PLAIDY, JEAN; ELEANOR HIBBERT (PSEUD)

Follies of the King

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1982. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399126902. DJ shows very light edge wear. FFEP has been clipped on upper corner. Some creasing of front flap of DJ ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Plantagenet Saga #8; 8.40 X 5.50 X 1.20 inches; 331 pages; "Edward the Second's first act on coming to the throne is to recall Piers Gaveston from exile, and the new king's devotion to the shrewd and avaricious young man soon becomes a scandal. It is assumed that when Edward marries one of the most beautiful princesses in Europe his inclinations will change, but nothing can make him swerve from his attachment to Gaveston, who is clearly making the most of royal favour. The new Queen Isabella, accustomed to adulation, is bitterly humilated; and she is not a woman to forget or forgive. With the country in turmoil the king is making enemies throughout the land, and he fails to see that the most deadly of these is his queen.". Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 18688

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Series

Mots-clés: 0399126902 Edward II Robert the Bruce Fiction::Historical

PLAIDY, JEAN; ELEANOR HIBBERT (PSEUD)

Lilith

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399135634. Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.40 X 5.60 X 1.20 inches; 317 pages; "The unlikely but enduring friendship between two young women of very different social classes--Amanda Leigh, the only child of a stern aristocrat, and the proud and determined Lilith Tremorney, a servant girl--is set against the customs, events, and society of Victorian England". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 18697

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 0399135634 Victorian england Fiction::Historical

PLAIDY, JEAN; ELEANOR HIBBERT (PSEUD)

The Queen from Provence

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399126562. DJ shows light edge wear, publisher's remainder 'P' on bottom page edges. FFEP has been corner-clipped top foredge. ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Plantagenet Saga #6; 8.30 X 5.50 X 1.20 inches; 286 pages; "Marguerite, eldest daughter of the Count of Provence, had married a king of France - and now her sister Eleanor is determined to make just as grand a match. Good fortune and wily cunning bring her Henry of England. A good and generous husband but a weak king, he rules a nation that still remembers his cruel and foolish father, King John. As Henry showers gifts on his new bride his extravagance forces him to levy ever greater taxation on the land, and the spectre of revolt soon looms against him. For Simon de Montfort, the adventurer who will give England its first true parliament, the house of destiny is at hand.". Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 18689

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Series

Mots-clés: 0399126562 simon de montfort Plantagenet Fiction::Historical

PLAIDY, JEAN; ELEANOR HIBBERT (PSEUD)

The Queen and Lord M

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399119949. DJ shows very light edge wear. ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Queen Victoria series #2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages; "On the morning of 20th June 1837, an eighteen-year-old girl is called from her bed to be told that she is Queen of England. The Victorian age has begun. The young queen's first few years are beset with court scandal and malicious gossip: there is the unsavoury Flora Hastings affair, a source of extreme embarrassment to the queen; the eternal conflict between Victoria and her mother; and, the young queen's hatred of Sir John Conroy, her mother's close friend. Then there is the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne - 'Lord M' - worldly cynic and constant companion to the queen, himself a veteran of many a latter-day scandal. He proves to be her guiding light - until the dashing Prince Albert appears and she falls hopelessly in love.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 18700

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Series

Mots-clés: 0399119949 Queen Victoria Fiction::Historical

PLAIDY, JEAN; ELEANOR HIBBERT (PSEUD)

Revolt of the Eaglets

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399124950. Very light edge wear to DJ, small dent bottom of back board at spine and front board. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Plantagenet Saga #2; 8.50 X 5.60 X 1.30 inches; 331 pages; "News of Thomas a Becket's martyrdom has spread throughout Christendom and the blame is laid at the feet of Henry Plantagenet, King of England. Two years later, with Becket canonised, Henry's position is precarious: punished at the Pope's insistence for his part in Becket's death, he now also has an enemy in his Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, after her discovery of his longstanding infidelity with Rosamund Clifford. Eleanor is determined to seek vengeance, so, with King Philip of France, she encourages her sons (Richard & John) to conspire, both against their father and each other. Much embattled, the old eagle Henry struggles to fend off both rebellion and the plots of his aggressively circling offspring..". Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 18685

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Series

Mots-clés: 0399124950 Plantagenet Fiction::Historical

PLAIDY, JEAN; ELEANOR HIBBERT (PSEUD)

The Three Crowns

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399118926. DJ and boards have light shelfwear present, front pastedown has sticker residue bottom corner, some scuffing of DJ. ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles on spine ; Stuart Saga #5; 8.40 X 6.10 X 1.40 inches; 363 pages; "An historical narrative portraying the strange alliance between Mary, the daughter of James II and Anne Hyde, and her cousin and husband William of Orange, an ambitious man determined to gain the three crowns of Britain". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 18679

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Series

Mots-clés: 0399118926 Stuart William of Orange Fiction::Historical

JANE PORTER

The Scottish Chiefs

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Reprint. Hardcover. Light general wear to black cloth covered boards, bottom fore corners worn. ; Bright solid book, hinges intact. Black cloth covered boards with full color, full page illustration pasted on front board. Decorative endpapers, all 8 color plates by N.C. Wyeth are present. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 503 pages; This version of the 1810 Scottish classic by Jane Porter, first published by Scribner's in 1921, is well enhanced by Wyeth's full page color illustrations.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 20932

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: scotland n.c. wyeth British Fiction Fiction::Historical

PRESSFIELD, STEVEN

Alexander; the Virtues of War

London: Doubleday, 2004. 1st UK. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385607709. light edge wear, slight soil bottom page edges ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book ; 1.42 x 9.13 x 6.3 Inches; 346 pages; "Presented as Alexander's confessions (and lessons) to his brother-in-law, Itanes, as the Macedonian commander and his increasingly reluctant armies try to figure out how to cross "this river of India" to engage in yet another battle, the novel tells of Alexander's father's last victory (the defeat of the Greeks at Chaeronea) before his assassination; of how, over his father's corpse, Alexander cements his plans for future campaigns; of his struggle with his "daimon," which would call him to glory; of his burning of Thebes; of his march east and his slaughter throughout Asia; of his murder of his friend Cleitus ("I felt his spine shear"). Alexander's voice swoops from high-minded rhetoric to earthy vernacular as he regales Itanes with bloody battle scenes and stories of horror and triumph.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 12630

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 0385607709 macedonia Greece Fiction::Historical

RUSHDIE, SALMAN

The Moor's Last Sigh

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1995. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394281225. Light edgewear to DJ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book ; 434 pages; In a spirited story related at a breakneck pace and crammed full of melodrama, slapstick, supple wordplay and literary allusions, Rushdie has again fashioned a biting parable of modern India. Telling his story "with death at my heels," the eponymous narrator relates the saga of a family whose religious, political and cultural differences replicate the fault lines by which India is riven. The Moor tells of "family rifts and premature deaths and thwarted loves and mad passions and weak chests and power and money and... the seductions and mysteries of art." He speculates on the duality of all things, the conflicting impulses of human nature and the clash between appearance and reality. Like the tale itself, the title has multiple layers of meaning. "The Moor's Last Sigh" refers to two paintings, one a masterpiece by the narrating Moor's mother, Aurora, the other a trashy work by her onetime protege and lover, and later implacable enemy, Vasco Miranda, who becomes the Moor's nemesis. The Moor was thus nicknamed at birth, the youngest child of Aurora, the heiress to the da Gama spice-trade dynasty, and Abraham Zogoiby, a penniless Jew who was her family's employee. Aurora has become one of India's most famous artists, even as her shadowy husband has metamorphosed into a power broker in the Bombay underworld. The narrator was born with a deformed right hand and a disease that ages him two years for every year he lives: "Life had dealt me a bad hand, and a freak of nature was obliging me to play it out too fast." The woman he adores is a pathological liar who fools the Moor into making a fatally wrong choice. Rushdie's own plight informs these pages, but it is always integrated into plot and character. Already an outcast from society, the half-Jewish Moor is expelled from his family; when he leaves India, he becomes increasingly disoriented and is eventually imprisoned, awaiting a death that may strike at any time.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 13974

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 0394281225 India fatwa British Fiction

SASSOON, SIEGFRIED & PAUL FUSSELL

Siegfried Sassoon's Long Journey Selections from the Sherston Memoirs

New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0195033094. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, price-clipped. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 10.0 X 7.1 X 0.7 inches; 180 pages; "A fictionalized account of Sassoon's own early life and wartime experience, the books constituting this trilogy - Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, and Sherston's Progress - form a gripping coming-of-age chronicle. 'The story he tells,' Fussell writes in his introduction, 'is that of a shy, awkward, extremely limited young country gentleman acquainted only with hunting and cricket and golf who learns about the greater adult world the hardest way - perceiving and absorbing the details of its most shocking war. The irony is that Sherston is removed from the aimlessness of his rural life not by, say, a career in the City, which before the war might have been thought the appropriate antidote to idleness; he's removed from it by an alternative quite needlessly excessive, the hell of the trenches.' This is the first version of the Memoirs to be illustrated with photographs, works of art, and documents from its own period. ". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 20542

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 0195033094 WWI trenches POETRY FICTION Fiction::Historical

TAYLOR, FRED

The Kinder Garden

New York: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 088184697X. DJ shows light shelf wear with short tears and creasing. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 9.30 X 6.40 X 1.40 inches; 460 pages; "A portrayal of perverted innocence by the author of "Walking Shadows". In the blasted rubble of post-war Berlin, the British Army Special Investigation Branch investigates two savage murders. They are the first clues to a rampaging nightmare running amok in the ruins of a new and violent Europe.". Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 18409

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 088184697X MYSTERY Berlin Fiction::Historical

THOM, JAMES ALEXANDER

The Children of First Man

New York: Ballantine Books, 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0345370058. Light shelf wear evident.; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.20 X 6.60 X 1.80 inches; 547 pages; "Three hundred years before Columbus, a Welsh Prince named Madoc -- an invincible blond giant of a man -- crossed the Atlantic with a fleet of wooden boats to plant a colony in the paradise he called Iarghal. For countless generations, Prince Madoc's blue-eyed descendants migrated along the great waterways of the primeval New World, mingling their blood, their legends, and their dreams with the native peoples. This is their story.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 18579

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 0345370058 Wales mandans madoc iarghal

TRANTER, NIGEL G.

Flowers of Chivalry

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0340406984. Price clipped dust jacket shows some creasing top edge, corners a little bumped. Some yellowing of pages, remainder dot top page edges. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar. ; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 432 pages; "This historical novel is set in 14th-century Scotland , when Robert the Bruce's son, the child king, is threatened by Edward III of England. He is defended by Sir William Douglas, the "Flower of Chivalry", and his comrade-in-arms Sir Alexander Ramsay.". Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 15256

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 0340406984 scotland Edward III Robert the Bruce Fiction::Historical

TRANTER, NIGEL G.

The Marchman

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0340659947. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, remainder mark bottom page edges. Light damage to a few pages, pages lightly yellowed ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.6 X 5.7 X 1.5 inches; 374 pages; As the turbulent reign of King Henry VIII gave way to the rule of Elizabeth Tudor, young John Maxwell sought to play his part on the March of Dumfries and Galloway, doing his best to control a motley crew of dalesman and mosstroopers, and the unruly West March English. A loyal supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, Maxwell inevitably found himself drawn into the wider sphere of the kingdom's affairs, becoming involved with Mary's suitors, courtiers - and enemies.. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 20391

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical

Mots-clés: 0340659947 King Henry VIII Tudor Mary Queen of Scots John maxwell Elizabeth I Fiction::Historical

TRANTER, NIGEL G.

Price of a Princess

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0340558997. DJ and boards show light shelf wear. Price-clipped with remainder dot on top page edges, slight yellowing of pages as is common in British publications.. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 5.5 X 1.25 X 9 inches; 232 pages; " After young James the Third's accession to the Scottish throne, the ambitious Boyd family of Kilmarnock seized power. Although James's sister, Mary, was at first unwilling to marry Thomas Boyd, she eventually learned to love him. When Thomas was sent to the Danish court, Mary discovered a talent for diplomacy. In exchange for Princess Margaret of Denmark marrying her brother, she persuaded the Danes to hand over the islands of Orkney and Shetland to Scottish dominion. But when the Boyd regime was finally toppled, Mary's position became severely compromised.". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 20854

Catalogue: Fiction::Historical::Series

Mots-clés: 0340558997 Mary Stewart James the Third Fiction::Historical