FICTION / Historical from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First Edition with the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Perhaps Gellhorn's best work, the novel centers on four characters involved on winter World War II at the time of Hitler's last ditch offensive of the Battle of the Bulge. Gellhorn is often thought of only as one of the wives of Hemingway but… Read more about this item

Chicago: Donnelley, Loyd and Company A decent copy of a hardbound edition published during the first year of American hardbound editions of this book, 1877, although no date is shown in this copy. Beginning in 1876, Donnelley, Loyd "began the wave of cheap [Verne] books" (quoting from Taves and Michaluk, "Jules Verne Encyclopedia" of 1996) with papercover books in their… Read more about this item

New York: One World, 1997. Fine (slight wrinkle at top of spine) in fine dust jacket (corresponding slight edgewear at top of spine). 401 pages. A first novel from an award-winning poet, fiction writer, screenwriter, and journalist, growing out of her trips to Africa and an imaginative exploration of her own African roots. She quotes Langston Hughes following the table… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Very good (clean and tight, one crease in rear cover) paperback edition of this well-known novel. Fictionalized version of the very real history of Oskar Schindler and his efforts to save Jews during WWII. . Soft Cover. Illus. by Photographs from Yad Vashem.

New York: Viking, 1993. Very good (very faint soil on page edges, light edgewear) in very good dust jacket (light rubbing and edgewear). Mortimer is best known for his Rumpole books. Here he writes a fictional book based on real-life SAS activities in the Italian mountains during World War II, culminating in a contemporary libel trial set in England.. 1st… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner, 2005. SIGNED by author on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. By the author of "The Red Tent." Set in 19th century New England (Cape Ann).. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Near fine book (very slight edgewear at top corners) in near fine dust jacket (not price-clipped but some rubbing to back panel and edges). Unread copy. Focuses on the adventures of the Vietnamese chef of Stein and Toklas. Author was born in Saigon, moved to the U.S. when she was six.. 1st Edition. Hard… Read more about this item

Gambier, OH: Kenyon College, 1991. New Series, Volume XIII Number 2, Spring 1991. Very good (wrinkled back cover, some edgewear, interior clean and unmarked). Paper covers. 200 pages. The central work in this issue is the translation of Czech writer Arnost Lustig's short novel (about 60 pages), "Colette," which grows out of Lustig's Nazi labor camp experiences. Colette is a… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1925. A fictional biography of J. S. Bach. Exterior only fair but with very good interior (gilt worn off cover and spine, small ink stain on bottom of front cover, spine worn at top and bottom, corners bumped; interior clean and unmarked including frontispiece of "Sebastian Bach at Home" with tissue leaf). No dust jacket.… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon House, 1966. Near fine (owner's name, date on corner of ffep in tiny ink writing) in near fine dust jacket (some very light edgewear, a few slight scratches, now protected in Brodart cover). Set in 4th century BC Greece.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Atheneum, 1973. Translated from the French by Ralph Manheim. The story of an African slave's struggles in the New World. Very good+ (sunned at top and bottom of spine) in Very Good dust jacket (wrinkled flap edges; edgeworn with one closed tear). . 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Knopf, 1942. Good+ (bookplate ffep, small area at bottom of covers has a water stain but interior is clean and tight) in very good dust jacket (darkened, price clipped, edgeworn).. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. VG+ (creased back fep, light edgewear) in VG dust jacket (edgewear, small tape repair, price-clipped, faint spotting on inside of tacket). The further adventures of Jess and Eliza Birdwell of "The Friendly Persuasion.". 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1944. Near fine (slight wear at spine top and bottom; pages of war-time paper very slightly darkened) in good only dust jacket (tear along fold, edges chipped and wrinkled; now in clear jacket protector to prevent further damage). A novel set in the period of Richard the Lion-hearted and focusing on the difficult lives… Read more about this item

J.B. Lippincott, 1937. Very Good (small coffee stain on rear pastedown, slight sunning on edges of covers; very slightly cocked) in Good only dust jacket (heavily edgeworn with small missing chips, but front panel is clean and bright--see scan; price-clipped). An innovative re-telling of the love story of Troilus and Cressida. 248 pages. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: William Morrow, 1990. INSCRIBED and signed by author on title page. Very good (foxing on page edges and faint sunning at top of covers; slight separation beginning at first signature) in near fine dust jacket (some light sunning/yellowing on white areas). See scans. An historical novel, carefully researched, on the life of Hermann Goring, following his "progress"… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1988. Fine in near fine dust jacket (one taped mend inside, edgeworn along bottom front edge). INSCRIBED by author. 538 pages with endpaper maps.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1961. Very good (1 bumped corner, sunned spine top and bottom) in good only dust jacket (rubbed, darkened, and edgeworn, but intact and protected in archival plastic jacket). A novel of the conflict an earnest, respected British colonial official experiences when he runs up against an equally earnest but stubborn guerrilla freedom fighter. Written at… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1949. Very good (top of spine frayed, dent on bottom edge of cover) in good+ dust jacket (price-clipped, sunned, especially spine, edgeworn especially at spine, short closed tears at folds, fragile: see scan. Now in Brodart archival jacket to avoid any more damage). Translated from Russian by Marie Budberg. Non-propagandistic novel by Soviet writer about group of… Read more about this item

New York: George Braziller, 1979. Very good (a few foxing spots on page edges) in very good dust jacket (wrinkle on inside fold). Previously published in Britain. Bainbridge builds this novel on a diary entry regarding Hitler's five months spent in Liverpool in 1912. 219 pages.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.