Workers in chains
London: South African Congress of Trade Unions, 1976. 19p., 5.75x8.25 inches, staplebound pamphlet, pen underlining. Cover photo of Black South African laborer in handcuffs. More
Cat.No: 96905
Forced labor
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Masters and serfs : farm labour in South Africa
London: International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, 1973. 55p., staplebound pamphlet, very good. More
Cat.No: 237692
Forced Labor in Soviet Russia
New York: Nation Press Printing Co., Inc., 1931. 107p., sewn textblock in 8.5x5.5 inch plain printed grey cardstock wraps; cover is somewhat soiled and top of spine is reinforced with a piece of old clear tape; the upper hinge has cracked through and wraps have pulled away from the textblock..... More
Cat.No: 179235
White supremacy; a comparative study in American and South African history
New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. xxv, 356p., trade-size softback (8x5.2 inch glossy wraps), paperstock is pervasively toned, a clean, sound, very good copy. More
Cat.No: 176306
Elegía a Jesús Menéndez
Havana: Editorial Letras Cubanas, 1998. Paperback. xxx, 51p., rubricated titlepage and capitals, line illustrations, presswork a mix of letterpress and offset. Reprint, a largepaper edition with extra-wide margins, cover and textblock are beginning to detach but remain held together, mildest edgewear to the glossy plain wraps, a good to very..... More
Cat.No: 252741
Economic History of Cuba
Havana: Book Institute, 1967. Hardcover. 277p., illustrated with scattered period and press photography, hardbound in 9x6 inch pebbled gray boards titled in blind, in dust jacket. The book itself is mildly shelf- and edgeworn with a neat small ownership signature on the ffep, the dj is quite edgeworn with some..... More
Cat.No: 245827
Punishment: In the Scripture and Tradition of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. A paper presented to the National Religious Leaders Consultation on Criminal Justice convened by the National Council On Crime And Delinquency with responses. Claremont, California, September 13 - 15, 1981
New York: National Interreligious Task Force on Criminal Justice, 1983. Pamphlet. x, 94p., softbound in stapled 8.5x5.5 inch printed wraps; covers adjacent to spinefold are very toned, and the back cover also has a small light stain. Ownership name penned on title page. A sound and otherwise clean copy. More
Cat.No: 220236
Trading Roles; Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosi
Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Paperback. [xiii], 277p., illustrated with a few line and plat maps, and period portraits, first issue of the trade paper edition in 9x6 inch pictorial wraps. A very clean, sound, unmarked copy. More
Cat.No: 264168
El problema del trabajo forzado en America Latina
Mexico, D. F: Biblioteca de Ensayos Sociologicos, [circa 1950]. Pamphlet. 39p., unopened, wraps a bit browned with chipping on the edges. Text in Spanish. Cuadernos de Sociologia. More
Cat.No: 65862
The 13th juror; the inside story of my trial
New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1955. Paperback. 252p., shelf worn wraps faded on spine, spine creased and sun faded, else good condition. "The first half of the book describes Blawnox Workhouse, the prison in Pennsylvania where he served his sentence. The second half tells the story of his trial before..... More
Cat.No: 14531
The 13th juror; the inside story of my trial
New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1955. Paperback. 252p., shelf worn wraps faded on spine, spine creased and sun faded, else good condition. "The first half of the book describes Blawnox Workhouse, the prison in Pennsylvania where he served his sentence. The second half tells the story of his trial before..... More
Cat.No: 272362
The wheel of servitude; black forced labor after slavery
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1978. Hardcover. xvii, 126p., date stamp and letter "D" in red ink to top corner of front free endpaper. bit soiled dj. Foreword by Bayard Rustin. More
Cat.No: 85293
The wheel of servitude; black forced labor after slavery
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1978. Hardcover. xvii, 126p., dj slightly soiled at top. Foreword by Bayard Rustin. More
Cat.No: 101352
Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1849-1999; Multi-Cultural Crossroads
Las Cruces: Red Sky Publishing Co., Inc., 1999. Paperback. 244p., illustrated with b&w period photography, second printing, softbound in 9x6 inch glossy photographic wraps. Author Owen inscribes and signs titlepage to Stanley Noyes, a scholar of matters SW. Back cover bears a very faint bend (not a "crease"), a clean..... More
Cat.No: 240397
The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict, Austin Reed; Edited and with an Introduction by Caleb Smith; Foreword by David W. Blight and Robert B. Stepto
New York: Random House, 2016. lxx, 271p., illustrated with numerous facsimiles and period images, first edition paper over boards in dust jacket. Find a folded-out dog ear at the contents leaf, else a perfect copy. More
Cat.No: 240955
An Account of the Conquest of Peru - Written by Pedro Sancho, secretary to Pizarro and scrivener to his army. Translated into English and Annotated by Philip Ainsworth Means
New York: The Cortes Society, 1917. Hardcover. First issue of this translation, a handsome small hardbound, buff boards bearing two-color title-label under brown buckram backstrip, also has a [spine]-title label. Find a small but very bad impact dent to tail of rear cover, causing a deep fissure in the buckram'd..... More
Cat.No: 279176
Reform in Leopold's Congo
Richmond: John Knox Press, 1970. Hardcover. 195p., several period images and line maps, first edition green cloth boards in dj. Casing very good, jacket has a dampstain line and a small chip, general soiling/rubbing, a good copy. European American Author. American missionaries in the Kasai region, 1890-1921. "At the center..... More
Cat.No: 101313
Maidanek, un camp d'extermination. Suivi du Compte rendu de la Commission d'enquete polono-sovietique. Coverture de Joel.
Paris: Editions Sociales, n.d., late 1940s. Pamphlet. 40p., two illustrations only, a sketch of skulls by Joel front cover, trial photo of perpetrators back cover. Text entirely in French. Softbound, an 8x5.5 inch stapled pamphlet. Of two staples, one is rusted with slight migration and has pulled away from cover..... More
Cat.No: 287537
Migrant laborers
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Paperback. v+225p., notes, index, very good in trade-size wraps. A study of labor migration in east, west and south Africa, with an emphasis on the adaptation to wage-labor from pre-capitalist societies and attention paid to forced labor and resistance. African Society Today, general editor Robin..... More
Cat.No: 81345
After the typhoon
Thornhill, Scotland: Tynron Press, printed in Singapore by Elka Printing Service, 1991. Unpaginated preliminaries, 171p., three line maps, a color photo section, glossy 8x6 inch color wraps, very good. The 'typhoon' being the cultural revolution. More
Cat.No: 160544
![Cat.No: 271772 The Rise of Fernando Cortes [reprinted from:] Documents and Narratives...](/pictures/thumb/271772.jpg?v=1631758775)
The Rise of Fernando Cortes [reprinted from:] Documents and Narratives concerning the Discovery and Conquest of Latin America Published by The Cortes Society Bancroft Library Berkeley California
New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1969. Hardcover. xxxvi, 564p., all original illustrations reproduced in careful facsimile (including a folded Aztec map), hardbound in utilitarian cloth boards spine-titled gilt. Ex library with neat accession and withdrawn stamps to pastedown and to top edge; little or no signs of wear, no personal..... More
Cat.No: 271772
The Great Wall of Confinement; The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Hardcover. xi, 248p., a few period and contemporary illustrations, hardbound in red cloth boards spine-titled black. Lacks the publisher's jacket, an else as-new, perfectly sound copy: we see no signs of handling or any ownership or institutional marks. More
Cat.No: 235256
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