New York: Louis Carrier & Co. [1929], 1929. First printing. Hardcover. 302 pp. Includes an index and several black and white photographs. Translated from the German by Frederick Philip Grove. A Near Fine book with mild fading to the topstain in a near Very Good dust jacket with traces of... More about The Legacy of Sun Yatsen; A History of the Chinese Revolution
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. 736 pp. Price of $24.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the first page. Slight concavity to spine from reading, jacket shows traces of age toning. More about Nixon; The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972
Chicago: Acme Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4vo. 1033 pp. Bound in pebbled brown leather with gilt lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, all edges gilt. The front and rear boards are decorated with flowers stamped in blind, with beveled edges. Four raised bands on... More about Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock County Wisconsin
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1928. First printing. Hardcover. 341 pp. Lacks the dust jacket. Wear to the edges of boards and top and bottom of the spine, rear hinge appears to be starting with rear pastedown splitting along the edge, a bit of separation between backstrip and top of... More about Sam Houston: Colossus in Buckskin
New York: Simon and Schuster [1971], 1971. First American edition. Hardcover. 392 pp. Price of $10.00 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the first American edition. Translated by Terence Kilmartin. Very Good with light foxing to the textblock and a few hints of fading to the edges og... More about Memoirs of Hope: Renewal and Endeavor
London: London, 1955. First printing. Hardcover. 320 pp. Price of 18s. net on front flap of jacket. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. Includes several black and white photographs from de Gaulle's life. An attractive copy of the first volume in the French general and politician's memoirs of World War II. A... More about War Memoirs: The Call To Honour 1940-1942; Volume One
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 275 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The first full-length biography of Titus, the tenth emperor of Rome. Jacket shows traces of edge wear and rubbing, and has a small closed tear to the rear panel. More about Titus of Rome
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. First printing. Hardcover. 317 pp. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. Includes a few black and white photographs, and an index. A biography of the famous political columnist Finley Peter Dunne, written shortly after he died. Very Good book with mild fading... More about Mr. Dooley's America; A Life of Finley Peter Dunne
New York: Hill And Wang (2002), 2002. First printing. Hardcover. 396 pp. Price of $26.00 on front flap of jacket. Includes notes, a bibliography, several black and white photographs, and an index. The definitive biography of Alfred E. Smith, the governor of New York who made a bid for the... More about Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press [1964], 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 301 pp. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The authorship of this book was supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation. The biography of Count Adam Gurowski. Lincoln was concerned over Gurowski's influence... More about Lincoln's Gadfly, Adam Gurowski
Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [1], 8-253, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Light brown cloth lettered and decorated in black on the front board and spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Benjamin Franklin, two plates, and a map. With notes and... More about The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; And a Sketch of Franklin's Life from the Point Where the...
Boston: Hilliard, Gray and Company, 1840. First edition thus. Hardcover. 4vo. 10 volumes: Vol. 1: 1840, 612 pp., frontispiece of Franklin with tissue guard; Vol. 2: 1836, 557 pp., frontispiece of Franklin (from the picture by D. Martin) with tissue guard; Vol. 3: 1836, 577 pp., frontispiece of Franklin (from... More about The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included...
New York: L. H. Walter, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. 512 pp. Bound in olive green cloth with gilt decorations and black ruling, green patterned endpapers and pastedowns, edges speckled with green ink. Introduction by Merritt Starr, special memorial by Bishop Samuel Fallows. 64 black and white photographs including the frontispiece... More about Theodore Roosevelt, His Life and Work: Memorial Edition
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. First printing. Hardcover. 297 pp. Price of $5.00 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed by the author on the free front endpaper. Broadfoot 279, Nevins 65. A Near Fine book with mild offsetting to pastedowns and few hints of rubbing to corners of boards... More about Stormy Ben Butler
New York: Stein and Day [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 380 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. A Very Good book with discoloration to edges of boards, slight separation between top of backstrip and textblock, name blackened out on free... More about Che Guevara
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. 551 pp. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. With illustrations. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket with a large wrinkle to the front panel and minor edge wear. More about Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello; Jefferson and His Time, Volume 6
New York: Random House, 2011. First printing. Hardcover. 625 pp. Price of $35.00 on front flap of dust jacket. More about Catherine the Great
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. 659 pp. Price of $8.50 on front flap of jacket. Gephart 13523. Name written on free front end paper; chip to jacket between front panel and spine panel, tiny abrasion on front panel, fading to spine panel, traces of edge wear and rubbing. More about Alexander Hamilton; Portrait in Paradox
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 215 pp. Blue boards with orange endpapers and pastedowns. A Very Good+ book with slight concavity to the spine and a sticker ghost to the front pastedown; dust jacket is price-clipped, and shows some wrinkling to the flaps and... More about Boss; Richard J. Daley of Chicago
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 215 pp. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Blue boards with orange endpapers and pastedowns. Inscribed by Royko on the free front endpaper. A Very Good+ book with a slight lean and four minor... More about Boss; Richard J. Daley of Chicago
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1954], 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 762 pp. Price of $7.50 on front jacket flap. First printing of the one volume edition. Near Fine with slight lean in a Very Good lightly edge-worn dust jacket with a tear to the top of the rear fold. More about Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years; One Volume Edition
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. 760 pp. Price of $12.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Very near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears to the rear panel. More about Stalin; The Man and His Era
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Book of the Month Club. Hardcover. 845 pp. Includes the book of the month club brochure advertising the book. A Very Good+ book with a few small creases throughout the pageblock in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with traces of edge wear and... More about Benjamin Franklin
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1980. First printing. Hardcover. 310 pp. Price of $15.00 on front flap of jacket. More about Radical Principles: Reflections of an Unreconstructed Democrat
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. [1953], 1953. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 11-384 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a photograph frontispiece and fifteen additional black and white photographs. A Very Good+... More about Big Bill of Chicago