Adventure Fiction
THE STORY OF PHANTOM: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE...
[New York]: Avon Books, [1973]. Octavo, cover art by George Wilson, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon 14894. The fifth volume in this series. Adapted from a story by Lee Falk.
THE ABYSS OF WONDERS ...
Reading, Pa. Polaris Press, 1953. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1500 copies printed of which this is one of 1490 numbered clothbound copies. The second of the two Polaris Press books. Introduction by P. Schuyler Miller. Adventure novel, first published in Argosy, January 1915, set in the Gobi Desert where a technologically advanced race is discovered. "Perley Poore Sheehan's fantasies were published in the Munsey magazines between 1913 and 1917. Read today, they have the freshness of style, the feeling for people and places which you will find in 'The Abyss of Wonders' (Argosy, January, 1915), the most fully developed of them all." - Miller. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1464.
IN THE LAND OF THE YUCATAN.
Chicago: The Goldsmith Publishing Company, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1-14] 15-246 [247-250: publisher ads] {251-256: blank] [note; first and last leaves used as paste-downs], original pictorial dark red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Fourth and last book of the Tahara series. A young boy who is the son of an American explorer is captured by a desert tribe and eventually given the name of Tahara. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 690. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1100. Reginald 13017.
THE AGE-OLD KINGDOM.
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), [n.d.]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Lost race adventure novel set in the Amazon. A country is discovered where the natives are ruled by a white queen (jacket copy).
THE MYSTERY OF THE SEA: A NOVEL ...
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] [1-2] 3-498 [499-500: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original decorated olive green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and black, rear panel stamped in black. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Stoker dated 22 March 1902, a week prior to publication date (29 March 1902) on front free endpaper: "My dear Elizabeth (Newbery?) / with love & greetings / Bram Stoker / 22.3.02." The Doubleday, Page edition preceded the British Heinemann edition by several months. Ingenious romantic adventure novel "set in Cruden Bay, involving a gun battle at sea, a castle with secret passages, and coded writing based on a cipher described by Francis Bacon." - Dalby, p. 38. "I found the story admirable. It has not the fearsomeness of 'DRACULA' but it is beautifully handled and the girl very admirable indeed ... I've done a bit in cryptograms myself, but that knocks me out!" - Arthur Conan Doyle. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1547. Bleiler (1978), p. 187. Reginald 13732. Dalby 13a.
A KING'S RANSOM.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. 18th Century sea adventure. The second Paul Gallant novel.
ROYAL YANKEE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition.
TALES OF THE SEA.
New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1953. Small octavo, cover by Clarence Doore, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first and only issue with fiction by John Russell, Steve Frazee, Jack London and others.
HIS HIGHNESS COMMANDS PENDRAGON.
New York: Saturday Review Press/E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1976]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. 19th Century British agent. The second Pendragon adventure.
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS ... Translated by Geo. M. Towle.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, late Ticknor and Fields, and Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1873. Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v] vi-viii [ix-xi] xii-xvi [1] 2-315 [316: blank], fly leaves at front and rear, 54 inserted plates with illustrations by A. de Neuville and L. Benett, plus one small illustration by Benett in the text and an integral full-page sketch of the "Saint Michael" [sic, i.e. Michel] drawn by Verne, original pictorial bevel-edged green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and black, rear panel stamped in blind, brown coated endpapers, all edges plain. First fully illustrated U.S. edition. A translation of LE TOUR DU MONDE EN QUATRE-VINGTS JOURS (1873), Verne's most popular novel. In the summer of 1873 Osgood published their first edition, THE TOUR OF THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, in a small pocket-sized format with a single illustration (Verne's sketch of his yacht, the "Saint Michel"). The first fully illustrated English-language edition was published in London by Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle in November 1873. In November or December 1873 Osgood published their second edition of the novel which was printed in London by Gilbert and Rivington from the plates of the British Sampson Low's 1873 edition. The Sampson Low and Osgood editions were reprinted with title pages dated 1874. The 1873 printings are very scarce. The book "seems to have had production problems that caused the spine to crack and chip when the book was read; consequently no 1873 copies have been seen in better than good condition." - Arthur B. Edwards, "Collecting Jules Verne," Firsts, VI: 7-8 [July-August 1996], p. 42. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-154 and (1981) 1-165. Clareson, Science-Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 762. Reginald 14648. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Myers 54. Taves and Michaluk V011.
A FLOATING CITY, AND THE BLOCKADE RUNNERS ...
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] [1] 2-286 [287-288: blank] + 40 page publishers catalog inserted to rear, forty-two inserted plates, original reddish-brown cloth with beveled edges, front and spine stamped in black and gold, rear stamped in blind, beige coated end paper, a.e.g., First edition. A translation of UNE VILLE FLOTTANTE SUIVI DES FORCEURS DE BLOCUS (1871). Verne's short novel, "A Floating City," was inspired by his voyage to America in 1867 aboard The Great Eastern. "The Blockade Runners" is a short romance set during the American Civil War. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 12641. Myers 22. Taves and Michaluk V008.
A FLOATING CITY, AND THE BLOCKADE RUNNERS...
New York: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1874. Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [1] 2-286 [287-288: blank leaf (leaf T8)excised by binder] + [8]-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear [note: single leaf printed on recto only headed "Jules Verne's Works. / The Authorized Editions" inserted after title leaf], fly leaves at front and rear, 42 inserted plates with illustrations by J. Ferat, original pictorial bevel-edged brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and black, rear panel ruled in blind, yellow coated endpapers. First U.S. edition. A translation of UNE VILLE FLOTTANTE SUIVI DES FORCEURS DE BLOCUS (1871). Verne's short novel, "A Floating City," was inspired by his voyage to America in 1867 aboard The Great Eastern. "The Blockade Runners" is a short romance set during the American Civil War. Bleiler (1978), p. 199. Reginald 12641. Myers 22. Taves and Michaluk V008.
THE MASTER OF THE WORLD: A TALE OF MYSTERY AND MARVEL.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., nd, [1914]. Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-317 [318, blank] [319, printer] [320, blank], frontispiece and 29 inserted illustrations, original green cloth, front stamped in gray, yellow, orange, light blue, blue and black, spine stamped in gray, yellow, orange, light blue, gold and black. First British edition. The return of Robur who first appeared in ROBUR LE CONQUERANT (1886); (published in England as THE CLIPPER OF THE CLOUDS, 1887). The translation of this edition differs somewhat from the translation from the first U.S. edition which appeared in 1911 as part of the fifteen volume set - WORKS OF JULES VERNE. According to Taves and Michaluk the British translation (by Cranstoun Metcalfe) is a "more faithful translation." Elements of this novel and it's predecessor are used by Richard Matheson for his screenplay of the film MASTER OF THE WORLD (1961) with Vincent Price as Robur. Taves and Michaluk V054.
THE DOOM OF CONAIRE MOR (CONARY THE GREAT).
New York, London & Montreal: Louis Carrier & Co., 1929. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The tale of Conary the Great, High King of Eirin. Irish myth, heroic warriors, and valorous deeds, lovely maidens and fairy folk in the Golden Age of Erin (from d/j copy).
THE LEOPARD WOMAN.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. Octavo, pp. [iii-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] [1-2] 3-313 [314: publisher's colophon] [note: text complete in spite of gap in pagination], eight inserted plates with illustrations by W. H. D. Koerner, First edition. Adventure novel set in Central Africa during World War I. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume III, p. 86 (describing the UK edition).
DANGER ZONE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Octavo, [i-vi] vii [viii] [1-2] 3-209 [210: blank], frontispiece and two interior illustrations by Frank Dobias, original light gray cloth, front and spine stamped in red, illustrated endpapers, top edge stained red. First edition. An early Whitfield novel written for young adults about young pilots going off to fight in World War I, probably based on his own experience as an American aviator in the last months of the war. Raoul Whitfield is best known for his hard-boiled crime fiction published in BLACK MASK.
ONCE UPON A TIME: AN ADVENTURE.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
GOLDEN BLOOD.
[Edgewater, MD]: Tamerlane Press, [1978]. Octavo, jacket cover by J. Allen St. John, cloth. First edition. Originally published as a serial in Weird Tales, this edition incorporates textual revisions.
GOLDEN BLOOD.
[Edgewater, MD]: Tamerlane Press, [1978]. Octavo, jacket cover by J. Allen St. John, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Williamson on the half title page. Originally published as a serial in Weird Tales, this edition incorporates textual revisions.
IN DISTANT WATERS.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A Nathaniel Drinkwater novel. Set in the early 19th century.
THE SILVER FANG.
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-300 [301-304: blank], cover painting by J. Allen St. John, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in silver. First edition. First serialized in Argosy magazine in five parts 1928-29. The grandson of a China coast pirate, Malabar MacKenzie finds adventure and menace onboard the ocean cruise to and at his final destination, Rangoon.
THE WAGES OF VIRTUE.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1927]. Octavo, original light blue cloth stamped in black. Later edition. Adventure novel of the French Foreign Legion.
SOWING GLORY: THE MEMOIRS OF "MARY AMBREE," THE ENGLISH WOMAN-LEGIONARY...
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [xi-xii] [1-2] 3-380, original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, top edge stained blue. Second Printing of the U. S. edition. Novel based on the anonymous memoirs and diary of a woman who purportedly served in the French Foreign Legion after her involvement in WW I.
BEAU GESTE.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [1926]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-418 [419-426: ads], four inserted plates from the film, original light blue cloth stamped in black. Later edition. Issued to coincide with the 1926 Paramount film production starring Ronald Coleman. Includes a 6-page afterword by Glendon Allvine about the making of the Paramount film in the Arizona desert.
BEAU IDEAL.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-373 [374: Epilogue], original dark blue cloth, front ruled in blind and stamped in gold, spine stamped in gold, top edge stained blue. First U. S. edition. Sequel to BEAU GESTE and BEAU SABREUR. Adventure in the French Foreign Legion, the story of John Geste and Otis Vanbrugh. Filmed in 1931 by RKO Pictures.