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University of Nebraska Press. Near Fine. 1998. First Edition. Softcover. 0803289685 . First in this edition. Excellent, near new condition. Very light scuffing/soiling, small pen mark on bottom edge of pages, interior clean & unmarked. 154 pages. Synopsis: "Abelard's Love" is an inspired retelling of the story of Abelard and Heloise - the French medieval theologian and his brilliant student - whose love affair led to a scandal that has echoed through the centuries. In the affair's aftermath, Abelard became a monk, and Heloise, a nun. Forgotten to history was their unwanted son. Luise Rinser sets at center stage that son and his unique perspective on his legendary parents. The novel is cast in the form of a long letter written by the son, Astrolabe. Addressed to Heloise in the weeks after Abelard's death, the letter brings the story of this tragic family vividly to life.... (*Lower Shipping avail to most locations) [osl]; 8vo .

London: The Adventurers Club. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. Hardcover is clean & tight, light wear to edges/corners, a little fading & bumping to spine ends. Jacket is fair to good minus - with moderate edgewear and numerous small tears/chips, light soiling, not clipped. The story of how Major John Fox of the Special Investigation Branch of the British Army, together with two other Englishmen and eight Pathans, travelling in disguise through Pakistan and the Khyber Pass to Kabul, tracked down and arrested the ring-leader of a band engaged in stealing arms and ammunition towards the end of WWII.. (*shipping will be reduced to some locations) ; 8vo .

Barcelona: Editorial Escudo De Oro. Near Fine. 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Light wear to edges/corners, interior pages clean & tight, slight age tanning to edges. Profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. " While living in London Irving published Alhambra, concerning the history and the legends of Moorish Spain. This book gives a detailed description of the Moorish Castle it is named after, along with story of kings, legends of leaders, lost and found loves, and enchanted treasures. Written so exquisitely, makes the reader feeling of being there. Built mostly in the mid- to late fourteenth century atop a hill overlooking Granada, Spain, the Alhambra stands as a stunning example of Moorish architecture, the only Muslim palace to have survived since the Middle Ages.... (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 8vo; 288 pages .

Avon Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0380974533 . Excellent condition, only minimal wear overall. Pages clean and intact, no markings. Slight soiling to outer edge of pages, a little sticker residue on front, not price clipped. 325 pages. " The year is 1963, the place Southeast Asia. Discharged early from the U. S. Navy, Sam Malloy is estranged from America and running a hotel in Bangkok. His brother, Charlie, is in Saigon covering the Vietnam War for Time magazine. Anne Sinclair, a lovely, idealistic young assistant to the director of the U. S. Information Service, is becoming tormented by the lies she must write on behalf of the U. S. Government. Charlie introduces Anne to Sam, and, to coin a phrase, the rest is history.....Reminiscent of C. J. Koch's The Year of Living Dangerously, this is a tale of love, war, and disillusionment. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover interior is clean & tight, a little age tanning to endpapers, light soiling outer edge of pages, bumping to corners. Jacket has age tanning, light soiling, several tiny edge tears, edge rubbing & a tiny peeled area on front, not clipped. "The anarchists of the story are Sunday and Reg....set against the background of Brighton, with its colour, crowds and teeming life; its mad vulgarity, its strange perverted people in the pubs, and its swiftly changing beauty. The author's sharp eye for colour and physical detail beings to this novel astonishing vitality..." [475]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Macmillan Canada. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library with mylar cover and usual stamps & stickers. Light edge & corner wear, scuffing of jacket. Interior pages clean & unmarked other than lib stamps. Jacket taped to book. 162 pages. A novel of life as seen through the eyes of a 17-year old Metis boy, straight out of the bush, moving to the big city and living in squalor in Northern Alberta (Edmonton).... Author's first novel & winner of the Beaver Award offered by the Hudson's Bay company for new Alberta novelist. . (400) ; 8vo .

Mcclelland & Stewart. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 077107882X . HC/DJ - near fine/VG. Harcover is clean and unmarked, very light edgewear and a little fading to edges, slightly cocked forward at spine. Jacket has light edgewear, scuffing and creasing to front flap, not price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; "Andy Russell was a master storyteller, and this collection of new and previously published tales evokes as if by magic the irresistible allure of the campfire. It’s not hard to imagine the starry sky above and the sound of the pack horses as they sleepily crop the grass nearby. Some of Andy’s tales are about his own youth. Others are part of western lore and the history of the west. Others concern those whose trails crossed his, or whose legends he heard over campfires long ago. Some of the stories dwell in the past, and others deal in the present. Some are about horses, grizzlies, owls, and other wildlife; some… Read More

Little, Brown & Co. (Canada) Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0316319066 . Signed by author on half title page where she has crossed through her typed name and signed it below. Hardcover with untrimmed pages has light wear to spine ends & corners, slight soiling. Small address plate on endpage. Interior pages are other wise clean & unmarked. Jacket has light edgewear, scuffing, a little wrinkling/creasing around edges and a few tiny corner tears, not price clipped. .. Corinne Ditchburn is a photographer. The story of her life, from its beginnings in the northern Candian wilderness, to London, England, where she worked during WW II as a war correspondent for Lord Beaverbrok, is a brilliant tale of a woman struggling for identity and love in the cataclysm of war ....; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

M. A. Donohue. Good. 1910. Hardcover. No publication date, believed to be 1910. Hardcover with illustrated boards, no jacket, in good minus condition. Cover has light edge/corner wear, light soiling, heavier spotting to rear, soiling to outer edge of pages, heavier soiling to top edges. Pages intact, with occasional light spotting. Paper is split at spine inside both covers but cover is still attached and no pages are loose. B/w illustrations. An adventure of the old West. Young adult reading. (400noto) ; 8vo .

Futura Publications. Good. 1975. First Edition. Softcover. 0860072290 . Pages are clean and intact, age tanning to page edges, a little heavier tanning to covers. Cover has moderate edge and corner wear and corner creasing, light soiling. "From the cold misty shores of Britain, Atilus Cindras had been taken as a boy slave to work and fight for the greater glory of the Roman Empire. He fought as a secutor in a travelling team of gladiators..... " (105os) ; The Gladiators 2; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 160 pages; .

London: Peter Davies. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 0396061737 . U. K. First edition, Peter Davies, London 1970. ISBN: 043202073X. HC/DJ - fine/near fine. Hardcover is clean and tight, edgewear minimal, one crease along spine edge. Dustjacket has slight soiling, slight edgewear, not price clipped. An attractive copy. SUMMARY: Hounded by the Russian Imperial secret Chancellery, Henryk Barinski is forced to flee the court of the Grand Duchess Catherine and is again separated from his beloved Kasia Radienska, cousin of the last king of Poland. On his way to England, Henryk is pressganged into service on the lower deck of HMS Huntress.... ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 239 pages .

Harcourt Brace. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151006903 . Very nice condition, clean and unmarked, 522 pages. Only flaw is a rough edge to top of book and jacket with tiny paper losses to that edge. Review: The most playful of historical novelists, Umberto Eco has absorbed the real lesson of history: that there is no such thing as the absolute truth. In Baudolino, he hands his narrative to an Italian peasant who has managed, through good luck and a clever tongue, to become the adopted son of the Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, and a minister of his court in the closing years of the 12th century... ; 8vo .

New York: Time Reading Program Special Edition. Near Fine. 1964. Softcover. Time Reading Program Edition 1964 softcover 8vo. Excellent condition, feels tight and unread. Slight edgewear and scuffing to cover. "An extraordinary novel of Haitian peasant life....A well-to-do and respectable man from the city retires to the countryside and finds himself entangled in the voodoo practic of the locals. " (300-osl) ; 8vo .

London: Michael Joseph. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover is clean & tight, no markings. Slight edgewear, slightly cocked forward at spine, small stamp inside back cover. Jacket has light edgewear and light soiling to rear, one small tear, not clipped. The story of two sisters: Beatrice, beautiful, intelligent, a misfit in her Victorian family is forced into making an unhappy marriage for money. She leaves her husband and finally settles in Paris. Bertha, plain, athletic, Philistine, remains after a number of love affairs a spinster, and keeps home for her autocratic father. The sisters are temperamentally antagonistic, and Beatrice suspects Bertha of having had a sinister influence on the failure of her marriage. Nevertheless, Beatrice is gradually drawn back towards her betrayer.....[400-noto]; 8vo .

Bantam Books. Good. 1946. First Edition. Softcover. Bantam 1946. Cover has moderate edgewear, laminate on cover has some peeled areas, tears to spine bottom taped. Soiling/discoloration outer edge of pages and light watermark stain/wrinkling to bottom corner of numerous pages. Pages otherwise clean and intact, with some age tanning to pages and covers. " Adano was a small Italian town , and its heart was a 700-year-old bell. Farmers set off to their fields, bakers make their bread, and the faithful went to church by its resonant ringing. At the outbreak of the war, the Fascists took the bell to a factory in Milan to melt it down for guns and ammunition. " (140os) ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Australia: Bayda Books. Very Good+. 1980. First Edition. Softcover. 0908480032 . Pages clean and tight, no markings. Cover has light scuffing, a few light creases and light wear at corners. Translated from the Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach, woodcuts by Lopata. A short history of the Ukrainian Cossacks has been included as a foreward to give the English speaking reader background knowledge of the events taking place in this novel. This book is a song to the exploits of the Zaporozhian Army which amazed the whole of Europe. It begins in the spring of year 1629. [472 ]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages .

Middlesex: Penguin. Good. 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Paperback in good condition, moderate wear to cover edges, light creasing. Pages all intact and and clean except for a small amount of underling and pen markings, tanning to page edges. Previous owner's name and date written on first endpage. Bumbo Baily is a coward and a bit of a hero, a matyr, an egoist a clown, a deb's delight and a suez mutineer, a non comformist Old Etonian Guard. Bumbo pursues his career to an officers, 'training school; from an officers training school to Wellington Barracks, and to any number of assorted parties. He learns a lot about love and sex and discipline-and a little about himself, in the end he behaves very oddly indeed, and faces in his own way the consequences. The best-seller on which the scathing film about life in the Brigade of Guards was based. [130-osl] ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 157 pages .

Toronto: Elan Press. Very Good+. 1995. Softcover. B002MK0A3S . Light edge and corner wear to cover. Pages tight and clean. Cover art differs from picture shown. "Brother Cadfael in the autumn of his life, the mild November of our Lord's year 1145 may bring a bitter-and deadly-harvest. November 1145, and the bitter rift between King Stephen and Empress Maud at last has a chance for reconciliation. . It is hoped that a council will resolve the question of prisoners of war..." [230noto]; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

NY: Three Rivers Press. New. 2002. Softcover. 0609809474 . New book, no markings. Slight shelfwear to cover (couple tiny creases, small indent on front cover) , otherwise as new. The sequel to the national bestseller, Shield of Three Lions. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; The enchanting Alix of Wanthwaite returns in a suspenseful and richly textured adventure in which nothing less than the future of England is at stake. Alix is home at her beloved estate on the Scottish border when King Richard’s soldiers march into her castle and demand to take her to the Continent with them. King Richard has been captured while on Crusade, and Alix is among the nobles whose lives will be collateral for the king’s ransom. But when she’s delivered to Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard’s mother, she is dumbfounded to learn that the queen has other plans for her. King Richard needs an heir, Eleanor tells Alix. Repulsed by his queen, a homely religious fanatic, he has told his mother that… Read More

Macmillan. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1966. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 002734620X . Hardcover 1966, 4th printing, woodcut engravings by Allen Lewis. Ex-library book, but still in great condition - mylar cover and usual ex-lib type of markings, rear pocket, blue ink dot on top edge. Clean and tight pages, only light wear overall. Numerous b/w illustrations. 9 1/2" tall. Originally published 1931, reset and reissued 1966. ; 8vo; "Tells of Marquerite, a young French orphan, who is 'bound out' for six years in exchange for food, shelter, and clothing to the Sargent family, settlers in the New World. In 1743, thirteen-year-old Marguerite Ledoux travels to Maine as the indentured servant of a family that regards her as little better than the Indians that threaten them, but her strength, quick thinking and courage surprise them all. " .