New York: Farrar. Straus & Giroux, (1966). First edition. Foreword by Ralph McGill. Memoir covering the period after the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education when, in 1956, federal judge Robert Taylor ordered Clinton High School in Tennessee to desegregate with "all deliberate speed." Margaret Vance..... Item #71962 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First U.S. edition. Translated from the French "with a supplementary chapter, narrating the most recent events" by John Oxenford. Dark (green?) cloth boards decoratively blind stamped on covers and with gilt lettering on spine. Tissue map--a facsimile of a Chinese map of the course..... Item #52561 More
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1967-72. First edition. Three-volume set, each with a different portrait of the President on the dust jacket. Volume 1 (published in 1967) covers 1822 to 1851; volume 2 (published in 1970) covers 1852 to 1857; and volume 3 (published 1972) covers 1858 to 1860. All..... Item #47222 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1891. Second printing, issued the year following the first. Two volumes complete with 3 folding maps in rear pockets: “A Map of the Great Forest Region Showing the Routes of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition from the River Congo to the Victoria Nyanza” (approximately 31 x...... Item #71769 More