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THEODORE REX
Written by Edmund Morris.
Stock no. 1331399
Published by Harper Collins Publishers Ltd. 1st 2002. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The sequel to "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt". Black boards, gilt title to spine. 772 pages including notes and index. ISBN: 0002177080. Spine slightly bumped. Textblock is slightly grubby. Corner tip of rear free-endpaper torn off and last few pages have corner creases. Contents are clean. Dustwrapper is just slightly edge rubbed and creased and is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

THE WEST POINT ATLAS WAR: THE CIVIL WAR
Written by Vincent J. Esposito.
Stock no. 1831544
Published by Tess Press. 1st thus 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

Originally published in 1959 as part of a two-volume set. This is the revised and updated edition. Edited by Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito. Large oblong format, bound as tall portrait format. Pictorial cardwraps. Maps throughout. ISBN: 9781603760201. A few minor marks to cover, rear cover a little scuffed. Contents clean.

JFK: RECKLESS YOUTH
Written by Nigel Hamilton.
Stock no. 1831518
Published by Century. 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The first volume of Life and Death of an American President. The book follows Kennedy from his birth and childhood in suburban Boston to his education at elite boarding schools, Princeton, and eventually Harvard, from his relationships with his parents, siblings, and many lovers to his military career. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w photos. xxiv and 898 pages including index. ISBN: 0712625712. Text block is browned and grubby. Gift inscription in ink to top edge of free front endpaper. Front joint pulled but binding tight. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn and slightly browned. Slight musty odour present.

BRITISH GUIANA: THE LAND OF SIX PEOPLES (CORONA LIBRARY)
Written by Michael Swan.
Stock no. 1831467
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

British Guiana has been called the Land of Six Peoples, from the six different races that have their homes there. Much of the country is inaccessible and all but five per cent of the population live on a narrow coastal belt, reclaimed from the swamp and lyuing below high-tide level. The greater part of this book deals with life on the coast, its customs, its turbulent politics, and the linked problems of its economy and social welfare. The author has also visited the Interior, travelling by plane, river-steamer, jeep, and dug-out canoe and on foot, observing the simple lives of the Amerindians. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations and photos. xv and 235 pages including index. Folding map to rear. Second impression. A few light marks to boards. Contents clean. Map present, creased at edge. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed and a little scuffed/grubby.

THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Written by Edmund Morris.
Stock no. 1831460
Published by Collins. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of seven men - a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a cowboy, a soldier, and a politician - who merged at the age of forty-two to become the youngest American President in history. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 886 pages including index. ISBN: 0002167166. Boards lightly mottled. Vertical reading crease to spine and top headband has become unglued from the spine. Foxing to text block. Contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn, has a few minor marks, and is scuffed.

THAT MAN: AN INSIDER'S PORTRAIT OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Written by Robert H. Jackson; John Q. Barrett; William Edward Leuchtenburg.
Stock no. 1831452
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An intimate memoir which reveals Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency through key events like Court-packing and aiding Britain, while showing his personal side during poker games and breakfast meetings. Edited and introduced by John Q. Barrett with a foreword by William E. Leuchtenburg. Black cloth spine with green foil title, grey paper boards. B/w photos. xxviii and 290 pages including index. ISBN: 0195168267. Minor damp mottling to cloth spine, light browning to text block, else a lovely, clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: SELECTED WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Written by Abraham Lincoln; Fred Kaplan.
Stock no. 1831406
Published by Folio Society. Circa 2015. Nearly fine condition.

Brown cloth spine with gilt title, pictorial front board. A lovely copy. Still in original shrinkwrap. This book will make a wonderful gift.

THE END OF NORTH'S MINISTRY 1780-1782 (ENGLAND IN THE AGE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION)
Written by Ian R. Christie.
Stock no. 1831312
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1958. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book deals with the working of the eighteenth century parliamentary system during the last crisis of the American War of Independence, from the 'false dawn' of the recovery of South Carolina until the final extinction of British hopes at Yorktown. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xiii and 428 pages including index. Boards lightly mottled. Foxing to text block, endpapers and some bleeding to a few page margins. Name & address in ink to front endpaper. A few instances of pencil annotation to margins else contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned with some foxing and grubby in appearance.

NEVER CALL RETREAT (THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR VOLUME THREE)
Written by Bruce Catton.
Stock no. 1831230
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.. 1st 1965. Almost very good condition.

This book is the final installment of Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War trilogy. It covers the period from late 1862 to the surrender of Lee's army and Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 to the end of the Confederacy in May 1865 with the surrender of the last rebel army. Green cloth spine with black titles and silver title on black, grey cloth boards with silver title to front. Maps. xi and 555 pages including index. Top edge red. Boars grubby. Top & tail of spine lightly worn. Text block grubby. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Contents otherwise clean.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: AN AMERICAN LIFE
Written by Walter Isaacson.
Stock no. 1831203
Published by Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. Circa 2004. Almost very good condition.

This biographical work details the life and times of prominent U.S. statesman and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Pictorial cardwraps. A few colour & b/w illustrations. xii and 586 pages including index. ISBN: 074325807X. Cover edges rubbed and worn, rear cover a little scuffed. Spine is a little concave. Text block grubby. Contents clean.

THE MOST NOBLE ADVENTURE
Written by Greg Behrman.
Stock no. 1831036
Published by Aurum Press Ltd. 1st 2008. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Marshall Plan and the Reconstruction of Post-War Europe. Greg Behrman tells the story of the Marshall Plan, the unprecedented and audacious policy through which America helped rebuild World War II-ravaged Western Europe. Red cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 448 pages including index. ISBN: 9781845133269. Boards clean. Vertical reading crease to spine. Text block lightly browned and foxed. Some hinges pulled but binding tight. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

JOHN ADAMS
Written by David McCullough.
Stock no. 1330882
Published by The Free Press. 1st thus 2002. Very good condition.

The adventurous life of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot. Paperback edition. Some colour and b/w plates. 751 pages including index. ISBN: 0743232291. Textblock is slightly grubby and foxed. Spine is lightly creased from the book being held open to read.