First Edition. Illustrated with halftone photographs. viii, 276 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy. Previous owner's name on the inside front cover. Minor spotting to a few pages.

First Edition. A four-part defense of the Freedmen's Bureau and its head, Major General Oliver O. Howard, spurred by a proposed amendment to cut the $5,000 budget for the hospital in Washington, D.C. and a speech accusing the agency of "plundering the public treasuring." The Freedmen's Bureau was a Reconstruction-era.....

First American edition (and the fifth overall). A collectible copy from America's first Renaissance Man. The Society of Friends commissioned 4000 copies of this pamphlet, and they hired Benjamin Franklin's printing company to do the work, seventeen years before Franklin would edit and then sign the Declaration of Independence. In.....

Life and Times is Douglass's third autobiography, following his Narrative (1845) and My Bondage, My Freedom (1855). This version of the autobiography, first published in 1881, describes Douglass's life and work after the Civil War and his encounters with Presidents Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield. With an appendix printing two speeches.....

A reprint of two anti-slavery tracts issued by Leonard Baskin's Gehenna Press. With "An afterword on Woolman & Slavery" by Frederick B. Tolles. "Two hundred & fifty copies were printed at The Gehenna Press to memorialize the bicentennial of John Woolman's death in 1772. The texts follow the first editions.....

First Edition. "Biographical sketches of John Aiso, Hiroshi Miyamura, Ben Kuroki, and Mike Masaoka; interviews with Fujioka Shiro and Mike Masaoka; and profiles of 300-odd Issei and Nisei. Includes brief essays on the exclusion movement, internment, and the second generation."—A Buried Past, 633.1. The subjects of the book are the.....

First Edition. An examination of the likelihood and potential shape of a war in the Pacific between Japan and the United States, with an emphasis on naval and aerial battles. Kawashima focuses more on the Philippines and Guam and less over Hawaii than some writers on the subject. He also.....

First Edition. A biography of Frederick Douglass by the longtime leader of the Tuskegee Institute (now University). Washington frames Douglass as an inspiring figure from the past, part of an era of "destruction and liberation" focused on slavery and its immediate aftermath. Washington implies that the more difficult task of.....

First Edition. Two short texts by Booker T. Washington advocating for equality in voting between while and black men (women's suffrage is not addressed). The first text is a letter written to the constitutional convention in Louisiana supporting a test for voting so long as "no one clothed with State.....

First Edition. An economic survey of the United States, covering geography, the political system, transportation, banking, insurance, agriculture (including chapters on specific crops), manufacturing (with sections devoted to more than twenty separate industries), newspapers, and religion, plus an appendix on Canada. The book makes few references to Japanese already in.....

First Edition. "A study of the American character based for the most part upon Henry Van Dyke's The Spirit of America (1910) and Hugo Munsterberg's The Americans (1908) by the author who spent 8 years in America. Discusses the immigration question and the exclusion movement in Chapter 8 which is.....

First Edition. One of the most influential Meiji-era agricultural works, a philosophical and theoretical (rather than practical) exploration of farming that was reprinted many times. Nitobe studied at an American-run agricultural college in Japan and continued his studies in the US; this book synthesizes American and Japanese ideas about agriculture.....

First Edition. A scarce Japanese history of the US Civil War published just as Japanese immigration to the United States began to increase rapidly. Nineteenth-century Japanese books on the United States are uncommon, especially those written by Japanese authors, rather than missionaries or translated from English. These books help explain.....