GEDGE, PAULINE

Child of the Morning

New York: The Dial Press, 1977. Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0803714629. DJ shows some shelf wear, with minor rubbing and creasing. Price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 403 pages; "She ruled Egpyt not as Queen but as Pharaoh, 35 centuries ago. Yet her name-Hatshepsut-does not appear in dynastic scrolls, nor is her reign celebrated on monuments. This is the story of the young woman who assumed the throne of Egypt, mastered the arts of war and government, lived her life by her own design, and ruled an empire-the only woman Pharaoh in history.". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 20436

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 0803714629 pharaoh hatsheput Thothmes Egypt Fiction::Canadian

GEDGE, PAULINE

Scroll of Saqqara

New York: Viking, 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670835498. Only slight wear ; A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8.6 X 6.0 X 1.3 inches; 460 pages; "Prince Khaemwaset is a powerful man. The son of Ramses II and a revered physician, his wisdom is respected throughout Egypt. But Khaemwaset harbours a strong and secret desire to find the mysterious Scroll of Thoth and receive the power to raise the dead. When Khaemwaset hears of the discovery of a hidden tomb on the plain of Saqqara, he is quick to break its seal and take its secrets, secrets that he soon learns he should never have disturbed.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 20439

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 0670835498 Egypt khaemwaset Ramses II Fiction::Historical

GORDON-STABLES, M. D., C. M.

From Greenland's Icy Mountains a Tale of the Polar Seas

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), circa 1895. Later Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by W. H. Overend. Ex-library (church library) with library stamps and markings, card pocket glued to FFEP, BFEP is detached but present. Front hinge started. Brown cloth boards have medium shelf wear, with corner bumps. Library book plate glued to inside of front board. Full leather on spine is worn. ; Brown cloth covered boards are blind-stamped, gilt stamped design and titles on brown leather spine.; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 224 pages; A novel of exploration. Good with no dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 19104

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: iceland Greenland FICTION Fiction::Historical

GRAHAM, WINSTON

The Stranger from the Sea a Novel of Cornwall, 1810

Garden City: Doubleday, 1982. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385179677. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, some creasing to head and tail of spine. Remainder spray bottom page edges ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Stated first US edition. ; Poldark Series #8; 8.2 X 5.7 X 1.7 inches; 445 pages; "Cornwall, 1810. The Poldark family awaits the return of Ross from his mission to Wellington's army in Portugal. But their ordered existence ends with Jeremy Poldark's dramatic rescue of the stranger from the sea. Stephen Carrington's arrival in the Poldark household changes all their lives. For Clowance and Jeremy in particular, the children of Ross and Demelza, Stephen's advent is the key to a new world - one of both love and danger.". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 20332

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Series

Mots-clés: 0385179677 poldark Cornwall Fiction::Historical

HARDY, W. G.

The Scarlet Mantle

Toronto, ON: Macmillan of Canada, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0770515673. DJ has scuffing, short closed tears, edgewear. ; DJ in mylar. A bright solid book.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 462 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 8913

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 0770515673 FICTION Mark antony Rome julius caesar

HOCKING, SILAS K

Gripped

New York: F. Warne, 1902. Early printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards show some shelf wear, light wear to gilt. Dated (1905) gift inscription on blank page. Light foxing to page edges and first few pages ; A tight solid book. Dark teal blue cloth covered boards with blind and gilt stamped design and titles front and spine, decorative endpapers. Illustrations by J. Gillingham including frontispiece with tissue guard ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 437 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 19315

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: gripped Silas hocking

HOLLAND, CECELIA

Valley of the Kings; a Novel of Tutankhamun

London: Victor Gollancz, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0575024704. Tape stains on boards, sticker remnant and pocket removal damage, causing some loss to FFEP, tape stains back end paper, withdrawal stamp on title page. Some foxing and soil to page edges. DJ shows only light edge wear and creasing.; A tight solid book. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; Ex-Library; 231 pages; An intrepid Howard Carter struggles against the rigors of the desert and the intransigence of Egypt's Department of Antiquities while searching in the Valley of the Kings for a hidden tomb, in a fictional account of the discovery of Tutankhamen's long-lost tomb.. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 14249

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 0575024704 pharaoh Howard Carter tutankhamen King tut Egypt Fiction::Historical

HONE, JOSEPH

Firesong

London UK: Random House UK, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1856192482. Light toning of pages as is common in British publications ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 694 pages; "New Year`s Day, 1906. A family celebrates, skating on the ice of a vast lake, far north in Russia. Cousins of the Romanov Tsars, this is the Rumovsky family - Prince Pyotr, his wife Princess Sofia, their son Ivan and twins Yelena and Alexander, and their young Irish governess, Miss Harriet. With them is the patriarch of the family, old Prince Mikhail, a strange, towering figure, a man from another century, with his fabulous Boyars` court at the castle, a Tamburlaine of the snows... Behind the Rumovsky family and their mediaeval island castle lie 300 years of autocratic but peaceful rule. Ahead of them, the old Prince expects the same for his descendants. It is not to be. Firesong is the story of the Rumovskies - their lives, deaths and hazardous escapes in the nightmarish new Russia that soon engulfs them: a land stricken by famine, pestilence, war and death. A story both intimate and epic, reminiscent of Dr Zhivago, this is a dramatic saga of men and women who fight for their destiny, in love and peace, against all the odds of war and dissolution.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 20863

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Russia

Mots-clés: 1856192482 RUSSIA Revolution Tsar Fiction::Historical

HURE, ANNE

The Two Nuns

London: Macdonald, 1965. Second Printing. Hardcover. Dust jacket has several tears along top edge, only light wear to book. ; A tight solid book. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 221 pages; This was first published in French as Deux Mondiales by Rene Julliard in 1962. It was translated into English by Emma Crawford.. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 15365

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: Fiction::Historical

JENNINGS, GARY

Spangle

New York: Atheneum, 1987. Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 068911723X. Boards show light shelf wear, sticker glue remnants on FFEP, front bottom fore corner worn. DJ creased top of spine. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 869 pages; "Jennings spent considerable time accompanying modern circuses to write this long historical novel that begins with one conflict on the American continent - the Civil War and ends vividly with another, in Europe - the Franco-Prussian War. After the Confederate Army lays down its weapons at Appomattox two ex-rebel soldiers join up with the ragtag Florilegium circus making its way through the back towns of war-torn Virginia. The circus's leader, an Alsatian named Florian, tours with the unusual international players and their seedy animals. Desiring grand success, they cross the sea to rival the big tops of Europe, and journey from Italy, through the Germanic countries, over to Russia and finally to France. Along the way, performers join and leave, or are killed through dangerous stunts and misfortunes; amorous affairs among the multinational circus people begin and, often tragically, end; the royalty of Europe shares confidences with the entertainers; and Florilegium is transformed from small-town American carnival to major European circus. Spangle is a novel about a spectacle, but the reader's hope that it will acquire momentum is not quite fulfilled at least until its stirring look at the invaded France of 1870. Jennings does provide intriguing circus lore, and he retells 19th century social history as if it were unfolding news." (Pub. Wkly). Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 20444

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 068911723X Circus moscow Paris budapest Fiction::Historical

JOHNSTON, MARY

Lewis Rand

Toronto, ON: William Briggs/Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Hardcover. Illustrated by Color plates. 510 pages; Brown Cloth boards have some soiling, medium shelfwear, bumps to front corners of boards. Previous owner's name on back of frontispiece. A tight solid book. 4 color illustrations present with tissue guard on frontispiece. Illustrated by F. C. Yohn. First Canadian Edition from the Houghton Mifflin plates.. Very Good- .

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N° du livre: 6491

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: Fiction Illustrated By F. C. Yohn. jefferson Fiction::Historical

KEITH, MARIAN

Duncan Polite the Watchman of Glenoro

Toronto: F.H. Revell Co, 1905. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with stamped design and titles front and spineshow light edge wear and soil, no fraying. ; A tight solid book. The only date is for the Revell publication in 1905 ; 306 pages; A charming rural story set in Scotland.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 17343

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: scotland Fiction Fiction::Historical

KENEALLY, THOMAS

The Daughters of Mars

London: Sceptre, 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0340951877. Only slight wear, light yellowing of pages ; A bright, solid book ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 520 pages; "In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Used to tending the sick as they are, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first in the Dardanelles, then on the Western Front.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 21320

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 0340951877 WWI Western Front dardanelles Fiction::Historical

KIRBY, WILLIAM

The Golden Dog a Romance of Old Quebec

Toronto: The Musson Book Company, 1900. Later Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Decorative Endpapers. Green cloth boards show some shelf wear, gift inscription on FFEP. Gilt stamped titles on spine quite faded. A light lean. ; A tight solid book, green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles and design. Undated but appears to be circa 1900. The book was originally published in 1877. ; B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 580 pages; "It draws upon the historical background of the city of Quebec for its characters, and tells its story through two intertwining plotlines. The first is of the lady Angélique de Méloizes, Madame de Péan, while the second is of Coronel Pierre Philibert, the son of a prosperous merchant.". Very Good- with no dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 19038

Catalogue: Fiction::Canadian:Historical

Mots-clés: Fiction::Historical

LAWHEAD, STEPHEN R.

Pendragon

New York: William Morrow & Co/Avon, 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0688137148. A little creasing to dust jacket ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; The Pendragon Cycle, Book 4; 8.20 X 5.60 X 1.70 inches; 436 pages; "Arthur is King—but treachery runs rampant throughout the beleaguered Isle of the Mighty. Darkest evil descends upon Britain’s shores in many guises. Fragile alliances fray and tear, threatening all the noble liege has won with his wisdom and his blood. His most trusted counselor—the warrior, bard and kingmaker whom legend will name Merlin—is himself to be tested on a mystical journey back through his own extraordinary past. So in a black time of plague and pestilence, it is Arthur who must stand alone against a great and terrible adversary. For only this way can he truly win immortality—and the name to treasure above all others: PENDRAGON". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 18414

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Series

Mots-clés: 0688137148 King Arthur Merlin uther pendragon Fiction::Science Fiction & Fantasy Fiction::Historical