Historical Fiction from Charity Bookstall

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with full page color illustration laid on top cover. Illustrated endpapers. 300 pages plus full color frontispiece and three additional color illustrations all on glossy stock. From Preface: "Two Mexican children were really captured some years since on the other side of the Rio Grande… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Muse, 2022. 8vo size trade paperback; 396 pages Covers are unique to proof. With Advance Reading Copy stated on the front cover. Back cover states Advance Reading Copy and Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Back cover provides an overview of the book, brief biographies of all three authors, details on the marketing campaign and details… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown, 1950. The First Edition was published in March 1950, this edition was reprinted March 1950 - it is the second printing of the First Edition 8vo size green clothbound hardcover with gilt titles on spine; 310 pages This is the second novel of Hornblower series, published in 1950. This volume was written as a… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972. Stated First Printing. 227 pages. Endpapers are maps. From jacket: This historical novel "concerns the tragic last days of Chief Joseph's Nez Perce people. Even when he was still 'Young Joseph,' son of the chief, the boy knew that life for his people was changing rapidly... Should they fight?… Read more about this item

Performance by Emmy Rossum Unabridged; 3 Cassettes; 4 hours, 38 minutes From back: "May Amelia Jackson is the only girl ever born on the Nasel River - A Real Miracle, her family says. And with seven brothers she believes it. Most of the time she forgets that she's a girl, like when she wears overalls… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow, 2008. Signed and inscribed on title page Stated First Edition will full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 704 deckle edged pages. Endpapers are illustrated with map of Boston. From jacket: "Set in Boston at the end of the First World War...(this) novel unflinchingly capture the pollical and social unrest… Read more about this item

Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1902. 8vo sized green cloth hardcover with bright gilt decorations on cover and spine; 404 lightly toned deckle edged pages. Color frontispiece, black and white illustrations. First American edition, there was also a British edition published in 1902. Bumped and lightly worn head and heel of spine and lightly worn corners. Mark… Read more about this item

New York: George Braziller, 1966. Stated First Printing - this is a First American Edition (the First Edition was published in London in 1965.) 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket From jacket: "This little masterpiece, at once a lament and a prayer, tells with the simplicity and power of classic Japanese art the story of Yuka and… Read more about this item

Denver: Alan Swallow, 1965. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 378 pages From back: "The third novel in the three Cases of Circumstantial Evidence...Its scope includes a contrast between the majesty of the court of Louis XIV and the bloodthirsty passions of Paris at that time. Here the bestial is more in evidence and because of the… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967. Book Club Edition 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 338 deckle edge pages. Illustrated endpapers are maps. From jacket: "Thomas Cranmer is remember chiefly as the great and controversial Archbishop of Canterbury who annulled Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Argon, as the leader of the Reformed Religion in… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1910. Illustrated Theatre Edition 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with elaborate white titles on front cover; 367 pages. Black and white photograph frontispiece on glossy stock of actress Bertha Galland in the title role of the play, other black and white photographs throughout the text. Historical fiction set in 16th century England… Read more about this item

North Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace, 2017. Private Press; 2017 8vo size trade paperback; 301 pages From back: "Sister Mona Sullivan wants to be a Catholic priest. If she chooses this path she must renounce her vows as a nun and leave the Church. Sandra Miller, one of the first women rabbis, and Elizabeth Adams, one… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1950. First Edition 8vo size red clothbound hardcover; 246 deckle edged pages with black and white decorations and some full page illustrations. Bumped head and heel of spine and corners, worn top of spine and bottom front corner. Small abrasion on fep where sticker was removed; toned pages; light soil to endpapers and last… Read more about this item

Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2013. Edge of Empire Series, Revolutionary War Historical Fiction First Edition 8vo size trade paperback; 353 pages Set in 1773. From back: "Jason loves the sea and the freedom it brings. As a merchant seaman ... He arrives in Boston town on a gray December day, just as the mob is preparing… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown, 1939. Blue cloth cover with orange titles spine and titles and decoration on cover. Endpapers are maps. 592 deckle edged toned pages. Lightly sunned and bumped head and heel of spine. Inscription on half title page. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1980. The Secret Life of Queen Victoria: Her Majesty's Missing Diaries: Being an account of her hitherto unknown travels through the island of Jamaica in the year 1871 edited and loyally illustrated by Jonathan Routh Folio size hardcover with dust jacket; 110 pages with color illustrations and a few black… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1959. "Washington Irving intended his History to evoke for New York an aura of "imaginative and whimsical associations" like the traditions of Old World cities that so captivate visitors abroad....In droll, delightful fashion Irving's History brings to life old New Amsterdam and its gallant Peter Stuyvesant. This attractive shortened version makes a favorite… Read more about this item

New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1967. 190 pages with several black and white maps and illustrations From book: "James Marshall's discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848, was a clarion call that rang throughout the nation, inspiring dreams of fabulous wealth in men from every walk of life. The result was a virtual stampede to the… Read more about this item

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1971. 8vo size clothbound pictorial hardcover with matching dust jacket; 96 pages with many full color black and white illustrations. The last page contains biographies of both the author and artist. From jacket: "When (Jeff's father) learns that the owner of the North Carolina plantation plans to sell him to a… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown, 1936. First Edition. Blue cloth cover is quite sunned on spine. Gilt decorations on front cover with embossed titles. Thin band of soil across front cover. 591 rough cut toned pages. Color illustrated endpapers. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning..… Read more about this item