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. 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.
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. Zeuschner 186.
THE OUTLAW OF TORN.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1928]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-298 [299--310: ads] [311-312: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. Later edition. Heins OT-2. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints OT-1. Jacket variant 1.
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. 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.
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.
THE HOUSE ON THE MOUND.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A historical novel based on the lives of Jane and Hercules Dousman from 1848 to 1857 in the House on the Mound at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. A sequel to BRIGHT JOURNEY (1940), which told the story of Hercules Dousman's early years. As a fur trader and frontier businessman (real estate, grain, lumber, packet companies, steamboats and railroads), Hercules Louis Dousman (1800-1868) became one of Wisconsin's wealthiest and influential men. Part of Derleth's Wisconsin Saga. Wilson 574.
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.
THE NIGHTMARE.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection based on events and aftermath of Nazi Germany. The final story, "The Wandering Gentile," is a fantasy about Hitler and his lover Eva Braun hitchhiking in California, doomed to wander the Earth forever. "The nightmare set in motion by Germany must not be forgotten. It is this Forester seems to be seeing in a collection of stories that might have happened, tales based on facts elicited from the Nuremberg and Belsen trials. They have their sense of authenticity, as they unfold the horrors of unfettered power. It happened less than a decade ago. People like these people did things that- read in cold blood- seem debased, or horrifying, or so inhuman as to be incredible. There is what might have been the story of the men framed for the Polish attack on the radio station; there are stories of fear at all levels; stories of base betrayal; there is vivid capturing of the uncertainties reflected through the period when the army plotted Hitler's death and overthrow; there are the horrors of the camps- of the refugees- of the gas chambers. One senses the disillusionment in some, the hatred and fear in others- and the unbroken arrogance and blindness in still more. The final story alone seems wholly imaginary, as the author finds himself driving a madman named Adolf, and a tender woman named Eva, up the highway towards San Francisco. A born tale spinner uses novel material." - Kirkus Reviews, 14 July, 1954.
TO THE INDIES.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. Octavo, original green cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore and bottom edges rough cut, map end papers. First edition. Published in the U. K. as THE EARTHLY PARADISE. Historical novel about the third voyage of Columbus.
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. Higginson A43a.
MONTEZUMA'S DAUGHTER ...
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-viii [ix] x [1] 2-328 + [8]-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, 24 inserted plates with illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen, original apple green cloth, front panel stamped in brown, spine panel stamped in brown and gold. First U.S. edition. Published in November 1893 (announced in Publishers Weekly 11 November 1893) and may have preceded the British edition published 13 November 1893. McKay assigns priority to this U.S. edition. Both Scott and Whatmore, in error, describe a later printing with title page dated 1894 and copyright statement erroneously dated 1892 on copyright page. Bleiler (1978), p. 90. Reginald 06554. McKay 19. Scott 20A. Whatmore F16.6.f.
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.
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1932. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-x [xi] xii [1-3] 4-396, original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in white and silver, fore edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, pictorial end papers. First edition. Second state with pictorial end papers. Historical novel based on the mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789. Basis for a number of films and a stage play.
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.