Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial boards, no jacket as issued; xv,[1],322pp.; illus., chiefly photographs. Just About Fine. Signed and dated in year of publication by the author on title page. History of the Battle of Fort Stevens in present-day Northwest Washington, D.C. More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992. Later printing. Signed by McCullough without inscription at title page. Thick octavo. 1117 pp. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed along edges with some faint surface scratching and toning to verso along spine..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955-1956. First Editions, stated. Volume I signed at half title by Harry Truman at half title with inscription, "To Mr. and Mrs. Simon Pearl. Kind regards from Harry Truman 10/18/58." Two octavo volumes. 596 pp.; 594 pp. Printed dust jackets. Black cloth boards..... More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952. First Edition. Signed by Herbert Hoover with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Large octavo. 405 pp. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; light blue endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards show light shelfwear and spine mildly toned. Binding is..... More

Two volumes in one; thick 12mo; contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in five compartments. Minor scuffing to extremities, long closed vertical tears across pp. 201/2 and 237/8 of the first title affecting text without loss of meaining, textblock uniformly finger-soiled, mid-20th century ownership rubberstamp to front..... More

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1986. First Edition. Thick octavo. 526 pp. Red boards stamped in gilt. Boards show light white discoloration/scuffing to front. Binding is sound. Numerous pages dog-eared, but overall pages unmarked. More

Octavo (21cm.); later half calf over purple paper-covered boards, gilt spine. Leather quite dry and flaking, rear joint cracked, light foxing to textblock, else a Good copy, internally clean and sound. Contents as follows: 1. John Adams and William Cunningham. "Correspondence." Boston: Published by E.M. Cunningham, Son of the..... More

Cambridge, MA: Privately Printed / University Press, [1965]. Second issue, nearly identical to the 1945 first edition, but with the emblem in black at title page. Octavo. 75 pp. Black and white photographs. Red cloth with black title label to front, lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. Light scuffing to..... More

Rutland, VT: Privately printed by Academy Books for the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, 1981. First Edition, stated. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "For Ruth and Charles with love, Margaret Jane." Additional handwritten letter on Fischer's stationary card laid in. Octavo; [vi], 36pp. Publisher's glassine..... More

Dumfries, VA: [n.p.], 1799. Octavo. [2], 30 pp. Bound in modern grey cardstock wraps. Touch of spotting to title page; overall very good. Scarce pamphlet from Parson Weems, who was the source of many apocryphal tales about George Washington (such as the tale of the cherry tree) and..... More

Garden City: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1918. Small 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 196; original green gilt-lettered cloth; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings and their bookplate to front pastedown; very good and sound. More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1886. Popular Edition, published one year after the first edition. Large octavo. 347 pp. + 4 pp. advertisements. Brown beveled boards lettered in gilt; floral endpapers. Ex-library with remnants of usual institutional markings to endpapers. 25 black and white plates including..... More

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1829. Later Edition, the first published after Jefferson's death. Octavo. 280 pp., collated and complete. Full contemporary calf with black title label to spine. Boards show a few minor scuffs; both joints cracked but holding. Recent ownership stamp to front pastedown and pages otherwise clean and..... More