Historical Fiction from Minotavros Books

Toronto: Mclelland & Stewart, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Black & White cloth, 246pp. About fine. A Jesuit Priest, on a mission deep in the Canadian wilderness in 17th century New France, with equal regions of terror and heroism in the face of the Algonkian peoples.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Travis, Stuart. 16mo. SIGNED, with pasted down signature to ffep. Orig. tan publisher's cloth. T.E.G. xii, 311 pp. [4] B&W lithographed plates. Light bumping to spine ends, light chafing to extremities. Some foxing to interior and plates. Pencil ownership inscription to head of title page. Crack to… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Quarter navy cloth, navy paper boards. 377 pp. Slight crease and tilting to spine, fading to spine ends. Dust jacket is sunned to extremities with offset panels, age toned to flaps, a few short tears.

London: Picador, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Black paper boards. 312 pp. Some bumping to edges, faint red mark to fore edge of text block. Faint age toning starting to interior. Else fine. Cover art is L'Homme au Gant by Titian.

Ilfracombe & Devon: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full tan cloth. 224 pp. Near fine overall, no major defects.

New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full blue paper boards. 259 pp. Spine tilted, extremities lightly rubbed. Some toning to interior. Light foxing to edges of text block.

London: Harper Collins, 1991. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED with inscription to title page. Full burgundy paper. 235 pp. Interior age toned. Else fine.

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… Read more about this item

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1940. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Second edition revised, limited edition, #430/500, this copy not signed. Brown and green cloth. 66 pp. B&W frontis, folding map at rear. Roughly cut edges. Bookplate to ffep. Light wear to turn it at foot of inside front board.

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.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2006. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter brown paper, russet paper boards. 267 pp. Fine.

Ilfracombe & Devon: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full blue cloth. 159 pp. Spine darkened, small spots of staining to rear board. Dust jacket lightly bumped to extremities, damp stained to rear cover.

Ilfracombe & Devon: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full tan cloth. 224 pp. Spine darkened, small spots of staining to rear board. Dust jacket rubbed to covers, light bumping to extremities, damp stained to rear cover.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Black paper boards. 298 pp. From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Reprint of the reprint edition of 1944, 1st edition 1943. Orig. tan cloth. 153 pp. Dust jacket is price clipped and cropped to flaps, rubbed and bumped to extremities. This simple true story of a Navy doctor from Arkansas,… Read more about this item

New York City: Random House, 1936. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 18mo. Orig. brown cloth. 174 pp. Spine cocked. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar. Dust jacket is age toned, small round stain to front cover, small perforation to upper rear joint. A fiery novel of the escape of a communist prisoner in from a Nazi concentration camp.… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. green paper boards. 250 pp. Soiling to top edge. Bump to spine foot. Dust jacket is age toned, lightly soiled, light bumping and short tears to extremities.

London: The Bodley Head, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. teal paper boards. 188 pp. Bump to spine foot. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, lightly edge worn, some creasing and one short tear to head of rear cover.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. red paper boards. 302 pp. Interior slightly age toned. Dust jacket is age toned, bumped to extremities, short open tear with creasing to tail edge of front cover.

London: E.H. Wells. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. The "Farringdon" Classics. N.d., [ca. 1890s-1901 per bookplate]. Orig. blue calf. Recently professionally rebacked, orig. backstrip laid down to cloth. Gilt armorial device of Oakfield School, Crouch End. Marbled tail edge and endpapers. xiv, 562 pp. Illustrated with original illustrations, engravings in text. Damp staining to boards, sunning to edges… Read more about this item