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Price: $6.00
Publisher: Grove Press, Inc.: 1997
Seller ID: 2286203
ISBN: 0802135587
Condition: Very Good
Remainder mark, wrappers lightly rubbed. 1997 Large Softcover. 814 pp. This New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” is the definitive biography on Che Guevara, whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America through armed revolution. Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro’s government to his failed campaign in the Congo and assassination in the Bolivian jungle. View more info
![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)
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
ISBN: 0195062043
Condition: Near Fine
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 during Reconstruction, this book, written at a crucial juncture in American history, creates a vivid portrait of a man who co... View more info
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Penguin Books, Inc.: 1969
Seller ID: 2198217
Condition: Very Good
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 of two hundred years of black consciousness, black achievement, black heroism, and black determination. View more info
By: Blake, J.L.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Derby & Jackson: 1856
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2292194
Condition: Very Good
First thus (Sabin 5783). Edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners, 1 inch internal closed tear to spine cloth, tide mark to bottom margin of first and last few pages. 1856 Hard Cover. 252, viii, 9-252 pp. 8vo. Two books in one volume. Engraved frontispieces for both works, engraved title page and cuts for 'Beauties'. Only 9 copies of 1856 printing - which was the first to include Beauties of American History - in OCLC. Includes biographical sketches of Daniel Boone, Samuel Adams, Abigail Adams, General Robert E. Lee, Martha Washington, and the Marquis de Lafayette, as well as accounts of fa... View more info
By: Branch, Taylor
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1998
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2273424
ISBN: 0965715248
Condition: Near Fine
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 this masterly continuation of the narrative, Branch recounts the climactic struggles as they commanded the national and internat... View more info
By: Carver, Terrell
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hill and Wang: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201158
Condition: Near Fine
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 begins with an account of Engels' career as a radical journalist in Germany and England. Before he met Marx, he had established ... 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
Condition: Very Good
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 wheelchair. View more info
By: Dykeman, Wilma; Stokely, James
Price: $7.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1788596
Condition: Good
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
ISBN: 1402744390
Condition: Very Good
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
Condition: Fair
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
Condition: Very Good
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 humor, theater, and shock value to drive home his points, and in Revolution for the Hell of It he gives firsthand accounts of his... View more info
By: Garrow, David J.; Andrews, William L.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1989
Seller ID: 2274217
Condition: Near Fine
Publisher insert and bookplate laid in. 1989 Full-Leather. 800; 800 pp. 8vo. Complete in two volumes. Red full leather, gilt titles and 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 surviving associates, as well as with those who opposed him, and enhanced by the author's acces... View more info
By: Garrow, David J.; Andrews, William L.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1989
Seller ID: 2297069
Condition: Near Fine
1989 Full-Leather. 800; 800 pp. 8vo. Complete in two volumes. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, 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 surviving associates, as well as with those who opposed him, and enhanced by the author's access to King's person... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Ayer Company Publishers, Inc.: 1998
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2273997
ISBN: 0405001029
Condition: Good
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: Hill, Julia Butterfly; Hill, Julia
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Harper San Francisco: 2000
Seller ID: 2291668
ISBN: 0062516590
Condition: Very Good
Faint edge wear. 2000 Trade Paperback. 261 pp. The Legacy of Luna is a book written by Julia Butterfly Hill about her experiences while protecting a tree named Luna. It is based on a true story, written like a diary of two years spent in an ancient redwood. View more info
By: Hine, Leland D.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Judson Press: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1736319
Condition: Very Good
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
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By: Hubbard, Elbert
Price: $175.00
Publisher: The World Publishing Company: 1928
Seller ID: 2140928
Condition: Near Fine
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 biographies of famous individuals by Elbert Hubbard, one of the leading figures in the Arts & Crafts movement in the United States, ... View more info
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By: Hubbard, Elbert
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Wm. H. Wise & Co.: 1916
Seller ID: 2276944
Condition: Very Good
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 in the United States, who founded the Roycrofters in East Aurora, NY. The hand-crafted items they produced are widely collec... View more info
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By: Hubbard, Elbert
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Wm. H. Wise & Co.: 1928
Seller ID: 2280901
Condition: Very Good
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. Original beige cloth, paper spine labels, top edges gilt, dark grey endpapers. Frontispiece to each volume. A collection of sh... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Blue Mountain Arts: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2282813
ISBN: 1598422405
Condition: Very Good
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 Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 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
Condition: Very Good
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
By: Martyn, Carlos
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Negro University Press: 1969
Seller ID: 1777242
Condition: Near Fine
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
Price: $10.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1991
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2288999
ISBN: 039331376X
Condition: Very Good
First printing. Spine creased, front wrapper faintly creased, top page ridge faintly foxed. 1991 Trade Paperback. xiii, 465 pp. Probes beneath the public image of this important national leader to reveal a complex portrait of the man who exposed the brutal injustice of slavery and spoke loudly and clearly for the cause of freedom. View more info
By: Means, Russell
Price: $7.00
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: 1995
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2292390
ISBN: 0312147619
Condition: Very Good
1st printing. Crease on back cover. 1995 Trade Paperback. Russell Means was the most controversial American Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life, in which he did everything possible to dramatize and justify the American Indian aim of self-determination, such as storming Mount Rushmore, seizing Plymouth Rock, running for President in 1988, and--most notoriously--leading a 71-day takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Plume: 1983
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2281310
ISBN: 0452256275
Condition: Good
Reprint. Lightly rubbed, pages faintly toned. 1983 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Provides insight into Dr. Kings spiritual calling, philosophic and theological beliefs, political and economic theories, and the power of non-violent protest and love. View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: The Atlantic Monthly Press: 1920
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2201203
ISBN: 1135641374
Condition: Very Good
5th printing. Very good in fair jacket. Significant loss from jacket corners and spine. Ink name on front endpaper, magazine clipping of photo of Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein laid in, along with a postcard showing the American Red Cross Building in Washington, D.C. 1920 Hard Cover. 190 pp. A biography of a federal mediator of labor disputes. View more info
By: Pelzer, Dave
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Omaha Press: 1995
Seller ID: 2201239
ISBN: 1558743669
Condition: Very Good
Minor wear to corners. 1995 Trade Paperback. xi, 184 pp., 4-page terminal publisher ad. This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an it. Dave's bed was an old army cot in the basem... View more info
By: Richards, Laura E.; Elliott, Maud Howe
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press: 1925
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2293323
Condition: Near Fine
Reprint. 1925 Hard Cover. x, 457, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the poet, abolitionist and suffragette who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers: 1995
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 1855012
Condition: Very Good
Revised edition. 1995 Trade Paperback. 264 pp. The Library Journal found this a thorough, careful, and gripping recapitulation of Wallenberg's life as it recounts his efforts to save Budapest Jews and his imprisonment in the Soviet Union (LJ 7/82). This updated edition includes previously sealed Soviet prison records and archives and information on the Wallenberg family's lawsuit against the former Soviet Union. The popularity of Schindler's List will no doubt draw readers to this equally moving story. Raoul Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 – July 17, 1947?) was a Swedish architect, businessman, d... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Norton: 1994
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2292470
ISBN: 0393311317
Condition: Very Good
2nd printing. Faint crease. 1994 Trade Paperback. In the tumultuous years before the Civil War, a young white woman from a Quaker background came to embody commitment to the cause of antislavery and equal rights for black people. Abby Kelley became the abolitionist movement’s chief money-raiser and organizer and its most radial member. She traveled hundreds of miles to awaken the country to the evils of slavery, braving hardship and prejudice as well as opening the way for other women, black and white, to take leadership roles. Now the full story of this principled woman has been told in Dor... View more info
