Book itself is crisp, clean and fresh with no names or writing, no bumps to boards. Pages and page edges snow white. Jacket is most attractive with just a few isolated spots of light edgewear and a totally flat crease down length of front of dustjacket. Looks very handsome in brand new mylar. Book is the result of a symposium on this Ohio author who was actually blackballed for membership to the Rowfant Club after giving a talk there because he was half African American. Chestnutt was an attorney, political activist, essayist, and novelist with a strong interest in interracial relations post-C... View More...
Book is clean and tightly bound, but not without fault. There is chipping to both crown and tail of spine, at lower front corner, and to lower corner edges with cardboard showing for about an inch and a half up. A bit of light foxing on a few pages at front nd back, but overall clean save a few occasional spots.. Not seen often in its original binding. Ohio history with a national slant, as the small college town of Oberlin played a pivotal role in events leading to the Civil War as explained in this book. 280 pages. View More...
Very nice, clean, tightly bound book showing a small bit of wear to both crown and tail of spine. No names or writing -- only fault to contents is a very small stain to back free endpaper. Illustrated on coated paper. Includes full-page map. Chapters cover, among other topics, slave cases in the Vermont courts; the mulatto minister Lemuel Haynes; William Llloyd Garrison and the anti-slavery associations of Vermont; and both the Western and Eastern trunk lines of the Underground Railroad. Book measures 6-1/4"x9-1/4" and has 113 pages. View More...
Very clean, attractive book with no bumps to corners and no names or writing save inscription and SIGNATURE of the author which reads thus: "December, 1995, To -----, You're wonderful! Thank you so much. With grateful affection, Kathryn Talalay." A tragic story about a biracial woman who showed Mozartesque genius in childhood, especially for piano performance and composiition during the 1930's and 40's. In adulthood, however, America's Harlem protege dropped off the American map due to racism in the elite classical music community. 317 pages inclduing index. Photos at center of the bo... View More...
Crisp, beautifiul magazines with no names or writing and no spine creasing. Paper is crisp inside and out. Doubtful ever read. Each measures 6-1/24"x9-1/4". Among the topics are these: the Rumford Strike of 1986; William S. Braithwaite and the Poetics of Race; The Port Royal Experiment Revisited; New Haven's Italian Machine Gun Co. Enters WWI; Fanny Fern and the Literay Proprietorship in Antebellum America; Gelded Age Boston; Mother Ann Lee and Shaker Architecture; Proprietary Rights and the Charlestown Convent Riot; Hawthorne in the Province of Women; the Impact of Indentured Servitude on the... View More...
Crisp, clean book very likely to have never been read. Sharp corners, no bumps to boards, pristine pages, no tears or chips, and and no price-clip. The author's signature is on the title page -- it's the usual small version. The book is beautifully illustrated with drawings by Shiloh McCloud to accompany Walker's 48 new poems. Dustjacket will arrive in a brand new maylar ocver. View More...
ITEM # 8072 VERMONT'S ANTI - SLAVERY AND UNDERGROUND RAILROAD RECORD BY WILBUR SIEBERT PUB BY OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 1937 6 1/4 X 9 3/4 113 PGS HARD BACK THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN VERMONT . EXTENSIVE TEXT PLUS PHOTOS OF SOME PEOPLE AND PLACES INVOLVED PLUS A MAP OF THE ROUTES THROUGH THE STATE VERY GOOD CONDITION NO MARKS OR TEARS ,NOT EX LIB. CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT [ REG. AM . HIST ] View More...
