Item 613352U.S. Camera Annual 1952
U.S. Camera Publishing Corp. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Cocked. Corners bumped, boards scuffed, spine faded. Stated First Edition. Cocked. Corners bumped, boards scuffed, spine faded.
HISTORY
Item 613351U.S. Camera 1951: American-International
U.S. Camera Publishing Corp. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Water damage to side edges of front and back boards, and pages closest to boards. Corners curling, boards scuffed, spine faded. Stated First Edition. Water damage to side edges of front and back boards, and pages closest to boards. Corners.....
Item 613350U.S. Camera 1950: International Edition
U.S. Camera Publishing Corp. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Corners are wearing through, covers scuffed, spine is faded. Stated First Edition. Corners are wearing through, covers scuffed, spine is faded.
Item 613349U.S. Camera 1949
U.S. Camera Publishing Corporations. Hardcover.
Item 613326The Horizon Book of Ancient Rome
American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc. Hardcover. In slipcase, which has some shelf wear and minor chipping. Clean, tight and square. Age spotting to top edge of book block. In slipcase, which has some shelf wear and minor chipping. Clean, tight and square. Age spotting to top edge of book block.....
Stock Image
Item 613278Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
Liveright Publishing Corporation, October 2019. Hardcover. In a feat of remarkable research and timely reclamation, Eric K. Washington uncovers the nearly forgotten life of James H. Williams (1878-1948), the chief porter of Grand Central Terminal's Red Caps--a multitude of Harlem-based black men whom he organized into the essential labor force.....
Item 613273The Superwarriors: The Fantastic World of Pentagon Superweapons
Weybright and Talley. Hardcover. This book has the ISBN 0679401261 on the copyright page, but that corresponds to another book, 'Tender', which this is not -- this is 'The Superwarriors' by Canan. This book has the ISBN 0679401261 on the copyright page, but that corresponds to another book, 'Tender', which.....
Stock Image
Item 613270Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, September 2006. Trade Paperback. The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a......
Stock Image
Item 613269Between the World and Me
One World, July 2015. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF OPRAH'S "BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH" - NOW AN.....
Stock Image
Item 517972The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Metropolitan Books, January 2020. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION "An essential, sweeping history of the American frontier, its end and what it has meant to our nation's sense of itself."--Los Angeles Times A new and eye-opening interpretation of.....
Stock Image
Item 613232Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Revised, Updated)
Simon & Schuster, October 2020. Trade Paperback. *The basis for the documentary Join or Die--now streaming on Netflix!* Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet--the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of.....
Stock Image
Item 612931American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
Liveright Publishing Corporation, May 2019. Trade Paperback. On a clear morning in July 1804, Alexander Hamilton stepped onto a boat at the edge of the Hudson River. He was bound for a New Jersey dueling ground to settle his bitter dispute with Aaron Burr. Hamilton took just two men with.....
Stock Image
Item 612895God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
Knopf, April 2018. Hardcover. A New York Times Notable Book National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist An NPR Best Book of the Year God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most.....
Item 612894The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
Harper, October 2013. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on first front end page. Previous owner's name on first front end page. Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the.....
Item 612888Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Harper, September 2013. Hardcover. Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan's cultural biography, Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, focuses on white women, collectively called "Miss Anne," who became Harlem Renaissance insiders. The 1920s in New York City was a time of freedom, experimentation, and passion--with Harlem at.....
Stock Image
Item 612878I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King Jr.
Free Press, January 2000. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on first front end page and bottom of book block. Previous owner's name on first front end page and bottom of book block. Where is Martin Luther King, Jr. when we need him? So much has changed since the glory days of.....
Stock Image
Item 612870The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Random House, September 2010. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on first front end page in pen. Previous owner's name on first front end page in pen. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - TIME'S TEN BEST.....
Stock Image
Item 612866The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
Atlantic Monthly Press, February 2016. Hardcover. "A history cum memoir by Lena Horne's daughter tells the story of her forebears . . . eloquently conveys . . . how politics and prejudice can shape a family." --The New Yorker In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley--daughter of actress Lena Horne--delves.....
Stock Image
Item 612847You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
Celadon Books, January 2025. Trade Paperback. From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign--ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America. It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager.....
Stock Image
Item 183788The Souls of Black Folk (Bantam Classics)
Bantam Classics, July 1989. Mass Market Paperback. "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published.....
Item 612748Farmers Market (Los Angeles Souvenir Pamphlet)
PAMPHLET. Publishing est. ~1950. Publishing est. ~1950.
Stock Image
Item 612698A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Little Brown and Company, January 1993. Hardcover. Dust jacket has been taped to book with four pieces of scotch tape. Dust jacket has been taped to book with four pieces of scotch tape. "A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of.....
Stock Image
Item 612694Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth
Monthly Review Press, January 1992. Trade Paperback. The true history of Christopher Columbus and his fateful voyage In this beautifully written revisionist biography, accessible to people of all ages, Hans Koning gives us the true history of Columbus' life and voyages. Koning describes how Columbus' consuming drive to send mountains.....
Item 612692The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream
Pantheon, August 1988. Hardcover.
Item 612687Man's Rise to Civilization: The Cultural Ascent of the Indians of North America
Penguin Books, October 1991. Trade Paperback. The publication of this book in 1968 marked the first comprehensive examination of the history and culture of native Americans. Today this work continues to stand as one of the major summaries of the indigenous societies of North America with its explication of such.....