ANTHONY, EVELYN (EVELYN BRIDGETT PATRICIA WARD-THOMAS)

Valentina

New York, NY: Signet, 1979. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0451085981. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition. The book covers have some light rubbing, wear, and edge wear to the spine ends, corners and book edges. There is one small chip to the rear foredge. The text pages are clean and bright. "Her pen name is derived from the name of St. Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost things. Her writing career began with short stories that she submitted to women's magazines after the second world war. Anthony's first historical novel, Rebel Princess (1953) , focused on Catherine the Great. Other Anthony historical novels depicted Anne Boleyn (Anne Boleyn 1957) and Queen Victoria (Victoria and Albert 1958). Her historical novels Far Fly The Eagles and Valentina were both set during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The later novels had a theme of espionage. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

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Book number: 44239

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: 0451085981 Historical Fiction Evelyn Anthony Gothic Russia Poland Regency

BOLDT, LANA MCGRAW

Flower of the Pacific

New York, NY: Bantam, 1984. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. ISBN: 055322848X. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The spine has a couple of slight creases. The text pages are clean and bright.. Very Good .

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Book number: 44291

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: 055322848X Romance Lana Mcgraw Boldt World War II Hawaii The Pacific Americans Japanese

BRYHER (PSEUDONYM OF ANNIE WINIFRED ELLERMAN)

Ruan

New York, NY: Pantheon Books, Inc, 1960. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Johannes Troyer. Cover Art; This is a Review Copy. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a beginning hint of toning to the edges of the endpapers. The dust jacket has some noticeable toning to the spine and spine joints of the dust jacket. "In this her latest magical evocation of the past, she takes the reader into sixth-century Britain, to Cornwall, the Scillys, Ireland, and Wales. Young Ruan, nephew of the Druid high priest, is destined and prepared for the priesthood. Turbulent, avid for adventure, and restless for fulfillment, he feels caged in the monotonous schooling of the Celtic priests, and longs for the high seas." "Bryher (2 September 1894 – 28 January 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, of the Ellerman ship-owning family. She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, using her fortune to help many struggling writers. With her lesbian lover Hilda Doolittle (H. D. ) and Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein’s work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Hitler’s Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 45922

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: Historical Fiction Bryher Annie Winifred Ellerman Britain British Historical Fiction Celtic Britain Druids Johannes Troyer

CORNWELL, BERNARD

Rebel

New York: Harper Collins, 1993. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060177136. Illustrated by Nancy Sabato. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The top edge of the text block has some beginning toning. The dust jacket is clean and crisp with the exception of some light wear and beginning rolling to the bottom front edge by the flap joint. "Rebel is a dramatic story in the tradition of the bestselling historical narratives of John Jakes of the Civil War's first great battle, First Bull Run / Manassas, and how Nate Starbuck, a renegade from Boston, comes to play a crucial part in it. Running away from his stern preacher father and a shattered love affair, Nate arrives in Richmond on the eve of hostilities. Rescued from a Yankee-hating mob by the quixotic landowner Washington Faulconer, Starbuck shows his gratitude by joining Faulconer's Legion, even though he knows, in joining the Confederate cause, he will be fighting against his own people." ; Vol. 1. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 32499

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: 0060177136 Modern Fiction First Editions Bernard Cornwell Nancy Sabato The Starbuck Chronicles Civil War Manassas First Battle of Bull Run Richmond, VA Modern Fiction Firsts

COULTER, CATHERINE

The Autumn Countess

New York: Signet Books, 1978. 4th Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. Signed edition. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This book is in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing to the top and bottom edges of the front cover. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription on the front inside cover, by the author. This is the author's first published novel. "When Coulter finished writing her novel she sent it to an editor at Signet. Three days later Signet offered her a three-book contract. That first novel, The Autumn Countess, was published by Penguin Books in 1978. By 1982, she was earning enough to quit her job and become a full-time writer. Since then she has written over fifty books and has had forty-two consecutive New York Times Bestsellers since 1988. Her thriller The Maze was her first book to place on the New York Times Hardcover Bestseller list, while The Cove spent nine weeks on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller list and sold over one million copies. Coulter generally publishes one historical romance and one suspense novel each year, and has been busily rewriting many of her earlier Regency romances to turn them into longer historical romances." (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 38151

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: Historical Fiction Catherine Coulter Signed Edition Regency England Regency Fiction British History Historical Fiction

EDMONDS, WALTER D.

The Musket and the Cross the Struggle of France and England for North America

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1968. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Illustrated by Samuel H. Bryant. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. All edges of the text block have some light to medium toning and spotting / foxing. The dust jacket has some light edge wear and nicking to the spine ends and corners along with a couple of small edge tears to the bottom spine ends. "...is a historical chronicle of colonial America from its earliest settlement to the early eighteenth century. The focus of this vast undertaking is the protracted, complex struggle between France and England for possession of North America, a struggle Mr. Edmonds calls the most momentous and far reaching - brought to issue on the continent until the Civil War." "In 1929, he published his first novel, Rome Haul, a work about the Erie Canal. The novel was adapted for the 1934 play The Farmer Takes a Wife and the 1935 film of the same name. He married Eleanor Stetson in 1930. Drums Along the Mohawk was on the bestseller list for two years, second only to Margaret Mitchell's famous 1936 novel Gone with the Wind for part of that time. Bert Breen's Barn was a winner of the 1976 National Book Award in category Children's Books. Edmonds eventually published 34 books, many for children, as well as a number of magazine stories. He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1960 and the Newbery Medal in 1942, for The Matchlock Gun, and the National Book Award for Children's Literature in 1976, for Bert Breen's Barn. When Eleanor died in 1956, Walter married Katherine Howe Baker Carr, who died in 1989. Walter Edmonds died in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1998.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 47376

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: Historical Fiction Walter D. Edmonds American History North American Continent France England Colonialism Colonial period

ERICKSON, LYNN (PSEUDONYM OF MOLLY SWANTON AND CARLA PELTONEN)

The Silver Kiss

New York: Richard Gallen Books / Pocket Books, 1981. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0671433482. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book. Stated First Edition with complete number line. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine of the book has a couple of light spots of discoloration and some beginning rubbing and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. The front endpaper has two inked initials on the top corner. "Lynn Erickson is the American joint pseudonym used by the writing team formed by Molly Swanton and Carla Peltonen. Since 1980, they have written over 50 historical/romantic suspense novels. The pseudonym Lynn Erickson is a combination of their husbands' names. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 41631

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: 0671433482 Historical Fiction Lynn Erickson Molly Swanton Carla Peltonen Aspen, CO Gold Rush Historical Fiction

FORD, PAUL LEICESTER

Janice Meredith a Story of the American Revolution

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Howard Pyle & students. B&W Illustrations; Two Volume Set. Limited Edition. Both volumes are in Very Good condition and possibly issued without dust jackets. Volume two is in slightly better condition. Together, The books and their contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine of both volumes have some sunning / fading, while volume one has several small edge tears to the top spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. The text is uncut and untrimmed. There is an inked former owner's name and date (1899) on the front endpaper of volume one and again on the half title page of volume two. Volume one includes a Miniature of Janice Meredith by Lillie V. O'Ryan while volume two includes a miniature of George Washington by Sharpless. The text of both volumes is illustrated with 172 plates - most of which are by the students of Howard Pyle. This copy is missing three plates (pgs 186, 188 & 192 - however they do not appear to have been excised, but conversely, left out during the binding process). The majority of the plates appear to be by his students, especially some of his more favored female artists, including Ellen Bernard Thompson and Anna Whelan Betts. It is possible that Howard Pyle is responsible for up to 58 of the illustrations (according to Howard Pyle: Imagining An American School of Art by Jill May, etc. ). This volume sold very well as an illustrated holiday edition, in fact it was listed as the best selling book in February 1900. "Ford was the great-grandson of Noah Webster and the brother of historian Worthington C. Ford. He wrote of the lives of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and others, edited the works of Thomas Jefferson, and wrote a number of novels which had considerable success, including The Honorable Peter Stirling, Story of an Untold Love, Janice Meredith, Wanted a Matchmaker, and Wanted a Chaperon. Ford's edition of The Writings of Thomas Jefferson is still regarded as one of the monuments of American historical scholarship, setting the standard for documentary editing for half a century until the appearance of the first volume of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Julian P. Boyd. Ford's edition remains valuable for its accuracy of transcription from original manuscripts and its careful annotation of the documents chosen for publication. The Ford edition appeared in two versions, a 10 volume edition published between 1892 and 1896 and a 14 volume limited numbered edition issued in 1904, known as the "Federal" edition. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 44991

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Paul Leicester Ford American Revolution Howard Pyle Chadds Ford The Brandywine School American Illustrators Illustrated editions

KOJA, KATHE

Under the Poppy a Novel

East Hampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2010. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1931520704. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some very light bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Kathe Koja (born 1960) is an American writer. She was initially known for her intense speculative fiction for adults, but has written young adult novels, the historical fiction Under the Poppy trilogy, and a fictional biography of Christopher Marlowe. Koja is also a prolific author of short stories, including many in collaboration with Barry N. Malzberg. Koja has also collaborated with Carter Scholz. Most of her short fiction remains uncollected. Koja's novels and short stories frequently concern characters who have been in some way marginalized by society, often focusing on the transcendence and/or disintegration which proceeds from this social isolation (as in The Cipher, Bad Brains, "Teratisms," The Blue Mirror, etc. ). Koja won the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award for her first novel The Cipher, and a Deathrealm Award for Strange Angels. Her prose has been described as "stunning". " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 42652

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: 1931520704 Historical Fiction Kathe Koja Europe 1870's Brothels

LAMB, HAROLD

The Three Palladins

West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc, 1977. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0686279018. Illustrated by Cathy Hill. B&W and Color Illustrations; This copy has been signed by the Illustrator Cathy Hill on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "In a Lamb story, honor and loyalty to one's comrades-in-arms were more important than cultural identity, although often his protagonists ended up risking their lives to protect the cultures that had spurned them. Those holding positions of authority are almost universally depicted as being corrupted by their own power or consumed with greed, be they Russian boyars or Buddhist priests, and merchants are almost always shown as placing their own desire for coin above the well-being of their fellow men. Loyalty, wisdom, and religious piety is shown again and again in these stories to lie more securely in the hands of Lamb's common folk. While female characters occasionally played the familiar role of damsel in distress in these stories, Lamb more typically depicted his women as courageous, independent, and more shrewd than their male counterparts. Their motives and true loyalties, though, remained mysterious to Lamb's male characters, and their unknowable nature is frequently the source of plot tension. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Illustrator. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 43604

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: 0686279018 Historical Fiction Harold Lamb Cathy Hill Signed Edition

WALLACE, LEW

Ben Hur

Germany: Ensslin & Laiblins, 1915. Early printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition. This is an early German printing (circa 1915). There is full size pictorial pastedown illustration on the front cover with silver and gilt decorations. The covers have some beginning bumping and fraying to the spine ends and corners. There is a tiny slit to the rear spine joint. The text pages are clean and bright, but do have some toning due to the acid content of the paper. "In 1843, Wallace began writing his first novel, The Fair God, but it was not published until 1873. The popular historical novel, with Cortez's conquest of Mexico as its central theme, was based on William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico. Wallace's book sold seven thousand copies in its first year. Its sales continued to rise after Wallace's reputation as an author was established with the publication of subsequent novels. Wallace wrote the manuscript for Ben-Hur, his second and best-known novel, during his spare time at Crawfordsville, and completed it in Santa Fe, while serving as the territorial governor of New Mexico. Ben-Hur, an adventure story of revenge and redemption, is told from the perspective of a Jewish nobleman named Judah Ben-Hur. Because Wallace had not been to the Holy Land before writing the book, he began research to familiarize himself with the area's geography and its history at the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C, in 1873. Harper and Brothers published the book on November 12, 1880." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 47391

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: Historical Fiction Lew Wallace Religion Christianity Story of Jesus German Language