Most Popular Books by Van Wyck Mason

The adventures and exploits of the Paddock family of Nantucket during the great days of sperm whaling in the mid-nineteenth century.

Enroute to Jamestown, a group of settlers, including a number of social outcasts, are shipwrecked at Bermuda. Based on a true historical incident.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. F. Van Wyck Mason''s "Phalanxes of Atlans" is the twenty-fourth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. A lost world in the wilds of the Arctic! Only in dim legends did mankind remember Atlantis and the Lost Tribes, that is, until Victor Nelson''s extraordinary adventure into the Arctic unknown. Nelson and his pal, Richard Alden, had been forced down during a flight over a previously unexplored Arctic region. Their situation was desperate. And when Alden became lost, Nelson knew it was only a matter of time before his pal would perish in the Arctic cold. But when he found traces of a bloody struggle, Nelson knew Alden had been taken-forcibly. But by who¿and why? Soon Nelson found himself following a trail into a forgotten world-a world filled with prehistoric beasts and lost Atlantean civilizations. And it was in this fantastic realm that Victor Nelson soon found the adventure of a lifetime.

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.