Search Results: Fiction: Historical from The Owl at the Bridge

New York, R.H. Russell, 1902.. Hard Cover. 4 p.l., 289 p. illus. 20 cm. "Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books." A contemporary critic said that this would appeal to someone with an "abnormal sense of humor." Sounds good to me. Stock# 44,739. Vg, marbled paper boards / no dj.

Boston, Little, Brown [1986]. Soft Cover. 329 p.; 19.5 cm. 'This tenth tale [actually the eleventh] of naval adventure in C. S. Forester's Hornblower series finds Horatio Hornblower an admiral struggling to impose order in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, he must take on pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane. The war is over, but peaceful it is not.' Stock # 29,725. Vg/ color pictorial paper wrappers (painting by Wendell Minor). English literature, fiction; British naval historical fiction.

Vincennes, Ind., Vincennes University Press, 1961. "Set against the backdrop of the American Revolution, Alice of Old Vincennes is the story of the orphan girl Alice Roussillon. In 1778 the French outpost of Vincennes, Indiana, revolts against the British and swears allegiance to the American cause." First published by The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900. Soft Cover. 332 pages, 22.5 cm. Vg / soft cover. Stock#44213.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1930. Hard Cover. 328 p., [20] leaves of plates, illus.; 20 cm. "by H.G. Wells. Assisted Pictorially by David Low" i.e., four inserted double-page plates with illustrations by David Low. A satirical view of English right-wing politics. Spine sunned; good+. Stock#47446.

NY, Random House [1955]. Hard Cover. NY, Random House [1955]. Book club edition. 314 p.; 21.5 cm. Novel of the Civil War period of a daughter of a Kentucy planter raised as well-born white seized into slavery for her father's debts. Stock# 30,487. Good+/dj chipped, good+. American literature.

Garden City, Doubleday, 1956. Hard Cover. 275 p.21.5 cm. End-paper maps. Novel of an Island of the coast of Maine during the early eighteenth century. First printing. Stock #29,454. Vg/ no dj.

Pantheon [c1962]. Second Printing. Hard Cover. 343 p., endpaper map; 22 cm. "It was dolphin weather, when I sailed into Piraeus with my comrades of the Cretan bull ring. Knossos had fallen, which time out of mind had ruled the seas. The smoke of the burning Labyrinth still clung to our clothes and hair." "Although not a classicist by training, Renault was admired in her day for her scrupulous recreations of the Greek world. ... her novels about Theseus rely on the controversial theories of Robert Graves... a vivid portrait of life in ancient Greece." Color pictorial dj clipped, darkened, now in mylar; small ink owner name inside front cover; good. stock#44999.

N.Y., Dutton, 1958.. Hard Cover. 127 p., 19 cm. Novel based on his experience with the Italian army in Greece. 'A lieutentant in the Italian Army of occupation is ordered to escort fifteen Greek girls from Athens to Italian army brothels.' Stock# 40,211. Vg/ dj slightly soiled. Italian Literature World War II.

NY, H. Smith & R. Haas, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. 583 p., illus. (map), fold. geneal. tables; 22 cm. Title continues: "of the Romans (born B.C. 10, died A.D. 54), as described by himself: also his murder at the hands of the notorious Agrippina (mother of the Emperor Nero) and his subsequent deification, as described by others." Stock#45225. Good, well read / no dj.

Garden City, NY, Garden City Pub. Co. Inc., 1927. The Star Series. Hard Cover. vii, [1], 321 p., 21 cm. First pub. 1924. Chapters: Julius Caesar; Alexandria; Mark Antony; Cleopatra; The Inimitables; Antony's Wives; The Marriage at Antioch; The Two Rivals; Actium; The Death. Black cloth stamped in gold; spine faded, no dj; VG. stock#34932 {ns}.

W. W. Norton [c1994]. 'First American Edition 1995'. Hard Cover. 282 p.; 21.5 cm. "Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade, but their ultimate destination is Ireland. There the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent, and the climax of the story is one of those grand and thrilling fleet actions on which the supremacy of the British Navy was founded." Color pictorial dj with white spine; VG, gift quality. stock#44653.

N.Y., Appleton, 1926. Hard Cover. vii, 249 p.21 cm. First pub., London, 1925. Published as an actual diary of a man-hungrary Irish girl of a well-off family, always on the verge of eloping, this was hailed as the work of a female Pepys. It was revealed to be the work of a nineteen yearold girl. Stock# 31,080. Vg, spine darkened/ no dj.

N,Y., Broadway Books/ Random House, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. 6 p.l., 401 p., 24.5 cm. Novel told by a man remembering three years service on the staff of GeneralDouglas MacArthur (1943-1945) and on MacArthur's desire to hastily execute General Tomoyuki Yamashita ("The Tiger of Singapore") and of his protection of the Japanese royal family who were the real war criminals. Stock# 32,645. Fine/ dj fine.

NY, Random House [1987]. Hard Cover. 3 p.l., 486 p.; 24 cm. Part of Vidal's American Chronicles series of novels. This one deals with the period 1898-1906 just after the Spanish War when the United States again reached beyond its borders. Stock# 31,634. VG/ dj vg.

NY, Putnam's Sons [1960].. Hard Cover. 187 p., illus.; 21 cm. A novel in which an eight-year old serving boy, grows, serves in the Zulu War, and becomes a coachman, enabling White to survey Victorian England. SAG. Stock# 34,161. Good, ex library with scars but generally in good shape & not unpleasant to hold/ dj scuffed. Stock# 34,261. English literature, social history.

Cambridge, MA : Rounder Books, c2005.. Soft Cover. viii, 231 p. ; 23 cm. Contents: Foreword / Bill Lee -- The shadow of Manny Ramirez / Rachel Solar -- Prospect / Jennifer Rapaport -- The autograph / Robert Weintraub -- The curse of the Bambino : a musical / David Kruh and Steven Bergman -- Heirloom / Elizabeth Pariseau -- Saint Red Sock's Day / Jonathan P. Winickoff -- My night at Fenway / Amy Saks -- The long dark voyage / Matthew Hanlon -- First start / Tom Snee -- The opposite field / Jeff Parenti -- Opening day / Tracy Miller Geary -- Bambino Road, chapter one / Cecilia Tan -- Fischer at Fenway / Mitch Evich -- The prophecy : a Red Sox alternate history / Sam and Christina Polyak -- Life, death, love, and baseball / Skye Alexander -- Ice age : a one-act play / David Kruh -- Green monster / Adam Emerson Pachter -- A Sox fan's wildest dream / Bill Nowlin. Stock# 43,777. Vg / soft cover.

Presidio Press [Novato, Calif., 1989]. Hard Cover. 607 p. "The epic novel of the Vietnam War." Dj; fine. Stock#24468.

Harcourt, Brace, NY [1956?]. Hard Cover. 214 p.; 21 cm. Sketches of daily life of an Indiana Quaker family in Civil War days. Green covers scuffed, worn, top of spine torn, ink owner name; good. Stock#100835 (mrp).

NY, Scribners, 1951. Hard Cover. 6 leaves, 861 p.; 21.5 cm. Jones was an enlisted soldier when Pearl Harbor and the Army base, Camp Schofield, were attacked on Dec. 7, 1941. He wrote of his army experience in this first novel, which won the National Book Award and was made into an Academy Award-winning film. No dj; very good. Stock#47424.

New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1994. Hard Cover. [viii], 358 p. ; 22 cm. Novel about Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris, the engaged couple who were Abraham Lincoln's guests at Ford's Theater the night that he was shot. "But Lincoln's assassination is only one part of this novel--for in researching the lives of Henry and Clara Rathbone, Mallon uncovered an even more dramatic story of passion, scandal, heroism, murder, and madness. Imaginatively re-creating their lives, he tells the larger story of nineteenth-century Victorian America: a society structured above suppressed impulses and undercurrents that grew stronger as the century progressed." Stock # 44,358. Vg, small owner's stamp on front flu leaf / dj vg.