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97 copies on this shelf. One of each, examined point by point and photographed honestly — the flaws are on the page, not in the fine print.

97 of 487 books · 1 copy each
First edition

The Unknown Henry Miller: A Seeker in Big Sur

Arthur Hoyle
Arcade Publishing, 2014
$25Fine/Near Fine
First edition

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill — Visions of Glory 1874–1932

William Manchester
Little, Brown, 1983
$25Very Good/Near Fine
First edition

Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986
$25Fine/Near Fine
First edition

My American Century

Studs Terkel
The New Press, 1997
$20Fine/Near Fine
First edition

The Splendid and the Vile

Erik Larson
Crown, 2020
$20Near Fine/VG+
First edition

Historien om Jerusalem: En stad - tre religioner

Karen Armstrong
Forum, 1997
$25Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801

Emma Donoghue
HarperCollins, 1995
$20Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Spike Island: Portrait of a British Police Division

James McClure
Pantheon, 1980
$18Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Years of Upheaval

Henry A. Kissinger
Little, Brown, 1982
$50Fine/Near Fine

War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History, Volume One

Robert B. Asprey
Doubleday, 1975
$20Very Good/Very Good
First edition

The Royal Scots Greys

Michael Blacklock
Leo Cooper, 1971
$25Near Fine/VG+
First edition

Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

William Manchester
Little, Brown, 1980
$18Fine/Near Fine
First edition

The Life of Andrew Jackson

Robert V. Remini
Harper & Row, 1988
$30Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Among the Thugs

Bill Buford
W. W. Norton, 1992
$65Near Fine/VG+
First edition

Gettysburg: The Final Fury

Bruce Catton
Doubleday, 1974
$20Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Six Armies in Normandy

John Keegan
Viking Press, 1982
$15Near Fine/Very Good

A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present

Howard Zinn
HarperCollins
$25Fine/Near Fine
First edition

The Boer War

Thomas Pakenham
Random House, 1979
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

The First Casualty

Phillip Knightley
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975
$15Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

Robert K. Massie
Random House, 1991
$22Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Chancellorsville 1863

H. John Cooper
Charles Knight & Co., London, 1972
$28Near Fine
First edition

Stonewall: A Biography of General Thomas J. Jackson

Byron Farwell
W.W. Norton, 1992
$20Very Good/Very Good

Combat: The Civil War

Edited by Don Congdon; Introduction by Bruce Catton
Castle Books, 1967
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

The Campaigns of Napoleon

David G. Chandler
The Macmillan Company, 1966
$55Very Good/Good
First edition

Colditz: The Full Story

P. R. Reid
St. Martin's Press, 1984
$32Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Adolf Hitler

John Toland
Doubleday, 1976
$25Very Good/Good

Years of Upheaval

Henry A. Kissinger
1982
$45Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

Paul Fussell
Oxford University Press, 1989
$20Good/Near Fine
First edition

At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Gordon W. Prange
McGraw-Hill, 1981
$20Near Fine/Very Good

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel (eds.)
Thomas Yoseloff, 1956
$55Very Good

The Crisis

Winston Churchill
Macmillan, 1901
$25Good
First edition

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Tim Weiner
Doubleday, 2007
$25Good/Near Fine
First edition

About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior

David H. Hackworth and Julie Sherman
Simon and Schuster, 1989
$60Near Fine/VG+
First edition

And Brave Men, Too

Timothy S. Lowry
Crown Publishers, 1985
$18Near Fine/Near Fine

Soldier

Anthony B. Herbert, Lt. Col., Ret. with James T. Wooten
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973
$30Very Good/Good
First edition

The Marines of Autumn

James Brady
Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, 2000
$20Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Freedom at Midnight

Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Simon and Schuster, 1975
$25Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Military Elites

Roger A. Beaumont
Bobbs-Merrill, 1974
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway
Random House, 1992
$140Fine/Near Fine
First edition

The Age of Napoleon

Will and Ariel Durant
Simon and Schuster, 1975
$65Fine/Very Good
First edition

Napoleon Self-Revealed in 300 Selected Letters

Edited by J. M. Thompson
Houghton Mifflin, 1934
$70Very Good/Good
First edition

Front and Center

John Houseman
Simon and Schuster, 1979
$25Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Ghosts of Hiroshima

Charles Pellegrino
Blackstone Publishing, 2025
$70Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Mrs. Thatcher's Minister: The Private Diaries of Alan Clark

Alan Clark
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

The Reckoning

David Halberstam
William Morrow, 1986
$25Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography

Peter Conn
Cambridge University Press, 1996
$20Ex-library/Good
First edition

VEIL: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987

Bob Woodward
Simon and Schuster, 1987
$25Very Good/Good
First edition

Dan Rooney: My 75 Years with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL

Dan Rooney, as told to Andrew E. Masich and David F. Halaas
Da Capo Press, 2007
$20Near Fine/Very Good

The Formation of the State of Oklahoma, 1803-1906

Roy Gittinger
University of Oklahoma Press, 1939
$25Near Fine/Good
First edition

Naval Battles and Heroes

Wilbur Cross (narrative); by the Editors of American Heritage
American Heritage Publishing Co., 1960
$30Very Good
First editionSigned

Tied Up in Knotts: My Dad and Me

Karen Knotts
Chicago Review Press, 2021
$40Fine/Fine
First edition

The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin

Alex de Jonge
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

Max Hastings
Alfred A. Knopf, 2011
$35Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Churchill's Generals

John Keegan
Grove Weidenfeld, 1991
$45Fine/Near Fine
First edition

From the Ruins of the Reich: Germany 1945-1949

Douglas Botting
Crown Publishers, 1985
$20Fine/Near Fine
First edition

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway
Random House, 1992
$140Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter

Theodore Rosengarten
William Morrow, 1986
$25Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Summer

Karl Ove Knausgaard
Penguin Press, 2018
$25Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

A History of Warfare

John Keegan
Alfred A. Knopf, 1993
$20Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Letters Home

Sylvia Plath (edited by Aurelia Schober Plath)
Harper & Row, 1975
$40Near Fine/Very Good

Miracle at Philadelphia

Catherine Drinker Bowen
Book-of-the-Month Club, 1986
$25Fine/Very Good
First edition

Sam Walton: Made in America — My Story

Sam Walton with John Huey
Doubleday, 1992
$35Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

Ray Kroc with Robert Anderson
Henry Regnery Company, 1977
$75Near Fine/Near Fine

A Flying Tiger's Diary

Charles R. Bond, Jr. & Terry H. Anderson
Texas A&M University Press
$30As New/As New
First edition

Images of the Civil War

Mort Künstler (paintings); James M. McPherson (text)
Gramercy Books, 1992
$30Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Confessions of a Knife

Richard Selzer
Simon and Schuster, 1979
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Historic Waynesville & Haywood County, North Carolina: "What was it like?"

Louise K. Nelson
Louise K. Nelson, 1999
$45Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Cissy: The Extraordinary Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson

Ralph G. Martin
Simon and Schuster, 1979
$25Very Good/Very Good
First edition

William Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters & Unpublished Writings

William Bartram
University of Georgia Press, 2010
$55Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Revolt in the Desert

'T. E. Lawrence'
George H. Doran Company, 1927
$45Good

Charles Dickens: His Life and Work

Stephen Leacock
Doubleday, Doran, 1936
$30Very Good

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

Carl Sandburg
Dell Publishing, 1960
Pulitzer Prize for History, 1940 (for The War Years)
$25Very Good
First editionSigned

This Man Gibson

Robert W. Lawrence
Gospel Teachers Publications, Dallas, 1974
$115Very Good
First edition

Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi

Bob Woodward
Simon and Schuster, 1984
$35Near Fine/VG+

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

Carl Sandburg
Dell (Laurel Edition)
Pulitzer Prize for History, 1940 (for The War Years)
$25Very Good
First edition

The Years of MacArthur, Volume III: Triumph and Disaster 1945-1964

D. Clayton James
Houghton Mifflin, 1985
$40Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Monty 3 Volume Set (Marshall Montgomery)

Nigel Hamilton
McGraw-Hill, 1983
$85Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Truman

David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 1992
Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1993
$30Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

A Path to Peace

George J. Mitchell and Alon Sachar
Simon & Schuster, 2016
$20Fine/Very Good
First edition

Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power

Garry Wills
Houghton Mifflin, 2003
$20Fine/Very Good
First edition

The Dark Side of Camelot

Seymour M. Hersh
Little, Brown, 1997
$25Fine/Very Good
First edition

Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

Sarah Bradford
Viking, 2004
$20Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Nabokov: His Life in Art

Andrew Field
Little, Brown, 1967
$30Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Oscar Wilde

Richard Ellmann
Alfred A. Knopf, 1988
$30Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink

Anthony McCarten
HarperCollins, 2017
$25Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

The Great Getty: The Life and Loves of J. Paul Getty - Richest Man in the World

Robert Lenzner
Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1986
$20Very Good/Very Good

My Early Life: A Roving Commission

Winston S. Churchill
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
$35Very Good
First edition

Yossele Rosenblatt: A Biography

Samuel Rosenblatt
Farrar, Straus and Young, New York, 1954
$30Very Good/Good

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years

Carl Sandburg
Pulitzer Prize for History, 1940 (for The War Years)
$20VG+/Very Good
First edition

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent

Robert A. Caro
$30Near Fine/Very Good
First edition

Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

Jane Goodall
$20Near Fine/Near Fine
First edition

Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

Hampton Sides
$20Very Good/Very Good
First edition

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham
Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 2009
$14Fine
First edition

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Joseph J. Ellis
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 1997
$15Ex-library/VG+
First edition

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative

Gregg Hecimovich
$15Fine/Fine
First editionSigned

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin
$75Very Good/Very Good
First editionSigned

Letters of J.B. Yeats

J.B. Yeats (intro by John McGahern)
$250Near Fine/Near Fine

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