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Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life. Henry Adams and the Need to Know presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' ongoing preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. Adams' work appeals to a wide spectrum of historical and literary inquiry and claims a place in multiple scholarly contexts. The topics covered in this volume range from international politics (of Adams' age and ours) to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind. Here, leading scholars explore often-overlooked details of Adams' relationships with people and ideas. They reopen settled topics and reframe truisms. Each essay affirms, in one way or another, that to study Adams is to discover his continuing and astonishing relevance. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Originally published by The University Press of Virginia with ISBN0-8139-0396-6. xlv. Illustrations. Index. 405pp. Pictorial Soft Cover. These slave narratives were collected by the Virginia Writers' Project between 1936 and 1941 and are the only accounts of slave life to have been gathered by black interviewers. Soft Cover.

Original publisher's paperback, pictorial frontcover, 2nd printing, thick large 8vo: xxxxviij, 406pp., illustrations, tables, interviews, appendices, index. Very fine copy - as new.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and facsimiles. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No names or marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation in a heavy cardboard box. Vertical crease down the center of the front cover. Very good condition. Selling Used and Rare books on line since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984. ; Black-and-white illustrations; 8vo.; xlv, 405 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. [A collection of interviews of former slaves, conducted by the Virginia Federal Writers' Project in 1936 and 1937] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Some foxing. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. xlv, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. "Of the states participating in the Writers' Project, only Virginia had all-black units interviewing the slaves. Their reports are free of the racial bias that occurred in other cases when descendants of the planter aristocracy interviewed former slaves." - University Press of Virginia.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Excellent condition, As New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good Minus. 1st Edition. Good Plus condition with light edge wear, slight soiling on text block edges, slight foxing on end sheets. Otherwise content is very clean and free of marks. Binding strong and gilt spine lettering bright. Dust jacket is Good minus with minor edge and cover wear, but moderately foxed and with a small 1/2" diameter stain on front cover. Dust jacket in new mylar protector. Index, 10 appendices with statistical data on informants, interview process, questionnaires, bibliography of slave narratives, interviewers and other information.