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BANNERS OF COURAGE: The Lives of 14 Heroic Men and Women.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Platt & Munk, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Brief biographical sketches written for older children or young adults. Includes chapters on Amelia Earhart, Winston S. Churchill, Martin Luther King, Richard E. Byrd, Rachel Carson, Chief Joseph, Anne Frank, Jacques Cousteau, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Alvin York, Joan of Arc, Heinrich Schliemann, and Alain Bombard (with this French doctor who proved that man can survive at sea with no supply of food or water, being perhaps the least known of the 14). Each chapter is preceded by a full page drawing by Huntley Brown. Wraparound dustjacket painting by Alan Leiner. 258 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (previous owner's name in pencil, some light wear to top edge of dj, now protected by an archival cover.)
Book ID: 32679More details Price: $17.50 -
THE BOLD BRAHMINS: New England's War Against Slavery: 1831-1863.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - A combination of well-researched popular history and biographies of some of the New England abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, John Quincy Adams, The Reverend Theodore Parker, Abby Kelley Foster, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who was violently beaten on the floor of the senate for speaking out against slavery, and more. Illustrated. Bibliography, index. 318 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dustjacket.
Book ID: 34449More details Price: $12.50 -
THE BOLD BRAHMINS: New England's War Against Slavery: 1831-1863.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - A combination of well-researched popular history and biographies of some of the New England abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison, John Quincy Adams, The Reverend Theodore Parker, Abby Kelley Foster, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who was violently beaten on the floor of the senate for speaking out against slavery, and more. Illustrated. Bibliography, index. 318 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (slight fading to spine of dj - a tight, clean copy.)
Book ID: 34800More details Price: $30.00