Grove Press, March 2021. Trade Paperback. A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story--Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000..... More

Bedford/st Martins, January 1997. Trade Paperback. Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, first published in 1682, is an English Puritan woman's account of her captivity among Native Americans during Metacom's War (1675-76) in southeastern New England. In this volume, 17 related documents support Rowlandson's text, which is reprinted..... More

Walker and Company, January 1973. Cloth. Small quarto. [7' x 10'} In edgeworn dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Yam colored cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Clean interior pages. [602 pages.]. More

Free Press, December 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. In rich first-person narrative, Dogtown tells the strange, dark story of a wilderness ghost town that has enthralled artists, writers, and eccentrics--and of a brutal murder committed there. Documenting its history and lore, East explores the possibility that certain landscapes wield their own..... More

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), January 1976. First Edition. Cloth. [7' x 9' & 1/4} Octavo in dustjacket with darkening at edges, discolored spine & heavy foxing. Flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Cotton's Map of New York end pages front and rear. Foxing/dust..... More

Penguin (Non-Classics), March 2008. Trade Paperback. A lively, compulsively browsable collection of neglected notables-from the bestselling author of "A Treasury of Royal Scandals" "History," wrote Thomas Carlyle, "is the essence of innumerable biographies." Yet countless fascinating characters are relegated to a historical limbo. In "A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans,"..... More

Crown Publishers, April 1951. Reprint. Cloth. 7th printing. Octavo. In dustjacket with moderate edgewear and clipped front flap. Grey cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. Some soiling and brown spots. Dust staining top textblock edge. Tanned end pages. [316 pp.]. More

Easton Press, 1989. First Edition. Leather. Navy blue leather bound with gold lettering and gold decorative panels front and rear cover. Gold textblock edges. Light scuff marks along fore-edge amidst the gilt. Bottom corners of pages 151 - 154 folded. Otherwise overall like new. Silk ribbon marker. Moire end pages..... More

The Easton Press, 1992. Leather. Bound in brown leather with gold lettering and decorative cover design with raised Portrait of Hickok in tooled oval front cover. Moire end pages. Silk ribbon marker. 377 pages. More

Stackpole Books, June 2021. Hardcover. Slavery is one of the central, most enduringly significant facts of U.S. history. It loomed like a dark cloud over the country's birth at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and shaped the most important nodes of American history before the Civil War. Even today, the..... More

Henry Holt and Co., April 2014. Hardcover. A top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that created modern America, on the fiftieth anniversary of its passage It was a turbulent time in America--a time of sit-ins, freedom rides, a...... More

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Fountainhead Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket clipped; a bit of foxing and light soiling; else, very good. More

Dover Publications, March 1983. Paper Back. Profusely illustrated account of the greatest engineering achievement of the 19th century. Rare contemporary photos and engravings, accompanied by extensive, detailed captions, recall construction, human drama, politics, much more. 167 black-and-white illustrations. Profusely illustrated account of the greatest engineering achievement of the 19th century..... More