closed tear near top front hinge, minor scrape mark at top of spine]. This "Special Bicentennial Publication" highlights "the direct and indirect role the Italians played during America's formative years when the Declaration of Causes, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were published to the world. William Paca, Charles Bellini, Philip Mazzei, and Jose... View More...
[dust-darkening to top edge, otherwise a nice solid copy with only minimal handling wear; jacket moderately soiled (especially at edges), slightly browned at spine, a few tiny tears]. (one photographic plate, tables, forms) Study focusing an "a neglected form of child labor," namely that performed by "newsboys, bootblacks, peddlers, messengers and other juvenile street workers." The author makes a case that this work should not simply be regulated, but actually prohibited. Especially interesting are the appendixes, which reproduce a number of forms then in use for the licens... View More...
(gilt- and silver-embossed illustrated cover; no dust jacket) [moderate wear to extremities, boards a bit exposed at bottom corners, a couple of tiny pin-holes in spine cloth, bumping and light fraying to cloth at spine ends, half-inch tear at bottom rear hinge, gilt spine lettering dulled but readable; these depredations notwithstanding, this is still an attractive and solidly-bound book, internally clean except for a contemporaneous (1903) Christmas gift inscription on the verso of the frontispiece; SEE NOTES about "missing" map]. (woodcuts in text; frontispiece + 22 plates) This volume col... View More...
[solid copy with minimal shelfwear, tiny stain on bottom edge of text block; jacket has a couple of tiny nicks at top of spine, a couple of small closed tears along top edge of rear panel, very light surface rubbing]. (cartoon drawings) In the wake of the violent events of 1968 (including the RFK and MLK assassinations), a leading Spanish cartoonist took a harsh look at America's culture of violence by juxtaposing quotations from Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America," orginally published in 1835 and 1840, with politically-themed cartoons depicting conditions and events in the modern-... View More...
[nice tight clean copy, the barest trace of shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket shows very light handling wear]. (frontispiece diagram) "A spellbinding, minute-by-minute account of the most famous disaster in American history -- the fire in Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub that, on November 28, 1942, claimed 491 lives. In a masterful work of reportage, [the author] has re-created that terrible night -- the horror of the fire, the heroics of the medical workers (that night Boston hospitals treated more burn victims than London's did on the worst night of the Blitz), the stories of the victi... View More...
[nice-looking copy with light external wear, BUT be aware that there is a considerable amount of blue hi-liting through the last one-third of the book]. Trade PB (maps, photographs, drawings) This "part novel, part research text" about the events of November 22, 1963 presents "dozens of pages of official documents and illustrations, including documents suppressed or altered during the official investigation." (Or perhaps, in the spirit of the thing, they should say "official investigation"; or maybe official "investigation.") The binding and organization of th... View More...
[no discernible wear to book; jacket sun-browned at spine, tiny chip at top front hinge, a couple of teensy nicks along top edge]. (endpaper maps, B&W illlustrations) A day-by-day account of one of the bloodiest riots in American history, which resulted in approximately 1,200 deaths and millions of dollars of property damage. (These events formed part of the background of Martin Scorsese's 2002 film GANGS OF NEW YORK.) View More...
[solid copy, minor shelfwear, gilt/black lettering/decoration on spine and front cover strong and bright, soiling/spotting to top edge and some foxing to fore-edge, annotation by previous owner on ffep with regard to original purchase of book; jacket is soiled and edgeworn, some water-spotting (particularly along spine), small tear at bottom of rear panel, small chip at top front hinge]. (B&W plates) Historical novel of the Seven Years War (aka the French and Indian War), fought between the French and the British on colonial soil (i.e., Canada and the future U.S.) from 1754 through 1760, focu... View More...
[nice copy, tight and clean, appears unread, no discernible wear; jacket has a tiny bit of wrinkling at bottom left-hand corner of front panel, otherwise bright and clean]. The author "set out some twenty-five years ago to write the book that would prove conclusively the innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti, but in his research he found the evidence against them overwhelming. Instead, his book 'Tragedy in Dedham,' which appeared in 1962, was one of the first direct challenges to the theory of their innocence. Since then many other books have been written preserving the theory of their innocen... View More...
[a touch of soiling to bottom edge, spine lettering a little faded]. Trade PB Another in the author's series of "interpretations of American history," with literary meditations (in both prose and verse) on more than one hundred events, ranging from the pre-Columbian era (870-994 A.D.) through the Vietnam War. View More...
(maroon buckram, gilt lettering; no dust jacket, as issued) [minimal shelfwear, lower corners lightly bumped]. Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the Department of History, Southern Illinois University, October 1976. [Photocopy of original typescript, 243 pages; solidly bound]. "Examines American-Liberian relations since the foundation of the settlement in 1820, but with special emphasis on the years 1923 to 1947." View More...
[only moderately shelfworn, although with slightly more than average age-toning due to cheap paper employed]. Trade PB The author, "internationally recognized as one of the world's leading non- Communist authorities on the philosophy of Marxism-Leninism," spent a total of ten days on the stand as an expert defense witness in three of the Smith Act trials of the 1950s, and here gives his analysis of the issues involved. View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [good solid copy, very light shelfwear, very faint pencil marks (mostly little tiny dots) in margins throughout book (NO underlining, however)]. (Contributions in American History, No. 114) Series (++) View More...
