Most Popular Books by Van Wyck Mason

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.

A story of the first 8 years of the settlement of Georgia in the 1730''s under the extraordinary leadership of General Oglethorpe.

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

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

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

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.

In Hong Kong, a company has developed a fuel additive that increases mileage markedly. All the world powers want it. But when the formula is stolen from the company safe, only Hugh North can find it--if he lives long enough!

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.