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Glasgow: Fontana Paperbacks/Collins, 1990. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Heavily Cocked; Moderate Moisture Damage; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. HER NEW BESTSELLER. SYNOPSIS: From shipwreck on a desert island, to the cloistered and exotic intrigues of the harem of a Turkish pasha, and a stately and secretive house in Cornwall, Rosetta finds her fate irrevocably linked with the lives of two men. Lucas Lorimer is attractive, worldly and cynical. Simon Perrivale is a wanted man, a suspect in a much publicized murder case. By chance, they are country neighbours and, while visiting the crippled Lucas, Rosetta has the opportunity to prove Simon's innocence. Her self-imposed mission is as dangerous as any bizarre adventure they have shared so far.... First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Glasgow: Collins - Fontana Books, 1975. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. THE NEW BESTSELLER BY PHILIPPA CARR ALREADY KNOWN TO MILLIONS AS VICTORIA HOLT. SYNOPSIS: The Lion Triumphant follows The Miracle at St Bruno's with Catharine, daughter of Damask, growing up in the adventurous and turbulent Elizabethan age. While she is still recovering from the bitter blow of losing Carey, Catharine meets and captivates the lusty sea captain Jake Pennlyon. He is determined to master her while she delights in outwitting him but their clash of wills is overshadowed by the greater struggle between England and Spain. Catharine is abducted and carried off captive on a Spanish galleon but Jake's ruthless will follows her even to Spain. Helpless and alone with her Spanish son Roberto and English daughter Linnet, Catharine is torn between love and loyalty and has to… Read More

Glasgow: Collins - Fontana Books, 1973. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Her new international bestseller. SYNOPSIS: When a child was found in the Christmas Crib in the Abbey of St Bruno's on a Christmas morning, it was called a miracle. But for the fact that soon afterwards the monasteries were dissolved, the legend might have lasted forever. However, Thomas Cromwell's brutal men came to the Abbey, determined to have its treasures, and a story of lust and intrigue was brought to light. Damask tells the tale. Her life, and that of her worldly cousin Kat are inextricably linked with Bruno's, the man who as a child was found in the crib. Bruno is enshrouded in mystery - and his rebuilding of the Abby, his marriage and his determination to prove to himself and the world that there was a miracle are the theme of this full-blooded… Read More

London: The Book Club, 1978. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: The family saga proceeds with Arabella, Bersaba's daughter, in exile in France awaiting the restoration of the Monarchy which will mean the return of her family to England. Into the shabby chateau on a cold winter's day come a party of strolling players seeking shelter for the night, in return for which they will put on a play for their hosts. Among them is the strange Harriet Main of startling beauty and magnetic personality, and when the players depart, Harriet remains to have a strong influence on Arabella's life. For Arabella love at first sight and a hasty marriage follow and she embarks on a dangerous mission to England where she meets Carleton Eversleigh who, while posing as a Puritan, is working for the return of… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 17193. JACKET DESIGN BY: Isabella Fasciano. SYNOPSIS: The mysterious and romantic sequel to The Changeling, continuing Philippa Carr's Cornwall saga. When Lucie Lansdon's father, Benedict, is assassinated in front of his London home, young Lucie is the only witness. Her testimony leads to the arrest, conviction and subsequent hanging of an Irish terrorist, and Lucie believes the trauma is over. But little does she know that it will follow her throughout her life, as will yet another disaster - the death of her fiancé, Joel Greenham. Consoled by her older half-sister, Rebecca, and by Belinda, her adopted sister who has returned from Australia, Lucie slowly recovers from her double grief. When she meets the kind and charming Roland Fitzgerald and his sister, Phillida, a… Read More

Glasgow: Collins - Fontana Books, 1976. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: In this third volume of Philippa Carr's gripping historical saga, we follow the fortunes of Linnet, gentle daughter of Jake and Catherine Pennlyon, who, now that the Armada has been defeated, looks forward to a secure and peaceful life. But her hopes are dashed when she catches the eye of Colum Casvellyn, powerful lord of Castle Paling. When he seduces her, marriage is inevitable. And gradually Linnet comes to accept her strange life at Castle Paling-even when she has to share it with a mysterious woman, victim of a shipwreck off the Cornish Coast. But when Linnet dies in unlikely circumstances, her daughter Tamsyn determines to know the truth-especially about the woman they call "the witch from the sea...". First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good.… Read More

Glasgow: Fontana Paperbacks/Collins, 1990. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. SYNOPSIS: Born in an Australian mining township, Rebecca grows up in an atmosphere of brooding disaster. After a London season arranged by her ambitious stepfather, her happiness at last seems assured with Pedrek Cartwright, her childhood friend - until a horrific accusation threatens their future. Rebecca is determined to find the truth, but the wealth of intrigue she gradually uncovers seems to involve those closest to her... Moving from Cornwall to the glittering ballrooms and hidden undercurrents of London society, The Changeling is the fifteenth in Philippa Carr's sweeping saga 'Daughters of England'.. First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards, Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 6125. SYNOPSIS: In an England riddled by political and religious strife, Priscilla Eversleigh fights off the man who ravaged her, who is attempting to possess her daughter, and who separates her through a dark secret they share from the man she truly loves. During the turbulent period of the "Popish plots," fourteen-year-old Priscilla Eversleigh lives untouched in the haven of Eversleigh, the family estate, with her illegitimate sister, Christabel. But this bastion of innocence is about to fall. Danger and romance push their way to her doorstep. Harriet Main and her son Leigh, two trusted family friends, return from the war zone. Yet another refugee stumbles into their midst-this time it is Jocelyn Frinton, a young man haunted… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 1061. JACKET TYPOGRAPHY BY: Judith Turner. SYNOPSIS: Minella Maddox grew up on a great English estate. But as the schoolmistress' daughter, her place was not, and never could be, at beautiful Derringham Manor. And that is where the trouble started, for Derringham's young heir thought he saw in Minella just the kind of wife he wanted. But a dark and cruelly handsome French count, who always got what he wanted, thought she was just the kind of mistress he had to have. Not for nothing was he called the Devil on Horseback. Yet Minella's humble heritage was to prove more precious than titles and riches, for it freed her to follow her heart, leading her into adventures and dangers she had never dreamed of. It put her… Read More

Collins - Fontana Books, 1978. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. HER NEW #1 BESTSELLER. SYNOPSIS: The Devil Count. Minella Maddox secretly names her new employer when she first sees him, astride a magnificent black horse. Although stung by his arrogance, she is compellingly drawn by his dashing, satanic looks and devilish charm. She accepts an invitation to France - as companion to his rebellious daughter. But once inside the great fortress, Chateau Silvaine, where the devil count wields supreme sway over his French household, she begins to feel afraid. Why is Madame la Comtesse, the count's frail and exquisite wife, so in dread of her husband that she scarcely leaves her rooms? Why does Etienne, the count's embittered bastard son, treat Minella as his sworn enemy? What is the secret of Leon, peasant-born but… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 1061. JACKET TYPOGRAPHY BY: Judith Turner. SYNOPSIS: Minella Maddox grew up on a great English estate. But as the schoolmistress' daughter, her place was not, and never could be, at beautiful Derringham Manor. And that is where the trouble started, for Derringham's young heir thought he saw in Minella just the kind of wife he wanted. But a dark and cruelly handsome French count, who always got what he wanted, thought she was just the kind of mistress he had to have. Not for nothing was he called the Devil on Horseback. Yet Minella's humble heritage was to prove more precious than titles and riches, for it freed her to follow her heart, leading her into adventures and… Read More

Markham: A Pocket Book Edition - Simon & Schuster of Canada, Ltd., 1975. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. First time in paperback! Daoma Winston, best-selling author of Moorhaven. SYNOPSIS: She dreamed of a dazzling inheritance but the family legacy was dark with evil! A family blessed with wealth and power - cursed by a legacy of violent death! Into their intrigue-ridden lives came exquisite young Miranda, who had known the sting of poverty and abandonment during the civil War. Now she was eager to share the luxuries - and the destiny - of a family she called her own. Later, amidst the dazzling opulence of Washington, amber-eyed Miranda learned that the Haversham legacy of prestigious wealth was bedevilled by murder, suicide, and secret financial scheming. And, in order to survive, Miranda must destroy the dangerous… Read More

Collins - Fontana Books, 1973. Previous Dealer, Owner Markings; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Heavy Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Moderately Cocked; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Kirkland Revels loomed high above the wild and eerie Yorkshire moors like a brooding stone fortress... To an innocent young bride like Catherine, the huge ancestral mansion seemed magnificently romantic... She did not know then of the terrible secrets imprisoned behind its massive walls or that from the moment she entered her new home she had crossed a threshold of terror... - and - The story is told by Catherine Corder, a young girl in her late teens just back from finishing school at Dijon. While out riding near her Yorkshire home she meets a young man, Gabriel Rockwell, son of a neighbouring baronet, who lives in a great mansion on the moors, Kirkland Revels. They fall immediately in… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 4029. JACKET TYPOGRAPHY BY: Julie Linden. DESIGNED BY: Virginia M. Soule. SYNOPSIS: With her gift for breathing life into history, the world's best-loved writer of romantic suspense evokes late Victorian England - its manners, dress, and gossip; its funerals and masked balls; its fortune hunters; its rigid morality and furtive sinning. In 1887, in the excitement of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, fourteen-year-old Caroline Tressidor blurts out a secret. Though it is a secret she does not understand, her punishment is swift: Her beautiful mother disappears; her father banishes Caroline to a family estate in Cornwall. There, puzzled and lonely, she begins a search for understanding that takes… Read More

London: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, 1980. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Corners, Spine Bumped; Heavy Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Suewellyn was spirited and adventurous, a true Mateland of Mateland Castle, even though she was not acknowledged as such; and when she was alone, penniless, having lost all that she loved, temptation came to her, and it was irresistible. From her early days in the chilling atmosphere of her foster parents' home, the castle had enchanted her. Those days had been brightened by the visits of the mysterious Miss Anabel until Suewellyn was finally whisked away to a new life. Anabel herself was caught up with the inhabitants of the castle until that day when her lover committed murder for her sake and she was forced to run away with him. On the volcanic island which was… Read More

Collins - Fontana Books, 1977. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Victoria Holt AKA Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert, Philippa Carr, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, Jean Plaidy, Ellalice Tate. SYNOPSIS: At seventeen, Jessica Clavering yearns for a life of excitement and romance. So when a rough Australian opal-miner buys her family's decaying ancestral mansion, she defies their orders and befriends him. From him she hears of the finest opal of all - the legendary Green Flash, with whose disappearance the Claverings are mysteriously linked. And through him, she makes a strange marriage that lands her on the opposite side of the world - mistress of the great Australian house, Peacocks. There, as Jessica's isolation grows, she begins to be really frightened. It seems that not just a lost opal, but even her life may be at stake . .… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover, Pocket, Sticker; Corners, Spine Bumped; Heavy Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Heavily Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. AKA Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert, Philippa Carr, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, Jean Plaidy, Ellalice Tate. SYNOPSIS: This is one of the most popular writers in the world. This is Victoria Holt, who, during an incredibly successful career, has created more than a dozen international best sellers, among them Lord of the Far Island, On the Night of the Seventh Moon, The Secret Woman, The House of a Thousand Lanterns, and Mistress of Mellyn. She has made the romantic suspense novel her own, and as Time has said she… Read More

Collins - Fontana Books, 1977. Repaired; Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Victoria Holt AKA Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert, Philippa Carr, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, Jean Plaidy, Ellalice Tate. SYNOPSIS: At seventeen, Jessica Clavering yearns for a life of excitement and romance. So when a rough Australian opal-miner buys her family's decaying ancestral mansion, she defies their orders and befriends him. From him she hears of the finest opal of all - the legendary Green Flash, with whose disappearance the Claverings are mysteriously linked. And through him, she makes a strange marriage that lands her on the opposite side of the world - mistress of the great Australian house, Peacocks. There, as Jessica's isolation grows, she begins to be really frightened. It seems that not just a lost opal, but even her life may be at… Read More

New York: A Fawcett Crest Book Published by Ballantine Books - Random House, Inc., 1991. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Inside Covers, First and Last Pages, Edges Lightly Soiled. The new bestseller by the author of THE CAPTIVE. SYNOPSIS: "A sinister influence began to creep into the house - vaguely, insidiously at first until it culminated in the tragedy which threatened to ruin my life..." Davina Glentyre's happy young life in Edinburgh was shattered by her mother's death and made even more unbearable by her father's sudden marriage to her new governess. Davina's one joy was her friendship with a poor but charming young student, Jamie, whom her father forbade her to wed. And when her father suddenly died from arsenic poisoning, the means, motive, and opportunity all pointed damningly to Davina herself. She protested her innocence in court but received only the ambiguous verdict of… Read More

London: Fontana - HarperCollinsPublishers, 1991. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Davina Glentyre is on trial for the murder of her father and the verdict of the court - Not Proven - condemns her to a life of rumour and innuendo. In search of a new life, Davina travels to South Africa and soon befriends the handsome and wealthy Roger Lestrange. At last it seems she has a chance for happiness but the outbreak of the Boer War brings new troubles and Davina discovers that secrets thought safely buried may be resurrected. Now not only her reputation, but her very life is at risk.... First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.