Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1937. First Edition. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "To Charles F. Hanke, an accurate observer, an able administrator and a true friend of the Indian, J.P. Kinney." Octavo; xv + 366pp, including bibliography, appendix, and index. Four pages of B&W documentary photographs plus..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Limited Edition. Signed by the author without inscription and numbered 769 of 1000 on full title. Octavo; x, 564pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Gilt page edges and printed marbled endpapers. Housed in paper-covered box with illustration from original dust..... More
N.p.: Stanley L. Klos, 2008. Set of 15 two-sided, laminated cards (6" x 4"); featuring a "forgotten founder" of the United States on one side and a capitol building, state seal, or other item of significance on verso. Set has two John Hancock cards, one with George Washington on reverse..... More
Roger Brooke Taney was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1836 through 1864. He was an antagonist of Lincoln, a Southern sympathizer, and, most famously, ruled in 1857 in the Dred Scott case that African Americans could not be considered citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery... More
![Modern Man is Obsolete [Signed with TLS to William Safire; prev. Tex McCrary Copy]. Norman Cousins](/pictures/thumb/5942.jpg?v=1578937756)
New York: The Viking Press, 1945. First Edition. Signed by the author to journalist William Safire on front pastedown in 1976 with inscription "For Bill Safire - Who puts me deep in his debt by knowing that it* even existed. With admiration, Norman Cousins. June 5, 1976. *(We may be..... More
Cambridge / Boston: The Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. Stated First Printing. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "For Carl Claudy, with best wishes from one who has long admired your sense of humor, your imagination, and your facility with the English language. Walker..... More
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990. First Edition. Octavo; 225pp. Printed beige dust jacket over red cloth-covered boards with black lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn with some nudging to head of spine and a few small, stray smudges. Boards are clean and sturdy, with a light roll to spine..... More
New York: Dial Press, 1945. First Edition. Octavo. 218 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$2.50" price present. Grey boards with spine stamped in black and gilt. Powell represented Harlem as Congressman from 1945 - 1970. This book recounts instances of economic discrimination against African Americans, and begins..... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. 64 pages. Black and white illustrations. Lacks dust jacket. A series of humorous letters from Norman to various Government official. Norman, playing the role of the Forgotten Man, begins by writing to the President, gets lost in New Deal government..... More
![Contributions of Black Women to America [2 Volumes]. Volume 1: The Arts, Business & Commerce,...](/pictures/thumb/5891.jpg?v=1578517449)
Columbia, SC: Kenday Press, Inc., 1982. First Edition. Large Octavos. 591 + 472 pages. Photographic dust jackets are creased along edges with some chipping. One larger, quarter-sized chip to bottom of rear panel of volume 2. Black cloth boards are stamped in gilt at spine and front. Light wear to..... More
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Friends of the John Dickinson Mansion, 1983. First Edition. Octavo; xii + 338pp, including index. Full-color frontispiece portrait of Dickinson by Charles Willson Peale. Dust jacket front has the Peale portrait in full color; jacket back shows photograph of mansion. Brown boards with..... More