Untrodden Fields in History and Literature and Other Essays by Franklin Harvey Head 2 volume set by Shepard, George Brooks - 1923

The Rowfant Club, 1923. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jackets. 1923 The Rowfant Club, Cleveland, Ohio. Two volumes, complete. Numbered, Limited Edition of 150 + 15; this is number 143. Quarter-bound in brown leather over brown paper-covered boards, with gold spine lettering. Top edges are gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard and black and white plates, each also with a tissue guard; plates in volume 1 only. Printed on handmade paper. 208 + 270 pages. Edited by George Brooks Shepard. Bindings tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Leather spines are rubbed at the ends and have scuffs, but the leather is otherwise in good condition. Two faint paperclip marks on front endpapers of vol. 1. One dog eared page in vol. 2. Pages clean and unmarked. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. No dust jackets. Limitation statement: "At Cleveland, in the month of May, MDCCCCXXIII, were imprinted of these volumes, one hundred fifty and fifteen copies, of which… Read More

Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1923. Book #96 of 165. Top edge gilt.Textblocks are clean and tight. Light shelf and character wear to binding, moderate wear to spines of both volumes. Very small moisture stain on front cover of Vol. 1. Envelope including small typed letter from Arthur H. Clark Company tipped into Vol. 1. Vol. I is 208pp. Vol. II is 270pp., including index.. Limited Edition. Leather Spine. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1923. Two volumes, clean and tight copies, scuffed and worn at the spine extremities; Top edge gilt. Vol. I is 208pp. Vol. II is 270pp., including index.. Leather Spine. Good+. Illus. by Plates. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

Rare! Luanda: Angola. Ministério da Cultura, 1995. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Pages and cover securely held by one clean staple. Interior pristine. Covers clean and crisp, with slight reading wear to foreedge. Many B&W photos/illustrations. 24 pages. Not from a library. Published by the Angolan National Museum of Slavery and National Institute of Cultural Patrimony on the 20th anniversary of Angola's independence.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun ( Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man)". 264 pages.. Solid. Clean. Flyleaf detached from title page, but all pages still bound. A great collector's item and a rare find. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A.B. Walker. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fiction.

MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."

Alice Walker. THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR. Copyright 1989 by Alice Walker. Thorndyke, Maine. Hardcover, ISBN 9780896219298. Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1990. USED. VG CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Large print. 595 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 ¾.

As new except for tiny spot on side exterior page edges and light surface scratching on the back cover. 255 pages. 8.5" X 11" X .5" (22cm X 28cm X 1.3cm) History of Harlem as cultural center. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photos of people and cultural ephemera like playbills, tickets to the Cotton Club, and advertising banners about the importance of Black Santa. Part of a project with the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Nonfiction. History. Photography. African American History. Regional History- New York.

Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight shelf wear.
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A photographic portrait of African women.

United States: Balamp Pub Co, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Book has one page with a small wrinkle, else clean and tight, jacket has some paper-loss on the backcover, else clean. Jacket is not price-clipped.

187 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards and faux signature to cover in original pictorial jacket. Edited by James R McGraw. First edition. Richard "Dick" Gregory was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, motivational speaker, author and actor. He became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences. Condition: Lightly soiled. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped else better than very good in like jacket.

T'Shaka, Oba. The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X. Third World Press, Chicago. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, 1983. Softcover. ISBN0883781107. BIOGRAPHY, BLACK STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY, POLITICAL SCIENCE. A nice copy. Used. VG Condition. 293 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.