CATO, NANCY

The Heart of the Continent

London, New English Library. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0450406628). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. Map endpapers. The Australian author's novel set in the rugged outback, the great red centre of Australia, is a tale of life in the first half of the twentieth century. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.86 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST D4C. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 003259

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Australian Author, Australian Outback 0450406628

CHARQUES, DOROTHY

Time's Harvest

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1940. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on brown cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with some light wear to spine. Internally clean, tight and unmarked. An historical novel set in the mid 19th century of country people, their lives and a military campaign to Afghanistan of the 28th Foot. Published September 1940 (First was also September 1940) A1B. Very Good/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 001920

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Afghanistan, 28th Foot

CHEVALIER, TRACY

Burning Bright

London, Harper Collins. 2007, First Edition. (ISBN: 0007178352). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 390 pages. Map endpapers. An historical novel set in London in 1792, where the Kellaways have moved from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city and against the backdrop of the increasingly bloody French Revolution. The youngest boy Jem and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield form a surprising bond and their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem and Maggie navigate the unpredictable, exhilarating passage from innocence to experience, and their journey influences one of Blake's most entrancing works. L. Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 004739

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Georgian London, William Blake 0007178352

CLOSE, ROBERT S.

The Voyage Continues

London, Michael Joseph. 1969, First Edition. (ISBN: 0718105907). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy whose only fault is a gentle bump to one corner tip with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel which involves the wreck of the Dutch vessel 'Batavier' off the West Coast of Australia in 1629 with more than 300 men, women and children aboard. C3C. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 005033

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, 17th Century Australia 0718105907

CLYNES, MICHAEL

The Gallows Murders - Being the Fifth Journal of Sir Roger Shallot Concerning Certain Wicked Conspiracies and Horrible Murders Perpetrated in the Reign of King Henry VIII

New York, St. Martin's Press. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0312146051). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First US Edition, First Printing. Set in 1523, mysterious and grisly murders are occurring among the hangmen of London, and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey has only two people to turn to : his beloved nephew, Benjamin Daunbey, and Daunbey's faithful servant, Roger Shallot, who reluctantly agree to go to London to unmask a blackmailer and end the macabre murders. They enter the murky Tudor underworld, the ghastly world of the Gallowsmen, and at the same time they must confront the mystery of the princes of the Tower of London. NOT EX LIB D4E. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 007036

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey, Benjamin Daunbey, Tudor Fiction, Gallowsmen, Princes in the Tower of London 0312146051

COLLIER, G.K.

The Golden Web

London, Robert Hale. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709058047). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel set against a backdrop of England's South Coast with its fascinating history of bold and daring smugglers. After the end of the Peninsular War, Wellington's army is disbanded and a young officer of Hussars, Major Alexander Lacey, returns to England, to his native Sussex, to take up residence at Blakestone House. In bygone days the house was a grand and ancient mansion but now is a blackened ruin devastated by an inexplicable fire and also the scene of an untimely death. His sudden and unexpected arrival is greeted with immediate suspicion and deep hostility from his near neighbours. NOT EX LIB D4F. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 005134

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Peninsular War, Wellington, Sussex , Smuggling 0709058047

CONNERY, TOM

Honour Redeemed - a Markham of the Marines Novel

London, Orion. 1997, First. (ISBN: 0752801465). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. The author is the pseudonym of David Donachie. An historical novel, the second in the Markham of the Marines series, set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars and where Lieutenant George Markham leads his men ashore to wrest the island of Corsica from the French but as the British plan the siege of Bastia, the loyalty of their Corsican allies is called into question. NOT EX LIB 13. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 011241

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Markham of the Marines, Napoleonic Wars, Corsica, Siege of Bastia, David Donachie 0752801465

COSTAIN, THOMAS B.

The Tontine

London, Collins. 1956, First. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Ryman, Herbert. Gold title on green cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with just a touch of wear to spine head. Internally there is a taped repair to the page describing The Tontine else very clean, tight and unmarked. 928 pages. Illustrations by Herbert Ryman. The story of a Tontine ( a strange and enticing form of gamble, part lottery, part insurance) begins with the day whenthe Battle of Waterloo was fought and ends when the nineteenth century was drawing to a close. It is a story of great variety which centres on London with many characters and their lives and carries along the suspense of the tontine as the years go by until finally there are but three survivors in this fascinating human lottery. Then there are two. And at last - one. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.95 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST B2C. Very Good/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 011274

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Ryman, Herbert

COURLANDER, HAROLD

The Bordeaux Narrative

Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0826309151). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in red cloth boards with near Fine dustjacket. Harold Courlander 1908-1996 was an American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, an expert in the study of Haitian life. The author of 35 books and plays and numerous scholarly articles, Courlander specialized in the study of African, Caribbean, Afro-American (U.S.), and American Indian cultures. He took a special interest in oral literature, cults, and Afro-American cultural connections with Africa. In the Bordeaux Narrative he brings to life in fictional form the frequently terrifying (and sometimes reassuring) supernatural world of the back country peasants of Haiti. The story is set in the 19th century and tells of Dosu Bordeaux's quest to find his brother, who has been captured , reduced to a zombie state, and put to work as a slave on a remote mountain plantation. The narrative brings into play the vodouns (deities or spirits of traditional Afro-Haitian religious belief), the need for constant placation of the vodouns, trances in which the deities enter the heads of their devotees, and the transference of human souls or spirits from one person to another. A1E. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 008749

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Fiction, 19th Century Haiti, Vodouns, Dosu Bordeaux, American Folklorist 0826309151

DAWES, FRANK VICTOR

Inheritance

London, Hutchinson. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0091555302). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good + copy with small siganature to front endpaper with VG + dustjacket which is price clipped. A story of Frank Cole, born to a strangely split inheritance, privately educated, the son of a woman from a rich and well connected family who had forsaken her background to work as a midwife in a poor part of South London. Cole's crusading political career takes him leftwards, to a covert career as one of Mosley's blackshirts, then to Spain and finally to a career in the Labour Party but at the heart of his character is a mystery which is suddenly revealed as the story unfolds. C3A. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 003170

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Fiction, Mosley Blackshirt, Spain, Labour Party 0091555302

DELALANDE, ARNAUD

The Dante Trap

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2007, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780297852025). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne. Venice, 1756: the city is at the height of its prodigious power, but as the madness of Carnival descends, a dark force stalks the gothic shadows. The body of one of Venice's brightest actors has been discovered: crucified, his eyes gouged out and lines of verse carved into his chest. It is not an isolated killing, for the murderer, known only as Chimera, is determined to people the nine circles of Dante's Inferno with the traiterous, the depraved and the gluttonous. Only by releasing the Black Orchid - childhood friend of Casanova, rake, gambler, lover, spy and soon-to-be-detective - a man condemned to death for adultery and awaiting his execution beneath the Bridge of Sighs, can the Doge of Venice hope to put an end to the grotesque killings. L. As New/As New.

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N° du livre: 007802

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: French Author, Venice, Carnival, Historical Fiction 9780297852025

DEVERAUX, JUDE

Temptation

New York, Pocket Books. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 0671002031). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Pocket Books (Division of Simon & Schuster) hardcover printing October 2000. Gold title on cream and orange boards very clean and unmarked, internally previous owners name to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. A near Fine copy. Pictorial dustjacket is complete with some light shelf marks. A novel set in New York in 1909 of a woman, Temperance O'Neil, who is a women's rights activist and although rich her money is controlled by her stepfather. The story moves to Scotland where she is sent to matchmake a wife for her stepfather's nephew and if successful she will be allowed home. 12. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 001040

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Early 20th Century New York, Women's Rights Activist, Scotland, Laird of Clan Mccairn 0671002031

ELBLING, PETER

The Food Taster

London, Atlantic Books. 2005, First Edition. (ISBN: 1843543699). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition, First Printing. A Fine copy with Fine pictorial dustjacket. A story of a starving peasant and his daughter who are snatched from their farm by a despotic Duke to act as his food taster, a job made even more hazardous by the Duke's many enemies including his cook. His daughter's beauty also brings more perils as he needs to protect her from her admirers. An excellent fairy tale story set in the kitchens of a sixteenth century Italian palace. B2E. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 001745

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: 1843543699

COONEY, ELEANOR AND ALTIERI, DANIEL

The Court of the Lion - a Novel of Eighth-Century China

London, Michael Joseph. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 071813138x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG + dustjacket which is not price clipped. Publisher's promotional postcard included. A fictional tour de force of 920 pages, a masterly recreation of a vanished civilisation. It's focus is the glittering court of the Emperor Minghuang, Son of Heaven, a centre for the arts and a hotbed of intrigue and gossip. Following the death of the empress and his favourite son, the reins of power have slipped unnoticed into the hands of his feared Chief Minister, Li Lin-fu. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.33 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST NOT EX LIB 21. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 003958

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Historical Fiction, Emperor Minghuang, LI Lin-Fu, 18th Century China 071813138x

FELL, ALISON

The Mistress of Lilliput

London, Doubleday. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0385410514). Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 351 pages. A novel recounting the adventures of the wife of the fictional Lemuel Gulliver of Gulliver's Travels fame which is a tongue in cheek view of modern woman's answer to centuries of chauvinism. The author is an award winning poet and novelist and this is her sixth novel. L. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 001172

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Mots-clés: Lemuel Gulliver, Chauvinism 0385410514