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London UK: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0340936851 . Slight lean; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 340 pages; "Jamie Ballantyne and Artemis King were never meant to fall in love. The feud between their families has run for three generations." .

Toronto: The Musson Book Company Ltd.. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1930. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show shelf wear, with DJ having heavy chipping, soiling, tears and missing portions front, back and spine. Sun-faded on spine. Previous owner's name on half-title page. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Bookseller sticker on back pastedown ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 640 pages .

London: Hutchinson. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. 1st UK. Hardcover. 0091509602 . Light chipping of extremities; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pages; WWII Africa is the site of this action packed novel. An explosive action-packed war drama: four British soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in British Somaliland and when they decide to utilise a secret arms dump in the Bur Yi hills and fight a rearguard action, an unlikely alliance is sought between two local warring tribes. What follows is an amazing mission led by the brilliant, elusive Harkaway, whose heart is stolen by a missionary when she becomes mixed up in the unorthodox band of warriors. .

London UK: Hodder & Stoughton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0340936886 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 338 pages; "Much as Harry Flint tries to fight against the beliefs of his pupils, there are times when he wonders if they are right. With a failed marriage behind him, he sets about changing his own life and researching that of his ancestors. How can the mysterious disappearance of Anne Flint in 1816 and the drowning of a young girl in the chalk stream when the Prince Regent occupied the throne possibly affect him? " .

London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1976. 1st UK. Hardcover. 0701121955 . Price clipped DJ has sticker damage on front flap causing some loss of print, gift notation on FFEP, spine faded, light edge wear, some soil to back panel of DJ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 340 pages .

London: Hutchinson. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0091680905 . Boards and DJ show light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8.27 X 5.12 X 1.57 inches; 466 pages; "Sean Mulrenan is an Anglo-Irish piano player and adventurer in Hong Kong. His mistress is Alice Soon, half-Chinese, ex-prostitute. It is 1937, and war is about to upset the complex rituals of the colonials. Sean becomes rich in the black market and flees to India. Alice retreats to neutral Macao and waits out the war. Although events intrude on both, Booth is concerned with the factors by which they measure themselves. Alice uses adversity to become strong; Sean's Anglophobia and self-hatred eventually bring about his spectacular fall. This vivid picture of social expectations and self-realization should be an essential purchase for its penetrating visions of Europeans and Chinese." (Lib. Journal) .

London: Hutchinson. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0091680905 . Boards and DJ show light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8.27 X 5.12 X 1.57 inches; 466 pages; "Sean Mulrenan is an Anglo-Irish piano player and adventurer in Hong Kong. His mistress is Alice Soon, half-Chinese, ex-prostitute. It is 1937, and war is about to upset the complex rituals of the colonials. Sean becomes rich in the black market and flees to India. Alice retreats to neutral Macao and waits out the war. Although events intrude on both, Booth is concerned with the factors by which they measure themselves. Alice uses adversity to become strong; Sean's Anglophobia and self-hatred eventually bring about his spectacular fall. This vivid picture of social expectations and self-realization should be an essential purchase for its penetrating visions of Europeans and Chinese." (Lib. Journal) .

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0340499583 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Previous owner's bookplate inside front board, price-clipped, remainder dot bottom page edges. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8.7 X 5.5 X 1.4 inches; 381 pages; Kenneth mac Alpin was one of the lesser known leaders in Scottish history but his name is associated with many crucial happenings. This ninth century ruler brought together disparate peoples to form the country of Scotland and fought the Anglo-Saxons and Norse invaders. Because of Kenneth, the Apostle Andrew became the patron saint of the Scots people. .

London: Macmillan London Limited. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 0333213041 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear. Price-clipped dustjacket, with red remainder mark on bottom page edges. ; Wraparound jacket art by Ian Robertson, bright solid book, dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 214 pages; A historical fiction set in the Canadian wilds at the end of the 18th century, some characters from 'The Enemy I Kill' and 'Raider's Moon' appear in this book. .

London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Ltd.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 335 pages; Red cloth boards have some light soiling, light shelfwear to edges, 1/4 inch tear head of spine. Previous owner's name on FFEP. Illustrated by B&W Drawings, hinges intact. A loving look at the people of Scotland. .

Garden City: Doubleday & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1984. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Previous owner's name on FFEP.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 439 pages; DJ has very light scuffing, heavily chipped bottom front panel with creases and tape repaired tears, pages a little yellowed. Dust jacket in Mylar. A tight bright book. This is the fourth title in the Ballantyne saga. .

London: Headline. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0747213240 . Light creasing of DJ edges, first few pages lightly creased ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped, bright, solid book. Wraparound jacket art by Kevin Tweddell ; 410 pages; Through a misunderstanding Becky finds herself pregnant and alone when her artist husband abandons her in the Bristol slums of Lewin's Mead, and so must face the birth of her child with only a couple of friends to help her, but as she raises her daughter she never loses hope that one day her husband will return. Luck finds her in the form of a blind musician who cares for when she is deathly ill. This is a follow-up to Thompson's novel - 'Becky' .

London: Hodder & Stoughton, Limited. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 034065998X . Only slight wear to DJ, pages somewhat yellowed as is is common in British publications of this period. ; DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 342 pages; The murder of James I of Scotland in 1487 leaves a seven year old James II under the influence of a couple of unscrupulous lords, Crichton and Livingston. 'When young Alexander Lyon, son of the Thane of Glamis (and ancestor of the present-day Queen Mother, Elizabeth) , fell in love with and married Agnes, the daughter of William Crichton, little did he realise that his affair of the heart would drag him into the wider affairs of the nation. For Alec Lyon was to become a close attendant and friend of the young monarch at a time when James was in sore need of protection. '. .

London: Bantam Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 0593051432 . Light edge wear, minor creasing of dustjacket ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.2 X 6.3 X 1.3 inches; 352 pages; "Paddy Meehan is home alone when there’s a knock at the door. It’s the police and they have bad news. Former boyfriend Terry Patterson’s naked body has been found in a ditch. He’s been tortured, hooded, then shot through the head: all hallmarks of an IRA assassination. Paddy is devastated: Terry was her first lover; the sort of journalist she’s always aspired to be. But why have the police come to her? Although she and Terry have had an on/off affair since they first worked together, she hasn’t seen him for over a year. She is therefore horrified to find that not only has Terry named her next of kin, but he has left her a huge Georgian house in Ayrshire and several suitcases full of notes. What was Terry trying to… Leer más

London: Century Publishing. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0712600000 . Boards show very light shelf wear, DJ shows some shelf wear, light chipping with 3 cm tear bottom front DJ edge and short tear top back edge. Small dot bottom page edges. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.2 X 6.6 X 1.8 inches; 540 pages; "To escape the chaos of London during World War II, young Elizabeth White is sent to live a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It is there, in the crowded, chaotic O’Connor household, that she meet Aisling—a girl who soon becomes her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling’s boldness brings Elizabeth out of her proper shell; later, her support carries Elizabeth through the painful end of her parents’ chilly marriage. In return, Elizabeth’s friendship helps Aisling endure her own unsatisfying… Leer más

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0340156368 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, 2 short tears top edge of dustjacket. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. ; James Pibble series #3; 8.1 X 5.7 X 0.8 inches; 188 pages; "The West Indies island of Hog’s Cay is soon to open for tourism, but the money behind the deal comes from the Mafia, which is ready to turn the island into the next Vegas. And the politicos in charge have given Greek tycoon Thanassi Thanatos the contract. That’s where James Pibble comes in. The former Scotland Yard superintendent has come to Thanatos’s hideaway on the Ionian island of Hyos to protect the Greek tycoon from the Mob, which doesn’t like anyone muscling in on its territory. Rumor has it the crooks are eyeing Hyos for their booming drug-smuggling trade. Throw in British intelligence and a clandestine American operation, and you’ve got… Leer más

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0340499567 . Price clipped DJ has some edge wear, FFEP neatly removed, withdrawn stamp on title page. Pages yellowed as is common, book has light lean, no markings on DJ ; A tight solid book. DJ in Mylar ; Ex-Library; James the Sixth; 9 x 1.25 x 6 Inches; 320 pages; Behind the scenes at the court of James the Sixth, the members of the Gray family are firmly embroiled in Scottish politics. David Gray's hunt for the famously incriminating Casket letters, belonging to Mary, Queen of Scots, takes him to Fast Castle in Berwickshire, to London on a delicate mission to King James, and to Paris to help woo Princess Henrietta Maria for Prince Charles. .

London: William Heinemann. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1979. Omnibus. Hardcover. 0434142700 . DJ shows light edge wear, price-clipped. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8.58 X 5.51 X 2.28 inches; 683 pages; An omnibus consisting of 'The Mallen Streak', 'The Mallen Girl', and 'The Mallen Litter'. Three historical novels by Catherine Cookson, starting in 1851, and following the stormy lives of the Northumbrian Mallen family through four generations, from the grandeur of Victorian England to the dark days of the World War I. .

Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Cloth boards show shelf wear and some soiling, short tears in the cloth at the head of the spine. Previous owner's names on FFEP. This volume was previously in the collection of the Nakusp Library, and the library stamp is present inside back board and has been whited out inside front board and on FFEP. ; Beige cloth covered boards with black print front and spine, hinges intact. No other printing mentioned ; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 379 pages .

Toronto: Knopf Canada. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 0394281225 . Light edgewear to DJ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book ; 434 pages; In a spirited story related at a breakneck pace and crammed full of melodrama, slapstick, supple wordplay and literary allusions, Rushdie has again fashioned a biting parable of modern India. Telling his story "with death at my heels," the eponymous narrator relates the saga of a family whose religious, political and cultural differences replicate the fault lines by which India is riven. The Moor tells of "family rifts and premature deaths and thwarted loves and mad passions and weak chests and power and money and... the seductions and mysteries of art." He speculates on the duality of all things, the conflicting impulses of human nature and the clash between appearance and reality. Like the tale itself, the title has multiple layers of meaning. "The… Leer más