DUCHAZEAU FRANTZ

Vaincus Les

Dargaud, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 2205059149. A pictrorial Paperback in Fine condition. Tight, bound, bright, unmarked pages. Two stickers to the back cover and a library stamp to the top edge. " L'effondrement de l'empire inca et la conque^te du Pe´rou par les Espagnols, tels que vus a` travers le regard d'Apoo, messager royal, charge´ de pre´venir l'Inca de l'arrive´e des e´trangers. Dessin sombre et torture´, expressionniste, qui est en parfaite ade´quation avec le cauchemar qui vit le protagoniste." ; 180 X 16 X 240 millimeters; 168 pages. Fine .

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Book number: 27068

Catalogue: French, Graphic Arts, History, Incas, Peru, Historical Fiction

Keywords: 2205059149 Graphic & Cartoons Peru > History Incas Literature French Books Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Graphic Novels & Comics French Books

EDMONDS, WALTER D. & PAUL LANTZ

Matchlock Gun

Troll Communications Llc, 1991. Paperback. ISBN: 0816723672. This is a Near Fine Paperback. Tightly bound, one small black mark to the top of the title page, otherwise a bright, unmarked book. Light cover edgewear. "In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy." ; 7.25 X 0.25 X 9.5 inches; 50 pages. Near Fine .

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Book number: 26798

Catalogue: Historical Fiction, Classics, Children's

Keywords: 0816723672 Historical Fiction Children's Fiction Classics School Education Historical Fiction Classics Children

ELPHINSTONE, MARGARET

Voyageurs

McArthur & Co, 2003. Paperback. ISBN: 1552783758. A Very Good+ Paperback. A sound binding, bright & unmarked pages. A small crease to the back cover top corner. "Voyageurs has garnered praise for its historical versimilitude and its exacting character portraits, as well as the story's contemporary relevance. Margaret Elphinstone's magnificent sixth novel gives us Mark Greenhow, a naive and peaceful Quaker who lands on the shores of North America on the eve of the War of 1812, thinking only of finding the missing sister he has always admired for her adventurous spirit." ; 5.4 X 1.3 X 8.4 inches; 470 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 27350

Catalogue: Canada, Historical Fiction, Frontier & Pioneer Life, Fur Traders

Keywords: 1552783758 Canada > History Historical Fiction Frontier & Pioneer Life Fur Traders

FORBES, COLIN

Cross of Fire

London, England: PAN, 1992. Paperback. ISBN: 0330322419. Mass Market Paperback in good condition. Wear to the cover and spine edges, scuffing to the covers. There is a stain to part of the bottom edge. Well-bound & squared with an unmarked interior. "When an SIS agent investigating a paramilitary organization in Bordeaux is strangled it can only spell trouble for Tweed and Paula Grey. Tweed faces imminent catastrophe as one murder follows another, and savage riots break out in France, the mob active in Lorraine. "; Tweed and Co. ; 1.5 x 7.01 x 4.02 Inches; 552 pages. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 7598

Catalogue: Fiction, Historical

Keywords: 0330322419 Action & Adventure Fiction Historical Fiction

FOWLER, KAREN JOY

Sarah Canary

Kensington Pub Corp (Mm), 1993. Mass Market Paperback. ISBN: 0821740881. A Very Good copy, tightly bound with a clean, unmarked text. The covers do have rubbing and cover edgewear. "When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort "the ugliest woman he could imagine" away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum." ; 6.70 X 4 X 1.20 inches; 381 pages. Very Good- .

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Book number: 15772

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: 0821740881 Pacific Northwest Fiction Historical Fiction

GALLANT, MAVIS

From the Fifteenth District: A Novella and Eight Short Stories

MacMillan Canada Toronto 1986, 1986. Paperback. ISBN: 0839828977. A Very Good Paperback, tightly bound, clean & unmarked pages, age tanning. One crease to the spine and two dogeared pages. "Gallant has a unique talent for distilling the sense of otherness one feels abroad into something tangible and utterly understandable. In this collection, she relates the stories of those stranded in relationships, places, and even times in which they don't belong." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 243 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 26850

Catalogue: Canada, Fiction, Short Stories, Historical Fiction, Culture

Keywords: 0839828977 Canada > Fiction Short Stories Historical Fiction Manners and Customs > Culture Fiction Canada Culture Historical Fiction Short Stories

GLOVER, DOUGLAS

Elle a Novel

Goose Lane Editions, 2003. Paperback. ISBN: 0864923155. A Fine+ Paperback, French Flap, with a tight binding, bright, unmarked pages. "Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. Based on a true story, Elle chronicles the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman marooned on the desolate Isle of Demons during Jacques Cartier's ill-fated third and last attempt to colonize Canada. Of course, the plot is only the beginning." ; 5.6 X 0.62 X 8.45 inches; 206 pages. Fine+ .

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Book number: 26846

Catalogue: Historical Fiction, Canada, Literature, Academics

Keywords: 0864923155 Historical Fiction Canada > Literature Academics

GOLDING, WILLIAM

Darkness Visible

Faber & Faber, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0571114547. First Edition in Very Good+ condition. Tightly bound pages, clean & unmarked with age tanning to them. Spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped and in Very Good condition, cover rubbing and edgewear. "Miraculously saved but hideously scarred, soon tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence; Sophy, in sexual tyranny." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 265 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 27629

Catalogue: Fiction, Historical Fiction, British Literature, Medical Burns

Keywords: 0571114547 Fiction > Classics Historical Fiction British Literature Patients ( Burns and Scalds) Fiction Medicine Historical Fiction Medical / Mental Health Classics England

GRAVES WILLIAM DR.

They Hanged My Saintly Billy: The Life and Death of Dr William Palmer

New York: Garden City, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth covers, silver titles pannelled in red, to the spine. A First Edition in Very Good++ condition, no markings or lines through the book and a tight binding. Light binding to the spine ends. The DJ is unclipped and in Very Good condition, light cover edgewar and rubbing, spine browning. "Robert Graves recounts the life of William Palmer: surgeon, racehorse owner...a confessed forger who got girls into trouble, doped horses, robbed a few people...but was he a prisoner? Based on an actual trial that took place in 1856, this novel, like Graves' Wife to Mr. Milton and I, Claudius, has all the immediacy and spiciness of contemporary Victorian life. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 27431

Catalogue: Historical Fiction, Crime, Novels

Keywords: Historical Fiction Crime Novels Fiction Crime & Prisons Historical Fiction

HAYDER MO

Devil of Nanking

Harper Collins, 2004. Hardcover. ISBN: 0002007215. Blue hard boards in Fine condition with very light bottom spine bumping. A bright, tightly bound copy, read once. The DJ is unclipped, glossy with light cover scuffing. "Seeking confirmation of an atrocity committed by Japanese soldiers during the 1937 invasion of Nanking, troubled young Englishwoman Grey Hutchins tracks down a Chinese survivor who might have film of the massacre. But when she finds Shi Chongming teaching at a Tokyo university, he offers no help--until Grey takes a job at a hostess club frequented by an old Yakuza don." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 363 pages. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 9641

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: 0002007215 Nanking Massacre China 1937 Japanese Fiction Historical Fiction

HILL, LAWRENCE

Any Known Blood

Harpercollins Publishers, 2008. Paperback. ISBN: 1554685087. A Fine+ Paperback. Tightly bound with clean and unmarked pages. An uncreased spine with the previous owner's blind stamp to the half title page. "Langston Cane V is 38, divorced and working as a government speechwriter, until he’s fired for sabotaging the minister’s speech. It seems the perfect time for Langston, the eldest son of a white mother and prominent black father, to embark on a quest to discover his family’s past -- and his own sense of self. Any Known Blood follows five generations of an African-Canadian-American family in a compelling story that slips effortlessly from the slave trade of 19th-century Virginia to the modern, predominantly white suburbs of Oakville, Ontario "; 6 X 1.32 X 9 inches; 528 pages. Fine+ .

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Book number: 26858

Catalogue: Historical Fiction, Canada, Race

Keywords: 1554685087 African American Canada > History Historical Fiction Canada Historical Fiction African American

HUGO VICTOR

Quatrevingt-Treize

Delagrave, 1966. Hardcover. A pictorial Hardcover, a sound binding, names on the title page and glue reside on the front end paper, otherwise bright, & unmarked pages. Wonderful full page illustrations by Pierre Leroy. "Son père, qui avait servi comme capitaine pendant la guerre de Vendée, signait alors volontiers : le sans-culotte Brutus Hugo. Sa mère, née Sophie Trébuchet (morte en 1821) , appartenait à une famille royaliste. Victor Hugo avait donc vocation à écrire un jour une oeuvre commémorant et expliquant l'affrontement qui, durant sept ans (de 1793 à 1799) , ensanglanta la France." Pierre-Louis Rey." ; 10" - 11"; 184 pages. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 27084

Catalogue: Fiction, France, Historical Fiction, Reign of Terror, 1793-1794

Keywords: Historical Fiction Reign of Terror, 1793-1794 France Fiction Historical Fiction French Language French Books

HUSTON, NANCY

Lignes de Faille

Babel, 2007. Mass_Market. ISBN: 2742769366. A Fine Paperback with a tight binding, bright, unmarked pages and an uncreased spine. "Entre un jeune Californien du XXIe siècle et une fillette allemande des années 1940, rien de commun si ce n'est le sang. Pourtant, de l'arrière-grand-mère au petit garçon, chaque génération subit les séismes politiques ou intimes déclenchés par la génération précédente. "; 110 X 32 X 175 millimeters; 496 pages. Fine .

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Book number: 27170

Catalogue: French Books, Historical Fiction, Canada, France

Keywords: 2742769366 Historical Ficiton Canada France French Books Canada Historical Fiction France French Books

HUSTON, NANCY

The Mark of the Angel

McArthur & Company, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1552781550. First Edition. White Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. Near Fine with a sound binding, bright, unmarked pages. The DJ is unlcipped and in Near Fine condition. "Tells the story of a German woman married to a flautist who begins a passionate affair with a Jewish instrument maker after her child is born that lasts two decades and spans the most troubling years of the Cold War in Europe." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 27516

Catalogue: Historical Fiction, Literature, War, France

Keywords: 1552781550 Historical Fiction France > War Literature Historical Fiction War Literature France

ITANI, FRANCES

That's My Baby ( Signed ) a Novel

Harpercollins Publishers, 2017. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1443447803. Signed by the author on the title page, First Edition, First Printing. A blue / black Hardcover, gilt titles to the spine. In Near Fine condition. The binding is tight, clean pages. The DJ is unclipped and is in Very Good+ condition with one small mark to the front cover. A newspaper review with the book. ; 6 X 1.21 X 9 inches; 368 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 26861

Catalogue: Canada, Historical Fiction, War

Keywords: 1443447803 Canada Historical Fiction Canada Historical Fiction War