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New York: Popular Library - Warner Books, Inc. A Warner Communications Company, 1986. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Discolouration Where Sticker Was Once Affixed; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. He had talent and love - until the war took it all . . . SYNOPSIS: He was the Crown Prince of the Keyboard. He was the most celebrated concert pianist of his time - an intense, handsome young man courted and bedded by royalty. And then, cruelly, he lost his right arm in battle. Was there a way to rebuild his world? Based on a true story, The Crown Prince is a saga of music, passion, and one man's blazing determination to dare the impossible. Here is the proud and beautiful countess he loved and feared he would lose, the glittering European capitals he took by storm and had to win back, and the incredible triumph - unique in all history - that was his. AUTHOR'S NOTE: While based on real lives,… Read More

London: Corgi Books - Transworld Publishers Ltd., 1970. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. ALSO KNOWN AS: Originally published as The Lost Ones. SYNOPSIS: "Princesses are born to be exiled. What is the alternative? Spinsterhood?" Thus the future of Caroline Matilda, youngest sister of George III, was settled - exile to a foreign country, and marriage to the nearly insane Crown Prince of Denmark. Entreatingly, prompted by a sense of foreboding, she begged that one of her sisters should be sent in her place. But Caroline was the healthiest, the strongest of the English princesses, and as well as being exiled, princesses were meant to be brood mares... Here is the life of Caroline Matilda set against the start contrasts of 18th Century Denmark; the cruelty, poverty and oppression of life under an absolute monarch… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Missing.. Probable Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Bantam Books of Canada Ltd., 1964. 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. Bestselling author of The Concubine. The magnificent, sweeping novel of Richard the Lionhearted and the Third Crusade. BOOK NUMBER: S2798 8. SYNOPSIS: The Crusaders. Out of the courts of twelfth-century Europe and the clanging, bloody Saracen battlefields of the Holy Land comes this turbulent story of three proud, passionate people engulfed by the stormy current of the Third Crusade. RICHARD OF ENGLAND, "The handsomest man in Christendom." This great warrior king was desired by every woman who came under his spell. Yet he lusted only for the soldier's world that no woman could share. BERENGARIA, the beautiful and doomed young princess who became Richard's Queen but never his wife. BLONDEL, the drunken lute player, the only man who shared… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Numerous Tears to Edges; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A Historical Novel of Seventeenth-Century England. BOOK NUMBER: 06089. JACKET TYPOGRAPHY BY: Tita Nasol. SYNOPSIS: Of all her many bestselling books, Norah Lofts's historical novels have always been the most beloved, reflecting her rare ability to transport readers to another time and place through her masterful use of language and her keen knowledge of history and customs. Now in Pargeters, her final novel, Lofts is at her storytelling best as she presents a colourful and compelling tale of a very special house and the men and women who lived in it during England's Civil War in the seventeenth century. Pargeting is a skilled trade, and Adam Woodley created such beautiful plaster designs for John Mercer's new house at Minsham that Mercer… Read More

London: The Book Club, 1975. BOOK: Repaired; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Missing. SYNOPSIS: Albert was dead and the Queen, stricken with grief, prepared to spend the rest of her life mourning. Her Government and her family sought to bring her out of seclusion but she was determined to remain the Widow of Windsor. The years which followed were some of the most momentous in British history, some of the Queen's Ministers the most famous. There was the great Palmerston who managed to keep a mocking ascendancy over her; Mr Gladstone, Grand Old Man and People's William, who prowled the streets at night in an attempt to lead prostitutes back to a life of respectability, and who was no favourite of the Queen, unlike the witty Disraeli, who charmed her completely. She was surrounded by the colourful members of her family - sons, daughters, their wives and husbands, her grandchildren. There was the censorious… Read More

Collins - Fontana Books, 1973. 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 story of Marie Antoinette. SUB-TITLE: A Fictional Autobiography. SYNOPSIS: Marie Antoinette - The last Queen of France - So gay - and so tragic. As wife of the Dauphin of France, later Louis XVI, she made the huge and sumptuous Palace of Versailles her playground - and turned a deaf ear to the cries of starving peasants clamouring at the gates. Frivolous and pleasure-loving, Marie Antoinette danced her way to revolution and disaster. - and - No figure in history was as gay as Marie Antoinette, no figure as tragic. No period was so colourful, none so terrifying, as that which existed in France when the inconsequential Archduchess of Austria blithely came to Versailles to marry the Dauphin. When disaster threatened, she decided she would collect letters and papers concerning her affairs and write an… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Boards, Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Coronet Books Hodder Fawcett, 1978. Previous Owner Markings; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Joanna - A trusting innocent in a world where love was bought and sold. The Wars of the Roses were over, but for Henry Tallboys the battle for survival went on. Scratching a living from the meagre soil of Knight's Acre was no easy task, but that wasn't Henry's only worry - there was also Joanna's future to settle. Even at the age of eleven Joanna seemed destined to fetch a handsome price in the marriage market; yet a mysterious bond seemed to unite her with Henry, a bond more close than either of them could have known... Already the busy tongues and idle minds of the village gossips were feasting on events at Knight's Acre, and Henry knew he had to tread carefully. Ignorance and superstition could all too easily flare up into the terrors of a merciless… Read More

New York: Pyramid Books, 1975. Repaired; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Slight Yellowing Due to Age. OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD. BY THE AUTHOR OF DRAGONWYCK. BOOK NUMBER: M3442. SYNOPSIS: THE WINTHROP WOMAN ...shocked the bigoted colonists by daring to love one man while married to another...publicly defended an outcast woman accused of heresy...challenged a ruthless captain bent on the massacre of her friends, the Siwanot Indians. Set against the background of the oppressive theocratic government of the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies in the 1630's, The Winthrop Woman is a towering novel of love and passion, violence and madness - a major triumph by the famous author of Dragonwyck, My Theodosia and The Turquoise.. First Thus 5th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Vintage Contemporaries Vintage Books A Division of Random House, Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST. BOOK DESIGN BY: Iris Weinstein. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: AKG, London. COVER DESIGN: Barbara de Wilde. MOVIE TIE-IN: This novel was the basis of the 2005 feature film of the same name. SYNOPSIS: A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant… Read More

New York: Vintage Contemporaries Vintage Books A Division of Random House, Inc. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST. BOOK DESIGN BY: Iris Weinstein. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: AKG, London. COVER DESIGN: Barbara de Wilde. MOVIE TIE-IN: This novel was the basis of the 2005 feature film of the same name. SYNOPSIS: A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction--at… Read More