FICTION / Action & Adventure from YJS BOXES OF BOOKS

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (£2,075,400 in 2017)[3] set by his… Read more about this item

Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine. Besides the one hundred fifty-nine books published by his own name, Ellis' work was published under various pseudonyms, including: Cover of Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier by Edward S. Ellis. … Read more about this item

Music for Chameleons (1980) is a collection of short fiction and non-fiction by the American author Truman Capote. Capote's first collection of new material in fourteen years, Music for Chameleons spent sixteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, unprecedented for a collection of short works. The book is divided into three sections. Part one, titled "Music for… Read more about this item

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1925. Stated First Edition, but I don't think so, because it says in fine print, Published by arrangement with Harper and Brothers. It claims four Illustration and there is only two. book is good, not great, spine is discolored with small stain, some moisture marks on front edge.

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once… Read more about this item

Mining historical novel, five men who brave the frozen Canadian wilderness during the Klondike gold rush of 1897, risking everything to fulfill their dreams. A highly readable drama filled with the blend of fact and fiction that is Michener's trademark.((Random House--Fiction-Historical) Stated First American Edition, Random House,07/08/1989. Book in NearFine condition, no visibledefects, tight and bright, no bumped corners,… Read more about this item

The most popular pirate story ever written in English, featuring one of literature's most beloved "bad guys," Treasure Island has been happily devoured by several generations of boys—and girls—and parents and grandparents. Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". It was originally serialized in the children's… Read more about this item

1st edition/1st printing. Author's third novel, following THE DAY OF THE JACKAL and THE ODESSA FLE. A mining magnate plans to overthrow the government of a small West African country in order to exploit a secret source of platinum, and he hires a top mercenary to carry it out. The book is clean, straight & tight. Unclipped dust… Read more about this item

The book is solid with slight pulling of the spine towards the top. shelfwear to top and bottom of spine, corners bumped. colors are vibrant,clean and no foxing. One page has tear at bottom corner, easily fixed, not torned off. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York,1907. Illustrated. rough cut, top of book gilt, folding map plotting the course of David… Read more about this item

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley of California when… Read more about this item

Clavell's fifth novel in his bestselling Asian Saga--a high adventure story of heroism, violence, and love set in 1979 after the Shah left Iran--that began with the blockbusters King Rat, Tai-Pan, Shogun, and Noble House.

An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. Franklin Library books were designed and bound by the Sloves Organization, which was an affiliate of the Franklin… Read more about this item

star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffeur . . . a serial killer . . . all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving's characters transcend nationality. They are misfits--coming from everywhere, belonging nowhere. Set almost entirely in India,… Read more about this item

Owner's Label ront end piece, dust jacket shows shelf wear at top and bottom of spine. Good Reading copy. Great gift if you can find a child that knows who Daniel Boone was !!!