Foster City, CA: Goosebottom Books, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One in a series of historical accounts which tell the stories of "strong women who took extraordinary measures to achieve and maintain power including murder, deception, and black magic, examining the womens reputations in the context of their eras. Just how wicked were they? Njinga, the Warrior Queen, fought fiercely to keep her West African people from slavery. Yet she engaged in slave trading herself, performed human sacrifices, and, some believe, murdered her nephew, the heir to the throne, and feasted on his heart. Though she was seemingly a terrifying tyrant, her other actions prove that she was also a freedom fighter. This smart, evocative story presents all sides of this fascinating woman who did whatever it took to win and protect her kingdom." SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author. Illustrated throughout in full color by Peter Malone. Map, bibliography. Square format. 28 pp. ISBN: 9780983425663.

Toronto: Harper Collins, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful full-color illustrated edition of this award-winning novel by this Canadian author, originally published in 2007. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize and nominated in the United States (where it appeared under the title "Someone Knows My Name") for the Huston Wright Legacy Award. Illustrated with more than 150 images - photographs, early maps and documents, archival photos, period paintings and never before-published pages from the original handwritten ledger from which the novel draws its name. This is the story of Aminata Diallo, abducted from her West African village and enslaved on indigo plantation in South Carolina, to New York City, and after she has a chance to enter her name in the British military ledger known as the Book of Negroes to Canada and the harsh climate of Nova Scotia, and eventually back to the coast of Sierra Leone and to London. Includes a new introduction to this edition by the author, as well as an historical note and suggestions for further reading. A large and heavy book, richly produced, with wide margins, and illustrated map endpapers in addition to the illustrations throughout. xv, 510 pp. ISBN: 978-1554686957.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which "shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era. Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne M. Hudson, and Daniel E. Sutherland delve into the master-slave relationship, the role of blacks in the army, and the nature of southern violence. Herman Hattaway, Paul D. Escott, and Judith F. Gentry offer innovative perspectives on the influential leadership of President Jefferson Davis, Lieutenant-General Stephen D. Lee, and General Edmund Kirby Smith. Other contributors consider politicians and the public: Michael J. Connolly and Clayton E. Jewett investigate how despotism contributed to Confederate defeat; David E. Kyvig and Alan M. Kraut examine the war's impact on the Constitution and racial relationships with Jews; and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Kenneth Nivison, and Emory M. Thomas discuss the critical function of memory in our understanding of Lincoln's assassination. The essays . . expose our nation's continuing struggles with race, individual rights, terrorism, and the economy.. . 150 years after the nation's most defining conflict its consequences still resonate." A title in the series "Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War" under the editorship of T. Michael Parrish. Notes at the end of each selection and notes on contributors. 341 pp. ISBN: 978-0807143551.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book in the author/illustrator's award winning books inspired by the works of Henry David Thoreau - this one is based on Thoreau's speech on Civil Disobedience. "Feeling the yen for a mountain hike, Henry the bear sets off to retrieve one of his shoes from the cobbler. But before he can pick it up, he is jailed for nonpayment of taxes. While there, Henry uses crayons and his imagination to create for himself a new shoe, trees, and a mountain path to explore. At the top of his imaginary mountain, he meets an unnamed, barefoot traveler. Although the stranger's comments indicate that he is an escaped slave seeking freedom, his fur is the same color as Henry's - they are, after all, both bears. Henry gives the traveler his shoes and best wishes, then returns barefoot to his cell. . . The colored-pencil-and-paint illustrations, filled with stylized, geometric forms, incorporate natural and historical details, such as posters offering rewards for the return of escaped slaves." (School Library Journal) Large oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-618269029.

New York: Amistad / HarperCollins, (2003.) dj. Hardcover - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award, a finalist for the National Book Award, this is a book that truly deserves all of the acclaim it has received. The story of free colored slaveholders in 1840's Virginia is both historically accurate and moving. Author Jeffrey Lent called this "a modern masterpiece that staggers the imagination...the most powerful and deeply realized novel I've read in a long time. This is a work that transforms and transports to such a thorough degree that when you finally step out 'The Known World,' you're shaken and turned around, never again to be the same. This novel is what literature can and should be.' Cover featuring a Eudora Welty photograph. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0557540.

New York: Amistad / HarperCollins, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award, a finalist for the National Book Award, this is a book that truly deserves all of the acclaim it has received. The story of free colored slaveholders in 1840s Virginia is both historically accurate and moving. Author Jeffrey Lent called this "a modern masterpiece that staggers the imagination. . .the most powerful and deeply realized novel I've read in a long time. This is a work that transforms and transports to such a thorough degree that when you finally step out 'The Known World,' you're shaken and turned around, never again to be the same. This novel is what literature can and should be." SIGNED on the title page. This advance issue is attractively produced with a cover featuring the Eudora Welty photograph, wrappers with self-flaps. 388 pp.

New York: Amistad / HarperCollins, (2003.). First edition - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award, a finalist for the National Book Award, this is a book that truly deserves all of the acclaim it has received. The story of free colored slaveholders in 1840's Virginia is both historically accurate and moving. Author Jeffrey Lent called this "a modern masterpiece that staggers the imagination ...the most powerful and deeply realized novel I've read in a long time. This is a work that transforms and transports to such a thorough degree that when you finally step out 'The Known World,' you're shaken and turned around, never again to be the same. This novel is what literature can and should be.' This advance issue is attractively produced with a cover featuring the Eudora Welty photograph, wrappers with self-flaps. 388 pp.

New York: Amistad / HarperCollins, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award, a finalist for the National Book Award, this is a book that truly deserves all of the acclaim it has received. The story of free colored slaveholders in 1840's Virginia is both historically accurate and moving. Author Jeffrey Lent called this "a modern masterpiece that staggers the imagination...the most powerful and deeply realized novel I've read in a long time. This is a work that transforms and transports to such a thorough degree that when you finally step out 'The Known World,' you're shaken and turned around, never again to be the same. This novel is what literature can and should be.' Cover featuring a Eudora Welty photograph. 388 pp. Went quickly into later printings and rather uncommon in the true first. ISBN: 0-06-0557540.

New York: Amistad / HarperCollins, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award, a finalist for the National Book Award, this is a book that truly deserves all of the acclaim it has received. The story of free colored slaveholders in 1840's Virginia is both historically accurate and moving. Author Jeffrey Lent called this "a modern masterpiece that staggers the imagination...the most powerful and deeply realized novel I've read in a long time. This is a work that transforms and transports to such a thorough degree that when you finally step out 'The Known World,' you're shaken and turned around, never again to be the same. This novel is what literature can and should be.' Cover featuring a Eudora Welty photograph. 388 pp. Went quickly into later printings and rather uncommon in the true first. ISBN: 0-06-0557540.

New York: Amistad / HarperCollins, (2003.) dj. SIGNED (on a bookplate) hardcover - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award, a finalist for the National Book Award, this is a book that truly deserves all of the acclaim it has received. The story of free colored slaveholders in 1840's Virginia is both historically accurate and moving. Author Jeffrey Lent called this "a modern masterpiece that staggers the imagination...the most powerful and deeply realized novel I've read in a long time. This is a work that transforms and transports to such a thorough degree that when you finally step out 'The Known World,' you're shaken and turned around, never again to be the same. This novel is what literature can and should be.' Cover featuring a Eudora Welty photograph. SIGNED on a bookplate affixed to the front endpaper. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0557540.

New York: Amistad / HarperCollins, (2003.) dj. Hardcover - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award, a finalist for the National Book Award, this is a book that truly deserves all of the acclaim it has received. The story of free colored slaveholders in 1840's Virginia is both historically accurate and moving. Author Jeffrey Lent called this "a modern masterpiece that staggers the imagination...the most powerful and deeply realized novel I've read in a long time. This is a work that transforms and transports to such a thorough degree that when you finally step out 'The Known World,' you're shaken and turned around, never again to be the same. This novel is what literature can and should be.' Cover features an Eudora Welty photograph. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0557540.

New York: Amistad / HarperCollins, (2004.). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award, a finalist for the National Book Award, this is a book that truly deserves all of the acclaim it has received. The story of free colored slaveholders in 1840's Virginia is both historically accurate and moving. Author Jeffrey Lent called this "a modern masterpiece that staggers the imagination...the most powerful and deeply realized novel I've read in a long time. This is a work that transforms and transports to such a thorough degree that when you finally step out 'The Known World,' you're shaken and turned around, never again to be the same. This novel is what literature can and should be.' Cover features an Eudora Welty photograph. 388 pp. plus an additional 27 pp section with an interview with the author, a list of the dramatis personae in the novel, and a short story from his collection 'Lost in the City.'. ISBN: 0-06-0557559.