American History from Grimalkin Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. These handsome volumes would embellish anyone's bookshelves. This complete four-volume set is in Near-Fine condition with only minimal wear. The Pulitizer-Prize winning author, Geoffrey Parsons (1879-1956) provides a history from the beginnings of the planet and early man through the first quarter of the Twentieth Century. Each volume runs approximately 330 through 370… Read more about this item

Secaucus, NJ: Castle, 1987. These 28 articles of New England coastal life and livelihoods are reproduced from actual New England publications from 1884 through 1910 and include the original period photos and illustrations. The book is in Fine condition with a Fine dust jacket. The book is bound in light blue paper-covered boards with black spine titles. The book measures… Read more about this item

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. This book is in New condition, with a New, unclipped dust jacket. It is still sealed and protected by the manufacturer's original shrink wrap. When the Army of the West marched into Santa Fé, New Mexico, on August 18, 1846, a Missouri volunteer named Richard Smith Elliott was one of its officers. In… Read more about this item

New York: Harper , 2010. Although this and all trade copies are stated "First Editions," this copy is actually a 12th Printing. The book is in New, unread condition, but with a small remainder dot on the bottom edge. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. Although the recent HBO movie version concentrated on the… Read more about this item

Boulder, Colorado and Oxford, U.K.: Westview Press, 1999. This fine First Edition (with a complete "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing) is in As New, unread condition, with an As New price-unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The author shows how the different myths regarding both the settlements… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Row, 1978. This Second Printing from 1978 is tightly bound, its pages clean and bright. The book is in Near-Fine condition, with a Near-Fine price-unclipped dust jacket. One of America's most popular First Ladies candidly shares all the ups and downs of her private life and her unrelenting courage in facing the obstacles that might have… Read more about this item

Louisville, Kentucky: Trout Lily Press, 1998. This beautiful, lavishly illustrated First Edition traces the history of the Abbey of Gethsemani from a 12th Century French monestery to pre-Civil War Kentucky, where the monastery became the largest Cistercian community in the world and the best-known Trappist monastery in America, thanks in part to Thomas Merton, its most celebrated monk. The book… Read more about this item

New York: Allied Overseas Veterans' Stories Co., Inc., 1919. This is probably a First Edition but is not stated as such and includes no later printing history. This incredible work is dedicated to those "boys" from World War I who are buried in Belgium and France by their surviving comrades, each one telling his own story of his involvement in… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. This Stated First Edition from February 2011 includes the required "number line" ending with a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book and dust jacket are in New, unread condition. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator for Financial TImes, warns in this book… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. This Stated First Edition from April 2011 also includes the required "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book in New, unread condition with a New dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The myth of a man who planted appleseeds wherever he… Read more about this item

New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1936. This Stated First Edition from July 1936 is the First U.S. Edition of a book originally published in the U.K. by Longmans, Green and Co., London in 1931. It traces the entire history of Westward expansion in what was to become the United States from before the Louisiana Purchase from 1540 through 1803… Read more about this item

New York: Vanguard Press, 2008. This First Edition, with a "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing is in New, unread condition, with a New, price-unclipped dust jacket. There are no remainder marks. If the U.S.'s current Administration hadn't been so adamant in its refusal to look "backward," Vincent Bugliosi's carefully researched and shocking legal case… Read more about this item

New York: The Literary Guild, 1930. This fascinating account of one of America's most famous families is based on the voluminous writings of its various members through four generations, from John Adams to John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams to John Quincy, Charles Francis, Henry, and Brooks Adams. There are eight pages of illustrations, including a frontis. The book… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2006. This Stated First Edition also includes a "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. For a real slice of "Our-Town" Americana, this fascinating and often humorous work describes a town that flooded every year but refused to lie down and die. Finally, after decades of flooding, the federal government decided to step… Read more about this item

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984. This is a Third Printing of what is most likely the definitive history of the ill-fated General George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Calvalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn during the Plains Indian Wars. It illustrates how a prize-winning fiction writer can turn well-researched history into an engrossing page-turner. The book and… Read more about this item

New York: Warner Books, 2002. This Stated First Printing from May, 2002 (and, unless it's stated, it's not) also includes the necessary "number line" ending with a "1". This large, heavy book is bound in black boards with die-stamped silver spine titles The book is in New condition as is the unclipped dust jacket. There is a small remainder mark… Read more about this item

Chicago: The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1976. This handsome, complete 20-volume set is in Fine condition. Most volumes appear to be unread. It also includes an oversized Near-Fine paperback, Introduction. This Introduction volume also contains the Contents of all 20 volumes and an Index of Authors and Sources. The Encyclopedia Britannica published this edition in 1976, just in time for America's Bicentennial… Read more about this item

London: Routledge, 2004. This First Edition is in Fine condition with a Fine price-unclipped dust jacket. The dust jacket shows only very light shelf wear. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The book is bound in black paper-covered boards with die-stamped gilt spine titles. This monumental new work on World War I places it in… Read more about this item

New York: Epicom Media/Bulfinch Press, 2005. For domestic U.S. purchase ONLY, this Stated First Edition from October 2005 (and, unless it's stated it's not) is in Brand New condition with a Brand New dust jacket. More than 70 women's stories are told through evocative photographs and personal profiles. This richly rewarding book is filled with the diversity and uniqueness… Read more about this item

New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2006. This Stated First Edition from August 2006 (and, unless it's stated, it's not) also includes the complete "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. It has a remainder mark on the bottom edge. The book is in Brand New condition with a Brand New dust jacket. Two Pulitzer Prize-winning… Read more about this item