New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Timothy Egan is an American author, journalist, and former columnist for publications such as “The New York Times”. Egan is the author of nine books including: “The Good Rain” (1990), “Breaking Blue” (1992), “Lasso The Wind” (1998), “The Winemakers Daughter” (2004), “The Big Burn” (2009), “Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis” (2012)..... More

New York, NY: Random House, 2009. First Printing. Hardcover. “Everybody wants to define the man who signed his name, “A. Lincoln.” In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their own label or libel. In this magnificent book, Ronald C. White, Jr., offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity—what today’s commentators would call..... More

Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. “The 11th ‘Gespenster’ (‘Ghost’) Panzer Division was acknowledged as one of the best formations in the Wehrmacht by the Germans and the Allies alike. Formed in 1940, it adopted as its symbol a sword-wielding spectre atop a charging half-track, an image stenciled on all of its vehicles.” – Inside front cover of dust-jacket. The Nazi war machine was one of the most..... More

New York, NY: The C.T. Brainard Publishing Company, c. 1913. Numbered Limited Edition. Hardcover. Ancient Greek philosopher Plutarch (Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus) (c. 46 - c. 120) was a biographer, historian, and essayist of the Middle Platonism school, a stage of Platonic philosophy that incorporated Aristotelian logic, Stoic ethics, and scholarly activities to develop theories systematically. Emblematic of the Pax Romana into which he was born, Plutarch’s Parallel Lives consisted of..... More

New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. “[I]t is a relatively selective study, focusing on specific aspects of this extraordinary man’s life that reveal a Benjamin Franklin who is different in important ways from the Franklin of our inherited common understanding,” (preface). In the two-hundred-some years since Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790) died, he has been oversimplified in the minds of Americans, according to Gordon Wood (b. 1933). Many..... More

New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. “War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”-- Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023), “Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness In The West”. Historian, academic, author, and editor, Victor Davis Hanson is a writer whose scholarly bonafides need no bolstering. Hanson has written, or edited over twenty-six books covering a vast swath of historical..... More

New York, NY: Bantam Books, 2011. First Printing. Hardcover. “War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”--Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023), Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness In The West. The Guadalcanal campaign, known more commonly as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed “Operation Watchtower” by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on..... More

New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1969. First Editions Thus. Softcovers. "Few explorers have had the experience of uncovering a civilization almost entirely unknown to the world. But (John L.) Stephens's two expeditions to Mexico and Central America in 1839 and 1841 yielded the first solid information on the culture of the Maya Indians. In this work...he tells the story of his travels to some 50 ruined Mayan cities. In..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by co-editor & contributor Charles Baxter. "William Maxwell, who died in July 2000, was revered as one of the twentieth century's great American writers and a long-time fiction editor at The New Yorker. Now writers who knew Maxwell and were inspired by him- both the man and his work- offer intimate essays, most specifically written..... More

Oxford, England: Osprey Publishing/ The National Civil War Museum, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. "An icon of the Civil War, Joshua L. Chamberlain lived a life of perseverance, tragedy and triumph. From the battle of Fredericksburg to the Confederacy's formal surrender at Appomattox, Chamberlain participated in many landmark events of the War Between the States. A volunteer in the Union Army, his rise in rank to brigadier general and Medal of..... More

Boston, MA: A. Williams & Co., 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. “The ancients entertained noble notions of the poet. He was an enthusiast and a rhapsodist. His work was done in surprise and delight. And all good epic poets were thought to compose, not by choice, but by inspiration; and so, too, the good lyric poets drew, they tell us, ‘from fountains flowing with nectar, and gathered flowers from the gardens..... More

New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "What happens when German spies collaborate to unleash a campaign of terror upon America at the start of World War I? In the summer of 1914, New York Police Department captain Tom Tunney is preoccupied by Manhattan's raging gang rivalries and has little idea that, halfway around the world, a much more ominous threat to the city is brewing. As Germany teeters..... 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