Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1988. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Sara Lawrence Lightfoot. "In Balm in Gilead, Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, the MacArthur-prizewinning sociologist, tells her mother's amazing story with both candor and passion. From girlhood in rigidly segregated Vicksburg, MIssissippi, to a distinguished career as a child psychiatrist, Dr. Margaret Lawrence has overcome every obstacle facing black women in our time...This stirring portrait is..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc.; Random House LLC, 1997; 2014. First Editions. Hardcovers. First volume inscribed & signed by Sylvia Jukes Morris to Tom Selleck. Both volumes of Sylvia Jukes Morris' magisterial biography of Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), the legendary American author, ambassador & political figure who was the wife of Henry Luce (1898-1967), all-powerful magnate of the "American Century" who published Time, Life & Fortune magazines (& who..... More

New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "The most important powerbroker you have never heard of finally comes back to life in this savvy, meticulously researched, and fascinating biography. John William McCormick served in the House of Representatives from 1928 to 1971. He left a powerful mark on the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, World War II, the Vietnam War, and the list goes on. In this much-anticipated work..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. "On a winter day in 1903, on the remote Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright, changed history. The age of flight had begun with the first heavier-than-air powered machine carrying a pilot. Far more than a couple of Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, the Wright brothers were men..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1977. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "JONG, SANCHEZ, BOYLE, MILLER, as disparate a crew as America is a country, have created a crashing concert of voices that could bring down Mt. Rushmore. Their voices are territorial, separated by emotional gorges and visionary peaks, and combining to make coherent music, not the modulations of a chamber group, but a struggling song to fill the sky. Don't expect..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1989. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. "...V.S. Naipaul now brings his unique intellect and insight to bear on the American South. The result is an extraordinary book that not only looks at the South we know with a fresh and often startling clarity, but shows us a South that perhaps only Naipaul- as an outsider and as one of the most astute and perceptive..... More

Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed by Joe Napora to Thomas Rain Crowe. "Joe Napora's FINK presents us with a lyric picture of the legendary Mike Fink and the Mississippi River panorama as he explores the conscience of a nation, and the myth of manifest destiny. Mike Fink, King of the Keel-boaters, was larger than life in both fact and legend. Brawler, drinker, practical joker, and crack..... More

Ann Arbor, MI; Detroit, MI: The Ann Arbor News; Gannet/ The Detroit News, Inc., 1974; 1994. First Printings. Loose Folded Sheets. His image, life & legacy greatly effect & haunt the history of America during the 20th century & beyond: Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994), thirty-seventh President of the United States. Here are relics of two milestones in Nixon's life & American history: (1) The Ann Arbor News issue of Thursday..... More

New York, NY: Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "When this extraordinary novel was still a work in progress, with chapters appearing in such varied magazines as Esquire, Redbook, and Shenandoah, it generated immediate pre-publication excitement. One chapter was an O. Henry Award winner in 1976; another was selected for The Best American Short Stories 1977...As Cacciato, pursued by his own comrades-in-arms, walks out of the jungles of..... More

Ann Arbor, MI; New York, NY: The Ann Arbor News; The New York Times, 2008-2009. First Printings. Loose Folded Sheets. "HISTORY: America's 1st black president" read the front-page headline in the November 5, 2008 issue of the Ann Arbor (Michigan) News; "OBAMA: Racial Barrier Falls in Decisive Victory" was the bold headline in the New York Times issue of that date. The election of Barack Obama on the previous day..... More

n/p (Ann Arbor, MI): Jeffrey R. Parsons, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. "As a child in the later 1940s and early 1950s, I often looked at the hundreds of old photographs that my parents had accumulated in albums and cardboard boxes stashed on shelves and in cupboards around our home. These images from the years well before my birth showed my mother and father, and their relatives and friends and bystanders..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1946. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. "Franklin Roosevelt was not a simple man...He was the most complicated human being I ever knew; and out of this complicated nature there sprang much of the drive which brought achievement, much of the sympathy which made him like, and liked by, such oddly different types of people, much of the detachment which enabled him to forget his..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1970. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by David Quammen. "Color is the subject of this serious, funny, scary, and human novel- color as a signal for tragic hostility and for farcical misunderstanding, color as a test for the young who want to change the world. The author tells the story of a young white Ivy Leaguer who makes an awkward alliance- built on..... More