Search Results: Historical Fiction from Minotavros Books

a la Haye: I. van Cleef, 1801. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo (small). Second edition. Quarter contemporary calf leather title and number labels to spine, paper boards. clx, 124; 250 pp. Fold-out map at rear. Light staining to boards, light wear to corners. Some light staining and yellowing to fore edges of text block. Vol. 1 lacks ffep. Pencil notation to endpapers. Originally published in 1788, this is one of the first historical fiction novels.

Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Blue paper boards. 102 pp. Dust jacket is lightly sunned to spine, a few light spots of soiling. Else fine. "Imagine the infant Christopher Columbus vaulting out of his cradle, striking his head on the world, and spawning his megalomaniacal wanderlust. Thus Robert Finley begins his exquisite prose poem...a fantasy of precise language and provocative imagery." Dava Sobel, from rear cover.

Convent Garden, London: Putnam, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Light blue-grey cloth, ix, 382pp. Frontispiece. Name on ff/ endpaper, a small soil on outer margin on pp. 6, boards are somewhat sunned with bruising to top right corner, but o/w a very good copy in d/w. Jacket darkened and chipped with loss to spine ends and top edge of front cover but still a good cover. This historical novel is set in the backdrop of 5th Century Greece, following the life and adventures of Alcibiades, Pericles foster son.

London: The Folio Society, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Grey cloth, black stamped vignettes to boards. 144 pp. [7] plate illustrations, incl. frontis. Spine and boards sunned. Light offsetting from plates to facing papes. In blue paper-backed slipcase with some light edge wear. Near fine overall. Conrad's first novel, Almayer's Folly follows the life of Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his daughter Nina.

Toronto: The Musson Book Company. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. [N.d., ca. 191-?] Orig. teal publisher's cloth, gilt titles and decoration to boards. xi, 599 pp. Slight bowing to front board. Some spots of very light rubbng, one small white spot and a few small boBookseller label of D.T. McAinsh & Co., Toronto to front pastedown.

New York: P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. xi, 388 p.p. Red pebbled cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamping to front. Light bumping and rubbing to psine ends, else fine. Small damp stains to fore edge, creasing to edges of some pages. Hinge cracked at half title. The story of a man with an unattainable dream:- a chronological novel, beginning with David's father, Josiah Condit, and his setting out with his wife for a mission in China, on a clipper ship in 1861, and continuing to David's loss of his dream of China with America's entry into the war. It is primarily David's story, and that of the three women he loved, of his children, and of a life of adjustment to demands superimposed by his family.

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pictorial paper boards. 531 pp. From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel's Game - a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love. Fine in fine jacket.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full black paper boards. 311 pp. Fine. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a literary spellbinder - a timeless work of art and a revelatory journey. It is Ondaatje's finest novel date, and confirms his reputation as one of the world's foremost writers.

Montreal: VLB Editeur, 2004. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo (tall). Bonheur de Lecture. Two volumes. Text in French. Au Nom du Pere: 859 pp. Le Sorcier: 559 pp. Fine condition in near fine slipcase. A collection of two Canadian historical fiction novels set in Quebec.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full blue cloth. Map endpapers. 440 pp. Spine sunned. Front hinge starting. Dust jacket sunned to spine and flaps, light edge wear, a few short tears, one small perforation to foot of spine, chips to corners.

New York: Panrheon Books, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 493 p.p. Cloth. Translated to English by Hyams, Edward. Nicks throughout edges of dust-jacket, loss to spine end. Browning to dust-jacket. Rubbing to corners, extremities. Discolouration to boards. Hinges loose. Previous owner's inscription to endpaper. Overall, a near fine copy of book.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. SIGNED by author to title page. Orig. brown cloth. 148 pp. Dust jacket age toned, else fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo. Orig. black cloth with orange lettering. 254 pp. Spine tilted and sunned. Stain to tail edge of text block.

New York: The Modern Library, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. [World's Best Books Series No. 41] xiv, 746 p.p. [7] p.p. ads. Tears to jacket edges, extremities with some scoring and wear to covers. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Small tear to tail of jacket spine and small chip at head. Inner jacket yellowed with list of Modern library classics. Light rubbing to edges. Spine ends slightly bruised. Pages lightly yellowed. Light offsetting to p.p. 180-181. Else a very good copy.

Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 18mo. St. Martin's Classics. Arranged for school reading and with Introduction, Notes, and Questions. Orig green paper boards. xiv, 377 pp. Spine and front fore edge sunned, small bruise to spine head. Damp staining to lower margins of pp. xi-xiii.

New York: Harcourt Inc, 2000. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Teal paper boards. 521 pp. Fine overall. It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own magical story.

Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo. Full grey cloth, aqua titling to spine. Top edge aqua. Pictorial endpapers. 256 pp. Minor bumping to spine ends. Light bumping and age toning to extremities of dust jacket. Else fine. An historical novel set amidst the backdrop of the American Revolution in Cherry Valley, New York.

Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full green paper boards, gilt stamped birch tree vignette to front board and spine. xii, 447 pp. Fine condition. Award-winning author Budge Wilson brings young Anne of Avonlea vibrantly to life in this highly anticipated and fully authorized and fully authorized prequel to the much-loved Anne of Green Gables.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Gift edition. Tan and hunter green paper boards. 324 pp. Spine foot bumped. Fine dust jacket with original price sticker to rear and movie tie-in half sleeve. Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize winning novel, first published in 1987, brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Gift edition. Tan and hunter green paper boards. 324 pp. Some light scuffing to spine ends. Else fine. Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize winning novel, first published in 1987, brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad.