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The Historian
by Kostova- Elizabeth
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that...
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Historical Fantasy Books & Ephemera
The Teahouse Fire
by Ellis Avery
Riverhead Books, New York, 2006. First edition/Book Club Edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket, very light edge wear on dust jacket, light bumping at corners.The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history—Japan as it opens its doors to the West. It was a period when wearing a different color kimono could make a political statement, when women stopped...
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£2.93
The Iliad
by Homer
Penguin, New York. 17th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer's timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and...
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£8.85
The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
by Henry James
Bantam, New York. 11th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early...
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£2.34
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Time Warner Paperbacks, 2006. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.57
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Little Brown & Company, 2006. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.03
The Venetian Bargain
by Marina Fiorato
St Martin's, New York, 2014. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Light edge wear and creasing on spine and along top edge, price sticker on rear cover.1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague—and the...
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£5.89
Black Hills
by Dan Simmons
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed, limited, and numbered edition; number 426 of 500. From the publisher: Black Hills is an important and revelatory novel, the most singular accomplishment to date by the always unpredictable Dan Simmons. With empathy and great narrative power, it illuminates a significant chapter in the nation s history, and takes us deep into the heart of an extraordinary American life. The story begins at the Battle of Little Big Horn in June of 1876. Eleven-year-old Paha...
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£56.23
The Historian (Signed, Limited Deluxe Edition)
by KOSTOVA, ELIZABETH
First Edition thus, First Printing. Limited Deluxe Edition, #34 of only 150 printed. Signed by Kostova (25 copies were retained by the author for personal use). Fine, as new. No jacket as issued. Specially-bound and housed in a beautiful slipcase covered in a reproduction of a sixteenth-century map of the Balkans by Sebastian Munster. Dragon illustration to front board by Luis Campos. Folded and gathered unbound sheets from the first edition, first printing of The Historian were used in the production of...
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£566.51
Traitors' Legion
by Jay Scotland
Ace G-532. 1963. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and spine nicks, slight yellowing of interior pages due to age.A vivid, action-packed novel of Imperial Rome's days of shame and glory from Ace vintage paperbacks.
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£7.10
The Historian
by Kostova, Elizabeth
Little, Brown and Company, 2008-06-01 Spine Wear. See our Terms of Sale for a detailed description of condition notes. Paperback. Used - Good.
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£2.69
The Harrowing of Gwynedd
by Kurtz, Katherine
New York: Ballantine Books, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Volume 1 of The Heirs of Saint Camber. Dj has very light edgewear. Bottom book edges have been bumped. Light wear.
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£8.09
Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe
Bantam, New York, 1989. First Bantam Classic edition. Condition: Near fine, light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (aka Moll Flanders) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age.By 1721, Defoe had become a recognised novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off...
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£1.48
The Golden Horn. Volume Two The Hound and the Falcon Trilogy
by Tarr, Judith
London: Bantam Press. 1986. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 271 pages. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.
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£7.40
The Harrowing of Gwynedd
by Katherine Kurtz
Del Rey NY 1990 pages. 3rd printing. Near fine unread condition with a trace of wear, light toning to inside covers and pages. See photos.Ref 27
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£8.74
The Historian.
by KOSTOVA, Elizabeth.-
Back Bay Books, International Bestseller, 2006, New York.. 17x11. Tapa blanda. 817 pgs. Corte levemente amarillento. Texto en inglés. 697438
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£9.54
Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key
by Kage Baker
Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2008. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Deluxe Edition, signed by Baker and limited to 2000 unnumbered copies according to the publisher.His name is John James - at least, that's the name he gives to anyone asking. He's a former pirate just back from Port Royal from the sack of Panama, and he has every intention of settling down and leading a respectable life. First, though, he must honour a promise and deliver a letter to the mistress of one of his dead...
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£11.84
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Fine in Fine dust jacket. An unusually clean, crisp and unread copy of the author's 1st book.
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£9.71
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley / Berni Wrightson
Marvel Comics, New York, 1983. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, spine has light nicks at end.Introduction by Stephen King.Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter,...
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£73.99
