Historical Fiction from Goldring Books

London: Orion, 1997. A Fine unmarke copy in a Very Good + dustjacket which is not price clipped and has minor wear to lower edges. First UK edition. 478 pages. The story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors - two proud, passionate men whose remarkable quest to carve a future out of Indian Territory… Read more

London: Simon and Schuster, 2017. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a few small minor marks to closed top edge) with a near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 520 pages. Family trees of the Tudor and Stuart Houses in 1550, the Seymour Family in 1550 and the Dudley Family in… Read more

London: Bantam, 2017. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 413 pages. The England of Elizabeth I is a country on the brink. Fear of plague and invasion is ever-present, the threat of insurrection constant. Heresy and religious unrest simmer beneath the surface. And the execution that summer… Read more

London: Simon and Schuster, 2013. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 527 pages. Family tree of the Houses of York, Lancaster and Tudor in Spring 1485. Map of London in 1485. Map of England and the Low Countries in 1485. Somewhere beyond the… Read more

London: Simon and Schuster, 2012. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 432 pages. Map endpapers of London in 1465. Map of England, Scotland and Wales and France in 1465. Anne Neville and her sister Isabel are daughters of the most powerful magnate in 15th century… Read more

London: Harper Collins, 2009. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 487 pages. 150 years ago Britain was engaged in a war unpopular at home..... Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier's man on the ground. It is a dangerous place, full… Read more

London: Macmillan, 2004. A near Fine copy which which has a small indentation to back with Dustjacket which ha a corresponding mark to bac which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. The third book in the Tales of Otori trilogy. 352 pages. Takeo desires nothing more than to spend the rest of his life with the… Read more

London: Longman, 1970. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with dustjacket which is price clipped. 168 pages. Illustrations by Charles Keeping. The uthors set out , in an entirely original fashion, to provide a new version of the Greek myths. This is not the usual collection of separate legends, told in a style derived from certain conventions of translation… Read more

London: Century, 1989. Silver title on blue boards which are unmarked with no wear and just a gentle bump to one corner tip. Internally there is foxing to closed edges and to endpapers else a clean, tight copy. Dustjacket is VG and not price clipped. The story of a white Russian orphan girl brought up in the wilds of the… Read more

London: Marshall Cavendish, 1978. A near Fine unmarked copy in red leatherette boards with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Comprises :- The Proud Princess - first published in 1976; The Magnificent Marriage - first published in 1974; The Bored Bridegroom - first published in 1974; Kiss the Moonlight - first published in 1977; The Devil in Love… Read more

London: Arlington, 1971. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has small repaired closed tears and is not price clipped. 192 pages. It is 16 and when John Adam, a randy 20 year-old, escapes the hangman's noose, he is naturally anxious to put a few miles between himself and his native Plymouth. Confusing the ships in harbour,… Read more

London: Bloomsbury, 2008. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. x + 340 pages. Page marker bound in. Elizabeth Stavely sits in the Bodleian Library with trembling hands. Before her is a precious fragment of parchment which has a dusty fragrance of roses, of sadness and great age. Here is the… Read more

London: Bantam, 2000. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has usual age toning to closed edges else near Fine with VG+ dustjacket which has a crease to front inner flap and is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. x + 320 pages. Fresh from the battle of Waterloo, Matthew Hervey, newly appointed aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington,… Read more

London: Robert Hale, 1993. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy (Fine apart from a little light foxing to top edge) with VG dustjacket. The eleventh novel in the Queens of England series. The 'Rose without a thorn' was the name given by Henry VIII to his fifth wife, Katherine Howard, when he was a devoted and uxorious husband.… Read more

Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. A Fine unmarked copy in red cloth boards with near Fine dustjacket. Harold Courlander 1908-1996 was an American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, an expert in the study of Haitian life. The author of 35 books and plays and numerous scholarly articles, Courlander specialized in the study of African, Caribbean,… Read more

Maine, USA: Thomson Gale, 2006. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING JUNE 2006. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Clementina Willoby is 26 years old in 1774, when the English dressmaker who trained her dies. She was promised the business, but finds it has been left to James Hunter who lives in Pennsylvania.… Read more

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2010. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very small crease to the corner tips of two pages) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Second impression. 342 pages. 1 map. The thrilling novel continues the story of Marcus Valerius Aquila, fugitive from the Rome of Emperor Commodus, and his part… Read more

London: Faber and Faber, 2006. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. 415 pages. First Edition, First Printing. Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley - the wide-eyed Irish heroine of the story - takes a job as a maid in a… Read more

London: Macmillan, 2007. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 347 pages. Second printing. 1677 - snatched from an Irish village by Barbary corsairs, a 17 year old Hector Lynch is sold at auction in Algiers. Befriended by fellow captive Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean, he finds himself in a bewildering world… Read more

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne. Venice, 1756: the city is at the height of its prodigious power, but as the madness of Carnival descends, a dark force stalks the gothic shadows.… Read more