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New York: Walker & Co.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010.. First US Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine imprined in metallic red with title and author. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 293 pages. 1534, Paris. A student at the Catholic Collège de Montaigu, serving as a courier for the Inquisition, is murdered by members of an extreme Lutheran sect for the packet of letters he is carrying. His friend and fellow classmate Amaury de Faverges-the illegitimate son of the Duke of Savoy and an expert in astronomy and natural science-is recruited as his replacement and promised a decree of legitimacy if he can uncover the secret that threatens to overturn Catholicism and the reign of François I.Working undercover, Amaury journeys south to the liberal court of the king's sister, Marguerite of Navarre, the alleged heart of the conspiracy. The deeper he probes, the more Amaury is forced to confront his own… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Minotaur. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005.. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards imprinted on spine with gold title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 265 pages. In October 667 A.D. in the land of Ireland, shocking murders occur on the nights of three consecutive full moons. Sister Fidelma of Cashel is dispatched to uncover the truth behind the events of the Badger's Moon before the next full moon comes and the killer strikes again. .

San Francisco: Macadam/Cage Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Genealogical table . . 391 pages. With the confidence of a master storyteller and the precision of a trained historian, David Falconieri weaves together an intricate tale of honor, treachery, power, and intrigue in <I>The Beggars Throne</I>. Recounting the dynastic struggle between the Lancasterians and the Yorkists during the 15th-century War of the Roses, <I>The Beggars Throne</I> will delight both historians and general audiences. .

New York: Random House. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First US Edition. Hardcover. Remainder dot on bottom of text block. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Pale turquoise boards and pale turquoise spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Deckle-edged pages. Full number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 . Genealogical table. Map of Italy.. 506 pages. By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood: He is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic, consummate politician with a huge appetite for life, women, and power must use papacy and family--in particular, his eldest son, Cesare, and his daughter Lucrezia--in order to succeed.… Read More

New York: Forge Books. Near Fine. 2002. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. 320 pages. Battles were won with bullets and sabers on the battlefields of the War Between the States, for sure. But often, the outcome of those battles was affected by the heroic acts of spies--both Union and Confederate. Such heroes, unsung while they did their vital work, included those whose true stories are told in the pages of this book: • Elizabeth Van Lew: Her Richmond, Virginia, neighbors thought her eccentric--or crazy--but her odd behavior covered her activities as a spy for the Union army. • Belle Boyd: A daring Confederate spy whose charm and beauty were exceeded only by her boldness and resourcefulness in eluding Union's efforts to capture her. • Serena Freneau: A beautiful spy who seduced secrets from Union officers--even marrying one of them! • Timothy Webster: A Union spy who dared to infiltrate the South's infamous "Knights of Liberty" as a double… Read More

New York: Random House. New. 2015. 1st Random House Trade Edition. Trade Paperback. Remainder dot on bottom of text block. Full number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 . 401 pages .

Austin, TX: The Stevenson Press. Fine. 1978. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 132 pages. National History Series .

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New in New dust jacket. 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine with spine imprinted in silver with title and author. Illustrated endpapers. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 802 pages. Death and Mr. Pickwick is a vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age. Like Charles Dickens did in his immortal novels, Stephen Jarvis has spun a tale full of preposterous characters, shaggy-dog stories, improbable reversals, skulduggery, betrayal, and valor-all true, and all brilliantly brought to life in his unputdownable book.The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, featuring the fat and lovable Mr. Pickwick and his Cockney manservant, Sam Weller, began as a series of whimsical sketches, the brainchild of the brilliant, erratic, misanthropic illustrator named Robert Seymour, a denizen of the back alleys and grimy… Read More

Guilford: The Lyons Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 0.98 x 9.3 x 5.98 Inches. 256 pages. When young German Jew Antonie Herrnfeld arrives in Buenos Aires on the eve of the Holocaust, she is plunged into a complicated tangle of spies and counter spies.Shortly after her arrival, Stefan von der Heiden, a Nazi diplomat stationed in Buenos Aires, seeks to recruit her as a spy. He dangles a forceful incentive: the lives of her parents, still in Germany. The British, meanwhile, tell her that her parents are dead. She is soon working as a double agent for the Allies, threading her way through Buenos Aires's underworld-its bordellos, back rooms, and beer halls. Her handler is an American named Larsen who teaches her the arts of spycraft, and the techniques of the double agent. As her life goes into a tailspin of double-crossing and mysterious meetings, she risks alienation from her own family. In the exhilarating but deadly existence she leads, she cannot help… Read More

New York: Doubleday. As New in As New dust jacket. 1988.. First Edition. Hardcover. 101 pages .

New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards with author's initials and red spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Stated First Edition with full number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 383 pages. Obsessed Oxford-educated Egyptologist Ralph Trilipush risks his professional reputation and his fiance's fortune on a search for the tomb of an apocryphal pharaoh, while an Australian detective embarks on a global search for a murderer, two quests that culminate in an explosive confrontation. .

New York: Grand Central Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 448 pages. New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future. While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about Sonny, his eldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny-17 years-old, impatient and reckless-wants something else: To follow in his father's footsteps and become a part of the real family business. An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and… Read More

New York: Harcourt. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected with a removable Brodart cover. First Edition with letter sequence line. . 1.39 x 9.29 x 6.28 Inches. 256 pages. A request from a mysterious woman draws fencing master Don Jaime into a dangerous plot involving seduction, political intrigue, top-secret documents, and murder, in a historical mystery set against the turbulent backdrop of 1868 Madrid. .

Atlanta, GA: Longstreet. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Pictoral genealogical table on end papers; Deckle-edged pages. 474 pages. Based on the personal papers of the author's grandmother, this vivid portrait of life in Texas during this century follows the adventures of two ambitious women, Laura Hoge Woods and her friend, Rebekah Baines Johnson, mother of President Lyndon Johnson. .

New York: Vintage. Near Fine. 2008. 1st Vintage International Edition. Trade Paperback. Slight amount of edgewear to tail of spine and corners. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 256 pages. Vintage International. A sober tale of love and cynicism set against the grim curtain of Stalin's Russia, "House of Meetings" is an extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel from a literary master. .

Seattle, WA: Lake Union Publishing. Fine. 2007. First Trade Edition. Trade Paperback. 378 pages. World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham’s middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility. As Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela’s family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. Can he, with Pamela’s help, stop them before England falls? Inspired by the events and people of World War II, writer Rhys Bowen crafts a sweeping… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First American Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable archival cover. . 306 pages. The time, the 1830s. Jack Maggs, a foundling trained in the fine arts of thievery, cruelly betrayed and deported to Australia, has now reversed his fortunes--and seeks to fulfill his well-concealed, innermost desire. Returning "home" under threat of execution, he inveigles his way into a household in Great Queen Street, where he's quickly embroiled in various emotional entanglements--and where he falls under the hypnotic scrutiny of Tobias Oates, a celebrated young writer fascinated by the process of mesmerism and obsessed with the criminal mind. From this volatile milieu emerges a handful of vividly drawn characters in the dangerous pursuit of love, whether romantic or familial--each of them with secrets, and secret longings, that could spell certain ruin. And as their various schemes converge, the captivating figure at the… Read More

New York: Counterpoint. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket protected with a removable Brodart cover. Dark gray boards with cranberry spine imprinted in silver with title and author. $24.95 original publisher's price on inside front flap of dust jacket. Map of New Orleans on endpapers. First Edition with full number line. Deckle-edged pages. The author's debut novel.. 1.3 x 9.1 x 5.9 Inches. 336 pages. In the summer of 1853, in Lafayette City, Louisiana, eleven-year-old Elias Abrams loses his mother to yellow fever. Grief-stricken and alone, he becomes embroiled in the street life of New Orleans. After Elias is falsely accused of a crime and in order to escape arrest a decade later, he enlists as a private in the Third Louisiana Regiment, where three thousand other Jews will ultimately fight for the Confederacy. The chaos of life at the front is broken in the form of a letter written by a young woman to "a soldier" in order to… Read More

Ontario, CAN: Hanover Square Press. Fine. 2021. Trade Paperback. 314 pages .

New York: Plume. Fine. 2009. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Debut novel .Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 405 pages. The exiled scion of a prominent Boston banking family, forty-seven-year-old Wheeler Burden is living in 1988 San Francisco until he is mysteriously transported to fin de siècle Vienna, a city that he finds strangely familiar, where he finds a mentor in Sigmund Freud, falls in love with a young American woman, and gains insight into the war-hero father he never knew .