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ATTENBOROUGH, JOHN  Destiny Our Choice
London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340373490) Hard Cover with dust jacket. First Impression. No Inscriptions, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little creasing to edge. 317pp. A wide-ranging novel of the English Civil War. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 14.95 | JP¥ 1321] Book number: 004951
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AUEL, JEAN M.  Shelters of Stone, the
London, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340821957) Hard Cover with dust jacket. First Impression. Dustwrapper not price-clipped. Bookplate pasted in to title page, signed by author. 769pp. A triumphant continuation of the magnificent prehistoric saga that began with The Clan of the Cave Bear. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author.
GBP 78.00 [Appr.: EURO 86.75 US$ 129.56 | JP¥ 11446] Book number: 000114
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BAINBRIDGE, BERYL  According to Queeney
London, Little, Brown & Company. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0316858676) Hard Cover with dust jacket. First Impression. No Inscriptions, slight lean. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little edge-wear. 242pp. In 1764, the great Samuel Johnson, irascible genius, unparalleled wit and the toast of all society, is plagued by ill health and has become jaded with his bickering dependants. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 15.50 [Appr.: EURO 17.25 US$ 25.75 | JP¥ 2275] Book number: 000412
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BAINBRIDGE, BERYL  Master Georgie
London, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0715628313) Hard Cover with dust jacket. First Impression. Authors signature to title page, a little bumping and shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, in protective wrapper. 190pp. Master Georgie is the centripetal presence of a novel set in the time of the Crimean War. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.
GBP 33.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.75 US$ 54.81 | JP¥ 4843] Book number: 008248
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BATES, H. E.  Feast of July, the
London, Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover with dust jacket. c.1950's, some shelf-wear, bump to edge, pages tanned. Dustwrapper worn to edge, a couple of small tears, large chip to rear. 217pp. Set in a river valley of the English Midlands at the end of the nineteenth century. A young girl of generous and determined character, Bella Ford, comes inland from the sea-coast in order to find a lover who has betrayed her. Fair/Good.
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 004218
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BENTLEY, JOYCE  Sing Me a New Song
London, Pan Books. 1991. (ISBN: 0330312081) Mass Market Paperback. First Impression, some creasing and edge-wear. 355pp. The threatening landscape of 19th century Ireland was the background to their love: Tessa, ambitious, headstrong daughter of the peat digger Riley, and the handsome Finn Collins, nephew of a woman rumoured to be a witch. Good.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.64 | JP¥ 587] Book number: 008077
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BLACKMORE, R. D.  Lorna Doone
London, Puffin. 1976. (ISBN: 0140350217) Mass Market Paperback. Reading creases, a little edge-wear, inscription to ffep. 262pp. A romantic tale of love, honour, bravery and treachery set in the valleys of Exmoor during the time of James II and the Monmouth Rebellion. Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 008111
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BLAIR, JESSICA  Distant Harbour, a
London, Piatkus. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 074990190X) Hard Cover with dust jacket. First Impression. Jessica Blair is a pseudonym for Bill Spence. With dedication and signature by author on title page, signed as Jessica Blair and also as Bill Spence. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little edge-wear. Slight lean to spine. 270pp. Captain David Fernley has made and lost a fortune in the whaling trade, hunting the frozen arctic wastes. When his erring wife and his best friend die in an accident at sea, David decides to turn his back on the Yorkshire port of Whitby, where he has made a life for himself, and seek wider horizons in London.. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.
GBP 60.95 [Appr.: EURO 67.75 US$ 101.24 | JP¥ 8944] Book number: 000954
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BOYLAN, CLARE  Home Rule
London, Penguin Books. 1993, First Thus. (ISBN: 0140166459) Mass Market Paperback. First Impression, creasing to cover, some edge-wear. 316pp. Growing up in the Dublin of the 1890s is far from easy for Daisy Devlin. Fair.
GBP 5.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 9.14 | JP¥ 807] Book number: 006443
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BURCH, T. R.  Mercury Cup, the
London, Dragon Books. 1982. (ISBN: 0583305709) Mass Market Paperback. A little edge-wear and foxing. 142pp. The Roman soldiers have left and Britain is at the mercy of Saxon raiding parties and bands of marauding slaves. Good.
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 006429
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BUSCH, FREDERICK  Night Inspector, the
New York, Ballantine Books. 2000, First Thus. (ISBN: 0449006158) Trade Paperback. First Impression, some edge-ware, laminate beginning to peel from edge. 278pp + interview with author. Following the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as her returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. Good.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 007197
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CARR, CALEB  Angel of Darkness, the
London, Little Brown & Company. 1998, First British Edition. (ISBN: 0316643807) Hard Cover with dust jacket. First Impression, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little wear and creasing to edge, marking to rear from adhesive price sticker. 629pp. A headless corpse bobs on the surface of the Hudson River. The United States is poised for war with Spain. And the child of a high-ranking enemy diplomat goes missing. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 15.50 [Appr.: EURO 17.25 US$ 25.75 | JP¥ 2275] Book number: 008335
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CARTLAND, BARBARA  Gift of the Gods
London, Pan. 1981. (ISBN: 0330264907) Soft Cover. Reading creases to spine. 141pp. For a heart-stopping moment Alisa longed to turn and run. There inside the Ballroom was George IV and beside him the Earl of Keswick - the gentleman who had so recently made her such an outrageous proposition.. Good.
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 005816
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CHETWYND LEY, ALICE  Regency Scandal, a
New York, Troubador. 1979. (ISBN: 0708815405) Mass Market Paperback. Reading creases, some edge-wear. 474pp. Behind the discreet facade of proud wealth and privilege, a London scandal is brewing.. Good.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 009549
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CLAVELL, JAMES  Shogun
Coronet Books. 1982. (ISBN: 0340209178) Mass Market Paperback. Heavy creasing to cover, inscription to former owner, edge-worn. 1245pp. Surging with action, intrigue and love. Fair.
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 006972
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CLEEVE, BRIAN  Hester
London, 1980, Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover with dust jacket. Slight lean to spine, bump to spine ends and corners. Dustwrapper a little chewed to edge and corners. 377pp. To France they came, the four of them, in 1792, to a Paris in the grip of revolution. Fair/Fair.
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 003807
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CLEEVE, BRIAN  Hester
London, 1980, Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover with dust jacket. Some shelf-wear, a little bumping. Dustwrapper torn and worn, rear flap missing. 377pp. To France they came, the four of them, in 1792, to a Paris in the grip of revolution. Good/Poor.
GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.63 | JP¥ 1027] Book number: 007986
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CLYNES, MICHAEL  White Rose Murders, the
London, Headline Book Publishing. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0747204632) Hard Cover with dust jacket. First Impression. No Inscriptions. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little edge-worn. 244pp. Being the first journal of Sir Roger Shallot concerning certain wicked conspiracies and horrible murders perpetrated in the reign of King Henry VIII. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 US$ 17.44 | JP¥ 1541] Book number: 004912
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COLEMAN, LONNIE  Beulah Land
London, Pan Books. 1974, First British Edition. (ISBN: 0330239120) Hard Cover with dust jacket. First Impression. No inscriptions, a little faint scribbling to rfep, bumping to corners, some shelf-wear, a little staining and foxing to page edges. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, initials to front fold-over flap, wrinkling to edge, small tear to corner. 596pp. Rich, stirring and passionate.. A novel that brilliantly lays bare the soul of the Deep South. In this great saga covering the tumultuous years from the death of Washington to the beginning of the American Civil War of 1861, countless people crowd the pages, people no less exciting than the times in which they lived. A powerful, evocative novel of a full-blooded era told with inspired insight and instinctive sympathy by a master storyteller in the great tradition. Fair/Good.
GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 | JP¥ 2201] Book number: 003295
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CONAN DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR  Sir Nigel
London, John Murray. 1950. Hard Cover. Red boards, black titles, former owners name neatly inscribed to ffep, a little shelf-wear and bumping. 394pp. Set in the middle of the fourteenth century, Sir Nigel is a swashbuckling story of the eponymous hero as he seeks his fortune and the hand of his lady-love in England and France in the early part of the Hundred Years War. Good/No Jacket.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 007607
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CONWAY, LAURA  Lonely Dreamer, the
London, Collins. 1975. (ISBN: 0002334658) Hard Cover with dust jacket. Ex-Library, Usual library marks and stamps, library sale price to fep, a little shelf-wear, pages tanned. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, stuck to boards with sticky tape, some wear to edge. 159pp. Marie Corelli is the lonely dreamer of the title, an astonishingly successful novelist, inspiring thousands of admirers of her work, but to others her novels was no more than ridiculous melodrama. Good/Good.
GBP 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 US$ 17.44 | JP¥ 1541] Book number: 006158
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COOK, GLORIA  Trevennor's Will
London, Headline Book Publishing. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0747209154) Hard Cover with dust jacket. First Impression. No Inscriptions, slight bump to head of spine. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little wrinkling to head of spine. 282pp. When Miss Isabel Hampton regains consciousness at the roadside she is confronted by the wreckage of her friend Phoebe Antiss's carriage, her fellow passengers lying mangled amidst the wreckage. She is the only survivor. Coming towards her is a broad-shouldered, scruffy young man - no doubt the author of this terrible 'accident'. In truth, Nick Nancarrow has been entrusted with Isabel's care. She had been making her way to the bedside of Sir Laurence Trevennor, a wealthy uncle determined to settle on her the whole of his considerable fortune. Sir Laurence vouchsafed to Nick - the beloved son of a trusted groom - that he suspected Isabel's cousins, Edward and Deborah Kempthorne, of ill-will towards her. Sadly, the dying man's suspicions were well-founded. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 US$ 29.9 | JP¥ 2641] Book number: 003052
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COOKSON, CATHERINE  Black Candle, the
London, Corgi Books. 1990. (ISBN: 0552135763) Mass Market Paperback. A little edge-wear. 607pp. Bridget Dean Mordaunt was a woman of consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880, she was running them as confidently as any man. Good.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.64 | JP¥ 587] Book number: 005673
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COOKSON, CATHERINE  Black Candle, the
London, Corgi Books. 1990. (ISBN: 0552135763) Mass Market Paperback. A little edge-wear, some creasing, date stamp to first page. 607pp. Bridget Dean Mordaunt was a woman of consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880, she was running them as confidently as any man. Good.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.64 | JP¥ 587] Book number: 005705
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COOKSON, CATHERINE  Cinder Path, the
London, United Kingdom, William Heinemann Ltd. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0434142670) Hard Cover with dust jacket. Ex-Library, Former library marks and stamps, ffep removed, some damage to front end-paper, rear page torn and repaired with sticky tape. Dustwrapper not price-clipped and in (grubby) protective wrapper. 245pp. Catherine Cookson brilliantly portrays a man in search of himself and tells a story of exceptional dramatic force which carries the reader from the rural Northumberland of Edwardian times into the holocaust of the Western Front in the First World War. Fair/Good.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 002429
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