Historical Fantasy

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that... Read more about this item

Sphere. Time Warner, 2006-02-06. paperback. Good. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

FSG, New York, 2000. 5th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light nicks at spine ends.Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the storyof that skilled in all ways of contending.the wanderer, harried for years on end,after he plundered the strongholdon the proud height of Troy.So begins Robert Fitzgerlad's magnificent translation of the Odyssey.If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's... Read more about this item

New York: Tor / A Tom Doherty Associates Book 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 0312854102 "Myth, magic, and mystery on the plains of the Old West..." 320 pp Fine copy in Fine jacket. clph

San Francisco, California: Mercury House. 1989.1st ed. 137pp. Near fine with light toning to pages in fine jacket. clphE

New York, N. Y., U. S. A.: Thomas Y Crowell, 1955. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/very good. Very Good in Very Good jacket A Love story that plays our in 1788 at the Constitutional Convention. zvery Good Dust Jacket designed by Harry Barton.

J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London, 1950 edition. Condition: Good, Green boards with gold lettering, slight edge wear and corner bumps, spine has slight nicks and slight bowing, light scuffing on covers. Previous owners inscription on inside front cover.Includes Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and 7 others. Includes the original photogravures by E.J. Sullivan.

Signet, New York. 20th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, light fading on covers.For the last 250 years people everywhere have enjoyed reading about Lemuel Gulliver's travels in the strange countries of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Here is a story to make you laugh - but to make you think, too. Swift's bitter and devastating satire.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/very good +. A Del Rey Book." [14], 384, [2] p.: map, genealogical tables; 22 cm. Black cloth spine with yellow spine title; black paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket with cover art by Michael Herring. "Book Club Edition" -- at lower edge of front dust jacket flap. "15083" at lower edge of back section of dust jacket. Former owner's embossed stamp on half title page. Contains 5 appendices: indices of characters and place names;... Read more about this item

Lincoln, NE: Iuniverse, Incorporated. 2002. First Edition Trade Paperback 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Prev owner address label to 1/2 title page (prev owner is science fiction author Paul Di Filippo) A fine unread copy. See Photos bx Science 17

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New York: St Martin's Press 1976 Hardcover. First US edition. Fantasy novel about Britain after the Romans leave and the last Druid's plans to unite the clans, 227 pages. Near Fine copy with a hint of bumping to the spine ends in Fine Dust Wrapper. See Photos clphE

L.C. Page and Company , Boston, Ma. 1900 Early Edition 303 plus publishers Ads . Hardcover lacking the dust jacket with illustrations by Gilbert James A good only copy with edge wear, wear to the spine ends with a few tiny tears, hand soiling to the cloth else a tight and clean copy. See Photos pulp bx 2

Later Printing. Hardcover. Second impression. Fantastic adventure novel involving a secret South American city. Locke [A Spectrum of Fantasy, page 83 "Lost race adventure story of the finding of an Incan city in Brazil; standard fare remarkable mainly for being a particularly late specimen of its species"]. Reginald 05363. Orange cloth with gold gilt spine lettering/rules, top edge stained orange as issued, 270 pages. Very good copy with edge wear and corners bumped, contents tight and clean in Fair dust... Read more about this item

U.S.A.: Del Rey, 1989. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1ST. A Nice Reading Copy - Book Is In Very Good + Condition. Boards Have A Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear. Fore Edges Have A Small Amount Of Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Very Good + Condition. Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear/Rub. Tiniest Bit Of Wear Along The Edges. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Wrapper. Thanks And Enjoy..

Penguin, New York. 12th paperback printing. Condition: Good, light edge and corner wear, creasing at corners, light scuffing on covers, faint creasing at rear cover.This famous treatise on statecraft holds such power to shock men of goodwill that at one time Machiavelli was identified with Satan himself. In his own turbulent times, however, Machiavelli was concerned, not with lofty ideals, but with government that would last. He drew on his own experience of office under the Florentine Republic. Here he... Read more about this item

Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.
The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known and to a centuries-long quest... Read more about this item

Dutton, New York, 2002. First edition. Condition: Near fine in near fine minus dust jacket. Dust jacket has some edge wear,From the publisher: In a remarkable and completely stirring epic, Spinka unfolds a haunting and unforgettable novel and vividly brings to life a heroine whose journey across North America into Greenland brings her full circle wit a destiny she cannot avoid.A towering saga of adventure and survival, love and loss, Picture Maker brings the fourteenth century to life.from the Iroquois... Read more about this item

New York, N. Y., U. S. A.: Pocket Books, 1995. Advanced Reading Copy.. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good in Not Issued jacket Advanced Reading Copy (ARC) Advance reading Copy, A Pocket Books Lead Title for 1995; Book in very good condition, clean and tight with name Margurite written inside end page. Numbers written inside back end page as if somone added bills. RARE ADVANCE COPY.

West Kingston: Donald M. Grant Publisher Inc 1983 Hardcover 0937986585 First edition thus. Trade edition. This copy has been signed "Donald M. Grant" by the publisher on the title page Volume two in a series of three books that chronicle the exploits of Sir Hugh and the sword, Durandal. 191+ pages, illustrated. Near Fine copy very light top edge foxing and dust soiling in Fine Dust Wrapper.bx207

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. First Edition, 5th Printing. Hardcover with Black and Red Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. A lovely square, clean and tight near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket which is well-protected by a Brodart cover. Signed by the author on the title page and includes a post card advertising the book and signing events schedule. A beautiful signed first edition for your collection!

RI, Donald M. Grant Publisher, 1981. First Trade Edition Volume one in a series of three books that chronicle the exploits of Sir Hugh and the sword, Durandal. 156 pages, illustrated. Fine copy in Near fine jacket with a tiny spot of foxing to the top edge near the spine gutter. See Photos
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Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company 1934. First edition. Black cloth with orange lettering/decoration, top edge stained orange as issued, 347 pages. Bleiler [1978 Checklist, page 40 coded j for Historical fiction with fantastic elements]. Very good copy with spine cocked and lightly bumped at the ends in Fai jacket that is worn, torn chipped and split into two separate pieces along the front spine edge. See photos bx267

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. The slightest of edge nicks on dust jacket else fine.From the publisher: When a private envoy of the queen and member of Lord Carmichael's discreet service goes missing, Balfour and Meriwether are asked to look into the affair. They will find a labyrinth of dreams, horrors from hell, prophecy, sexual perversion and an abandoned farmhouse on the moors outside Harrowmoor Sanitarium. The Earth itself will bare its... Read more about this item

2005. 1. HARDCOVER . VERY GOOD /LIKE NEW . LIKE NEW

Harper, New York, 2005. First edition. Condition: Very good, edge wear and bumps on corners, spine creasing, slight previous price sticker residue on front cover.From the publisher: From the bestselling author of Chocolat and Coastlines comes a novel of love and betrayal, friendship and revenge, set in 17th-century France.