New York: The Century Company, 1923. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An historical novel for young adults by this husband and wife team, a story of adventure in Revolutionary America and based on real events. Illustrated by Emilie Benson Knipe with a frontispiece and three internal plates, as well as illustrated boards. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For our little messenger Bernice" and signed by Emilie Knipe. Date of 1923 on title page, as required for a first edition. 372 pp.

New York: Julian Messner, Inc, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography of Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) for young adults and older children which attempts to answer what leads a man to betray his country. Bibliography, index. 190 pp.

New York: A. L. Burt, (1898). Hardcover first edition - Historical adventure story for boys. Illustrated by J Watson Davis with a frontispiece and five inserted plates. vi, 262 pp plus a 32 pp publisher's catalogue.

New York: Ives Washburn, (1963) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set among the Quaker whalers living on Nantucket Island when the Revolutionary war began. As Stackpole notes in his introduction, due to its location 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, when "war came, with a suddenness for which the islanders were unprepared, it brought a time of strain and sorrow in which a peaceful community was split by conflicting loyalties." INSCRIBED on the frontispiece and underneath Stackpole's signature is the notation "Curator of the Nantucket Folger Museum." Double page map. 306 pp. Jacket and map by Charles Greer.

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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel about two Irish immigrants to America in 1772, and their roll in settling the area around what is now Pittsburgh, and was then the far western frontier of Ft. Pitt. Based not only on historical facts of the time but also on the personal history in the unpublished family records. Map endpapers. 467 pages.

Cleveland, OH: Goldsmith Publishing, (c 1909) dj. Hardcover - The first book in this early Stratemeyer Syndicate series, a story of adventure and heroism during the early days of the Revolutionary War. 284 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover first edition - An excellent biography of Washington, as a young man, general, and president, one which 'eloquently conveys the magnitude of Washington's accomplishments.' (NY Times). Photographs, notes, index. xiv, 320 pp. ISBN: 1-400040310.