Historical Fiction
Higgins (Jack, pseud. Harry Patterson) In the Hour Before Midnight
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1969.
First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.
A consideration of the origins and methods of the Sicilian mafia, by the author of The Eagle Has Landed.
Historical Fiction
Durban, South Africa, Knox Publishing Company, n.d. [1942].
8vo. Original green cloth.
An interesting volume regarding the queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, great royal wife to Pharaoh Akhenaten.
Historical Fiction
London, Heath Cranton, 1925.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth blocked in red. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A tale of high adventure & romance, set in the slave-dealing days of Bristol.
Historical Fiction
London, Heinemann, 1966.
First edition. 8vo. Original terracotta boards. Dust-jacket, priced 30s.
The first volume of Scott's famous 'Raj Quartet'.
Historical Fiction
London, Methuen, 1948.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth lettered in white. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The third and final volume in the author's Neustrian Cycle.
Historical Fiction
London, Nash & Grayson, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A historical novel, set against the backdrop of the English Civil War, and it explores themes of love, loss, and redemption. Plus great dust-jacket.
Historical Fiction
London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1936.
First UK edition, second printing. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, price redacted on inside front flap.
The author's most famous novel outside Germany, in which he describes Nazism as an epidemic and Hitler as a hysteric. However, despite Glaeser's works being put on the Nazi's hate-list for burning, the author returned to Germany from Switzerland in 1939, branding other émigré writers as traitors, and swearing an oath of allegiance to the Reich.
Historical Fiction
London, Sampson Low, Martson, Searle, & Rivington, 1891.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A decent first UK edition of this surprisingly scarce Verne title, an adventure novel by Jules Verne about the life of a family in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 that sought an independent and democratic republic for Lower Canada.