Historical Fiction from Grimalkin Books

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009. This Stated First Edition (and, unless it's stated, it's not) also includes a "number line" ending with a "1" to indicated First Printing. This New, unread novel of Nazi Germany deals with an idealistic young naval officer, his fiancée back home, and the moral decisions that engulf them both as the war effect… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. This Stated First Edition (and, unless it's stated, it's not) is in Fine condition, with a Very Good+ price-unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The story deals with a 12th century Japanese hero, Kiyomori, who rises from poverty and obscurity to become the Emperor's Chief… Read more about this item

New York: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2006. This Stated First American Edition (and, unless it's stated, it's not) is in New, unread condition, with a New, price-unclipped dust jacket. There are NO remainder marks. This sweeping drama hurls us into the work of the mid-Sixteenth Century, as the Emperor of the Ottomans declares a jihad against the… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996. This Stated First Edition has a "number line" starting with a "2". The book is in Fine condition with a Fine price-unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. This sequel to "The Commodore" has Jack Aubrey as an impoverished landowner, with his fortunes on both land… Read more about this item

Harper & Row/Atheneum, 1980. This Stated First Edition (and unless it's stated, it's not) also includes a "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is bound in a cream-colored cloth with the author's initials in gilt against a red and gilt background, as well as gilt spine titles against a similar background. The book has… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. This book is a Stated First Edition from November 1907 and includes the complete "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. This authorized novel based on Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind complements the original story by adding new characters and deeper dimensions to the original work. This time around, the… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot, U.K.: David & Charles, 1981. Like d'Artagnan, a penniless Dumas went to Paris as a young man to seek his fortune, with dazzling results. Michael Ross makes Dumas' life every bit as fascinating as one of his historical novels. The book is in As New condition with an As New dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into… Read more about this item

New York: Plume, 1982. The Hills Beyond was Thomas Wolfe's last great novel, published posthumously. (Wolfe died at age 37 due to pneumonia.) The novel traces the life of a vital Southern family over three centuries. This oversized paperback book is a Stated First Printing from Plume with the appropriate "number line" starting with a "1". There is… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992. This Jack Aubrey-Stephen Maturin series adventure is in Very Good+ condition. It is a First Printing Thus oversized paperback from Norton. The book has been read only once and read gently with some light scratch marks on the rear panel. (Click on photo.) The binding is tight and secure, with no break… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992. This is the sixteenth of the Jack Aubrey-Stephen Maturin series adventures and is in Fine, unread condition. It is a 8th Printing oversized paperback from Norton. The book measures 5 1/4 by 7 3/4 inches and includes 261 pages. The binding is tight and secure. The pages are clean and bright throughout. .… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. This is the fourth of the Jack Aubrey-Stephen Maturin series adventures and is in Fine, unread condition. It is a 3rd Printing oversized paperback from Norton. The book measures 5 1/4 by 7 3/4 inches and includes 348 pages. The binding is tight and secure. The pages are clean and bright throughout. .… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996. Prior to the Jack Aubrey-Stephen Maturin series, this was Patrick O'Brian's first historical sea adventure featuring Commodore Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740 and Peter Palafox, son of a poor Irish parson who signs on as a midshipman. The book is in close to Fine condition, having only been read once… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900. This early reprint is in Very Good condition. It is bound in an illustrated cloth with various shades of green decorating both the front panel and spine. (Click on photo.) The book shows edge rubbing and fraying at the spine tips and corners. The binding is secure and the text pages are clean with… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1947. This First Printing (as indicated by a "1" in parentheses on the final text page) is in close to Fine condition with a Very Good+ price-unclipped dust jacket. This historical romance novel is set in the time of George III and deals with three full-blooded women whose romantic trials are tied to the… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1909. This First Edition, published in January, 1909, is in Good+ condition. It is an historical novel set in Washington in 1844 and deals with the type of events that would fourteen years later erupt into the Civil War. In addition to writing, the author, Emerson Hough, was a well-known conservationist, responsible for inspiring Congress to… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. This handsome Stated First Edition (and, unless it's stated, it's not) is in Fine condition, with its original price-unclipped dust jacket. I've placed the dust jacket into an archival Brodart protective sleeve. The novel deals with intrigues and adventures in the decent Imperial Court of Kyoto, Japan, during the Middle Ages. It was translated… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. A young coroner finds love in the midst of a post-Civil War hillbilly vendetta. This is a rare First Edition, printed September 1904, of a book that usually nowadays can only be purchased from cheap Print-On-Demand companies. The book is bound in a blue-green cloth, with a decorative front panel and spine, showing… Read more about this item

New York: Macaulay Company, 1922. Originally published in 1906, this Glyn novel was reprinted in 1922 to promote the silent film starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson, photographs of whom are used as illustrations. There is also a frontis photo of Valentino and Elinor Glyn. A young, penniless aristocrat, Theodora (Gloria Swanson), marries a self-made millionaire grocer to help her… Read more about this item

Montreal: The Montreal News Co., Ltd., 1897. This is the first authorised and revised edition of a novel, previously published 20 years earlier in the United States in a pirated form due to lax copyright laws of that period, as explained in the author's own prefatory note. This revised edition was also legally published in the United States by L.C.… Read more about this item

New York: Julian Messner, 1957. Prior to M.M. Kaye's monumental success with The Far Pavilions, her historical novel, Shadow of the Moon, dealt with the Indian Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 and of a romance that blossomed during the death and destruction of that volatile period. This bce copy features a handsome dust jacket with it's original artwork created by Jules… Read more about this item