Historical Fiction
PHARAOH'S TREASURE: AN EGYPTIAN ROMANCE.
Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1891. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-355 [356: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece, original olive green cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, floral patterned endpapers. First edition. Pseudo-historical novel. "An ancient manuscript, recently discovered, gives an account of the adventures of Athene in Egypt circa 1345 B.C. At the end a Hebrew seer laments the bondage of the Israelites. Such a novel underscores the continuing interest in Egyptology and Biblical materials at the turn of the century." - Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870-1930s 011. [Reference: The Stuart Teitler Collection of Lost Race Fiction, p. 3. Bleiler (1978), p. 4. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Not in Wright, American Fiction 1876-1900].
OR ELSE MY LADY KEEPS THE KEY.
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2008. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 15 lettered copies signed by Baker. This is copy "D". Pirate novel with slight supernatural elements.
I AM A BARBARIAN.
Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publisher, [1967]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Historical fiction written in 1941. Only 2000 copies of this book were printed. [Reference: Zeuschner 186].
THE OUTLAW OF TORN.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-298, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first printing. Total of 6000 copies printed. There were at least two printings, second so identified on verso of title leaf. Exploits of Norman of Torn, the greatest swordsman in England and leader of an outlaw band of more than one thousand men. [Reference: Heins OT-1].
THE OUTLAW OF TORN.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-298, jacket by J. Allen St. John, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first printing. Total of 6000 copies printed. There were at least two printings, second so identified on verso of title leaf. Exploits of Norman of Torn, the greatest swordsman in England and leader of an outlaw band of more than one thousand men. [Reference: Heins OT-1].
SAINTS: A NOVEL...
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2007. Octavo, leather backed cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 111 numbered copies signed by Card. Historical fiction concerning a woman who emigrates to the U. S. and eventually marries Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saints movement. Originally published in 1984 titled WOMAN OF DESTINY.
SAINTS: A NOVEL...
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2007. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Trade hardcover edition. Signed and dated by Card. Historical fiction concerning a woman who emigrates to the U. S. and eventually marries Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saints movement. Originally published in 1984 titled WOMAN OF DESTINY.
CAPTAIN CUT-THROAT.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1955]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A historical novel set in France in 1805 where Napoleon has assembled his armies to invade England and an assassin is killing his soldiers. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 135].
A FRIEND OF CAESAR: A TALE OF THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, TIME 50-47 B.C.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Historical novel set in ancient Rome 50 years before the birth of Christianity.
ADMIRAL HORNBLOWER IN THE WEST INDIES.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
THE BARBARY PIRATES.
New York: Random House, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. Book club edition. Light tan cloth and dust jacket not priced with "Young Readers Of America" slug at head of front flap, no ads to rear panel. The story of the Barbary Pirates and the fledgling U. S. Navy.
THE CAPTAIN FROM CONNECTICUT.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. Octavo, original cream cloth, front and spine stamped in light blue, top edge stained blue, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First edition. Historical novel about a U. S. Frigate during the War of 1812.
COMMODORE HORNBLOWER.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Octavo, dust jacket painting by N. C. Wyeth, cloth. First U. S. edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Published in the U. K. as THE COMMODORE. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
HORNBLOWER AND THE HOTSPUR.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
HORNBLOWER DURING THE CRISIS: AND TWO STORIES: HORNBLOWERS TEMPTATION and THE LAST ENCOUNTER.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1967]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. The posthumously published final Hornblower book which the author was working on upon his death. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
LORD HORNBLOWER.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. Octavo, dust jacket painting by N. C. Wyeth, cloth. First edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
CLAUDIUS THE GOD AND HIS WIFE MESSALINA.
London: Arthur Barker, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-575 [576: blank], folded genealogical table tipped to p. [576], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. [Reference: Higginson A43a].
THE EXOTIC WRITINGS OF ROBERT E. HOWARD...
Mississauga, Ontario: Girasol Collectables Inc., 2006. Large octavo, First edition. One of 75 numbered copies. A large hardcover volume with facsimile reproduction which includes Howard’s works from ORIENTAL STORIES, MAGIC CARPET, THRILLING ADVENTURES, GOLDEN FLEECE, STRANGE TALES, MARVEL TALES, ARGOSY, STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES, SUPER DETECTIVE STORIES, THRILLING MYSTERY, and SPICY ADVENTURE. All the interior illustrations are included plus letters to the editor.
MALAFRENA.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1979]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Malafrena asks something that cannot have occurred to very many of us: what it might have been like to live in a small, quiet principality of the Habsburg Empire during the great 19th-century upwellings of liberalism and nationalism. The country in question is the imaginary "Orsinia," whose history and geography Le Guin has been sketching to herself for a good many years. (See the short-story collection Orsinian Tales, 1976)....Malafrena is Le Guin's masterpiece to date—a provocative adventure firmly founded on an unmodish and undeviating nobility of style, of mind, and above all of responsible imagination." - Kirkus review, 1 October, 1979.
BOTANY BAY.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1-3] 4-374 [375-376], jacket illustration by N. C. Wyeth, blue-green cloth, front and spine stamped in silver, top edge stained red, map end papers. First edition. Historical novel about the Australian penal colony. Filmed in 1953 with Alan Ladd, James Mason and Patricia Medina.
BOTANY BAY.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1-3] 4-374 [375-376], jacket illustration by N. C. Wyeth, blue-green cloth, front and spine stamped in silver, top edge stained red, map end papers. First edition. Historical novel about the Australian penal colony. Filmed in 1953 with Alan Ladd, James Mason and Patricia Medina.
SHADOW HAWK.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1960]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Historical fiction set in Egypt during an invasion by the Hyksos around 1590 B.C.
SHADOW HAWK.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1960]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Handwritten note signed by Norton laid in. Historical fiction set in Egypt during an invasion by the Hyksos around 1590 B.C.
A SPY OF NAPOLEON.
London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-321 [322-327: ads] [328: blank], original light blue cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition.
COLUMBUS: A ROMANCE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Source for the 1949 film Christopher Columbus.























