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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First U. S. edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with wear spine ends with minor loss of those corners, wear to corner tips with minor loss and small closed tear at upper front right corner, closed tear to the lower rear panel with small chip and creases and a verso tape repaired closed tear to upper rear flap fold. (24766). Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-327 [328-330: blank], dust jacket painting by Harold Brett, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange, fore edge rough cut, top edge stained orange. Set during the time of English-Spanish conflict in the 16th century.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Publisher signed with compliments card tipped in the front, post card to order the "Works" affixed to the rear. A very good copy with loss to paper at base of spine and some separation of paper at head of spine. (24775). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. The first story from THE BANNER OF THE BULL. Publisher's promotion issued in this format for coming publication of the Definitive Edition of Sabatini's Works. Fourteen initial volumes announced on the rear panel which began in 1924.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. First U. S. edition. Inked name to upper edge of half title page, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with wear to spine ends with a chip to the lower spine and a tiny chip to head of spine panel, mild edge wear. (24765). Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [1-3] 4-446, dust jacket painting by Harold Brett, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange, pictorial end papers, fore edge uncut, top edge stained orange. Historical fiction set in Italy during the time of the Renaissance with a number of the characters real historical figures.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First edition. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some even color fade to the jacket. (24774). Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-310, original dark green cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. Historical novel concerning John Law, economist who established the Banque Générale in France (which would become the first central bank of France) during a time of financial upheaval after the death of Louis XIV.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. First U. S. edition. Mild foxing to top and fore edges, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with rubbing to edges, slight loss at upper right front corner, wear with minor loss at head of spine panel, small closed tears to upper front panel, base of spine panel and upper rear panel-with crease, mild color fade to spine panel. (24771). Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v-vi] [1] 2-393 [394: blank], jacket painting by John Alan Maxwell, original brown cloth with front and spine stamped in red, fore and bottom edges rough cut. Sixteenth century Genoa is the center of action involving sea battles.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d. [1920s]. Later printing. A very good copy some light spotting to covers in a fair to good dust jacket, front panel separated from spine, lower third of spine panel missing, rubbing, closed tears. (12465). Octavo, cloth. Classic sea adventure novel. Filmed in 1924.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [mid-1920s]. Later edition (photoplay). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with chip to upper left front corner and chips and wear to head of spine panel, slight loss at base of spine panel, closed tear to lower left front panel anddamp stain at both flap fold edges. (24764). Octavo, twelve inserted film stills, original blue cloth front and spine stamped in blue. Swashbuckling adventure. Photoplay edition for the 1923 silent film.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. First U. S. edition, later dust jacket. Front and rear hinges partially cracked, slight lean, a very good copy in a very good later dust jacket with edge rubbing and light wear to the spine ends. Jacket flap promote THE SWORD OF ISLAM and THE LOST KING published by Houghton in 1939 and 1937 respectively. The front panel illustration is in gray tones, not color. (24893). Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-x][1-3] 4-321 [322: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. Set in 18th century England, spies, plots and mistaken identities.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First U.S. edition. A very good copy, some spotting and soiling to cloth in a very good price clipped dust jacket, with rubbing and light chipping to edges, spine panel shows color fade. (13437). Octavo, cloth. Source for the 1949 film Christopher Columbus.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. First U. S. edition. Bookplate affixed to front paste-down, spine rubbed and worn, lettering perished, a good copy in a fair dust jacket heavily worn, tears, lower quarter of spine panel missing, creases and splits. A filler copy. (24768). Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1-3] 4-420, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange, fore edge rough cut, top edge stained orange. The story of Robert Carr who had the ear of King James the First, and his affair with the Countess of Essex.

New York: Ace Books, [1979]. First edition. A fine copy, unread. (25626). Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Trade paperback format. Collects the first Earth's End sequence; THE BROKEN LANDS (1968), THE BLACK MOUNTAINS (1971) and ARDHEH'S WORLD (a.k.a. CHANGELING EARTH (1973), all revised for this edition. Science fiction/fantasy novel set in a post-holocaust world in which science and magic co-exist. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-324.

London: Macdonald, 1969. First British and First hardcover edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (8399). Octavo, Hardcover. First issued as a paperback original in the U.S. as Brother Assassin (1969). Second book of the Berserker series. See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-378.

[New York]: Ace Books, [1979]. First edition. Previous owner stamp to inside front cover and title page, some age darkening to text paper, faint reading crease, a nearly fine copy. (16292). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original. The continued adventures of Count Dracula, he moves his character to modern times. Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 505-506.

[New York]: Ace Books, [1978]. First edition. Previous owner stamp to inside front cover and title page, some age darkening to text paper, crease at rear cover, a nearly fine copy. (16293). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original. Dracula teams with Holmes to fight The Giant Rat of Sumatra. Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 505-506.

London: Macdonald, 1969. First British and First hardcover edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, some age darkening to spine lettering. (3284). Octavo, boards. First issued as a paperback original in the U.S. as Brother Assassin (1969). Second book of the Berserker series. See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-378.

New York;: Tor, [1993]. First edition. Lower front corner bruised, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Feels unread. (28813). Octavo, boards. A novel in the Berserker series.

[New York]: Ace Books, [1978]. First edition. A fine copy, unread. (31226). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original. Dracula teams with Holmes to fight The Giant Rat of Sumatra. Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 505-506.

[New York]: Ace Books, [1980]. First edition. Previous owner stamp to inside front cover and title page, some age darkening to text paper, a fine unread copy. (16294). Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Paperback original. The Dracula adventures continue. Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 505-506.

[London]: New English Library, [1975]. First edition. Age darkening to text paper, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (23105). Octavo, boards. Collects sixteen stories by Christopher Priest, Terry Greenhough, Bob Shaw, Olaf Stapledon, and others.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1979. First edition. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket. (6795). Octavo, Hardcover. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on a WW I espionage mission. Hubin, p. 712.