New York: Three Leaves Press, 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.

1st printing. Faint edge wear.

527 pp. No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings.....

Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Hard Cover.

Still in shrink wrap. Jacket spine faded.

312 pp. Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity and the controversy that his books generated. These collected interviews include what.....

Lyons, New York: The Lyons Republican Company, 1912. Third Edition. Hard Cover.

Third edition. Edges lightly foxed.

102 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece of Charles H. Betts, black-and-white plate of Theodore Roosevelt. Letters between Charles H. Betts and Theodore Roosevelt on American democracy.

New York: Vintage Books, 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback.

Reprint. Minor blemishes along edges. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.

xiii, 721 pp. American Prometheus is a rich evocation of America at midcentury, a new and compelling portrait of a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man profoundly connected.....

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Top edge foxed.

xii, 209 pp. Within a single captivating narrative, John Bonner combines an intensely personal memoir of scientific progress and an overview of what we now know about living things. Bonner, a major participant in.....

London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891. Reynolds, Joshua. Hard Cover.

'The Library Edition.' 1 inch split to cloth along front joint of first volume, endpapers foxed, front hinge of first and third volumes just beginning to weaken, front and rear hinges of second and fifth volumes weakening, some pages.....

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First American Edition. Hard Cover.

First American edition. Tears to jacket edges. Top page ridge lightly foxed.

536 pp. Charles Darwin: "A Man of Enlarged Curiosity" is a major biography of the man whose observations and formulation of history changed man's assessment of himself.....

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872. Half-Leather.

Boards a bit rubbed, dealer label, pencil note, and bookplate of Charles H. Spencer on front endpapers. Bindings tight, text clean and unmarked.

209 pp. Brown leather spines and corners, gilt titles and rules, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. Often called.....

India: Penguin/Viking, 2018. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Jacket rubbed. Ink name on front free endpaper.

xi, 187 pp. This is the never-told-before story of the Hungry generation (or the Hungryalists) a group of barnstorming, anti-establishment poets, writers, artists and activists in Bengal in the sixties. Braving social boycott.....

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. Reprint. Hard Cover.

Early reprint. An excellent copy.

293 pp. Green boards with gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt, deckled edges. Curtis was a proponent of quality and civil rights for African Americans, the American Transcendentalist movement, and Utopian communities (he joined Brook.....

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. Page ridge soiled.

xxix, 702 pp. Family tree on endpapers. This volume inaugurates a complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's letters are available, edited.....

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. First American Edition. Hard Cover.

First American edition. Very good in good jacket. Jacket spine faded with two 1/2 inch chips from base, minor publisher mistrimming of first couple page corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.

463 pp. The celebrated.....

New York: The Free Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Top edge of jacket rubbed and bumped.

xii, 299 pp. Evaluating the psychoanalytic encounter of Sigmund Freud and Dora, an emotionally troubled adolescent suffering from hysteria, Hannah S. Decker places the treatment of Dora into a larger social.....