New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1962. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Octavo size, 252 pp., inscribed by Dunbar Ogden. Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1914-1999) was a pioneering civil rights activist, as well as a newspaper founder and publisher. Despite the tragic loss of her mother, abandonment by her father, impoverished childhood..... More
London: Verso, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 612 pp. "At the time when European powers colonized the New World the institution of slavery had amost disappeared from Europe itself" (n.b., from dust jacket). The author, editor of the "New Left Review" and author of "The Overthrow of..... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, no Newbery Medal on dust jacket, octavo size, 288 pp. Coming-of-age novels spin stories that resonate with people from all walks of life, and "M. C. Higgins, the Great" is no exception. Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002) masterfully tells the..... More
New York: Carleton Press, A Reflection Book, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 33 pp. 'Deep South Showman' is the life-story of Eddie Wilson, an Alabama-born African-American who became known as "The Moving Picture Man" in the rural South during the Twenties and Thirties (from the dust jacket). The story..... More