New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young slave, sold to a Loyalist in New York City, spies for the revolutionaries in 1776, but does not get the freedom she is promised. A moving story of courage and determination. Finalist for the National Book Award for children's literature. 316 pp. ISBN: 9781416961444.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Slightly oversized.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. Slightly oversized. 561 pp plus author's note.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.). First edition - National Book Award winner, NY Times Notable Book, Horn Book award winner and more. Although the two books in this series which follow the adventures of a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. 353 pp plus an author's note and a conversation with the author. ISBN: 9780763636791.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - National Book Award winner, NY Times Notable Book, Horn Book award winner and more. Although the two books in this series which follow the adventures of a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. 351 pp plus an author's note. ISBN: 9780763636791.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.). First edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. Slightly oversized. 561 pp plus author's note.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. Slightly oversized. 561 pp plus author's historical note. ISBN: 978-0763629502.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. Slightly oversized. 561 pp plus author's historical note. ISBN: 978-0763629502.

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Co., (1963). Hardcover - Set in Boston in 1774, on the eve of the revolution, this is the story of a young boy, kidnapped in Liverpool and sold as an indentured servant to a cruel master, and who is bought again by a kindly - but opportunistic - printer (and counterfeiter). As the Jed begins to learn more about the rebels, he also begins to better understand their desire for freedom. Illustrated with drawings by Carol Wilde. The last children's novel, written under her married name, by this author who would become best known for the Mrs Polifax mystery series. 190 pp.

San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, (2002.). The first in a series of historical novels that bring a new perspective to the American Revolution and the events leading up to it. 360 pp. ISBN: 1-931561214.

San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first in a series of historical novels that bring a new perspective to the American Revolution and the events leading up to it. 360 pp. ISBN: 1931561001.

San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first in a series of historical novels that bring a new perspective to the American Revolution and the events leading up to it. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 2006. Promotional postcard laid in. 360 pp. ISBN: 1-931561001.

New York: Viking, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - His seventh and last published novel, a "farcical look at the events leading up to the Revolutionary War as experienced by an oddball group of journalists working for the New Boston Times newspaper. The book pokes fun at both British and American icons and institutions, past and present, and was intended by Eastlake to have been released in time for the Bicentennial, though Viking did not publish it until the following year." (thefreelibrary) 291 pp. ISBN: 0-670438529.

New York: Norton, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Since the beginning, freedom has been both a promise of America and a battleground - this book looks at how the idea of freedom has influenced American history from pre-Revolutionary days through the Civil War, the Cold War, the civil rights era, and the rebirth of conservatism. Illustrated with photographs. Extensive notes, index. xxii, 422 pp. ISBN: 0-393-046656.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010). Hardcover first edition - Novel set on Cape Cod and Boston, on the verge American Revolution. This story of story of one woman's struggle to find her own place is filled with some of the lesser known but most influential figures of America's struggle for independenceÑJohn and Samuel Adams, Henry Knox, James Otis. Historical note. 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0061782145.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed and well-researched account of the first year of the American Revolution, and especially of George Washington and the fledgling Continental Army, by this award winning author (the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, among others.) Illustrated with a frontispiece and many glossy plates, including 16 in full color (among the full-color illustrations are several double-page maps.) Source notes, bibliography, index. 386 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-7432-26712.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed and well-researched account of the first year of the American Revolution, and especially of George Washington and the fledgling Continental Army, by this award winning author (the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Francis Parkman Prize, among others.) Illustrated with a frontispiece and many glossy plates, including 16 in full color (among the full-color illustrations are several double-page maps.) Source notes, bibliography, index. 386 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-7432-26712.

New York: Random House, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a beautiful woman who - fearing for her life - flees from England and the brutality of her father to the American colonies on the brink of revolution. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-375-500812.

Carmel, NY: Guideposts, (1988.). Hardcover - Historical fiction set during the American Revolution. 285 pp. ISBN: 1556610483.

Carmel, NY: Guideposts, (1987.). Hardcover - Historical fiction set during the American Revolution. 299 pp. ISBN: 1556610483.

Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, (1987, c 1965). History originally written as a research report for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Footnotes, bibliography, index. x, 141 pp. ISBN: 0-910412294.

New York: Harper Collins, (2014). First edition - Mystery set in British Manhattan in 1778, a city surrounded by its enemies, and crowded with soldiers, profiteers, double agents and a swelling tide of refugees seeking justice from the Crown. Edward Savill, a London clerk, has been sent to New York to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists caught on the wrong side of the American War of Independence, but the discovery of a body in the slums of Canvas Town thrusts Savill into a murder inquiry. Afterword. 473 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Concord, Massachusetts where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought and is still remembered by re-enacters, this is the third mystery featuring amateur sleuth Sweeney St. George, who is in Concord researching early gravestones and Boston homicide detective Tim Quinn, who is juggle being the single parent of a 10 month old and his job.S SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp. ISBN: 978-0312337391.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - On November 16, 1776, a ship flying the flag of the Continental Congress entered the port of St. Eustatius in the West Indies and was greeted with a salute, recognizing the authority of the government whose flag the ship carried. Noted military historian uses this salute as the starting point of her examination of the next 5 years, and the effects the American Revolution had, not just on American and England, but on Holland, France and the entire Old World. Illustrated. 347 pp including bibliography, notes and index. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-553330.

Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, (1962) dj. Hardcover - Stories for older children about colonial history in New York State from the founding of the Great League of the Iroquois to Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain, the American Revolution and more. Illustrated by Reg Massie. 185 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "When Ronald and Lauchlin McLeod decided to wage a private war against the British who were occupying their beloved Isle of Skye in Scotland in 1773 they didn't think they would be taken seriously - or at least so seriously that their parents would pack them off to America to keep them being hanged! . . . A spirited and humourous adventure set against the background of the emerging American Revolution. 246 pp. Wraparound cover and dust jacket art by Michael Lowenbein.