Adventure Fiction
ALEXANDER OF MACEDON: THE JOURNEY TO WORLD'S END.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1946. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
BLOOD ORANGE.
London: Michael Joseph, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery thriller set in the world of ocean racing.
CARAVAN TO VACCARES.
London: Collins, 1970. Octavo, boards. First edition. Thriller novel involving gypsies.
FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Sequel to the Guns of Navarone. Made into a feature film.
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE.
London: Collins, 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second novel. Basis for the WWII action film with Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn.
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The author's second novel. Basis for the WWII action film with Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn.
SAN ANDREAS.
London: Collins, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. WW II sea adventure novel.
COULSON GOES SOUTH... Third Impression.
London: Wright & Brown, Ltd., n.d., [1933]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 7-288, original orange cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. "Adventure story with a touch of the lost race theme to it - a tribe in Africa claiming direct descent from ancient Atlantis."- Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 150 and A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 146. Bleiler (1978), p. 132. Reginald 14703. Hubin (1994), p. 547.
STONES OF ENCHANTMENT.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, nd [1948]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A famous detective seeks a man who has lived for a century and a half, the trail leads him to Africa and a strange community deep in the Belgian Congo (lost race?).
THE VENUS OF KONPARA.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
LIEUTENANT OF THE LINE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. The second novel to feature James Ogilvie of the British Army, set in the North-West frontier of India in the late 19th century.
THE GUNS OF ARREST.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. The third book in the Halfhyde series. Set in the 1890s.
HALFHYDE AND THE ADMIRAL.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A Halfhyde novel.
HALFHYDE AND THE ADMIRAL.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A Halfhyde novel.
HALFHYDE ON THE AMAZON.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A Halfhyde novel.
HALFHYDE'S ISLAND.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. The second book in the Halfhyde series. Set in the 1890s.
BLACK LIGHT.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, [1930]. Octavo, original black cloth, stamped in red. First edition. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature #1211.
THE DEVIL'S GUARD.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, [1926]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Adventure and magic in Tibet, featuring Jimgrim, Ramsden & company. Bleiler-The Guide to Supernatural Literature.
JIMGRIM AND ALLAH'S PEACE.
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, 1936. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A Jimgrim adventure.
OLD UGLY-FACE.
New York, London: D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-544, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, pictorial endpapers. First U.S. edition. First printing with "(1)" at base of text on page 544. A fantastic adventure novel set in Tibet. The Appleton-Century edition was published 16 February 1940 and was preceded by the British edition which has a title page dated 1939 and appears to have been published in December 1939 or January 1940. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1213. Bleiler (1978), p. 145. Reginald 10519. Grant, p. 200.
THERE WAS A DOOR.
London: Hutchinson & Co., (Publishers) Ltd., n.d. [1933]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The U.K. edition precedes the American edition which is titled Full Moon. Published as a fourteen part serial (as Full Moon) in American Weekly starting with October 28, 1934 issue before American book publication. "Oriental adventure and intrigue, based ultimately on a conceit of Charles Fort's, that people who disappear mysteriously may end in the fourth dimension" - Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1212. This copy is first edition U.K. sheets, without the publishers catalog, rebound in red cloth.
THE WINDS OF THE WORLD.
New York: A.L. Burt Company, Publishers, n.d. [c. 1923]. Octavo, cloth. Reprint edition. This is Mundy's second novel, set in India. First published as a three-part serial in Adventure (pulp magazine), July - September, 1915. Coll frontispiece.
THE BANNER OF JOAN.
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This title was published in an edition of 975 copies in honor of Munn for the first World Fantasy Convention. Series of poems and prose on the Joan of Arc adventure.
DESOLATION ISLAND.
New York: Stein and Day, Publishers, [1979]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. A Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novel, the fifth in the series.
DEAD RECKONING.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The fourth Richard Delancey sea novel.