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London, UK: Orion, 2011. First British Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. In his first case since he left the LAPDs Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctors death. With the cesium in unknown hands, Harry fears the murder could be part of a terrorist plot to poison a major American city. Soon, Bosch is in a race against time, not only against the culprits, but also against the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI (in the form of Harrys one-time lover Rachel Walling), who are convinced that this case is too important for the likes of the LAPD. It is Boschs job to prove all of them wrong. New, unread, first British edition, first printing, in pristine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M100

[London]: Orion Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1409134288 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with cocked spine and soiled page edges in Fine dust-jacket. SIGNED by author Michael Connelly directly on the title page; Detective Harry Bosch is back in a new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.The Drop is the story of a missing girl and the LAPD detective who is obsessed with finding her.The case draws Bosch into a complex web of sex trafficking, Hollywood power, and government corruption. As he digs deeper, Bosch discovers that the girl is not the only one in danger. Someone wants him gone.; A Harry Bosch Novel; 8vo; 388 pages; Signed by Author .

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed by Mr. Achorn directly to the full title page. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request.A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story―Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil WarBy March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. After a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington's Capitol grounds that day to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation by arguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides had been wrong, and that the war's unimaginable horrors―every drop of blood spilled―might well have been God's just verdict on the national sin of slavery.Edward Achorn reveals the nation's capital on that momentous day―with its mud, sewage, and saloons, its prostitutes, spies, reporters, social-climbing spouses and power-hungry politicians―as a microcosm of all the opposing forces that had driven the country apart. A host of characters, unknown and famous, had converged on Washington―from grievously wounded Union colonel Selden Connor in a Washington hospital and the embarrassingly drunk new vice president, Andrew Johnson, to poet-journalist Walt Whitman; from soldiers' advocate Clara Barton and African American leader and Lincoln critic-turned-admirer Frederick Douglass (who called the speech "a sacred effort") to conflicted actor John Wilkes Booth―all swirling around the complex figure of Lincoln.In indelible scenes, Achorn vividly captures the frenzy in the nation's capital at this crucial moment in America's history and the tension-filled hope and despair afflicting the country as a whole, soon to be heightened by Lincoln's assassination. His story offers new understanding of our great national crisis and echoes down the decades to resonate in our own time.

Oslo: Éditions Du Lic, , 2014. Rilegato (hardback). Ottimo (Fine). A cura di Alessandro Calabrese e Milo Montelli. 84 tavole a colori, di cui 2 in tavole ripiegate. 8vo (cm 26x21). pp. 106. Ottimo (Fine). Prima ed. di 500 esemplari firmati dai curatori (First Edition of 500 copies signed by the editors). Frutto di molti anni di lavoro, le fotografie raccolte in A Drop In the Ocean risalgono agli anni '70 e '80 e sono solo alcune delle molte migliaia scattate dal naturalista italiano Sergio Romagnoli durante la sua fin troppo breve vita. L'interesse primario per i curatori, Alessandro Calabrese e Milo Montelli, oltre al naturale fascino umano per una storia incredibile, risiede nella possibilità di interagire con un corpus di immagini rudimentali e prive di ogni pretesa artistica.Le immagini di Sergio si rivelano di una purezza tangibile; compagne confortanti durante le tante ore che i curatori trascorrono a sfogliare i suoi archivi, album fotografici ed ephemera. Apparentemente semplici ma altamente efficaci, le fotografie di Sergio dimostrano un'acuta sensibilità visiva, strettamente connessa alla realtà fattuale ma potentemente evocativa delle stesse esperienze dello spettatore; un'evocazione di viaggi, incontri e studi volti a scoprire, conoscere e comprendere. L'atto di vedere come denominatore comune.

[Cambridge, Mass, 1821. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Half dark green morocco, rubbed, without title as issued, having only captioned title, single leaf of what appears to be part of a drab wrapper bound before first leaf (browned), frontispiece portrait of the author from a daguerrotype by Anthony Edwards & Co., engraved for the "Democratic Review" by T. Doney, printed by J. Neale, some foxing of the portrait, signed and dated by the author on the last page. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on the inserted leaf or part of wrapper "Mr. James Hayward from his friend, C. C. " James Hayward, was in the class of 1819. He was a tutor of mathematics at Harvard for the following six years and then a professor until 1829 when he resigned to become a civil engineer where he gained recognition in his field. Cushing was of the Harvard class of 1817 and then tutored in mathematics and natural philosophy, studied law and became a statesman filling several legislative and political posts over the years. S & S 5126

First limited edition first printing of the seventeenth novel in the Matt Scudder series. SIGNED and Numbered by the author. Number 45 of 100 copies. No dustjacket as issued. In fine unread condition.

[Columbus, Ohio]: Creative Writing Program at The Ohio State University, 1992. Unbound. Fine. Pictorial broadside. Illustrated with a woodcut by Jay Bolotin. Prose fragment from *YONNONDIO From the Thirties*. Measuring approximately 12" x 18". Blank verso with a bit of light soil else fine. Copy number 1 of 200 copies Signed by Olsen and Bolotin. Nicely printed at the Logan Elm Press & Papermill on the occasion of Tillie Olsen's residency in the creative writing program at The Ohio State University, Spring 1992. Artist Jay Bolotin is also a noted country musician and songwriter.

Signed Typescript from the Japanese Home Service KON 630 KCS at 6:00 AM Tuesday 8/7 which reads, in part: “A small number of B-twenty-nines penetrated into Hiroshima city a little after eight AM yesterday morning and dropped a small number of bombs. As a result a considerable number of homes were reduced to ashes and fires broke out in various parts of the city...The enemy has exposed his cold bloodeness and atrocious nature more and more in killing innocent people by the use of this new-type bomb. ... The enemy has been carrying out large-scale propaganda on the effectiveness of this new-type bomb since using these bombs, but as long as we formulate strong steel-like measures to cope with this bomb, it will be possible to keep damage to a minimum...” Signed at bottom "Thomas W. Ferebee," the bombardier who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II. Comes with a japanese paper money also signed by ferebee In excellent condition.

New York: Mysterious Bookshop, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, limited issue of Michael Connelly's fifteenth Harry Bosch novel, comprising both the lettered edition (copy U of 26) and numbered edition (49 of 100). This special issue preceded the trade edition. Each volume is quarter-bound in leather-like fabric with marbled paper-covered boards and gilt spine stamping. First editions, both signed by Connelly on the limitation page. Both copies are fine and come housed together in a custom black cloth clamshell case; the books are additionally protected by custom tissue and acetate jackets. From the collection of Tom Garner, with his distinctive custom clamshell box.

Signed book " 509th Composite Group History", hardcover, 103 pages. This book is a pictorial album of the 509th Composite Group following them from Wendover Field to them stationed in Tinian. Introduction on first page written and signed by Colonel "Paul W. Tibbets". Across from Tibbets signature Navigator Theodore Van Kirk writes entirely in his own hand: "It was an easy mission because everything went according to plan...The major concerns about the mission were 1. would the bomb work 2. getting away from the blast . Remember this had never been done before and it was a great unknown. When the bomb exploded there was a sense of relief - it had worked. It didn't destroy the airplane. When we looked at the city of Hiroshima it was covered by a cloud of smoke and dust topped by the large mushroom cloud going up to 42,000 ft." Signed "Theodore Van Kirk - Navigator Enola Gay - Hiroshima 6 Aug 1945." In excellent condition.