Booklet, Collecting Grand Army of the Republic Memorabilia

Autographed and Numbered Limited First Edition

By R. Brad Long. Limited First Edition, signed by the author on the title page; Copy number 23 out of 1,000 copies. Printed April 1990 A.D. Exactly 100 years after the peak membership of the national Grand Army of the Republic, "Our Vanished Army." Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 90-61054. Technical Consultants & G.A.R. Memorabilia Dealers; David E. Wells, Omaha, NE., and David E. Limpert, Manchester, MI. Edits: Photography by Bev Cruse Photography, Martinsville, IL. Printed...
Circa: 1990
ISBN: 0962758418  

Book, Enola Gay: The Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan

August 6, 1945, a date that will forever live in history as when the first aerial drop of a uranium bomb wiped out almost an entire city in Japan!

By Gordon Thomas, and Max Morgan Witts. Published by Konecky & Konecky, Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Hard cover with dust jacket. Copyright, 1977, 327 pages, illustrated, bibliography, index, chapter notes. Excellent-like new condition.

It was quite probably the most important event of World War II. Its consequences were greater than those of any other event of the war. Yet the story of the...
Circa: 1977
ISBN: 1-56852-597-4  

Book, Alexander Hamilton

By Ron Chernow, published by Penguin Books, 2004, softcover, 818 pages, index, illustrated, notes and bibliography. New condition. #1 New York Times Bestseller.

"Moving and Masterly...By Far The Best Biography Ever Written About The Man." The New York Times Book Review.

"Grand scale biography at its best...thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written...a genuinely great book." David McCullough, author of John Adams.

Alexander Hamilton...is strangely underappreciated, at times even scorned. Such...
Circa: 2004
ISBN: 978-0-14-303475-9  

Book, John Adams

By David McCullough, published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001, softcover, 751 pages, illustrated, index, notes and bibliography. This book authored by David McCullough won the Pulitzer Prize. Brand new condition. Never read.

"A masterwork of storytelling." Walter Isaacson.

"By far the best biography of John Adams ever written...McCullough's special gift as an artist is his ability to re-create past human beings in all their fullness and all of their humanity. In John and Abigail he has found characters worthy of his...
Circa: 2001
ISBN: 978-0-74322313-3  

Book, The Life And Times Of Benjamin Franklin

By H.W. Brands. Published by Anchor Books, New York, 2000, 5 1/4 x 8, paperback, 765 pages, index. National Bestseller. Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Brand new condition.

The foremost American of his day, Benjamin Franklin, was perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, and he comes vividly to life in this masterly biography. Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Franklin was in every respect America's first Renaissance man. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and a host of other...
Circa: 2000
ISBN: 0-385-49540-4  

Book, George Washington; A Life

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

By Ron Chernow. Published by Penguin Books, 2010. Paperback, 6 x 9 1/4, 904 pages, index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Minor wear, very fine to excellent condition. This magnificent study of the life of Washington won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. A must read for anyone interested in George Washington!

Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow, winner of the 2015 National Humanities Medal, provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. With a...
Circa: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-14-311996-8  

Union Cases, A Collector's Guide To The Art of America's First Plastics

By Clifford and Michele Krainik with Carl Walvoord. Cententennial Photo Service, Grantsburg, Wisconsin, 1988. Large oversize hard cover book with dust jacket, 232 pages, index, profusely illustrated. Light wear to dust jacket. The book itself is in like new condition. The definitive reference book on this subject. A must for all serious photographic collectors! This excellent book is very desirable. Rare!

"Union Cases, A Collectors Guide to the Art of America's First Plastics" is a definitive reference which presents...
Circa: 1988
ISBN: 0931838126  

Book, Mathew Brady and the Image of History

By Mary Panzer. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 232 pages, index, illustrated. New condition.

Mathew Brady (circa 1825-1896) remains an elusive and paradoxical figure. Renowned as a photographer of Civil War battlefields, he devoted most of his career to portraiture. An inexhaustible entrepreneur and self promoter, he left little except images of others to represent himself to posterity.

In "Mathew Brady and the Image of History," Mary Panzer describes how Brady used the...
Circa: 1997
ISBN: 1560987936  

Book, Voices From The Moon

Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences. Andrew Chaikin (Author of A Man on the Moon) with Victoria Kohl. Published by Viking Studio, The Penguin Group, 2009, 10 3/4 x 9 1/4, hardcover book with dust jacket, 201 pages, illustrated. Excellent.

Apollo; The Greatest Adventure In Human History. On July 29, 1969, Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made "one giant leap for mankind" as they became the first humans to walk on the moon . In Voices from the Moon, Armstrong, Aldrin, and twenty-one other Apollo moon...
Circa: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-670-02078-2  

Book, Realm of the Iroquois

By the Editors of Time Life Books, Alexandria, Va., 1993. Hardcover, 176 pages, index, illustrated. Brand new condition. Excellent reference book. Cover photograph: Carving from a single piece of wood, an Iroquois club from the mid 19th century bears the haunting image of a tattooed warrior. Although the Iroquois were renowned as fierce combatants, this finely carved weapon testifies to their skill as superb artisans.
Circa: 1993
ISBN: 080949437X  

Book, The Indians of California

By the Editors of Time Life Books, Alexandria, Va., 1994. Hardcover, 192 pages, index, illustrated. Brand new condition. Excellent reference book. Cover photograph: A boy of central California's Nisenan people wears traditional emblems of prosperity and spirit power, including a headband fashioned of woodpecker feathers and gorget made of abalone shell. When this picture was taken about 1870, the rich culture of the native Californians was being threatened by an onslaught of white immigrants.
Circa: 1994
ISBN: 0809495872  

Book, First Man, The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

The first person to walk on the moon!

The authorized biography, by James R. Hansen. Published by Simon & Schuster, 2005. Hardcover with dust jacket, 769 pages, illustrated, index, notes, bibliography. Like new condition. It appears that this book was never read. Very desirable.

On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty eight year old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few he...
Circa: 2005
ISBN: 0-7432-5631-X