Garden City, NY: Book League of American (Doubleday,) (1940.). Hardcover - Novel based on the life of Henry Brown, a distant cousin of abolitionist John Brown, and a pacificist who fled to Canada to avoid fighting in the Civil War.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography in which "Nelson explodes the conventional dismissal of the subject as a fanatic, and presents him as America's greatest revolutionary, the organizer of a brilliant coup which eventually succeeded in beginning to overthrow and dismember proslavery control of the U.S. government." Illustrated with maps, reproductions of vintage woodcuts and photographs. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0010519.

New York: Harper & Row, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thorough and well-researched biography of one of the most influential and controversial figures in American history, the first full-scale biography and the first based on original research to appear in 60 years. Brown was profoundly religious man dedicated to the overthrow of slavery and Negro rights, a failure at many things but one who. in his doomed attempt to seize the armory at Harper's Ferry, became a martyr to the abolitionist cause. a man who shaped the course of history. Photographs, extensive notes, index. xii, 434 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A novel set in the 1850's, the story of Lidie, tall, plain and outspoken, who marries an abolitionist from Massachusetts, dedicated to settling Kansas to ensure its entering the Union as a Free State. 452 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450742.