Father's Day is coming up! (June 20th) Since I was your personal shopper for Mother's Day, it only seems fair that I try it again for Father's Day. Since I likely don't actually
know your Dad (but maybe I do if he's a customer) I am sticking to some tried and true male regions of the bookshop!

Artillery from The Civil War To The Present Day by Michael Haskew ($18.00). A large oblong hardcover put out by Metro Books, this book is filled with illustrations and photographs of all kinds of cool exploding things.

The Half Not Told: The Civil War in a Frontier Town by Preston Filbert ($10.00) A hard cover in a dust jacket that was published in 2001.  An interesting look at the Civil War from the standpoint of the western territories, the book describes what happened in the frontier town of St. Joseph, Missouri.

Four Years of Fighting: A Volume of Personal Observation With The Army and Navy from The First Battle of Bull Run To The Fall of Richmond by Charles Carleton Coffin ($75.00) Three quarter leather bound hardcover printed in 1866. If you are a Civil War buff, I cannot imagine anything more interesting than reading someone's first hand account of actually fighting in the war.

Mannhatta: A Natural History of New York City by Eric Sanderson ($20.00). This is actually a very recent publication done in 2009 by a landscape ecologist  with the Wildlife Conservation Society. Gorgeous book for NYC-lovers.

Is your Dad a mariner?
Heavy Weather Sailing by K. Adlard Coles ($6.50). I would trust this man's information. He spent years in the Baltic and then won the Transatlantic Race of 1950 and was elected Yachtsman of the Year after the "exceptionally heavy weather of the Fastnet Race in 1957".

Wooden Boats: From Sculls To Yachts by Joseph Gribbons ($10.00). A large coffee table book with photographs of wooden boats around the world and the boatyards that build them.

Peterson Field Guides: Atmosphere: Clouds, Rain, Snow, Storms by Vincent Schaefer ($4.50). What better gift to the sailor than understanding the clouds?

How about Food?
The Perfect Potato: Over 100 Fabulous Recipes from Appetizers to Desserts For Potato Lovers Everywhere by Diane Simone Vezza ($4.00) I opened the book to Goat Cheese and Potato Tart. I'm in!

The Frugal Gourmet Cooks With Wine by Jeff Smith ($4.00)

Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library: Grilling ($4.50) How can you miss with a beautifully photographed book with recipes like Garlic Skewered Shrimp (the garlic is on the skewer!)

My last suggestion is a little unusual, but for the right Dad it would be a huge hit.
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition ($15.00) I know, I know, you're thinking....dictionary? The man can Google anything he needs to know. But...to a real lover of the language 1,960 pages of words from A to ZZZ (they really do define "ZZZ"!) and a section on grammar is beautiful thing! This is the 1966 edition. (FYI to all of the Titcomb siblings reading this....this is the same edition we grew up playing The Dictionary Game with!)

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