Resultados de búsqueda: Historical Novels from TBCL The Book Collection Library

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Varaday, Desmond. DOVE OF ISHTAR: The Story of Semiramis. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1967. Publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt at the spine. 8vo., 277pp. A fine copy in a very good or better dustwrapper with a couple of very tiny chips at the spine crown. A very uncommon title. "Semiramis was a famous Assyrian Princess, who reigned over Babylon for forty-two years and laid the foundation in 800 BC for Assyria's later ascendancy as a world power". Her legends were fabulous.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fleischmann, Glen. WHILE RIVERS FLOW. An Historical Novel. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1963. Publisher's red cloth stamped gilt to the spine. A fine fresh copy in like price clipped John Lathey designed dustwrapper, a hint of fade to the spine panel, hardly noticable. An excellent example of this novel of the expulsion of the Cherokee Nation. "In the 1830s America was a small country crushed against her eastern seaboard, but already the land-hungry South was pressing westward and the Cherokee Nation - a settled, civilised, prosperous people whose territory was secured to them by treaty - was in the way. The people of Georgia clamoured for a new treaty which compelled the Cherokees to remove west of the Mississippi. Against this historical background - one of the bitterest stains on the history of the United States - Glen Fleischmann has written a powerful and dramatic novel: the story of… Leer más

New York: Appleton, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ertz, Susan. THE PROSELYTE. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1933. 8vo., 359pp. First Edition. A fine, fresh copy in excellent dustwrapper showing 1 small chip at the rear upper tip. An interesting tale of young Mormon proselytizer in England, who converts an Englishwoman of remarkable courage, marries & brings her to Utah. A remarkable copy.

New York: Random House, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Borowsky, Marvin. THE QUEEN'S KNIGHT. New York: Random House, 1955. 8vo., 372pp. First Edition, First Printing of the author's His first book. Dustwrapper wraparound 'Camelot' art by Tracy Sugarman. Black blind-stamped cloth binding, gold titles. A fine fresh copy in dustwrapper showing a touch of wear. An excellent example of this historical novel based on the stories of King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table.

London: Elek Books, (1958), 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Villeboeuf, Andre. GOYA AND GUITARS. London, Elek Books, (1958). First edition. Translated by John Branko. Illustrated with the author's sketches. A fine example in black lettered red cloth in a fine fresh dustwrapper. With 4 b/w illustrations and colour dustwrapper artwork by Villeboeuf who is a noted French painter & book illustrator. This book is 'A gifted painter's account of what Spain, its art and architecture have meant to his own work over a long period of years.' Superior example.

New York: Dutton/Lodestar, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Inscribed by the author to the title-page. A fine copy in 1/4 beige cloth over cinnamon paper covered boards, black titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 199 pp. First appearing as a short story in The New Yorker, winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, this first novel is a unique exploration of the quest for political freedom.

Vancouver: Mitchell Press, (1978), 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition. 8vo. A fine copy in dustwrapper with a couple of tiny closed tears. INSCRIBED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY BEN WEIDER. In what could come to be rated for its history-changing implications, the most significant homicide detection story ever wr itten, Dr. Sten Forshgufvud, & Ben Weider, an authority on Napoleon, here gives discovered evidence in startling detail on the cause of the Emperor's death. An excellent copy of an uncommon title.