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	BARROW, JOE LOUIS, JR. AND BARBARA MUNDER Joe Louis 50 Years an American Hero Mcgraw-Hill Books; Fine+. 1988. Hardcover. ISBN: 0070039569. Bound in padded maroon leather w/gilt stampings & page edges. Decorated EPs. Color frontis/photos 8vo. Commemortive biographical writings by the people who knew the Brown Bomber best; Hard Cover; 8vo; 270 pages. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1236] Book number: 23312 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	BONTEMPS, ARNA Chariot in the Sky, a Story of the Jubilee Singers Winston; 1st Edition; Very Good with no dust jacket. 1951. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0030802164. Lightly worn brown boards. Inked name and address on front paste down. Illustrated by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. The story of the 19th century group of singers, all former slaves , from Fisk school in Nashville , Tennessee became world famous ; 8vo ; 238 pages. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 777 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	BROWN, REBECCA The Haunted House Seal Pr; Very Good. Seattle, WA, 1990. Paperback. ISBN: 0-931188-88-1. Clean and tight paperback, with no signs of visible wear. New ~ A bit shop worn ~Gift quality. Strong, evocative first novel by Rebecca Brown. The protagonist Robin Dale grows up with distant home, surviving abuse and neglect. Later, she settles down with her lover, Carrie, but bizarre events occur in the house that they are restoring; Through a lyrical weaving of fantasy and childhood memory, narrator Robin Daley considers the contradictions between her material existence and unmet needs. Robin's search for a sense of self is continually frustrated, as even the Victorian house she and her lesbian lover are restoring violates her need for permanence by flooding mysteriously from the floorboards; 0.5 x 5.0 x 8.0 inches; 195 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 28557 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	CARTWRIGHT, COLBERT S He Taught Them Saying Bethany Press; Very Good-. 1957. Paperback; 3rd Printing. Stained violet wraps over clean, tight pages. No interior markings; An ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) , Cartwright's writings are known for both for his Christian leadership in Little Rock, as well as his vocal support for improving race relations and civil rights; Bethany Bible Study Course; 8vo; 96 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 28558 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	CLEAVER, ELDRIDGE Soul on Ice Mcgraw-Hill; Good+ with no dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover; 2nd Printing. ISBN: 0070113076. Modest wear to blue cloth. Inked name on ep. A, few passages pencil underlined. A voice of the sixties when the black man was just beginning to be heard; 8vo; 210 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 24247 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	CLEAVER, ELDRIDGE Soul on Ice Dell Publishing; Good+. 1968. Hardcover; 4th Printing. Lightly edge worn with corner crease and white circle on front cover. Written while Cleaver was in Folsom prison writes about the forces that shaped his life and eventually molded our national destiny; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 210 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 30431 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	COOGAN, TIM PAT The Ira: A History Roberts Rinehart Publishers; Revised Edition. 1994. Paperback. ISBN: 1-879373-99-8. Like New paperback with clean and tight interior. New ~ A bit shop worn ~Gift quality. Coogan's authoritative study of the Irish Republican Army from its origins to the heavy conflict in northern ireland and the terrorism in england. Revised to include the peace negotiations that lead to the cease fire in 1994; 1.5 x 6.0 x 9.2 inches; 526 pages. USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 838] Book number: 28562 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	COOGAN, TIM PAT The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace Roberts Rinehart Publishers; Very Good. 1997. Paperback. ISBN: 1-57098-144-2. Small nick at the spine on otherwise fine wraps. Interior is clean, with a tight binding. Coogan covers the political history of Northern Ireland from the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, through the long, years of violence, and the attempts to find peace. Coogan looks at all parts of the war, from Bloody Sunday in 1972 and the Bobby Sands hunger strike to the 1994 peace initiative. Although the book is sympathetic to the secessionist movement, Coogans access to the principles involved makes this a valuable resource no matter your position on Northern Ireland; 1.2 x 6.2 x 9.2 inches; 491 pages. USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1103] Book number: 28563 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	DASH, LEON Rosa Lee a Generational Tale of Poverty and Survival in Urban America Basic Books; Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. ISBN: 0465070922. Faded shelf edge . Inked name on end page. Minor wear to dust jacket. B&W photographs. A Pulitzer Prize winning series in the Washington Post is the basis for this drug-addled, welfare-using and AIDS-infecteda black woman living in the slums of Washington, D. C. Well written and researched, this is strongly recommended for all social work and social science collections; 1 x 8.75 x 6.25 Inches; 288 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 31108 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	DUBERMAN, MARTIN BAUML Paul Robeson Knopf; Stated 1st Edition; Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394527801. No significant defects to book or dust jacket . Notes on sources, page notes & index. A monumental life-and-times biography of scholar, sportsman, singer, actor, and political activist Robeson; 1.75 x 9.25 x 6.5 Inches; xiii,804 pages. USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 30861 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	ECKLER, A. ROSS , EDITOR Names and Games: Onomastics and Recreational Linguistics : An Anthology of 99 Articles Published in Word Ways, the Journal of Recreational Linguistics Univ. Pr of America; Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. ISBN: 0819153508. Lightly worn silver/ gilt titling on cover and spine. Chapters on Anagramming Personal Names; Palindromes, Acrostics and Telephonics; Names of Imaginary People; Strange Names, Real People; Presidential Names and much more. Great reading and also a great reference work; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 281 pages. USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6178] Book number: 29001 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	ENGLISH, JAMES W. Handyman of the Lord: The Life and Ministry of the Rev. William Holmes Borders Meredith Press; Stated 1st Edition; Good in Good dust jacket. 1967. Hard Cover. Closed page edges dust speckled. Some foxing of DJ and book. Former owner's name and address on FEP..DJ, now in new mylar, is soiled and edgeworn. Biography of a black man , William Holms Borders who was a minister in Atlanta in the '60s and earlier; 8vo ; 177 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 681 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	GOREAU, LAURRAINE Just Mahalia, Baby Word; NAP 1st Edition; Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. ISBN: 0876803079. Modest wear to book and newly mylared dust jacket; The author exercises a technical skill which enables the reader to move in and out of the minds of the various character as they add their threads to her intricate weaving of the life of one the great , rare spirits of the times; Photographs; 8vo; 611 pages. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 17336 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	GREEN, AL WITH DAVIN SEAY Take Me to the River Harper; Stated 1st Edition; Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. ISBN: 0380976226. Minor wear to boards and dust jacket. Marker mark on shelf edge. Details how a kid from the farmlands of Jacknash, AR, developed one of the first voices in a new generation of black musicians; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 343 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 28556 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	HERSCHLER, MILDRED BARGER Frederick Douglass Follett; Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. ISBN: 0695831801. A very nice ex-lib copy with expected markings. Bibliography & index. Fontispiece portrait of biographee. Cover painting and drawings by John Downs. A biography of a Negro who became an influential voice against slavery in America, founded and operated a newspaper to further abolition, and became Minister to Haiti and one of Abraham Lincoln's advisers; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 29000 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	MCFEELY, WILLIAM S. Frederick Douglass Touchstone Books; Very Good-. 1992. Paperback. ISBN: 067175971X. Minor edge wear with corner crease on rear cover. No interior markings. Historian McFeeley's biography recounts Douglass's transformation from self-taught escaped slave to the preeminent 19th-century civil rights leader; 1 x 9.25 x 5.75 Inches; xiii,465 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 30552 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	MFUME, KWEISI & RON STODGHILL No Free Ride from the Mean Streets to the Mainstream One World/Ballantine; Stated 1st Edition; Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. ISBN: 0345392205. Minor wear to boards and dust jacket. 16 page section of photographs. Former congressman Mfume tells of his journey from the ghettos of Baltimore to the halls of Congress to leadership of this country's oldest and largest civil rights organization, the NAACP; 1.5 x 9.3 x 6 Inches; 373 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 31128 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.

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	BARROW, JOE LOUIS, JR. AND BARBARA MUNDER Joe Louis 50 Years an American Hero Mcgraw-Hill Books; Fine+. 1988. Hardcover. ISBN: 0070039569. Bound in padded maroon leather w/gilt stampings & page edges. Decorated EPs. Color frontis/photos 8vo. Commemortive biographical writings by the people who knew the Brown Bomber best; Hard Cover; 8vo; 270 pages. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 \| £UK 8.5 \| JP¥ 1236] Book number: 23312 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	BONTEMPS, ARNA Chariot in the Sky, a Story of the Jubilee Singers Winston; 1st Edition; Very Good with no dust jacket. 1951. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0030802164. Lightly worn brown boards. Inked name and address on front paste down. Illustrated by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. The story of the 19th century group of singers, all former slaves , from Fisk school in Nashville , Tennessee became world famous ; 8vo ; 238 pages. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 777 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	BROWN, REBECCA The Haunted House Seal Pr; Very Good. Seattle, WA, 1990. Paperback. ISBN: 0-931188-88-1. Clean and tight paperback, with no signs of visible wear. New ~ A bit shop worn ~Gift quality. Strong, evocative first novel by Rebecca Brown. The protagonist Robin Dale grows up with distant home, surviving abuse and neglect. Later, she settles down with her lover, Carrie, but bizarre events occur in the house that they are restoring; Through a lyrical weaving of fantasy and childhood memory, narrator Robin Daley considers the contradictions between her material existence and unmet needs. Robin's search for a sense of self is continually frustrated, as even the Victorian house she and her lesbian lover are restoring violates her need for permanence by flooding mysteriously from the floorboards; 0.5 x 5.0 x 8.0 inches; 195 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 28557 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	CARTWRIGHT, COLBERT S He Taught Them Saying Bethany Press; Very Good-. 1957. Paperback; 3rd Printing. Stained violet wraps over clean, tight pages. No interior markings; An ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) , Cartwright's writings are known for both for his Christian leadership in Little Rock, as well as his vocal support for improving race relations and civil rights; Bethany Bible Study Course; 8vo; 96 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 28558 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	CLEAVER, ELDRIDGE Soul on Ice Mcgraw-Hill; Good+ with no dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover; 2nd Printing. ISBN: 0070113076. Modest wear to blue cloth. Inked name on ep. A, few passages pencil underlined. A voice of the sixties when the black man was just beginning to be heard; 8vo; 210 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 24247 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	CLEAVER, ELDRIDGE Soul on Ice Dell Publishing; Good+. 1968. Hardcover; 4th Printing. Lightly edge worn with corner crease and white circle on front cover. Written while Cleaver was in Folsom prison writes about the forces that shaped his life and eventually molded our national destiny; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 210 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 30431 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	COOGAN, TIM PAT The Ira: A History Roberts Rinehart Publishers; Revised Edition. 1994. Paperback. ISBN: 1-879373-99-8. Like New paperback with clean and tight interior. New ~ A bit shop worn ~Gift quality. Coogan's authoritative study of the Irish Republican Army from its origins to the heavy conflict in northern ireland and the terrorism in england. Revised to include the peace negotiations that lead to the cease fire in 1994; 1.5 x 6.0 x 9.2 inches; 526 pages. USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 838] Book number: 28562 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	COOGAN, TIM PAT The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace Roberts Rinehart Publishers; Very Good. 1997. Paperback. ISBN: 1-57098-144-2. Small nick at the spine on otherwise fine wraps. Interior is clean, with a tight binding. Coogan covers the political history of Northern Ireland from the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, through the long, years of violence, and the attempts to find peace. Coogan looks at all parts of the war, from Bloody Sunday in 1972 and the Bobby Sands hunger strike to the 1994 peace initiative. Although the book is sympathetic to the secessionist movement, Coogans access to the principles involved makes this a valuable resource no matter your position on Northern Ireland; 1.2 x 6.2 x 9.2 inches; 491 pages. USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1103] Book number: 28563 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	DASH, LEON Rosa Lee a Generational Tale of Poverty and Survival in Urban America Basic Books; Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. ISBN: 0465070922. Faded shelf edge . Inked name on end page. Minor wear to dust jacket. B&W photographs. A Pulitzer Prize winning series in the Washington Post is the basis for this drug-addled, welfare-using and AIDS-infecteda black woman living in the slums of Washington, D. C. Well written and researched, this is strongly recommended for all social work and social science collections; 1 x 8.75 x 6.25 Inches; 288 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 31108 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	DUBERMAN, MARTIN BAUML Paul Robeson Knopf; Stated 1st Edition; Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394527801. No significant defects to book or dust jacket . Notes on sources, page notes & index. A monumental life-and-times biography of scholar, sportsman, singer, actor, and political activist Robeson; 1.75 x 9.25 x 6.5 Inches; xiii,804 pages. USD 9.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 30861 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	ECKLER, A. ROSS , EDITOR Names and Games: Onomastics and Recreational Linguistics : An Anthology of 99 Articles Published in Word Ways, the Journal of Recreational Linguistics Univ. Pr of America; Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. ISBN: 0819153508. Lightly worn silver/ gilt titling on cover and spine. Chapters on Anagramming Personal Names; Palindromes, Acrostics and Telephonics; Names of Imaginary People; Strange Names, Real People; Presidential Names and much more. Great reading and also a great reference work; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 281 pages. USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6178] Book number: 29001 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	ENGLISH, JAMES W. Handyman of the Lord: The Life and Ministry of the Rev. William Holmes Borders Meredith Press; Stated 1st Edition; Good in Good dust jacket. 1967. Hard Cover. Closed page edges dust speckled. Some foxing of DJ and book. Former owner's name and address on FEP..DJ, now in new mylar, is soiled and edgeworn. Biography of a black man , William Holms Borders who was a minister in Atlanta in the '60s and earlier; 8vo ; 177 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 681 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	GOREAU, LAURRAINE Just Mahalia, Baby Word; NAP 1st Edition; Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. ISBN: 0876803079. Modest wear to book and newly mylared dust jacket; The author exercises a technical skill which enables the reader to move in and out of the minds of the various character as they add their threads to her intricate weaving of the life of one the great , rare spirits of the times; Photographs; 8vo; 611 pages. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 17336 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	GREEN, AL WITH DAVIN SEAY Take Me to the River Harper; Stated 1st Edition; Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. ISBN: 0380976226. Minor wear to boards and dust jacket. Marker mark on shelf edge. Details how a kid from the farmlands of Jacknash, AR, developed one of the first voices in a new generation of black musicians; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 343 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 28556 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	HERSCHLER, MILDRED BARGER Frederick Douglass Follett; Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. ISBN: 0695831801. A very nice ex-lib copy with expected markings. Bibliography & index. Fontispiece portrait of biographee. Cover painting and drawings by John Downs. A biography of a Negro who became an influential voice against slavery in America, founded and operated a newspaper to further abolition, and became Minister to Haiti and one of Abraham Lincoln's advisers; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 29000 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	MCFEELY, WILLIAM S. Frederick Douglass Touchstone Books; Very Good-. 1992. Paperback. ISBN: 067175971X. Minor edge wear with corner crease on rear cover. No interior markings. Historian McFeeley's biography recounts Douglass's transformation from self-taught escaped slave to the preeminent 19th-century civil rights leader; 1 x 9.25 x 5.75 Inches; xiii,465 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 30552 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.
	MFUME, KWEISI & RON STODGHILL No Free Ride from the Mean Streets to the Mainstream One World/Ballantine; Stated 1st Edition; Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. ISBN: 0345392205. Minor wear to boards and dust jacket. 16 page section of photographs. Former congressman Mfume tells of his journey from the ghettos of Baltimore to the halls of Congress to leadership of this country's oldest and largest civil rights organization, the NAACP; 1.5 x 9.3 x 6 Inches; 373 pages. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 31128 Click here to order or inquire at IndyBookLady.