New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by Rita Mae Brown. “Rich with all the color of history and characters that burst off the page into our lives, High Hearts reveal one of our most outrageous and delightful storytellers weaving her most ambitious and entertaining novel yet” (front flap). Set in Civil War-era Virginia, Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944) dives into the complexities of 19th..... More

New York, NY: Flatiron Books, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by President Joe Biden. "In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the previous forty years; it was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. The Thanksgiving holiday was a time to connect and to reflect on what the year had..... More

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Hilary Rodham Clinton. Signed by Hillary Rodham Clinton. “[Clinton’s] long experience with children—not only through her personal role as mother, daughter, sister, and wife but also as advocate, legal expert, and public servant—has strengthened her conviction that how children develop and what they need to succeed are inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how..... More

London, England: Allen & Co., 1983. First UK Edition. Hardcover. “In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.” - Judy Garland (June 10, 1922–June 22, 1969). Perhaps best known as Dorothy in 1939’s “The Wizard of Oz”, Garland had a career that started in Vaudeville, moved to the silver screen, and..... More

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & dated by Jane Goodall at time of publication. "Africa In My Blood is an extraordinary self-portrait in letters of Jane Goodall's early years, from childhood to the publication of In the Shadow of Man, revealing this remarkable woman more vividly than anything published before, by her or about her...a dramatic, moving, funny, and important book that tells the..... More

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: 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

London, England: Granta Publications, 1997. First UK Edition. Hardcover. “Dinner with Persephone is one of the most compelling books about a country ever written by a foreigner. It is also an extraordinary work of literature, defying categorization—though it can be read with great enjoyment simply as a lovingly well-written evocation of the land that endures the consequences of being ‘the birthplace of European civilization’” (front flap). This travelogue by Patricia..... More