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John Newton; From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

By: AITKEN, Jonathan; YANCEY, Philip

Price: $15.00

Publisher: USA, Crossway Books: 2013

Seller ID: 413

ISBN: 1433541815

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: As New

John Newton,1725-1807, was an English Anglican clergyman and abolitionist who was forced to served as a sailor in the Royal Navy for a period. He was first a slave of Princess Peye, a black princess of the Sherbro people and then, years after, He became the captain of slave ships. He became ordained as an evangelical Anglican cleric, served Olney, Buckinghamshire, for two decades, and also wrote hymns, known for "Amazing Grace" and "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" [wikipedia]. 400pp. An 'as new' copy - bright, clean and fresh, no signs of use. Unpacked weight, 561g. We use...
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Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, January 3, 1964

By: ALEXANDER, Roy - Editor

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc.: 1964

Seller ID: 053523

Binding: Printed Wraps

Condition: About Fine

Cover features portrait of Civil Rights leader and 'Man of the Year', Martin Luther King, artwork by Robert Vickery. Canada edition - same content as USA edition but scarcer, plus Canadian news. 76pp. Bright and clean copy - attrative front cover portrait. Sound binding. Address label to lower left corner. No creases. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. This item weighs 132g and qualifies for inexpensive Lettermail postage within Canada.
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Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, February 14, 1964

By: ALEXANDER, Roy - Editor

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc.: 1964

Seller ID: 055160

Binding: Printed Wraps

Condition: VG+

Cover features portrait of Marina Oswald, wife of Lee Harvey Oswald. Canada edition - same content as USA edition but scarcer, plus Canadian news. Feature on the Warren Commission. 84pp. Bright and clean copy - attrative front cover portrait. Sound binding. No address labelpresent. No tears or creases. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. This item weighs 164 g and qualifies for inexpensive Lettermail postage within Canada.
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Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine: September 27, 1963

By: ALEXANDER, Roy - Editor

Price: $9.90

Publisher: New York, Time Inc.: 1963

Seller ID: 22234

Binding: Printed Wraps

Condition: VG+

Cover features artist drawn portrait of Alabama's Governor George Wallace. - 'Alabama: Civil Rights Battlefield'. Art by Boris Chaliapin. Canada edition - same content as USA edition, plus Canadian news, and much scarcer. 92pp. Bright and clean copy. Sound binding. Address label to left foot of front cover. Unpacked weight, 172g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. From $3.00 to $6.50 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations.
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A Terrible Revenge: the ethnic cleansing of the East European Germans

By: ALFRED-MAURICE DE ZAYAS

Price: $11.50

Publisher: New York, Palgrave Macmillan: 2006

Seller ID: 27318

ISBN: 1403973083

Binding: Printed Wrappers

Condition: VG+

This book deals with the fate of fifteen million German civilians who found themselves on the wrong side of new post WWII borders. All over Eastern Europe, the inhabitants of communities that had been established for many centuries were either expelled or killed. Over two million Germans did not survive..... Translated from the German by John A. Koehler ; poetry and new texts transl. by A. De Zayas. xlii, 182pp, illustrated, maps.Bright, clean interior. Unmarked except for a small rubber stamp to the ffep. Unpacked weight, 264g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail. Postage $4.00 to 6....
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Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

By: ASHCROFT, Bill; GRIFFITHS, Gareth; TIFFIN, Helen

Price: $9.50

Publisher: London, Routledge: 2007

Seller ID: 10745

ISBN: 0415428556

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: Fine

"This best-selling key guide, now in its second edition, provides an essential key to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism, explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities". A 'Routledge Key Guide'. xii, 292 pages ; 23 cm. An 'about as new' copy - bright, clean and unmarked. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Unpacked weight, 328g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Canadian GST included. ...
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The Good Black: a True Story of Race in America

By: BARRETT, Paul M.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Dutton Penguin: 1999

Seller ID: 268

ISBN: 0525943447

Binding: Cloth

Condition: About Fine

Larry Mungin spent his life preparing to succeed in the white world. He looked away from racial inequality and hostility, believing that he'd succeed if he worked hard and played by the rules. He rose from a Queens housing project to Harvard College and Law School, and went on to the world of corporate law. But just when he should have been considered for partnership at his mostly white law firm, he sued for racial discrimination. viii, 296pp. Interior of the book is bright and clean. previous owner's name to the top margin of the ffep, otherwise unmarked. The price-clipped dustjacket is also ...
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Oroonoko : an authoritative text, historical backgrounds, Criticism

By: BEHN, Aphra

Price: $12.00

Publisher: USA, W. W. Norton & Company: 1997

Seller ID: 2365

ISBN: 0393970140

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: About 'As New'

This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Aphra Behn's best-known and most influential work makes available the original 1688 text, the only text published in her lifetime. 'A Norton critical edition'. Edited by Joanna Lipking. Printed in gold on the rear wrapper it states, 'Instructor's Desk Copy'. xvi, 272pp. Bright, clean, unmarked copy, quite fresh. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Micro wear to a handful of tips to the top of pages. Unpacked weight, 310g. We ship Worldwide, at cost, using both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges, at cost, ...
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The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South

By: BLASSINGAME, John W.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York & Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1979

Seller ID: 632

ISBN: 0195025636

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: As New

A sad and depressing account but it has to be known - a landmark, authoritative account of Slavery in the United States. xviii, 414pp, illustrated. This is an absolutely 'as new' copy - bright, fresh, unmarked - mint! Unpacked weight, 530g Please note - Postal Rates shown by ABE are frequently incorrect. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images always available. Shipped well packed. USA postage usually $6.50 or less. Canadian postage varies considerably depending on weight and ...
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Chasing Their Dreams: Chinese Settlement in the Northwest Region of British Columbia

By: CHOW, Lily

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Prince George, B. C., Caitlin Press Inc.: 2000

Seller ID: 14959

ISBN: 0920576834

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: As New

An account of Chinese settlement in the Northwest region of British Columbia. xxiv, 158 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm. An 'as new' cop y -bright, fresh and unmarked. tight, square binding, glossy unmarked wrappers. Unpacked weight, 288g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. Images available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations.
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The Gypsies of Eastern Europe

By: CROWE, David; KOLSTI, John; HANCOCK, Ian

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York and London, M. E. Sharpe, Inc.: 1991

Seller ID: 477

ISBN: 0873326717

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

The essays in this collection detail the fate of gypsies in the countries of Eastern Europe through the socialist era, and pay special attention to the experience of the Nazi holocaust. The volume includes essays on Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary and Romania. vi, 194pp. Book and dustjacket is 'as new' - bright, fresh and unmarked. Unpacked weight, 509g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images always available. Shipped well packed. [Maximum postage to anywhere withi...
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White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's bitter roots : notes of an eighth-generation Afrikaner

By: De VILLIERS, Marq

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Canada, Macmillan of Canada: 1987

Seller ID: 611

ISBN: 0771595301

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

'..., book written to explain how apartheid came to be. Tracing the Afrikaner's history from settlement at the Cape, it chronicles the founding of race relations on slavery and a master-servant relationship'. Neither pro nor anti apartheid. xxvii, 420pp, maps, genealogical table. Book appears 'as new' - except for a bookplate to the ffep. Several newspaper articles of relevance in a plastic bag laid-in. Unpacked weight, 883g. We ship Worldwide, at cost, using both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges, at cost, without overcharging. Canadian domestic postal...
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The Dachau concentration camp 1933 to 1945 ; text and photo documents from the Exhibition

By: DISTEL, Barbara et al - Editors

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Munich, Comite International de Dachau: 2005

Seller ID: 037784

ISBN: 3874907511

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: As New

"The Dachau Concentration Camp 1933 - 1945" ; the new design of the exhibitions undertaken by the House of Bavarian History in cooperation with the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site and the Comite´ International de Dachau and in consultation with the expert advisory board. Curatorial and authorial team led by Barbara Distel. Text, and photo documents from the Exhibition, with CD. Text in English. 228pp, photo illustrations. CD-ROM in pocket at back. An 'as new' never-used copy. Weight, 667g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competit...
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Nigger Jokes and Stump Speeches : Being a Collection of Approved Nigger Jokes, Stump Speeches, Conundrums, and the Essence of Minstrelsy; Part Second

By: FRENCH, Samuel - Publisher

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York & London, Samuel French:

Seller ID: 051099

Binding: Wrappers

Condition: VG, or Better

Collection of African-American Wit & Humor with a strong racist bias. Undated, but would appear to be 1878 from external sources. 64pp. Body of text, stapled, is clean and very tight, pages remarkably white. Gold wrappers, with adverts to the inside panel, are bright, clean and still well attached but the paper covering the spine is wekening at top & bottom of the spine. has deteriorated in part. Scarce publication. Scan available. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. This item weig...
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Auschwitz and the Allies

By: GILBERT, Martin

Price: $8.95

Publisher: London, Mandarin Paperbacks: 1991

Seller ID: 11731

ISBN: 0749306025

Binding: Softcover

Condition: VG+

The truth about one of this century's most controversial episodes. First published in 1981. This is a Mandarin Paperback. xii, 368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. A bright, clean, unmarked interior. Tight, square binding, cdntral crease to the spine. Bright, clean wrappers. Unpacked weight, 284g.
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The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics & Places

By: GORDIMER, Nadine

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1988

Seller ID: 040240

ISBN: 0394573978

Binding: Cloth

Condition: About Fine

Autobiography of Nadiner Gordimer, 1923-2014, South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. Edited and introduced by Stephen Clingman. 294 pages ; 22 cm. Clean, unmatrked interior, bright, white pages. Tight, square binding, no wear to the boards. Similar, unclipped dustjacket. Unpacked weight, 590g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. No taxes on Canadian, American or Overseas Orders. Images always available.
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Cotton Coon's Two Step

By: HARRISON, C. R. - Composer

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Woodstock, Ontario, D. W. Karn Co.: 1903

Seller ID: 055137

Binding: [4pp]

Condition: Very Good

Piano music for a Two-Step or Rag, No lyrics. Features illustration of Four Black Americans - Seated man playing a banjo, woman beside singing and two men dancing. This edition 'Compliments of the D. W. Karn Co. Limited of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, manufactures of the Karn Piano, Pipe Organs and the Pianauto. Three pages of piano music. Karn advertising throughout. Printed on brittle paper. Some minor loss at tips of fore-edge; Music store stamp in blank field [Miller Brothers, Charlottetown, PEI]; minor soiling. Overall, a quite decent copy! Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail with...
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The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)

By: HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentworth; MEYER, Howard N.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: [Cambridge, Mass], Da Capo Press: 2000

Seller ID: 643

ISBN: 0306809540

Binding: Wrappers

Condition: As New

The extraordinary writings of one of the most vigorous, effective-and overlooked-shapers of American history, and the rediscovery of an American visionary - a groundbreaking activist at the forefront of the social movements reshaping nineteenth-century society. xviii, 618 pages : portrait ; 23 cm. An'as new' copy - bright, fresh and unmarked. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Unpacked weight, 777g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Canadian GST is included. Images always a...
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

By: HOCHSCHILD, Adam

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2005

Seller ID: 2697

ISBN: 0618104690

Binding: Cloth

Condition: About As New

From the author of the prizewinning King Leopold's Ghost comes an account of the first grassroots human rights campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world." "In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. viii, [4], 467pp, illustrated. An 'as new' copy - bright, fresh and unmarked in a similar clipped dustjacket. Unpacked weight, 790g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, n...
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White Slaves of the Nootka : The Adventures and Sufferings of . . .

By: JEWITT, John R.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Nanoose Bay, BC, Canada, Heritage House Publishing Company, Limited: 1987

Seller ID: 19530

ISBN: 0919214517

Binding: Printed Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt while a captive of the Nootka Indians on Vancouver Island - 1803-05. 126pp, photo illustrated. Bright, clean copy. Unmarked except for a small ink signature to the titlle page. Unpacked weight, 180g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. From $3.00 to $6.50 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations.
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Category: Race, Racism, Slavery