American History from The Accidental Bookseller, IOBA, FABA

Signed, dated, and inscribed by Bailyn. Awarded both the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes, Bailyn's work is considered one of the most influential studies of the American Revolution published during the 20th century and was hailed at its first appearance as "the most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation." In an interview for Bailyn's New York… Read more about this item

First edition thus. Illustrated with 320 color illustrations plus folding map, 2 volumes rebound in buckram. A very good copy, top edge gilt, prior owner's bookplate, two plates loose and missing piece from frontis tissue guard in volume 1. Though not the first artist to paint American Indians, Catlin was the first to picture them so extensively in their own territories and… Read more about this item

Inscribed to Bill Smith and signed by Hofstadter. While not definitively established, the recipient could be fellow historian William E(rnest) Smith, whose work The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics is cited by Hostadter as a source and influence on his interpretations on anti-bank views (pages 355-56). Some pencil annotations sprinkled sporadically throughout the book. A very good copy in 60%… Read more about this item

First edition, the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson published in three separate volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 inscribed by Remini, volume 3 signed. Recipient's name in volumes 1 and 3, hidden by dust wrapper front flaps. Spotting to top text block in volume 1, else a very good to near fine set in well preserved, unblemished dust wrappers. Note: additional postage required

New York: Knopf, 1964. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. Nice copy, nearly fine, in very good dust wrapper, priced ($4.95) to front flap, spine tanned and slightly chipped at top, few small edge tears. Signed copies of this title are uncommon.

First Edition of this winner of the 1975 National Book Award in History. Inscribed "with best regards", signed and dated by the author. The recipient, a student pursuing his MPA at Harvard where Bailyn was a professor at the time, had previously written in his name and date, hence a difference in hand-writing in the inscription. Spine a bit creased but book… Read more about this item

Macmillan: New York, 1915. First edition. Signed "with the cordial regards of" Beard and dated January 12, 1921. Beard was one of the intellectual leaders of the Progressive movement and of American liberalism. This work, a sequel to Beard's magnum opus An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, focuses on the nation's early political history from the adoption of… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1959. Limited edition #241 of 750 copies, signed by Sandburg with a card from the president of Harcourt. Slight cocking, faded spine and uneven fading to front and rear boards.

West Norwood, London: The Complete Press, n.d. (1917). First edition. Sm 4to. 27pp. Tissue guarded frontis. Inscribed by Page to a fellow diplomat posted to the U.S. embassy at Bangkok. A very good copy, slightly cocked with a little weakness to front binding, heavy offsetting to front and rear end papers, slightly faded spine and rubbing to spine tips. Walter Hines… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition with Scribner's "A". Lovely, tight and square copy in maroon boards. Dust wrapper is lightly soiled with an abrasion to front cover impacting the "N" in Lincoln, tanning to the spine, spine top rubbed. Despite this cataloguing of flaws, the wrapper is about near fine.

First edition of author's first book, warmly inscribed to Ellis' close associates: "For Rik & Margot / Who have had / the dubious privilege to / watch young Ellis in / transition as he wrote / this book. Johnson was no / more indebted to that "School / of the Prophets" than I am / to you" signed as "Joe Ellis" and… Read more about this item

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1960. First Printing of Second Edition. Part of the British Political Tradition Series. A fine copy in a little toned dust wrapper with some spotting to spine.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1951. First UK Edition of this biography of Harry S. Truman written by Roosevelt's Press Secretary and member of Truman's '48 campaign. A nice copy with slight foxing to page edges and front & rear pastedowns and endpapers. Some overall dustiness to dust wrapper along with some toning to spine. Overall, a near… Read more about this item

New York: Scribners, 1936. First Edition. Adams, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and coiner of the term "American Dream", depicts the story of Jeffersonian ideas -- and their conflict with those of Hamilton -- over the centuries of American history right up to the New Deal era. An important perspective on one of America's founding theorists during a… Read more about this item