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Creature Comforts

By: Stirling, Jessica

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Pan: 1987

Seller ID: 9256

ISBN: 0330297244

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

384pp, the edges browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers with a scrape mark to the front. Faint bookseller's stamp to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Elspeth's marriage
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Kit's Hill

By: Stubbs, Jean

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Pan: 1980

Seller ID: 9302

ISBN: 0330259555

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

286pp, browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers. A clean, tight Near Fine copy. The first of the Howarth books, set in Lancashire
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The Daisy Chain

By: Sully, Sue

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Knight: 2000

Seller ID: 10112

ISBN: 1840671912

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: As New

374pp, softback covers by Gary Blythe. A very clean, tight copy. Liz investigates her ancestor's life in the 1920s - and influences her own life
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Daughter of the Norsemen

By: Sylva, Ann

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Sylva: 1993

Seller ID: 13828

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

152pp, illustrated softback covers. A note to the reader handwritten by the author on the final page, otherwise very clean. A story for young people, set in Yorkshire in 1305.
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Time's Lost Hero

By: Tanton, Bruce

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Hodder: 1990

Seller ID: 7307

ISBN: 0340521767

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

102pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket by Joan Saint, a little rubbed to top of spine. One small mark to flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. Time travel - A student finds himself at the siege of Ladysmith in the Boer War.
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The History Of Henry Esmond

By: Thackeray, W M

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Nelson: 1111

Seller ID: 4671

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Gift inscription on flyleaf dated 1942. Pocket sized. 556pp, green cloth covered boards. Internally very clean. Part of the Nelson's Classics series.
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon A Romance of The Last Century

By: Thackeray, William Makepeace

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Llandudno, A H Bunney: 1111

Seller ID: 15950

Binding: Printer Wrapper

Condition: Fair

Probably late nineteenth century. 277pp, dark red cloth covered boards with gilt title, marked and rubbed to the edges of the spine. The boards have been bound in upside down! Gutter strengthened with tape, but the text is clean - a good 'reading copy' . Printed by Richard King in London for sale by a bookseller of Mostyn Street Llandudno, and offered as a rare curiosity.
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The Illustrated Still Glides The Stream

By: Thompson, Flora

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Bracken Books Cresset Press: 1992

Seller ID: 13805

ISBN: 0091772249

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A tall, heavy book of 233pp. Complete dustjacket, a little faded to spine. Full page colour illustrations. Ex library - evidenced only by light mark on flyleaf where label removed and plain label to inner back board. The book is otherwise clean, with no stamps or other markings. Life in the fictional village of Restharrow in Oxfordshire, around 1897 - by the author of 'Lark Rise'.
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Where The Rivers Meet

By: Thorne, Nicola

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Granada Panther: 1985

Seller ID: 9404

ISBN: 0583130526

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

604pp, the edges browning a litttle wth age, illustrated softback covers by Nigel Chamberlain.Original owner's initial on flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. Margaret transforms the family business.
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Morality Play

By: Unsworth, Barry

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton: 1995

Seller ID: 5906

ISBN: 0241133416

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

1st edition, sixth issue. 188pp, complete dustjacket. A very clean copy. Nicholas Barber joins a group of travelling players, and a murder mystery is enacted, set in the fourteenth century.
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Salome The Wandering Jewess My First Two Thousand Years of Love

By: Viereck, George Sylvester and Eldridge, Paul

Price: £15.50

Publisher: Horace Liveright: 1930

Seller ID: 15290

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. 495pp, purple cloth covered boards, with silver title and vignette illustration, now faded to spine and with a couple of light marks to edges. Gift inscription to flyleaf, damp mark to margin of a couple of the preliminary pages, light small spots of foxing to foredge, othewise internally clean. A very good 'reading copy' of the true first edition.
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Jeremy and Hamlet

By: Walpole, Hugh

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Macmillan: 1935

Seller ID: 12216

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Cottage Library Edition. 288pp, the paper now browned with age, blue leatherette covered boards with curved edges and faded gilt title. Gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean.
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Sinuhe Der Agypter Roman Funfzehn Bucher Aus Dem Leben Des Artzes Sinuhe Ungefahr 1390 Bis 1335 Vor Christi Geburt

By: Waltari, Mika

Price: £6.50

Publisher: IM Bertelsmann Lesering: 1959

Seller ID: 15741

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

German text. 701pp, paper covered hardback covers with Ancient Egytian illustration. The grey leather spine with gilt title is a little rubbed to the ends. Ribbon bookmark. A couple of small light foxmarks to foredge, otherwise internally very clean. Originally published in Finnish.
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Tamburlaine Must Die

By: Welsh, Louise

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Canongate: 2005

Seller ID: 13955

ISBN: 184195604X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Fine

151pp, illustrated softback covers. A clean, tight, copy. Set in London in 1593, the last days of Christopher Marlowe.
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Blanche

By: Wendorf, Patricia

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Futura: 1987

Seller ID: 9408

ISBN: 0708828612

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

504pp, the edges browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers with creases to corners, otherwse a clean, tight copy. Blanche sets out to conquer nineteenth century London
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Proud Conquest

By: Wensby-Scott, Carol

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Michael Joseph: 1979

Seller ID: 2973

ISBN: 0718117557

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

239pp, complete dustjacket a little sun darkened to spine. Internally very clean. The story of Matilde, who married William the Conqueror.
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The House of the Wolf A Romance

By: Weyman, Stanley

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co: 1895

Seller ID: 14801

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

278pp, marroon cloth covered boards with silver title, a little rubbed to ends of spine. B + w frontispiece illlustration by Charles Kerr, with tissue guard. Vignette illustration to title page. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, a few small light spots of foxing, otherwise clean. Historical adventure story, set in France in 1572.
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The Caretaker Wife

By: Whitehead, Barbara

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 1978

Seller ID: 10872

ISBN: 0385127782

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

204pp, complete dustjacket. Gift inscription from author, otherwise internally very clean. A difficult romance for Caroline, set in Regency England
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Revolt Against The Rain God

By: Whitman, Edmund S

Price: £5.00

Publisher: World's Work Ltd: 1967

Seller ID: 4074

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st UK edition. 157pp, complete dustjacket by Alfred Whiteley, a little faded to top edge. Previous owner's name stamp on flyleaf, otherwise clean. Historical story for children, set in Mayan Mexico.
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The Moated Manor

By: Whittle, Norah M

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Arnold: 1965

Seller ID: 4607

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

128pp, priceclipped dustjacket is otherwise complete. Gift inscription on inner board, a few tiny spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. Children's adventure - a story of Cavaliers and Roundheads.
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Category: Historical Fiction