First Edition. An early book on Black politicians in Texas, from the end of the Civil War to 1899, when legislative and political changes blocked Black candidates for the Texas legislature. Brewer traces the emergence of Black politicians in Texas, combining a general political history and transcriptions of documents with.....

First Edition. "This volume reconstructs the history of the Alamo back to pre-colonial times. Its importance lies not only in its portrayal of Texas' history as a product of Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American contributions, but also in its focus on the role of Texas women and Texas Mexicans.....

First Edition. An extraordinary document of the First Amendment: Neil Sheehan’s inscribed copy of the Pentagon Papers litigation—the landmark freedom-of-the-press case triggered by his reporting on the classified study. The Pentagon Papers was the informal name for a top-secret Defense Department history of American involvement in Vietnam that revealed how.....

First Edition. A history of the bank robbery that put Cole Younger and his brothers behind bars, inscribed by one of their victims who was shot during the stickup and lived to tell the tale. This book describes the attempt made by the gang led by Jesse and Frank James.....

First Edition. Lourie’s study of Soviet dissident Andrei Sinyavsky, inscribed to his future editor Michael di Capua with the hope that the book still had “a little mileage” in it. Under his own name, Andrei Sinyavsky was a respected Soviet literary scholar; as Abram Tertz, he wrote fantastic and satirical.....

First Edition. The first issue of the first Japanese American yearbook and directory, printed and published in San Francisco during the Meiji era. Quite scarce, even rare, with no original holdings in OCLC (the National Diet Library in Japan records a reproduction; no US libraries record any copy at all).....

First edition. The second book of Otero's memoirs of his life as a prominent politician in Territorial New Mexico. Otero, the second generation of a New Mexican political family, was one of the most prominent Mexican Americans of the first half of the 20th century. "The author tells about the.....

First Edition. A scarce signed copy of an important contribution to American business history. "Following in a tradition of black scholars such as Henry Minton, Booker T. Washington, and WEB Du Bois, Pierce published a major study in 1947 entitled Negro Business and Business Education. His scholarship is timeless.... The.....

First Edition. The very scarce first edition of one of the most influential business books of all time, with more than 80,000 citations on Google Scholar. Competitive Strategy is best-known for its “five forces” framework, which widened the conventional understanding of competition beyond direct rivals to include the bargaining power.....