Best Selling Books by Van Wyck Mason

Novel of Charleston and Savannah struggling in the grip of the Union naval blockade, and of the blockade runner, Rafe Bryson.

The recovery of a treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon, based on actual events in the early life of Sir William Phips, an eventual governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony.

Novel of the First Crusade, centered around the adventures of a young man and his twin sister.

Captain Hugh North of Army Intelligence solves a series of murders in the garrison at the old Spanish fort in the Phillipines.

Mason tells a good story against a convincingly authentic background- that of Baltimore to New Orleans on the verge of the Civil War, and the sympathies here are enlisted with the main characters on the side of the South. The chief value of the book lies in the immensely detailed and little known picture of the efforts of the South to build a navy, efforts which were blocked by bungling self-seekers, incompetent politicians and the struggle for separate commands. Brunton, Scottish shipbuilder, Sam Seymour of the U.S.N. who resigns his commission to serve his native South, his austere elder brother, an engineer, who goes to Richmond to make his contribution, - these three live in the intricate story of the Navy''s birth and death.

Colonel North is assigned to protect a rocket expert when the scientist goes on a trip to rescue his Siamese wife from kidnappers.

Adventures of three doctors in the American Revolution.

Colonel North must locate and destroy a vital U.S. rocket capsule which has accidentally fallen somewhere deep in the Burmese jungle.

F. Van Wyck Mason (1901-1978) was an American historian and novelist. He had a long and prolific career as a writer spanning 50 years and including 65 published novels. Few today realize that he wrote for the pulp magazines of the early 20th century, in a variety of genres. This science fiction novel appeared in the pulp magazine Astounding Stories (under the byline "F.V.W. Mason") in 1931. Mason''s vivid characterization and exciting action, typical of his later best-selling mystery and historical novels, are evident here as well.

Includes typescripts with autograph corrections and setting copies of Mason''s novels.

Anthology of the best war stories and excerpts from war novels, chosen from the works of Mailer, Michener, Shaw, Dos Passos and many others.

Color illustration on front cover of a man dressed in a buckskin shirt carrying a woman in a green dress. In the background is a train crash.