Fiction History

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages, 4 b&w illustrations by C.S. Reinhart, each with a tissue guard. Green cloth with with black design, gilt lettering on spine, edges stained red. This copy INSCRIBED BY HARTE on a blank prelim page and dated the year of publication. Hinges partially cracked, front fly leaf opened roughly (possibly for inscription on following page), binding a little shaken.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st US, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black and gilt, 442 pages. While a fictional story based on actual events, the author relates a wealth of information on the history, customs and political divisions in the Arab world at the time. Hinges weak but holding, bookplate on inside front cover. Light shelf wear.Originally published in England in 1850.

Hardcover. NY, Printed for I. Riley and Co, 2nd Ed., 1806, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The First Settlers of Virginia, an Historical Novel, Exhibiting a View of the Rise and Progress of the Colony at James Town, a Picture of Indian Manners, the Countenance of the Country, and its Natural Productions. Hardcover, Second edition, considerably enlarged. Contemporary calf over boards. Octavo. xii, [13]-284 pages. PLEASE NOTE: No frontispiece engraving of Pocahontas rescuing John Smith. No signs of extraction, so probably never bound in. A reproduction of the frontis laid in. This is one of the earliest American romantic novels about Native Americans. Davis was an English immigrant with literary aspirations who lived in Philadelphia at the beginning of the 19th century. He was acquainted with the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. He originally adapted this material from his 1803 "Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America" and published it in 1805 as "Captain Smith and Princess Pocahontas: An Indian Tale." This expanded version includes Davis's autobiography, "A Memoir of the Author" (pp. {275]-284). Includes "Errata" on page [274]. Clean, no markings.

Hardcover. London, Allison and Busby, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1857. Only when the bonfire finally dies down, the charred remains of his body are found. Who would possibly want to murder a man so universally liked? It's the question Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Lemming ask when they arrive in Exeter at the request of the South Devon Railway. Yet, as they investigate the stationmaster's life, they realize he is not as popular as they first believed. With a scorned jilted lover, a resentful colleague and a violent elder brother among the many suspects, the detectives must use all their skill and wit to solve the case. Clean copy.

Softcover. Ithaca NY, McBooks Press, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. Unfairly forced out of the army for insubordination, Alexander Sheridan leaves Britain and his former life behind to command a unit of the East India Company. Despised by the aristocratic generals of the regular army, in the heat of the deadly battles of the Crimean War Sheridan and his corps of volunteers must face both the rigors of combat and the treachery of men who should be allies. First published in 1964 in London. Fading to spine otherwise a clean, tight copy.