Against the Tide: Commentaries on a Collection of African Americana.Weinstein, Randy F. Against the Tide: Commentaries on a Collection of African Americana, 1711-1987 New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : Glen Horowitz Bookseller, 1996. 284 pp. $60.00. This beautifully produced quarto quar·to n. pl. quar·tos 1. The page size obtained by folding a whole sheet into four leaves. 2. A book composed of pages of this size. volume includes an enthusiastic foreword fore·word n. A preface or an introductory note, as for a book, especially by a person other than the author. foreword Noun an introductory statement to a book Noun 1. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., praising Weinstein's efforts as a collector and recalling his own early development as a bibliophile. The book itself provides both bibliographic descriptions and careful scholarly commentaries for each of the three hundred titles from 1711 to Amiri Baraka's eulogy for James Baldwin Noun 1. James Baldwin - United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism (1924-1987) Baldwin, James Arthur Baldwin on 8 December 1989. The price is reasonable considering the cost of production. All academic libraries should acquire this book. |
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