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FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed by Mr. Achorn directly to the full title page. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request.A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story―Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil WarBy March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. After a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington's Capitol grounds that day to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation by arguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides had been wrong, and that the war's unimaginable horrors―every drop of blood spilled―might well have been God's just verdict on the national sin of slavery.Edward Achorn reveals the nation's capital on that momentous day―with its mud, sewage, and saloons, its prostitutes, spies, reporters, social-climbing spouses and power-hungry politicians―as a microcosm of all the opposing forces that had driven the country apart. A host of characters, unknown and famous, had converged on Washington―from grievously wounded Union colonel Selden Connor in a Washington hospital and the embarrassingly drunk new vice president, Andrew Johnson, to poet-journalist Walt Whitman; from soldiers' advocate Clara Barton and African American leader and Lincoln critic-turned-admirer Frederick Douglass (who called the speech "a sacred effort") to conflicted actor John Wilkes Booth―all swirling around the complex figure of Lincoln.In indelible scenes, Achorn vividly captures the frenzy in the nation's capital at this crucial moment in America's history and the tension-filled hope and despair afflicting the country as a whole, soon to be heightened by Lincoln's assassination. His story offers new understanding of our great national crisis and echoes down the decades to resonate in our own time.

London: Quartet Books, 1982. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First (UK) printing. SIGNED (without inscription) by the author on the title page. Light foxing to the endpapers and flaps. Priceclipped.

[Cambridge, Mass, 1821. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Half dark green morocco, rubbed, without title as issued, having only captioned title, single leaf of what appears to be part of a drab wrapper bound before first leaf (browned), frontispiece portrait of the author from a daguerrotype by Anthony Edwards & Co., engraved for the "Democratic Review" by T. Doney, printed by J. Neale, some foxing of the portrait, signed and dated by the author on the last page. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on the inserted leaf or part of wrapper "Mr. James Hayward from his friend, C. C. " James Hayward, was in the class of 1819. He was a tutor of mathematics at Harvard for the following six years and then a professor until 1829 when he resigned to become a civil engineer where he gained recognition in his field. Cushing was of the Harvard class of 1817 and then tutored in mathematics and natural philosophy, studied law and became a statesman filling several legislative and political posts over the years. S & S 5126

London: John Murray, 2018. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. SIGNED AND LINED BY THE AUTHOR. Publisher's black boards with metallic copper lettering to the spine. A very fine copy in like dustwrapper. As new. Signed by the Author to the title page above which he has written the first line of the book: "Seasoned Park Watchers later said that the affair really began in Fischer's". Includes a photograph of the Author laid in. ISBN: 978-1-473- 67830-9. VERY SCARCE WITH THESE ATTRIBUTES. Photographs/scans available upon request.

New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Telemachus Press, 2011. [Crime novel] DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Number 89 of 100 copies thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.324. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue leather-cloth over marbled paper covered sides, light grey endpapers. Fine / as-new. Mystery novel featuring New York private eye Matt Scudder.

New York: Howard-McCann, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Cloth, gently bumped at spine tips and corners; in VG dust jacket with some light creasing and chipping along the edges. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and inscribed to him: "For Douglas Fairbanks -- who played a part in this decision -- Fred Freed." Fairbanks (1909-2000) was an iconic American actor from Hollywood’s Golden Era (his credits include “Gunga Din”), and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II. He is mentioned on page 92 of this political history, where it is revealed that a paper he wrote while a lieutenant attached to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, on the problem of defeating Japan, was influential to Eugene Dooman, and that it became the preface to the Potsdam Declaration.

DOUBLEDAY, 1980. US First Edition, First Printing Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed on the Title Page- a lovely copy SIGNED. Protected in clear Mylar cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. We do not stock or sell ex-library or Book Club editions. We are always looking to buy hardcover Mysteries and Thrillers.

New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2011. First Edition, First Printing, Limited Edition #10/100. Hardcover. Octavo, 2 Volumes. In Near Fine condition, both Volumes wrapped in publisher's paper coverings. Both Volumes have navy blue leather spines with gilted lettering and designs covered with paper coverings. Both Volumes signed flat by Lawrence Block on publisher's tipped in limitation pages, limited editions both #10/100. CONTENTS: Vol. 1, "A Drop of the Hard Stuff", 319 pages - Vol. 2, "The Night and the Music", 237 pages. JW consignment. Shelved []. 1384789. Special Collections.

New York: Mysterious Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The 15th Hieronymus Bosch book. This is a set of both limited editions, the issue of 100 numbered and the issue of 26 lettered copies. Both are bound in quarter leather and signed by Connelly. These are the first editions, preceding the trade issue. Both volumes are fine in fine acetate and tissue paper jackets. Both volumes are signed by Connelly. In a custom clamshell case.

Navigator on the "Enola Gay", the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Signed book, hard back with dust jacket, 256 page, titled Seven Hours to Zero by Joseph L. Marx. The book is a detailed account of the events relating to the bombing of Hiroshima. Van Kirk who was a big player in those events writes in his hand on title page. "A generally good account of our mission to drop the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima. There are a few historical discrepancies as memories fade after the fact -Theodore J "Dutch" Van Kirk Navigator- Enola Gay, August 6, 1945." In excellent condition.