Historical Fiction from Tannery Books

Norwalk, Conn.: The Heritage Press, 1985. Hardcover. Near fine/good. Kurt Craemer. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii, Norwalk, Conn., The Heritage Press, 1985. Dark brown cloth with gold lettering over mottled gray paper boards with two-tone illustrated on front, xxii, 514 pp, woodcut illustrations by Kurt Craemer; plain, reddish-brown slipcase. The Heritage Club's "Sandglass" laid in… Read more

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library/good. Richard E. Early, Apprentice: A historical novel, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977, First Printing. Green cloth hc with gilt lettering on spine, 8vo (21 cm), [viii] 180 pp; glossy illustrated dustjacket ad on back. Good/good: ex-library with stamps and stickers, tape residue on covers and endpapers, pages… Read more

Boston: Loring, 1863. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. By the author of "Faith Gartney's Girlhood." [A. D. T. Whitney], Boys at Chequasset ; or, "A Little Leaven." Boston, Loring, 1863, second edition. Mauve cloth hc with blind-stamped covers and edges and gilt-stamped spine titling, 12mo (16 cm), buff endpapers, 28 pp. Good/no DJ: covers wearing with small black dots… Read more

Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1902. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. Irving Bacheller, D'ri and I : A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Secnod War with the British, Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U.S.A. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, February 3d, 1902, fifth printing. Illustrated by F. C. Yohn. Red cloth hc with sepia pastedown illustration, 8vo (19… Read more

The John C. Winston Company, 1932. Third printing. Hardcover. Good. J. L. G. Ferris, Edwin John Prittie. Edwin Satterthwaite Parry, lineal descendant of Betsy Ross. Betsy Ross, Quaker Rebel : Being the True Story of the Romantic Life of the Maker of the First American Flag. The John C. Winston Company, 1932, third printing. Illustrations by J. L.… Read more

Canmore Press, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. Jan VerBraeken. Cathy Gaskill, Ruth's Gift: A Family Legend Expanded, Canmore Press, 1998. Trade pb, xii, 144 pp, line drawings by Jan VerBraeken. Fact-based novel about the Quaker Jones-Winslow family from Back Creek Monthly Meeting, who moved to Indiana and later returned to North Carolina. Very Good: lightly bumped and scuffed, po… Read more

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. Fair. Ernest Townsend. Harry Stillwell Edwards, illustrated by Ernest Townsend, Eneas Africanus, New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1940 [reprint], copyright 1920. Tan cloth with green spine, stamped block with title pastedown on front, 8vo (22 cm), green map of Eneas' wanderings through seven states on endpapers, xx, 38 pp [8],… Read more

Barbour Publications, 2012. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Claire Sanders, Ann Schrock, Jennifer Hudson Taylor, Susette Williams; The Quakers of New Garden; Romancing America series (Indiana), Barbour Publications, 2012, First edition (no printing indicators). Four novellas in one book about the Wall family in North Carolina and Indiana. Trade pb, 350 pp. Fine: light bumping/shelf-wear on covers, pages crisp… Read more

Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Mary Carr Hanna, Cassie and Ike, Winston-Salem, NC, John F. Blair, Publisher, 1973, no other editions mentioned. Dark red cloth with white lettering on spine, 8vo, 216 pp; paper DJ with Quaker illustration and red lettering. VG/G: corners lightly worn, wrinkle in top of spine, endpapers… Read more

Rutledge Hill Pr - Lippincott, 1985. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Eugenia Price, Lighthouse: The First Novel in the St. Simons Island Trilogy, J.B. Lippincott, copyright 1971, third printing, possible BCE. Gray boards with red-brown lettering on spine, 8vo, 348pp. VG/G: light bumping on spine, very light yellowing at top and spine, hinges tight, pages bright and crisp,… Read more