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2023 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Person who has Everything

We pride ourselves in having a spectacular collection, sourcing high and low to bring our collectors a wide array of rare books, original signatures and flags, and historical Americana. We love unc...

2023 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Military Buff

This Holiday season, pay tribute to those who have dutifully and bravely served our country in the Armed Forces. From original WWII recruitment posters and collectible autographs, signed memoirs to...

2023 Holiday Gift Guides: Gifts for the Explorer

These hand-picked holidays gifts are perfect for the explorer in your life! Inspire them with the tales of intrepid explorers who have come before them, a gorgeous photography collection of the Ame...

New In: Stunning 19th Century Family Bible

In the late 19th century, to counter the popularity of cheaper, popular dime novels, several publishers sought to elevate the book back to a piece of artistry that would be cherished for generation...

Illustrator Edward Shenton

Edward Shenton illustrated 152 books and their jackets for books published by Scribner’s. He worked with famed editor Maxwell Perkins to illustrate works by Thomas Wolf, William Faulkner, F. Scott ...

Remington's Nocturnal Paintings

More than half of Frederic Remington’s paintings in his later years were night scenes. From 1900 to his premature death in 1909, Remington completed more than seventy paintings exploring the colors...

Admiral Halsey: An American Naval Hero

During World War II, the U.S. Navy fought in every ocean of the world, but it was the war in the Pacific against the Empire of Japan that would have the greatest impact on shaping the future of the...

Washington's Horse Blueskin

Blueskin was one of Washington’s two primary mounts during the Revolutionary War. The horse was a half-Arabian, sired by the stallion "Ranger,” and a gift to Washington from Colonel Benjamin Tasker...

The Beautiful and the Damned: Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and the Damned, published in 1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, presents the reader with a fictionalized telling of the perpetually problematic relationship between Zelda and Frances Scott ...

JFK and James Bond

President John F. Kennedy was a fan of Ian Fleming’s spy novels, and helped propel him to fame in the American market.