Search Results: Slavery from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

New York: The Third Press, 1971. Hardcover. 199p., first printing, dj Very good inbit soiled dj.

New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1971. Hardcover. 448p., very good hardcover in a price-clipped and edgeworn dust jacket. The conservative European American authors have drawn on a significant corpus of radical and liberal scholarship for their presentation.

San Francisco: Olema Press, 1984. Hardcover. Two volumes. [American slavery ..., vii, 345p; Notes ..., v, 862,], original cloth binding, both volumes ex library with all the usual markings. Olshausen, a radical San Francisco lawyer, spent much of his life working on this history of American slavery, focusing on jurisprudential questions. He took the manuscript with him when he emigrated to Yugoslavia in the 1960s; five of its six chapters, along with the notes that form a separate volume, were recovered after his death in 1978. The five chapters published here carry the history through the Compromise of 1850; the footnotes are found in the companion volume.

San Francisco: Olema Press, 1984. Hardcover. Two volumes. [American slavery ..., vii, 345p; Notes ..., v, 862,], original cloth binding, vol. 1 is ex library with the usual markings, vol. 2 is a bit edge worn but with no library markings. Olshausen, a radical San Francisco lawyer, spent much of his life working on this history of American slavery, focusing on jurisprudential questions. He took the manuscript with him when he emigrated to Yugoslavia in the 1960s; five of its six chapters, along with the notes that form a separate volume, were recovered after his death in 1978. The five chapters published here carry the history through the Compromise of 1850; the footnotes are found in the companion volume.

New York: Vintage Books, 1976. Paperback. xxii, 408, ix p., wraps slightly creased, paper evenly browned, rubberstamp on front blank, else very good condition.

Freeport, ME: The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1964. Hardcover. xi, 237p. + 10p. photographs, cloth-bound boards, slightly shelfworn clipped dj. Fictionalized biography.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. Hardcover. xvi, 348p., first edition. shelfworn dj including sticker shadow/glue residue to top right corner of front panel, else very good.

N. pl: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1964. Hardcover. 676p., first edition, slightly worn dj. This mammoth bilingual (Italian and English) compilation includes blues, spirituals and poetry from Wheatley to Baraka.

London: Routledge, 1992. Trade Paperback. xi, 274p., wraps, mild cover soil. Greatest emphasis here is on slavery.

New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. xiii, 150p. Reprint of the 1881 narrative by a former slave from Virginia.

Salvador, Bahia: Editora Hucitec, 1978. Paperback. 387p., a few pages with pencil underlining, wraps slightly worn and soiled. Text in Portuguese.

Gainesville FL: University of Florida Press, 1952. Hardcover. xiii, 125p., the first edition with the fragile dust jacket intact. Rubricated titlepage. Hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch brown cloth boards gilt-titled and enclosed in the unclipped dj; jacket is printed sepia on pulp-speckled matte paper, top edge a little ragged, bears an inch-long closed tear and a minute chip at the head. Endsheets also of "artsy" wood-fragment stock in very good condition. A close inspection of the book itself shows it also to be quite a crisp clean copy, with perfect rims, no ownership marks.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Trade Paperback. xviii, 417p., very good in wraps.

San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1985. Paperback. 149p., very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Adonis Classics AC341. Biker leathermen holding young men slaves in a torture dungeon.

Tokyo: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- u. Völkerkunde Ostasiens, 1936. Paperback. 140 p., slender booklet, toned, chip to top of spine. Text in German. "Mitteilungen" der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens; Bd. XXIX Teil B. The German Society for the Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia was one of the earlier foreign scientific societies based in Japan. After 1933 it increasingly came under the influence of Nazi political aims.

New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 2000. [32]p. children's book, profusely illus. with Nelson's color drawings of slave life on a southern plantation, 9x11 inches, first printing, dj slightly chipped at head of spine.

New York: Scribner's, 1925. Hardcover. 270p., heavy foxing, first edition in blue-gray cloth boards; a sound, handleable, but thoroughly foxed exemplar. Author's third book. A novel of the illicit slave trade in New England on a clipper ship, whites battling it out.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Trade Paperback. 241p., softcover, new in original plastic shrinkwrap.

Palo Alto: National Press Books, 1972. Hardcover. x, 370p., illustrated in b&w from period cuts and modern dance photography, hardbound first edition in tan cloth boards lettered black and enclosed in the dust jacket. The book itself is quite fresh, entirely sound, clean and unmarked, while the dj is somewhat edgeworn with a 1-inch chip to back panel. All in all, a very good copy.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Paperback. xi, 249p., very good trade paperback in pictorial wraps.