American History from The Accidental Bookseller, IOBA, FABA

First edition of author's first book, warmly inscribed to Ellis' close associates: "For Rik & Margot / Who have had / the dubious privilege to / watch young Ellis in / transition as he wrote / this book. Johnson was no / more indebted to that "School / of the Prophets" than I am / to you" signed as "Joe Ellis" and… Read more about this item

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1960. First Printing of Second Edition. Part of the British Political Tradition Series. A fine copy in a little toned dust wrapper with some spotting to spine.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1951. First UK Edition of this biography of Harry S. Truman written by Roosevelt's Press Secretary and member of Truman's '48 campaign. A nice copy with slight foxing to page edges and front & rear pastedowns and endpapers. Some overall dustiness to dust wrapper along with some toning to spine. Overall, a near… Read more about this item

New York: Scribners, 1936. First Edition. Adams, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and coiner of the term "American Dream", depicts the story of Jeffersonian ideas -- and their conflict with those of Hamilton -- over the centuries of American history right up to the New Deal era. An important perspective on one of America's founding theorists during a… Read more about this item

Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick (NJ) 1938. First printing of this scarce constitutional analysis, inscribed by the author and unusual thus. Also available in hardback, this was presumably a simultaneous issue in perfect bound wraps. Offsetting to outer edges of covers, otherwise a very good copy.