Search Results: Historical Fiction from The Novel Shoppe

New York: A Venture Pressbook / Simon and Schuster, 1947. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. 1947. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. The author of this book was a young American writer who had boldly set at defiance the entire modern bare-bones school of writing derived from the early Hemingway. He used the great English language in all its beautiful values, rather than regarding it as a device to be ashamed of, boiled down, or pared away. His later works included Marjorie Morningstar, Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Raintree County, and many others. DJ, edgeworn and chipped, is in new mylar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages; 30847 .

Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The heroine of this book is Adelaide Culver, forthright, independent; irresistible to Henry, with whom she went to live in the Mews when it was a slum; indispensable to Gilbert, for whom she brought fame and fortune to the Mews, and to themselves. Mild wear, previous owner's name. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 377 pages; 25235U .

Macmillan. Very Good in Poor Dust Jacket. 1953. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Tom Bill was a frontier newspaper editor who knew his business. In the early New Mexico Territory this meant being ready to fight whenever more peaceful means of persuasion didn't work. That's why Tom was a two-gun man, un buscadero. You will never see "may have" defects...if my book has defects I include them in my listings. The dust jacket was in 3 pieces and badly chipped. I taped it back together and put it in new mylar, trying to hold it together. Endpapers somewhat foxed. A good read if you like historical western fiction. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages; 30391 .

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Fair Dust Jacket. 1956. 1st Edition; 2nd Printing. Hardcover. DJ edgeworn, chipped at head and heel of spine, rubbed, in new mylar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 318 pages; 25463Uhs .

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 1997. 1st Edition; 13th Printing. Hardcover. 0871136791 . Gold seal on front cover is a quote from John Berendt, author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil": "Cold Mountain is a heartbreakingly beautiful story [during the US Civil War], elegantly told and utterly convincing down to the last haunting detail." Map of the southern blue ridge mountains endpapers. ; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall; 356 pages; 31159 .

Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. 1943. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Made into a movie in 1945 starring Charles Coburn and Joan Bennett. Rubbed and chipped DJ in new mylar. PON. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages; 32686 .

NY: W. W. Norton. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 1995. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. 0393037606 . Aubrey Maturin Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 281 pages; 27421 .

NY: Heritage Press. Near Fine with no Dust Jacket. 1940. Hardcover. In late 1809, Washington Irving completed work on his first major book, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker, a satire on self-important local history and contemporary politics. Prior to its publication, Irving started a hoax akin to today's viral marketing campaigns; he placed a series of missing person adverts in New York newspapers seeking information on Diedrich Knickerbocker, a crusty Dutch historian who had allegedly gone missing from his hotel in New York City. As part of the ruse, Irving placed a notice-allegedly from the hotel's proprietor-informing readers that if Mr. Knickerbocker failed to return to the hotel to pay his bill, he would publish a manuscript Knickerbocker had left behind. Unsuspecting readers followed the story of Knickerbocker and his manuscript with interest, and some New York city officials were concerned… Read More

Heritage Press. Very Good- with no Dust Jacket. 1940. Hardcover. Frontispiece of Knickerbocker writing the history plus 23 original Lithographs. Has all the chapters of the 7 books. PON's label on front endpaper. Stains on boards. ; Lithographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 351 pages; 32073 .

Dallas: The Book Craft. Very Good in Very Good- Dust Jacket. 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR; jacket designs and illustrations by the author who is, in addition to his other talents, also an actor, producer and directer. Edgeworn and moderately frayed DJ in mylar book jacket cover. Hint of pencil erasure upper corner of flyleaf.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 252 pages; 17668; Signed by Author .

Walter J. Black, Inc.. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1942. Hardcover. 1942 Classics Club hardcover. Includes the key to Russian names. Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" is considered to be one of the author's greatest literary achievements. It is a novel about the clash of ideologies of two generations. The older generation represents an aristocracy whose power and influence is fading and giving way to the younger generation, who represent the middle-class nihilistic ideology. It is a work that captures the tension that existed among generations and class in the pre-revolutionary era in Russia. Fade spots on boards; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 345 pages; 32048 .

Boston: Little, Brown. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0316955191 . Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 693 pages; 23750 .

Westvaco Corporation. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 262 pages; 31713 .

Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0684853310 . Map endpapers. Caesar is McCullough's conduit character through whose eyes and actions much of the collapse of the Republic occurs. Now she must deal with his murder. ; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall 11" tall; 792 pages; 33354 .

Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 2008. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 067001821X . One of the earliest Jewish religious volumes to be illuminated with images, the Sarajevo Haggadah survived centuries of purges and wars thanks to people of all faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Geraldine Brooks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, has turned the intriguing but sparely detailed history of this precious volume into an emotionally rich, thrilling fictionalization that retraces its turbulent journey. In the hands of Hanna Heath, an impassioned rare-book expert restoring the manuscript in 1996 Sarajevo, it yields clues to its guardians and whereabouts: an insect wing, a wine stain, salt crystals, and a white hair. While readers experience crucial moments in the book's history through a series of fascinating, fleshed-out short stories, Hanna pursues its secrets scientifically, and finds that some interests will still risk everything in the name of… Read More

NY: Exposition Press. Near Fine in Fair Dust Jacket. 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First of a planned trilogy about the American Revolution. Jacket has scotch taped "14" (home-made) to head of spine, small tears at extremities. From the private library of Dr. Thomas E. Foster (ffep has name rubber stamped above a clean pocket) . ; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall ; 128 pages; 30031 .

Atlantic Monthly Press, Little, Brown & Co.. Very Good- in Poor Dust Jacket. 1962. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Trifold bookmark laid in at page 68. Porter's only long novel. The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Bremerhaven, Germany. This ship of fools is a crucible of intense experience, out of which everyone emerges forever changed. Rich in incident, passion, and treachery, the novel explores themes of nationalism, cultural and ethnic pride, and basic human frailty that are as relevant now as they were when the novel first appeared in 1962. DJ chipped, torn, taped, in mylar book jacket cover. Binding a little shaky. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 497 pages; 23906 .

Chicago: Consolidated Book. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1944. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Special edition published exclusively for members of the People's Book Club. A wartime book. Wear at head of spine. Previous owner's name and address from 1944 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 259 pages; 28317 .