Tanks are Mighty Fine Things by Wesley W. Stout First Edition Very excellent unread condition 1946 First Edition. Tight, no writing, no page edge damage. Hardback, published in 1946 by Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. This is the first and only edition printed by Chrysler. Later it was published by Charles Scribner & Sons. It has 144 crisp pages. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1946
Condition: Used
Publisher: Chrysler Corp
Author: Wesley W. Stout
Pages: 144  

God Speaks Navajo by E. E. Wallis First Edition This non-fiction 1968 First Edition hardback is in very excellent condition with no cover jacket and the red stamp of previous owner. It's the biography of Faye Edgerton who lived with the Navajo, learned their language and wrote The New Testament in the Navajo language for the people she loved so much. Ethel Wallis was a friend of Faye's for many years and so had access to diaries, letters, and personal information. There are 8 pages of photos and 146 total pages. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1968
Condition: Used
Publisher: Harper & Row
Author: Ethel Emily Wallis
Pages: 146  

The Riches of Bunyan by Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin 1850 This antique 1850 hard back book is a compilation, by Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin, of brief examples of John Bunyan's experiences and teachings selected from his works. John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim's Progress. Right of publishing transferred to the American Tract Society. This hard back book, 5" X 7.5", 1 lb. 1 ounce, is in excellent condition with none of the 488 pages written on, torn, or missing. In the front pages and back pages there are brown mottled marks as shown in photos, but all other pages are clean. A few of the 29 chapters are: God; Man; Conversion; Prayer; Antichrist; Death; Heaven; Hell; etc. The book hardcover is worn & faded but sturdy and tight. I combine orders to save postage. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1850
Condition: Used
Publisher: American Tract Society
Author: Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin
Pages: 488  

1945 Thomas Hart Benton Monograph Amer Artist Group This hardback excellent condition book is a 1945 American Artists Group Monograph of Thomas Hart Benton, 1889-1975, an American Muralist born in Neosho, Mo. in a family of polical power & influence. There is a foreword written by Mr. Benton who trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and Latin Quarter in Paris and his paintings hang in the Metropolitan & Brooklyn Museums of Art plus many other museums. The cover of this monograph is a self-portrait painted in 1926 and was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in December, 1934. There is one color image and 58 black & white images of Mr. Benton's paintings in this monograph. There is no damage or markings on the pages, it's in fantastic condition. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1945
Condition: Used
Publisher: American Artists Group
Author: Thomas H. Benton
Pages: 65  

1981 Mary Chesnut's Civil War Edited by C. Vann Woodward Original price $21.00. This new condition soft back book is based on the diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut 1823-1886 written during the Civil War and after. This book was a winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in History. If you are interested in American history and the Civil War in particular, you want this book. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1981
Condition: Used
Publisher: Yale University Press
Author: Edited C. Vann Woodward
Pages: 886
ISBN: 0-300-02979-9  

Nicholas Culpeper Heal Thyself by Benjamin Woolley Original retail price $24.95. This 2004 hard back new condition unread book with dust jacket, 6.5" X 9.25", 402 pages, titled "Heal Thyself, Nicholas Culpeper and the Seventeenth-Century Struggle to Bring Medicine to the People". was written by Benjamin Woolley, an award winning writer and broadcaster living in London, who tells the story of a medical rebel, Nicholas Culpeper, who took on the authorities in seventeenth century England and found his vocation as an herbalist and published "Herbal" one of the most popular and enduring books ever published. Book published by HarperCollins Publishers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 2004
Condition: New
Publisher: Harper Collins
Author: Benjamin Woolley
Pages: 402
ISBN: 0-06-009066-9  

1925 Purdue Univ. Elementary Home Economics Textbook This 1925 hard back book is a very excellent condition with lots of black/white illustrations, 343 pages, pictorial cover, 5.5" X 7.5", weighs 1 lb. 6 ounces, is titled "Elementary Home Economics, First Lessons in Sewing and Textiles, Foods and Cookery, and the Care of the House". Written by Mary Lockwood Matthews, B.S., Professor of Home Economics and head of the Department of Home Economics at Purdue University and published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1925. The author says "No girl should consider the making and managing of a home an easy piece of work, for in fact nothing is harder to do and to do well." Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1925
Condition: Used
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company
Author: Mary Lockwood Matthews
Pages: 343  

Slave and Citizen by Frank Tannenbaum 1946 HB This is an excellent condition, maybe never read, 4 3/4" X 7 1/2" hard back Buckram Reinforced V-231 1946 edition published by Vintage Books reprinted by permission of Alfred A, Knopf, Inc. titled "Slave and Citizen, The Negro in the Americas" written by an Austrian American, Frank Tannenbaum (1893-1969) while at Columbia University. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1946
Condition: Excellent
Publisher: Vintage Books
Author: Frank Tannenbaum
Pages: 128  

1987 Auburn University Glomerata Year Book This 1987 hard back Volume 90 Auburn University Glomerata is in near new condition. There are 512 high quality glossy pages full of color and black & white photographs along with many interesting historical facts and the latest goings on at the sororities and fraternaties at AU. I have included photos of the 1987 football, basketball, and base ball teams, the War Eagle. This tome weighs at least 7 pounds and can be shipped Media Mail. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1987
Condition: New
Publisher: Auburn University
Author: Various Editors
Pages: 512  

1976 A New Look at Black Families by Charles Willie A very excellent condition soft back book, 5.25" X 8" with 211 pages, titled "A New Look at Black Families" written by an African American, Charles Willie and published in 1976 by General Hall, Inc. Charles Vert Willie is now Eliot Professor, Emeritus at Harvard Graduate School and has been on the faculty for 34 years. In 2005 he was awarded the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association. This book is compiled of case interviews and field studies of black family life and are the direct result of different investigations in a variety of cities. Very informative. The inside has the previous owners name and date of purchase. Priced accordingly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1976
Condition: Used
Publisher: General Hall, Inc.
Author: Charles Willie
Pages: 211  

Roll Jordan Roll, The World the Slaves Made 1976 This paperback book is in much read used condition, measures 5" X 8", has 823 pages, is 1976 First publication by Vintage Books, a Division of Random House and was written by an African American, Eugene D. Genovese. Professor Genovese, born 1930, has a distinguished background having attended Columbia University, teaching at Polytechnic Institute of Brookly Rutgers University and Sir George Williams University in Montreal and chairman of the history department at University of Rochester and in 1973 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Center of the Behavioral Sciences. He bagan writing "Roll, Jordan, Roll" in 1962 after a dacade of reviewing slave plantation records, family papers, slave narratives, and travelers' accounts. He has been published many times. This book has some highlighting and underlining and the front cover is damaged but no torn or missing pages. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1976
Condition: Used
Publisher: Vintage Books
Author: Eugene D. Genovese
Pages: 823
ISBN: 0-394-71652-3  

1998 "And don't call me a racist!" by Ella Mazel Private printing, not for sale. This excellent condition, never read, soft back book is 8" X 8", has 163 pages, was published in 1998 by the Argonaut Press, and is a treasury of over 1000 quotes selected and arranged by an African American, Ella Mazel with "a desire to make a significant contribution toward understanding and resolving the problems of prejudice and racism". This book was not published to be sold to individuals. "This book is not for sale. Publisher making it available to non-profit organizations without charge." Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1998
Condition: Used
Publisher: Argonaut Press
Author: Ella Mazel
Pages: 163  

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington 1995 This used good condition paperback book, titled Up From Slavery is an autobiography written by an African American, Booker T. Washington and is the first Dover-Thrift Edition published by Dover Publications in 1995. It has 166 pages, is 5" X 8 1/4", and has margin notations and underlining like a student would do. Priced accordingly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1995
Condition: Used
Publisher: Dover Publications
Author: Booker T. Washington
Pages: 166
ISBN: 0-486-28738-6  

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 2003 This near new condition paperback book titled "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is an autobiography written by an African American, Harriet Jacobs, and is the First Washington Square Press edition, published in 2003 and is a selection from The Givens Collection, a Foundation for African American Literature. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 2003
Condition: New
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Author: Harriet Jacobs
Pages: 258
ISBN: 0-7434-6056-1  

1967 HB Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron This unread condition 1967 hard back book is the fourth printing of the First Edition, is titled "The Confessions of Nat Turner", no dust jacket, is covered in black cloth, has a gilt signature of author's name with a 4 point red star underneath, measures 6" X 8 1/2", weighs 1 lb. 8 oz., has 428 pages and has a 2" square cut from top edge of first inside page. This book was labeled "racist" in the 1960's and determined to be politically incorrect for a white man to author. William Styron, was born and raised very near the place of Nat Turner's revolt in the Tidewater region of Virginia. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1967
Condition: Used
Publisher: Random House
Author: William Styron
Pages: 428  

Before the Mayflower, A History of Black America 1993 This edition of the excellent condition paperback book titled "Before the Mayflower, A History of Black America, 1619 - 1962", the first book written by Lerone Bennett, Jr., is a 1993 updated volume with a "Landmarks and Milestones" section. The African American author was born 1928 in Clarksdale, Ms., graduated Morehouse College in 1949, became a journalist for the Atlanta Daily World, was a prolific writer and promoted to executive editor of Ebony is 1987. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1993
Condition: Used
Publisher: Penguin Book
Author: Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Pages: 713
ISBN: 0 14 01.7822 9  

Racism in America, Opposing Viewpoints 1991 This good used condition 1991 First Edition paper back book is a Greenhaven Press Opposing Viewpoints Series edition, Series Editors are David L. Bender and Bruno Leone. There are 288 pages, some with highlighting, and it measures 5 1/4" X 8 1/2". Some chapter headings are: How serious is the problem of racism in America?; Is racism responsible for minority poverty?; Does affirmative action alleviate discrimination?; Should minorities emphasize their ethnicity?; How can racism be stopped? Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1991
Condition: Used
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Pages: 288
ISBN: 0-89908-182-7  

2003 FE HB Alienable Rights the Exclusion of African Amer This is a new condition hard back book with dust jacket and a First Edition published in 2003 by Harper Collins, titled "Alienable Rights, The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619-2000" and written by Mr. Francis D. Adams & Mr. Barry Sanders. Measures 6 1/2" X 9 1/4" and weighs 1 lb. 8 ounces. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 2003
Condition: New
Publisher: Harper Collins
Author: Francis Adams/Barry Sanders
Pages: 368
ISBN: 0-06-019975-X  

The Race Myth by Joseph L. Graves, Jr. 2003 This new condition hard back book with dust jacket was published by Dutton in 2003 and is titled "The Race Myth, Why we pretend race exists in America" written by an African American Joseph L. Graves, Jr.. Mr. Graves is/was a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Arizona State University West. The book has 285 pages, measures 6" X 9 1/4" and weighs 1 lb. 3 ounces. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 2003
Condition: New
Publisher: Dutton
Author: Joseph L. Graves, Jr.
Pages: 285
ISBN: 0-525-94825-2  

1986 International Directory of Distinguished Leadership #41 Hoy This 1986 SIGNED and NUNBERED COLLECTOR PREMIER COMMERATIVE EDITION of The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership is signed by J. S. Thomson, Editor in Chief and Chairman, the Governing Board of Editors, and it is Numbered "41". The name "Marion Alsworth Hoy" in stamped in gold on the front and he is listed as one of the persons this book is dedicated to for his significant achievements. He was a lawyer from Biloxi, Ms. The book has 600 pages, weighs 2 lbs. 8 ounces, and measures 6.25" X 9.25" X 1.75". Excellent condition. One spot on front cover from sticker adhesive. Satisfaction guaranteed. Happy shopping at My Gigi's Treasures!
Circa: 1986
Condition: New
Publisher: The American Biographical Institute
Pages: 600
ISBN: 934544