LORD JIM
1900
First edition of this nautical-psychological journal, in which the antihero travels far and wide in pursuit of anonymity.
Adventure Fiction
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AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS
1896
First US edition of Joseph Conrad's second novel, an adventure of steamers and the African jungle published three years before his HEART OF DARKNESS.
The Sharpe Series [including SHARPE'S EAGLE, SHARPE'S GOLD, SHARPE's COMPANY, and more]
1981-1990; (1992-2006)
Complete set of first printings of all 21 books in the Sharpe series, each volume signed on the title page by Cornwell.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO
1898
First collected edition of this tale of peril in Egypt as a group of tourists are abducted by violent Dervishes, by the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
1846
Handsome copy of the first unabridged English-language edition — and still the mostly widely read English translation — of the classic tale of vengeance delayed, but never denied.
HORNBLOWER: One More Time
[1976]
Limited first edition of this trio of Hornblower short stories, published on the 200th anniversary of his fictional birth on July 4 1776.
HERNANDO
1902
First edition, in which a young Cuban woman disguises herself as a man to avenge the death of her father and brother during the Spanish-American War.
KIM
1901
First edition of this epic novel of the colonial Great Game, one of Kipling's most beloved works.
HER DOUBLE LIFE
(1888)
First edition in book form of this suspenseful romance with an active, adventurous heroine, the drama turning on questions of power and property.
THE LUCK OF BLIND GULCH
1925
First edition of this popular western, in which a Missouri farmer migrates to California during the gold rush, by a pseudonymous J. Allan Dunn, prolific and genre-crossing king of the early pulps.
MISTS OF DAWN
1979
Scarce Gregg Press reprint edition of Symmes Chadwick Oliver's first novel.
THE CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS
(1981)
Inscribed first printing of the second Amelia Peabody mystery, set in Egypt during the 1890s and famously written by a trained Egyptologist.
THE ABYSS OF WONDERS
1953
Limited first edition in book form of Sheehan's dream-journey fantasy, with a rare trial jacket in a different shade of orange than the final production.
THE MASTER
(1957)
First edition of this sf adventure story – beautifully bound, likely for presentation, with a pencil annotation at the rear noting "From the library of Michael Howard," one of White's editors at Jonathan Cape, who was best known for working with Ian Fleming.
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