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New York:: Atheneum,, 1967.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. First printing. Novel of Harlem and New York: an indictment of a civilization which produces child addicts, delinquents and hopeless poverty.

New York:: Franklin Watts,, 1990.. Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dj.. First printing. A biography for older children and young adults of this lifelong activist for equal rights by these award winning writers. "DuBois, conducted a lifelong crusade to insure that every person, regardless of race, had all the rights, privileges, and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. The McKissacks reveal his frustration with the divisiveness within the movement and among its leaders, causing him to embrace the socialist movement and eventually to become a member of the Communist party. His self-exile to Ghana and becoming a citizen of that nation is briefly mentioned." Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A title in the Impact Biographies Series. Appendix of the writings of DuBois, source notes, bibliography, index. 143 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1987.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. His fifth novel, set in 1932 in the town of Wabash on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River - a town dominated by the steel mill also called Wabash. INSCRIBED on the title page to the noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens and dated in 1994. 207 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Douglas Fraser.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1987.. Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library, but a very tight clean copy with relatively few markings, in a near fine, unmarked, dustjacket.. First printing. His fifth novel, set in 1932 in the town of Wabash on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River - a town dominated by the steel mill also called Wabash.

New York:: Henry Holt,, (1994.). Fine.. First thus- a trade paperback. His fifth novel, set in 1932 in the town of Wabash on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River - a town dominated by the steel mill also called Wabash. 207 pp.

New York:: Delacorte,, 1986.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a very good dustjacket . (rem spray, rubbing and light edgewear.). First printing. By the author of the Masao Masuto mysteries, this novel features NY dectective Harry Golding. Cunningham is a pseudonym for writer Howard Fast.

New York:: Henry Holt,, (2023). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (corner of one leaf dog-eared). First printing. A book which traces today's 'patriot' movement back to the spark that ignited it - the FBI's two month siege of Koresh and the Branch Davidians in 1993. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 273 pp.

New York:: Da Capo Press, , (2019). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A comprehensive history of Hitler's infamous personal army, the military wing of Himmler's SS, which acquired a reputation for military excellence and also for atrocities against soldiers and civilians alike. Photographs, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography and index x, 496 pp.

New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1979.. Hardcover first edition -. F/F.. First printing. Subtitled "Industrial work and family life in the United States, 1900-1930," this is a study of how working conditions extended the circumscribed life of women rather than helped to overcome it. Extensive bibliography, index.

New York:: Tambourine Books (Morrow),, (1996.). SIGNED hardcover -. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 2nd printing. A story of a young boy born into slavery but dreaming of freedom as he grows older, imaging the wagon he and his father built for his master as a chariot that could take him away. Although the joy of emancipation was tempered by difficulties and the end of the war was shadowed by the death of Lincoln, after 12 years he was free. Striking full-color dramatic paintings by Ransome complement this story of slavery and emancipation. SIGNED and dated by the illustrator James Ransome on the title page with the words "Keep reading!" Unpaginated. Oblong format.

Philadelphia:: Lippincott,, (1954). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in light green cloth in a near fine dustjacket (some wear to the ends of the spine) Uncommon in hardcover.. First printing. Adventure story set in the San Luis Park region of southwestern Colorado in the 1880s by this prolific author of Western fiction, who, before he became a full-time writer, worked as a transitman for the railroads, as an engineer and a cattle rancher. 224 pp. Dustjacket by Charles Hargens.

New York:: Exposition Press, (1953). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a near fine dust jacket (wear to top of spine of dj.). First edition. First novel, set in Cheyenne country on the frontier. A presentation copy INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To - - - Best regards, your uncle J. Payne Jones" 225 pp.

New York:: Harper Collins,, (2002.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A Navajo mystery with tribal police Sergeant Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn. Map endpapers. 232 pp.

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap,, (c. 1951). Hardcover -. Good condition overall (previous owner's name), no dust jacket. . Early printing. 1960s edition with the beige boards with dark brown lettering, multiscene brown and white illustrated endpapers. Plain frontispiece. by Paul Laune. Lists thru #39 at front of book. Original text with 25 chapters, 214 pp.

New York:: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,, (1972.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dj. (some toning with age, slight spine slant.). First US printing. Mystery featuring Patrick Dawlish, war-time secret agent and now the leader of the Crime Haters. Originally published in England in 1957 under the Ashe pseudonym.

New York:: Beech Tree Books, , (1990, c 1978). Hardcover -. Near fine in glossy illustrated boards.. First thus. An historical novel for older children - With his father and brother serving in the Confederate Army and the rest of his family murdered in a Comanche raid of their west Texas farm, 13-year-old Lewallen seeks to free himself and his younger sister from their Indian captivity. Author's note. 221 pp.

New York:: St Martin's,, (1978). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. "A Time Odyssey" - the first book of the Lemus Trilogy. "And so the great expedition began; the expedition to the virgin plant of Terra -- the green globe, rich in atmosphere, in animal life and in vegetation . the colonisation would change the course of the universe."254 pp. Dust jacket by Michael Mariano.

London:: The Women's Press,, (1987). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Second novel by this Jamaican born writer, the story of a woman's struggle for dignity against a background of urban racism. A book which "pulls no punches in the effort to portray the 'the forgotten and unglamorous section of my people' within a system which 'openly and systematically discriminates' against them." 165 pp plus 5 pp publisher's ads.

New York:: Penguin,, (1986).. Very good in illustrated wrappers. . 1st trade paperback printing. Southern author's second novel - a story of terrorism in New York City. Bell was probably the most established of the authors who were selected by Granta magazine in the late 1990's as the best young writers in the United States. A title in the "Contemporary American Fiction" series. 322 pp.

New York:: Picador,, (1998.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Award-winning author's first novel: the murder of a man's brother forces his return to the small Irish town where he grew up. One review called this "Fast-moving and harshly observed. This is a new Ireland, somewhere between Roddy Doyle and Quentin Tarantino, post-Catholic." 308 pp.