University of Kentucky, 2018. Paperback. "The recent declassification of Reagan administration records and the availability of new Soviet documents have created an opportunity for more nuanced, complex, and compelling analysis of this pivotal period in international affairs" (back cover). White paper wrappers with gold spine titled in white. Clean and bright. 319 pages. PRES/052819. Fine. More about Reagan and the World: Leadership and National Security, 1981 - 1989

New York: Sheldon & Company, 1873. Hardcover. With numerous articles and stories by various authors. Most notable are three articles by George Armstrong Custer about his early experiences when stationed in the Indian Territory at the end of the 1860s. This occupation ended in his battle of Washita in 1868 against the Cheyenne Indians. The articles appeared here three years before Custer's death at Little Big Horn in 1876. These and later articles were later issued in book form as My Life on the Plains. Also of particular interest is an article titled "Anti-Slavery Men of the South" by the Virginia journalist and Confederate sympathizer Edward A. Pollard. Pollard's pro-South views changed somewhat after the war and here he writes that there was significant if not conflicted opposition to slavery in the southern states before and during the war. There is also the first printing of "Roman Note-Book by Henry James. It was included with several other pieces by James on his travels in Italy in Italian Hours in 1909. Bound in three quarter black leather over marbled paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Both boards are present but detached. Chipping and wear to leather on spine and edges of boards and corners. Occasional spots of soiling to interior. Creases to come corners. A good reading copy. 868 pages. PER/052119. Good. More about The Galaxy. A Magazine of Entertaining Reading. Volume XVI. (16) July - December 1873

Seattle: Marquand Editions, [2017]. Number 23 of 25 numbered copies signed by the author and the photographer. In this remarkable edition, environmental scientist Gretchen C. Daily and photographer Charles J. Katz describe how one relict tree, the magnificent Ceiba pentandra in the village of Sabalito, Costa Rica carries physical and spiritual importance far out into the world. In poetic language interwoven with scientific fact, Daily also describes the historical and natural history of this tree and of the ceiba species in general. Katz's photographs of the tree and village amplify this message quietly yet forcefully. Gretchen Daily is the recipient of the Blue Planet Prize, the world's most prestigious award for environmental sustainability [Description from Marquand Editions]. This powerful artist's book by Daily and Katz is created in the form of text, 9 color photographs and a wood carving of the magnificent tree. The carved tree is folded down to fit into a semicircular insert box to be pulled out and detached from the container slipcase. It opens up to reveal the One Tree (attached to the lid by a string that lifts it upright as the lid is lowered). The tree is cut from 3 layers of plywood laminated together and attached tongue-in-groove to the center edge. The photographs and 2 letterpress printed booklets reside in a cut-out recess. beneath the folded tree. The indentation is also made of built up, laminated layers of plywood. The inside of the lid is illustrated with a watercolor print. The first booklet of 14 pages contains Daily's essay about the tree, with an additional signature by the author. The other supplementary booklet of 9 pages One tree / Gretchen C. Daily, Charles J. Katz Jr., contains the foreword by Charles J. Katz Jr., acknowledgments, and artist biographies. Accompanying the booklets are the nine numbered color photographs by Katz. The book is in a semicircular shape measuring 11.5 x 22.5 inches. It is housed in a rectangular slipcase. In fine condition. ARTISTSB/042219. Fine. More about One Tree

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Paperback. Uncorrected Advance Reading Copy. "This book is the dynamic global tour of the vast underwater museum of lost warships. It is also an account of how underwater exploration has discovered them, resolving mysteries, adding to our understanding of the past, and providing intimate details of the life of war at sea" (back cover). Brown paper wrappers with white title to spine and front wrappers. 432 pages. MAR/052819. Fine. More about War at Sea: A Shipwrecked History from Antiquity to the Twentieth-Century

Cambridge: Thomas Dreier Service, 1912. Dreier compares company executives with chemists - one can manipulate his staff and the other his chemicals - for desirable results or explosions and failure. An interesting metaphor. Bound in tan paper covered boards with title pastedown to front cover. Browning to spine and boards, rubbing to boards, stain to spine, wear to edges and corners, and heavy chipping to hinges and spine ends. Spine panel is still attached, but weak. Foxing throughout interior. A small book: 4.5 x 3 inches. 33 pages. LIT/061319. More about Human Chemicals

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1999. Hardcover. "This book portrays the Viet Cong as seen through their own photograpy ... On many occasions, Allied forces were able to capture such photos. Itr is from such sources that these photographs are made available, most for the first time ever, to the general public" (jacket). Tan cloth boards with black title to spine and front board. In black dust jacket with white title to spine and front panels. Minor rubbing to jacket, else fine. 200 pages. VIET/050919. Fine / Near Fine. More about Viet Cong: A Photographic Portrait

University of Kansas, 2017. Hardcover. "Faulkner's vast yet finely detailed portrait draws upon a wealth of sources - thousands of soldiers' letters and diaries, surveys and memoirs, and a host of period documents and reports generated by various staff agencies of the American Expeditionary Forces" (jacket). Black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Clean and bright. In black jacket with white title to spine and front panel. 758 pages. WWI/051019. Fine / Fine. More about Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I

Santa Cruz: Foolscap Press, 2002. Paperback. 126 of 200 copies. This is an unusual and lovely scroll book, which, according to the Press, follows the written record of a wondrous monument standing in Athens. The Tower has been explained by scholars from antiquity to the present, yet the Tower of the Winds was and still is a mystery to those who study it. The work is original to the Foolscap Press both in content and exterior form, and was created as a biblio-artifact, both a book and an object. The book is in a pre-codex form, allowing the reader to scroll through history viewing the subject along a panorama 25 feet in length. In addition to reproducing historic texts, there are illustrations of the Tower by James Stuart and Nicolas Revett, two important early British architects. The work is printed in Adobe Herculanum type on Zerkall Book and hand made papyrus from Egypt. It is housed in a formed sculptural / architectural case. Each case is a rigid cylinder hinged with cloth and lined with a map of ancient Athens. Issued with handling instructions. It is a stunning and inventive work from this press. PRI/101713. Fine in Fine Box. More about The Tower of the Winds

Santa Cruz: Foolscap Press, 2019. Hardcover. 1 of 90 copies, numbered and signed by the binder and printer. The press describes the book: "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville follows a journey that began in 1322 and continued on for more than thirty years. This edition commences as Mandeville leaves the Holy Land and travels east to the lands beyond Egypt, which were mostly unknown to Western Europeans at that time. It is a strange journey and one that has kept his book alive and in print since it was first published in manuscript form in 1357.... His was a piece of European literature rather than a history of exploration... The book was carried aboard ship by Christopher Columbus and others on their voyages of discovery, adding to their confidence that they could safely circumnavigate the globe. Our edition is illustrated and illuminated by Peggy Gotthold following Mandeville’s observations of strange flora and fauna and the remarkable beings he encountered; and especially of the wondrous and powerful kingdoms he chanced upon, which held more gold and jewels and strange customs than his contemporaries could imagine; here are kings and emperors with power at their finger tips beyond the reach of any autocratic ruler in Medieval Europe. Our text is based mainly on the Cotton MS, a translation that was first edited in 1725 and continues to be a starting point for serious study of Sir John Mandeville. Though imperfect, it adheres very closely to the original... As no inventive travel book should be made without including a map or two, we have supplemented Mandeville’s narrative with five imaginative maps created for this edition. These are maps that would make sense to a fellow traveler of Mandeville’s time. They are not modern maps where one might expect to identify one’s place on land or the sea. There are no precise coordinates of latitude and longitude. These maps are also narrative and allow the reading traveler to follow Sir John Mandeville, whoever he was, through an unfamiliar landscape. The modern reader will also discover the bizarre and unexpected in the world and share in Mandeville’s amazement and curiosity while traveling alongside him." Bound in flexible red paper covered boards with paper title label to front cover. Includes five double-page maps printed on handmade linen paper from Papeterie St. Armand. Hand-applied illuminations appear throughout. Letterpress printed on paper handmade at the University of Iowa's Center for the Book under the direction of Timothy Barrett in Silentium text, designed by Jovica Veljovic. Housed in a red cloth covered clamshell box. Size of book: 9 x 12.75 inches. 104 pages. PRI/061319. Fine. More about The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Beyond the Holy Land

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Hardcover. First Edition. "Gerges tells this story through an unprecedented dual biography of Nasser and another of the twentieth-century Arab world's most influential figures - Sayyid Qutb, a leading member of teh Muslim Brotherhood and the father of many branches of radical political Isam. Their deeply intertwined lives embody and dramatize the divide between Arabism and Islamism" (jacket). Grey cloth boards with gilt title to spine. 483 pages. MID/051019. Fine / Fine. More about Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash that Shaped the Middle East

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates and Company, 1908 and 1900. Hardcover. Volume I: Later edition (1908). Tan cloth boards with red title to spine and front cover. Green illustration of a grandfather clock to spine and door to front cover. Minor foxing to spine and boards. Minor wear to edges of boards. Roll to spine. In light blue cloth jacket with red title to spine. Foxing and sunning to spine and edges of jacket. Minor wear and fraying to edges of jacket. Volume II: Grey cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front cover. Minor wear to edges of boards. Both interior hinges are cracked. Clean. In grey cloth jacket with gilt title to spine. Minor wear and fraying to edges of jacket. Both volumes have many illustrations. Volume I: 459 pages; Volume II: 503 pages. ARCH/042419. Very Good. More about Some Colonial Mansions and Those Who Lived in Them with Genealogies of the Various Families...

University Press of Kansas, 2015. Hardcover. Second edition, revised and expanded. Fine in blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine. In illustrated jacket with black spine panel titled in white. 377 pages. PRES/050819. Fine / Fine. More about The Presidency of George H.W. Bush