![Item #8842 Harris Pamphlets [Sammelband Volume of Harris Tracts 1892-1896]. William Torrey HARRIS](https://backintimerarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8842.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1764083942)
Various Publishers. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 7/8 X 9 Inches. William Torrey Harris helped create the foundation of the modern American public school system, using his influence as a philosopher, superintendent, and U.S. Commissioner of Education to shape how schools are organized and what they teach. He championed structured, age-graded..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 5/8 X 8 1/2 Inches. 152 PP. First printing with complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. DJ price-clipped, but does bear the $4.95 price sticker. A scarce hardcover book in commerce. More
![Item #8483 Evergreen Review July-August 1962 [TROPIC OF CANCER SUPREME COURT ISSUE]. William...](https://backintimerarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8483.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1754598353)
New York: Evergreen Review, 1962. First Edition. Original wraps. 5 1/2 X 8 Inches. 128 PP. Important issue of this counter-culture classic magazine that featured dozens of publishing executives standing side-by-side with Henry Miller and his Tropic of Cancer. Issue No. 25. Includes work by Michael McClure and William Burroughs..... More
Hollywood, CA: New Christian Crusade Church, 1970. First Thus. "My Christian ministry is anti-Jew, anti-Negro! I won't try to hide the fact." - Reverend David K. Stacey Original circa 1970 8-page pamphlet attacking mixed marriages in America. Rather typical racist tract of the Civil Rights era that purports the Bible..... More
New York: Eugenics Publishing, 1940. First Thus. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4 Inches. 507 PP. One of the sensational titles published by John Lewis and his Eugenics Publishing Company. Original blue cloth in original shipping carton that is marked "For Review" on cover label. More
New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1880. First Edition. Cloth. 5 1/8 X 7 5/8 Inches. 326 PP. Original green cloth with gitl title-stamping to spine. A history of the use of alcohol throughout the world. Scathing attack on fermented wines and intoxication. Book supposes one of the..... More
Asheville, NC: Citizen-Times Publishing, 1978. Dorothy Luxton Parris. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 372 PP. Signed and inscribed by the "Justin Wilson of North Carolina" directly on the FFEP. For nearly half a century John Parris documented the mountain way of life through his..... More
Hartford, CT: J.B. Burr and Company, 1871. Early Edition. Cloth. 7 X 10 3/8 Inches. [693 PP][787 PP]. Both volumes bound in the original black cloth with gilt title stamping to spines. Both volumes retain frontis and tissue-guard and all plates throughout. With over 450 engravings by Angas, Danby, Wolf..... More
New York: Dell, 1966. Paperback Original (1st). 4 1/4 X 7 Inches. 192 PP. "I think it would do everybody good to take LSD, but soon it's gonna get pretty freaky." Ken Kesey (page 114) Stated "First Dell Printing - October, 1966" on the copyright page. Original price of 60..... More
Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 12 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 80 PP. Signed by Burckhalter (photographer) on the title-page. Signed "Season's Greetings / John P. Schaefer" on the FFEP. Schaefer served as the President of the University of Arizona (who published the book)..... More
Milano, Italy: Skira, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4 X 12 Inches. 407 PP. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Profusely illustrated pictorial history of Mexican art. Hint of scuffing to DJ. More
New York: Fowler & Wells Co., 1884. First American Edition. Cloth. 5 X 7 5/8 Inches. 400 PP + 12 PP ads. First American printing of this 19th century equal rights travelogue by Emily Faithfull. Among other topics, Faithfull writes in regards to women printers in the US, Mrs. Stanton..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 Inches. 411 PP. Stated "First Edition" with full number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $24.95 intact. Signed twice by author. Signed and inscribed, "June 2005 / Paonia Co..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 5/8 X 8 1/4 Inches. 364 PP. First printing with $3.00 original price on rear flap. Front flap is clipped, but price is on back as stated. This novel explores the volatile world of the pre-Civil Rights south through..... More
Bloomington, IN: IUniverse, Inc., 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4 Inches. 178 PP. Signed and inscribed directly on the half title-page. Original price of $26.95 intact on front flap. A statistical, business take on the decline of primarily religious values in our culture. More
Tallahassee, FL: Meroen Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. 5 3/8 X 7 1/2 Inches. 344 PP. Signed and inscribed to "Dr. Ruben, My name is William Ashanti Hobbs. I am determined, as a publisher and novelist, to make an impact not only in African-American Literature, but literature..... More
Yaba, Lagos: Kraft Books Limited, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 X 8 7/8 Inches. 200 PP. Signed first printing in orignal publisher blue buckram binding. Signed by Ebele Eko directly on the title-page. The first book length study of Elechi Amadi, one of the founding generation of..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 3/8 Inches. 270 PP. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Retains original price of $3.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Important early Civil Rights book on the humiliation, segregation and dangers of the..... More
Nashville, TN: Southern Publishing Association, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. 4 3/4 X 7 Inches. 48 PP. In the face of food shortages and rising meat prices, the author of this book contends that we should all turn to vegetarianism as a way of both saving money and..... More
Union City, TN: Forrester Wood Publication, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 X 9 1/4 Inches. 176 PP. Scarce private printing in original DJ. Signed by R.C. Forrester and Betty Burdick Wood directly on the title-page. Betty is the granddaughter of John Carlos Burdick, whose commercial fishing business of..... More