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22 books found. Displaying page 1 of 2, best matches first. APPEL, Alfred. Signs of Life. NY: Alfred A. Knopf (1983). First edition. 202 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. 'American popular culture from World War II to the present, re-examined through a close-up exploration of 109 photographs, movie stills, and other images of the past five decades.' Includes 200 illustrations. US$30.00 Add to Cart BRANCH, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63. NY: Simon & Schuster (1988). First edition. 1064 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Promotional flyer and review slip laid in. US$100.00 Add to Cart BUTTERFIELD, Fox. All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence. NY: Knopf, 1995. Uncorrected proof. 383 pp. Near fine in printe orange wrappers with two staple holes through the front cover. US$10.00 Add to Cart CONNELL, Evan S. Son of the Morning Star. San Francisco: North Point, 1984. First edition, first issue. 441 pp w/index. Light sticker mark to front free endpaper, else near fine in near fine dust jacket (slightly mis-folded) with one short tear to rear panel. US$75.00 Add to Cart CROW DOG, Leonard and Erdoes, Richard. Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men. NY: HarperCollins (1995). First edition. 243 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. US$15.00 Add to Cart DAWSEY, Darrell. Living to Tell About It: Young Black Men Speak Their Piece. NY: Anchor Books/Doubleday (1995). Advance reading copy. 348 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. US$15.00 Add to Cart DEMOS, John Putnam. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of of Early New England. NY: Oxford University Press, 1982. First US edition. 543 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. US$35.00 Add to Cart GARNER, Leslie H., Jr. and Arthur Mann Kaye. eds. The Coastal Plains: Writings on the Cultures of Eastern North Carolina. Rocky Mount: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press (1989). First edition. 152 pp w/notes. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. US$10.00 Add to Cart GILLESPIE, Angus Kress and Rockland, Michael Aaron. Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike. New Brunswick & London: Rutgers University Press (1989). First edition. 219 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Promotional materials laid in. US$15.00 Add to Cart HERRICK, Robert. The Memoirs of an American Citizen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1963). First edition. 270 pp. Fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to crown and base of spine. Edited by Daniel Aaron. First featured as a serial in the SATRUDAY EVENING POST in 1905, this turn of the century realist novel of industrial Chicago features the familiar themes with unusual energy and with none of the melodrama or droopy prose of Dreiser: industrialization, capitalism, and their effects on individual morality. US$17.50 Add to Cart HERTZSTEIN, Robert. Henry R. Luce, TIME, and the American Crusade in Asia. NY: Cambridge University Press (2005). First edition. 346 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. US$12.50 Add to Cart HUGHES, Langston. Fight For Freedom: The Story of the NAACP. NY: Berkeley Medallion (1962). First paperback printing. 224 pp w/index. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. US$60.00 Add to Cart KENAN, Randall. Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. NY: Knopf, 1999. First edition. 670 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Briefly INSCRIBED by Kenan. US$45.00 Add to Cart METCALF, Paul. Waters of Potowmack. San Francisco: North Point, 1982. First edition. 246 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A documentary history of the Potomac and its basin. US$20.00 Add to Cart MOWERY, David C. and Rosenberg, Nathan. Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in 20th-Century America. NY: Cambridge University Press (1998). First US edition. 214 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. US$17.50 Add to Cart O'GARA, Geoffrey. A Long Road Home: Journeys through America's Present in Search of America's Past. NY: Norton (1989). First edition. 312 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. US$15.00 Add to Cart SEGREST, Mab. Memoir of a Race Traitor. Boston: South End Press (1994). First trade paperback printing. 274 pp w/index. About fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. US$15.00 Add to Cart TIFFT, Susan E. and Jones, Alex S. The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times. Boston: Little, Brown (1999). First edition. 870 pp w/index. Two upper corners lightly bumped, else very near fine in like dust jacket with one short closed tear. Promotional flyer laid in. US$15.00 Add to Cart WARREN, Robert Penn. Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenshp Back. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky (1980). First edition. 114 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A long autobiographical essay on Southern politics, American history, the career of Jefferson Davis, the writing of history, and, of all things: memory. A mix of a Southerner's nostalgia and a writer's objective eye. US$20.00 Add to Cart WATSON, Seven. Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thompson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism. NY: Random House (1998). First edition. 370 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Promotional flyer laid in. US$25.00 Add to Cart
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