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0483192635.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1936169429New York: David Kemp 1936. First Edition. First Edition. <br /> <br /> Spine lean topstain faded a couple small splashes to the bottom page and board edges overall Very Good in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket with a vertical crease to the spine light and even fading to same and some light rubbing to the rear panel and flap folds. David Kemp unknown
0331131951.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0331132141.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0260179795.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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19141239221914. Signed. CROMWELL Adelaide CROMWELL John Wesley. The Negro in American History. Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African Descent. Washington: American Negro Academy 1914. Octavo original gilt-lettered green cloth. $3200.First edition of Cromwell's paramount African American history that ""broke fresh ground"" in its defining biographies of leaders such as Frederick Douglass and Phillis Wheatley a major biography of Reconstruction congressman Robert B. Elliot who crafted a core argument against the 1873 decision in the Slaughter-House Cases along with accounts of the lives and influence of Henry Highland Garnet Denmark Vesey Nat Turner and many more. This important association copy stands within that tradition in its owner signature of Cromwell's granddaughter historian and scholar Dr. Adelaide Cromwell co-founder of the African Studies program at Boston University.Born enslaved in 1846 Cromwell became a teacher before enrolling in Howard University's law school. Admitted to the bar in 1874 in 1876 he founded the newspaper People's Advocate and became a voice for Black education in all-Black schools founding the Bethel Literary and Historical Association and playing a vital role in establishing the American Negro Academy. Cromwell's early writings and leadership were quickly seen as crucial and in 1887 he was profiled in Simmons' Men of Mark alongside Frederick Douglass and Crispus Attucks. Simmons asserted: ""If you ask me for the best English scholar in the United States I would unhesitatingly refer you to John Wesley Cromwell"" Smithsonian. Cromwell's Negro in American History his ""first full-length monograph"" documents the ""history of African Americans from the slave trade through Reconstruction and its aftermath"" ANB. Early recognized as a ""very important work"" it features lengthy biographies of Phillis Wheatley Sojourner Truth Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington as well as figures such as Reconstruction attorney Robert B. Elliott ""who helped draft legislation to fight the KKK in the South"" Smithsonian. Negro in American History is especially significant in its attention to slave revolts as ""a constant menace to the safety and security of slavery."" Cromwell saw Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner as folk heroes and ""maintained that before the American Revolution along approximately 25 insurrections had occurred."" The work of Black historians such as Cromwell ""broke fresh ground by focusing on the slaves' responses to captivity"" and by evincing pride for a Black past that ""laid the foundation for Black protest"": raising questions and ""themes that did not become popular among historians until the 1960s"" Smith Different View of Slavery 303-4. In his life and writings Cromwell combined ""advocacy for the collective uplift of African Americans with a belief in educational advancement and intellectual achievement. His historical work placed him at the nexus of the pre-professional and professional milieus in African American scholarship"" ANB. First edition first printing. With frontispiece and eleven full-page illustrations. This distinctive association copy possesses the owner signature of Adelaide M. Cromwell the granddaughter of its author John Wesley Cromwell and the niece of Dr. Otelia Cromwell the first African American woman to earn a doctorate from Yale. Following in their footsteps Dr. Adelaide Cromwell also broke ground in African American history serving as a distinguished professor at Boston University and pivotal co-founder of its African Studies Programonly the second in the country. In addition to authoring major works on Black history she also became the first African American appointed Library Commissioner in Massachusetts.Interior quite fresh expert repair to rear inner hinge and a sopt at top of rear board. hardcover
1946023979David McKay 1946. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Murray Cromwell Morgan 1916-2000 was an author and historian of the Puget Sound region. Throughout his life he was also a writer journalist and political activist. He was a history teacher at Tacoma Community College. This is a very nice copy of this Armchair Mystery with some rubbing and a bit of soiling to the dust jacket mostly the white back cover. Uncommon in such nice condition. David McKay Hardcover
1331307031.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0266877222.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0266901239.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
139130425X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
18991291281899. First Edition. GARDINER Samuel Rawson. Oliver Cromwell. London: Goupil 1899. Folio 10 by 13 inches contemporary full tan morocco gilt raised bands top edges gilt uncut. $3000.Limited edition of Gardiners highly regarded biography of Cromwell one of 1475 wide-margined copies printed on fine paper illustrated with lithographed color frontispiece portrait 44 engravings most full-page and manuscript facsimiles handsomely bound by Bumpus.When Scotland began to rise up against Charles I in 1637 Oliver Cromwell was poised at the center of this turning point in British history. Soldier and brilliant strategist controversial politician and statesman Cromwell would ultimately be sworn in as Lord Protector in December 1653. Though his is a checkered legacy Cromwell nevertheless made it possible ""for the first time in three and half centuries for Jews to live trade and worship openly in the City of London"" Schama II:235. Prior to Cromwell ""no private person had taken power to rule a great European kingdom no subject had taken it upon himself to sit in judgment on his lawful sovereign condemn him with the formality of a lawful process and publicly execute him as a criminal. In a country governed by custom precedent and the common law Cromwell completely changed the ancient frame of government reforming Parliament and imposing a written constitution"" Cannon 263. Issued same year as a limited edition of 350 copies printed on Japanese vellum. This is an out of series copy marked ""Presentation Copy"" for the limitation number. CBEL III:911. Bookplate.Scattered foxing. Beautifully bound. hardcover
85704London Chapman and Hall 1924. 8vo. xxii 414 pp. plates; xiv 376 pp. plates; x 351 pp. plates; x 322 pp. plates. Red half morocco bindings spines with raised bands top edges gilt The Times Book Club. Four volumes. Centenary edition. The Works of Thomas Caryle. Volume IX:1-4. Originally published in 1845. This edition edited by H. D. Traill. hardcover
B9781019824917Hardback. New. hardcover
195890Clarendon Press Oxford University Press 1988. Reissue edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth near Fine in protective cover. Pp. xiv 978 illus with b&w plates previous owner's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper. Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1988 unknown
195891Clarendon Press Oxford University Press 1988. Reissue edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth near Fine in protective cover. Pp. xiv 1085 illus with b&w plates previous owner's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper. Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1988 unknown
1894185207New York New York: James Clarke 1894. Hardcover. Good cloth scuffed & smudged; corners rubbed. leather spine rubbed & worn. title pg & last plate has smudges/streaked staining; otherwise remaining text appears clean & bright. oblong black cloth boards w/ gilt stamp & quarter leather spine w/ gilt printing. approx 340 unpaginated pgs of bw plates. blue marbled edges. A wonderful vintage black and white photographic tour of the American landscape. Each plate has a lengthy description. Ex-libris plate to cover pastedown. James Clarke hardcover
18583287Seaforth and Hanover: Unpublished manuscript book 1858. Hardcover. Good. ff 25 Oblong album missing rear cover with the calligraphic ownership inscription on behalf of ten year old Cromwell Stuart son of Peter Stuart of Seaforth north of Liverpool the Lancashire shipowner and lay homeopath. Cromwell Stuart was born in 1847 dying in South Africa at 22 with most of the inscribed pages dating from about a decade later. Presumably this was a gift from his parents which Peter took with him to Germany where most of the inscribed pages were undertaken usually offering a motto and inscription below sometimes with a drawing. Signers include Jose Francis da Sehra G J F Bruel Albert Knolcke Rothmeyer Ernst Sengstack August von Bothmer Louise Evers Magnus Mansfeldt F F Vollmer Marie Hogreive. The last half dozen of pages were executed at Seaforth. Good 1858 Unpublished manuscript book hardcover
026517144X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1331020786.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1819099327London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1819. Complete in 2 volumes. Probably a large paper copy Books measure 21.5x13.5.cm. Collation 6199pp 4176pp 97 plates including engraved titles folding map and plan. Bound in full period calf raised bands ornate gilt tooling within compartments ornate inner and outer dentells full gilt edges coloured endpapers. Calf lightly rubbed minor scuff wear. Both bindings in very good clean condition. Internally some general moderate offsettting to engravings heavier to some plates. Pages and plates in good condition. A nice copy in very attractive period bindings. . First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. 8vo. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme Hardcover
1825016772London: Robert Jennings 1825. Two volumes bound in one. Book measures 24.5x15.5.cm. x2235pp v236-472pp complete with 29 plates. Bound in period full green crushed morocco gilt lines raised bands ornate gilt tooling full gilt edges yellow endpapers. Calf lightly rubbed minor abrasion wear. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally some very light spotting offsetting. Pages and plates in good condition. A very nice well bound copy. F. Full Calf. Very Good Plus. Large 8vo. Robert Jennings Hardcover
20141390388NASA. New. 2014. Soft Cover. Reprint Edition . NASA paperback
0526144386.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
