Black Thunder, First Edition (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Pan. Condition: Fine-. First Edition So Staed, Comp. # String. Oblong octavo, 205pp. Numerous photos by Edward Cohen. Slighrt wear. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 429 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. Owner's name second page in. Very good dust jacket. First Edition / First Printing. 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ (in mylar). First Edition/1st Printing. Immaculate and tight. Inside flap of jacket creased at top corner. 439p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Hard Cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing Former Library Book. Has all the stamps. Dust jacket is glued to the boards. Book is in Very Good condition. Boards have a light amount of shelf wear/rub, a bit bumped. Fore edges have a moderate amount of reading wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Very Good condition. Small amount of chip and crinkle along the edges. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar wrapper. Thanks and Enjoy. All-Ways well boxed, All-Ways fast service. Thanks. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. former owner's name, otherwise a nice, clean, square copy, octavo, 439 pages, warmly signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Doubleday & Company, 1973. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with ex-library stamp on title page. Dust jacket is very good with left flap reinforced.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Third Edition, Second Printing. Published by Farrer, 2011. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with partial creasing on front panel and a scrap on back panel. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No markings, attractive copy. Full number line.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. A book drawn from original research into previously untapped sources - including letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, poems, songs, newspaper articles, advertisements, a ship's log and official documents - by Northern African Americans from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, including Benjamin Banneker, Richard Allen, Sarah M. Douglas, Martin Delany, William Still and many others. Illustrated throughout. Biographical directory, index. xii, 396 pp. Ex-library but overall very good with relatively few markings, a tight and clean in a very good dust jacket (spine label).

Paperback. first edition. near fine, unread paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition, First Printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is slightly scuffed, and edges are creased and nicked. Page block and page edges are lightly tanned. Pages are otherwise clear and unmarked throughout. LW. Used.

Condition: good, fair. First Edition. 396, illus., biographical directory, index, front DJ flap price clipped, ink notation on front endpaper, DJ in plastic sleeve. DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped. This impressive collection, drawn froma wealth of original research into previously untapped sources--including letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, poems, songs, newspaper articles, advertisements, a ship's log, and official documents--allows African Americans to speak afresh across more than two centuries. Besides the expected voices of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, this book makes vivid the experiences and views of a diverse range of lesser-known but equally fascinating personalities: Ira Aldridge, one of the great Shakespearean actors of his day; William Allen, the first black college professor on the country; the astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker; Paul Cuffe, owner of a fleet of merchant ships: Martin R. Delaney, the father of black nationalism; James Forten, war veteran, inventor, and one of the wealthiest men in America; the militant Henry Highland Garnet, who urged slaves to revolt; the poet Phillis Wheatley, as well as ordinary free blacks, fugitive slaves, soldiers, wives, mothers, pioneers, sailors, and numerous others. The editor has forged her material into a documentary history as dramatic as it is memorable.

Cloth Spine. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (in mylar). First Edition/1st Printing. Author's inked signature and inscription on title page. Immaculate and tight, gift quality copy in unclipped, lightly edge-rubbed dust jacket. 439p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed & Inscribed By Author. Hardcover.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xxxv. Introduction by William B. Branch: The Legacy of the African Grove: From King Shotaway to the Piano Lesson. Includes: "The Colored Museum" by George C. Wolfe; "The First Breeze of Summer" by Leslie Lee; "Eden" by Steve Carter; "General Hag's Skeezag" by Amiri Baraka; "Long Time Since Yesterday" by P. J. Gibson; "Baccalaureate" by William Branch; "Sherlock Holmes and at he Hands of Othello" by Alexander Simmons; "The Taking of Miss Janie" by Ed Bullins; and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" by August Wilson. 520pp. Soft cover with title on spine and front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Patterson won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1988 and is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Queen's University Belfast. A clean, unmarked copy in a non price-clipped dust jacket with some shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 'to Gavin don't give up! Best wishes Glenn' on title-page Book condition is very good. (red mark at centre of final endpaper). Jacket is Very Good In loose clear-plastic cover. Fiction Novels Novel Signed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage -- southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history. In Thunder at the Gates, Douglas R. Egerton chronicles the formation and exploits of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry -- regiments led by whites but composed of black men born free or into slavery. He tracks an astonishing cast of characters, including the runaway slave William Carney, who became the first black soldier to receive the Medal of Honor; Charles and Lewis Douglass, the talented offspring of the famous abolitionist; and Robert Gould Shaw, the scion of a prosperous family who reluctantly took the job of leading the 54th, only to win enduring fame on the battlefield. From the disastrous siege of Charleston's Fort Wagner to the brutally intimate encounter at the Battle of Olustee in Florida, Egerton masterfully evokes the horror of nineteenth-century warfare. He shows the regiments sacking plantations across the South -- not as plunderers, but as liberators. In the final count, he argues that the regiments' defining victories came on the field of public opinion: their successes made possible not only the recruitment of 200,000 additional black soldiers, but the very ideas of black citizenship and equality in America. In fighting with distinction, these valiant regiments transformed the Civil War from a white man's conflict into a revolutionary struggle for freedom. BASIC BOOKS, HARDCOVER, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 2016 THIS IS A BRAND-NEW BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Signed by the author to title page. Very slight shelf wear to edge of D/J. Stamp to title page saying' This Book Was Slightly Damaged In Transit and Is Now Being Sold at a Special Bargain Price'. (I personally cannot see anything wrong with it). It is November 1991, Euro Disney is under construction, rising like a fantastic beacon out of the mud of Marne-la-Vallee. Several miles to the east, the Croation city of Vukovar is on the point of falling. And three people are sitting, wrapped in a blanket, in the cavernous interior of Big Thnunder Mountain at the heart of the Magic Kingdom, waiting.215 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. slight wear cover edges, some library marks, otherwise book clean and tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Fine. First Edition. (1st, 1st) Large book, black cloth spine, red boards, gilt lettering very bright on spine, black color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 439 pages. Very tiny nick at bottom of first front end paper. DJ glossy red background to front and spine, ornate color illustrations on front, b/w photo of Butler in uniform. DJ has tiny crease at spine top edge. DJ and book, both Near Very Fine.

Paperback. 160p., lightly worn first printing PBO in explicit photo-pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Ram Books RB-117. Interracial male sex.

Condition: New. 2016. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Avalon Books (Thomas Bouregy and Co., Ltd.), copyright 1972. Hardcover, just shy of 8 inches tall, 191 pp., with dust jacket in contemporary plastic jacket cover. Ex-library copy (checked out less than 10 times) with library stickers and card pocket. This copy in fair to good condition. Clean text. No stains or tears. Sound binding. However, it looks and feels a little worn--just well-thumbed, no serious wear and tear. On the back of the dust jacket is an ad listing other Avalon romances ("Delightful romances for teen-agers and adults") for $3.95 each. Price not clipped on dust jacket. Basically a sound copy, but a little worn.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. [12], 429, [7] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. Douglas R. Egerton is Professor of History at LeMoyne College. His books include Thunder At the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America, The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era (2014), Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War (2010) and Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America (2009). An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War. Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the South and most of the North responded with outrage-southerners promised to execute any black soldiers captured in battle. Meanwhile, Massachusetts, long the center of abolitionist fervor, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history. In Thunder at the Gates, Douglas Egerton chronicles the formation and battlefield triumphs of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry and the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry-regiments led by whites but composed of black men born free or into slavery. He argues that the most important battles of all were won on the field of public opinion, for in fighting with distinction the regiments realized the idea of full and equal citizenship for blacks. A stirring evocation of this transformative episode, Thunder at the Gates offers a riveting new perspective on the Civil War and its legacy. Derived from a Kirkus review: The story of the black men, slaves and free, of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry, some of the greatest fighters of the Civil War. Egerton understands that these men fought more for nationality and citizenship than to preserve the union. Their success in 1863 at Battery Wagner in Charleston, South Carolina, showed the world their mettle. Overcoming the racism just as inherent in the North as the South was an even bigger battle. After the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, Massachusetts Gov. John Andrew was permitted to form the first black regiment. Congress would not, however, allow black officers, doctors, or ministers. Consequently, Robert Gould Shaw and Ned and Pen Hallowell, Philadelphia Quakers, became the leaders of the 54th and the 55th regiments, and Charles Adams Jr. led the 5th Cavalry. Adams' regiment formed late in the war, and his leadership did not allow room for respect for his black men. Also included in the forces were two sons of Frederick Douglass: Lewis, whose wounds at Wagner ended his fighting days, and Charles, whose literacy led him to become the camp clerk. The Confederacy ruled that any blacks caught would be turned over to the state?no doubt to be reduced to slaves, no matter their background. The policy toward white leaders was that they were to be executed. The men saw how the Rebels treated blacks who tried to surrender; they were shot. After a battle, Rebel soldiers systematically walked among the wounded, executing any black soldiers. In this welcome addition to Civil War literature, Egerton gives readers a greater appreciation for their courage. A thoroughly researched, comprehensive look at the Civil War regiments who took the first step in the struggle to make their countrymen see them as intelligent, capable men.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Slight rubbing on the boards thus near fine in a fine dust jacket. Advance Review copy with publisher's material laid in.