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The Historian
by Kostova- Elizabeth
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...
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Emma
by Jane Austen
Emma is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1815. The story follows the life of Emma Woodhouse, a wealthy and beautiful young woman who lives in the English countryside. Emma fancies herself as a matchmaker and sets out to find a suitable husband for her friend Harriet Smith. However, her attempts to play cupid lead to several misadventures, including a love triangle involving her own romantic interests. As the story unfolds, Emma learns important lessons about humility, love, and the consequences of...
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Blue Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators who also retold many of the tales. The collection has been incalculably important and, although he did not source the stories himself direct from the oral tradition he can make claim to the first English translation of...
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The Viceroy Of Ouidah
by Bruce Chatwin
In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.
The Shelters Of Stone
by Jean M Auel
Jean M. Auel is an international phenomenon. Her Earth's Children® series has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide and includes The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, and The Land of Painted Caves. Her extensive research has earned her the respect of archaeologists and anthropologists around the world. She has honorary degrees from four universities and was honored by the French government's Ministry of Culture with...
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The House Of the Dead
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Dostoyevsky was sentenced to 4 years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp. Years later, he developed this semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to penal servitude for murdering his wife. This haunting and remarkable work ranks amoung Dostoyevsky's greatest masterpieces.
Historical Fantasy Books & Ephemera
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Tiime Warner, 2006. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Book No Inscriptions. Tightly Bound. 704 pages. Item Type: Book. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0751537284. ISBN/EAN: 9780751537284. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 019787. . 9780751537284
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€1.18
Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
Harvest/Harcourt, 2003. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good edge wear and corner bumps, bottom edge has small tears, spine crease and nicks.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 fantastical story.Born a...
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€3.43
Half the World (Shattered Sea) Hardcover ¨C February 17, 2015
by Abercrombie., Joe
HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE & AUTHOR SIGNED," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st. UK. * Date of Publication: 2015 * Publisher: HarperCollins Voyager. * Binding and cover condition: Grey cloth covered boards, metallic blue title title to spine only. Very slight bump to lower front corner, no rubs. Very small mark at head of spine. No other visible faults. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a fantastic wave and a Viking boat. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf...
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€58.53
The Historian
by Kostova, Elizabeth
Boston: Little, Brown and Company (2005), 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Large 8vo. [8], ix-x, [2], 3-642, [4] pp. Quarter red cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $25.95 on the front flap of the jacket. A small concavity to the spine.
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€26.47
Downfall of the Gods
by K. J. Parker
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed, numbered, and limited edition; number 766 of 1000 copies.A goddess has to do what a goddess has to do.And in World Fantasy Award winner K.J. Parker's sharply inventive new novella Downfall of the Gods that means everything from soothing supernatural egos to accompanying the argumentative Lord Achias on an epic quest to save his soul...and get her own way.
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€41.53
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Condition: Good minus, red leather binding, gold title on spine, corner bump and spine edge wear, slight ungluing of spine but book still holds together, no dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on inside front cover, writing and underlining on interior pages.An interesting edition from Woolworth's Library circa 1913 based on the previous owner's inscription.After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in...
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€3.43
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Penguin, New York. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing at corners, spine has creases and small tear at bottom edge, price sticker on rear cover.In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, the compelling characters...
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€1.73
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Little Brown & Company, 2009. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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€5.71
The Historian
by Kostova, Elizabeth
Little, Brown & Company, 2005. Later Printing . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dj Has Very Light Edgewear With Light Liquid Soiling. Light Wear. Very Light Soiling. Page Edges Are Tanned.
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€10.40
Achilles: A Novel
by Elizabeth Cook
Picador, New York, 2003. First edition. Condition: Very good plus softcover, light edge nicks and creasing at spine.From the publisher: Born of god and king and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters among them Hector, Helen, Penthiselaia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared...
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€3.43
The Silver Oar
by Howard Breslin
Perma Books, Montreal, 1956. 2nd printing. Condition: Good plus, slight corner creasing and edge nicks, spine has wear and nicks, back cover has bookstore stamps. 2nd printing.He fought for her virtue so he could have her for himself. Pirates and buccaneers oh my.
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€1.38
The Historian
by KOSTOVA, Elizabeth
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed on the titlepage and additionally very warmly Inscribed by Kostova on the dedication page to her fellow author and mentor Nicholas Delbanco: "and for Nicholas, cherished mentor, great reader of this book, with endless thanks, Elizabeth. May 2005." Delbanco taught creative writing at the University of Michigan where Kostova received her MFA and where she won the Hopgood Award, both of which...
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€378.08
Eugenie Grandet
by Honore de Balzac
Penguin Classics, New York, 1985. 11th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, faint crease along front cover, underlining, highlighting, and notes in ink on several pages."Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?"This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie Humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked...
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€1.73
The Golden Horn. Volume Two The Hound and the Falcon Trilogy
by Tarr, Judith
London: Bantam Press. 1986. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 271 pages. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.
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€8.65
The Orenda
by Joseph Boyden
Penguin, Toronto, 2014. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, slightly bowed, faint creases at spine.In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl's captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. Years have passed since the murder of his family, and yet they are never far from his mind. In the girl, Snow Falls, he...
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€4.81
The Harrowing of Gwynedd
by Katherine Kurtz
Del Rey NY 1990 pages. 3rd printing. Near fine unread condition with a trace of wear, light toning to inside covers and pages. See photos.Ref 27
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€10.21
The Harrowing Of Gwynedd: Signed
by Kurtz, Katherine
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1989. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1ST. Signed By Katherine Kurtz On The Title Page. Signature Only. Received In Person. A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Very Good + Condition. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Have A Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Dust Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition. Not Chipped Or Crinkled. Not Price Clipped. Dust Jacket Is Covered By Mylar Brodart. Thanks...
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€33.08
