HARRIS, ROBERT

Pompeii

London, Hutchinson. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0091779251). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A clean and unmarked copy apart from a small light mark to front endpaper, age darkening to page edges with no wear or inscriptions VG+ with complete pictorial dustjacket which has a few creases at top and a little shelfwear to top corner. A best selling novel centred around the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, a water engineer Marius Attilius Primus and Pliny taking the historical facts and weaving the story around them. D4D. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 004487

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Vesuvius 0091779251

HART, EVELYN

Mountains of the Sun

London, Century. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0712625976). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title on blue boards which are unmarked with no wear and just a gentle bump to one corner tip. Internally there is foxing to closed edges and to endpapers else a clean, tight copy. Dustjacket is VG and not price clipped. The story of a white Russian orphan girl brought up in the wilds of the Indian Hindu Kush who is sent to school in England. She plans to return to India to marry her childhood love but India plunges into a bloodbath that follows partition. The love of her life is an officer in the Indian army's crack force the 'Rohillas'. VERY SCARCE B2E. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 010818

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Hindu Kush, White Russian Orphan, Rohillas 0712625976

HEATH, SANDRA

A Scandalous Publication

London, Robert Hale. 2006, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709080840). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel of the notorious Sir Max Talgarth, who it was said could conquer any woman, married or single, with his arrogant good looks and devastating charm, and there was no gentleman that he could not best on the duelling field with either pistol or sword. Against this fomidable foe Miss Charlotte Wyndham was equipped only with her pen and the determination that it would prove mightier than the warm kisses or the cold steel of this infuriating man she had every reason to despise. But as she launched her literary attack on Sir Max's infamous activities, there was one thing she had not guarded against - Cupid's arrows. C3D. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 004940

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Romantic Fiction 0709080840

HESSAYON, JOAN

For All Good Men

London, Century. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0712609377). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper "Kind regards, Joan". A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a manufacturing defect in cutting the fore edge resulting in a little extra paper showing) with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. An historical novel set in the 1830's and is the story of an election in the town of Hertford and of it's inhabitants, betrayal, corruption and love. NOT EX LIB C3A. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author.

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N° du livre: 001478

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Hertford, 19th Century 0712609377

HICKMAN, KATIE

The Aviary Gate

London, Bloomsbury. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780747580386). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. x + 340 pages. Page marker bound in. Elizabeth Stavely sits in the Bodleian Library with trembling hands. Before her is a precious fragment of parchment which has a dusty fragrance of roses, of sadness and great age. Here is the clue she has been looking for: the key to a story untold for 400 years. Constantinople, 1599: merchants from all over the world are vying with each other to gain trading rights in the Ottoman Empire. The book is a multi-layered tale of ancient alliances and intrigues, of forbidden love and dangerous secrets, vividly depicted, and filled with the colours, sights and scents of 16th century Constantinople. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 009026

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, 16th Century Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Musical Clock, Eunuch 9780747580386

HILL, PORTER

The Bombay Marines

London, Souvenir Press. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0285626515). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title on black boards which have a small bump to lower front and a very small indentation to top edge but clean and unmarked. Internally very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete with wear to top and lower edges and spine head and tail with shelf scuffing marks. An Adam Horne historical novel, where Captain Horne, newly returned from a successful assignment to rid the Arabian Sea of pirates, is summoned to the presence of his commanding officer, Commodore Watson. Watson is head of the East India Company's private fighting unit, the much derided Bombay Marine, the time being 1761 and the setting Pondicherry, the last stronghold of the French in the Indian Subcontinent. A1D. Very Good/Fair.

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N° du livre: 002748

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: 0285626515

HILL, PAMELA

The Sword and the Flame

London, Robert Hale. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709042817). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very clean, tight and unmarked copy which has some light creasing to the top side of a few page edges VG+ with coloured dustjacket which is not price clipped VG+. An historical novel set in Scotland by the noted author of historical novels featuring Mary, Queen of Scots mother Mary of Lorraine who was forced into a marriage with James V of Scotland by the King of France. James dies after a battle with the forces of his uncle Henry VIII leaving her with a baby daughter as queen and the story is related by Mary's half sister Claudine. NOT EX LIB B2C. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 001128

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Mary Queen of Scots, Mary of Lorraine, Henry VIII. , James V of Scotland 0709042817

HODGE, JANE AIKEN

Polonaise

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340406739). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel set in Poland at the beginning of the nineteenth century where two young men, Glynde and Jan, English and American, meet dramatically and join forces to explore a lost kingdom. Parcelled out of existence by the great powers, Poland remains heroically a nation, still cherishing it's dream of reunification under it's own King, and Princess Isobel, beautiful, intensely ambitious, means to provide that King, whatever the sacrifice. C3B. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 002795

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: 19th Century Poland, Princess Isobel, Reunification 0340406739

HOLMAN, ANNE

The Mantua-Maker's Beau

Maine, USA, Thomson Gale. 2006, First Edition. (ISBN: 1594144524). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING JUNE 2006. An As New unmarked copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. Clementina Willoby is 26 years old in 1774, when the English dressmaker who trained her dies. She was promised the business, but finds it has been left to James Hunter who lives in Pennsylvania. Determined to obtain the shop she believes the previous owner intended her to have, she travels to Philadelphia to ask him for it. The ship she sails on is owned by Hunter and carries indentured servants, and she is appalled to see the dreadful conditions they endure. When she meets James she finds he is now interested in building a sawmill in the wilderness and is neglecting his shipping business. Discovering that his shipping agent is a villain, Clementina travels inland to warn James. NOT EX LIB COPY NOT LARGE PRINT SCARCE L. New/Fine.

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N° du livre: 008523

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Bath, Pennsylvania, Women Tailors, 18th Century 1594144524

HOWARD, RICHARD

Bonaparte's Invaders

London, Little Brown. 1998, First. (ISBN: 0316881589). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a small closed tear to rear top corner edge. Richard Howard is the pseudonym of a bestselling British novelist and this is the second in a major historical trilogy, featuring Alain Lausard, who is now leaving Toulon harbour aboard the frigate L'Esperance and the discontented ranks of his cavalry unit vent their violent frustration on the crew and members of the infantry and by the time they stagger, starved and exhausted on the shores of Egypt, Lausard's dragoons have more than glory to fight for. NOT EX LIB 14. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 011240

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Napoleonic Era 0316881589

IGGULDEN, CONN

Lords of the Bow

London, Harper Collins. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780007201761). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Very Good unmarked copy which has bumping to lower corner tips and light foxing to top edge with near Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. Map endpapers and 452 pages. Temujin of the Wolves has become Genghis Khan, a man who must unite the fractious, warlike tribes on earth - he intends to forge a new nation out of the wild plains and mountains of Mongolia - it will be a bloody birth that brings a continent to its knees. The second in the epic trilogy of Genghis Khan D4D. Very Good/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 011453

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Genghis Khan, Mongolia, Historical Fiction 9780007201761

IRVING, CLIVE

Promise the Earth

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0241107512). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with a VG dustjacket which has a little creasing to top edge and is not price clipped. The author's second novel set in Palestine in 1916 and where two Englishmen, one a Jew the other an Anglican, and a Russian come, each caught up in 'the great game'. A complex historical novel based on the bloody events of the period. C3D. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 002449

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Palestine in 1916, British Colonial Rule, T.E. Lawrence, Allenby, Balfour, Weizmann 0241107512

JACKSON, EILEEN

Castle in the Rock

London, Robert Hale. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709175272). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel where Rhonwen Morgan, after her tragic involvement in a disaster in London in 1878, resolves to discover her origins and her search leads to Castell Craig in Wales, where the formidable Caradog brothers Crispin and Bryn entangle her her in terrifying events. Why had her mother left a luxurious home to hide in a London lodging house? What had caused Edwina Caradog to become a near recluse? What part did the lovely Frances Kendrick play in Rhonwen's increasing peril? The answers seem rooted in the gaunt castle embedded in the granite of the Rhinog mountains. SCARCE 1. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 003302

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, 19th Centurym Wales, Castell Craig, Edwina Caradog, Rhonwen Morgan, Rhinog Mountains 0709175272

JACOBS, ANNA

Pride of Lancashire

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 2005, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340840714). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition First Printing. Gold title on red boards which are clean and unmarked with slight bumping to lower corner tips. Internally very clean and unmarked with a minor production fault to front endpaper of a small corner folded over. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket is VG+ and is not price clipped. The Lancashire born author emigrated to Australia in 1973 but regularly returns to England. This novel is set in the early days of the music hall and the main character is Carrie Preston, oldest of ten, with an incompetent mother and she is the one who struggles to find food for the younger children. Her drunken father knocks her unconscious and she is rescued by Eli Beckett from the Dragon pub and offered a cleaning job there, a job which leads to friendship and hopes for a better future. NOT EX LIB NOT LARGE PRINT 21. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 003723

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Music Hall, Carrie Preston, Eli Beckett, Dragon Pub 0340840714

JONES, DOUGLAS C.

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

London, W.H. Allen. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0491024908). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine, clean, tight and unmarked copy with a little light foxing to top and fore edges. Dustjacket is VG+ and is not price clipped although price is crossed through and has a repaired closed tear. First British edition. Vignette illustrations in the text by the author. A novel that blends fact and fiction, premised on the supposition that George Armstrong Custer did not die at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, but that instead he was found close to death at the scene of the defeat and was brough to trial for his actions. Was Custer a military genius who had made an understandable mistake or a glory-seeker who recklessly risked his men's lives ? 24. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 007260

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Battle of the Little Big Horn, Fictitious Trial of Custer 0491024908