Historical Fiction from Thompson Rare Books

London: Humphrey Toulmin at the Cayme Press Limited, [1930]. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, original blue cloth titled in black on spine panel. 392 pp. Spine panel darkened and a bit spotted, covers faded as usual with this book, mild foxing to page edges. The front endpaper bears two early original alchemical copper engravings, one… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Dust Jacket. Octavo, original pictorial sage-green cloth titled in gilt on spine, titled in black and decorated in black, red and gilt on front panel, top edges gilt. 314 pp + [3] pp ads at rear. Publisher's promotional pamphlet advertising 8 other contemporary books, including Jack… Read more about this item

New York: A.L. Burt Company., 1928 [i.e., slightly later]. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good in Dust Jacket. Early reprint, perhaps the first, of the 1st edition issued by the Macy-Masius Company of New York in 1928. Octavo, original red cloth titled and ruled in gilt on spine and front panel. 310 pp + [2] pp ads at rear. Ink… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1969.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Dust Jacket. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine, titles in blind on upper cover. 288 pp, map endpapers. A near fine copy in a bright, near fine dust jacket. ¶ Historical novel, the voyages of Eudoxos of Kyzikos, circa… Read more about this item

London: F.V. White & Co. , 1896.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth stamped in black on front cover, titled in gilt on spine. 296 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard & title page vignette by Nisbet. Early ink inscription on verso of half-title leaf "Ian Baillie / Present from Captain… Read more about this item

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, Eldridge Court., 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth titled and decorated in white on front panel, titled in white on spine, publisher's device in white on rear panel. BAL 13501, Binding "A", Intermediate printing (between first and second, which, logically, would mean the second issue). This… Read more about this item

London: Secker & Warburg., [1986].. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Dust Jacket. Octavo, original boards. Tiny remainder spot on lower page edges, otherwise fine in dust wrapper. The third Ned Yorke novel set in the Carribean sea of the 17th Century, sequel to BUCCANEER and ADMIRAL.

London: Richard Bentley, 1845. First Edition Thus. Half-Leather. Very Good. The first one-volume edition, issued as volume 98 in Bentley's Standard Novels series. Originally issued in 3 vols by Bentley in 1844. Small octavo, bound in half black calf over marbled boards, spine panel nicely decorated in blind and ruled in gilt with in compartments, contrasting red leather… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson & Co. , No Date [1933].. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, later issue. Octavo, original orange cloth titled in black. [288] pp, 64 page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear, dated Autumn, 1934. The first issue bears an Autumn, 1933 catalogue. Spine panel faded to tan, and some mild discolouration to covers; a few… Read more about this item

London: J.C. Nimmo and Bain., 1881. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, two volumes bound in brown cloth over bevelled boards, spines titled in gilt, floral endpapers. The first translation into English of this two picaresque Spanish novels, the Aleman is translated from the French edition of le Sage. With Eight original etchings by R. de… Read more about this item