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![Image for Two Biographies by African-American Women: Biography of an American Bondman, by His Daughter. [with] Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany, Sub-Assistant Commissioner Bureau Relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th U.S. Colored Troops (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)](/assets/images/product/2203185.jpg "Two Biographies by African-American Women: Biography of an American Bondman, by His Daughter. [with] Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany, Sub-Assistant Commissioner Bureau Relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th U.S. Colored Troops (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)")
By: Andrews, William L.; Brown, Josephine; Rollin, Frank A.; Gates, Henry Louis
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203185
First edition. 1991 Hard Cover. xliii, 104, 367 pp. The book contains the biography of an American bondman William Wells Brown, which was written by his daughter Josephine Brown. It also presents the precedent-setting biography of Martin R. Delany, which helped to introduce an analytical approach to biography writing in African-American letters. An unabashed success story of one man's military career during the Civil War and his subsequent work in the Freedman's Bureau ... View more info
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Penguin Books, Inc.: 1969
Seller ID: 2198217
Edges rubbed. 1969 Mass Market Paperback. 263 pp. This collection of seventeen biographies contains the stories of twenty men and women, black and white, who have pioneered in the filed of black protest. Written by a leading black journalist-historian, this book highlights the lives and deeds of such figures as Crispus Attucks, Nat Turner, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Here is a vivid chronicle ... View more info
By: Branch, Taylor
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1998
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2273424
A nice copy. 1998 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 746 pp. In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle of a movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. In thi... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Penguin: 2005
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2268289
1st printing. Faint edge wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Fifty years after she made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Rosa Parks at last gets the major biography she deserves. The eminent historian Douglas Brinkley follows this thoughtful and devout woman from her childhood in Jim Crow Alabama through her early involvement in the NAACP to her epochal moment of courage and her afterlife as a beloved (and resented) ... View more info
By: Carver, Terrell
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hill and Wang: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201158
First edition. Jacket price clipped. 1981 Hard Cover. x, 85 pp. Engels is considered by some scholars to be the inventor of Marxism. His work converted one of the most influential political movements of modern times. He not only developed dialectal and historical materialism - the official philosophies of history and science in many communist countries - but was also the first Marxist historian, anthropologist, philosopher and commentator on the early Marx. This book beg... View more info
By: Chappell, Eleanor; O'Connor, Basil; Hayes, Helen
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Chilton Company - Book Division: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1905645
First edition. Extensively inscribed, signed, and dated Nov. 8, 1961 by Bea Wright on front endpaper, to Mrs. Howard Wood, a worker in the Mothers' March. She mentions the March of Dimes, the charity founded by FDR, who also suffered from the disease. Lacks jacket. Spine lightly faded. 1960 Hard Cover. ix, 105 pp. A biography of the dedicated activist who fought to raise awareness of, and support research towards a cure for, polio - the disease that confined her to a whe... View more info
By: Coward, Rosalind; Mandela, Nelson (Foreword)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 2004
Seller ID: 1852309
Includes original jacket. Bright copy. Foreword by Nelson Mandela.Near Fine. 2004 Large Hardcover. 368 pp. Comprehensive portrait of the life and humanitarian work of Diana, Princess of Wales authorized by the late Princess' Estate and her Memorial Fund. With gatefolds, acetate overlays, 100 exclusive images and 400 others chosen for their style or memorable qualities, this lavishly produced hardback is the ultimate keepsake to remember Diana by. The tragic death of Dian... View more info
By: de Gontaut, Armand Louis (The Duc de Lauzun); Meras, E. Jules
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Sturgis & Walton Company: 1912
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283711
First edition. Front hinge just beginning to weaken, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1912 Hard Cover. xi, [3], 364 pp. Original red cloth, gilt titles & rules, gilt fleur-de-lis and insect designs to corners of front board within blind-stamped rules. The memoirs of a French dignitary known by contemporaries as a 'favourite of Marie Antoinette.' Armand Louis de Gontaut, later the duc de Biron and often referred to by historians simply as Biron, played important roles... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: St. Martin's: 1993
Seller ID: 2282787
Faintly rubbed. 1993 Trade Paperback. Frederick Douglass has written a great story about the meaning of slavery and freedom in antebellum America. This edition provides the first extensive annotation of Douglass's tale of bondage and escape and self-made public career. View more info
By: Douglass, Frederick; Logan, Rayford W.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers: 1962
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2283215
Reissue. Jacket lightly toned. 1962 Hard Cover. 640 pp. 8vo. Reprinted from the revised edition of 1892, with a new introduction by Rayford W. Logan. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass' third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. The emancipation of American Slaves during and following the American Civil War allowed Douglass to go into greater specifics of both his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he cou... View more info
By: Dykeman, Wilma; Stokely, James
Price: $7.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1788596
First edition. Jacket toned, underlining throughout text. 1962 Hard Cover. xvi, 343 pp. 8vo. Had Will Alexander not shunned the limelight, he might already be a national legend, for he was the greatest white champion of the Negro cause in the South from 1915 to 1954. A farm boy who worked his way through Vanderbilt University and became a Methodist minister, he was a tireless enemy of the abuses, large and petty, which he saw around him. View more info
By: Fleming, Alice
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Sterling: 2008
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2281503
1st printing. Faint edge wear. 2008 Trade Paperback. The pastor of a small Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, King became the driving force of the civil rights movement when he led a black boycott of the city’s bus lines. His philosophy of nonviolence, and his breathtaking eloquence, helped free African Americans from decades of oppression and finally won them the rights—and opportunities—they deserved. View more info
By: Foner, Philip S.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: International Publishers: 1964
Seller ID: 2191627
Wrappers soiled & creased. 1964 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 95 pp. A collection of writings from the famous and beloved abolitionist, civil rights leader, and social activist. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Dial Press, Inc.: 1969
Edition: 7th Printing
Seller ID: 2263744
7th printing. Two light spine creases, wrappers lightly toned. 1969 Trade Paperback. [vi], 231, [3] pp. Jacket photo of Abbie Hoffman by Richard Avedon, photograph and back cover by Robert Parent. While the supremely popular Steal This Book is a guide to living outside the establishment, Revolution for the Hell of It is a chronicle of Abbie Hoffman's radical escapades that doubles as a guidebook for today's social and political activist. Hoffman pioneered the use of humo... View more info
By: Garrow, David J.; Andrews, William L.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1989
Seller ID: 2274217
Publisher insert and bookplate laid in. 1989 Full-Leather. 800 pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of MLK, Jr. Foreword by William L. Andrews. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews with all of King's su... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Hill and Wang: 2010
Seller ID: 2261567
Highlighting, dog-eared pages. 2010 Trade Paperback. In this subtly crafted biography, the historian Lori D. Ginzberg narrates the life of a woman of great charm, enormous appetite, and extraordinary intellectual gifts who turned the limitations placed on women like herself into a universal philosophy of equal rights. Few could match Stanton's self-confidence; loving an argument, she rarely wavered in her assumption that she had won. But she was no secular saint, and her... View more info
By: Golden, Marita
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Ballantine: 1983
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1538228
First printing. Spine lightly creased. 1983 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 246 pp. Distinguished author and television executive Marita Golden writes movingly about her life -- first as a black activist in the sixties in her hometown Washington, D.C., then as a journalism student in New York. In those turbulent years, she gained a profound understanding of what it means to be black in America. While studying in America, she met Femi,... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc.: 1998
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2273997
Reissue. Ink underlining and marginalia, Susan B. Anthony house bookmark laid in, faint stain to base of last few pages of third volume. 1998 Hard Cover. Complete three volume set. xxiv, 513, [1]; xi, [2], 515-1070; xvii, [1], 1111-1633, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the important advocate for women's suffrage, reprinted from a copy in the Columbia University Libraries. View more info
By: Himes, Chester
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Paragon House: 1990
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2199112
1st printing. Light rubbing to wrappers. 1990 Trade Paperback. Himes writes of black ghetto life and of his personal struggle with repressive American ways. View more info
By: Hine, Leland D.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Judson Press: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1736319
First edition.Very Good. 1969 Hard Cover. 205 pp. 8vo. Heroic Christian witness in adversity, coupled with deep and concerned insight into the social and political conditions which shape a nation, makes the life of William Axling one of the most significant and thrilling sagas of modern times. View more info
![Image for Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, in Fourteen Volumes: Good Men and Great; Famous Women; American Statesmen; Eminent Painters; English Authors; Eminent Artists; Eminent Orators; Great Philosophers; Great Reformers; Great Teachers; Great Businessmen; Great Scientists; Great Lovers; Great Musicians [Volumes I - XIV [1-14]], with Guide Book](/assets/images/product/2140928.jpg "Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, in Fourteen Volumes: Good Men and Great; Famous Women; American Statesmen; Eminent Painters; English Authors; Eminent Artists; Eminent Orators; Great Philosophers; Great Reformers; Great Teachers; Great Businessmen; Great Scientists; Great Lovers; Great Musicians [Volumes I - XIV [1-14]], with Guide Book")
By: Hubbard, Elbert
Price: $175.00
Publisher: The World Publishing Company: 1928
Seller ID: 2140928
Small circular discoloration to spine label of each volume (the jackets, designed with a cut-out to view the volume numbers, did not cover this portion of the spine). Edges of guide book lightly rubbed. 1928 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 8vo. Fourteen hardcover volumes -- volumes I - XIV -- plus Guide Book. Original beige blind-stamped cloth, paper spine labels, photographic endpapers. Frontispiece to each volume. A collection of short biograp... View more info
![Image for Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great -- Complete 14 Volume Hardcover Set: Good Men and Great; Famous Women; American Statesmen; Eminent Painters; English Authors; Eminent Artists; Eminent Orators; Great Philosophers; Great Reformers; Great Teachers; Great Businessmen; Great Scientists; Great Lovers; Great Musicians (Memorial Edition) [Volumes I - XIV]](/assets/images/product/2276944.jpg "Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great -- Complete 14 Volume Hardcover Set: Good Men and Great; Famous Women; American Statesmen; Eminent Painters; English Authors; Eminent Artists; Eminent Orators; Great Philosophers; Great Reformers; Great Teachers; Great Businessmen; Great Scientists; Great Lovers; Great Musicians (Memorial Edition) [Volumes I - XIV]")
By: Hubbard, Elbert
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Wm. H. Wise & Co.: 1916
Seller ID: 2276944
Corners rubbed with significant loss from heel of volume XIV spine, varying degrees of fading to spine, but otherwise a very good set. 1916 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Fourteen hardcover volumes -- volumes I - XIV. Original brown leatherette with debossed tree design on front boards. Frontispiece to each volume. A collection of short biographies of famous individuals by Elbert Hubbard, one of the leading figures in the Arts & Crafts movement... View more info
![Image for Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, in Fourteen Volumes: Good Men and Great; Famous Women; American Statesmen; Eminent Painters; English Authors; Eminent Artists; Eminent Orators; Great Philosophers; Great Reformers; Great Teachers; Great Businessmen; Great Scientists; Great Lovers; Great Musicians (Memorial Edition) [Volumes I - XIV [1-14]]](/assets/images/product/2280901.jpg "Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, in Fourteen Volumes: Good Men and Great; Famous Women; American Statesmen; Eminent Painters; English Authors; Eminent Artists; Eminent Orators; Great Philosophers; Great Reformers; Great Teachers; Great Businessmen; Great Scientists; Great Lovers; Great Musicians (Memorial Edition) [Volumes I - XIV [1-14]]")
By: Hubbard, Elbert
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Wm. H. Wise & Co.: 1928
Seller ID: 2280901
Memorial Edition, with subscriber page preceding title page of first volume stating 'This copy of The Memorial Edition in Fourteen Volumes of Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great has been specially prepared by the Roycrofters in their shops which are in East Aurora, Erie County, New York, for Phoebe Plumb.' A few spines lightly foxed. 1928 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 8vo. Fourteen hardcover volumes -- volumes I - XIV. O... View more info
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Heart of the Lakes Publishing:
Seller ID: 2201256
Wrappers gently rubbed. 72 pp. A biography of the nineteenth-century pioneer in the struggle for women's rights. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Blue Mountain Arts: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2282813
First edition. Faintly rubbed. 2007 Hard Cover. Inspired by the life and philosophy of one of the 20th century's most remarkable humanitarians, this book combines compelling photographs of King with quotations from his most inspiring speeches and writings to capture the true essence of his timeless messages of nonviolence, equality, and love. The book also includes an in-depth biographical essay by South African writer/novelist Mike Nicol and an introduction by Archbisho... View more info
By: Lee, Jennie
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1948
Seller ID: 1524780
Lightly rubbed, pages toned. 1948 Trade Paperback. 180 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge PC (3 November 1904 – 16 November 1988) was born Janet Lee in Lochgelly, in Fife, Scotland. The daughter of a miner (who later gave up work in the mines to run a hotel), she inherited her father's socialist inclinations, and like him joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP). View more info
By: Lutzker, Edythe; Hakim, Sohrab A.E.; Patuk, Dina
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Exposition Press: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2161059
First edition. Very good in good jacket. Jacket faded, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, ink name on front endpaper. 1973 Hard Cover. xviii, 259 pp. 8vo. An account of the life of Edith Pechey-Phipson, an early woman doctor in England, and a notable humanitarian and champion of women's rights. Bibliography and index follow text. View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.: 1948
Seller ID: 1519081
Rubbed, jacket creased & chipped.Good. 1948 Hard Cover. 534 pp. Contains biographical & critical appraisals of various social libertarians including Henry David Thoreau, Emma Goldman, John Brown, Eugene Debs, et al. CONTENTS: The Abolitionists; The Utopians; The Anarchists; The Dissident Economists; The Militant Liberals; The Socialists; A Final Note. View more info
By: Martyn, Carlos
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Negro University Press: 1969
Seller ID: 1777242
Several related 19th century newspaper clippings laid in, including a review of the original publication. 1969 Hard Cover. xi, 600 pp. 8vo. 1969 facsimile of revised edition. Phillips was an activist on several fronts, but is remembered primarily for the speeches he gave in support of the abolitionist movement. He also advocated for equal rights for Native Americans and women, and supported the temperance and labor movements. View more info
By: Maruf, Mohammed
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Islamic Book Service: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1296847
First edition. Includes original jacket. Large stain to base, binding cracked.Good. 1977 Hard Cover. A survey of the philosophy of the famous Muslim poet, thinker and politician. Iqbal was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of Islamic civilisation across the world, but specifically in India; a series of famous lectures he delivered to this effect were published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. His outlook helped shape what event... View more info
