"Ride With Me" by Thomas B Costain, published by Doubleday, Doran & Company: Garden City, New York, First Edition with '1944' imprinted on the title page and copyright. "This book is standard length. Complete and Unabridged. Manufactured Under Wartime Conditions...." is imprinted on the copyright page. [Provenance: "Hazel Hill from Mrs. W.B. Catlett, Christmas 1944" is ink written on the front endpaper].

Hard boards, original publisher's cloth, gilt decorations and lettering on spine [fading and spine ends wear spine wear]; 6" x 8.3/4"; frontispiece, 595 pages, very little soiling, very good condition.

"Ride With Me" by Thomas B. Costain is the thrilling epic of a young British journalist, one of the first "war correspondents" and his battle of words with Napoleon Bonaparte. War ravaged Europe is the backdrop of this tale, full of a cast of colorful characters. The hero must battle with his ideals and his love for the beautiful aristocratic lady who is an ardent Bonapartist. A very absorbing read for history and romance lovers alike. Highly recommended!!" [a private review]

"Francis Ellery is a young, courageous newspaper editor who publishes scathing broadsides against the rampaging Napoleon. One foggy London night he loses his heart to the beautiful Gabrielle de Salle, one of a group of exiled French aristocrats. But as the Continent becomes engulfed in the Napoleonic wars, Francis must part from her. He serves on the battlefronts of Spain and Russia as a war correspondent, surviving many colorful and bloody conflicts. And as romance and intrigue swirl around Francis and Gabrielle, their destinies are swept into a vortex of crises and betrayal, spurred on by a hero’s rousing cry..."

Thomas Bertram Costain (1885-1965) was a Canadian-American journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels. He received a Doctor of Letters (D. Litt) degree from the University of Western Ontario in May 1952 and a gold medallion from the Canadian Club of New York in June 1965. The Thomas B. Costain public elementary school (1953) and the Thomas B. Costain - S.C. Johnson Community Centre (2002) in Brantford are named in his honor.

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