Books on the American Revolutionary War
Arranged alphabetically by author.


To order any of these books please use your mouse button to click on the check box next to each book title.   Then tap the ORDER button below and that will start the secure server shopping box system.



  • Click on Image to expand
    :  An Account of the Action at Tarrytown on July Fifteenth, 1781 And of Its Commemoration by the Sons of the Revolution of Tarrytown on July Fifteenth, 1899.  New York: The Winthrop Press, 1899. First Edition, First printing. Very good- in 1/2 dark blue cloth and tan cloth covered boards with gilt text and gilt seal on the front board. The edges of the spine area rubbed as is the cloth at the head and heel of the spine with mild foxing throughout the text block. Without a dust jacket. 40 pages of text including a list of the subscribers of the memorial fund. The volume commemorates the engagement known as "The Action at Terrytown" which was an attempt undertaken by two British frigates and three schooners sailed up the Hudson to attack the stores at Tarrytown and capture or burn American supply ships. The attack was repelled by the American forces.
    TB21847  $75.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Abbatt, William:  The Crisis Of The Revolution Being The Story of Arnold and Andre.  Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books, 1976. Reprint of 1976. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A prior owner's book plate is pasted to the front paste down. In a near fine, price clipped dust jacket with the spine area very slightly faded. 119 pages of text followed by 72 pages of plates of photographic illustrations and maps. With illustrations from original photographs by Edwin S. Bennett together with numerous maps showing Major Andre's route. The author provides an extremely well detailed account of Major Andre's fateful meeting with Arnold, his efforts to escape back to the British lines, his capture and ultimate execution. The original publication, first printed 1899, is considered "mildly scarce" by Howes. (Howes A-3; Gephart 7792) Reprinted with the added information contained in the 1909 and 1915 supplements to the original edition.
    TB32779  $75.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Abbott, Wilbur C.:  New York in the American Revolution.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Very near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with a white paper label on the spine and illustrated end papers. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 5 7/8 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine crimped inward and with mild bumping to the fore corners of the front board. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with 1/4 inch chipping at the ends of the spine area and a 1/4 inch deep chip at the upper edge of the front panel and shallow chipping to the upper edge of the rear panel. The spine area is tanned. 302 pages including an index, bibliography, text and illustrated from reproductions of contemporary works of art. The author traces the history of New York City during the American Revolution.
    TB31548  $75.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Abbott, W. W., Editor:  The Papers of George Washington Volume 2 Revolutionary War Series.  Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, (1987). First Edition, First Printing. Very good in black cloth covered boards gilt text on the spine and with a gilt facsimile of Washington's signature on the front board. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches with a slight concave shape to the spine, the boards are lightly soiled and the top edge of the text block is dust stained. In a very good-, unclipped (no price) dust jacket with a number of tape repairs to the recto of the jacket and with a 1/4 inch chip from the lower fore corner of the front panel. 671 pages including an index and text covering the letters send and received by Washington from September to December 1775.
    TB32763  $20.00




  • Allyn, Charles:  The Battle of Groton Heights: A collection of Narratives, Official Reports, Records, Etc. of the Storming of Fort Griswold.....  New London, Conn.: Self-published, 1882. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Good in its original green cloth covered boards with black end sheets. The spine is decorated with gilt text and a gilt image of the Groton Heights Memorial. The front board is decorated with a bird's eye view of the ramparts of the fort. Much of the green coating on the boards has been nibbled away by insects. The front and rear hinges and joints are tight and without any weakness. The binding remains strong. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is rubbed and the cloth at the lower tip of the front board is worn through. There are no prior ownership markings of any kind in this volume. Laid-in near the front of the book is a leaf printed on both sides advertising the Centennial Medal commemorating the Battle of Groton Heights. The full title reads: "The Battle of Groton Heights: A collection of Narratives, Official Reports, Records, Etc. of the Storming of Fort Griswold, the Massacre of its garrison, and the burning of New London by British Troops Under the Command of Benedict Arnold, on the Sixth of September, 1781." With an introduction by William W. Harris. Only 100 copies of the original printing of this title were produced in 1870 under the name William Harris. This edition was revised from the first edition by Charles Allyn with additional notes and enlarged. Illustrated with engravings, maps and with a map frontispiece. 399 pages including an index, appendix and text. (Howes, H-240; Gephart 6380; Armstrong 4030)
    TB28556  $350.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Alotta, Robert I.:  Another Part of the Field: Philadelphia's American Revolution 1777-78.  Shippensburg, Penn.: White Mane Publishing Co., Inc., 1991. First Edition, First printing. Fine in bright red, leather like paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 5 7/8" with illustrated end sheets. In a very near fine but price clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the folds. A review copy with the publisher's material laid-in. 133 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with maps and reproductions of contemporary works of art. The author focuses his research on the events taking place in Philadelphia during its occupation by the British.
    TB23498  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Alotta, Robert I.:  Another Part of the Field: Philadelphia's American Revolution 1777-1778.  Shippensburg, Penn.: White Mane Publishing Co., Inc., (1991). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in leather like, red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 133 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with maps, plans and images of earlier works of art. The author focuses his research on the events taking place in Philadelphia during its occupation by the British.
    TB30281  $25.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Andrews, William Loring:  Fragments of American History Illustrated Solely By The Works of Those of Our Own Engravers Who Flourished In the XvIIIth Century.  New York: Privately Printed for William Loring Andrews, 1898. First Edition. Near fine in a more recent, light brown calf leather 1/2 leather and marble paper covered boards with two gilt on black title labels on the spine with four raised bands and horizontal, gilt bands on either sides of the bands and with gilt rules separating the leather from the marbled paper on the boards. The top edge of the text block is gilt. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with marbled end sheets which match the paper on the boards. One of only 80 copies printed on handmade, laid paper. 69 pages of text illustrated with a hand painted frontispiece and 16 plates 3 of which are hand painted. Considered by Hoes in his bibliography U.S. Iana to be "quite scarce". (Howes, A-264)
    TB32395  $275.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Armstrong, Rev. Robert G.:  Historic Lebanon Highlight of an Historic Town.  Lebanon, Conn.: First Congregational Church, (1950). First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches with light touches of rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 79 pages of text illustrated with a line drawing of the Connecticut War Office on the title page and with a number of black and white images from photographs of buildings and home landmarks around the town green. A number of these plates have a laid-in black and white original photograph made by a prior owner of some of the more prominent homes illustrated in this book.
    TB32999  $30.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Author Unknown:  Conspiracy Of Arnold, And Sir Henry Clinton Against The United States and Against General Washington.  North Stratford, NH: Ayer Company Publisher, Inc., (2000). Reprint of 2000. Fine in red cloth covered boards with black text on the spine. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 6 inches. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 63 pages of text followed by 4 pages of other volumes in the Arno Press Collection of Historical Perspectives. This title is a facsimile reprint of 1972 Arno Press, Inc. reprint of the original publication which appeared in The American Register Vol. II of 1917. Although the introduction to this reprint is written in the first person there is unfortunately no name at its conclusion to be able to attribute authorship to anyone for this deeply detailed account of Andre's capture and subsequent trial.
    TB32777  $35.00




  • Bailey, Anthony:  Major Andre.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. The author, a long-time contributor to The New Yorker, provides this fictionalized account of Major John Andre who was hanged as a spy by the American forces in Tappan, New York in 1780.
    TB06067  $15.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Bailey with additions by Susan Benedict Hill, James Montgomery:  History Of Danbury, Conn. 1684-1896.  Danbury, Conn.: Burr Printing House and Danbury Relief Society, 1896. First Edition. Very good+ in its original, 1/2 leather and black cloth covered boards with the spine rebacked with the original gilt text retained on the the new backstrip. A small quarto of 10 1/2 by 7 inches with rubbing and light wear to the at its edges and tips of the boards. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 583 pages including an index, chronology and text. Illustrated from facsimiles of historical documents and images from black and white photographs. There is a significant section of the text devoted to the British raid on Danbury which occurred in April of 1777 during the American Revolution.
    TB33310  $130.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Bailyn, Bernard, and Jane N. Garrett:  Pamphlets Of The American Revolution 1750-1776.  Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. First Edition. Near fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches with very light rubbing to the cloth at the corners of the spine and with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. In a very good, price clipped dust jacket with minor, shallow chipping at the ends of the spine area and small nicks over the tips of the boards. One of the volumes in the John Harvard Library series. 771 pages including and index.
    TB32948  $160.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Barker, John:  The British in Boston The Diary of Lt. John Barker.  New York: New York Times and Arno Press, (1969). Reprint. Very near fine in 1/2 blue and brown cloth covered boards with silver colored text on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo of 7 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches with very slight rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket. One of the volumes in the Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution series by the publishers. 73 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece from a drawing and 11 plates from earlier works of art. A reprint of the original publication of 1924 published by Harvard University Press.
    TB32196  $75.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Bartenstein, Fred and Isabel:  A Report on New Jersey's Revolutionary War Powder Mill and a Preliminary Archeological Survey of the Ford Powder Mill Site.  Morristown, NJ: Morris County Historical Society, (1975). . Fine in light yellow cloth covered boards with dark blue text on the spine and front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 3/8". In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 194 pages containing an index, acknowledgments, sources, bibliography and text. Illustrated with maps, black and white photographs and line drawings.
    TB28398  $30.00




  • Belcher, Henry:  The First American Civil War Pirst Period 1775-1778 With Chapters On The Continental Or Revolutionary Army And On The Forces Of The Crown.  London: Macmillan And Co., 1911. First Edition. Both volumes of this two volume set are in very good condition in dark blue cloth covered boards gilt text on the spines. Both volumes are octavos measuring 8 7/8" by 5 1/2" with rubbing and slight fraying of the cloth at the heads and heels of the spines and with foxing to the front and rear end sheets. The cracked rear hinge of volume I has been professionally repaired. Volume I contains 350 pages of text followed by two pages of ads from the publisher. Volume II contains 364 pages including and index followed by four pages of ads. Both volumes are illustrated with maps, black and white photographs and reproductions of earlier works of art.
    TB28332  $100.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Bennett, C. E.:  Advance and Retreat to Saratoga in the American Revolution.  Schenectady: Robson & Adee, c. 1927. Reprint of 1933. Good in printed, orange paper wraps over a five stapled binding. An octavo measuring 9 by 5 3/4 inches with a number of short closed tears to the panels with light soiling. Without a dust jacket as issued. Subtitled: American Offensive - Advance To Quebec Retreat To Ticonderoga. (81) pages including a one page index. Illustrated with line drawings and reproductions of photographs.
    TB25237  $20.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Bird, Harrison:  Attack on Quebec The American Invasion of Canada 1775-1776.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in brown cloth covered boards with light blue text stamping on the spine and map end papers. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with a blank prior owner's book plate on the fly title page.. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket with a hint of wear to the upper edge of the spine area. A retelling of the facts behind Benedict Arnold's march through Maine to attack the British fort at Quebec. 255 pages including an index, a note on sources, chronology and text. Illustrated with maps and reproductions of contemporary works of art.
    TB33106  $40.00




  • Bliven, Bruce, Jr.:  Under the Guns New York: 1775-1776.  New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine & a blind embossing on the front board. In a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket. 397 pages containing an index, chapter notes, list of sources, text and a large fold-out map of New York and its environs.
    TB21973  $40.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Boas, Norman Francis:  Stonington During The American Revolution.  Mystic, Conn.: Seaport Autographs, 1990. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6 1/2" with a with a hint of dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 195 pages including an index, bibliography, appendices and text. Illustrated with photographs, facsimiles of historical documents and reproductions of contemporary works of art.
    TB29219  $50.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Bolton, Reginald Pelham:  Relics Of The Revolution The Story Of The Discovery Of The Buried Remains Of Military Life In Forts And Camps On Manhattan Island.  New York: Self-published, 1916. First Edition. Very good- in tan cloth covered boards with dark gray text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto measuring 10 3/4" by 7 3/4" with the cloth at the tips of the boards worn through, a 1 inch closed tear to the cloth at the lower end of the spine and with rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. 214 pages of text. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, black and white photographs and a map. Provides "A description of how the work was done and what was found." (Milton M. Klein: New York in the American Revolution A Bibliography, 395; Gephart, 7051)
    TB28832  $250.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Buell, Augustus C.:  Paul Jones Founder Of The American Navy.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. First Edition. Both volumes of this two volume complete set are in near fine condition in dark blue, smooth cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spines and a gilt emblem on the front boards and with the top edge of the text blocks in gilt. A small octavo of 7 5/8 by 5 1/4 inches with the first free end page of volume 1 excised. Without dust jackets. Volume 1 contains 328 pages of text and illustrated with a color frontispiece of John Paul Jones and with a map, line drawing of the Bon Homme Richard and a battle plan with the British Serapis. Volume 2 contains 373 pages of text including an index for both volumes. It is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Jones from an engraving based on a painting by Charles Willson Peale and a facsimile of a letter from Jones to Washington. The contents for both volumes are clean, tight and have no prior owner markings of any kind.
    TB32862  $100.00




  • Burke, William:  Memoir Of William Burke, A Soldier Of The Revolution.  Hartford, Conn.: Case, Tiffany, and Company, 1837. First Edition. Good in its original 1/4 black cloth and black paper covered boards with only three gilt rules on the spine. A 16mo of 6 1/8 by 3 3/4 inches with heavy wear and rubbing to the boards and to the ends of the spine. A three inch by 1 1/2 inch portion of the paper cover on the rear board has been torn away. There is the stamp of a very early prior owner on the first free end page and a light dampness stain to the first several pages and spots of foxing throughout the contents. 126 pages of text. The full title reads: "Memoir of William Burke, A Soldier Of The Revolution. Reformed From Intemperance, And For many Years A Consistent And Devoted Christian. Carefully prepared from a journal kept by Himself. To which is added, an extract from a sermon preached at his funeral, by Rev. Nathaniel Miner." William Burke was from Galway, Ireland where at the age of 7 or 8 he became an orphan. At the age of 23 he came to American as a volunteer with the British Army in 1774. He was to arrive in New York on a troop ship, but the events at Bunker Hill caused the troop ship to be diverted to Boston. While in Boston he camped on the Boston Green as part of the British occupying army. He evacuation from Boston with the British Army shipping out to Nova Scotia and from there to New York where he participated in the Battle of Long Island. While stationed in Kingsbridge (New Yorlk) he grew discontented with his station in the British Army and escaped, crossed no-mans-land and made it to the American lines. In Fishkill, NY he met with General Israel Putnam at which point he went on the Hartford. He spent the rest of his life in Connecticut living last in East Haddam and self-employed making nails. (Howes, B-983; Gephart, 12959; Sabin, 9316)
    TB33446  $150.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    By A Bostonian:  Biographical Sketch Of Gen. Joseph Warren Embracing The Prominent Events Of His Life And His Boston Orations of 1772 and 1775.  Boston: Shepard, Clark & Brown, 1857. First Editin. Very good+ in its original light green cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine with blind embossed boards. A 16mo of 6 3/4 by 4 1/4 inches with heavy wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine, the cloth is rubbed through at the lower tips of the boards, there is a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and a 1859 gift inscription on the first free end page. The contents are quite clean and tight with no foxing or tanning to the pages. The hinges and joints remain tight. 137 pages followed by five pages of ads by the publisher which is followed by the second book which is bound in: The Union Of The States by Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland published by James French and Company of Boston and dated 1856. This title runs 64 pages of text and is followed by 8 pages of ads by James French & Co. Joseph Warren was a physician, orator, politician, patriot and officer in the Massachusetts militia. He was one of the principal officers at the Battle of Bunker Hill when he was shot and killed.
    TB32265  $300.00




  • Calhoon, Robert M.:  The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays.  Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1989. First Edition, First printing. Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. A collection of eleven articles by various authors of history dealing with loyalism during the American Revolution. 234 pages including an index and text.
    TB12239  $21.00




  • Calloway, Colin G.:  The American Revolution in Indian Country.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and black paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket. "Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities." The author focuses on eight Indian communities between Quebec and Florida to create an understanding of the impact on Native Americans.
    TB07997  $40.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Carr, J. Revell:  Seeds of Discontent The Deep Roots Of The American Revolution 1650-1750.  New York: Walker & Company, (2008). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 399 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with images from contemporary works of art and line drawings. A very clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32847  $20.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Carrington, Henry B.:  Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution with Explanatory Notes.  New York: Arno Press, 1974. Arno Press reprint. Fine in royal blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A folio measuring 17" by 11" with spots of foxing to the engraved title page and to the last two free end pages. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with a 3/4" closed tear at the lower edge of the front panel and with minor, light wear to the ends of the spine area and dampness staining to the verso side of the rear panel. A facsimile reprint of the original 1876 edition with a new introduction by George Athan Billias. Containing 88 pages of text and maps.
    TB26803  $45.00




  • Carter, Jimmy:  The Hornet's Nest.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 blank and dark blue-green paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 465 pages of text. A novel of the American Revolution which takes place in the south.
    TB22320  $20.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Chidsey, Donald Barr:  The War In The North An Informal History of the American Revolution in and near Canada.  New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Near fine in light yellow cloth covered boards with bold, brown text on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 3/8 inches. In a very good, price clipped dust jacket with rubbing and light wear and creasing to the ends of the spine area and at the folds to the flaps. 214 pages of text including an index, bibliography, appendices and chapter notes. Illustrated with small insets of reproductions of earlier works of art.
    TB28707  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Chittenden, Lucius E.:  The Capture of Ticonderoga Annual Address Before the Vermont Historical Society.  Rutland, VT: Tuttle & Company, 1872. First Edition. Very good+ in its original bright blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board together with black embossed borders around the edges of the boards. A small quarto of 9 by 5 3/4 inches with minor light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and over the tips of the boards. The end sheets show spots of foxing, but no foxing appears in the text block. 127 pages of text. The author's focus shows primarily on Colonel Eathan Allen giving scant recognition to the contributions of Benedict Arnold.
    TB32893  $50.00




  • Clark, William Bell:  Naval Documents of The American Revolution Volume 2.  Washington, DC: US Gov. Printing Office, 1966. First Edition, First printing. Very near fine in decorated blue cloth covered boards with a University of Maine Library book plate on the verso of the first free end paper. Without a dust jacket as issued. Contains a forward by Lyndon B. Johnson and an introduction by Rear Admiral Ernest Mcneill Eller, USN (Ret.) Despite the library book plate there are no other signs, stamps or notes indicating that this was a library copy. 1463 pages containing an index, appendices, text, illustrations, and photographs.
    TB12260  $30.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Clark, George Rogers:  Clark's Memoir from English's Conquest of the Country.  n. p.: Readex Mictoprint, (1966). Reprint. Near fine in simulated leather grained blue, cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches with faint rubbing to the cloth at the head of the spine. Without a dust jacket. A facsimile reprint of that portion of W. H. English's book: Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio which contained the first publication of a portion of George Rogers Clark's memoir of his exploits during the American Revolution. It was under the leadership and command of George Rogers Clark that the British were forced to give up any claim to the Northwest Territory at the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Containing pages 455 to 555. This title constitutes volume 48 of the March of America Facsimile Series.
    TB25954  $15.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Clarke (Editor), Elizabeth W.:  Before & After 1776 A Comprehensive Chronology of The Town of Greenwich: 1640-1976.  Greenwich, Conn.: Historical Society of the Towns of Greenwich, 1976. First Edition, Limited Edition. Near fine in 1/4 white and green cloth covered boards with green text on the spine and gilt text stamped on the front board. A small quarto of 11 7/8 by 8 3/8 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with heavy wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area and with small chips to the upper fore corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. One of only 727 copies printed with this copy identified as number 361 on the limitation page. 183 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated throughout from black and white photographs, maps and line drawings and with a double page, color painting of a British raid on the town.
    TB30676  $40.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Cognets, Louis des, Jr.:  Black Sheep and Heroes of the American Revolution.  Princeton, NJ: Self Published, (1965). First Edition, Limited Edition. Fine in light tan linen covered boards with gilt text on both the spine and front board. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket (no price shown) with small nicks at the upper edge of the spine area and light soiling to the front panel. One of only 600 copies printed and signed by the author on the limitation page and this copy is identified as number 181. 386 pages including an index. A biographical study of officers and soldiers of the American Revolution who exemplified themselves with heroic action during the less well known events of the war. Twenty-one chapters devoted to the heroics and blunders exhibited by lesser known individuals in the conflict. Besides being an author and historian the author during World War II was a decorated B-17 pilot over Europe.
    TB32775  $75.00




  • Commager, Henry S.:  The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six Volume II.  Indianapol: Bobbs Merrill, 1958. First Edition, First printing. Fine In a very good+ dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and upper edge of the front panel. The American Revolution through the words of the participants. Also written by Richard B. Morris.
    TB01307  $17.50



  • Click on Image to expand
    Crawford, Michael J. (Editor):  The Autobiography Of A Yankee Mariner Christopher Prince and the American Revolution.  Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc., (2002). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark blue paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket with a small, 1/8" nick to the upper corner of the rear panel at the fold to the rear flap. 263 pages including an index, glossary, appendices and text. Illustrated with maps and reproductions of contemporary works of art. A previously unpublished, first person account of a fisherman, merchant seaman and a privateer officer during the American Revolution.
    TB26839  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Cronau, Rudolf:  The Army of the American Revolution and its Organizer. A Thrilling Story of the times that tried Men's Souls.  New York: Self-published, (1923). First Edition. Near fine in its original blue cloth covered boards with black text stamped on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches with four, faint, white spots on the front board. Without a dust jacket. Signed, dated in 1930 and inscribed in German by the on the first free end page. 150 pages of text followed by a two page ad by the author for another title he wrote. A biography of Major General Baron von Steuben.
    TB32797  $40.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Cubbison, Douglas R.:  The Artillery Never Gained More Honour: The British Artillery in the 1776 Valcour Island and 1777 Saratoga Campaigns.  Fleischmanns, New York: Purple Mountain Press, (2007). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto of 10 7/8 by 8 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 198 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated throughout with images from black and white photographs, maps, reproductions of earlier works of art, and line drawings.
    TB32764  $75.00




  • Cumming & Hugh F. Rankin, William P.:  The Fate of a Nation The American Revolution through Contemporary Eyes.  London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1975. First Edition, First printing. Near fine with dust stains on the top edge in dark green cloth covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with barely noticeable wrinkling at the upper corners of the folds to the flaps. 352 pages containing an index, list of 240 illustrations, and text to document the American Revolution from the point-of-view of the actual participants.
    TB13077  $24.50



  • Click on Image to expand
    Darley, Stephen:  Voices Waiting To Be Heard Nineteen Eyewitness Accounts of Arnold's 1775 March to Quebec.  Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, (2021). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark blue paper covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 343 pages including an index, bibliography, end notes and text. Illustrated with two maps, facsimiles of documentation, and earlier works of art. An extremely fine, collectible copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32762  $35.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Dole, Esther Mohr:  Maryland During The American Revolution.  No Place Stated: No Publisher Stated, 1941. First Edition. An ex-library copy in very good condition in its original blue cloth covered boards with very faded and tarnished gilt text on the spine and with heavy wear and rubbing to the cloth at the head of the spine and with moderate wear and rubbing to the heel of the spine and with a prior owners name and location written at the upper edge of the front paste down and a pocket on the rear free end page. Lacking a dust jacket. Signed by the author without an inscription or date on the fly title page. 294 pages including an index, chapter notes, bibliography and text. Illustrated with line drawings as chapter headings by George B. Keester, Jr. (Gephart, 2129)
    TB32606  $80.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Dolin, Eric Jay:  Rebels at Sea Privateering in the American Revolution.  New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (2022). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 302 pages including an index, chapter notes, illustration credits and text. Illustrated throughout with images from earlier works of art and an 8 page section of images in color.
    TB33095  $35.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Dring, Captain Thomas, and Henry B. Dawson:  Recollections Of The Jersey Prison-Ship From the Original Manuscript of Captain Thomas Dring, One Of The Prinsoners.  Orrisania, NY: Self-Published, 1865. Third Edition, Presentation Edition. Very near fine in 3/4 green morocco leather with five decorated, raised bands on the spine with gilt tool work and gilt text in the compartments and gilt rules at the edges of the leather near the green cloth covered boards. A quarto of 11 by 7 1/2 inches with the top edge of the text block gilt and with marbled end sheets. The leather over the spine has faded to a fine light brown color, the tips of the boards are lightly worn and the leather at the upper one inch of the boards near the spine is also very slightly faded owing to its height above octavo volumes shelved near it. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. This copy is a special presentation copy issued to John Ward Deane on Feb.22nd, 1866 and warmly inscribed and signed by the editor, Henry B. Dawson on the dedication page. It is also signed on the copyright page by Dawson and this copy identified as copy "K" of only 50 quarto copies printed, signed and numbered. 201 pages of text including a 72 page appendix followed by four blank pages, a full page image of the prison ship Jersey from an engraving, followed by a lengthy article of five pages from the New York Weekly Times dated Feb. 22, 1855 in facsimile titled: The Dungeons Of The Revolution. Reading this article one gets a deeply disturbing picture of the unsanitary,dreary and deadly conditions on board the prison ships in and around the New York harbor.
    TB32656  $750.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Edelberg, Cynthia Dubin:  Jonathan Odell Loyalist Poet of the American Revolution.  Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in bright red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 205 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Odell took an active part in the cabal between Benedict Arnold and John Andre acting as Andre's intermediary with Arnold's intermediary, Joseph Stansbury a china retailer in Philadelphia.
    TB32806  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Fanning, Nathaniel:  Fanning's Narrative.  n.p. [Chicago]: LSC Communications, 2018. First Edition Thus. Fine in teal cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt borders both boards and the Lakeside Classic logo on the front board at the top of which is "LSC Communications" the new publisher of the Lakeside Classic titles. The top edge of the text block is gilt. Without a dust jacket as issued. This copy is still contained within the publisher's shrink wrap. 346 pages including an index and text. Edited by Thomas Philbrick. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and plates from earlier works of art. Connecticut native, Thomas Fanning, provides this narrative of his life at sea during the American Revolution beginning in May of 1778 and ending with his return to New York in November of 1783 after the signing of the Treaty of Paris which brought the war to its final end. During his time at sea, Fanning served under John Paul Jones and experienced the battle with the HMS Serapis.
    TB33032  $65.00




  • Fast, Howard (Editor):  The Selected Work of Tom Paine.  New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1945). First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in faded black cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine and a gilt eagle on the front board. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/4". In a very good unclipped dust jacket with very light wear and slight flecking of the colors at the ends of the spine area. 338 pages of text. A collection of six of Tom Paine's essays to include Common Sense, The Crisis Papers, Rights of Man, The Age Of Reason, Letter to Washington and Tom Paine: An Estimate.
    TB24257  $15.00




  • Fast, Howard:  Citizen Tom Paine.  New York: Duell, Sloane & Pearce, 1943. Early reprint. Near fine in blue cloth covered boards. In a very good+ dust jacket with shallow 1/8" chipping at the ends of the spine area and around the edges of the front and rear panels. The author's sixth book which is an historical novel on the life of Tom Paine.
    TB12091  $10.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Fender, J. E.:  The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost.  Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 royal blue cloth and gray paper covered boards with gilt text stamping and decorations on the spine and front board. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 297 pages of text followed by several pages of an historical note. The first volume in the Geoffrey Frost, Mariner, of Portsmouth, series.
    TB33216  $18.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    [First Continental Congress]:  Extracts From The Votes And Proceedings Of The American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September 1774.  Philadelphia: Published by Order of the Congress and printed by Timothy Green of New London, Conn., 1774. First Edition, Second Issue. Very good+ in contemporary plain paper wraps within a stab sewn binding. A small quarto of 9 3/8 by 6 1/2 inches with two small, circular stains on the fore edge of the front cover and a dampness stain of 4 inches on the spine edge of the front cover and a 1 1/2 stain at the upper fore corner of the rear cover none of which migrated to the interior pages. The subtitle reads: "Containing, The Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, an Address to the People of Great-Britain, A Memorial to the Inhabitants of the British American Colonies, and an Address to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec." 16 pages of text the majority of which is printed in an exceptionally small font. Howes in his bibliography, U.S.Iana states of this title: "The Forerunner of the Declaration of Independence." Evans in his bibliography states that this title printed by Timothy Green: "The best printed edition. Containing besides the matter enumerated, an additional Resolve of Congress on the sufferings in Massachusetts, and the approval of the actions of Congress, by the Colony." [Howes, E-247; Sabin, 15528; Evans, 13732; Johnson, A Checklist of New London, Connecticut Imprints 1709-1800, 994) Contained within a recently made leather covered slipcase and cloth backed chemise. An early prior owner has written his name at the upper edge of the document as follows: "Micah Hubbard's Pamphlet"; and, two subsequent owners have written their names on the verso of the front cover: "Bela Hubbard |1835" and "Henry G. Hubbard |1876". This last named owner was Henry Griswold Hubbard (1814-1891) who was the first manufacturer in the U.S. to reduce India Rubber to thread and weave it into webbing by machine.
    TB32308  $4000.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Fitzpatrick, John C.:  The Spirit of The Revolution New Light From Some of the Original Sources of American History.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in navy blue cloth covered boards with much of the gilt stamped text on the spine worn off; however, the gilt stamped text on the front board remains present and quite readable. There are minor spots of foxing throughout the text. Without its issued dust jacket. An octavo measuring 8 5/9" tall by 6" deep containing 300 pages including an index. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary works of art and photographs of original documentation. (Gephart, 1137)
    TB22985  $30.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Fondiller, Harvey V.:  Men of The Revolution American Soldiers of 1776.  New York: Popular Photography Magazine, 1976. Reprint . Near fine in glossy heavy paper wraps with the author signature and inscription on the front panel and a small stain on the rear panel. Without a dust jacket as issued. Signed, dated and inscribed by the author in Rochester (New York) on "10/11/76" This is a reprint of the article of the same title which appeared in the July, 1976 issue of Popular Photography. A small quarto measuring 11" tall by 8 1/2" deep. Unpaginated containing 8 pages. "A photographs of each (American Revolutionary soldier) from Life With Their Memories of the War. "In 1864 the last surviving veterans recalled their experiences in the War of Independence. Their words and portraits were the world's first photo-interviews."
    TB18599  $45.00




  • Fowler, William M., Jr.:  Rebels Under Sail The American Navy during the Revolution.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Very good in gilt decorated dark blue paper covered boards with gilt text and decorations with mild crimping of the head and heel of the spine and with a number of pages with both pencil and ink underlining with marginal notations. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with 1/8" deep chips from the upper corners of the spine area and with a 1 1/2" closed tear at the upper edge of the rear panel. One of the best resources on the naval battles of the American Revolution. 320 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes, text and a section of photographs.
    TB22655  $30.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Freeman, Douglas Southall:  George Washington (Vol. I thru Vol. VI).  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948 - 1957. All first editions. All six volumes of this seven volume set are in fine to near fine conditions in dark blue decorated cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spines and with blind embossed seals on the front boards. The end papers for each book are decorated with maps of various sections of the United States which have bearing on the text within each volume. None of the volumes are in dust jackets as they were issued without them in first edition. However, volumes V and VI are in near fine individual slip cases. Freeman's other major biographies included Robert E. Lee (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), and his follow-on book: Lee's Lieutenants. An extremely attractive, first edition set of Freeman's landmark series and one of his most important biographies. It is considered the best, and most thorough, biography of Washington.
    TB32408  $400.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Frothingham, Richard:  The Centennial: Battle of Bunker Hill with a View of Charlestown in 1775, Pages Plan of the Action, Romane's Exact View of the Battle, and Other Illustrations.  Boston: Little, Brown And Company, 1875. First Edition. Good in light green cloth covered boards with bright gilt text on the front board with blind embossed borders on both boards. A 16mo of 6 7/8 by 4 1/2 inches with heavy wear and rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the tips and fore edges of the boards. The fold-out map is missing and the fold-out illustration of Charleston following page 32 has a 4 inch long closed tear (which has been professionally repaired) and several creases from careless refolding. 133 pages of text followed by a two page appendix. Illustrated with a fold-out drawing noted above and a one page map appears on page 43 and line drawings appear within the text on pages 15 and 117. (Gephart, 5846)
    TB31811  $60.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Gara, Donald J.:  The Queen's American Rangers.  Yardley, Penn.: Westholme Publishing, (2015). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 cram and green paper covered boards with black text on the spine. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 6 inches with a minor bump to the lower edge of the spine. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 405 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with 15 maps.
    TB33071  $75.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Gilkerson, William:  The Ships Of John Paul Jones.  n.p. [Annapolis]: United States Naval Academy Museum, The Beverly R. Robinson Collection and The Naval Institute Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in illustrated, white cloth covered boards with gray text on the spine and an illustration of sailing ship on the front board. An oblong octavo of 8 7/8 by 11 3/8 inches. In a very good+ unclipped (no price) dust jacket with a 2" closed tear to the lower edge of the front panel which has been repaired on the verso side with archival tape. 83 pages including acknowledgements, bibliography, list of plates and text. Illustrated with line drawings within the text and 13 plates, 11 of which are in color. A clean, tight and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB30154  $35.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Glatthaar, Joseph T. and James Kirby Martin:  Forgotten Allies The Oneida Indians And The American Revolution.  New York: Hill and Wang and division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2006). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black and light yellow paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket 434 pages including an index. Illustrated with maps and a section of black and white photographs.
    TB27699  $20.00




  • Graves, Robert:  Sergeant Lamb's America.  New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in red cloth covered boards with paper labels on the spine and on the front board with map end sheets. The spine is slightly creased down its middle and the front hinge is slightly shaken. Faintly stamped on the top edge of the text block is the notation "Blue Bird Book Nook" and there is a prior owner's book plate on the verso of the first free end page. In a very good- unclipped dust jacket with 1/4" deep chipping across the upper edge of the spine area and with moderate wear to the lower edge of the spine area and nicks to the fore corners. Based on the letters of Sergeant Roger Lamb of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, Graves created a magnificent historical novel of the American Revolutionary War. 380 pages of text.
    TB21663  $55.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Greene, George Washington:  The Life Of Nathanael Greene, Major-General In The Army Of The Revolution.  New York: G. P. Putnam and Son and Hurd and Houghton, 1867, 1871. First Edition. All three volumes of this complete set are in very good to very good+ condition in their original dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text on their spines with blind, embossed borders on the front and rear boards. Each volume is a small quarto of 9 by 5 3/4 inches with early prior owner's names written in ink on the second free end pages. The cloth at the heads and heels of each volume are rubbed and each have short closed tears to the cloth. The front and rear hinges to volume 3 are cracked, but holding. The upper 1/2 of the spine for volume 3 is faded to a light brown. The front hinge of volume 2 has been reinforced. The contents are fine with the note that between pages 121 to 178 a bookworm has burrowed his way 1/2 inch into the lower margins of those pages. Volume 1 contains 583 pages including an appendix and is illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Greene. Volume 2 contains 514 pages including an appendix and was published by Hurd and Houghton as was volume 3. Volume 3 contains 571 pages including an index for all three volumes, an appendix and is illustrated with a two page, frontispiece map of the Carolinas and the northern part of Georgia and three one-page maps within the text (in accordance with Howes). The author was the grandson of the general and had access to his grandfather's notes, letters and manuscripts. (Howes, G-380; Sabin, 28599; Gephart, 13488 p1197)
    TB32873  $350.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Greenwood, John:  A Young Patriot in the American Revolution 1775-1783 The Wartime Services of John Greenwood.  No city stated: Westvaco, 1981. Limited Edition. Fine in decorated dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and illustrated end sheets. Without a dust jacket; however, the book is contained within a fine illustrated paper covered slip case. Greenwood wrote the manuscript for this work in 1809 from his many memories of serving during the American Revolution. Only 100 copies of this journal were printed in 1922 for distribution to family members. The Christmas 1981 issue by Westvaco. The 24th volume in Westvaco's annual American Classic series. 200 pages of text which is illustrated throughout.
    TB28261  $40.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Griffin, Martin I. J.:  Catholics And The American Revolution.  Ridley Park, Penn.: Self Published, 1907. First Edition, Limited Edition. All three volumes of this complete set are in very good+ condition in red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. Each is a small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches with the top edge of the text blocks gilt. The cloth at the ends of the spines are rubbed and worn as are the tips of the boards and the first free end page are stamped with a prior owner's stamp. One of only 1,000 copied printed with this set numbered 11 on the dedication page. Volume I contains 352 pages. Vomue II contains 400 pages as does Volume III.
    TB33242  $150.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Hagglund, L. F.:  A Page From the Past - The Story of the Continental Gundelo Philadelphia on Lake Champlain - 1776-1949.  n.p.: History Authentique, c1949. Second Edition. Good+ in fragile, printed paper wraps over a new sewn binding with extensive repairs made to the folds of the signatures and repairs to torn pages with archival tape. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches with a small chip to the upper fore corner of the front cover, a 1 1/2 inch closed tear to the upper edge of the front cover protected with archival tape, and the pages of the text are uniformly tanned. 30 pages of text illustrated with images from black and white photographs and a facsimile of a chart from 1777 showing the vicinity of Valcour Island and the course of the British ships to attack Arnold's small fleet of 8 Gundelos, 2 schooners, 4 galleys and a sloop. This publication focuses on the finding and raising the gundelo Philadelphia from the bottom of Lake Champlain. It now resides at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC.
    TB33079  $45.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Hammersley, Sydney Ernest:  The Lake Champlain Naval Battles of 1776-1814.  Waterford, New York: Self-published, 1959. First Edition, First printing. Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and front board. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". Without a dust jacket (probably as issued); however, the covers are protected by a thick acetate jacket. Laid-in is a mimeographed, one page advance ad by the author for this book. Additionally, the book is signed by the author on the title page. 28 pages of text including a list of references and bibliography. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
    TB25170  $85.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Hammersley, Sydney Ernest:  The Lake Champlain Naval Battles of 1776-1814.  Waterford, New York: Self-published, 1959. First Edition, First printing. Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and front board. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches. There is a dated ("June 1959") gift inscription on the front free end page. The book is in otherwise perfect condition. Without a dust jacket (probably as issued); however, the covers are protected by a thick acetate jacket. 28 pages of text including a list of references and bibliography. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
    TB22631  $40.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Harr, John Ensor:  Dark Eagle A Novel of Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution.  New York: Viking, 1999. First Edition, First printing. Fine in paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. A meticulously researched historical fiction novel of Arnold's spectacular rise and fall during the American Revolution. 522 pages. The author's first novel.
    TB20123  $25.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Hart, Albert Bushnell, Editor:  The Varick Court of Inquiry To Investigate The Implication of Colonel Varick (Arnold's Private Secretary) In The Arnold Treason.  Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1907. First Edition, Limited Edition. Fine recently rebound in black cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 7 inches with the top edge of the text block gilt and with a prior owner's name in ink on the second free end page and date of 1927. Without a dust jacket. One of only 470 copies printed. The elaborate engraved title page is signed in pencil by its artist, J. A. J. Wilcox, Laid-in is the 3 page prospectus advertising the publication of this title. 217 pages of text including an index. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraving of Colonel Richard Varick with a printed tissue guard, an engraved title page signed by the engraver/illustrator J. A. J. Wilcox and with engraved vignettes throughout and six, fold-out facsimiles of original correspondence examined during the trial. (Howes, H-256; Gephart, 14625)
    TB32766  $150.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Hatch, Robert McConnell:  Major John Andre A Gallant in Spy's Clothing.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986. First Edition. Near fine in 1/4 navy blue cloth and yellow paper covered boards with red text on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with an inconsequential dampness stain at the lower edge of the front board with a minor bleed of color to the lower edges of the first two pages. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with the spine area slightly faded and a minor red stain to the lower edge of the front panel. 333 numbered pages containing an index, bibliography, note and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece map and a section of images from earlier works of art and black and white photographs.
    TB32740  $75.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Hatch, Robert McConnell:  Thurst For Canada The American Attempt On Quebec In 1775-1776.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and light gray paper covered boards with blue metallic text stamped on the spine and the title blind embossed on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6" with tiny spots of foxing to the edges of the text block. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear at the ends of the spine area. 295 pages including an index, bibliography and chapter notes. Illustrated with a map frontispiece and a section of two map plates and plates of black and white reproductions of contemporary works of art.
    TB26840  $35.00




  • Hayes, III, Charles F.:  The Iroquois in the American Revolution 1976 Conference Prodeedings.  Rochester: Rochester Museum, 1981. First Edition, First printing. Fine in heavy illustrated paper wraps. Without a dust jacket as issued. Research Record No. 14 sponsored by the Arthur C. Parker Fund for Iroquois Research. 48 pages containing a bibliography, text and illustrations.
    TB13449  $20.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Henry, John Joseph:  An Accurate And Interesting Account Of The Sufferings Of That Band of Heroes, Who Traversed The Wilderness In The Campaign Against Quebec In 1775.  Lancaster, Penn.: William Greer, 1812. First Edition. Very good+ in a full leather, 20th century binding with a gilt stamped, red leather label and gilt rules on the spine. A 16mo of 6 1/2 by 4 inches with rubbing and wear to the front joint, but it is holding well and the front hinge remains tight. The title page is damaged with a 1 1/2 inch chip which has been professionally repaired and there is what may be a library stamp on it as well as on the following page. On the verso of the title page was the name of a previous owner which has been heavily redacted. The remainder of the text is clean and free of damage and markings. 225 pages of text including 34 pages of notes. Kenneth Roberts in his 1938 publication of March to Quebec includes this journal among other journals kept by participants in this attack under the command of Benedict Arnold. Howes in his bibliography U.S.Iana indicates that this title in first edition is "quite scarce". Joseph Sabin in his bibliography: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, states that And, in Ronald Gephart's Revolutionary America 1763-1789, he states that pages 205 to 208 are missing which is true of this copy as well. (Howes, H-423; Sabin, 31400; Gephart, 5944; Armstorng: Maine, 566)
    TB32919  $400.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Hillard, Reverend E. B.:  The Last Men of the Revolution.  Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishers, 1968. Republication of 1968. Near fine in white paper covered boards with blind text embossing on the front board. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with a prior owner's name on the first free end page and with bumps to the upper fore corners of the boards. In a very near fine, price clipped dust jacket with a tiny 1/8" closed tear at the lower fore edge of the front panel. 116 pages of text and illustrated with reproductions of the photographs of the last six men alive as of 1864 who were soldiers during the American Revolution. Originally published in 1864 by R. A. Moore in Hartford, Conn. which when found is extremely uncommon.
    TB29605  $150.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Hoadley, Charles:  The Public Records of the State of Connecticut from October, 1776 to February, 1778, inclusive (Volume I Only).  Hartford: State of Connecticut, 1894. . Volume I only of this two volume set which is in very good+ condition in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stampings on the spine. There is a prior owner's name on the first free end page and date of 1932. The cloth at the ends of the spine are lightly rubbed as are the tips of the boards. The joints are strong and tight. Without a dust jacket. This volume contains the Journal of the Council of Safety from October 11, 1776 to May 6, 1778. The pages within both volumes are largely un-cut. A very uncommon set of records from the American Revolution.
    TB33287  $50.00




  • Hogg, Ian V. and John Batchelor:  Armies of the American Revolution.  Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark red cloth covered boards with gold text stamping on the spine with the last name of a prior owner at the upper corner of the first free end paper. In a very good+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap but with a 1" closed tear at the lower edge of the front panel and with light rubbing and wear at the upper edge of the spine area. A small quarto measuring 11" tall by 8 1/2" deep overall containing 157 pages of text and illustrations.
    TB18397  $5.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Hufeland, Otto:  Westchester County During The American Revolution 1775-1783.  n.p.: Self-Published, 1926. First Edition, Limited Edition. Fine in its original dark green, ribbed cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and with the top edge of the text block gilt. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches. In its original glassine dust jacket which is only in very good- condition with multiple chips and wear. One of only 250 copies printed and signed by the author with this copy identified as number 167 on the limitation page. The errata page is tipped in opposite the limitation page. 473 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with a fold-out, frontispiece map and three additional fold-out maps. An extremely clean, handsome and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. This is the author's original edition. (Note: Ronald M. Gephart's bibliography: Revolutionary America 1763-1789 in item #1875 (page 178) refers to this same title but a later edition which was published by the Westchester County Historical Society, 1926 Vol. 3, issue xxvii)
    TB32854  $200.00




  • Hurst, Ronald:  The Golden Rock An Episode of the American War of Independence 1775-1783.  Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. The author chronicles the invasion of the small, but important Dutch owned Island, St. Eustatius, in November, 1781 in an effort to thwart further trade of arms and ammunition with the American colonies. 254 pages including an index, text and illustrated with maps and two sections of photographic reproductions of contemporary art work.
    TB16732  $14.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Johnston, Henry P.:  The Yorktown Campaign and The Surrender of Cornwallis 1781.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. First Edition. Very good+ in royal blue cloth covered boards with black bars and gilt text stamping on the spine and the same on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 7/8 by 6 1/2 inches with an early prior owner's name written in pencil on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket as it is probable that it did not have one to begin with. 206 pages including an index, appendices, text and illustrated with maps and steel engravings of contemporary portraits and paintings. The author undertakes an extremely thorough analysis of the siege of Yorktown when the American Army under Washington and the French army under Rochambleau and de Grasse to defeat the British and the surrender of Cornwallis. (Gephart, 6744; not listed in Howes, Sabin or Streeter)
    TB28541  $200.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Johnston, F., and W. Hamilton:  The Washingtoniana: Containing A Sketch Of The Life and Death Of The Late Gen. George With A Collection Of Elegant Eulogies, Orations, Poems, &c Sacred To His Memory.  Lancaster, Penn.: William Hamilton, 1802. Second Edition. Recently rebound in dark blue cloth covered boards with a black leather title label with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches with new end sheets. With an early prior owner's name at the upper edge of the title page. The contents are uniformly tanned with only occasional spots of foxing. Without a dust jacket. 320 pages followed by a 73 page appendix and that is followed by a 10 page list of "subscribers' names".with its own set of page numbers [401-410] Lacking the frontispiece portrait of Washington. (Howes J-162; Sabin, 36361)
    TB32259  $700.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Kapp, Friedrich:  The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben Major General In The Revolutionary Army.  New York: Mason Brothers, 1859. Second Edition. An ex-library copy in good condition in its original dark cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine. A 12mo of 7 7/8 by 5 1/4 inches with the cloth at the head of the spine heavily worn and the cloth at the upper edge of the boards chewed by mice. The front hinge is broke and the rear hinge is cracked, but the front and rear boards are holding. There is an early library book plate on the front paste down and a penciled call number on the front free end page. 735 pages including an index, appendix and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of von Steuben from an engraving. With an introduction by George Bancroft. The first edition was published in Germany in 1858. (Gephart, 14491)
    TB32889  $50.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Katz, Joyce:  One Life to Lose The Story of Nathan Hale.  Hartford: The Antiquarian & Landmarks Society of Connecticut, 1977. First Edition. Fine perfect bound within heavy paper printed wraps. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". Without a dust jacket as issued. 51 pages of text illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Although based on the facts known about the life of Nathan Hale some portions of this title have been fictionalized.
    TB26019  $10.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Ketchum, Richard M.:  The Battle For Bunker Hill.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in green cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine with map end sheets. An octavo measuring 8 1/8 by 5 1/2 inches with very light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with light wear and rubbing at the ends of the spine area and at the fold to the front flap. 232 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps and photographic reproductions of contemporary works of art. A very tight, clean and collectible copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. A very uncommon book difficult to find in first edition in collectible condition.
    TB33107  $65.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Ketchum, Richard M.:  The Winter Soldiers.  Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973. Book Club Edition. Near fine in dark blue paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 5 1/2" with only hints of rubbing at the corners of the spine. In a near fine dust jacket. 435 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps, and reproductions of then contemporary works of art. A tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
    TB25378  $30.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Ketchum, Richard M.:  Decisive Day The Battle for Bunker Hill.  Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Book of the Month Club Printing. Very near fine in textured, red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/8" by 5 1/2" with crimping of the cloth at the heel of the spine and with light rubbing over the same. In a very good+ dust jacket with the "Book Club Edition" slug at the lower corner of the front flap and with two very short, inconsequential, closed tears at the upper edge of the spine area. 282 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps and photographic reproductions of contemporary works of art. This revised edition add a new forward and is "an expanded and fully illustrated edition of The Battle For Bunker Hill". The original, first edition was published by American Heritage in 1962.
    TB23462  $15.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Koke, Richard J.:  Accomplice In Treason Joshua Hett Smith and the Arnold Conspiracy.  New York: New York Historical Society, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black cloth covered boards with white and red text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 10" by 7" with the facsimile signature of Joshua H. Smith on the front board. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 325 pages of text including an index, bibliography, appendices and chapter notes. Illustrated with map end sheets, reproductions of contemporary works of art, photographs.
    TB26775  $70.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Lararee, Leonard Woods, Editor:  The Public Records Of The State Of Connecticut For the Year 1782 With The journal Of The Council Of Safety From January 17, 1782 To December 16, 1782 Inclusive.  Hartfor, Conn.: State of Connecticut, 1942. First Edtion. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches with a one inch portion of cloth worn away on the top edge of the rear board. The contents are clean and unread as each of its pages are unopened. The volume comprises volume IV of The Public Records Of The State Of Connecticut. 341 pages of text without an index.
    TB33288  $65.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Lefkowitz, Arthur S.:  Benedict Arnold in the Company of Heroes.  El Dorado Hills, Calif.: Savas Beatie, (2012). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 294 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and reproductions of contemporary works of art.
    TB29224  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Lehman, Eric C.:  Homegrown Terror Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London.  Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, (2014). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in /14 dark brown cloth and burnt orange paper covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6". In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 261 pages including an index, bibliographic chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps, reproductions of contemporary works of art and black and white photographs.
    TB33265  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Lieutenant Page:  A Plan of The Town of Boston with the Intrenchments etc of His Majesty's Forces in 1775.  London: Engraved & Printed by Wm. Faden, 1777. Facsimile Reproduction of 1965. A fine map of the town of Boston, reproduced in 1965 by Historic Urban Plans of Ithac, New York from the original in the Cornell University Library. The sheet measures 22 1/2" by 17 3/8" and the image measures roughly 17 1/4" by 12 1/4". An extremely detailed map showing streets, wharfs, cannon implacements and redoubts. One of only 500 copies reproduced with this copy numbered 471. This image is ready for matting and framing and will be shipped in a reinforced mailing tube.
    TB23432  $100.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Little, J. David:  Revolutionary Lyme A Portrait: 1765-1783.  Old Lyme, Conn.: Self-published, 1976. First Edition in book form. Near fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over a stapled binding. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches with two small soiling marks on the front cover. Without a dust jacket as issued. 48 pages of text and illustrated with drawings by Jeremy Guitar and Lucinda McQueen.
    TB29428  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Lodge, Jno [John]:  An Accurate Map of Rhode Island, Part of Connecticut and Massachusets Shewing Admiral Arbuthnot's Station in Blocking up Admiral Ternay.  London: J. Bew, 1780. First Edition. Very good+ and uniformly tanned mounted on a thin, cardboard stock measuring 11 11/16 by 15 3/4 inches (edge to edge). This map shows the eastern half of Connecticut, the Rhode Island coast as far north as many miles north of Providence, the southeastern portion of Massachusetts including Buzzards Bay and western Marthas Vinebyard and the eastern end of Long Island. According to Thompson's Maps of Connecticut Before The Year 1800, the latitude coordinates are correct, but the longitude coordinate is in error as it would place Connecticut in the mid-Atlantic, an error which appears to come from an earlier British map of the same yea.r This is a map taken from the London publication of The Political Magazine issue of November 30, 1780. Many of the place names, towns and cities are in error from current names. This map illustrates the area of eastern Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound which was blockaded by British Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot to contain part of the French Fleet in Newport which was under the command of Admiral Louis d'Arsac de Ternay. (Thompson, #30 p.43)
    TB31619  $350.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Loescher, Burt Garfield:  Washington's Eyes The Continental Light Dragoons.  Fort Collins: The Old Army Press, 1977. First Edition. Fine in white cloth covered boards with metallic red text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with a 1" chip at the upper edge of the front panel which barely touches an text and light rubbing to the ends of the spine area. containing 178 pages of text, bibliography, an extensive appendix which notes the service biography of all Continental Dragoon Officers and illustrated with maps, drawings, reproductions of contemporary art works and several full color plates at the end of the text illustrating the uniforms worn by various regiments. A book devoted to the birth of the U.S. Army cavalry with chapters devoted to each of the four original dragoon regiments. An extremely uncommon reference work.
    TB27700  $175.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Lonergan, Carroll Vincent:  Ticonderoga Historic Portage.  Ticonderoga, NY: Fort Mount Hope Society Press, 1975, c.1959. Reprint of the1975, Bicentennial Edition. Fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board with map end sheets. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/2". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed "Best Wishes" by the author on the title page. 248 pages including an index, text and illustrated with maps and black and white photographs. The author tells the complete story of the famous Fort Ticonderoga from the time of its construction through the Revolutionary War.
    TB28676  $30.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Loomis, Seymour C. George F. Burgess, George H. Ford, Earnest C. Simpson and William S. Wells:  Revolutionary Characters of New Haven The Subject of Addresses and Papers Delivered before the General David Humphreys Branch, No. l.  New Haven: General David Humpreys Branch, Connecticut Society Sons of the American Revolution, 1911. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in royal blue cloth covered boards with very slightly tarnished gilt text stamping on the front board. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine and over the tips of the boards is lightly rubbed and very slightly worn. A small quarto measuring 9 3/8 by 6 inches containing 124 pages of text and illustrated with several black and white photographs and a map of the attack on New Haven by the British. The full title reads: "Revolutionary Characters of New Haven: The Subject of Addresses and Papers Delivered before the General David Humphreys Branch, No.l Also List of Men so far as they are Known from the Territory Embraced in the Town of New Haven, Connecticut, who served in the Continental Army and Militia and on Continental and State Vessels and Privateers, and those who Rendered other Patriotic Services during the War of the Revolution, and a Record of Known Casualties, together with the Location of Known Graves in and about New Haven of Patriots of 1775-1783 and Catalogue of the Officers and Members of Gen. David Humphreys Branch since its Organization." In addition to providing short biographies of James Hillhouse, Ezra Stiles, David Wooster, John Trumbull, Noah Webster, David Humphreys and the early career of Benedict Arnold the author also provides a thorough account of "The Defense of New Haven and Resistance Made Against Invading Troops Along the West Shore, July, 1779."
    TB32546  $40.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Lossing, Benson J.:  The Pictorial Field-Book Of The Revolution or illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the war for independence (Vol. 1 Only).  Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, (1972). Reprint of 1972. Volumes I and II of this two volume set are in fine condition in bright red cloth covered boards with gilt text on black leather labssl on the spines. Both are small quartos of 9 by 6 inches. In fine, unclipped dust jackes with the spine areas faded. Both volumes are contained within a fine, printed, paper covered slip case. Volume I contains 783 pages of text with 1,100 illustrations from engravings. Volume II contains 772 pages including an index for both volumes and illustrations as noted above. First published in 1851 and 1852 in two volumes. According to Sabin's A Dictionary of Books Relating To America: this title "contains many details and anecdotes which are not to be found in any other work; indeed, the great variety and numerous items of information contained in these volumes, make the work a cyclopedia of the American Revolution." A very clean and handsome set with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32760  $80.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Lumpkin, Henry:  From Savannah to Yorktown.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981. First Edition. Near fine in 1/2 leather and buckram cloth covered boards with a gilt on brown leather spine label and with yellow-orange end sheets. A quarto of 11 by 8 3/8 inches with the cloth on the front board slightly soiled. Without its issued dust jacket. "The American Revolution in the South." 332 pages including an index, appendices, chronology, text and illustrated throughout with both contemporary and modern works of art and photographs of weapons and implements.
    TB31493  $40.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Lunt, James:  John Burgoyne of Saratoga.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First Edition. Fine in ivory colored linen covered boards with gilt on red title blocks on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with a price intact on the front flap. 369 pages with index, notes, bibliography, text and maps. Published in Great Britain in 1976.
    TB28706  $30.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Mahan, A. T.:  The Major Operations Of The Navies In The War Of American Independence.  Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913. First Edition. Very good+ in its original, dark blue cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine and with the top edge of the text block gilt. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 6 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine worn through, rubbing to the cloth at the tips of the boards and a 1/3 inch ding to the fore edge of the front board and a 1913 Christmas note from a previous owner on the second free end page and with repairs to the rear hinge. Many of the pages of this copy have not been opened. Without a dust jacket. 280 pages including an index and glossary and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece from a black and white photograph and with plates of major personages from earlier works of art throughout as well as maps and battle plans and a fold-out map of the North Atlantic Ocean at the rear of the book. (Gephart, 7456)
    TB32864  $225.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Marshall & Howard Peckham, Douglas W.:  Campaigns of the American Revolution An Atlas of Manuscript Maps.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1976. First Edition. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A quarto of 13 by 9 3/4 inches. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. 138 pages containing an index, text and illustrated with 58 maps and sketches of principal battles fought during the American Revolution.
    TB32765  $40.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Martin, Joseph Plumb:  Private Yankee Doodle Being A Narrative Of Some Of The Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings Of A Revolutionary Soldier.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1962). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in salmon colored cloth covered boards with a gilt on red title block on the spine. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 3/4 inches with detailed map end sheets with a prior owner's name blackened out at the upper edge of the first free end page. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with the spine area slightly tanned and with a 1/4 inch deep chip across the lower edge of the spine area. 305 pages including an index and text. Edited by George F. Scheer. A first person account of the author's experiences as a young soldier in the American Revolution during which he participated in the Battle of Brooklyn, New York, Harlem and White Plains. Then as a member of the Continental Army he fought in battles throughout the rest of the war until the army was disbanded in 1783. (from the editor's introduction). This title is a republication of the original narrative published in 1830 anonymously under a very similar title.
    TB33424  $125.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    McCullough, David:  1776.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 dark blue cloth and blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine and decorated end papers. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 1/4 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. 386 pages including an index,bibliography, source notes, text and illustrated with three sections of reproductions of contemporary works of art, maps and facsimiles of original documentation. A very attractive and collectible copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB33408  $150.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    McCullough, David:  John Adams.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. First Edition. Fine in black and brown paper covered boards with elaborate gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 1/4 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. There are no names, dates or inscriptions or any defects to this volume. 751 pages including an index, list of sources, text and illustrated with reproductions of color and black and white contemporary art. Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
    TB32840  $50.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    McCullough, David:  1776.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 dark blue cloth and blue paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine and decorated end papers. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 386 pages including an index,bibliography, source notes, text and illustrated with three sections of reproductions of contemporary works of art, maps and facsimiles of original documentation. A bright, clean and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB28395  $30.00




  • Meyer, Larry L.:  Shadow of a Continent.  Palo Alto, CA: American West Publis, 1975. First Edition, First printing. Fine in red textured paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine jacket although with a price clipped jacket flap. The author offers his research to support the belief that the "real prize" of the American Revolutionary War was not the colonies by the lands to the west of the colonies.
    TB07782  $21.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Middlebrook, Louis F.:  Maritime Connecticut During the American Revolution 1775-1778.  Salem: The Essex Institute, 1925. First Edition, Limited Edition. Both volumes in this two volume set are in fine condition in dark blue ribbed cloth with bright gilt text stamping and decorations to the spines and front boards with the top edges gilt. Both volumes are contained within near fine dust jackets. The volumes are contained within a very good paper covered slipcase with one top edge split which has been repaired with clear archival tape. One of only 1,250 copies printed. Vol. I contains 271 pages including an index. Vol. II contains 359 pages including an index. Vol. I contains detailed references on vessels of the Connecticut navy with information on ship construction, armament, crews, naval engagements, prison ships and nautical instruments. Vol. II provides comparable data on privateers fitted out in Connecticut. A clean, tight and handsome set with no prior ownership markings of any kind. (Gephart, 7346)
    TB32997  $165.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Morgan, Edmund S.:  American Heroes Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America.  New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (2009). First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and the author's facsimile signature on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9" by 6". In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with minor wear to the upper edge of the spine area. 278 pages including an index.
    TB26313  $20.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Morison, Samuel Eliot:  John Paul Jones A Sailor's Biography.  Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1959. Second Printing. Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on a blue title background on the spine and with a gilt decoration of a sailing ship on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. In a very good+ price clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine area with no chips or tears. Morison won a Pulitzer Prize for biography for this title in 1959. 453 pages including an index, bibliography, appendices, text. Illustrated with a frontispiece image of Jones' bust from a photograph and with 15 plates with images from contemporary works of art and from photographs as well as maps and charts.
    TB32843  $60.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Murdock, Harold:  The Nineteenth of April 1775.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. First Trade Edition. Near fine in 1/4 black cloth and red paper covered boards with a paper label on the spine. Within a very good- unclipped dust jacket with several 1/2" deep chips at the upper edge of the spine area and front panel. 134 pages of text followed by a fold-out map of the greater Boston area. Illustrated with a number of photographic reproductions of earlier works of art. The book was first published in 1923 as a limited edition of 575 copies. The first issue of the book contained the following subtitle: "Exhibiting a fair and impartial account of the engagement fought on that day, chiefly in the Towns of Concord, Lexington, the Menotomy, between a Detachment of His Brittanick Majesty's Regular Troops and the Militia of the Province of Massachusetts Bay; with candid remarks upon certain relations of that sanguinary event as set forth by other hands."
    TB22227  $75.00




  • Nebensahl, Kenneth:  A Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a near fine dust jacket with a small, hardly seen, 1/2" closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel near the fold to the spine area. Overall a beautiful copy! 159 pages containing index, list of references and text with 218 cited Battle Plans of the American Revolution from 1775 to 1795.
    TB13619  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Nelson, James L.:  George Washington's Secret Navy How The American Revolution Went To Sea.  New York: McGraw Hill, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in dark green and yellow-orange paper covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 378 pages including an index, bibliography, endnotes, text and illustrated with a map and a section of black and white photographs of contemporary works of art, charts and images of more current photographs. A very clean, tight and handsome copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB33083  $30.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Neumann, George C.:  Swords & Blades of the American Revolution.  Harrisburg: Stackpole Books, 1973. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in dark gray cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and front board. A quarto measuring 12" high by 9" deep. In a very good- unclipped dust jacket with several closed tears to the ends of the spine area. 288 pages including an index, text and hundreds of photographs and drawings. "The encyclopedia of bladed weapons, swords, bayonets, spontoons, halberds, pikes, knives, daggers, and axes used by both sides, on land and sea in America's struggle for independence."
    TB21433  $75.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Nickerson, Hoffman:  The Turning Point Of The Revolution.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First Edition. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with faded gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 5/8 by 5 7/8 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with 4 inch long closed tear to the rear panel and minor shallow chipping to the ends of the spine area. 499 including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece, maps and a facsimile of an historic document. A thorough evaluation of the Battle of Saratoga and the surrender of the British Army headed by General Burgoyne.
    TB31182  $90.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Painter, Thomas:  Autobiography Of Thomas Painter Relating His Experiences During the War Of The Revolution.  n.p. No City Stated: Privately Published, (1910). First Edition. Very good+ in full, limp, dark brown, leather (Levant Grain) with the title stamped in gilt text on the front board. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches rebacked retaining the majority of the original leather back strip with light wear and rubbing to the edges of the boards, a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down (Library of The Society Of Colonial Wars) with a number of uncut pages in the preliminaries and termination pages. Very uncommon in book form. 105 pages of text and illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author at age 36 and a plate of Painter's birthplace and home in West Haven, Connecticut from a photograph. Painter server two short term enlistments with the Continental Army witnessing the Battle of Long Island and the army's escape across the East River to Manhattan. When his enlistment came to an end he went back to his home only to witness the British attack on New Haven. He tired of Army life and went to sea. But his service with various enterprises of privateering and as a mate on board a cargo vessel and eventually a captain of his own vessel netted him three captures by the British and two imprisonments on the British prison hulks. (Gephart, 14145; Kaplan, 4402)
    TB32096  $300.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Perry, Arthur Latham:  Origins In Williamstown.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. First Edition. Good+ in its original black cloth covered beveled boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine heavily worn and with the cloth over the tips of the boards worn and rubbed. Adhesive tape has been used to hold the first and second free end pages into the text block and the title page has lost at least half of its attachment to the text block. Small, penciled check marks appear in the margins throughout the text. Attached to the first free end page is a small 2 by 4 1/2 inch slip of paper which reads: "Arthur Robinson | from his old teacher | Arthur Latham Perry". which is the signature of the author who was a professor of history and economics at Williams College from 1853 to 1891. 631 pages including an index and text. Eleven illustrations from engravings, photographs and silhouettes. According to Ronald Gephart's bibliography Revolutionary America 1763-1789, "References to the Revolutionary era are scattered through the first two chapters." (Gephart, 1627)
    TB32759  $150.00




  • Philbrick, Nathaniel:  In The Hurricane's Eye.  New York: Viking, (2018). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black and dark green paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 5 7/8 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Subtitled: "The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown". 366 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps and two sections of black and white images from earlier works of art.
    TB30350  $30.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Philbrick, Nathaniel:  Bunker Hill A City, a Siege, a Revolution.  New York: Viking, (2013). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine and on the front board. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 398 pages of text including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with maps and two sections of both color and black and white photographs of contemporary works of art. The author researched the men who followed Benedict Arnold in the march through Maine in 1775 to attack Quebec and afterward tracing their ordeal in capture and most returning to the colonies to rejoin their brothers in arms against the British.
    TB33109  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Philbrick, Nathaniel:  Valiant Ambition George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution.  New York: Viking, (2016). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black and purple paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 427 pages of text including an index, bibliography, chapter notes. Illustrated with maps and two sections of black and white reproductions of earlier works of art. An extremely clean and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32024  $20.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    [Post, Lydia Minturn]:  Personal Recollections Of The American Revolution A Private journal Prepared from Authentic Domestic Records Together with Reminiscences of Washington & Lafayette.  New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. First Edition. Good+ in pebbled light brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A 12mo measuring 7 1/2" by 5" with the cloth at the head and the heel heavily worn and worn through to the text block, the front hinge is cracked and the tips of the boards are worn. Despite the cracked front hinge, the binding remains tight and strong with no loose pages or separated signatures. Without a dust jacket. 251 pages illustrated with a facsimile of a two dollar bill of 1776 as the frontispiece. Edited by Sidney Barclay (a pseudonym used by the author, who, according to the preface, was the "wife of an officer of the Revolution, and the daughter of a clergyman of the Church of England....") (Sabin, 64460; Gephart, 5705)
    TB27663  $80.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Preston, Howard Willis:  The Battle Of Rhode Island August 29th, 1778.  Providence: State of Rhode Island State Bureau of Information, 1928. First Edition. Very good+ in heavy, printed paper wraps over a stapled binding. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 1/8 inches with fading around the edges of the covers. The contents are very clean and tight with no damage, foxing or staining. 56 pages of text followed by a fold-out, facsimile map illustrating military locations during the month of August, 1778. Additional illustrations include a frontispiece; a one page map showing the American Trenches; and, four plates three of which are from photographs. (Gephart, 6350; Rhode Island A Bibliography of Its History, 1195)
    TB32570  $50.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Pulsifer, David:  An Account Of The Battle Of Bunker Hill, Compiled from Authentic Sources With General Burgoyne's Account Of The Battle.  Boston: A Williams And Co., c1872, 1875. Reprint of 1875. Very near fine in blue paper covered limp boards with gilt text on the front board. A 16mo of 6 1/16 by 3 3/4 inches with light wear to the heel of the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. 75 pages of text. Illustrated with a fold-out map of Boston, Charlestown the Charles River and Boston Harbour titled: "Plan of the Town of Boston with the Attack on Bunkers-Hill in the Peninsula of Charlestown" tipped-in at the front of the book. The map and the contents are in fine condition with no foxing, tanning or prior owner's markings.
    TB31989  $125.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Rae, Noel:  The People's War Original Voices of the American Revolution.  Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in light blue paper covered boards with bold silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 614 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and reproductions of contemporary works of art.
    TB29383  $30.00




  • Randall, Willard Sterne:  Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor.  New York: Wm. Morrow & Company, 1990. Second Printing. Near fine in 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards with slight fading around the edges of the boards and with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down under the dust jacket flap. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with minor wrinkling at the ends of the spine area. A biography of Benedict Arnold by an award winning journalist and a recognized historian who has uncovered new materials to help resolve the mystery of why Arnold may have changed sides. Illustrated with a section of black and white photographs and maps.
    TB20105  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Rankin, Hugh F.:  The North Carolina Continentals.  Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, (1971). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in full, tan cloth covered boards with a gilt on blue title block on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket with slight wear and rubbing to the ends of the spine area (with tape repairs on the verso side of the upper end of the jacket) and with wear and rubbing over the tips of the boards. 428 pages including an index, bibliography and text. The author provides an extremely detailed history of the North Carolinian soldiers as members of the Continental Army.
    TB32109  $55.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Rathbun, Jonathan, Rufus Avery and Stephen Hempstead:  Narrative of Jonathan Rathbun With Accurate Accounts of the Capture of Groton Fort.  no city stated [New London]: No publisher stated, (1840). First edition. Very good in original gray-green cloth covered boards with a rebacked spine with the majority of the original back strip reapplied. A 12mo measuring 7 3/16 by 4 1/2 inches with dampness stains to the front end sheets and with faint dampness stains to the lower fore corner margins on the pages. There is also a name of an early prior owner at the top edge of the title page. A collection of three eye witness accounts of the attack on and taking of Fort Griswold on Sept. 6, 1781 by the British near the end of the Revolutionary War. The complete title reads: "Narrative of Jonathan Rathbun with accurate accounts of the capture of Groton Fort, the massacre that followed, and the sacking and burning of New London, September 6, 1781 by the British Forces, under the command of the Traitor Benedict Arnold." Additional, eye witness narratives by Rufus Avery and Stephen Hempstead are included as well as an appendix containing six essays dealing with Arnold's desertion from West Point; an "Anecdote of Mrs. Bailey" giving her petticoat to be used as flannel for cartridges; a "Eulogy on General Washington"; and, the names of those killed and wounded in the Battle of Fort Griswold. 80 pages of text. (Howes R-68; Gephart, 6381; Sabin, 2489 & 67952)
    TB28797  $350.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Richards, Josephine Ellis, Editor:  Honor Roll of Litchfield County Revolutionary Soldiers.  Litchfield, Conn.: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1912. First Edition. Near fine in bright blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the front board. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with what appears to be a binding mistake on the spine with two minor raised areas under the cloth. Without a dust jacket. 233 pages of text. Containing lists of soldiers who fought in the American Revolution from the various towns of Litchfield County, Connecticut.
    TB30093  $30.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Rider, Hope S.:  Valour Fore & Aft Being the Adventures of America's First Naval Vessel.  Newport: Seaport '76 Foundation, 1978. First Edition by Seaport '76 Foundation, First Printing. Fine in linen covered boards with dark brown text on the spine with map end sheets. An octavo of 8 7/8 by 5 7/8 inches with a dated notation from a prior owner on the dedication page. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. First published by the Naval Institute Press in 1977. Signed and inscribed by the author on the fly title page. 259 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with a two page frontis and line drawings, facsimile images of documents, maps and images from photographs. This is a tribute to the history of the first naval vessel for the struggling Continentals.
    TB33108  $35.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Roberts, Kenneth:  Arundel.  Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Very good+ in dark blue cloth covered boards with orange text and decorations on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches with rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. With only the front panel of the first issue dust jacket done by Stafford Good under a clear acetate dust jacket protector. As noted above this copy has only a portion of the Stafford Good first state dust jacket which was originally used to cover the initial copies of the first edition. Roberts complained so bitterly about this jacket that the publisher (Doubleday) had to remove the book from the market to have a new jacket designed and painted by N.C. Wyeth. Any collector of Roberts' books aspires to have a first edition copy of this title in the first state dust jacket.
    TB32230  $1000.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Roberts, Kenneth:  The Lively Lady.  Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. First Edition. Very near fine in black cloth covered boards with light green text and decorations on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 5 1/4 inches with map end sheets with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine lightly rubbed and the ghost of what may have been a book plate on the front paste down. In a very good+, unclipped first state dust jacket with rubbing to the fold to the front flap and several vary short closed tears around the edges of the panels. Signed and inscribed to A. P. Tedesco by the author on the title page. This copy is covered by the first state dust jacket which reads "A Chronicle of Certain Men of Arundel" while the second state dust jacket reads: "A Chronicle of Arundel". Only 5,560 of the first printing were sold. A scarce title in this condition in a very collectible and very uncommon dust jacket.
    TB32233  $450.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Roberts, Kenneth:  Oliver Wiswell (Limited Edition).  New York: Doubleday, Doran Co., 1940. First Edition, Limited Edition. Both volumes of this two volume set are in near fine condition specially bound in full, red leather covered boards with five raised bands on each spine with gilt text in two of the compartments and gilt tooling in the others. The top edge of the text blocks are gilt, the end sheets are marbled paper and the leather turn-ins are decorated with gilt dentelles. This binding was most probably ordered by Roberts to be gifted to his friend, Doubleday, Doran publishing executive, Malcolm Johnson, who's name is listed in the collection of names who provided "generous assistance" in the creation and publication of this title. Both volumes are small quartos of 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches. There is a faint dampness stain to the extreme lower, inside edge to the first 70 pages of volume I. That stain does not impact on any of the text as it is limited to the lower margin. The lower quarter of the front joint to volume I shows a slight weakness. The hinges and joints for both volumes are otherwise fine. The trade version of this set was sold with glassine jackets and a paper covered slipcase. It is doubtful that a slipcase was made for this specially bound set. The binding was produced by The French Binders of Garden City, New York as evidenced by their gilt stamp on the front paste downs. This set is signed by Roberts and numbered 182 out of only 1,050 copies printed and sold. Volume I contains 411 pages of text and illustrated with a frontispiece portrait by Grant Wood and two, double page maps. Volume II contains pages 415 to 849 including a bibliography and text and is illustrated with two, two page maps. This title was a best selling novel for Roberts. It provides an insightful look at the American Revolution from a Loyalist's point-of-view. After reading it one is astounded that the war was even won by the American forces.
    TB33418  $350.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Roberts, Kenneth:  Rabble in Arms (1939 Ticonderoga Edition).  Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1939. Ticonderoga Edition of 1939. Very near fine in dark blue, patterned cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a gilt decoration on the front board. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches with minor crimping of the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with several 1/4 inch deep chips at the upper edge of the spine area, several very shallow chips at the lower edge of the spine area a closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel with related creasing. Signed by the author on a specially tipped-in Fort Ticonderoga page just before the fly title page. Reportedly, there were only 150 copies of this edition published making it extremely uncommon. Overall a very handsome and collectable copy of one of Kenneth Roberts' most memorable works historical fiction novels dealing with the early years of the American Revolution. The book picks-up following the loss at Quebec and where Robert's earlier book, Arundel, leaves off. It traces the escape of the American Army, under the command of Benedict Arnold, down Lake Champlain to the southern end of the lake to construct a small fleet of vessels to meet and oppose the British fleet on the northern end of the lake. The ensuing battle took place at Valcour Island on October 11, 1776. Although the Battle of Valcour Island was considered a loss to the American forces its outcome was significant enough to delay the British advance down the lake and was a major reason for the ultimate victory at Saratoga a year later.
    TB31209  $300.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Roberts, Kenneth:  Arundel (300th Anniversary Edition).  Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1953. Reprint of May 1953. Fine in navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board with map end sheets. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with two 1/4 inch long closed tears to the upper edge of the spine area and a small chip from the rear upper fore corner of the rear board over the tip of the board. This is the very scarce 300th Anniversary Edition which has a specially tipped-in page in advance of th title page bearing the signature of the author. 652 pages of text followed by a number of pages of ads for other titles by Roberts. Reportedly there were only 701 copies of this edition celebrating the 300th anniversary of the founding of the town of Arundel, Maine. The special tipped-in page is signed by Kenneth Roberts. An extremely handsome and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32231  $250.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Roberts, Kenneth:  March To Quebec.  Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1938. First Edition, First printing. Fine in redish cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine with map fixed end sheets. As is so typical with this title, the front and rear hinge areas show modest tanning due to a reaction with the glue used in binding. A small octavo measuring 7 7/8 by 5 1/2 inches. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with three shallow chips at the upper edge of the spine area and four very small chips at the fore corners of the panels over the tips of the boards. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. 657 pages including an index and text. Following the writing of Arundel, Roberts compiled the journals of the members of Arnold's expedition to attack Quebec through the wilds of what is now the Maine woods north into Canada in the dead of winter. An extremely handsome and very collectible copy with no prior owner's markings, dates or book plates.
    TB30793  $195.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Roberts, Kenneth:  Rabble In Arms.  New York: Doubleday, Doran, c1933, 1938. Reprint of 1938. Fine in its original dark blue decorated cloth covered boards with bright gilt text on the spine and a gilt eagle on the front board with map end sheets. A small quarto of 7 1/2 by 5 1/4 inches. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with art by N. C. Wyeth. This is a splendid copy with only a tiny amount of rubbing to the upper fore corner of the front panel. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. 870 pages of text followed by four pages of ads by the publisher for other Kenneth Roberts' titles. A beautiful, tight clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32228  $175.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Roberts, Kenneth:  March to Quebec.  Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1946. Reprint of May, 1946. Near fine in light tan buckram cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine with map end sheets. A small octavo of 7 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches with a minor scuff mark to the front board. In a very good+, price clipped dust jacket with minor shallow chips to the upper edge of the spine area and light soiling to the panels. Contains the modifications and additions made by Roberts up to March, 1945 to include the John Pierce Journal. 722 pages including an index.
    TB32234  $125.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Roberts, Kenneth:  Rabble In Arms.  Camden, Maine: Down East Books, (1996). Fifth Printing. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 3/8 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. An historical fiction novel which centers around the early years of the American Revolution and the American retreat from Canada 586 pages of text.
    TB31878  $15.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Rockwell, George L.:  The History of Ridgefield Connecticut.  Ridgefield, Conn.: Self-Published, 1927. First Edition. A presentation copy in near fine condition in full, brown leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text in three compartments and gilt borders and gilt title on the front board and with the top edges the text block gilt. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 inches with the rear board retaining most of the original green color, but with the spine and and front board faded to a warm brown and there is a p prior owner's book plate on the first free end pages and with two penciled marginal notations in the appendix. Without a dust jacket. On the verso of the first free end page the author has written a warm, dated (May 31, 1929) inscription to possibly a relative. 583 pages including an index, appendices, records of vital statistics for Ridgefield from 1706 and text. Illustrated with maps and images from black and white photographs. This title carries a chapter describing in detail the British attack on Danbury from Compo Beach in Westport where the British landed.
    TB32819  $175.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Rogers, Ernest E.:  Connecticut's Naval Office at New London During the War of the American Revolution.  New London: Private Printing, 1933. First Edition. Fine in dark blue ribbed cloth covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the front board and on the spine with decorated end sheets and the top edge of the text block is gilt. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 inches. Without its issued dust jacket. One of only 750 copies printed. 358 pages including an index of vessels, an index of names, bibliography, and illustrated with 27 images from photographs. The volume includes the merchantile letter book of Nathiel Shaw (1735-1782) who was a naval agent and Connecticut merchant. (Gephart, 14416)
    TB32826  $65.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Ronald, D. A. B:  The Life Of John Andre The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict Arnold.   Philadelphia: Casemate, (2019). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in bright red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price), dust jacket. 336 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated throughout with maps and reproductions of earlier works of art.
    TB32807  $20.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Sargent, Winthrop:  The Life And Career Of Major John Andre, Adjutant-General Of The British Army In America.  Boston: Ticknor And Fields, 1861. First Edition. Very good+ in its original blind embossed, brown cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 inches with wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the cloth over the tips of the boards and with a gift inscription of "Sept. 9 1863" on the secrond free end page. 471 pages of text and appendices followed by 16 pages of ads from Ticknor and Fields illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Major Andre from an engraving.and a map of the lower east side of the North (Hudson) River. (Howes, S-113; Sabin, 77043)
    TB32868  $450.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Schiff, Stacy:  The Revolutionary Samuel Adams.  Boston: Little, Brown And Company, (2022). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 421 pages including illustration credits, index, bibliography, extensive end notes and text. Illustrated with a section of color and black and white images of earlier works of art and from photographs. Adams was the first to give voice to the idea of independence from Great Britain. He made an annual recognition to the Boston Massacre; he orchestrated the Boston Tea Party yet he could never be directly linked with any mischief he created.
    TB32809  $35.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Schnitzer, Eric, and Don Troiani:  Campaign To Saratoga - 1777 The Turning Point of the Revolutionary War in Paintings, Arttifacts, and Historical Narrative.  Guilford, Conn.: Stackpole Books, (2019). First Edition. Fine in royal blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 10 by 8 1/2 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 332 pages of text including extensive chapter notes and text. Illustrated with color drawings and paintings by Don Troiani, maps and images from color photographs. A fine, beautiful, tight and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32050  $50.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Shaw, Peter:  American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark green cloth covered boards with copper colored text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6" with a gift inscription on the front free end page. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine area. 279 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. The author "explores the interactions of personal conscience, crises, and crowds, as America moved toward war." (from the jacket flap).
    TB24603  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Smith, Justin H.:  Arnold's March from Cambridge to Quebec.  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. First Edition, First printing. Very good in dark green pebbled cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine shows modest fading and there are minor tape stains on the front paste down where a picture post card of the Arnold Memorial Rock at Bigham was taped. The second to last free end page of the text has been torn away the loss of which is of little consequence. An octavo measuring 8 1/8" tall by 5 3/8" deep. Without a dust jacket. 498 pages including an index followed by a one page ad from the publisher. Illustrated with eighteen maps. The author makes a meticulous examination of the details to uncover Arnold's exact route through Maine and lower Canada to attack Quebec. (Gephart, 6014)
    TB21851  $200.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Sprague, Rev. Delos E.:  Descriptive Guide of the Battlefield of Saratoga Illustrated.  Ballston Spa, NY: Battlefield Publishing Co., Inc., 1930. First Edition. Very good+ in its original dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board. A small octavo of 73/4 by 4 7/8 inches with light ware and rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the lower tips of the boards with map end sheets. Without a dust jacket. 93 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with reproductions of earlier works of art, maps and images from black and white photographs.
    TB32890  $50.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Stackpole, Edourard A.:  Nantucket In The American Revolution.  Falmouth, Mass.: The Nantucket Historical Association, 1976. First Edition. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. An octavo measuring 9 by 5 7/8 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 140 pages of text illustrated with black and white reproductions of earlier works of art. A fine, bright copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB28649  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Stevens, John Austin:  The Expedition of Lafayette Against Arnold.  Baltimore, Md: Peabody Publication Fund, 1878. First Edition. Very good+ in printed, paper wraps over a sewn and glued binding. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 6 inches with the paper over the spine worn and rubbed yet the binding remains strong. The contents are clean and bright with no prior ownership markings of any kind. "A Paper read before the Maryland Historical Society on January 14th, 1878" by the author. 36 pages of text. The pages remain un-opened. The title page is printed in red and black.
    TB32923  $50.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Stiles, T. J. (Editor):  The American Revolution First Person Accounts by Men Who Shaped Our Nation.  New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, (1999). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in red paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9 by 6 inches with slight curling of the lower edge of the spine. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 359 pages of text. Illustrated with a map frontispiece. From the front panel of the dust jacket: "Includes essays, letters, and diary entries by: George Washington, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Lee, John Adams and many others".
    TB29093  $20.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Stone, William L.:  The Campaign Of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne, And The Expedition of Lieut. Col. Barry St. Leger.  Albany, NY: Joel Munsell, 1877. First Edition. Very good- in its original decorated, blue cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine with a gilt image of the surrender of Burgoyne to Gates. The front board is decorated with embossed black borders. A 12mo of 7 1/4 by 4 7/8 inches with wear and rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine, the cloth over the tips of the boards is worn through, the front board is soiled and rubbed at its fore edge, the front hinge was cracked, but has been reinforced professionally; and the rear hinge has been reinforced, and there is an early prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. The second free end page is warmly inscribed and signed by the author to John Henry Sarin whose book plate is on the front paste down. 461 pages of text including an index, an extensive appendix (within which is a bibliography) and text. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Burgoyne from an engraving and a fold-out map of the Saratoga battlefield, a facsimile, seven portraits, three plates of locations and four vignettes. (Howes, S-1036; Gephart, 6222; Klein, 307)
    TB32878  $300.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Stone, William L.:  The Poetry And History of Wyoming: Containing Campbell's Gertrude and the History of Wyoming From Its Discovery To The Beginning Of The Present Century.  Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1864. Third Edition. Very good in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small octavo of 8 by 4 3/4 inches with each of the fore corners of the boards bumped, the cloth at the head and heel of the spine rubbed, a 1/2 inch white stain on the front board and a 1/4 inch wide ink stain four inches long down from the upper edge of the front board. The hinges and joints remain tight and strong and the contents are completely free of tanning with only occasional small spots of foxing. 406 pages including an index. Illustrated with a portrait of Joseph Brant who with his party of Mohawks was a participant in this battle on the British side. The bulk of the text are sheets from the second edition while the index and a new, rubricated title page are the only inclusions of this the third edition. This book and its subtexts refers to the Battle (massacre) of Wyoming, Pennsylvania in July 3rd 1788 when British forces combined with Loyalists and several Indian tribes fought and defeated outnumbered American patriots. The American side suffered 340 dead and approximately 20 captured. The British side suffered only 3 killed and 8 wounded. (Sabin, 92151)
    TB32872  $140.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Stuart, I. W.:  Life of Jonathan Trumbull, Sen., Governor Of Connecticut.  Boston: Crocker And Brewster, c1849, 1859. First Edition. Very good+ in its original decorated, brown cloth covered boards with gilt text and designs on the spine and a gilt sketch of a home on the front board together with elaborate blind embossing. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 5 3/4 inches with mild rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and with the cloth over the tips of the boards worn through. Light foxing exists on the preliminaries up to the title page and to the final two leaves in the book. There is an early book plate of J. G. Belden attached to the front pastedown. 700 pages of text. Illustrated with a color frontispiece from an original painting and three color plates. Governor Trumbull (1710-1785) was an important contributor to the American Revolution providing Washington and his troops with badly needed food, clothing and munitions. A very tight and handsome copy.(Sabin, 93164)
    TB31497  $150.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Tebbel, John:  Turning The World Upside Down Inside The American Revolution.  New York: Orion Books, (1993). First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and maroon paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6" with a blank, unsigned, book plate on the first free end page. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 448 pages of text including an extensive index and bibliography. Illustrated with three maps.
    TB26786  $15.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    The American Historical Company, Inc.:  Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America.  New York: The American Historical Company, Inc., 1961. Revised Edition. Very good+ in 3/4 black leather and purple cloth covered boards with gilt text and gilt decorations on the spine. A quarto of 11 1/2 by 8 7/8 inches with light rubbing to the leather over the tips of the boards and joints and with the leather over the upper rear board tip worn through to expose the underlying board. Without a dust jacket. 670 pages including an extensive index. Illustrated with photographic reproductions and coats of arms. "A collection of genealogical studies, completely documented, and appropriately illustrated, bearing upon notable early American lines and their collateral connections." (from title page) A very handsome, tight and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB29444  $350.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Tiger, Caroline:  General Howe's Dog George Washington, The Battle of Germantown, and the Dog Who Crossed Enemy Lines.  New York: Chamberlain Bros., 2005. First Edition, First printing. Fine in red and tan paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A 12mo measuring 7 1/2" by 5". In a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on a book plate attached to the first free end page. 162 pages including a bibliography and text. Illustrated with maps and black and white photographs of contemporary works of art.
    TB23504  $30.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Tillotson, Harry Stanton:  The Beloved Spy The Life and Loves of Major John Andre.  Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1948. First edition, Signed limited edition. Near fine in decorated light rede cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text and decorations on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches with minor white markings on the front board with a few of the pages roughly opened. In a poor, unclipped dust jacket with large multiple chips on the panels, the spine area faded with tape repairs. Signed by the author on the copyright page and numbered 38 out of only 1,000 copies of the signed limited edition printed. The first free end page is also signed, dated and inscribed by the publisher on the first free end page. 199 pages including an index, bibliography, text and illustrated with a frontispiece of Andre from an engraving and 18 plates from photographs or earlier works of art.
    TB32738  $100.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Ubbelohde, Carl:  The Vice-Admiralty Courts and the American Revolution.  Williamsburg and Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1960. First Edition. Near fine in dark blue, smooth cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches with only a touch of rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and with a prior owner's, signed book plate on the front free end page. Without a dust jacket. 242 pages including an index and a bibliography. The history of Admiralty Courts goes back as far as the 1400's. It was a separate branch of the courts system in many European countries. They were used to adjudicate disputes over shipping, ships and collisions and their most illustrious work were the settlement of claims against ships and cargos taken during a time of war.
    TB32863  $65.00




  • Van Doren, Carl:  Mutiny in January.  New York: The Viking Press, 1943. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping, minor fading around the board edges & a prior owners name on 1st FEP. In a very good+ dust jacket with a price clipped front flap and moderate light wear at the ends of the spine area and soiled on the rear panel. The story of a group of soldiers from the Pennsylvania Line who mutinied in January of 1781 and whose actions threatened to create a crisis for the entire American Army.
    TB11939  $28.00



  • Click on Image to view multiple images
    Various Authors:  The Washingtoniana: Containing A Biographical Sketch Of The Late Gen. George Washington, With Various Outlines Of His Character.  Baltimore: Samuel Sower, 1800. First Edition, First Issue. Recently rebound in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A 16mo of 6 1/2 by 4 inches with new end sheets. The contents are uniformly tanned with only occasional spots of foxing. Without a dust jacket. 298 pages (the pagination conforms to Howe's U.S.Iana 7-258 271-298) followed by six pages of "subscriber's names". Illustrated with a frontispiece of Washington from an engraving by Tanner. This copy conforms to Sabin's statement in his bibliography regarding the first issue of this title: "At the foot of the last page of the first issue listed: "The list of subscriber's [sic] names for Easton, and parts of Ann Arundel, &c is not come to hand." (Howes W-151; Sabin, 101900)
    TB32257  $800.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Volo, James M.:  Blue Water Patriots The American Revolution Afloat.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, (2007). First Edition, First printing. Fine in black cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small octavo measuring 9 1/2" by 6". In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with a 1/4" closed tear to the upper edge of the rear panel. 307 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes, appendix and text. Illustrated with maps, line drawings and reproductions of contemporary works of art.
    TB25673  $15.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Waller, George M.:  The American Revolution in the West.  Chicago: Nelson-Hall, (1976). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and brown, simulated leather covered boards with bright gilt text stamping on the spine and a gilt embossed flying eagle on the front board. An oblong small octavo measuring 8" by 9 3/4". In a near fine, price clipped dust jacket with a 2" long closed tear (which has been repaired with archival tape) at the fold to the front flap. 153 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with maps and reproductions of contemporary works of art.
    TB26838  $25.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Walsh, John Evangelist:  The Execution of Major Andre.  New York: Palgrave for St. Martin's Press, (2001). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in blue paper covered boards with metallic red text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 3/16 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 239 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Andre from an engraving and images throughout from earlier works of art and from black and white photographs.
    TB32776  $40.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Washington, George [James Rivington, Compiler/Editor]:  Epistles Domestic, Confidential, And Official, From General Washington, Written About The Commencement Of The American Contest, When He Entered On The Command Of The Army Of The United States.  New York: James Rivington, 1796. First Edition. Good+ in full, speckled calf covered boards with a gilt on red leather title block on the spine with four double gilt rules on the spine. A small octavo measuring 7 7/8" by 4 1/2" with a 1/2" chip to the leather at the heel of the spine a 1/8" chip to the leather at the head of the spine light rubbing and wear to the edges of the boards. There is an early prior owner's name on the first free end page and a second prior owner's name at the upper edge of the title page. Per Howes, "The first seven letters are Tory forgeries previously printed as Letters from General Washington to several of his friends." As pointed out by Sabin, this copy is unique as it holds the inserted letter from Timothy Pickering which copies President Washington's letter of March 3, 1797 disavowing the forged letters noted above. Secondly, the frontispiece portrait of President Washington is engraved by "L. Hill" instead of an engraving by Rollinson which appears in most copies of this title. Finally, as Evans points out, complete copies of this title should have a blank leaf following page xiv. This copy has the blank leaf. 303 pages of text illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of President Washington. Per Howes, "The first seven letters are Tory forgeries previously printed as Letters from General Washington to several of his friends." Despite these forgeries, Howes considers this title to be "quite scarce". (Howes, W-134; Sabin, 101742; Evans, 30392)
    TB27850  $600.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Washington, George:  George Washington's Accounts of Expenses While Commander-In-Chief Of The Continental Army 1775-1783 Reproduced In Facsimile With Annotations by John C. Fitzpatrick.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. First Edition, Limited Edition. Near fine in 1/2 vellum and blue-green paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt borders on the front board. A folio of 13 1/4 by 8 1/2 inches with light soiling of the velum at the upper and lower ends of the backstrip. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is enclosed within a good black paper covered slipcase with heavy wear at the opening of the slipcase and one edge is cracked. A limited edition of only 440 numbered copies with this copy identified as number 416. 155 pages including an index, text and facsimile pages of Washington's original journal.
    TB33404  $200.00




  • Washington, George:  The Journal of Major George Washington.  New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1959. First Edition, First printing. Fine in dark blue paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with a the original price intact on the front flap but with the spine area slightly tanned and with light insect damage. "An account of his first official mission, made as emissary from the Governor of Virginia to the Commandant of the French Forces on The Ohio, October 1753 - January 1754. 41 pages containing the facsimile of Washington's original printed account.
    TB15987  $21.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Weintraug, Stanley:  General Washington's Christmas Farewell A Mount Vernon Homecoming 1783.  New York: Free Press, 2003. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in black paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 5 1/2" with occasional underlings in pencil. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 204 pages including an index, bibliography and text. Illustrated with maps and a section of black and white photographs of contemporary works of art.
    TB23502  $20.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Welsh, Glenna M.:  The Proprietors of Ridgefield Connecticut.  Ridgefield, Conn: The Caudatowa Press, 1976. Limited First Edition. Fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and with two gilt sketched cattle heads on the front board and with illustrated end sheets. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of only 1,000 copies printes. This copy is out of series and not signed by the author. 188 pages including an appendices and text. Illustrated with maps, photographic reproductions and facsimiles of early documents. Ample amounts of the text are devoted to the American Revolution with regard to the Battle of Ridgefield, and the British attacks on Norwalk, Danbury, Fairfield and New Haven.
    TB32979  $75.00




  • Wharton, Francis:  The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States Volume IV.  Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition, First printing. In only fair condition in full leather (sheep) covered boards with black and red leather title labels on the spine with the front joint nearly parted, the front board bowed and the rear joint beginning to separate. Without a dust jacket. A reprinting and publication of the diplomatic correspondence of the United States between July 17, 1780 to November 25, 1781. 869 pages.
    TB19889  $20.00



  • Click on Image to expand
    Whittemore, Bradford Adams:  Memorials Of The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati.  Boston: Society of the Cincinnati, 1964. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in orange cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and tan end sheets. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2" by 6" with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with two 1/2" narrow chips from the upper edge of the front panel and with light tanning to the spine area. 852 pages including an index, appendix and text.
    TB24191  $75.00






  • After you have checked off each book you wish to order (a mouse click in the small check box just above the author's name or book title will do it), please tap the ORDER button below.  You will then be taken to our secure server which will allow you to confirm the items you want and then enter the information to provide us with the details of your name, payment method and where the book(s) should be sent. 

    All books are returnable within 10 days from date of receipt; however, please call us first so that we understand your intentions.  

    Availability is subject to prior sale.