He slew the dreamer; my search for the truth about James Earl Ray and the murder of Martin Luther King
New York: Delacorte Press, 1970. 212p., later printing, dj. More
Cat.No: 24730
New York: Delacorte Press, 1970. 212p., later printing, dj. More
Cat.No: 24730
New York: The Association, 1935. 206p., very good in original printed wraps. More
Cat.No: 118290
Berkeley: Erskine Johnson Defense Committee, n.d. Six-panel brochure, 3.75x8.5 inches, very good. On the case of a Black man in prison for killing a white store clerk in Memphis in 1983. Argues that his trial was flawed and that he had been in Missouri at the time, solicits donations. More
Cat.No: 252390
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1962. Pamphlet. 16p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, front wrap unevenly faded else very good condition. Employment Studies in Southern Cities, #2. More
Cat.No: 26451
South Pittsburg TN: Hustler Printing Company, Inc., 1973. Hardcover. xviii, [126]p., illustrated with period and contemporary photographs, largely of the simple stuff the city has for architecture. Also find journalist photos and sketches. Hardbound in plain blue cloth boards with headbands, a sound production with hard to read spine titling..... More
Cat.No: 318586
Tucson, AZ: Tucson AIDS Project, 1990. Pamphlet. Three wallet-size brochures, six panels and 3x4 inches, very good. All stamped with Nashville Cares. Safe-sex brochures. More
Cat.No: 319257
Nashville, TN: Knights of Labor, March 20, 1886. broadside. Broadside, slightly over 8x11 inches, all text printed on one side only, paper browned, one chip in the margin of the upper right hand corner, creased with a closed tear along one fold. Call to a meeting on March 21 in..... More
Cat.No: 165399
Liberty, TN: Short Mountain Collective, 1988. Magazine. 64p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. More
Cat.No: 226275
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1981. Paperback. xii, 124p., softbound in 9x6 inch pictorial wraps, first paperback printing. Tennessee three star books. More
Cat.No: 53536
New York: The Tamiment Institute, 1984. Magazine. pp. 485-639, 6x9.25 inches for this quarterly magazine, wraps, a little edge and shelf worn, else in good condition. Articles include, Textile labor in the North Carolina piedmont: Mill owner images and mill worker response, 1830–1900, by Bess Beatty, Black organized labor in..... More
Cat.No: 257239
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1937. Hardcover. 275p., first edition lemon-yellow cloth boards titled black in dust jacket, cracked front hinge, minor browning of end papers, the slightly edgeworn but bright pictorial dj features a cover image in colors (stevedore hauling on a rope) by Paul Laune. The African American..... More
Cat.No: 23564
New York: Holt , Rinehart and Winston, 1984. Paperback. 210p. Uncorrected proof in plain blue printed wraps. Lightly soiled, a good to very good copy. St. Louis, Missouri-born, Nashville, Tennessee-raised African American writer. More
Cat.No: 205877
New York: The Dial Press, 1972. Hardcover. 180p., very good first edition in boards and clipped dj. Missouri-born, Nashville-raised African American writer. More
Cat.No: 205876
London: Kestrel Books, 1974. Hardcover. 180p. very good first UK edition in boards and price-clipped dj. Missouri-born, Nashville-raised African American writer. More
Cat.No: 213696
Hong Kong: Lu da wen hua chu ban gong si, 2008. Paperback. 150p., very good in wraps. Biography of Peter Wing Lee (Li Yongjiang), a Chinese-American Tennessee resident who struggled against leukemia to become a champion bicyclist. Text in Chinese. More
Cat.No: 142193
Nashville, TN: W. R. Manlove, 1930. 79p., wraps, 5.5x7.75 inches, illus., cover somewhat soiled, some wear and fading to edges. Poems and tales written in "negro dialect" by a white man, ostensibly learned from his "old black mammy" while growing up on a plantation. Author is listed as Principal of..... More
Cat.No: 158704
New York: Viking Press, 2022. Hardcover. 153p., find a colorphoto vignette-size portrait of author (worth a look), third printing in maroon boards gilt and enclosed in the pictorial dust jacket. Nice copy of a Library of Congress Duplicate (never acquisitioned) with its rubberstamp on title page and top edge and..... More
Cat.No: 303351
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. Hardcover. xv, 200p., illus., very good condition in like dust jacket. Minds of the new South; a series in intellectual biography. More
Cat.No: 30115
Kalamazoo MI: New Issues / Western Michigan University, 2005. Trade Paperback. 69p., trade-size decorated wraps, a very good copy. first printing. More
Cat.No: 178386
Montclair: Allanheld, Osmun, 1979. Hardcover. xiv, 358p., very good condition, inscribed by Mitchell 'To Bill Huie, a great writer, with all good wishes from another old hell raiser, 'Mitch' this 14th day of August 1985 in Huntsville," dj. More
Cat.No: 38303
Bloomington: 1stBooks, for the author, [late 1990s]. Paperback. iii, 106p., personal photos pp16-7, other illustrations p.40ff, first edition 8x5 inch glossy wraps, clean and sound, a very good copy that is inscribed ("From my house to your house") and signed by Morse on her title page. Remembered wisdom and memorial..... More
Cat.No: 180627
New York: The Fund, 1961. Pamphlet. 19p., wraps, a bit toned, some wear along the spine else good condition, 3.75x8.75 inches. On the evictions of black sharecroppers in Fayette and Haywood counties (Tennessee) at the outset of the civil rights movement. More
Cat.No: 38500
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1989. Hardcover. xiii, 272p., illus. in text, first edition, very good in dust jacket. Covers women in education, nursing and civil rights in five southern states. More
Cat.No: 118384
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1989. Hardcover. xiii, 272p., illus. in text, second printing, very good in an unclipped dust jacket with a sunned spine panel. Covers women in education, nursing and civil rights in five southern states. More
Cat.No: 302067
New York: The Citadel Press, 1950. 245p., first edition, very good condition in a chipped dj. *Rideout novel. "Coal miners in the Cumberland mountains." *Hanna 2766. More
Cat.No: 1609