First Edition. A picture-book biography of the first US president by a husband-and-wife writing team. 40 pages. Illustrated on most pages, about half in color. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). An attractive copy, with minor wear at the spine ends of the book and the.....

First Edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian explores Frederick Law Olmstead's journey through the South just before the Civil War. (Olmstead later became the great American landscape architect of the 19th century.) Horwitz is probably best-known for Confederates in the Attic. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending.....

First Edition. A history of the United States, published on May 15, 1907, three months to the day following the signing of the Gentlemen's Agreement, which significantly curtailed Japanese immigration to the United States. This entry in the massive Imperial Encyclopedia, which filled hundreds of volumes over two decades, gives.....

First Edition. A well-known example of the popular 18th century British genre of collective biographies of women, with more than a hundred short entries on women dating back to ancient times. The subjects include Cleopatra; Sappho; the poet Anne Killigrew, described as "a great genius"; the painter and calligrapher Esther.....

First Edition. With an annotated checklist of 250 books, pamphlets, and broadsides acquired from 2003 to 2009, or, white men explain American history. With 80 full-page color illustrations. One of 1000 letterpress copies. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket, as issued.