Adventure Fiction
THE VAMPIRE OF N'GOBI.
Philadelphia, London: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-341 [342-344: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained black. First edition. A lost race novel in imitation of H. Rider Haggard's SHE. Kingdom of ancient Egyptian origin discovered in central Africa. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-95. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 62. Bleiler (1978), p. 54. Reginald 03682.
THE LAND OF THE GOLDEN SCARABS.
Chicago: The White House Publishers, [1928]. Octavo, cloth. Reprint edition. Lost race novel set in Brazil. (First published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1928).
A DESERT DRAMA: BEING THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1898. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-277 [278: blank] [279-288: ads], original light blue cloth, front stamped in dark blue, brown and green, spine stamped in dark blue, gold, brown and green. First U.S. edition. A party of tourists sailing on the Nile are abducted by Dervish warriors, during captivity they are asked to renounce Christianity. Imperialistic view of North Africa. Adapted into a stage play and filmed twice (1923 & 1932). Green and Gibson, A22c.
JACQUELINE OF GOLDEN RIVER.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-248 [249: publisher's colophon] [250: blank], frontispiece by Ralph Pallen Coleman, original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Adventure novel, with murder and crime, concerning a gold claim in the wilderness of northern Quebec. Touch of Indian superstition, but not fantasy fiction. First published as a 6-part serial in the New York Evening World, beginning 23 August 1915. Not in Hubin (1994). See Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-162.
THE STORY OF PHANTOM: KILLER'S TOWN...
[New York]: Avon Books, [1973]. Octavo, cover art by George Wilson, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon 17731. The ninth volume in this series.
THE STORY OF PHANTOM: THE MYSTERIOUS AMBASSADOR...
[New York]: Avon Books, [1973]. Octavo, cover art by George Wilson, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon 15545. The sixth volume in this series.
THE CURSE OF KA!
[London: The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., 1936]. First edition. Champion Library No. 174. Juvenile adventure novel set in Egypt featuring a lost temple and treasure. First published in serial form.
SHOWDOWN.
New York: Dell Publishing Company, nd, [1949]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Dell No. 351. Adventure novel set in the South Pacific.
THE HORNBLOWER COMPANION: AN ATLAS AND PERSONAL COMMENTARY ON THE WRITING OF THE HORNBLOWER SAGA WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS BY SAMUEL BRYANT.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. "...a valuable guide to the wanderings of Forester's indomitable hero, and an indispensable adjunct to any Hornblower collection." (From jacket copy).
HIS HIGHNESS COMMANDS PENDRAGON.
New York: Saturday Review Press / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1976]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. The second novel featuring Pendragon, a nineteenth-century British agent.
LOST IN THE WILDS OF BRAZIL.
Akron and New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-243 [244: blank] [fly leaves front and rear], original green cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Boys' adventure novel.
FLASHMAN AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The tenth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman returns to America before the Civil War and becomes involved with John Brown.
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The eighth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman in China.
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The eighth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman in China.
FLASHMAN AND THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The ninth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman in India during the time of the First Sikh war.
FLASHMAN AND THE TIGER...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The eleventh volume in the Flashman series. Collects three tales, the last "Flashman and the Tiger," features an appearance by Sherlock Holmes.
FLASHMAN ON THE MARCH...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Octavo, boards. First edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The twelth and final volume in the series.
FLASHMAN'S LADY.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The sixth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman travels to the Far East and his wife is abducted.
FLASH FOR FREEDOM!
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The third volume in the Flashman series. Flashman's adventures take him to America where he meets Abraham Lincoln.
FLASHMAN AND THE REDSKINS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The seventh volume in the Flashman series. Told in two parts Flashman travels to America and is involved with Apaches in part one and George Armstrong Custer in part two.
FLASHMAN AT THE CHARGE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The fourth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman is involved in the Crimean War.
FLASHMAN IN THE GREAT GAME.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The fifth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman in India.
FLASHMAN: FROM THE FLASHMAN PAPERS 1839-1842...
New York and Cleveland: An NAL Book, The World Publishing Company, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The first volume in the Flashman series. After being expelled from school for drunkenness Flashman joins the British army.
ROYAL FLASH: FROM THE FLASHMAN PAPERS 1842-3 and 1847-8...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The second volume in the Flashman series. Flashman's encounter with Otto von Bismarck.
HARILEK: A ROMANCE. By "Ganpat" [pseudonym].
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [i-ix] x-xi [xii-xiii] xiv [1-3] 4-336 [337-338: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Ganpat's first novel. A lost race adventure story set in Sakaeland, an unknown region somewhere in the middle of the great deserts north of the Himalayas. "Arcadian utopia realized in Gobi desert." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 148. "Ganpat" wrote a number of adventure novels set in India and vicinity, including several lost race novels. Bleiler (The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, p. 198) observes that his work was "more authentic than Talbot Mundy's work, but inferior as fiction." Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 324. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 79. Reginald 05750.