A socialist utopia in the new South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Paperback. xi, 263p., wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 185145
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Paperback. xi, 263p., wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 185145
Memphis State University, October 1986. Paperback. 30p., reproduced from a typewritten original and printed rectos-only, side-stapled with a front-cover die-cut that focusses cover text on the Morgen talk. Some dust-smudging to covers, lower margin of die-cut frame was badly torn and we have strengthened the tears with very visible tape-repair..... More
Cat.No: 311238
Ann Arbor: Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and the National Center for Dispute Settlement, 1971. Hardcover. viii, 246p., plain printed trade-size wraps. The "perfect" binding has cracked and one or two leaves are loose (not yet edgeworn). Mild external handling soil, a good-only copy. Covers the 1968 Memphis garbage..... More
Cat.No: 33570
Memphis, TN: Church of God in Christ, Inc., 1982. Oversized Paperback. 428p. illustrations, portraits. Wraps, 11x8.5 inches, spine toned, general soiling and toning to covers. Hint of wrinkling along bottom edge near spine/. More
Cat.No: 209637
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988. Hardcover. 278p., first edition, very good condition in like dust jacket. African American author, novel set in Tennessee. More
Cat.No: 10677
New York: Cineaste Publishers, 1975. Magazine. 52p., 8.25x10.75 inches, photos, stills, very good film magazine in stapled pictorial wraps with Bill Plympton cover. Leftist film magazine. Pythons, The Kartemquin Collective, Arab and African film, Altman's Nashville defended etc. More
Cat.No: 166656
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, n.d. 61p., pages a bit browned, otherwise very good, 3.25x5 inches. Little blue book no. 1424. More
Cat.No: 122553
Nashville, TN: The Tennessee State Museum, 1981. Pamphlet. 36p., stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, illus., a few small stains on front wrap else very good condition with a photograph of Dickinson by Jock McDonald laid in. Not to be confused with the 1974 book of the same name based on the..... More
Cat.No: 266609
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. Hardcover. 200p., very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 228238
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, in cooperation with The Tennessee Historical Commission, 1977. Paperback. 95p., wraps, illus., very good condition. Examines three utopia communities of the 19th century including Nashoba, an interracial settlement, and a socialist community. More
Cat.No: 8415
Richmond: The Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, [1962]. 20p., very good in staplebound wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches. The Commission, an official state agency, was formed to present a genteel defense of segregation and racism. More
Cat.No: 184955
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002. 190p., scattered illus., first printing, very good in a like dj. More
Cat.No: 156323
Boston: Beacon Press, 1958. Hardcover. 258p., quarter-cloth boards, very good condition in like dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 304953
Washington: The Evening Star and The Sunday Star, 1941. [8p.] 4x9.5 inches, illustrated with a photo of Gore on the cover (bearing some resemblance to his son) and Washington D.C. landmarks on the rear cover, staples rusted else very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 102276
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1933. Hardcover. 335p., spine faded, previous owner's name, ink marks on half-title page else good condition, first edition. No dj. Novel about "A tenant farmer in the Tennessee mountains." *Hanna 1462. Tennessee author, who among other jobs, taught at Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas and was a...... More
Cat.No: 240940
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1933. Hardcover. 335p., first edition, spine slightly sloped else very good condition in a chipped dj with a large chip at the top of the spine 1.5 inches deep and extending into the front and rear panels. Tennessee author, who among other jobs, taught at Commonwealth College..... More
Cat.No: 241338
Nashville: Tennessee Folklore Society, 1956-1960. From 20 to 50 pages each, text typewriter-set, 11x8.5 inch sidestapled wraps with masking-tape spines; the masking-tape is neatly applied, howevermuch on-a-shoestring, and is lasting well. Very good copies, the eleven as a lot. More
Cat.No: 164828
New York: Da Capo Press, Inc., 1990. Paperback. 224p., Covarrubias' paintings reproduced fullpage in b&w, bulk of text comprised of music notation and lyrics, softbound in 11x8 inch decorated silver wraps. Slight edgewear to covers and a small neat ownership on half-title, this is a sound, clean, otherwise unmarked copy..... More
Cat.No: 294451
Atlanta: Law Renewal Publications, 1968. Paperback. 60p., 4x5 inch wraps; in very good condition. About a Memphis cop who finds Jesus. More
Cat.No: 317274
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Paperback. xiii, 364, [v]p., wraps. Later paperback printing. Lean to spine, else about good. The working class in American history. More
Cat.No: 136669
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Paperback. xiii, 364, [v]p., wraps. 2nd paperback printing. Front cover a bit soiled/spotted with some faint creasing, "Received" date stamped to first page, else very good. The working class in American history. More
Cat.No: 292301
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Hardcover. xxi, 402p. + 16p. photos, synopsis, preface, introduction, references, notes, index. Hardbound first edition in black cloth-backed boards titled silverfoil and enclosed in the dust jacket. Completely sound, clean and unmarked. A very good copy. George Gund foundation imprint. More
Cat.No: 55112
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890. x, 335p., preface, later printing of 1888 original; blue cloth boards gilt. Head is lightly bumped, endpapers brittle, front hinge starting, a not-quite "good" copy that on its front free endpaper bears a personal inscription -signed- by the subject's daughter to her uncle. Fisk..... More
Cat.No: 155974
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. Hardcover. xi, 168, 28p. [ads dated May, 1881], first edition, original brick red cloth soiled, spine darkened and slightly sloped, old ownership stamp and owner's name and date (1881) on half-title page, free front endpaper and half-title heavily foxed. No dj. Utopian co-operative colony in..... More
Cat.No: 142883
N.pl. The Rugbeian Press / Big Sink Books, 1973. Hardcover. xi, 168p., very good in cloth binding designed to look like the original book, very good condition. Reprint of the 1881 edition. Co-operative colony in Eastern Tennessee; Land Ownership Limited was "a company incorporated in England, and authorized to hold..... More
Cat.No: 136565