ACHARD, AMéDéE, RICHARD DUFFY (TRANSLATOR)

The Dragoons of la Guerche

New York: Howard, Ainslee & co, 1899. First English Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by B&W Plates. Some edge wear to extremities of cloth covered boards, a little softening of top fore corners, light soil, light lean. Previous owners' names on front free end paper, missing tissue guard to frontispiece ; A bright, solid book, slate grey cloth covered boards with gilt black and red design stamped on front cover, gilt titles front and spine, top edge gilt, red and black publisher insignia stamped on back, hinges intact ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 289 pages; This is a sequel to 'The Huguenot's Love'. We follow the adventures of two good friends, the Huguenot Armand-Louis and and the Catholic Renaud during the period of the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 15166

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: 30 years war thirty years war

ADAMS, MARION

Marjorie's Enemy

London: S. W. Partridge & Company, 1905. Hardcover. Some wear to extremities, pages yellowed, missing free end papers. Book is a little shaken but hinges solid. Split in middle of book repaired with hinge tape. Previous owner's name in front. ; Text unmarked, blue cloth covered decorative boards show a girl with a soldier, outlined with flowers, gilt print and gilt outlining title on spine ; B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 96 pages; A novel set during the English Revolutionary War.. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 7023

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: Collectibles

ALCOCK, DEBORAH

Crushed Yet Conquering; a Story of Constance and Bohemia

London: F.H. Revell Co, N.D.. Later Printing. Hardcover. Clipped DJ heavily chipped with some loss head & tail of spine, long archival repaired tear front panel of DJ. Gift notation on FFEP dated 1940 ; DJ in Mylar. A bright solid, book, blue cloth covered boards, hinges intact ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 576 pages; The author specialized in religious fiction.. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 12009

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: John Hus Religious novel British Fiction Fiction::Historical

ANDERSON, PAUL

Hunger's Brides

Toronto: Random House Canada, 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679310886. Light edge wear, short closed tear, top back panel of dust jacket. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 9.49 X 7.20 X 2.48 inches; 1408 pages; "Spanning three centuries and two cultures, Hunger’s Brides brings to vivid life the greatest Spanish poet of her time, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, & plumbs a mystery that has intrigued writers as diverse as Robert Graves, Diane Ackerman, Eduardo Galeano and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. Why did a writer of such gifts silence herself? At the time of her death in 1695, Juana Inés de la Cruz was arguably the greatest writer working in any European tongue, yet she had never set foot in Europe. Instead she was born among the descendants of the Aztec empire, in the shadow of the mountain pass Cortés and his troops descended on their advance to Montezuma’s capital. A child prodigy from a barbarous wilderness, her beauty and wit provoked a sensation at the viceregal court in Mexico City. But at the age of nineteen, still a favourite of the court, Juana entered a convent, and from that point her life unfolded between the mystery of her sudden flight from palace to cloister, and the enigma of her final vow of silence, signed in blood. After a quarter-century of graceful, often sensuous poetry, plays and theological argument, Sor Juana chose silence, which she maintained until she died of plague at the age of forty-five.Drawing on chronicles of the conquest and histories of the Inquisition, myth cycles and archeological studies, ancient poetry and early Spanish accounts of blood sacrifice, Hunger’s Brides is a mammoth work of inspired historical fiction framed in a contemporary mystery. In the dead of a Calgary winter night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding — in his arms he clutches a box he has found on her table addressed to him. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected, now-disgraced, academic. She is Beulah Limosneros, one of his students, and for a brief time his lover. Brilliant, erratic, voracious, she had disappeared two years earlier in Mexico, following the thread of her growing obsession with Sor Juana. Over the ensuing days and weeks, as a police investigation closes in around him, Gregory pieces together the contents of the box she has left him: a poetic journal of her travel in Mexico, diaries, research notes, unposted letters, and a strange manuscript - part biography, part novel - on Sor Juana.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 15498

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: 0679310886 aztec sor juana Fiction::Historical

BENNETT, C.M.

A Buccaneer's Log

Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. Illustrated by Colour frontispiece. Red cloth covered boards, bumped corners, a little faded spine. Some water damage top page edges. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact; Venture Book for Boys; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; A Canadian reprint of a pirate novel originally published in the 1920s.. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 17035

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Pirates

Keywords: buccaneers Pirate Juvenile::Young Adult Fiction::Historical

BENSON, E. F

Dodo: Dodo, Dodo the Second and Dodo Wonders

New York: Crowell, 1978. Omnibus; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0690017820. DJ shows some shelf wear and light chipping, light erasure on front free end paper Previous owner's name on FFEP. ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. This is the first printing of the omnibus edition which contains Dodo, Dodo the Second and Dodo Wonders. ; 9.10 X 6.20 X 1.70 inches; 532 pages; Dorothea 'Dodo' Vane was the centre of a circle of London glitterati. Their escapades and those of her daughter Nadine entertained the readers of the late Victorian era.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 18082

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: 0690017820 London omnibus Victorian Fiction::Historical

BESANT, WALTER & JAMES RICE

The Chaplain of the Fleet

London: Chatto & Windus, 1910. Hardcover. Purple cloth covered boards with gilt titles show some edge wear, corners lightly bumped, spine faded, a tear head and tail of spine. light foxing. Ads at end of book badly browned, previous owner's name on front pastedown ; A tight solid book. ; 447 pages. Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 10588

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: British Fiction

BLISSETT, LUTHER

Q

Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2004. First English Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151010633. Only slight wear ; A near-fine volume in a VG+ DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Translated from Italian by Shaun Whiteside ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 750 pages; "1517 Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, and a dance of death begins between a radical Anabaptist with many names and a loyal papal spy, known mysteriously as "Q." In this brilliantly conceived literary thriller set in the chaos of the Reformation-an age devastated by wars of religion-a young theology student adopts the cause of heretics and the disinherited and finds himself pursued by a relentless papal informer and heretic-hunter. What begins as a personal struggle to reveal each others' identities becomes a mission that can only end in death.". Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 20053

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: 0151010633 Martin Luther wittenberg heretic lutheran Fiction::Historical

BROWN, CHESTER

Louis Riel a Comic

Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2006. Fourth Printing. Softcover. ISBN: 1894937899. Card covers show light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.0 X 5.6 X 1.1 inches; 272 pages; "Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Métis leader. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, who some regard a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer. ". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 18993

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Graphic Novel

Keywords: 1894937899 Louis Riel Comic Books Graphic Novels Metis History::Canada

CAINE, HALL

The Master of a Man: The Story of a Sin

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1921. First British Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth boards have some soiling, light shelfwear to bottom edges, bottom front corners bumped, spine lightly faded. Some offset discoloration to back and front end papers. Previous owner's name and date (1922) on front free end papers.; Tight solid book, hinges intact. Blindstamped design in black. Fore and bottom pages untrimmed. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 432 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 16145

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: Fiction Christian FICTION

CALLAHAN, ROBERT E.

Heart of an Indian: A Gripping Story Based Upon a Great American Truth

New York: F. H. Hitchcock, 1927. Autograph edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author; Black cloth covered boards show very light shelf wear.; Signed by Author with a publisher's statement that this is part of an Autograph edition. Tight solid book, gilt titles on spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339 pages; The author takes the American powers that be to task for allowing native American culture to die out, languages to disappear. This novel is written as a morality tale that is just as true today as back, when it was written, in 1927.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 18508

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: aboriginal Signed Native studies FICTION Native Studies Fiction::Historical

CLARKE, MARCUS

For the Term of His Natural Life

London: Angus & Robertson, 1982. Deluxe Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0207144524. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Gift notation and previous owner's bookplate on illustrated front free end paper. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Colour and B&W illustrations based on set and costume designs for the TV production based on the book ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 379 pages; This is the deluxe but condensed illustrated edition of this classic Australian novel. "For the Term of His Natural Life is a fantastic tale, which sometimes depends on false lucks. The tale details the affluences of Rufus Dawes, a youthful lad accused for the crime of stealing that he never did, from the fatality of a robbery to whom he was really offering his help. The cruel and degrading behavior imposed on the prisoners, most of whom were incarcerated for moderately slight offenses, are apparently taken. The situations undergone by the felons are explicitly pronounced. The book was grounded on a study by the writer and a duty call to the penitentiary of Port Arthur." The book was originally published in book form in 1874 and has been condensed to make it more readable for the modern reader.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 20523

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: 0207144524 penal colony Fiction::Historical

CLAVELL, JAMES

Whirlwind

Toronto: MacMillan of Canada, 1986. First Canadian Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771595891. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, some bruising head and tail of spine. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Full number line on copyright page. Map endpapers ; The Asian Saga # 6; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1147 pages; "The sixth book in James Clavell's epic Asian Saga tells the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979 - three weeks of passion, self-sacrifice, and heartbreak. When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world headlines. Caught in this shifting world of fanaticism, ambition, duplicity, and violent death are the foreign helicopter pilots who have been servicing the oil fields up and down the country. Their one objective is to make a bold, concerted escape to safety across the Gulf.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 20838

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Series

Keywords: 0771595891 Iran FICTION

CONRAD, JOSEPH

An Outcast of the Islands

London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Ltd, N.D.. Reprint. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards show light edge wear.; A tight solid book. Undated but probably printed in the 1920s ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 391 pages; "An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vidar.The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust for the tribal chief's daughter. The story features Conrad's recurring character Tom Lingard, who also appears in Almayer's Folly (1895) and The Rescue (1920), in addition to sharing other characters with those novels. It is considered to be underrated as a work of literature for many. Conrad romanticizes the jungle environment and its inhabitants in a similar style to his "A Heart of Darkness".". Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 17307

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Keywords: Fiction::Historical

COOKSON, CATHERINE

The Mallen Novels

London: William Heinemann, 1979. Omnibus. Hardcover. ISBN: 0434142700. DJ shows light edge wear, price-clipped. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8.58 X 5.51 X 2.28 inches; 683 pages; An omnibus consisting of 'The Mallen Streak', 'The Mallen Girl', and 'The Mallen Litter'. Three historical novels by Catherine Cookson, starting in 1851, and following the stormy lives of the Northumbrian Mallen family through four generations, from the grandeur of Victorian England to the dark days of the World War I.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 17051

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Series

Keywords: 0434142700 Mallen British Fiction Fiction::Historical