Washington: Mathew Brady, National Portrait Gallery, c1884. One of multiple copies made, few have survived. Photograph. Format is 4.25 inches by 6.5 inches, with the image size 6 inches by 4 inches. Corners rubbed. Some wear, scuffing and soiling front and back. Some loss of paper at top and side edges (no loss of central image). The bottom left has the word Brady, and the bottom right has Washington D. C. Part of text of Washington at bottom caption lost. This is a half figure picture of Burton Raynor Ross in regalia on the front. On the reverse is printed Brady's National Portrait Galleries, 625 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. and handwritten in pencil at the top 1884. 1885. and a right bracket. In ink is says "Burton R. Ross Grand High Priest over DC. Washington DC." It may be possible to identify the Fraternal Order from the regalia. There is a neck sash clasped at the throat. There is a device hung around the neck over the chest by chain which as twelve ornaments (three across and four down), that largely appear oval shape. An internet search found that the term Grand High Priest was most often associated with Masonic organizations. More

This is one of a multiple original, few of which have survived. Stereograph/photograph. Format is approximately 7 inches by 3.25 inches for the card backing, and 5 inches by 3 inches for the images. Image has wear and soiling, and the top right corner of the right image is gone (no impact on people in the picture). There is an "X" above the head of the left most figure in the right image . On the back is the pencil notation "Burton Ross with old friends looking at painting." Colonel Burton R. Ross, (1845-1913) was a military instructor of the High School Cadet Regiment for 26 years. Col. Ross was for many years connected with the District of Columbia National Guard. He was at one time Lieutenant Colonel of the First Regiment. It is believed he might have served in the Civil War and also in the Spanish-American War. This is a a stereoscopic pair of separate photograph images, depicting left-eye and right-eye views of the same scene, as a single three-dimensional image using a device called a stereoscope. The word 'stereoscope' is now most commonly associated with viewers designed for the standard-format stereo cards that enjoyed several waves of popularity from the 1850s to the 1930s as a home entertainment medium. There is no information as to the photographer or the date, but from other information about Burton Ross, this would appear to have been taken circa 1865-1870. More

Washington DC: Mathew Brady, 1860. Presumed to be one of multiple copies made. Photograph. The format is approximately 2.125 inches by 3.25 in mounted on a card sized 2.25 inches by 4 inches). The front image has some fading and some soiling, but the image is clear. On the back Jefferson Davis signed his name in ink. This signature has been compared with a number of signature images available on the internet and is believed to be authentic. In pencil is the following notation: President of the Confederacy who married my grandmother's niece, Miss Howell of New Jersey, daughter of Gov. Howell (NJ). Mathew Benjamin Brady (c. 1822–1824 – January 15, 1896) was one of the earliest photographers in American history. Best known for his scenes of the Civil War, he studied under inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, among other public figures. When the Civil War started, his use of a mobile studio and darkroom enabled vivid battlefield photographs that brought home the reality of war to the public. Internet research dates this photograph as from 1860. Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) served as a U.S. Senator (1845-1852, 1857-1860), and as Secretary of War (1853-1857). The Montgomery Convention named him as provisional president of the Confederacy, until he was elected to a six-year term as president in November 1861. Davis took a direct role in the management of military affairs and worked with the Confederate Congress. He published The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, in 1881. More

1885. One of multiple copies made, few have survived. Photograph. Format is 4.25 inches by 6.5 inches, with the image size 5.5 inches by 3.5 inches. According to the HistoryNet website, this is the last photograph taken of former President Grant. There are other similar versions from different days, as he often sat out on the veranda working on his memoirs or reading the paper. The image is somewhat faded, but still quite distinct. A circle with the initials M.L.A. is stamped on the back. There is no indication as to who the photographer was. Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with the Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction. As Commanding General, he led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War. In his retirement, Grant was the first president to circumnavigate the world on his tour, dining with Queen Victoria and meeting many prominent foreign leaders. In the final year of his life, facing severe financial reversals and dying of throat cancer, he wrote his memoirs, which proved to be a critical and financial success. He was memorialized as a symbol of national unity. The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 4.25 by 6.5 inches. More

San Francisco: Edouart & Cobb, c1870. Presumed to be one of multiple copies made. Photograph. The format is approximately 2.25 inches by 3.5 in mounted on a card sized 2.375 inches by 3.5 inches). The front image has some fading but is of a lady, seated, in a contemplative pose. There is a pencil notation on the back identifying the lady as Mrs. Abner Doubleday. This was acquired along with the signed Abner Doubleday carte de visite. Mary Hewitt, of Baltimore, had married Abner Doubleday in 1852, when she was about 28 and he was a 32-year-old first lieutenant. (“I was fascinated by the bright eyes of a Washington belle,” he later wrote.) As was the custom of some military wives in those days, she followed her husband from post to post, even on his most dangerous deployments. Belle she may have been, but she became an epitome of the sterner type known as a “lady of the Army.” She had been at her husband’s side when Apaches attacked their Army post in Texas, when he fought against the Seminoles in the Everglades, and when their steamship nearly sank in shark-infested waters at night off the Florida coast. She would later join him at the Battle of Antietam. Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union major general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg was his finest hour. In San Francisco, after the war, he obtained a patent on the cable car railway that still runs there. In his final years in New Jersey, he was a member and later president of the Theosophical Society. More

Washington DC: United States Government, c1875. Fifth issue February 1874 to 1876. Fractional currency. Format is approximately 3.5 inches by 2 inches, printed on both sides. Two pinholes (one pin) on right side. The front has the image of former Secretary of the Treasury Robert John Walker and the seal of the Treasury Department. The reverse is a basic greenback with 25 cents presented in a large image. There is a notation that this is a Columbian Bank Note Washington, D.C. Columbian Bank Note Company was founded by John Geikie Wellstood in 1871 in Washington D.C. The American Bank Note Company acquired Columbian in 1879, and took over the contract printing. This note has either a 1308 or a 1309 designation, probably the former with a long, thin key. Robert John Walker (July 19, 1801 – November 11, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a member of the U.S. Senate from Mississippi from 1835 until 1845, as Secretary of the Treasury from 1845 to 1849 during the administration of President James K. Polk, and briefly as Territorial Governor of Kansas in 1857. He was responsible for drafting the 1849 bill that eventually established the United States Department of the Interior. Walker supported the annexation of Texas. As Secretary of the Treasury, he held responsibility for the management of funds relating to the Mexican–American War,. He contributed to a bill called the Walker tariff, which reduced rates to some of the lowest in history. Walker was appointed Governor of Kansas in 1857 by President James Buchanan. After his retirement from politics, Walker supported the United States during the American Civil War and continued to practice law in Washington, D.C. More

Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris, 2015. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. vii, [1], 292, [6] pages. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Hard Times, Back of Beyond, Dead Confederates, The Ascent, The Woman who Believed in Jaguars, Burning Bright, Return, Into the Gorge, Falling Star, The Corpse Bird, Waiting for the End of The World, and Lincolnites. Also contains Acknowledgments. Harry A. Milman, Ph.D., is a consulting pharmacologist, toxicologist, and expert witness with over forty years of experience at the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Health, and the US Public Health Service. Dr. Milman assisted in over three hundred civil, criminal, and high-profile legal cases and has testified at trials and depositions. He authored over seventy scientific articles and has edited five science books, including the highly acclaimed Handbook of Carcinogen Testing. Often quoted in newspapers and magazines, Dr. Milman appeared as a toxicology expert on the History Channel, the Oxygen Channel, TV and radio news programs, and in true-crime television shows. Dr. Milman is the author of FORENSICS: The Science Behind the Deaths of Famous People and two novels—A Death at Camp David, winner of the Best Mystery Novel in the 2018 Book Talk Radio Club Awards, and SOYUZ:The Final Flight, a finalist for Best Second Novel in the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and a finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel in the 2018 Book Talk Radio Club Awards. More

New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2003. Reprint. Eighth printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 322, [2] pages.With inscribed bookplate on fep. Inscription reads Best Wished to Carla Hall Dorothy Height 12/14/03, Illustrations. Photo Credits. Index. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Minor edge wear. Foreword by Maya Angelou. A heroine of the Civil Rights Movement tells the remarkable story of her life, her work, and what it means to be both black and a woman. Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as the sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, someone whose personal ambition was secondary to her passion for her cause, she has received little mainstream recognition--until now. In her memoir, Dr. Height, at ninety-one, reflects on a life of service and leadership. We witness her childhood encounters with racism and the thrill of New York college life during the Harlem Renaissance. We see her protest against lynchings. We sit with her onstage as Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech. We meet people she knew intimately: W. E. B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune, Langston Hughes, and many others. And we watch as she leads the National Council of Negro Women for forty-one years, her diplomatic counsel sought by U. S. Presidents from Eisenhower to Clinton. After the battles of the 1960s, Dr. Height concentrates on troubled black communities, on issues like poverty, teen pregnancy and black family values. In 1994, her efforts are officially recognized. With Rosa Parks, she receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xx, 568, [2] pages. Methods. Sources. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations (some with color). Maps. Minor DJ wear noted. Thomas Powers (New York City, December 12, 1940) is an American author and intelligence expert. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 together with Lucinda Franks for his articles on Weatherman member Diana Oughton (1942-1970). He was also the recipient of the Olive Branch award in 1984 for a cover story on the Cold War that appeared in The Atlantic, a 2007 Berlin Prize, and for his 2010 book on Crazy Horse the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. After working as a journalist, in 1970 he became a freelance writer. Powers is the author of six works of non-fiction and one novel. His The Man who Kept Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979) is "widely regarded as one of the best books ever written on the subject of intelligence." His work on Werner Heisenberg tracks secret developments in nuclear physics during the 1930s and early 1940s. Powers has been a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation,, and Rolling Stone. Crazy Horse was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century. More

New York: Barrett, 1885. One of multiple copies made, few have survived. Photograph. Format is 4.25 inches by 6.5 inches, with the image size 5.5 inches by 3.5 inches. The image is somewhat faded but General Grant is seated in the center of the family group, wearing a top hat. A portion of the top left corner has been torn off with only a minor loss of the image. Pencil notation on back restates part of caption. There appear to be 10 other family members, with his two sons on the porch to the right of Grant, two women (one standing and one seated) to his left, and six of varying ages and sexes seated on the steps below. This image was taken about a month before Grant died. Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with the Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction. As Commanding General, he led the Union Army to victory in the Civil War. In his retirement, Grant was the first president to circumnavigate the world on his tour, dining with Queen Victoria and meeting many prominent foreign leaders. In the final year of his life, facing severe financial reversals and dying of throat cancer, he wrote his memoirs, which proved to be a critical and financial success. He was memorialized as a symbol of national unity. The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 4.25 by 6.5 inches. More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 263, [1] pages. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Inscribed on title page. Inscription signed by author reads: For Luke Albee--Well-known Vermont Guide. Pat Breslin August, 1983. Luke Albee was the former Chief of Staff to Senator Pat Leahy of Vermont. A Cold War Novel of Love and Death. To millions of Chileans the socialist government of Salvador Allende meant reform, justice, and progress. But to the U.S. State Department it represented a defeat and a threat. In collusion with opposition interests, the Americans engaged in a covert campaign to subvert Allende's regime. Paul Steward's job is to gather intelligence--more bluntly, to spy--on Chile's leftists. The disillusioned agent's assignment is a better one than his record warrants, but it's also his last chance to salvage a once-promising career. As an idealistic Peace Corps volunteer, he had had an affair with beautiful Marisa Caseaux, a young Chilean artist studying in the States. The enthusiastic, hopeful American has drifted into a weary, bitter cynicism, and the sensitive Chilean artist has drifted leftwards into a CIA dossier. As events move inexorably toward Allende's fall, a noose tightens around Steward's battered conscience. Interventions is a novel worthy of Graham Greene, the tale of a man in bondage to a morally bankrupt policy, and of his desperate, tragic attempt to reconcile personal loyalty with the politics of betrayal. Interventions is a novel worthy of Graham Greene, the tale of a man in bondage to a morally bankrupt policy, and of his desperate, tragic attempt to reconcile personal loyalty with the politics of betrayal. More

New York: Random House, 2019. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxix, [1], 543, [3] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Dramatis Personae. Prologue. Part One: Battle Lines of Peace; Part Two: Impeachment; Part Three: Verdict; Part Four: Denouement. Epilogue. Appendix A: Tenure of Office Act. Appendix B: Articles of Impeachment. Appendix C. Dramatis Personae, Denouement. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Brenda Wineapple is an American nonfiction writer, literary critic, and essayist who has written several books on nineteenth-century American writers. She graduated from Brandeis University. In 2014, Wineapple received an Literature Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her book White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. She was elected a Fellow of the Society of American Historians and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is also an elected Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. She serves as literary advisor for the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of America, and she is on the advisor board of Lapham's Quarterly and The American Scholar. Wineapple teaches in the MFA programs at Columbia University's School of the Arts and at the New School in New York City. She was previously the Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at The Graduate School, CUNY, and its Writer-in-Residence. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The Nation and other national publications. More

New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1970. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, [2], 206, [4] pages. 2 Maps. Bibliographical Essay. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some corner bumping. Some pencil marks noted in the text. This has an Introduction, Part One: The Rationales for American Overseas Expansion; Part Two: The Decision for War Against Spain; Part Three: The Decision to Take Hawaii and the Philippines; Part Four: The Protest against Imperialism; and Part Five: Epilogue. This is one of the Problems in American History series. This work contain 18 essays or contemporary documents, such as President McKinley's was message of 11 April 1898. There is substantial discussion of President William McKinley and some information on former President Grover Cleveland. More