John Hope Franklin Editor (29 results)

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. The proponents of the ?new? military history were just gaining full momentum, when this book was first published in 1982. Their objective was to reach beyond the traditional focus of military studies?the flow of guns, combat, and tactics that influenced the immediate outcome of battles and martial conflicts, often with little reference to broader historical contexts. Believing that one cannot fully appreciate the Revolution without reckoning with the War for Independence and its effects in helping to shape the new American republic, Martin and Lender move beyond the deeply ingrained national mythology about the essence of the war effort, so neatly personified by the imagery of the embattled freehold farmer as the quintessential warrior of the Revolution. Then they integrate, not persist in keeping separate, the fascinating history of the real Continental army into the mainstream of writing about the nation-making experience of the United States. Extensive index and each chapter includes a bibliography.…

hardcover. Condition: As New. Used, hardcover like new with original dust jacket. Sharp, square, clean, fresh & serviceable copy. No highlighting, marginalia or page tears.

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Withdrawn library copy with stickers on cover and stamps on end pages. Internal shhets clean. 138 pages. 6 X 9 inches. 1947. First Edition. Frontis., xxv, [1(blank)], 138pp. + 2 half tone plate leaves. 8vo. American Civil War diary of Kentucky-native James T. Ayers, ".an Illinois lay preacher who served in Sherman's Army. His day-by-day entries constitute a humorous and poignant document depicting the point of view, the hardships and also the aspirations of a common soldier.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition. 138pp. Very faint markings of pencil on title page, else a very good copy. Ayers recruited in Tennessee, and later Alabama. After the armistice, he re-enlisted as chaplain in the 104th Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops because of an interest in the Negroes' post-war welfare. His diary is colorful and critical. Ayers was a lay preacher who primarily recruited Negroes, behind the advancing lines of Gen. Sherman's army. See Nevins. Vol. 1, p.53: "Occasional Publication" of the ISHL -- issued without dust jacket. Second publication by the late historian John Hope Franklin (1915-2009). "A rambling, disjointed diary by an elderly anti-slaveryite who served in the 129th Illinois and as a recruiter for Negro units; the narrative spans only the last eighteen months of the war in the West." See also Dornbush, vol. 1, IL 350.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Original contribution by Franklin. Out of print.

Condition: FINE. First appearance in print of these works. Several papers focusing on achieved and attempted desegregation in different areas: Franklin provides the historical background, other papers discuss integration in the armed services, in public housing, the Girard College case, desegregating Washington DC schools in the early 1950's and more. While the emphasis in most of the papers is on African Americans, there is also one paper dealing specifically with Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Asians. Book reviews, index, 211 pp. Near fine in printed orange wrappers. Uncommon. …

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 44, No. 4, December 1970. 119 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Occassional pen markings on text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Very good- (very light corner stain to cover). Out of print and uncommon. Binding is cloth boards.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, fourth printing, 1971. Pages unmarked, moderate wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. Light shelf and corner wear, Missing Dust Jacket, Text appears clean, Inside front cover has sharpie like scribbling, Binding is in good sturdy condition. 391 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561015305. …

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 1947, matching dates on title and copyright pages. Published by Illinois State Historical Society, Occasional publications of the Illinois State Historical Society no. 50. Hardcover in pictorial cloth. No DJ as issued. Condition fine inside, square tight and clean book, corners slightly bumped, slight cornerwear, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, no foxing, not a reminder. 8vo, XXV + 138 pages with illustrations. ASIN B0007E349S. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Out of print. One of Franklin's earliest works.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR Michael S. Harper on two pages and on the free endpaper with an autobiographical inscription. With a foreword by John Hope Franklin who said that no other anthology of black literature, art and scholarship has drawn so deeply from "the well of black creativity," A massive, invaluable resource comprising essays by notables such as Ralph Ellison (on "The Art of Romare Bearden" as well as an interview with Ellison), Alice Walker on Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison (in conversation). Tall 8vo, black cloth, 450 pages. A fine, clean and unclipped copy in an archival Mylar jacket cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket. First Edition. Springfield, Illinois:: Illinois State Historical Society, 1947. A clean, tight copy. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Edited, with Introduction by John Hope Franklin. One of only a few eye-witness records that tells how the Union Army recruited Black troops during the Civil War. Illustrated with a portrait and document facsimiles. Footnotes. Appendix. Index. Bound in the original pictorial gray cloth that features a blue-stamped Civil War scene of troops crossing a river. The cover illustration wraps completely around the book (front, spine and rear cover). "A rambling, disjointed diary by an elderly anti-slaveryite who served in the 129th Illinois as a recruiter for Negro units; the narrative spans only the last eighteen months of the war in the West." -- Nevins/Robertson/Wiley I, p. 53 [CIVIL WAR BOOKS, A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Dornbusch (Illinois) 350. Occasional Publications of the Illinois State Historical Society, No. 50. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No jacket. 8vo. xxv, 138pp.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 372 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 521 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Daedalus Library Volume 13.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Scarce book with minor cover wear, book is from the personal library of a noted U.S. Army War College military history professor with his bookplate attached to the top of the front free endpaper. Top page edging is also slightly soiled. Book includes an appendix & index. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 436 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Introduction by Franklin . A nice copy of the First Printing from the library of David Herbert Donald , winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of Charles Sumner and Thomas Wolfe and celebrated biographer of Abraham Lincoln . Donald's sigmature is on the first free endpaper . Publisher's note of publication is laid in . Dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover .…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean as pictured a First Edition as very good condition softcover , gently read read. 771 pages , tiny nicks tears at edges.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 14 volume set. From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. Softcover. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. Interesting essays in this collection include: On a Scientific Approach to Prediction by Simon Ramo; Los Tapiales: A Paleo-Indian Campside in the Guatemalan Highlands by Ruth Gruhn and Alan L. Bryan; On Promoting Useful Knowledge by Gerard Piel; Indian Astronomy by David Pingree; Variations in the Sun and Their Effects on Weather and Climate by Walter Orr Roberts; Ascorbate and Caner by Linus Pauling and Ewan Cameron; Radium, Radioactivity, and the Popularity of Scientific Discovery by Lawrence Badash; and Mendeleev and the Scientific Claims of Spiritualism by Don C. Rawson. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University Contents: Vol. 121, No. 3, 1977; Vol. 121, No. 4, 1977; Vol. 121, No. 5, 1977; Vol. 122, No. 1, 1978; Vol. 122, No. 2, 1978; Vol. 122, No. 3 1978; Vol. 122, No. 4, 1978; Vol. 122, No. 5, 1978; Vol. 122, No. 6, 1978; Vol. 123, No. 1, 1979; Vol. 123, No. 2, 1979; Vol. 123, No. 3, 1979; Vol. 123, No. 4, 1979; Vol. 123, No. 6, 1979. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.…