The Trade Wind
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1927. Illustrations by Henry A. Pitz. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. A sea adventure that takes place just prior to American Revolution with full color plates by Henry Pitz.
Historical fiction tells a story that is set in the past. That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the main characters tend to be fictional.
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. ----- Guy Vanderhaeghe
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1927. Illustrations by Henry A. Pitz. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. A sea adventure that takes place just prior to American Revolution with full color plates by Henry Pitz.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. This motion picture edition ... combines the literary achievement of Miss Mitchell's book and the cinematic triumph of its screen version. Illustrated with color photos from the film.
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1897. Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Reprint Edition. Hugh Wynne is a preeminent historical novel within American literature, particularly for its portrayal of the Revolutionary War era. Primarily unfolding against the Quaker setting of Philadelphia, Mitchell skillfully captures the nuances of both social dynamics and military.....
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In 1905, John Le Brun makes his first excursion to England to visit import broker Geoffrey Moore. Le Brun and Moore became friends six years earlier while Le Brun was Sheriff of Brunswick.....
New York: William Morrow, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In the wake of The Guardship comes the second in the Brethren of the Coast trilogy and the swash-buckling adventures of former pirate Thomas Marlowe. In a blind rage, King James, ex-slave and now.....
New York: William Morrow, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. From Norfolk to Hampton Roads, from Roanoke Island to the wild nighttime battle on the river below New Orleans, Glory in the Name tells the dramatic story of the Confederate States Navy, and.....
New York: William Morrow, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In 1706, war still rages in Europe, and the tobacco planters of the Virginia colony's Tidewater struggle against shrinking markets and pirates lurking off the coast. But American seafarers have found a new source.....
New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1993. 1st Edition, Third printing. Near Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1928. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Later printing of the author's nostalgic Lost Cause novel about the adventures of two 10-year-old boys' adventures in Virginia during the Civil War, and a fair amount of Southern Black dialect.Ref: Blanck-Penrod, 89.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated cloth hardcover. Fictional tale of Roanoke colony 1587-1598, the English settlement and the mystery of what happened to the colony.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The setting is Madrid in 1868: a time of political unrest as self-indulgent Queen Isabelle II's hold on the throne grows shaky and numerous anti-royalist and revolutionary groups jostle for advantage.At the same.....
Greensboro, NC: Lifestyles Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. This epic tale follows the lives of three Cherokee Indian women through five generations of a family related to the author. Standing Against the Wind is a historical narration of fear, pride, prejudice, and.....
New York: Harpers, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover. Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.He founded his own school of art and illustration, named.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Weimar Berlin's legendary film industry provides the cinematically dissolute milieu for Jonathan Rabb's stylish noire Shadow and Light, in which Fritz Lang himself makes a cameo. [Vogue].
New York: Harbor House, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The Civil War brought death and ruin to the Old South, but out of the ashes there arose a remarkable legend that has intrigued treasure hunters and conspiracy buffs ever since the lost Confederate.....
New York: Ace Hardcover, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In a new alternate history saga, more than one hundred years after Rome falls to the great Carthaginian general Hannibal and its inhabitants are sent into exile, the Romans have re-grouped, stronger and more.....
New York: Minotaur Books, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Layers of intrigue slowly unfold, along with a meticulously detailed glimpse of ancient Roman society ... A wry first-person narrative. [Kirkus Reviews].
New York: Minotaur Books, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In this ninth book in the series, Roberts crafts another skillful mystery, this time fervently pulsing with the collision of Roman, Greek, and Egyptian interests.
New York: Minotaur Books, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. With his SPQR novels, John Maddox Roberts has written a satisfying and entertaining historical mystery series. The stakes just keep getting higher in this latest atmospheric puzzle.
New York: Mysterious Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In ancient Egypt, during the reign of Tutankhamun, Lord Meren joins forces with Anath, the Eyes of Babylon, a clever female counterpart, to find out who poisoned Queen Nefertiti and to stop a treacherous.....
London: Headline Book Publishing, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Libertus finds himself in Londinium at the invitation of the Roman Governor when news arrives of the brutal murder of Caius Monnius, the chief corn-officer. Libertus is asked to investigate but his enquiries lead.....
London: Headline Book Publishing, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In Roman Britain, AD 189, every slave knows his lot in life depends solely upon the morals or lack thereof of his master. Fortunately for one young Glevum slave, Junio, his owner believes heartily.....
UK: Severn House Publishers, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A Coin for the Ferryman Libertus accepts a contract to install a pavement for Genialis, a self-important citizen from a nearby town, in the house of the customer's intended but unwilling and young bride.....
London: Severn House Publishers, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. This suspenseful outing, with its unexpected twists, compares favorably with the work of such masters of this subgenre as Gary Corby and Steven Saylor. [Publishers Weekly].