Fanaticism, Signed (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This soft cover first edition has been signed on the title page. The book is tight with no names or markings. There are small spots on the back page and edge that extend a few pages. There ia small waving appearance; the book is good minus. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed with inscription from author on front blank page- no other marks or notations, clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. Burgundy colored cloth boards. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Fine inscribed first edition (2009,complete number line) in Near Fine dust jacket with price intact. Inscribed by Jaffe on the front fly. 196 pages, unmarked ; OOCO C9C; 8.6 X 5.8 X 0.9 inches; 196 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Mildly bumped lower corner. Very mildly edgeworn dj protected in mylar. Signed on title page by author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red Scare!: Right-Wing Hysteria Fifties Fanaticism and Their Legacy in Texas by Don E. Carleton. Inscribed by author to previous owner on front endpaper. Hardcover first edition, first printing published in 1985 by Texas Monthly Press. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING WITH COMPLETE NUMBER LINE STARTING WITH NUMBER 1.HARDCOVER EDITION WITH DUSTJACKET .binding is solid. NOT EX-LIBRARY COPY . TEXT UNMARKED. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Publishers Cloth. 12mo. Stated third edition. 347 pp. + ads. Very good. Small repair at crown of spine. Some light foxing. SIGNED in ink by the author on the front free end paper: "presented by Mr. Wm. L. Stone." rare third edition of this unusual account, involving sojourner truth ('isabella'). In 1832, Isabella Baumfree, who had freed herself from bondage in upstate New York and later renamed herself 'Sojourner Truth,' met Elijah Pierson, prophet of a religious sect. She joined with her infant child and met Robert Matthias, another member of the sect, who vied for leadership, claiming to be Jesus Christ incarnate. Matthias was accused of killing Elijah Pierson with some poisoned blackberries. Isabella, his servant, was of course implicated. In the end, Isabella was not only cleared, but awarded a sum of money after she sued the court for slander--the first black person to win such a suit. Not in the Blockson Collection. A rare inscribed coy now housed in a custom clamshell box with leather label. William Leete Stone (1792 - 1844) known as Colonel Stone, was an influential journalist, publisher, author, and public official in New York City. His name also appears as "Leet". Stone always advocated the abolition of slavery by congressional action in the columns of the Commercial Advertiser, as well as the activities of the American Colonization Society. He served as President of the New York Colonization Society. At the anti-slavery convention at Baltimore in 1825, he originated and drew up the plan for slave emancipation, including the deportation of all freed slaves out of the United States and financial compensation to slaveholders, which was recommended at that time to Congress for adoption [Adams, Alice Dana, The Neglected Period of Anti-Slavery in America, Radcliffe 1908]. He was one of the leading public critics of the American Anti-Slavery Society and others in favor of "immediate emancipation" and has been called one of the principal fomenters of the Anti-abolitionist riots (1834) [Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War against Slavery, Louisiana State University Press, 1969]. Signed by Author(s).

Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his brother (brother-in-law?). 347, [1], [12]pp. Ads in the rear. 12mo. Born into slavery as Isabella Van Wagenen in Ulster County, New York in the late eighteenth century, she won her emancipation under New York state law in 1827 and adopted the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. In the years before becoming Sojourner Truth, Isabella became involved with the members of a religious sect led by Robert Matthews, i.e. Prophet Matthias, a fanatical Christian who claimed to be an ex-Jew touched by God. Matthias and his followers lived in a commune named The Kingdom in Sing Sing (present-day Ossining), New York. Duping three wealthy merchants to support the religious sect, in 1835 after the death of one of merchants Matthews was accused of murder, and Isabella was accused of being his accomplice in the presumed poisoning. After being found innocent in the Matthias case, Isabella filed a slander suit against her accusers and won. The present work recounts the whole sordid tale of the rise and fall of Matthias and his cult and includes references to "Isabella, the black woman" and "the coloured woman." This lovely example of the first edition a presentation copy, inscribed to Mr. J. R. Westede "from his affectionate Brother the Author." Not in Blockson Publisher's embossed cloth. Minor foxing 347, [1], [12]pp. Ads in the rear. 12mo Presentation copy inscribed by the author to his brother (brother-in-law?).