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NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1921. Hardbound. VERY GOOD-. Tight, faint age tanning to pages, clean except for single light stain on pages 92,93,& 49, square. Owner's address label on first free page. Softened spine ends. Navy blue cloth with silver gilt titles. 346 pages. No dust jacket

London, UK: Coronet, 1990. (1st thus). Paperback. VERY GOOD+. As new except for faint ceasing to spine and front cover. Bookstore stamp. "Charlotte Bonnet is eleven when her family is forced to flee the religious persecution of 17th century France. The fishing boat taking them to England is crowded with Huguenot refugees..." ISBN: 0340509244.

Toronto, ONT: Bantam, 1986. 2nd printing. Paperback. FINE. As new except for bookstore stamp faint hinge crease. "a people without a nation, marked by fate with a secret passed from father to son - now join their special destiny to that of the true ruled of Egypt, exiled in the Upper Nile's land." ISBN: 0553268856.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1973. (1st thus). Paperback. GOOD. "The lusty novel of an English king (Charles Stuart - Charles II) and the women who wanted him. "Tight, yellowed, clean, slight tilt. Spine and cover creasing. Hinge rips at back top & bottom.

Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House. Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD. Tight, bright, clean and square (#8 has some curl). Spine exterior re-enforced with wide, clear tape. Church library stamp inside. #6 " He sought to escape a future he regarded with contempt." #7 (1556610696) " His wagon train was bull of brides to be. But he would never marry again, it was said." #8 (1556611099) "The war that separated the nation pitted Winslow against Winslow." from the end of the Revolution to the Civil war. Christian fiction ISBN: 1556610548.

Paris, France: livre de poche (#3125) / J.-C. Lattes, 1985. Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright, clean, slight curl to spine. Reading creases on spine and 1cm rip on bottom edge of spine hinge. "se presente comme la chronique d'une famille bourgeoise du Caire de 1917 a 1919, dans l'intimite quotidienne de la demeure d'Ahmed Abd el-Gawwad, un honorable commercant qui vend du riz, du cafe, des fruits secs et du savon et songe a se distraire plus souvent qu'a son tour..." Text in French. ISBN: 9782253050919.

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Coleccion Austral (421), 1944. (2nd edition). Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. The story of Don Juan of Austria. Appears unread. Tight, pages yellowed, clean for age, square. Slight wear to top and bottom of spine. Small crease on back bottom corner. Text in Spanish.

Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 2004. Trade Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for tiny crease to cover corners and a gift inscription on the first free page. Text in French. "Vingt annees, d'une vie d'esclave, avec le malheurs, les souffrances et les injustices qui les jalonnent. Puis,c'est la fin de la TRAITE. La liberte est retrouvee. " A novel of slavery that begins in Senegal in 1799 0.9

Barcelona, Spain: Plaza & Janes, 1996. (1st Spanish edition). Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! "continuation de las aventuras narradas en "Los hijos del Grial" y "Sangre de Reyes"… Original title "De Krone der Welt"

NY: Norton, 1944. Hardbound. NEAR FINE/None. "a story of the first Venezuelan War of Independence(Novel)" "Edited with introduction, notes, exercises and vocabulary by Donald Devenish Walsh, The Choate School" Text in Spanish. Wartime imprint. Tan cloth cover with maroon lettering. Tight, slightly yellowed pages, clean, square. Spine has some age soil and slight softening to ends.

Paris, France: Le Livre de poche (#876-877) / Grasset, 1962. Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for faint reading curl to spine. Winner of the French Academies grand prize for a novel in 1938. 434 pages. Text in French. ISBN: 05640155607.

Livre de Poche 5940, 2000. Paperback. GOOD+. Tight, tanned page edges, clean and square. Creased covers and spine. Owner's name on first free page. No other markings. "Elle avait vingt ans sous la Terreur, a Nantes. C'etait une jeune fille aux idees avancees. ...Un vrai roman d'adventures." Text in French . 359 pages plus Bibliographie.

NY: The Modern Student's Library/ Charles Scribner's Sons, ©1931. (J-4.58{V}). Hardbound. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright, clean, faint tilt. Slight softening to spine ends. Occasional underlining. Owner's name on first free page. Introduction by Paul Hazard. Notes by Louis Landre. Introduction and text in French. Notes in English. Red cloth with gilt. 568 pages (6.75x4.25").

France. Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean and square. 2 folded page corners, corner crease on front cover and owner's name on first free page. " une longue et belle histoire, qui traverse les cinquante dernières années en passant par Beyrouth, Haïfa et la France, mêlant la Résistance et le conflit israélo-arabe. Ossyane, venu du Liban et qui, par le hasard de ses études à Paris, devient un héros de la Résistance..." Text in French. 0.6

Paris, France: Pierre Belfond, ©1985. (signed). Oversize Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! Text in French. ISBN: 2714417426.

Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt, 1973. Paperback. GOOD+. Tight, yellowed clean, curled. ISBN: 3499116359.

Toronto, ONT: Bantam, 1984. 1st Edition . Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, slight page yellowing, clean, slight skew. Creasing and edgewear to exterior. "To them belonged the secret skill that could halt the fearsome desert warriors advancing inexorably toward the green oasis of the Nile." ISBN: 0553241141.

NY: Duell, Sloan & Pierce, 1949. (1st edition). Hardbound. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright, clean and square. Light age soil to exterior page edges and endpapers. Claret cloth covers with gilt lettering. Softened spine ends. Dust jacket is present and unclipped but age soiled with rubbed folds and tattered top and bottom edges. Lending library stamp on first free page, but no other library markings. "Eleven generations of Marshals lie buried within a hundred miles of my birthplace, Mt. Airy., North Carolina, a mountain town near the Virginia border. Until I was thirteen...I had never traveled a greater distance than thirty miles..." 1.0

NY: Bantam(#43), 1946. (1st Paperback). Paperback. VERY GOOD . Tight, binding, unmarked, age tanned pages. Lowell Thomas wrote about the book: "By the 33,000,000 gods of India, this is the finest thing ever done about the mysteious and fabulous Hindutan by a writer of the West. I have read several hundred books on India and this surpasses them all."

Toronto, ONT: Bantam, 1986. 1st Edition. Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean, slight curl. Small corner bump, light creasing to spine. "their secret skills put them in the vanguard of a desperate army besieged on both flanks. Swearing allegiance to Egypt's last Pharaoh, they gird themselves against famine and attacking forces from both north and south." ISBN: 0553258729.