New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Gregg Herken, one of the foremost scholars on the development of atomic energy and the Cold War, presents here in this tome an in depth and intimate look into the lives of influential reporters and CIA lawyers, spies, diplomats, and scholars at a time where they worked closely with politicians and influenced foreign policy. “The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals..... More

London, England: Strange Attractor Press, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. Historian of Britain's LSD/psychedelic culture and author of “Albion Dreaming”, “Acid Drops”, and “In Search of Smiles”, Andy Roberts is a man who has delved into the abyssopelagic depths of psychedelia since 1973 and has become a key authority on the subject. “Divine Rascal” is Roberts’ exploration into the life and times of the enigmatic, almost hallucinatory figure Michael Hollingshead (1931–1984)..... More

New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. "During twelve unforgettable months in the middle of the turbulent Sixties, America saw the rise of innovative new sounds that would change popular music as we knew it. In 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music, music historian Andrew Grant Jackson...chronicles a groundbreaking year of creativity fueled by rivalries between musicians and continents, as well as sweeping..... 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: Henry Holt and Company, 2009. First American Edition. Hardcover. "England is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and Catholic Europe oppose him. The king's quest for freedom destroys his advisor, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and creates a...... 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

Various Places: Publishers Unknown, c. 1914. Original Postcards. Single Sheets. Offered here is a suite of nine vintage postcards spanning eras, particular histories (“particular,” as in ‘native to a place, time, event and/or series of events’) & photographic topics-genres, all. They are not, as far as we can tell, addressed to a coherent series of persons or pen pals—similarities in handwriting suggest (however, without hard evidence) that most originate from..... 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

London, England: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. "The joy that permeates Auguste Renoir's paintings was created by a complicated person, whom even close friends and family members struggled to understand. The world's leading authority on Renoir's life and work here presents an intimate biography of this most intriguing of Impressionist artists in a narrative interspersed with over a thousand extracts from letters by, to and about Renoir..... More

Brooklyn, NY: Anthology Editions, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. “Julio wanted the best—first editions on china paper inscribed by the author—but he also wanted everything, one copy of every edition of every book that had ever been published on the subject, and he wanted the sort of things other experts wouldn’t consider touching.” (17) A strong case could be made that Julio Mario Santo Domingo Jr. (1958-2009) was the most interesting..... More

Louisville, KY: Butler Books, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. “America’s fabled ‘Left Bank,’ Greenwich Village in New York, has been described, lauded, idealized and immortalized in numerous books. But here, for the first time, author Robert Schulman tells the story of perhaps the Village’s most vibrant citizen, the redoubtable Romany Marie Marchand, the acknowledge Earth Mother of the whole scene. From 1914 until the late 1950s she literally set the table..... More

Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press/ Little, Brown and Company, 1946. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Ben Shahn, signed & dated by him. The classic, comprehensive & still-definitive biography of the iconic Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) by Ernest J. Simmons (1903-1972), the great American scholar & writer. Here we offer an especially collectible copy of Simmons' most acclaimed & famous work: First trade edition, first printing "Published..... More

New York, NY: Viking Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Jonathan D. Spence (August 11, 1936 – December 25, 2021) was a sterling professor at Yale and, all in all, widely considered one of the leading western authorities on Chinese history. With works such as: “The Gate of Heavenly Peace” in 1981, “Mao Zedong” in 1999, “Treason by The Book” in 2006, among many others, Spence has an oeuvre that has..... More