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| Plaidy, Jean: Victoria in the Wings
Book Number: 34967
London: Book Club 1972. 8vo. hardcover. 349pp. very good. / very good d/w.
Keywords: jean plaidy history fiction english broitish royal family
Price: $18.00 |
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| Vaz, Katherine: Mariana
Book Number: 36473
Flamingo 1998 8vo softcover 326pp. very good+.
Keywords: Literature Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Mariana Vaz Katherine
Price: $12.00 |
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| A.L.O.E.: The Lady of Provence
Book Number: 37398
Nelson 8vo decorated blue cloth hardcover pp, b/w frontis with tissue guard. very good, presentation bookplate on fep. some foxing. / no d/w.
Keywords: french revolution
Price: $25.00 |
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| Turnbull, Ann: No Shame, No Fear
Book Number: 39188
Walker 2003 8vo. Softcover. 297pp. Very good. no marks. A young Quaker girl and the son of a wealthy merchant face intolerance and persecution in this gripping historical novel that evokes the passion and idealism of young love. Don't cry. We won't be parted. I promise. It is 1662, and England is reeling from the aftereffects of civil war, with its clashes of faith and culture. Susanna, a young Quaker girl, leaves her family to become a servant in town. Seventeen-year-old Will returns home after completing his studies to begin an apprenticeship arranged by his wealthy father. Susanna and Will meet and fall in love, but can their bond survive. no matter what? Theirs is a story that speaks across the centuries, telling of love and the fight to stay true to what is most important, in spite of parents, society, and even the law.
Keywords: novel in 1600's
Price: $15.00 |
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| Cox, J. Randolph (Compiler): Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels
Book Number: 40886
Penguin Classics June 26, 2007 8vo softcover 384pp very good. Uncorrected proof. A one-of-a-kind compendium of popular fiction from a bygone era. Dime novels —as fundamentally American as baseball and jazz—were an inexpensive and inexhaustible source of popular entertainment for millions of Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The five novels in this unique anthology are classic examples of the form, which encompassed Westerns, early science fiction, detective and mystery yarns, and Revolutionary War historicals. From the handsome gambler “Dashing Diamond Dick” and the daring inventor in “Over the Andes with Frank Reade, Jr., in His New Air-Ship” to the mythic baseball player in “Frank Merriwell’s Finish,” here are some of the most valiant heroes and notorious rogues in the pantheon. Read together, these novels are fascinating time capsules from a young nation in love with its larger-than-life characters.
Keywords: adventure stories Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels Cox J Randolph (Compiler)
Price: $12.00 |
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| Freeman, Gillian: His Mistress's Voice
Book Number: 41207
Arcadia Books January 1, 1999 8vo softcover 276pp very good. In her tenth novel, Freeman vividly recreates the Victorian theatre world and counterpoises this life of frivolity and artifice with the position of Jews-both rich and poor-in the wider society. About the Author Gillian Freeman is a novelist and film script writer whose books include The Leather Boys and Confessions of Elizabeth von S.
Keywords: His Mistress's Voice Freeman Gillian
Price: $15.00 |
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| Sandys, Elspeth: Riding to Jerusalem
Book Number: 41298
Hodder Moa Beckett 1996 8vo softcover 296pp very good. po inscription on half-title.
Keywords: Riding to Jerusalem Sandys Elspeth
Price: $18.00 |
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| Hickey, Elizabeth: The painted kiss
Book Number: 41394
Sydney Hodder Headline Australia 2005 8vo softcover 270pp very good. In the tradition of bestsellers such as Girl with a Pearl Earring and Girl in Hyacinth Blue, this is an atmospheric and sensual fiction debut about the lifelong affair between Austrian artist Gustav Klimt and his muse, the couturier Emilie Flšge. Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafés, grand opera houses and a thriving and adventurous artistic community. It was there that twelve-year-old Emilie Flšge met the controversial libertine and painter Gustav Klimt. Hired by her father, a Viennese businessman, to give her some art lessons, Klimt provided Emilie with an education that Mr Flšge would never have dreamed of when he introduced her to the world of struggling artists, models and rich patrons.
The Painted Kiss follows the developing relationship between the moody, brilliant Klimt and Emilie, who blossoms from a naïve young girl to a sanguine woman, becoming an acclaimed fashion designer and mistress to one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating artists. The Painted Kiss is a passionate love story that is as sensual and compelling as a work by Klimt himself.
Keywords: The painted kiss Hickey Elizabeth
Price: $15.00 |
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| Jackson, Mick: The Undeground Man
Book Number: 41607
MacMillan July 1998 8vo softcover 268pp very good. remainder mark on page bottoms. The novel takes the form of journal entries interspersed with eyewitness accounts from servants and neighbors. The "Underground Man" portrayed in the novel, William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott, the Duke of Portland and a resident of Nottinghamshire, England, is mightily eccentric; the man was real (1800-1879), as was his eccentricity. Historical fact: the Duke commissioned eight tunnels on his estate. Present-day fact: if you walk the estate today, you see the skylights--2' in diameter and 4" thick. But why did he build them? In the last few days of the Duke's life, eccentricity burgeons; madness follows. The reader learns that his odd view of the world was shaped by early tragedy, the full truth of which is withheld until the last few pages. The Underground Man is that most delectable blend of fact and fiction, one in which the intriguing details of a real life are richly explored through imagination. Through a fictional journal, Jackson constructs a portrait of William John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott, fifth Duke of Portland (d. 1879), a prodigious eccentric best known for the elaborate network of tunnels he built beneath his estate. The duke is portrayed as a repressed hypochondriac, an old man morbidly curious about the workings of his body and mind. During the months encompassed by the novel, he grows increasingly obsessed with the fleeting bits of memory that intrude upon his ruminations and hint at some horrific, long-buried secret. A prime example of the psychological bent of the contemporary British neo-Gothic novel, this first novel from a British filmmaker and teacher of creative writing explores the darker fringes of consciousness. A subdued, though peculiarly compelling, tale.
Keywords: Undeground Man the Jackson Mick
Price: $15.00 |
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| Zimler, Richard: The Last Kabbalist Of Lisbon
Book Number: 41986
Arcadia Books 1998 8vo softcover 318pp very good. PO name on ffl. Signed by Author on title page. A gripping l;iterary mystery set among se3cret Jews living in Lisbon in the sixteenth Century.
Keywords: The Last Kabbalist Of Lisbon Zimler Richard
Price: $35.00 |
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