Reconstruct, Signed (8 results)

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Simultaneous paperback issue of this collection of poems which is part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Includes a foreword by Richard Hugo. An about very good copy in wrappers with some foxing and wear. Signed and nicely inscribed by Davis on the front free endpaper to poet Linda Pastan. A nice association copy. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. *Autographed by author.* Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Water stains to interior of dust jacket as well as the first/last few page margins. Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover in very good condition. Covers are glossy and clean. Pages are crisp and unmarked. Number line is 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Copyright page is dated 2005. 434 pages. Signed by the author on the title page, 5 lines, dated 3/17/07. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New York: Walker [2006]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New/New. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. A perfect unread copy, opened only for the author to sign. Comes with archival-quality, acid-free dust jacket protector at no extra cost. A pristine signed copy! Smoke Free Shop. Shipped in sturdy box with bubble wrap. Synposis: Shortly after Lincoln imposed the first federal draft, an angered Northern white underclass rioted, most notably and devastatingly in New York. Schecter's examination of the Civil War draft riots shows that the atrocities committed by the rioters foreshadowed America's difficulties with integration over the next century. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with publication information laid in, fading on the spine, and light rubbing in a near fine dustwrapper with rubbing and toning. Advance review copy Signed by the author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Author inscribed/signed on title page. First edition of 300 copies. Trade paperback. Light wear to covers. Content pages are clean and unmarked. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Thick octavo, bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in silver; front and rear endpapers professionally reinforced with Japanese paper hinges, otherwise a near-flawless copy. First edition, first printing of a work that "provided a unique vision that shaped the contours of American historical scholarship." A Dedication Copy --- John Hope's personal copy, with the Atlanta University president's library stamp, "Hope Library, Atlanta, GA," on the top of the title page. In the preface to "Black Reconstruction," Du Bois acknowledged Hope (1868-1936), "who gave me help and asylum during the completion of the work." This volume is inscribed "Very Sincerely, W.E.B. Du Bois, Xmas 1935," on the front free endpaper. Above Du Bois's inscription, Hope's secretary Constance (Crocker) Nabrit added: "To the Hopes, from Constance, 12/24,35." (Constance's husband Samuel M. Nabrit, a renowned marine biologist and chair of the biology department at Atlanta, was the first African American to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission.) A quintessential presentation copy documenting a "soul mate" relationship of nearly forty years, as Du Bois considered Hope "without doubt my closest friend." A majestic work with a stellar provenance. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Harbor Scholars' Classics edition of Du Bois' self-proclaimed magnum opus which challenged the standard academic view and helped spark "the long attempt to rescue black history in America." Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Very good in the original dust jacket which is in good condition. Rare and desirable signed. With Black Reconstruction, the work Du Bois considered his magnum opus, he fundamentally "helped to launch the long attempt to rescue black history in America from what many scholars have called a 'structural amnesia'⦠Black Reconstruction challenged much more than historiography⦠the Civil War, black freedom and the Reconstruction of the South, Du Bois seemed to be saying, ought to have been the epic of American democracy" (Fabre, History and Memory, 58-65). "A sweeping corrective to contemporary histories of the Reconstruction era, which (white) historians had shaped with the view of blacks as inadequate to the task of capitalizing on the freedom that emancipation had given them, and black history as 'separate, unequal and irrelevant' in the words of Du Bois' Pulitzer prize-winning biographer David Levering Lewis" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.).