Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Gordon S. Wood. First edition, first printing. New York: Penguin Press, 2017. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Near Fine condition. Only blemish is a former bookstore price sticker on rear jacket. Jacket design by Christopher Brian King. No writing or markings found in the book, which is unread, 502 pp.

A near fine first edition, first printing of Friends Divided, Gordon S. Wood’s masterful dual biography of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. This copy features a bright, unclipped dust jacket and tight binding — ideal for collectors of American history or Pulitzer-winning historians.

Wood, one of the foremost scholars of the American Revolution, explores the intellectual and political rivalry between two of America’s greatest Founding Fathers. A standout on any shelf of presidential biographies or early American political history.