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Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada: The Mount Forest Confederate, N.D. [Circa 1928]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 202, [1]. Small 8vo., measuring 6" x 8.75". Bound in publisher's original, pebbled, dark-green cloth over boards, gilt lettering and ornamentation to the spine and front board. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, group portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Comprises of an extended list of those who served from Mount Forest, and the surrounding community during the Great War of 1914-1918, along with their respective regiments. Further includes a rich history of the town, and surrounding districts, biographies of notable residents, records of the local churches, and other landmarks. Lightest rubbing to the boards; excepting some light foxing (strictly confined to the endpapers), otherwise, contents without blemish with clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding. Overall, near fine. Exceedingly rare local history with no instances to be found in… Read More

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON 1966. Near Fine. 1966. First Edition. Softcover. ADVANCE READING COPY. Near fine in plain white printed wrappers. (Couple of tiny soil spots on top edge. Faint touches of shelfwear) Winner of the Houghton, Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. A scarce advance. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps, an advance reading copy of Walker's Civil War saga that earned her a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Her first book, For My People, won a Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Walker taught at a historically block college, now called Jackson State University, where, in 1968, she set up the Institute for the Study of History, Life, and Culture of Black People (now the Margaret Walker Center). Creases to front, rear wraps and the spine, but very good.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 497 pp .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First edition. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of this US epic, based on the true life story of the author's grandmother, a formerly enslaved woman who lived from the antebellum period through the Civil War and Reconstruction. JUBILEE is Margaret Walker's only novel; she completed it while studying for her PhD at the University of Iowa. 8.5'' x 5.75''. Original green cloth boards with metallic blue lettering. Original uncut ($5.95) color pictorial dust jacket, designed by William Hofmann. Green topstain. Blue cartographic endpapers. 498 pages. Jacket with scattered foxing and a bit of soil; light edgewear, with a few tiny chimps and tiny closed tears. Binding spine ends a touch bumped, a hint of shelfwear; a hint of sunning to edges. Textblock with mild soil. Interior clean and bright.

DJ in archival cover chips. Stated first printing. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

New York: The Feminist Press, 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Edited by Maryemma Graham. 153pp. Foxing on the top page edge and slight edgewear else near fine. Inscribed by the author.

Boston: Houghton Miffliln, 1966. First printing. 8vo, pp. xiii, 497. Green cloth. Map on endpapers. A VG tight copy in chipped and stained dj. A novel based on the life of the author's great grandmother, her first novel.

LONDON: HODDER AND STOUGHTON, LTD. NEAR FINE IN A VERY GOOD D.J.. PUB 1967. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. FIRST UK EDITION OF AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL . BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT EXCEPT FOR A SPLASH STAIN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE TEXT BLOCK. D.J. HAS TEAR AT THE TOP SPINE CORNER, TOP CORNERS MODERATELY WORN WITH SLIGHT LOSS, A TOUCH OF TONING TO EDGE, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. .

NY: Feminist Press, 1990. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xxi, 157. Notes. With a portrait of the author. Red cloth stamped in black. About as new.

Third World Press. Collectible - Very Good. 1972. First Edition First Printing. Stapled Soft Cover. (T238) .

London, UK.: Hodder And Stoughton., 1967. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES AND FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY).....Please e-mail for further details OR TELEPHONE us direct on 01822 810108.. . NOT Inscribed or Signed. This is the First Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good (AVERAGE)/Dust Jacket (POOR). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK.

New York, N.Y.: Bantam, October 1985. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack . Good. 34th mass market paperback edition. Soiling/dust stained wrapper. One-inch tear to corner of spine at bottom. Large previous dealer's stamp verso of front cover. Foxing of textblock edges. Unfortunate mildew odor. [416 pp.]