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New York

Cormorant's Brood

Alaska

Toil of the Brave

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

The scotswoman

California

Lusty wind for carolina 

The first pages are fragile and loose, but the rest is intact. This 1952 novel is the last of 7 in her Carolina series, where some beloved characters wave the reader goodbye. Plantations in the South, enslaved people, society, Revolution, all fill in the milieu here as the story begins in 1788 when the Constitution is debated.

Virginia

Queen’s Gift

This 1959 autobiographical work of novelist Ingrid Fletcher is an old library book in fair condition. It is one of those fascinating accounts of a person whose life began in the 1800s and who experienced the great cultural and technological shift into the 20th century. Her adventures in traveling informed much of her fictional work.



The Story of My Life

Pay, Pack, and Follow

A library book, this is the 1948 edition of the first in her Carolina Chronicles. Sir Richard Grenville is the hero of this novel about the first attempted settlement of Roanoke Island (1585-1586), while Governor Ralph Lane is portrayed as a weak leader. Much of the action takes place in England before the expedition sails and after the explorers return.

Roanoke Hundred

1940 first edition for this book 5 of Fletcher’s Carolina Chronicles series. Filled with romance and adventure for these characters in the Carolinas, as they fought for freedom in early revolutionary America, this novel is in good condition. Depicts the history of that setting as well as social fabric of slaves, shipping, society, etc.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Raleigh’s Eden

3rd book (published 1944) in Fletcher’s Carolina revolutionary history fictional novels. Full of escapism for those WWII readers who first gained copies, and an adventurous romantic read today. 

Lusty Wind for Carolina

1952 edition of this 7th novel in Fletcher’s series about revolutionary America. Horses, southern plantations, politics, elite American society—it’s all here.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Mississippi

First Edition

Wicked Lady (1962)

Written in 1946, this novel is part of Fletcher’s Carolina series. It begins in 1179 on the river plantation in North Carolina of Senator Ferrier. The Senator had married a Spanish woman with a child, an eighteen-year-old beauty named Angela. But some of the freeholders in North Carolina are still clinging to the hope that the war will be over soon. Trying to arrange a suitable marriage for Angela is difficult because of her heritage and her rebellious nature. Interesting blend of romance, history, and adventure.

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