ACKROYD, PETER

Lambs of London, the

New York: Nan A. Talese, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385514611. Beige spine with mottled beige Hardcovers. In As New Condition, totally unmarked with a sound binding. The DJ is unclipped and in Very Good plus condition. "For bored siblings Charles and Mary Lamb, the works of Shakespeare furnish a respite from the boredom and domesticity of their lives, until William Ireland, an antiquarian bookseller, claims to possess a long-lost Shakespearean play." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 213 pages. As New in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 26966

Catalogue: Fiction, Historical Fiction. London England

Mots-clés: 0385514611 Fiction > Young Adult Historical Fiction Fiction Historical Fiction England

ADDERSON, CAROLINE

History of Forgetting a Novel

Patrick Crean Editions, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 1894433017. A Fine+ Trade Paperback, clean & tightly bond pages and an uncreased spine. "Malcolm, an ageing hairdresser whose love for his Alzheimers-victim lover is fading fast, is too oppressed by his domestic life to notice the world outside. Alison, his colleague, is blithely innocent; she believes that hairdressing brings happiness, and doesn't understand pain. Both are in their own way blind, until a colleague's neo-fascist murder unites them on an emotional journey - to the Auschwitz Museum, where they are forced to confront the suffering of others, and to face the possibility of life." ; 5.25 X 1.2 X 8.25 inches; 359 pages. Fine+ .

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N° du livre: 26874

Catalogue: Historical Fiction, War, Gay/Lesbian, Jewsih

Mots-clés: 1894433017 Historical Fiction Gay & Lesbian Holocaust Jewish Historical Fiction Gay and Lesbian Judaism / Jewish Holocaust

AMIS KINGSLEY

Alteration, the

London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Light green Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. A Very Good++ book with a solid binding, bright, unmarked pages. The DJ is Very Good+ with light cover rubbing and edge wear. Light bumping to the bottom spine end, sharp corners. "It is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart’s second requiem) is about to be sung to lay him to rest. In the choir is our hero, Hubert Anvil, an extremely ordinary ten-year-old boy with a faultless voice." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 27165

Catalogue: Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature

Mots-clés: Science Fiction Historical Fiction British Literature Science Fiction & Fantasy Historical Fiction Literature

ANTHONY, EVELYN

Anne Boleyn

Random House, 1986. Hardcover. ISBN: 0712695591. Black Hardcovers, gitl titles to the spine. Tightly bound, the pages are unmarked but do have age tanning to them. Very Good++. The DJ is unclipped, in Fine condition and is protected by a clear plastic covering. "Set against the intrigue and pageantry of the sixteenth-century English court, Evelyn Anthony’s novel tells the love story of Henry Tudor and Anne Boleyn, who would become his wife, his queen, and the mother of one of Britain’s greatest monarchs. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages. Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 26780

Catalogue: Historical Fiction, Romance, Tudor Period, 16th Century

Mots-clés: 0712695591 Historical Fiction Romance Tudor Period 16th Century

BIRDSELL, SANDRA

Russlander, the

McClelland & Stewart, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771014503. First Edition. Grey Hardcovers, black titles to the spine. In Near Fine condition with a sound binding, bright, unmarked pages. Very light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped and in Near Fine condition. "Katherine (Katya) Vogt is now an old woman living in Winnipeg, but the story of how she and her family came to Canada begins in Russia in 1910, on a wealthy Mennonite estate. Here they lived in a world bounded by the prosperity of their landlords and by the poverty and disgruntlement of the Russian workers who toil on the estate. But in the wake of the First World War, the tensions engulfing the country begin to intrude on the community, leading to an unspeakable act of violence. "; 9.3 X 6.0 X 1.4 inches; 360 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 26375

Catalogue: Fiction, Historical, World War 1

Mots-clés: 0771014503 Ficiton > Canada Historical Ficiton World War , 1914 - 1918 1900-1918

BIRDSELL, SANDRA

Russlander, the

McClelland & Stewart, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771014503. First Edition. Grey Hardcovers, black titles to the spine. In Near Fine condition with a sound binding, bright, unmarked pages. Very light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped and in Near Fine condition. "Katherine (Katya) Vogt is now an old woman living in Winnipeg, but the story of how she and her family came to Canada begins in Russia in 1910, on a wealthy Mennonite estate. Here they lived in a world bounded by the prosperity of their landlords and by the poverty and disgruntlement of the Russian workers who toil on the estate. But in the wake of the First World War, the tensions engulfing the country begin to intrude on the community, leading to an unspeakable act of violence. "; 9.3 X 6.0 X 1.4 inches; 360 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 26375

Catalogue: Fiction, Historical, World War 1

Mots-clés: 0771014503 Ficiton > Canada Historical Ficiton World War , 1914 - 1918 1900-1918

BOGARDE, DIRK (1921-1999)

A Gentle Occupation

London : Chatto & Windus, 1980. Goo. Hardcover. ISBN: 0701125055. Blue Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. A Very Good++ book with bright, unmarked pages and a sound binding. The DJ is unclipped and in Very Good condition. "Bogarde's debut novel, set in 1945, concerns the period after the war as the British Army attempts to carry out a caretaking operation on an island seething with revolt following the Japanese occupation." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 360 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 26681

Catalogue: Historical Fiction, Asia, War, Japan

Mots-clés: 0701125055 Fiction Historical Fiction War Asia Japan

BOYD WILLIAM

Blue Afternoon, the

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679432957. Dark blue hard boards with dark blue cloth spine covering, gilt titles to the spine. Tightly bound, a bright, unmarked inteiror, small stains to the top edge. The DJ is unclipped with light scuffing and edegwear to the covers. " Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in celebration of a glorious, undying love." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 11454

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: 0679432957 Philippines Manila Historical Fiction

BUCK PEARL S.

The Angry Wife

Pocket Books, # 550238, 1967. Mass Market Paperback. A Very Good Mass Market. Tightly bound, a name on front free end paper, otherwise a clean & unmarked copy. There is cover edgewear and rubbing. "Lucinda Delaney is a southern belle ruled by a vision of life that no longer exists. The Civil War has come and gone and her side has lost, yet she is determined to proceed as if nothing has changed—a denial that stokes the flames of her irrational angers. Despite her returned husband’s devotion, Lucinda is sure he is having an affair with one of their slaves." ; 6.9 X 4.1 X 0.7 inches; 250 pages. Very Good .

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N° du livre: 26368

Catalogue: Historical Fiction, Classics, CIVIL War, Literature

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction Classics CIVIL War Literature Historical Fiction Classics War Literature

CALVINO, ITALO. TRANSLATOR ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN

Path to the Spiders' Nests, the Revised Ed

Hopewll, N. J.: Ecco Press, 1998. Hardcover. ISBN: 0880016213. First Revised Edition. Bright red Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. In As New Condition, tight, bright & unmarked. An unclipped DJ in Near Fine condition. "First published in 1947, the first novel by one of the twentieth-century's most famous literary figures--a portrait of a dissolute Italian resistance fighter against the Nazis--includes previously censored passages and his newly translated preface." ; 5.5 X 0.75 X 8.75 inches; 185 pages. As New in Near Fine dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 27636

Catalogue: Fiction,Classics, Historical Fiction, War, Italy

Mots-clés: 0880016213 Fiction > Classics Italy > War Historical Fiction World War II

CAMOENS

Les Lusiades - Traduction Nouvelle Avec Notes Et Commentaires & D'Une Etude Sur la Vie Et Les Moeurs E Camoens par Edmond Hippeau

Garnier Freres, Libraires - Editeurs, 1890. Hardcover. Good+. Tan spine, with paper covered boards. Five raised bands, gilt titles panelled in red and brown to the spine. Designed foreedges and endpapers. No published date, circa 1890's. A name written on the title page, otherwise the pages are unmarked and tightly bound. Heavy cover edgewear. "Un parallele trop peu ? Atteur le chantre du Vert, Galant. En presence de ses illustres predecesseurs. Avant de discuter les griefs ou les assertions des commentateurs ou des adversaires, nous devons chercher a definir le caractere du poeme des Lusiades en etudiant de pres la vie de l'auteur, l'epoque ou il a vecu et le theme qui s'est otl'ert a son genie. L'oeuvre sera par la mome tout expli quee': avant de la critiquer il importe de la bien comprendre et de marquer sa veritable place dans l'histoire litteraire." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 303 pages. Very Good .

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N° du livre: 26514

Catalogue: French, Classics, Portugal, Literature, Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: French Books Portuguese Literature Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Classics Literature French Books

CHAPMAN, HESTER W, IVOR NOVELLO

King's Rhapsody

Boston, Mass: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. Hardcover. Black Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine, small insignia on the front cover. Book of the Month. Tightly bound, clean & unmarked pages. The DJ is in Good- condition, spine end chipping, edgewear and a water mark to the inside of the covers. "The book is based on the play by Ivor Novello. This is a tale of humility and prejudice against a background of political intrigue, gypsy warnings, Austrian hunting lodges, court balls, worldly chaperones, and masquerades. It is the story of Christiane, a beautiful princess from the Norseland, who at the age of eleven saw the King of Murania, Nikki, in a cafe with his elegant mistress (for whom he had given up his throne) , and fell in love with him." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 243 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 26573

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction Historical Fiction

COHEN, LEONARD

Perdants Magnifiques

Christian Bourgois, 2002. Paperback. ISBN: 2267016397. A Fine + Paperback, tightly bound, bright, unmarked pages. One crease to the spine and a stamp to the foreedge. "J'aurais voulu vivre dans le folk song comme Joe Hill, pleurer pour les innocents que ma bombe aurait mutilés, remercier le vieux paysan qui nous aurait nourris pendant notre fuite. J'aurais voulu avoir une manche vide retenue par une épingle double, et voir les gens sourire tandis que je saluais de la mauvaise main. (...) J'aurais voulu avoir ma tête portée à Pékin, avec un poème écrit sur mon épaule." ; LES; 7.75"; 308 pages. Fine+ .

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N° du livre: 27650

Catalogue: Historical Fiction, Native Indians, Canada, Quebec

Mots-clés: 2267016397 Canada > Quebec Historical Fiction Native Canadian Indians

COSTAIN THOMAS B.

Below the Salt

Garden City , New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Black hard cover with title pannelled in blue on spine. Very nice copy with some minor bumping on the spine ends. Nice interior with a solid binding." Time was rolled back 700 years so that he was hearing an account of those stirring , violent events in England and Europe that led to Magna Carta and thus contributed so much to the liberties of future generations; with a story as well, most of it straight from history, of a lost princess and the recovery of a lost charter." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 480 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 17273

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Fiction Historical Fiction Classics Collectibles

DE ROSNAY, TATIANA

Sarah's Key

St. Martin's Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781250004215. First Edition. Cream colored Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. In Fine+ condition. A sound binding, bright & unmarked with a white ribbon marker. The DJ is unclipped, a small crease to the front flap corner. In Near Fine condition. "Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten-year-old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door to door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard—their secret hiding place—and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released." ; 5.5 X 1.5 X 7.5 inches; 400 pages. Fine+ .

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N° du livre: 27440

Catalogue: Holocaust, World War 1939-1845, Jews, Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: 9781250004215 Historical Fiction World War, II Holocaust > Historical Fiction History War France Judaism / Jewish