from YJS BOXES OF BOOKS

Random House, New York. Stated First Edition, First Printing, 1988. Random House1988. Tan paper over boards, wine cloth spine, gold lettering. Near Mint/Very Good. The prison memoirs of Soviet dissident and Jewish activist Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky, a truly remarkable story of his nine harrowing years in KGB custody, is told with style and wit by a man whose… Read more

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, CHICAGO iLLINOIS, 1925. First Edition, Stated First Printing Copyright 1925 by University of Chicago Published October 1925. Olive green cloth over boards, some fading at spine, gold lettering. VERY GOOD/NO DJ. Owsley specialized in Southern history, especially the antebellum and Civil War eras. Owsley argued in his dissertation State Rights and the Confederacy… Read more

Simon & Schuster, First Soft Cover, 09//26/2006, 2006. Simon & Schuster (Sep 26, 2006). Near Mint, black bacground with gold lettering, great pictures on front cover. NEAR MINT/no DJ as issued. This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. In 2006, the book… Read more

Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford University Press 07/04/2006, Stated First Edition. Hard book boards, pictures front and back. VERY GOOD++, Hard book boards, pictures front and back. black marker mark at bottom , some shelf wear at bottom and top of spine, corners slightly bumped./No DJ as issued. First Freedoms" incorporates documents that are drawn from the… Read more

First Updated Harper Perennial Modern Classic 2018, 2018. Harper Perennial Modern Classics 10/16/2018. First Harper Perennial Edition Published 2008. First Updated Harper Perennial Modern Classic 2018. AS NEW/NO DJ as issued. A Nation of Immigrants is a 1958 book on American immigration by then U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The… Read more

2011. The New Press (2011). Black paper over boards, black cloth spine, silver lettering. NEAR MINT/SLIPCASE. The ground breaking book-and-audio set. Nearly ten years ago, The New Press published Remembering Slavery, a book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working… Read more

Simon & Schuster, New York (1997), 1997. Simon & Schuster, New York (1997). Dark, Navy cloth over boards. Near Mint/NO DJ as issued. In a watery grave off the coast of Florida lies the earliest slave ship ever recovered. The English-owned Henrietta Marie plied the waters from Europe to Africa and the New World, sinking in the year… Read more

Crown Publishing Inc. New York, 1999. Crown Publishing Inc. New York (1999). Blue and brown glazed book paper over bords, with pictures front and back, white lettering. MINT/NO DJ as issued. Relive the Civil War through the documents that shaped it! The Civil War: Unstilled Voices is a ground-breaking collection of removable letters, memoirs, newspaper clippings, and… Read more

A. C. McClurg and Company, Chicago, Frst Edition, First Printing, 1895. A. C. McClurg and Company, Chicago (1895). Dark blue cloth over boards, gold designs and lettering. Very Good ++, spine good and tight, text clean and vibrant/No DJ. Europe in Africa in The Nineenth Century is novel of "short yarns." They will probably be found to have… Read more

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. New York, Alfred A. Knopf (1938). Black, shiny, and very clean cloth over boards, gold lettering. Lettering at fded.spine , volume II. Verry Good ++, Clean, shiny, text clear, pages bright,corners not bumped/No DJ. Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder) is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann, written over the… Read more

Easton Press, Norwalk Connecticut 1979, 1979. Easton Press, 1979 'One Hundred Best Books Ever Written' Collector's Edition. Fully-bound in richly colored, dark green LEATHER, raised bands, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Gilt lettering on spine and covers and all Edges. Near Mint/no dj as issued. ILLUSTRATED with Lithographs by Miguel Gocarrubias. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among… Read more

The Heritage Press, New York, 1970. The Heritage Press, New York, 1970. ,Bown linen over boards/gold design/lettering/picture front cover. Near Fine/Slipcase. Autobiography of Booker T. Washington, a man who was born into slavery, but overcame hardships through hard work and diligence. At 25, he became the first principle of Tuskagee college, founded to teach newly freed slaves the… Read more

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, First Edition, Stated Tenth Printing. Cloth/Orangeboards/black spine, blue lettering. Very Good/Very Good. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand… Read more

Scholastic Library Publishing, 2001. Scholastic Library Publishing, 2001, First Edition, First Printi. Book in Near Mint condition,no dj as issued. Beautifully executed with many photographs and prints./No dj as issued. With a Banjo on My Knee explores the roots of the banjo from its origination in West Africa to its arrival in the American colonies The… Read more

Autobiography of Booker T. Washington, a man who was born into slavery, but overcame hardships through hard work and diligence. At 25, he became the first principle of Tuskagee college, founded to teach newly freed slaves the skills to gain employment. In this position he rose to become a nationally known figure, and advocate for American freedmen. His story provides… Read more

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1962. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc,1962. Stated First Edition, Second. Very Good/No DJ. In the beginning was Mau Mau Now the indomitable settlers of Kenya are faced with the more organized demand- Uhuru-freedom for the African, a couple of Oxford educated Kikuya leaders to whom the UN listens and had better, and the ubiquitous threat… Read more

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. (Wiki). Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave… Read more

With a Banjo on My Knee explores the roots of the banjo from its origination in West Africa to its arrival in the American colonies. The author elucidates the social history of African Americans as he traces the evolution of banjo playing from slave quarters to minstrel shows to ragtime halls to jazz clubs to concert stages.