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

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In 'Serving the Reich,' Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that controversial history, contrasting the career of Peter Debye, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin, with those..... 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

New York, NY: Viking Penguin/ Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Frenzied by their terrible experiences with Wehrmacht and SS brutality, they wreaked havoc- tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Robert Stone (1937-2015) a writer whose works have gone on to define and inspire modern day American contemporary fiction on a Cormac McCarthy-like level most notably with: ‘Dog Soliders’ 1974, ‘A Flag For Sunrise’ 1981, and last but not least ‘Damascus Gate’ 1998. ‘Child of Light’ By Madison Smartt Bell, is to this day the most intimate, authoritative biography on Stone. Fellow..... More

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. First American Edition. Hardcover. "From January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich, about 250,000 inmates of concentration camps perished on death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter. They were murdered with merciless brutality by their SS guards, by army and police units, and often by gangs of civilians as they passed through German and Austrian..... 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

New York, NY: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/ Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "This unprecedented volume considers the profound and enduring impact of Spain's history, art, and culture on one of the greatest designers of the twentieth century, the legendary Cristobal Balenciaga. Hailed as "fashion's Picasso" by Cecil Beaton, Balenciaga created a revolutionary oeuvre that transformed the way women dressed. From the opening of his Paris..... More

New York, NY: Penguin Group/ Viking, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Geraldine Brooks. "When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes, we follow the story of the plague year, 1666, as her fellow villagers make an extraordinary choice. Convinced by a visionary young minister, they elect to..... More

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Described by its author as an "interpretive biography," Caponi's "Paul Bowles: Romantic Savage" aims "...to penetrate the underlying imaginative structures common to all and then to link them to a larger cultural context." In crafting the work, Caponi "...relied heavily on Bowles' autobiography, "Without Stopping," to a great extent. I have done so for two reasons: first, through family letters..... 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

New York, NY: Summit Books/ Simon & Schuster, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Viceroy of Ouidah begins with the reunion of the numerous descendants of Francisco Felix da Silva- a poor white Brazilian who, Bruce Chatwin tells us, "was by the 1830s the richest man in West Africa....He died a ruined man."...The Viceroy of Ouidah tells...of the man who became the "best friend" of the King of Dahomey, was..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931; 1938. First Edition, Second Printing; First Edition. Hardcovers. One of two volumes signed by author Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain. "Twenty long years have passed since my father was laid in the ground, yet had these years been only days the memory of that tragic event could not be more vivid. In the lovely month of April- month of soft green..... More