The countdown to the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States is well underway, and, like many of you, we've been binge-watching the Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution. The use of original documents to tell the story of America, a hallmark of Burns’s work, has been impressive.

You'll find items featured within the documentary in this catalogue of 76 books and manuscripts relating to the American Revolution.

Spires, quatrefoils, gargoyles, ravens, and ghouls...haunted castles and mysterious churches...these books exist in the murky vaulted transept at the meeting of literature and architecture. This catalogue of works in "the only proper style"—that is, of course, Gothic—includes the first American edition of Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho, the first edition of Poe's Raven, and the first printing with original dust jacket of Faulkner's Sound and Fury.

Within this eclectic selection of new acquisitions you'll find several books that go bump in the night, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first work of nonfiction, and a presentation copy of Franklin D Roosevelt's On Our Way affectionately inscribed to his old friend Marvin McIntyre.

A new month brings a selection of Americana recently added to our shelves. Highlights include the first political cartoon in American history to visualize and satirize gerrymandering, and one of the earliest printings of the Gettysburg Address.

We look forward to seeing friends — both old and new — within Grand Central Terminal at the 2025 Empire State Rare Book and Print Fair. In advance of the fair, we are delighted to offer a sneak peek of some highlights we will display in booth 13.