Search Results: FICTION / Historical from Rainy Day Paperback Exchange

NY: Pocket/Cardinal Giant, 1957. Paperback. GOOD reading copy. Vintage Paperback. St. Paul.

Palmer, MA: Van Volumrs, 1995. (Signed -1st edition). Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - inscribed, signed and dated by author.

Hamburg: Verlag von F.F. Richter, 1884. Hardcover. VERY GOOD-. 3 volumes in one book (267, 244 and 241 pages, respectively). Tight, bright front cover, sunned spine, age-soiled back cover. Rubbed hinges and corners and slight softening of spine ends. Interior is basically clean with light age tanning and fingerprints on some pages. Elaborate tooled cover with blue and black backgrounds to contrasting designs with gilt designs and lettering. Patterned end papers and ink tracery on text block edges. A novel "by one of the most remarkable poets of the modern Austrian school" - "a finely-drawn description of the Periclean age…"

Montreal, PQ: Editions Fernand Pilon - Collection "Pages Oubliees", 1945. Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright, clean interior, faint age soil to exterior, square. Wear to bottom cover edge which overlapped the pages. Rough cut page edges. Cream covers with green lettering and art work. 259 pages, Text in French. "En 1725, un Francais nomme Rene, poussé par des passions et des malheurs, arriva a la Lousiane."

NY: Vintage/Random House, ©1951. Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for tiny chip on spine, and faint page yellowing. By Nobel prize winning author. "As a parable Barabbas is open to many interpretations. As a picture of a human soul, with or without parable, it is moving and convincing…"

Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche Verlag, 1930. Hardbound. FAIR. Tight, clean interior with faintest age tanning of pages, light age soil to cream-colored cloth covers has produced foxing, slight tilt. No dust jacket. Original promotional bookmark for this book included. Text in Old German (Fraktur). "A novel from the Vendeekriegen. (Battle of the royalist-minded Catholic peasants of the Vendée and neighboring departments against the republican revolutionary troops in the years 1793 to 1796)." 442 pages, 7.5x5" (19.2x12.3cm)

Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 1984. (1st edition). Trade Paperback. FINE. As new except for faint shelfwear. "the story of America's first white woman to travel the Santa Fe Trail from Independence, Missouri, to Chihuahua, Mexico - a distance of 1,300 miles…based on the trail journal of the heroine…" 120 pages. ISBN: 0865340420.

France: Mercure de France, 1958. Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, yellowed pages, some light stain to edges. Slight curl. Rubbed edges. Livre de Poche Historique 313. "Il y a dans Capitaines corageus des pages qui competent parmi les plus belles de la litterature maritime." Text in French. Migrated Books Template

Sao Paulo, Brasil: Gloral editora, 1985. Trade paperback. NEAR FINE. Tight, bright, age-soiled edges, square. Faint edgewear. Stranded on Madagascar, the mariner makes his way to the African mainland and finds great riches. Text in Portuguese. 197 pages

NY: Bantam, 1980. 1st Edition . Paperback. GOOD+. Reading copy. Tight, yellowed, clean, slight tilt. Covers worn and creased, corners shipped. "In a great and fabled age of treachery and debauchery, they rose above their searing shame to flee the fiery destruction of Sodom..." ISBN: 0553142496.

Paris, France: Editions J'ai lu, 1991. Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for small, faint surface crease on front cover. Cover photo of Kevin Costner from movie. Text in French. ISBN: 227722958X.

NY: Beagle, 1970. Paperback. NEAR FINE. Unread but has 5 marks on back cover possibly from being tied with strings. "Ireland 1796...Fired by the success of the revolution in France, the United Irishmen hatched a perilous plot - to over throw the Government."

London, UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1960. (reprint 1964). Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, age tanned pages, bright cover, clean, tilted. "something of the fairy-tale…full of the enchantment of goodness…"

Toronto, ONT: Bantam, 1988. 1st Edition. Paperback. FINE. As new except for bookstore stamp. Appears unread. "from the distant city of Babylon, a tormented son of this secret tribe is returning to Egypt. With him will come a sword, sharp and strong enough to liberate a land. But is the promised Deliverer nigh?" ISBN: 0553274597.

Toronto, ONT: Bantam, 1988. 1st Edition. Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for bookstore stamp and crease on spine. "from the distant city of Babylon, a tormented son of this secret tribe is returning to Egypt. With him will come a sword, sharp and strong enough to liberate a land. But is the promised Deliverer nigh?" ISBN: 0553274597.

Barcelona, Spain: Gran Reno #47 / Plaza & Janes, 1988. (2nd edition). Paperback. VERY GOOD+ /Fair DJ. As new except for faint stain at bottom of spine. Dust Jacket is clean and intact but has wear and tiny rips along top and bottom edges. "continua la saga de la familia Lavete durante los anos sesenta. La figura dominante de esta tetralogia (#1. Los immigrantes; #2 Segunda generation, #3, El sistema, #4 El legado) es Barbara Lavette, una mujer brillante y de talento..." 366 pages. Text in Spanish. ISBN: 8401909473.

Barcelona, Spain: Destinolobro(#124), 1980. Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for slight yellowing of pages and a few spots on spine. "una novela que describe la vida en Varsovia en las dramaticas semanas durante las cuales el Ejercito rojo esperraba tranquilamente en los suburbios de la ciudad a que las tropas alemanas acabaran con la resistencia poiaca." ISBN: 8423310922.

Barcelona, Spain: Editorial AHR, 1958. (Limited 1st edition). Hardbound. VERY GOOD/Good. Limited edition #2293 of 3000. Red cloth with gilt. Tight, clean interior with occasional light penciled notes on the 1st 33 pages. Cloth cover is faded, spine ends are softened, exterior page edges are age soiled, interior paper is yellowed and interior endpaper hinges are cracked. DJ is intact but yellowed, age soiled and missing pieces at top and bottom of spine and corners. Still contains advertising postcard from the publisher. Text in Spanish. "centra su accion en el Cadiz convulso de los dias que precedieron a la revolucion de 1868"

Mexico: Collecion Austral (#108)/ Espasa-Calpe, ©1940. (Sexta Edicion-1964). Paperback. VERY GOOD+/ Good DJ. Tight, tanned pages, clean, slight curl. DJ is intact but has light age soil and chipped and ripped edges. "esta obre de ambiente vivaz, en que se iluminan con el sol fuerte de aquellos paisajes. episodios de la vida mexicanos acaecidos entre 1861 y 1863...Yautepec es una poblacion de la tierra caliente, cuyo caserio se esconde en el bosque de verdura…" Melodrama...a triangle of an the honorable Indian, a haughty village maiden and a blue-eyed bandit with wonderful descriptions of Mexico in the 1860s. Text in Spanish. 147 pages, 7x4.5"(18x11.4cm).

Barcelona, Spain: Seix Barral, 1997. (11th edition, 1977). Trade Paperback. GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean, curled corner. Pencil underlining and occasional interlinear English words. "es un alucinante relato en la aventurosa corte real haitiana de Henry Cristophe…" 144 pages. Text in Spanish. ISBN: 8432230154.