Lima, NY: A. Tiffany Norton, 1879. First Edition. 200, illus., fold-out map, footnotes, appendix, bds quite weak, large rough spot inside front bd, small stains inside flyleaves. More

New York: The Modern Library, 1942. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. vi, 362, [6] pages. Erasure residue on half-title. Ink note inside front board. Foreword by Franklin P. Adams. The 24 short stories in this volume represent all of Dorothy Parker's short stories excepting a few which she did not wish to retain among her collected prose. Dedicated to Lillian Hellman. Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works published in such magazines as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed when her involvement in left-wing politics resulted in the being placed on the Hollywood blacklist. Both her literary output and reputation for sharp wit have endured. More

New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1941. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 323, [5] pages. Illustrations. Signed by the author on the fep. Fep has a small portion of the top edge cut off. Cover has some wear and spine lettering faded. No DJ present. Story of the Partridge family and their eight children, set against the social background of the 1880's in the upper New York state town of Phelps. Bellamy Partridge was a 1900 graduate of Hobart College, Bellamy Partridge went on to study law, and for about a decade practiced law with his father, Civil War veteran and country lawyer Samuel Selden Partridge, in the little town of Phelps, New York--near Rochester--before striking out as a freelance writer, novelist and historian. He was the author of many works, including the national best-seller "Country Lawyer" (1939), a memoir of his father, and its sequel, "The Big Family" (1941). Partridge and his family moved out to California when "Country Lawyer" was picked up by one of the studios and he was given a six-month contract to adapt it for the screen. They lived at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and while her husband labored on the screenplay, his wife, a short story and article writer herself, composed letters back to her family in Connecticut that would later become the basis of her 1941 book "A Lady Goes to Hollywood: Being The Casual Adventures of an Author's Wife in the Much Misunderstood Capital of Filmland". By the time the screenplay was finished, Pearl Harbor was attacked and America entered World War II; the project was permanently shelved and the film was never made. More

Fort Ticonderoga, NY: Fort Ticonderoga Museum, 1961. Reprint Edition. 118, wraps, illus. (some color), maps (1 fold-out), ink name on title page, spine edges worn. More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 852 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Frontis illustration. 32 additional illustrations. Footnotes. Table of Abbreviations. Chapter Notes. Bibliography. Index. Some weakness at the rear board, restrengthened with glue. George Wilson Pierson (October 22, 1904 – October 12, 1993) was an American academic, historian, author and Larned Professor of History at Yale University. He was the first official historian of the university. Pierson earned a B.A. at Yale in 1926, and was awarded a Ph.D. in history from Yale in 1933. His dissertation was "Two Frenchmen in America, 1831–1832," a study of the experiences of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in the United States. It won the distinguished John Addison Porter Prize from the university for best work of scholarship that year. Pierson's published writings encompass 38 works in 53 publications in 2 languages and 3,892 library holdings. His works are widely studied and are used frequently in most collegiate level U.S. history courses. More

New York: Promontory Press, 1981. 32 cm, 256, profusely illus. in color, index, DJ worn, torn, and soiled. Introduction by A. K. Baragwanath, Museum of the City of NY. More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. 298, illus., endpaper maps, appendix, discolor ins bds, some foxing, rear bd weak, bds scuffed & lettering faded, sm tears at spine. More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1947]. 22 x 28 cm, 21 plates, wraps, pictorial work, covers somewhat soiled and scuffed, entire document somewhat curled. More

Sherrill, NY: Anniversary Committee, 1966. Quarto, 124, wraps, illus., map, some soiling to covers, sticker residue to front cover, rear cover somewhat scuffed. More

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. xiii, [1], 193, [1] pages, illustrations, index. Signed by the author, Warren Rogers, on the half title page. Warren Joseph Rogers, Jr. (May 6, 1922 – August 31, 2003) was a political reporter and an author. After returning home from WWII, Rogers worked as a journalist with a New Orleans paper, but later joined the Associated Press and transferred to Baton Rouge to cover Louisiana politics. In 1956, during the Adlai Stevenson campaign, Rogers first met Robert Kennedy, who was traveling with the press to prepare for his brother's 1960 presidential campaign. Despite the frequent arguments that they had with one another, Rogers and Kennedy became good friends as they sat on buses on Stevenson's campaign trail. Rogers joined the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune in 1959 and began reporting on the military, foreign affairs, the presidency, and national politics. During his time with the Herald Tribune, he was nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes: one for a series called "Our Man on the Bus" and one for a series of reporting on Green Beret combat in Vietnam. He also covered the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights movement, the White House and the McCarthy hearings. Rogers became bureau chief for the Hearst Corporation in 1963, and then was named Washington Editor for Look Magazine in 1966. In 1968, Rogers' friendship with Robert Kennedy allowed him an insider's view of Kennedy's campaign for the Democratic nomination. Rogers was present during Kennedy's assassination on June 5, 1968, and even helped subdue the gunman, Sirhan Sirhan. More

New York: The Veterans Association, 1919. 900, illus., appendix, roster, boards quite weak, ink check marks on several pages, pencil notes inside front flyleaf. More

Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Company, 1911. 1104, tables, appendix, index, boards quite weak & mostly separated, pencil inscription ins fr flylf, pencil notes ins rear flyleaf. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 345, [7] pages. Notes. Index. Inscribed and dated by the author on the fep. Jim Sleeper is an American author and journalist. Since 1999 he has also been a lecturer in political science at Yale University, where he has taught undergraduate seminars on American national identity and on journalism, liberalism, and democracy. He currently teaches one interdisciplinary seminar a year at Yale entitled "Journalism, Liberalism, Democracy." He writes primarily on American political culture, racial politics, news, media and higher education. In the 1990s he wrote two books about racial politics, The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York and Liberal Racism. From 1993 through 1995 he was a political columnist for the New York Daily News and an occasional contributor to The New York Times and to The Nation, The New Republic, and other political magazines. From 1988 to 1993, he was an opinion editor and editorial writer for New York Newsday. He has written most recently for The Huffington Post on the Obama Administration, Occupy Wall Street, Yale University's venture to establish an undergraduate college in collaboration with Singapore, and gun control in the United States. Sleeper is also member of the editorial board of the journal Dissent. More