George Gibbs

• Jun-2018
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Latitude 19° A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty. Being a faithful account and true, of the painful adventures of the Skipper, the Bo's'n, the Smith, the Mate, and Cynthia...

• Mar-2016
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Experience a captivating tale of love and cultural collision in George Gibbs's The Love of Monsieur. This historical fiction explores the complexities of courtship between French and English societies. Set against a backdrop of differing customs and ...

• Feb-2015
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In April, 1778, there were more than two-score of French ships-of-the-line within easy sailing distance of the coast of England. They were tremendous three-decked monsters, armed with tier upon tier of cannon, and it took nearly a thousand officers a...

• Jan-2015
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George Fort Gibbs (1870 -- 1942) was an American writer. He wrote more than 50 popular books, primarily adventure stories revolving around espionage in exotic locations. Several of his books were made into films. (His novel the Yellow Dove was filme...

• Jan-2015
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The Splendid Outcast The operation on Jim Horton's skull had been successful and it was believed that he would recover. The military man had been wounded in the head, shoulder and leg. Out of his clouded brain, slowly, the facts came to him as he lay...

• Dec-2014
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Some years ago the Smithsonian Institution printed a small vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon, furnished by Dr. B.R. Mitchell, of the U.S. Navy, and prepared, as we afterwards learned, by Mr. Lionnet, a Catholic priest, for his own use while studying t...

• May-2012
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

• Oct-2011
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George Gibbs (1870-1942) was an American writer and illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post. He wrote more than forty novels, many of them romantic adventures and mysteries, and numerous short stories....

• Oct-2011
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• Feb-2011
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George Gibbs wrote this romance set in the 17th century during the reigns of Charles II in England and Louis XIV in France, about the colonization of the New World and the struggles between French and Spanish colonists in Florida....

• Jan-2011
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The 1927 New York Times review said, "This latest tale by George Gibbs 1870-1942], prolific writer of machine-like adventure yarns, brings innocence once more abroad. This is a naive, sentimental romance told in Old World scenes. To jazz up this old...

• Mar-2010
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George (Fort) Gibbs (1870-1942) was an American author and illustrator. Best known as a magazine illustrator, he worked on Scribner's, McClure's, Harper's, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post amongst others. He also wrote a...

• Jun-2008
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

It might be better if Jerry Benham wrote his own memoir, for no matter how veracious, this history must be more or less colored by the point of view of one irrevocably committed to an ideal, a point of view which Jerry at least would insist was warpe...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Pike & Cutlass Hero Tales of Our Navy. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.

This is a new and freshly pub...

George (Fort) Gibbs (1870-1942) was an American author who wrote Pike and Cutlass (1900), The Forbidden Way (1911), The Bolted Door (1911), Madcap (1913), Paradise Garden: The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment (1916), Fires of Ambition (1923)...