Historical Fiction
COLUMBUS: A ROMANCE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Source for the 1949 film Christopher Columbus.
THE GAMESTER.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-310, original dark green cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First edition. Historical novel concerning John Law, economist who established the Banque Générale in France (which would become the first central bank of France) during a time of financial upheaval after the death of Louis XIV.
THE GATES OF DOOM.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-x][1-3] 4-321 [322: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First U. S. edition, later dust jacket. Set in 18th century England, spies, plots and mistaken identities.
THE HOUNDS OF GOD: A ROMANCE.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-327 [328-330: blank], dust jacket painting by Harold Brett, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange, fore edge rough cut, top edge stained orange. First U. S. edition. Set during the time of English-Spanish conflict in the 16th century.
SCARAMOUCHE: THE KING-MAKER.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1-3] 4-420, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange, fore edge rough cut, top edge stained orange. First U. S. edition. The story of Robert Carr who had the ear of King James the First, and his affair with the Countess of Essex.
THE SWORD OF ISLAM.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v-vi] [1] 2-393 [394: blank], jacket painting by John Alan Maxwell, original brown cloth with front and spine stamped in red, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First U. S. edition. Sixteenth century Genoa is the center of action involving sea battles.
THE URBINIAN: A TALE OF ITALY IN THE TIME OF CESARE BORGIA... [cover caption title].
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. The first story from THE BANNER OF THE BULL. Publisher's promotion issued in this format for coming publication of the Definitive Edition of Sabatini's Works. Fourteen initial volumes announced on the rear panel which began in 1924.
REMEMBRANCE ROCK.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1948]. Octavo, publisher's blue cloth stamped in gold. First trade edition. A presentation copy inscribed by Sandburg to his friend and fellow midwestern author August Derleth: "For August Derleth / in fellowship / Carl Sandburg / 1948." Sandburg's only novel.
DANGEROUS INHERITANCE.
London: The Book Club, [1965]. Octavo, boards. Later edition. This edition issued by The Book Club, apparently from first edition sheets. Adventure and mystery novel featuring the Duke de Richleau and his friends.
THE ROGUE FROM PADUA.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Historical novel set in the time of the Reformation.
ELFWIN: A ROMANCE OF HISTORY
London, Bombay, Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1930]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-291 [292: blank], stiff printed wrappers. Advance proof copy. Historical novel set in ancient Britain.
WILDERNESS.
New York: Forge, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Historical fiction. Two stories of mountain men on the western frontier in the early 19th century, John Colter and Hugh Glass. The feature film "The Revenant" is based on the story of Hugh Glass (the film did not use this book as source material).