Search Results: Historical Fiction from All Booked

London: Romance Book Club, 1969. Green covers, black lettering to spine. 158pp. Small black felt pen mark to Ffep. Clean with tight binding. DJ has a small chip to the front fore edge. Historical Romance. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1941. Green cloth, black text on spine. 640pp. Cloth is moderately worn with small mark to spine. Ffep has neatly written gift inscription. Foxed endpapers and text block edges. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1953. Green cloth. 286pp. Cloth on spine is sunned and rubbed at tips. Light handling marks on covers. Library marking to front endpapers. Tape mark to rear pastedown. Scattered foxing and age tanning. Binding square and firm. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

London: Collins, 1955. Blue cloth, gilt text to spine. 320 pp. Spine tips faded where small paper loss has occurred to DJ. Lower corners bruised. Ffep has two small names. Light fox marks to prelims and text block edges. Pages clean, binding firm.DJ has price intact, small paper loss to spine tips, wear to corners. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980. Summer 1915. In the rich New York household of the Jervis family all is bustle and preparation. Clemency Jervis and her mother are on their way to England where Clemency is to marry the dashing Lord Hugo Hazzard. Travelling with them is Clemency's personal maid who bears a strong physical resemblance to her mistress. Only a few miles off the Irish coast the ship is torpedoed. Hetty is to become one of the few survivors.......Brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 218pp. Cloth is lightly rubbed on spine tips. Contents clean and tight. Unclipped DJ has a tiny chip at each joint edge, 1 tear and thumbnail paper loss to front lower edge. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London and Sydney: Sphere Books Limited, 1985. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. 374pp. One or two yellow spots around outer edges o/w a tight, clean copy. DJ slightly dust darkened along inside top edge. "A rich and moving pageant of love and war". . First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ware, Hertfordshire : Wordsworth Classics, 1994. 176pp. Covers moderately worn and creased. Contents clean and firmly bound. . Soft Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Century Publishing , 1983. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 288pp. Light toning to eps, pen pricing on Ffep. Contents clean and tight. DJ flaps have a trace of foxing, spine slightly faded. Historical Romance with all the "excitement, colour and evocations of historic events played out in 1869....". First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: BCA, 2002. Black covers lettered in gilt on spine. 279pp. Little wear, clean and firmly bound.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1958. Green cloth, gilt text on spine. Light edgewear. A touch of foxing to eps & page edges. Binding firm, text clean. Previously belonged to small private library - 1 small stamp on each fep. Dj unclipped with shelfwear & chipping, clear tape along upper & lower edges on the inside of dj. The story begins in a present-day setting, then rolls back to the England and Europe of the stirring and violent events that led to the Magna Carta. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macmillan, 1947. Much of the action takes place in Berlin, between August and October, 1945. But it is not a novel about Germany. It concerns a group of English people whose duties or interests place them in Berlin during the first summer of the Occupation. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 349pp. Tiny nick to top edge of spine. Front hinge slightly loosened. Small crease to fore edge of 4 leaves. No inscriptions or foxing. DJ is chipped/worn at spine tips and corners with one tear to spine tail.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1936. Black cloth, 326pp. Cloth has moderate wear. Ffep bears tiny bookseller stamp, p/o name handwritten once and stamped once. Light foxing.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1958. Blue cloth, gilt text on spine. 318 pages. Slight fading to spine. Foxing to eps and edges. Set during the period of the last decade of the 18th century when England was stirring uneasily in the wake of the French Revolution and beginning to understand that a new force was sweeping the Western world. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1972. Tan boards, gilt lettering to spine. pp.159. Light spots to top and fore edge of text block, contents clean and firmly bound. Intact DJ has light shelfwear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Book Club, 1957. It was a 'piece in the paper' which sent the Winslow family from Illinois, with its long, bitter winters, to the new settlement of Crowley in Louisiana. This dramatic and colourful story uses an actual setting, and gives much absorbing information about the successful experiments in rice breeding which had a revolutionary effect on world agriculture. Green cloth, black text on spine. 319pp. Spine slanted with 3 small marks. Foxed edges. Contents clean, binding tight.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. Second Impression. Illustrated with photos, drawings & maps. Foldout Map. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 308 pp. includes Index. Illustrated endpapers. Front panel and spine case has narrow sunned strip on lower edge. Clean with square, firm binding. Unclipped DJ has light wear to top edge. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2002. First Forge Edition & Printing. 184pp. Little wear, clean and tight. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Australia: Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1981. The Australian Classics Edition. Blue boards, gilt text to spine. 268 pp. Spine tips rubbed. Shelfwear to lower edge. Clean internally with tight binding. DJ has sunned spine, light shelfwear. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Romance Book Club, 1965. Green covers, black lettering on spine. 160pp. Small black felt pen mark to Ffep. Clean with tight binding. Historical Romance.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1951. Fourth Impression. Red cloth, gilt text on spine. 347pp. Sunned spine, gilt worn. Cloth is moderately worn. Foxed endpapers and text block edges. Ffep has gift inscription and small bookstore stamp. Pages are clean, binding firm. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.