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Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated by Nelson. SIGNED BY NELSON on title page. Featuring nearly fifty iconic oil paintings and a dramatic double-page fold-out, an award-winning narrative, a gorgeous design and rich backmatter, We Are the Ship is a sumptuous, oversize volume for all ages that no baseball fan should be without. Using an inviting first-person voice, Kadir Nelson shares the engaging story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its evolution, until after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947.

Hardcover. Gretna LA, Pelican Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In June 1892, a thirty-year-old shoemaker named Homer Plessy bought a first-class railway ticket from his native New Orleans to Covington, north of Lake Pontchartrain. The two-hour trip had hardly begun when Plessy was arrested and removed from the train. Though Homer Plessy was born a free man of color and enjoyed relative equality while growing up in Reconstruction-era New Orleans, by 1890 he could no longer ride in the same carriage with white passengers. Plessy's act of civil disobedience was designed to test the constitutionality of the Separate Car Act, one of the many Jim Crow laws that threatened the freedoms gained by blacks after the Civil War. This largely forgotten case mandated separate-but-equal treatment and established segregation as the law of the land. It would be fifty-eight years before this ruling was reversed by Brown v. Board of Education. Keith Weldon Medley brings to life the players in this landmark trial, from the crusading black columnist Rodolphe Desdunes and the other members of the Comite des Citoyens to Albion W. Tourgee, the outspoken writer who represented Plessy, to John Ferguson, a reformist carpetbagger who nonetheless felt that he had to judge Plessy guilty. Clean copy.

Softcover. Detroit, Broadside Press, 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in stapled wrappers, 71 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 164 pages plus plus publisher's ads, B&W line iiiustrations. Brown cloth with black and gilt design.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A retelling in story form of five of Shakespeare's works: The Tempest, As You Like It, Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Julius Caesar. Colour and black and white illustrations by Hungarian-British artist Victor Ambrus.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Symeon Shimin. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 365 pages, b&w illustrations. Professor Myres gives frontier women a voice they never had. She uses extensive source material by and about women ( letters, journals, and reminiscences from over 400 collections ) to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West. She offers a major reinterpretation of the experience of pioneer women, including that of Indian, Mexican, French, black, and Anglo-American women. The account recreates in detail the frontier experience of all these women, beginning with their physical and intellectual responses to the trek West, and concluding with their struggle for political suffrage and economic opportunity. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Beverly Hills CA, Petersen Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, the original softcover catalog, bound in faux-leather boards with gilt lettering. 124 pages. 40 color plates, plus numerous black and white photographs. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, October 30 through November 28, 1981. Great reference on the topic and much information on some lesser-known artists. Small ink price on front fly leaf, otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pictorial color paste-done on front cover. 416 pages, 9 color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Discoloration to rear board, small gouge to bottom corner of pages 140-159, not affecting text or plates. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped, lightly worn dust jacket. 240 pages, turquoise cloth covers, silver lettered spine. Red-violet endpapers, top outer edge tinted black. Jacket design by Antiono Frasconi. Novel based on the slave societies of the West Indies in the 1750s. No markings.

Softcover. Essex New York , Eyrie Publications , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Spiral bound softcover. Black & white photographs and maps throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Map of Whallonsburg, New York laid-in. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st wraps, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. SIGNED BY KOREN on title-page. Black & white illustrations by Edward Koren. Red remainder mark on top edge at spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch Limited, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 93 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white illustrations by Quentin Blake. Dust jacket with light wear, slight fading along top edge. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black and gilt stamping, 291 pages. Gift exchange plays a crucial role in the social and political organization of Mendi in Papua New Guinea. This book reveals how considerable light can be shed on Mendi society, particularly on its political economy, by examining both the well-known ceremonial exchange festivals and the hitherto relatively little-studied everyday gift-giving practices. The author shows that the latter are crucial for understanding inter-group politics, the process of leadership, male-female relationships and the status of women, and the production, distribution and circulation of wealth. Currently the only book available on this society, the work offers an unusual combination of a social structural analysis with a study of local history and change. It is also of interest for its integration of the study of gift exchange and politics with the study of gender roles and relationships. Clean, bright copy.

Art Intitute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 251 pages illustrated in color. The extraordinary life of a captivating American artist, beautifully illustrated with his dreamlike drawings Much of Joseph Elmer Yoakum's story comes from the artist himself--and is almost too fantastic to believe. At a young age, Yoakum (1891-1972) traveled the globe with numerous circuses; he later served in a segregated noncombat regiment during World War I before settling in Chicago. There, inspired by a dream, he began his artistic career at age seventy-one, producing some two thousand drawings over a decade. How did Yoakum gain representation in major museum collections in Chicago and New York? What fueled his process, which he described as a "spiritual unfoldment"? This volume delves into the friendships Yoakum forged with the Chicago Imagists that secured his place in art history, explores the religious outlook that may have helped him cope with a racially fractured city, and examines his complicated relationship to African American and Native American identities. With hundreds of beautiful color reproductions of his dreamlike drawings, it offers the most comprehensive study of the artist's work, illuminating his vivid and imaginative creativity and giving definition and dimension to his remarkable biography. Clean copy. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, yellow boards stamped in black. Light edgewear, o/w very good. The wonderful world of 1950s cartoons! A "carnival" of cartoons compiled by This Week magazine editors, including work by Bil Keane, Chon Day, Ronald Searle, Ton Smits, Charles Pearson. Gives brief bios of some of the cartoonists with photos. Dust jacket worn, tape repairs.

Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illustrations by Ray Cruz. Very minor wear to dust jacket. Like new. Hardbound.

Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st UK, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice dust jacket.. Introductions by Bob Hope and Charlton Heston. Black & white photos. 220 pages. A selection of publicity photos from Hollywood's Golden Age.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead and Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Brown cloth with decorative binding in three colors plus gilt by Margaret Armstrong. Front hinge cracked, some wear to top and bottom of spine cloth, otherwise clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Reynal and Hitchcock, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a tattered and chipped dust jacket. Off-white cloth with black spine title. 217 pages, b&w drawings by the author. Translated from the French, Quand les Cathedrales Etaient Blanches, by Francis E. Hyslop, Jr. Dj is poor with tape repair to the reverse side. Book has a small stamp to the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Indentations on back cover otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

hardcover. NY, Coward, McCann & Gegoghegan, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Tom Allen

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, 241 pages. Young adult adventure about the days of sail and a young girl's determination to find her parents, lost on a trip around the horn on the bark 'Pandora.' Set in a small town on the Maine coast, where the coming of the trading schooners was a celebrated event. Illustrated by Joshua Tolford with sepia toned illustrations. Light fade to spine, otherwise very good, clean.