New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at his childhood hometown on the Missouri River by the Pulitzer prize winning journalist. The title is from Mark Twain's recollection of Hannibal, Missouri, which he left at 17, the same age Powers was when he left there in 1959. "In 1984, as plans for the Mark Twain sesquicentennial were being formed, Powers returned to his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, and here lovingly compares contemporary Hannibal with the Hannibal of his boyhood and of Mark Twain's early years." (Publishers Weekly) vii, 313 pp. ISBN: 0-87113103X.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1903. Hardcover - Historical novel set during the second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, when Hannibal invaded Italy. Glossy frontispiece. Originally published in 1901. A title in the Crowned Masterpieces of Modern Fiction series, bound in marbleized boards with a dark green cloth spine and gilt lettering on the spine, top edge gilt. 361 pp.