Item 2685The Prophet
New York: Pocket Books, 1958. first thus. mass market paperback. 16mo 325pp. a Cardinal Giant GC-49. 1st printing October 1958. #02750.
historical fiction
Item 2519The Last Days of Pompeii
Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1985. Kurt Craemer. hardcover. large 8vo 513pp. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. With an introduction by Edgar Johnson and illustrations by Kurt Craemer. #02584.
Item 1755The Strong City
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 580pp. from front flap: "Franz Stoessel, young Bavarian immigrant working in a big Pennsylvania steel mill, decided early that America meant two things to him--money and power. If you had one you could get the other. He was willing to.....
Item 1133Mile High
New York: Dial Press, 1969. hardcover. 8vo 364pp. Stated third printing. from front flap: "In telling the story of Edward Courance West, the man who invented Prohibition, Richard Condon lavishly creates the three-generational saga of a powerful Irish-American family whose acquisition of wealth is also the history of American corruption.....
Item 2662The Khrushchev Objective
New York: Zebra Books, 1988. first thus. mass market paperback. 16mo 509pp. first Zebra Books printing May 1988. see pictures for synopsis. #02727.
Item 2176Mary Anne / Journey to the Far Amazon / A Child of the Century / Forty Plus and Fancy Free
New York: Books Abridged, 1954. hardcover. 8vo 448pp. four books, each abridged, in one volume. Mary Anne, by Daphne du Maurier (fiction); Journey to the Far Amazon, by Alain Gheerbrant (travel); A Child of the Century, by Ben Hecht (autobiography); and Forty Plus and Fancy Free, by Emily Kimbrough (humor.....
Item 1905The Princess of Cleves
Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1970. Hermine David. hardcover. 8vo 150pp. with introduction by Jean Cocteau. Set in the royal court of Henry II of France during the 16th century, widely considered one of the first examples of historical fiction and at the beginning of the trend of psychological novels. First.....
Item 477The King's General
Doubleday and Company, 1946. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 371pp. #00249.
Item 3070The Blade of Castelmayne
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1974. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 307pp. from front flap: "Set in the England of Elizabeth I over the twelve days of Christmas, 1590, this blood-and-thunder romantic novel has at its center the handsome, intense Walter Castlemayne and his passion for the exquisite Lady Arabella.....
Item 476The American
Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1946. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 337pp. novel about 19th century Illinois politician John Peter Altgeld, for which Fast was accused of copyright infringement for borrowing liberally from a biography of the politician by Harry Barnard. The case was settled and Barnard's book was re-published by Fast's.....
Item 3845The Immigrants
Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, 2010. softcover. 8vo 474pp. see pictures for synopsis. #03911.
Item 2944All This and Heaven Too
New York: Macmillan Company, 1938. hardcover. 8vo 596pp. fifth printing December 1938. novel is based on the true story of Field's great-aunt Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, a French governess who fell in love with the Duc de Praslin, her employer. When Praslin's wife was murdered, Deluzy-Desportes was implicated. The scandal contributed to the political turmoil before.....
Item 1055Children of God
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1939. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 769pp. stated first edition. a fictionalized telling of the history of the Mormon Church from Joseph Smith's early days to the departure of the leaders from Salt Lake City in 1890. #01130.
Item 3853Castle Malindine
New York: Harper and Row, 1975. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 214pp. BCE. from front flap: "The time of this delightful novel is the mid-1860s. The appallingly oppressed peasants are beginning to rebel against their brutal masters, and here and there an enlightened landowner like Sir John Dungillis is actively.....
Item 1334Night Sky
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984. first U.S. edition. hardcover. 8vo 631pp. from front flap: "Irresistibly readable, Night Sky introduces a superb new storyteller to the world of fiction. Set in the years between 1935 and 1945, a decade when people everywhere found their lives turned upside down, the.....
Item 665Wine of Satan
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 308pp. from front flap: "One of the most talented of young historical novelists here opens pages of the past that are rich with strong mediaeval color. Laverne Gay's highly successful first novel, The Unspeakables, illumined one of the darkest corners of.....
Item 3774The Scent of Water
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1963. mass market paperback. 16mo. 222pp. Fawcett Crest Book T1213. See pictures for synopsis. #03840.
Item 2666Saigon
London: Pan Books, 1983. mass market paperback. 16mo 748pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02731.
Item 2793Royal Flush
London: Pan Books, 1966. mass market paperback. 16mo 345pp. Pan Books M133. see pictures for synopsis. #02858.
Item 2070Bride of Fortune
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1948. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 301pp. from front flap: "No woman in America ever lived a life like that of vivid Varina Howell Davis, the First Lady of the Confederacy, "Queen of the Lost Cause." Born an aristocrat in cotton-rich Natchez on.....
Item 649The Flames of Time
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 374pp. "The setting of this story is the East Republic of Florida from 1787 to 1813. Through experiences of the central character, the orphaned Artillery Armes, we are introduced to Florida's early history under bandits, Indians, escaped slaves, gougers from Georgia, the.....
Item 3803Blue Camellia
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1962. mass market paperback. 16mo. 304pp. Crest Book r528. authorized abridgment. see pictures for synopsis. #03869.
Item 3770The Safe Bridge
New York: Avon Books. mass market paperback. 16mo. 253pp. Avon Books S-113. #03836.
Item 510Bright to the Wanderer
Little Brown and Company, 1942. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 451pp. from inside flap: "Into the turbulent Canadian Rebellion of 1837 young Gil Stensrood plunged, with the conviction that the corrupt clique (known as the Compact) then representing the Crown must be crushed. With a price on his head, Gil could.....
Item 604The Old Priory
Doubleday and Company, 1982. first American edition. hardcover. 8vo 234pp. from front flap: "Few men have had to consider such an arrangement; fewer still could have ignored such a reward. Thus--dangerously, secretly--a handsome young sailor with chestnut colored hair responds to the urgent appeals of an unlikely siren beckoning him.....