Book jacket is discolored and there is slight shalwar on the book edges 

Julian Messner, book club edition, 667 pages 

Book One: Senator Marlowe’s Daughter - 1933 
A full, rich romance of a gallant American girl, Faith Marlowe, in the swirl of royal and diplomatic life in the capitals of Europe, and in the New England and Washington homes of her tradition. The breathtaking thrills and anguish of great love and loyalty to husband and child, love of country and of lands across the sea, conflict within a very human heroine. When deep and unquenchable love faced stern and conventional duty, she was saved, for in Faith Marlowe was the strength and greatness of her ancestors. Mrs. Keyes unfolds a story of love and devotion that will thrill her many readers.

Book Two: The Great Tradition - 1939
This novel, which reveals the clash between the American and European ways of life, tells the story of Hans Christian, Faith Marlowe's son. Hans has been brought up as an American but secretly yearns to go back to Germany, for he remembers his happy childhood there before his father, a German aristocrat, was killed in World War I. In 1924, when he is eighteen years old, his longing becomes a reality, but his disillusionment as he becomes involved in the fury of the Third Reich is quick and cruel. Through overwhelming tragedy and horror he at last shakes himself free from the conflict of his heritage.


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Two Novels by Frances Parkinson Keyes

Texas

Victorine

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

The Rose and The Lily

Reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes

All Flags Flying

Lots of BW illustrations. #hardcover #Jesus #Christianity #Catholicism #SteAnnedeBeaupre #grandmothers

Grandmother of Jesus

St. Anne

Ohio

The Royal Box

Pages tanned with age. 1967 printing.  Cover has shelf wear. The story of King Philip IV and his wives.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

I, The King

Oregon

Also the Hills

The book is missing the dust jacket and there is staining on the inside due to it’s age. Vintage romance from 1957. Also, spine is dinged up on the top and the bottom (see photos). Story is complete and no pages are missing. 

Michigan

Blue Camellia

Book jacket shows significant wear

Liveright publishing, 1952, 445 pages


Book 1: Lady Blanche Farm - 1931

Lady Blanche Farm is a novel written by Frances Parkinson Keyes. It was first published in 1931 and follows the story of Evelyn Hayes, a young woman who inherits a decrepit Louisiana plantation, Lady Blanche Farm, and faces numerous challenges in her quest to restore it to its former glory.

The novel explores themes of family, love, and redemption as Evelyn grapples with financial difficulties, social prejudices, and personal tragedies. She is determined to make Lady Blanche Farm thrive once again, but faces opposition from both the community and her own relatives.


Book 2: Queen Anne’s Lace - 1930

Anne is a teacher in a little Vermont town when she meets dynamic Neal Conrad, a Harvard grad who sweeps her off her feet. They spend their honeymoon in DC, where Anne struggles to build a life for herself in power-conscious Washington.-Amazo

One Volume Edition - Two Stories 

Missing book jacket 
Some discoloration on cloth cover 

Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959, 299 pages

Filled with Mystery, Romance, and Suspense, this is a novel about a serious young Spanish teacher at a small New England college and his trip to Spain to investigate a purported 'Spanish prisoner' who has asked him for assistance in a rescue

Station Wagon in Spain

Cover shows wear in some areas 
Missing book jacket

Julian Messner, 1948, 366 pages 

Orson Foxworth celebrates his return to New Orleans by giving a dinner in the 1840 room at Antoines restaurant, ostensibly planned to present his niece for the Carnival festivities and to renew his romance with Amelie Lalande. Laland's daughter Odile, accidently spills a red wine down her white dress, a seemingly light incident. However, it is recalled thirty hours later when she is found dead with a strange pistol and an ambiguous note on the floor beside her. Though looking like suicide the plot revolves out of proving otherwise. Infused with much history, customs, and mores of New Orleans of the 1940's. 

Dinner at Antoine’s

Missing book jacket
Cloth cover has some wear

Julian Messner, 1947, 435 pages 

The story is set in the war time in France. It begins as WWI ends and continues through WWII. It is the story of a Red Cross worker, who meets and falls in love with a handsome French calvalry officer . Their happiness is complete until WWII calls the officer back to war. Constance lives in her husband's ancestral chateau throughout the German occupation.

Came a Cavalier 

Missing book jacket
Some wear on cover 

Julian Messner, Inc, 1945, 747 pages

The book concerns sugar plantations of the Mississippi River Delta, and is set against the backdrop of an old family sugar plantation with the d'Alvery family that struggles to keep it viable between the two world wars. The River Road is notable among Keyes' books for the tragic endings of two out of the three marriages chronicled in the novel.

The River Road

Missing book jacket 
White mark on front cover 

McGraw-Hill, 1964 first edition, 433 pages 

The Explorer, tells the story of Nicolas Hale, a transplanted Vermonter who was inspired by Hiram Bingham's amazing discovery of Machu Picchu in Peru.
Nicolas had avoided marriage until his desire for a son to carry on his profession and inherit his name compelled him to propose to Margaret Porterfield, an aristocratic young Virginian whom he envisions as the type of woman he would like to be the mother of his son. He has been her ideal suitor for a long time, and she quickly agrees to a fast marriage just five days before he departs on a new exploring venture in Peru.
He doesn't hide from her that she'll never be able to share his life there, and that exploring is his only great passion, and that she would have to endure long periods of separation from him.
Nicolas only visits on occasion over the next five years, spending the majority of his time in the Andes in quest of the hidden city whose discovery, if his aspirations are realized, will offer him fame and prosperity, but his absence leads to a separation from his wife and a marriage that ends with disastrous consequences.

The Explorer 

Some color fading on cover
Some shelf wear 

McGraw Hill, 1968 Book Club Edition, 330 pages 

Peter Bradford had not intended to fall in love on his journey to Ireland. But from the moment he caught sight of the lovely stranger in his railway carriage, he knew he had to have her.
He did not know then that she was already entangled in his life - or that her own desires would shape his future in a way the he never dreamed.
In sheer storytelling magic, no writer of our time can surpass the spellbinding power of Frances Parkinson Keyes. In THE HERITAGE she has created a haunting and suspenseful tale of romance and intrigue that brings to vivid life the richness and excitement of nineteenth-century Ireland – a proud, turbulent land of legends and wild dreams.

The Heritage 

Binding is a little loose. Missing dust jacket. “Three generations of a southern family show customs and manners of plantation and river life.”

Steamboat Gothic (Vintage 1952)

Old copy with yellowing pages, Shelfwear and wear from reading/handling
But spine is good, all pages intact 
Great Readers copy 

Avon Books, 1965, 352 pages

Young Frances Wheeler was blessed with nearly everything that comes with social standing. Her youth is filled with gay and romantic young men, fashionable and charming girls, elegant balls in stately homes. Her beautiful, autocratic, spoiled mother's three marriages outrage Boston's polite society, and her insistence on dominating Frances's life threaten the girl's happiness. But then handsome, gallant young Henry Keyes comes into Frances' life!


Roses in December 

Book jacket is discolored 

Farrar, Straus and Company, 1962 book club edition, 471 pages 

Madame Castel's lodger is P. G. T. Beauregard, full general, hero of Fort Sumter, victor at Manassas, first idol of the Confederacy- comparable lover! Historians often refer to him as "Napoleon in Gray"; his devoted soldiers called him "Old Bory"; his Anglo-Saxon fellow officers "the Great Creole"; his family and friends, Pierre; and his countless female admirers by endearing terms too numerous to mention. His story, now told for the first time in the form of superb biographical fiction, is one of tremendous drama from start to finish. A scion of Louisiana's landed gentry of French, Spanish and Italian background, his early years were passed on a fabulous plantation which, after the Mexican War, was given the name of the first battle in which he won his spurs-Con-treras. His father, determined that he should "be an American," sent him to a boarding school in New York whose directors were veterans of the Napoleonic Pierre's. childhood desire to be a soldier and, despite family opposition, he entered West Point and eventually graduated second in his class, having meanwhile conceived a deep dislike for General Winfield Scott and an abiding affection for Robert Anderson-later the defender of Fort Sumter-and several other fellow students who were to become officers in the Union Army. He had also had his first love affair. But it was not until after his return to Louisiana that he met the beautiful Laure Villeré and, after a whirl. wind courtship, persuaded her to marry him.

Black and white photographs 



Madame Castel’s Lodger

Color fading on top of cover 

McGraw-Hill, 2966 second printing, 351 pages

I, The King is the story of Philip IV of Spain and of the women who most infuenced his life. Among them was his first wife, Isabel of Bourbon, the beautiful child bride who became his wise and respected Regent; his "true love" Inés Calderón, the charming young actress, who gave him his best-loved son; and Sor María, the Abbess, gifted with great mystical powers, of a remote provincial convent, whose correspondence with the King, comprising more than 600 letters and covering a period of more than twenty years, remains a record of one of the most remarkable friendships in history.

I, The King 

Dust cover is in bad shape but book is good. There is page discoloration from old age.

Startion Wagon in Spain (1959)

Published 1959 - Ex-library copy, lightly shown as such with a stamp inside - Farrar Straus & Co., tattered Mylar cover over DJ

New Jersey

Station Wagon In Spain

1962 BCE. Deckled front page edges. Sprayed top page edges.

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