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London: Bloomsbury, 2005. A Near Fine unmarked copy which has a few marks to top edge with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 1721. George I is on the throne and Britain is just emerging as the world's leading commercial power. Handsome young Adam Hanaway arrives in Lisbon, where his uncle is a merchant, hoping to restore the family fortune, devastated the previous year by his father's speculations on the South Sea Bubble. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family's welcome is cool and his rise to the top thwarted by his uncle's treacherous head clerk Bartolomeu Gomes. Nor is Adam, with his gaudy clothes and his young-man swagger, an immediate success with his uncle's fellow merchants. Expelled from his uncle's firm, Adam must clear his name, win his love, and make his fortune. D4C. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Adam Runaway
by Prince, Peter
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Ancient Rage
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New York: Larson Publications, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Set nine years after the death of John the Baptist, where John's mother, Elizabeth, can no longer contain her rage at what happened to John and Jesus. Unable to make sense of it, striving in vain to hear God's voice for herself instead of taking her son or husband's word, the widowed Elizabeth pours out her heart to Mary in the desert wilderness chosen for her final days. A powerful novel timely for women's issues in Christian, Jungian, and New Age circles, and will be helpful in reclaiming the creative and spiritual energies women have traditionally channeled through men and seeing how women carry one another through times of intolerable grief. D4E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Arrogance
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London: Scribners, 1991. First UK edition. A Very Good + unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. The American author's third novel which is a richly evocative exploration of art, genius, madness and society in fin-de-siecle Vienna, inspired by the short tormented life of the Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918). **** NOT EX LIB **** D4A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Arrows of Fury - Empire Volume Two
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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 in the war for Hadrian's Wall. The Battle of the Lost Eagle saved Hadrian's Wall. but the new governor of Britannia must stamp out the rebellion of the northern tribes or risk losing the province. Rampaging south with sword and flame under the command of their murderous chieftain Calgus, they have stretched his forces to the limit. For Marcus - now simply Centurion Corvus of the 1st Tungrian cohort - the campaign has become doubly dangerous. As reinforcements flood into Britannia he is surrounded by new officers with no reason to protect him from the emperor's henchmen, and death could result from a careless word as easily as from an enemy spear.…
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The Aviary Gate
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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 clue she has been looking for: the key to a story untold for 400 years. Constantinople, 1599: merchants from all over the world are vying with each other to gain trading rights in the Ottoman Empire. The book is a multi-layered tale of ancient alliances and intrigues, of forbidden love and dangerous secrets, vividly depicted, and filled with the colours, sights and scents of 16th century Constantinople.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Best of Barbara Cartland - The Proud Princess; THe Magnificent Marriage; The Bored Bridegroom; Kiss the Moonlight; The Devil in Love
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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 - first published in 1975. 637 pages with author's note stating that she is delighted that her five favourite novels are all together in one book. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.42 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 12. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Blaze Allan
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London: Chapman Hall, 1946. First UK edition. Red title on cream cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small contemporary name to front endpaper else clean, tight and unmarked and just a touch of foxing to top edge. A Very Good + copy. The American author is Lillian Bos Ross (1898- ?) and is a novel set in the Santa Lucia mountains above the Monterey coast and the Big Sur country in the late 1890's. 11. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Blue Blood - A Medieval Mystery
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London: Victor Gollancz, 2000. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not pice-clipped. 215 pages. Translated from the French by Rory Mulholland. Chartres, 1145. Ten years earlier, a fire believed to be deliberate, destroyed the town and the culprit has still not been traced. The Chevalier Galeran de Lesnevan, summoned by the Count of Blois to investigate a new mystery, uses the opportunity to visit his old friend Audouard, a master glazier, in Chartres on the way. When a murdered body is discovered in the river, a series of events leads Galeran to believe that the perpetrator of the fire is still at large in the area. While hundreds of master craftsmen, artisans and workers painstakingly rebuild the cathedral for the glory of God, he lives among them in an attempt to solve the mystery. A compelling and atmospheric story of bloody revenge. 1. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Bombay Marines
by Hill, Porter
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London: Souvenir Press, 1985. Silver title on black boards which have a small bump to lower front and a very small indentation to top edge but clean and unmarked. Internally very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete with wear to top and lower edges and spine head and tail with shelf scuffing marks. An Adam Horne historical novel, where Captain Horne, newly returned from a successful assignment to rid the Arabian Sea of pirates, is summoned to the presence of his commanding officer, Commodore Watson. Watson is head of the East India Company's private fighting unit, the much derided Bombay Marine, the time being 1761 and the setting Pondicherry, the last stronghold of the French in the Indian Subcontinent. A1D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Bonaparte's Invaders
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London: Little Brown, 1998. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a small closed tear to rear top corner edge. Richard Howard is the pseudonym of a bestselling British novelist and this is the second in a major historical trilogy, featuring Alain Lausard, who is now leaving Toulon harbour aboard the frigate L'Esperance and the discontented ranks of his cavalry unit vent their violent frustration on the crew and members of the infantry and by the time they stagger, starved and exhausted on the shores of Egypt, Lausard's dragoons have more than glory to fight for. *** NOT EX LIB *** 14. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Bordeaux Narrative
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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, Afro-American (U.S.), and American Indian cultures. He took a special interest in oral literature, cults, and Afro-American cultural connections with Africa. In the Bordeaux Narrative he brings to life in fictional form the frequently terrifying (and sometimes reassuring) supernatural world of the back country peasants of Haiti. The story is set in the 19th century and tells of Dosu Bordeaux's quest to find his brother, who has been captured , reduced to a zombie state, and put to work as a slave on a remote mountain plantation. The narrative brings into play the vodouns (deities or spirits of traditional Afro-Haitian…
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The Bride of Invercoe
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London: Macdonald and Janes, 1976. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket by Walter Wyles which is not price clipped. First Edition. Charlotte Massey is the pseudonym of Vincent Caprani, an Irish Malahide (Dublin) poet, author, artist and historian. An historical novel set in Scotland where Ellen McCann shuddered as she surveyed the portraits of her husband's ancestors and wondered why there were no portraits of their wives. She had entered into a peculiar marriage pact with a virtual stranger and realises that she has made a terrible mistake, a mistake that might cost her her life. B2C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Burning Bright
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London: Harper Collins, 2007. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 390 pages. Map endpapers. An historical novel set in London in 1792, where the Kellaways have moved from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city and against the backdrop of the increasingly bloody French Revolution. The youngest boy Jem and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield form a surprising bond and their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem and Maggie navigate the unpredictable, exhilarating passage from innocence to experience, and their journey influences one of Blake's most entrancing works. L. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Captain's Daughters
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London: Headline, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel set in turn of the century Tyneside where Captain Samuel Walton is grief stricken after the death of his young wife in childbirth. He had idolised his wife Effie and now faces the task of bringing up his two daughters alone. Fifteen years later, the baby Flora that brought such tragedy is the mirror image of her mother and has inherited her tempestuous temperament and her elder sister Josie, who inherited her father's sensible nature, worries that Flora may be led astray. B2D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Captive Secrets
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Sutton, Surrey: Severn House, 1996. A near Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped and is in a protective cover. First UK edition. Twenty years before, Sirena, the Sea Siren, rode the high seas - a ruthless, beautiful she-pirate commanding a frigate as black as night, plundering the ships of the Dutch East India Company. Now, the infamous Sea Siren rides the waves again, but she is an impostor: Fury van der Rhys knows - because she is Sirena's own daughter. Brandishing her mother's sword, she sets sail for the coast of Africa to challenge the gorgeous, evil hearted pretender, Amalie. Set in the 17th century. Fern Michaels is the pen name of Mary Ruth Kuczkir an American author. D4E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Castle in the Rock
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London: Robert Hale, 1979. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel where Rhonwen Morgan, after her tragic involvement in a disaster in London in 1878, resolves to discover her origins and her search leads to Castell Craig in Wales, where the formidable Caradog brothers Crispin and Bryn entangle her her in terrifying events. Why had her mother left a luxurious home to hide in a London lodging house? What had caused Edwina Caradog to become a near recluse? What part did the lovely Frances Kendrick play in Rhonwen's increasing peril? The answers seem rooted in the gaunt castle embedded in the granite of the Rhinog mountains. SCARCE 1. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Changeling
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London: Collins, 1989. A near Fine unmarked copy with age fading to page edges with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A further historical fiction novel in the author's 'Daughters of England' series. The author is also the best selling novelist Jean Plaidy and Victoria Holt and as Philippa Carr does not let the history overwhelm the story. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.83 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Charlie's Year
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London: Robert Hale, 1989. Silver title on black boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean and unmarked. A A VG+ unmarked copy. Dustjacket has creasing and some marks to inner flaps and is not price clipped. An historical novel set in 1745 when two young Scots are studying law in Paris where also resides Prince Charles Edward Stuart. One of them becomes friends and seems intent on joining in the invasion of England to restore the Stuart monarchy. From the popular historical novelist. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Conscience Of The King
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London: Michael Joseph, 1987. A Very Good+ copy but with small name 'Bob' to front endpaper and age fading to page edges with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel set in Sylvania, a land of deep pine forests, distant mountains and turreted castles, a crumbling kingdom where passion, jealousy and betrayal are played out. It is 1889 and the capital city, Rosenholm, is on the brink of revolution, the reigning king is an invalid, his queen a brave but innocent girl, tragic figures manipulated by the unscrupulous Count Vielfrass and his secret police and there is rioting on the streets. Suddenly the enigmatic Maximilian arrives on the scene transforming the situation with his claim to be the heir to the Sylvanian throne and he deposes the king and forces the queen to marry him. She resists but has no choice and begins to wonder about his past and whether he is an usurper or rightful heir. Narrated by Maximilian's wife Marie and his cousin and courtier Anton von Tarn,…
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Corsair
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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 where life is cheap and only the quick-witted survive. To escape the horrors of the slave barracks, the two friends convert to Islam; then, serving aboard a Turkish ship, their vessel is sunk at sea. By a savage twist of fortune they are condemned to further slavery - this time for their Christian masters, when they are chained to the oar bench of a French galley with vagabonds and convicts for company. Throughout his ordeal Hector is driven by the need to find out what happened to his sister, Elisabeth, who was also kidnapped by the corsairs. He learns the chilling truth when he and his colourful band of brothers are shipwrecked off the coast of Morocco.…
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