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Houghton Waring wrote a number of early 20th Century pot-boilers, including The Scarlet Feather, The Bishop's Emeralds, The Gay Lord Waring, and The Splendid Coward.

Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887-1949) was a prolific author of science fiction and historical adventure novels and stories. He contributed to many of the pulp magazines of the time.

Columbia University Press published this Ph.D. disseration of Charlotte E. Morgan (1882-?).

Charles Paul de Kock (1793-1871) was a French novelist. His stories are mostly of middle-class Parisian life, of guinguettes and cabarets and equivocal adventures of one sort or another. The most famous are André le Savoyard and Le Barbier de Paris.

Rear-Admiral Daniel Ammen (1820-1898) fought during the Civil War, and wrote a number of publications about the history of that conflict.

"International smuggling, vicious gangsters, beautiful girls ... sparkling, intriguing, outstanding." -- Phoenix Republic"Adventure, suspense, and just good fun." -- Dallas News"Excitement, plot ... once started the ball of adventure becomes a rolling stone ... the young professor does enough first-hand research in the underworld to satisfy anybody." -- Chicago Tribune"Mr. Wylie meant to entertain, and he succeeds beautifully." -- Houston Post

A study of Ian Fleming and his writing, with special emphasis on his character James Bond. A facsimile reprint of the 1966 edition.

Looks at the history and folklore that makes these ships enduring symbols of national power - and sometimes national futility. This book includes more than sixty accounts of battleships from the most well-known to the most unusual, including at least one ship from every nation that ever owned a modern battleship.

Stacpoole's often-filmed 1908 romance is a classic of lyrical beauty, as two children are castaway on a beautiful island and grow up there, innocent of the real world.

Stacpoole's often-filmed 1908 romance is a classic of lyrical beauty, as two children are castaway on a beautiful island and grow up there, innocent of the real world.

He was a white, suburban bachelor. A total square. Lived with his mother. Worked for an insurance company. She was a black, tough, streetwise cop. Then somebody stole a quarter million dollars worth of rare comic books. And then people started getting murdered. Lindsey and Plum were like oil and water, but they had to work together, like it or not! Joe Gores, author of Hammett and other novels, said: "Lupoff writes with intelligence, humor, wisdom, and a zest for life. He had a lot of fun writing this book, and it shows; because of it, we have a lot of fun reading it." The Comic Book Killer is the first volume in Richard A. Lupoff's hugely popular Lindsey-and-Plum series. Readers will cheer the return of these grand characters and their exciting investigations.

A man scuttles out of the brush -- and Drew only half sees the figure snapping a gunshot at him . . . Feeling the sickening impact of the bullet in his middle, suddenly Drew cannot pull any air into his straining lungs. The reins fall from his hands -- but he clings to the saddle as the mule leaps braying ahead. Abruptly from beneath the mule's hoofs the ground gives way -- tumbling both of them into the icy stream! Drew plunges into instant blackness, shutting out the terrible agony shaking him. ". . . dead," says someone above the boy. Famed storyteller Andre Norton, in Ride Proud, Rebel!, relates the gripping tale of a boy thrust at too young an age into the bloody battles of the Civil War, riding under General Morgan

The Adventures of Grandfather Frog is a charming and wise tale that demonstrates the importance of looking beyond your backyard -- or, in the case of Grandfather Frog, the Smiling Pool, which he has never left in all his long life. Thornton W. Burgess, story-teller and naturalist, has introduced countless millions of youngsters to the very best families of the animal world. He has created lasting friendships between his readers and Reddy Fox, Buster Bear, Peter Cottontail, Jimmy Skunk, and many other personalities of meadow and forest.

Jim Meeker came down from Montana to run Texas cattle--only to find that Hopalong Cassidy's Bar-20 ran the water. So when a trio of snake-mean rustlers started themselves a cattle war, the powder was primed, the guns cocked, and Hopalong was smack in the middle. So it's friend against friend, brother against brother, gun against blazing gun. Time's running out, and the range is red with blood. Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of popular short stories and twenty-eight novels based on the character. In his early writings, Mulford portrayed the character as rude, dangerous, and rough-talking. Beginning in 1935, the character-as played by movie actor William Boyd in films adapted from Mulford's books-was transformed into a clean-cut on-screen hero. A total of sixty-six immensely popular films were released.

Mary Louisa Molesworth (29 May 1839 - 20 January 1921) was an English author who wrote under the name of Mrs Molesworth. This popular collection of her children's stores, first published in 1890, includes: "The Green Casket," "Leo's Post-Office," and "Brave Little Denis."

Admirers of Mrs. Burnett's "The Good Wolf'' will welcome a continuation of many of its characters in "Barty Crusoe," together with a host of new ones, such as the little monkey, "Saturday," the "Perfectly Polite Pirates," and their preceptor, "Baboo Bajorum," a gorilla who made them polite! Imagine a small boy who, reading "Robinson Crusoe," was able immediately to test some of the adventures through the kindly aid of the '' Good Wolf!''

Major Howard Oleck (1911-1995) was an American combat historian, fiction writer, and law professor. "Heroic Battles of World War II" is a compilations of overall analysis and first-hand accounts from Allied and Axis soldiers, sailors, aviators, and spies.

The new planet caem out of the infinite deeps of insterstellar space, moved in towards the sunlike a comet, and stayed -- a new member of the Solar System, between Earth and Venus. Xenephrene it was named and it made a pretty vision in the evening sky . . . until other things began to appear in the heavens. flying things, strange visitants, myterious lights -- and people knew then that they were no longer alone. Xenephrene was inhabited, and its inhabitants were discovering the Earth. But were they coming as friends or as invaders? For trade or for conquest? Ray Cummings (1887-1957) was an American science fiction writer and one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre."

Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1876-1950) was an American writer, best known for his four series of novels with a Boy Scouting theme, revolving around the fictional town of Bridgeboro, New Jersey. Fitzhugh's major characters included Tom Slade, Pee-Wee Harris, Roy Blakely, and Westy Martin. Tom Slade at Temple Camp is the second in a series that began with Tom Slade Boy Scout; Fitzhugh was commissioned by the Boy Scouts of America to write a book based on the 1914 film of that name.

"With the Night Mail" features the Aerial Board of Control, a fictional supranational organization created to manage air traffic for the whole world. able to limit the influence of national states and create a de-facto world government. Rudyard Kipling only wrote two science fiction stories, "With the Night Mail" and "As Easy as ABC." Both are set in the same 21st century world.

Elmer Wheeler (1904-1968) was one of the pioneers of persuasion, best known for his advice "Don't sell the steak-- sell the sizzle." The Fat Boy's Downfall is the sequel to The Fat Boy's Book -- in which Wheeler wrote about how he had lost 40 pounds in 80 days. "After losing all that weight he found it creeping back on him." So Wheeler reasearched how to keep the weight off and tells his story in this humorous follow-up.

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure, especially The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. The expression "cherchez la femme" was coined by Dumas in his 1854 novel The Mohicans of Paris, spoken by his detective, Monsier Jackal.

Charles Eugene Little (1838-1918) wrote this compendium "with thirty thousand cross-references, consisting of facts, incidents, and remarkable declaration taken from the Bible; for the use of public speakers and teachers, and also for those in every profession, who, for illustrative purposes, desire ready accedd to the numerous incidents and striking statements contained in the Bible."

François Rabelais (c. 1494 - 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist. He was a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, and bawdy jokes and songs. This mammoth, oversized volume contains his best-known work, Gargantua and Pantagruel. Interior illustrations by Gustave Dore.

Thornton Waldo Burgess (1874-1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories primarily writing about nature for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories." 1913's The Adventures of Johnny Chuck follows the doings of a discontented woodchuck.

Daniel DeFoe (c. 1659-1731) was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is among the founders of the English novel. First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe is a fictional autobiography of a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.