New York: Penguin Press, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 500 pages. Frontis illustration. Notes. Index. Ink addition to Index at page 489. The author graduated from Harvard University. Thomas is a contributor to the New Yorker’s website, a former writer and editor for ESPN’s Grantland , and a former fellow at New America. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue , The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker , The Paris Review , and other places. She s the daughter of journalist and Newsweek editor Evan Thomas. More

Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. Map. Format is 39 inches by 26 inches, or approximately 6.5 inches by 9.75 inches a panel with 16 panels, folded. Map is cloth. This is one of the Bartholomew Pictorial and Historical Map series. Impressive pictorial map illustrating places and characters in history decorated with the coats of arms of the main cities and towns. More

Edinburgh, London: Archibald Constable and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. Hardcover (leather spine). [10], 180, [2] pages. Marbled boards and endpapers. Leather spine with gilt. Some foxing noted. Cover has some wear, especially at corners, and soiling. Rare 1st book appearance of Scott's poetry together. This is the first one volume edition of any of his work. Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. Advertisement statement: These Ballads have been already published in different collections, dome in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, others in the Tales of Wonder, and some of both these Miscellanies. They are now first collection into one Volume. The Songs have been written at different times for the Musical Collections of Mr George Thomson and Mr Whyte. He earlier published an idiosyncratic three-volume set of collected ballads of his adopted home region, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. This was the first sign from a literary standpoint of his interest in Scottish history. More

London: Rodwell and Martin, 1822. Second Edition [stated]. Presumed First Printing thus. Leather bound. viii, 317, [7] pages. Marbled endpapers. Birthday note from 1937 pasted to fep. Newspaper clippings on the death of the author pasted onto following free end pages. Pencil notation "Presentation copy (see half-title) by John L. Adolphus, re Sir Walter Scott authorship of "Waverley" etc.]. Inscribed to R. Greene Bradley on the half-title page. Mr. Bradley noted, in 1862, the death of the author in a note also on the half-title page. The author also appears to have added his name in ink to the title page (which does not state the author). John Leycester Adolphus (1795–1862) was an English lawyer, jurist and author. . In 1821 he published "Letters to Richard Heber, Esq.", in which he discussed the authorship of the then anonymous Waverley novels, and fixed it upon Sir Walter Scott. This conclusion was based on the resemblance of the novels in general style and method to the poems acknowledged by Scott. More

New York: Atheneum, 1979. First American Edition [stated], Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 211, [5] pages. Chronological table. A Note on Sources. Notes. Index. Corner of fep clipped. Red ink underlining noted. DJ has some wear, tears, and soiling. Richard Ollard (1923–2007) was an English historian and biographer. He is best known for his work on the English Restoration period. He joined the Navy during the Second World War and won an exhibition to New College, Oxford at its conclusion. For twelve years from 1948 to 1959 Ollard taught history at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in London. In 1960 he joined the publisher Collins as a senior editor, where he worked until his retirement in 1983. After his retirement from Collins he continued to research and publish widely. In 1992 he was awarded the Caird Medal by the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum. In 1997 he was joint winner of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the pleasure of reading. More

New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1996. Second Edition/Presumed Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xii, [6], 533, [1] pages. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Minor damp signs and rippling at top of back pages and dust jacket. Carolly Erickson (born January 1, 1943) is an American author of non-fiction and historical fiction. She earned a Ph.D. in medieval history from Columbia University. She spent six years as a college professor before becoming a full-time writer. In 2008, her book The Tsarina's Daughter won the RT Reader's Choice Award. Her eighteen nonfiction books have won her a large international following. More

New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2001. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Paul F. Boller Jr. was the first Lyndon B. Johnson Chair in American History at Texas Christian University. His first academic position was at Southern Methodist University, where he taught from 1948 to 1966. In 1966, he accepted a position at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He accepted the Lyndon B. Johnson Chair at Texas Christian University in 1976. It was at TCU that he came up with a new idea for a book about American presidents. Presidential Anecdotes was unique, presenting short biographical sketches of the presidents followed by stories that illustrated their lives, careers, and personalities. It became a best seller and was followed by other presidentially themed works: Presidential Campaigns, Presidential Wives, Presidential Inaugurations, and Presidential Diversions. More

New York: Schocken, 2012. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 201, [3] pages. Illustrations. Map. Illustration credits. Chronology. Notes. Index. This is one of the Jewish Encounters series. Jewish Encounters is a collaboration between Schocken and Nextbook, a project devoted to the promotion of Jewish literature, culture, and ideas. Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History in the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. He is regarded as one of the most prominent historians of American Judaism. Sarna is a prolific author, including the seminal work on the 350th anniversary of the founding of the American Jewish community, American Judaism: A History. The book won the National Jewish Book Award for 2004 and the Publishers Weekly Best Religion Book 2004 award. Sarna received the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry's Marshall Sklare Award in 2002. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 560, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Name of previous owner on fep. David Jeremiah Barron (born July 7, 1967) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former S. William Green Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law School. He previously served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice. Barron is known for his controversial legal memo justifying the use of lethal drone strikes against U.S. citizens without judicial process. For his book Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS, in February 2017, Barron was named the winner of Norwich University's 2017 Colby Award, which is awarded for works that make major academic contributions to the understanding of military history, intelligence activities, and foreign relations. More

Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 334 pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Notes. Sources. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed (to Wood Gray) by the author on the fep. DJ, in a plastic sleeve, has wear and soiling. Derived from a Kirkus review: This is a book that should interest everyone, for this is the story of the terrific battle Tyler, precipitated into the presidency, put up for his ideals of government, and specifically of the battle regarding the national banking problems. Attacked openly and undercover by Clay, disowned by his own party, attacked by a mob, threatened with impeachment, Tyler still held firm. Little has been written about him. This is not a personal biography, but a picture of a man and a period. It has singular resemblances to conditions today. More

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 19 cm. 126, [2] pages. DJ worn and soiled, small tears and chips to DJ edges. Signed on fep. Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician and author who was a Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Despite his loss of the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had an impact on the libertarian movement. His views grew more libertarian as he reached the end of his career. A significant accomplishment of his career was the passage of the Goldwater–Nichols Act of 1986. John McCain, praised him as the man who "transformed the Republican Party from an Eastern elitist organization to the breeding ground for the election of Ronald Reagan." More

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Americanization Department. Wraps. [2], 27, [3] pages. Minor cover wear. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, formally the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, (VFW) is an organization of U.S. war veterans headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The Veterans of Foreign Wars was established by James C. Putnam on September 29, 1899, in Columbus, Ohio. Its membership consists of veterans who, as soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen served that Nation in wars, campaigns, and expeditions on foreign soil or in hostile waters. The VFW resulted from the amalgamation of several societies formed immediately following the Spanish–American War. In 1899, little groups of veterans returning from campaigning in Cuba and the Philippine Islands, founded local societies upon a spirit of comradeship known only to those who faced the dangers of that war side by side. Similar experiences and a common language drew them together. More

Winterthur, DE: Winterthur Publications, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 9.25 inches by 11 inches. xvii, [1],490, [2] pages. Foreword by Dwight P. Lanmon. List of Makers. Catalogue: New England, New York, Pennsylvania and the South. Appendix: Analysis of Hallowware by Wall Thickness. Bibliography. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Ian M. G. Quimby graduated from the University of Delaware in 1961 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was awarded a two-year fellowship for study in the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture and he earned his master’s degree from UD in 1963. He served as the first curator of the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum in Massachusetts before returning to Winterthur in 1965, where he spent the next 26 years. At Winterthur, he served as registrar and a director of publications and editor of the Winterthur Porfolio, which he transformed into a journal with an international reputation. He was inducted into UD’s Alumni Wall of Fame. More