New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Glimpses of the lives of those living at a subsistence level in the United States in the early 1970's - a term that Hill and Davidson eventually used to include a way of life marked by 'principles of survival, originality, wholeness and independence.' Mostly told in the words of the individuals they interviewed in Maine, Georgia, California, Tennessee, Texas and places in between - from a couple who survive in Colorado by trapping, to hippies in Canyon, California, just outside Berkeley, to a ghetto in Plainfield, New Jersey, and the black residents, descendants of slaves, still living on Daufuskie Island in South Carolina. Farmers, trappers, schoolteachers, hobos, prisoners and hitchhikers - black, white and Native American - some living their life by choice, but most enduring what life dealt them, More than with words, their endurance and strenghth is most vividly shown in Davidson's striking black and whte photographs. Slightly oversized format, printed on heavy stock throughout, bound in coarse linen cloth. 186 p. ISBN: 0-030912237.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1938) dj. Hardcover - An appealing young adult novel by this award-winning author who was one of the first writers of juvenile literature to focus on minority groups, in an attempt to increase understanding among all readers. This tells the story of a 16-year old African American girl, accustomed to life in Minneapolis who goes to live with her mysterious great grandmother on an island off the cost of South Carolina. A Black Boston educator writing in 1940 commented after reading this book (which she was unable to put down) "Here is a courageous writer who is working towards a better type of literature about my race . . . She has handled the story with such grace as to make it appealing not only to young Negro girls, but to all girls." Illustrated by Armstrong Sperry with a frontispiece and seven internal glossy plates. 206 pp.