New York, NY: Basic Books, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "In The Diligent, historian Robert Harms uses an entirely new approach to uncover the complex workings of the slave trade. Drawing upon the recently discovered private journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand, Harms recreates the macabre journey of a French slave ship and interweaves it with the remarkable dramas of its slave route. The result is an astonishingly detailed look at..... More

Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. "When 'Least Heat Moon' (the translation of the tribal name in his mixed blood) lost his job in a college in Missouri, he got a half-ton Ford van, packed a few necessaries including Leaves of Grass and Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, and set out to follow the track of various ancestors and write a book about..... More

Monee, IL: Get Things Done Publishing, 2015. Tenth Edition. Softcover. "The exploits chronicled in this book happened before I was on the Beat Circuit, but then this was really the first one...but I've been hearing about this thing ever since it happened. Every time any two people who were both there were in the same room they'd talk about it like they'd taken some wild trip together. That's why I...... More

New York, NY: Library of America, 2008. First Printing. Hardcover. Abbott Joseph Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963) best known as a war correspondent for “The New Yorker” from 1935 to his death in '63, was a renowned journalist and writer with a career that few ever achieve. “World War II Writings” is a collection of Liebling’s writing from his time covering the Great War. From Paris in..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin Inc., 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Robert MacNeil. "In Wordstruck, Robert MacNeil hauntingly and poignantly re-creates his own youth, his own growing love of words, the world they opened up to him, the experiences they enriched. Delving into his past to unearth these treasured experiences, he recaptures the lost world of his childhood. MacNeil's delight infuses his own words with magic, with..... More

St, Paul, MN: Red Bird Chapbooks, 2015. Limited First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Inscribed & signed twice by Brent Martin to Thomas Rain Crowe. "On a small bluff along the Little Tennessee River, just above the point where the river's free-flowing journey from the mountains of North Georgia ends at North Carolina's Fontana Resevoir, is a colony of one of the rarest of Appalachian shrubs, the Mountian Camellia (Stewartia Ovata). These..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "S.S. France of 1962 was a paradigm of elegance, style and speed. Christened by Madame de Gaulle, she was, at 1035 feet, the world's longest passenger vessel, perfectly attuned to postwar demographics with a select first class and huge tourist class. But the escalating price of fuel- at speed, she devoured a ton a mile- and a truculent crew..... More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. "The "inscrutable Orient" becomes demystified when Raymond Mungo, the eloquent young activist of the 1960s, leaves America in 1971 to find what he self-mockingly calls "the secret of the universe." From streamlined bullet trains to rat-infested freighters, from a flophouse in Hong Kong to the high-powered world of television and advertising in Tokyo, from opium dens in Malaysia to banquet tables..... More

Noida, India: Picador India, 2008. First Indian Edition. Hardcover. "V.S. Naipaul is the most compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and nonfiction, his is a gift born of a forceful, visionary impulse. With great feeling for his formidable body of work, and exclusive access to his private papers and personal recollections, Patrick French has produced a luminous and astonishing account of this..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Sewn Wrappers. Initialed by Joe Napora. "The One. The One and the Many. What connects? What divides? Once we knew. Before the internet, smart phones, E-mail, before telephones, before writing, before information, we knew. There is an Iroquois tale called "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky" describing the creation of the universe and the beginning of the human race...This story connects us..... More

New York, NY: Basic Books, 2009. First American Edition. Hardcover. "In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented than Baron Ungern-Sternberg. An anti-Semitic fanatic with a penchant for Eastern mysticism and a hatred of communists, Ungern-Sternberg conquered Mongolia in 1919 with a ragtag force of White Russians, Siberians, Japanese, and native Mongolians. While tormenting friend & foe alike, he dreamed..... More

New York, NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Sylvia Jukes Morris. "Born in 1861, Edith Kermit Carow could not remember a time when the neighboring Roosevelt children were not part of her life. She was especially close to young Theodore, her childhood sweetheart, and they seemed destined for a life together. Then, at Harvard, Theodore fell in love with the captivating Alice..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Few, if any, foreigners have glimpsed the people and places Mark Salzman tells about in this unique, inspired portrayal of post-Cultural Revolution China and the Chinese. Shortly after he arrived in Hunan Province in 1982 to teach English, Salzman encountered Pan Qingfu, one of the nation's foremost Wushu (kung fu) experts and, as such, a cultural hero to the Chinese..... More