Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Illustrated with mostly black & white photographs and reproductions of works by well known artist-immigrants to the United States. Features works by: Arman, Max Beckmann, Marcel Breuer, Christo, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky,Walter Gropius, George Grosz, Mondrian, Rothko, Lucas Samaras, Yves Tanguy, and many more. Light wear to edges of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, First Edition, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 699 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light foxing top edge. Brown tweed boards with gilt titles to spine. Tight binding. Dust jacket with moderate wear to edges & strong sunfade to spine. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf. "Now available in one volume, the book considered the most important reference work for any scholar concerned with the linguistic problems of immigrants in this country." Else clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 432 pages illustrated throughout with plates in color and b&w. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, light wear to edges. White pictorial dust jacket with wear to edges and spine, and a few small closed tears. Overall a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Ames, IO, Iowa St. University , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, b&w illustrations. An historical account of Upper Class British immigrants in Early Iowa.
Hardcover. New York, Revell, 5th pr., 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages, b&w photos. Ex-library with bookplate, pocket in rear. Record # 4776
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Yoseloff, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 429 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine (slightly faded). Some agewear to cover boards at edges (see image). Some tanning to edges from age. Pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape for its age. Starting in 1948 over half a million Jews from Iraq, Yemen, Aden, Syria, Egypt, Libya to their homeland of Israel voluntarily relocated. This history of Jewish communities in North Africa and the Middle East describes in detail their mass exodus, how it was done and the impact on the countries left behind.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 4th printing, 2009, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 422 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped, glossy, excellent. Navy blue cover boards, gilt title on spine, pristine. Binding tight. spine straight. Pages and edges clean. Like new. With its meticulous research, wide scope, and deep moral seriousness, this book is destined to become the classic work on how Muslim immigration permanently reshaped the West.
Hardcover. Reno, Nevada, University of Nevada Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 176 pages, hardcover. Signed by author on interior front end page. Dust jacket is in generally good shape, with some minor dents. Interior pages and binding in very good condition. An account a son writes of his father, an old Basque sheepherder who lived and worked in the American West for most of his life, who, in fulfilling his dream of returning to the Pyenees, came to a new realization of what America meant to him. Clean copy. Record # 33594
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton , 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition, as are the interior pages and binding. Smalltime is a riveting American immigrant story that travels back to Risorgimento Sicily, to the ancient, dusty, hill-town home of Antonino Sciotto, the author's great-grandfather, who leaves his wife and children in grinding poverty for a new life -- and wife -- in a Pennsylvania mining town. Clean copy. Record # 33633
Softcover. San Francisco , Pomegranate Artbooks, 1st, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages, soft cover. Front cover is mildly bumped, especially along the top edge. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is a compelling reminder of migrant farm work and of the men, women, and children whose daily hardships put the food on our tables. Nancy Buirski traversed the country for 4 years to create this book, a sensitive portrait of a forgotten part of society. Her primary subject is the unique lives of migrant farm worker children. Full color photography throughout. Previous owner wrote a short gift note on the front dedication page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33732
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Light foxing is present on the edges of the pages. Binding is solid. A Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands. Brodsky was a Russian-American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. Clean copy. Record # 33970
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages, hardcover. White pictorial boards have a few minor stains, but are still in very good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography and B&W illustrations throughout. This book is a beautiful homage to Iranian yogurt traditions--past, present, and future. Dashtaki weaves over 100 nostalgic and innovative dishes. Clean copy. Record # 34138
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. This book describes the horrifying plight of the Vietnamese "boat people" who faced disease, pirate attacks, unsanitary and crowded conditions, and other dangers to escape from Vietnam to Pulau Bi Dong, a tiny, previously uninhabited island in Malaysia. Clean copy. Record # 34151
Hardcover. Modena, Italy, Anniversary Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Lavishly illustrated with B&W and full-color photography throughout. This book is about the rich history of Italian Americans from the Library of Congress's holdings of photographs, maps, posters, letters, films, and sound recordings. The book's narration is supported by never-before-seen images and offers a fresh and original perspective on the whole experience of Italians in America, from Columbus until today. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34153
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book proposes that racial grief is a foundation for racial identity, suggesting that racial identification is itself already a melancholy act. It explores examples from culture and life to show how racial melancholia permeates our fantasies of citizenship, assimilation, and social health. Previous owner's light highlighting in pencil is present throughout, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34293
Softcover. NY, Madison Square Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Stapled binding is solid. Contains 40 facsimiles of 19th century postcards, and a 4 page essay on Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty. The cards are all intact and unused, with perforated edges and postal details on the rear. A remainder mark is present on the bottom edge of the pages. Clean copy. Record # 34372
Softcover. Brockport, NY, BOA Editions, Ltd., 1st Ed., 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 71 pages, soft cover. Red paper covers have some minor scuffing, but are generally in good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright, but some foxing is present on the page edges. Binding is solid. This is an award-winning debut poetry collection which explores the themes of memory, family, loss, and Chinese immigrant identity. Contains previous owner's light pencil markings and annotations throughout, but they do not interfere with the legibility of any text blocks. Record # 34633
Hardcover. NY, Holmes & Meier, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, An anthology of writings on immigrants to America from many parts of the world
 "Gentlemen on the Prairie Harnack, Curtis")
 "Sweet Promised Land (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Laxalt, Robert, Illust. by: George Carlson")
 "Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob by: Shorto, Russell")
 "Earth Angels: Migrant Children in America by: Photographer: Buirski, Nancy Introduction: Cisneros, Henry G.Afterword: Blades, Ruben")
 "A Part of Speech by: Brodsky, Joseph")
 "Yogurt & Whey: Recipes of an Iranian Immigrant Life by: Dashtaki, Homa, Illust. by: Pirouzmand, Roksana")
 "Sensing the Enemy by: Borton, Lady")
 "Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience from the Collections of the Library of Congress by: Osborne, Linda Barrett Battaglia, Paolo")
 "The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief by: Cheng, Anne Anlin")
 "Liberty: A Centennial History of the Statue of Liberty in Post Cards by: Bossert, Jill")
 "Rose by: Lee, Li-Young; Forward: Stern, Gerald")