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Softcover. Amherst MA, White River Press , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 462 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of the impact and consequences caused by the use of inflammatory racially-related language during a police investigation conducted by the Vermont State Police. Beginning in 1968 with the Irasburg Affair when a White man fired shotgun blasts into a home occupied by a Black family, the story describes in detail the course of the investigation. Adverse publicity about the Vermont State Police's work alleging racism within its ranks ensued resulting in its managers withdrawing from public view and refusing to work with the legislature in the next years causing significant internal problems.They finally came to the forefront in 1979 when a despondent trooper committed suicide at the state house in Montpelier in an event called the Router Bit Affair that led to significant reforms beginning in1980. Includes bibliographical references and an index. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley, Black Lizard, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market reprint of the 1947 Goodis classic. A flawless copy of this Black Lizard reprint.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 92 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket illustrated and black & white frontispiece by Jerry Pickney. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt title on front and spine. No date on title page but states Twenty-First Edition. 416 pages. An early printing of the second Uncle Remus book, illustrated with frontispiece and 19 plates by Frederick Church. While working for the Atlanta Constitution in 1876, Harris "invented Uncle Remus" He published Uncle Remus pieces regularly in the Constitution, and they were extremely popular. In 1880 he collected them into his first book. Remus was a composite of three elderly slaves he had known, the stories themselves were his retellings of old African American tales. He rigorously researched his material, often collecting several versions of the same story until he felt he had the most authentic one. Hinges cracked, but generally a bright, clean copy of this title.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st thus, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 171 pages. Black & white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Dust jacket price clipped and lightly soiled. Dust jacket chipping at spine.

Hardcover. Chicago, Whitman, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pgs w/ color & 2-color Illustrations throughout by Eleanor Mussey Young. Small blemish to back boards otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , H. L. Lindquist Publisher, 1st, 1947, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcovers, 2 Volumes. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGES. 319 + 305 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Black cloth, gilt lettering. Dust jackets chipped and worn with faded spines, Tape-residue to front cover of volume 2. Internally very good.

Hardcover. New York, J.H. Sears & Co. Inc., 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Cloth boards with color paste-down illustration of Nip and Tuck on cover. Illustrated with black & white drawings and six full page color illustrations by Leila C. Freeman. Faint rubbing on front cover along spine approx. 1". Minor wear to spine top and bottom and corners. Printed bookplate has light crayon printing over letters. A beautiful book.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Light rubbing to cover boards.

Hardcover. Boston, Gambit, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 194 pages. A collection of David Levine's political cartoons, which were selected and introduced by John Kenneth Galbraith, a companion to Pens and Needles, another volume of literary caricatures by John Updike. It covers the American political scene in detail from Joseph McCarthy to Nixon, along with drawings of Lyndon Johnson, and Hubert Humphrey. Illustrated in black and white and indexed.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st US, 1863, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 278 pages. Black & white illustrations by John McLenan. Frontispiece of Collins with tissue guard. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Water stain to top corner of pages throughout. Front hinge cracked at top. Spots of discoloration throughout. Soiling and rubbing to covers. Fading to spine.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white pictures in center. Tight copy.

Softcover. n/a, self-published, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover booklet, 48 pages. Black and white pictures throughout. Scarce self-published book.

Softcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 116 pages. Exhibition catalog. Letter from editor laid in. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light sun-fade to covers. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. A little mark from paper clip on title page. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 126 pages, line drawings in brown by Paul Brown. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, light shelf wear, tanning to endpapers, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

Softcover. Pomeroy OH, Carpenter Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, illustrated by David Lynas. Includes numerous black and white photos of attractive female nudes. Ribald adventure in the style of Henry Miller. Johnson's second novel to be published, though the third to be written, takes up the whole issue of who gets published and why. It takes as its main subject the uproarious literary politics of the late 60's, when the government first set up the National Endowment for the Arts, and fools and crooks and serious editors asked for money to keep small-scale literary operations afloat in a sea of conglomerate-owned houses and declining public taste. One of the best parts is the description of the first COSMEP (Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers) meeting. The two main characters, a truck driver named Gasserpod Peasporr Slocum, and his mentor, a small magazine editor, Ellis Schoenobatic, take us on a marvelous tour of the USA, into all the current scenes -- political, artistic, sexual -- and finally back to Sausalito and the girl they left behind. Clean copy.

NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth, gilt title on spine faded. 74 pages, translated from the German into English by Richard L. Simon. Stream of consciousness novella of pre-WWI Vienna. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 127 pages. Color, black and white illustrations by Leslie Brooke. Dust jacket price-clipped. Clean.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket missing half-dollar sized chunk at top of spine with additional small chunks and chips missing along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Bennington, VT, Images from the Past, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 86 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Bill Hodges Gallery, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages with color and b&w plates throughout. Includes the work of Norman Lewis, Charles Alston, Milton Avery, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthe, Edward Clark, Sam Gilliam, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles White, Kehinde Wiley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and more.

Hardcover. NY, G. Howard Watt, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped with black lettering and dog's profile. Color frontis by Charles Livingston Bull, 302 pages. Mystery novelist's scarce first book, chronicling the adventures of a German Shepherd living in the Canadian Northwest. Bookplate on inside front cover, front fly leaf missing. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 338 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. After the triumphs of Montgomery and Selma, Martin Luther King, Jr., rallied his forces and headed north. The law was on his side, the nation seemed to be behind him, the crusade for civil rights was rapidly gathering momentum--and then, in Chicago, heartland of America, the movement stalled. What happened? This book is the first to give us the full story--a vivid account of how the Chicago Freedom Movement of 1965-1967 attempted to combat northern segregation. Northern Protest captures this new kind of campaign for civil rights at a fateful turning point, with effects that pulse through the nation's race relations to the day. James Ralph has written the fullest and most perceptive account yet to appear of the 1966 civil-rights campaign in Chicago, a crucial event in the history of the movement. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, , 1st thus, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light tan cloth, black and gilt design on spine, 709 pages. Title page with 1937 date and title in orange. Endpaper maps in color. (route map in front and map of United States in back). The 1st printing was a two-volume limited edition. No indication of other printing on copyright page. The story of Rogers' Rangers expedition against St. Francis, on the Maine/Quebec border, during the French and Indian Wars. Spine title faded with mild chipping. No dust jacket. Clean copy.