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THE MARQUIS' HEIR: A TALE OF THE EARLY YEARS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Written by A.H. Biggs. Illustrated by Harold Piffard.
Stock no. 1331395
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Almost very good condition.

Red pictorial cloth. 3 colour plates. 254 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Spine and cover edges faded. Frontis is detached but still present. Foxing else contents clean.

WHEN LONDON BURNED
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by J. Finnemore.
Stock no. 1331289
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1895. Good condition.

Blue and gilt pictorial cloth. Grey endpapers. 12 b/w plates. 388 pages plus 32 page booklist. A Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers a little grubby and scuffed. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis. Some foxing. Some hinges cracked. Binding still tight.

BY PIKE AND DYKE
Written by G.A. Henty.
Stock no. 1331156
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Good condition.

A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic. Colour frontis and 3 b/w plates and 4 maps. Blue pictorial cloth with white titles. 384 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly grubby. Half title-page is part detached at lower margin, hinge cracked showing webbing beneath. Endpapers browned. Some foxing.

WITH WOLFE IN CANADA OR THE WINNING OF A CONTINENT
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 1331155
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Fair condition.

Brown pictorial cloth. Gilt titles. 384 pages plus 32 page publication list. Olivine edges. 12 b/w plates. Prelims are detached (up to title-page). 2 plates are MISSING. Some marks to textblock and page margins. Spine and corners are bumped and worn. Cloth scuffed, small mark to lower edge of front cover.

HEREWARD THE WAKE 'LAST OF THE ENGLISH'
Written by Charles Kingsley.
Stock no. 1331154
Published by James Nisbet & Co. Limited. Circa 1911. Very good condition.

The story of Hereward, a historical Anglo-Saxon figure who led resistance against the Normans from a base in Ely surrounded by fen land. Green decorated cloth, gilt titles. 4 b/w plates. 436 pages plus 16 page booklist to rear. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Spine and top cover edges browned. Name and date in ink to front pastedown. Browning and foxing to contents otherwise clean.

DAN LENO AND THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM
Written by Peter Ackroyd.
Stock no. 1831307
Published by Sinclair-Stevenson. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A novel set in London, 1880. A series of gruesome murders attributed to the mysterious 'Limehouse Golem' strikes fear into the heart of the capital. Inspector John Kildare must track down this brutal serial killer in the damp, dark alleyways of riverside London. Red cloth boads, gilt title to spine. 279 pages. ISBN: 1856195074. Top edge of text block browned else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned to spine.

THE HOUSE OF DOCTOR DEE
Written by Peter Ackroyd.
Stock no. 1831214
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This novel centres on the famous 16th-century alchemist and astrologer John Dee. Reputedly a black magician, he was imprisoned by Queen Mary for allegedly attempting to kill her through sorcery. When Matthew Palmer inherits an old house in Clerkenwell, he feels that he has become part of its past. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. 276 pages. ISBN: 0241125006. Slight lean to spine. Contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

THE EBB AND FLOW
Written by David Edwards.
Stock no. 1831153
Published by Indepenpress Publishing Limited. 1st 2012. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Set in North Wales during the stirring Georgian period, The Ebb and Flow is a sweeping saga of power and corruption, friendship and loyalty, love and hate. Owen Tudur, the trusty Welsh steward to Sir John Littleton-Jones struggles with his increasingly divided loyalties and troubled conscience. Green cloth boards, silver title to spine. 168 pages. ISBN: 9781780033105. SIGNED by the author (with place and date) to title page. Very few spots to text block. A few minor corner creases. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners and lightly scuffed.

KEPLER
Written by John Banville.
Stock no. 1330883
Published by Secker & Warburg. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Book 2 of the Revolutions trilogy. Black boards, silver title to spine. 192 pages. ISBN: 0436032643. Minimal bumping to spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is a tiny bit edge creased aqnd slightly sunned to spine.

LA VENDEE: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE
Written by Anthony Trollope. Illustrated by Shirley Bellwood.
Stock no. 1830787
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Nearly fine condition.

A historical novel. Introduction by Mervyn Horder. Green cloth spine with black & gilt title labels. Pale green paper boards with floral borders. Top edge green. Full page b/w illustrations. xvii and 413 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is very lightly shelf-scuffed.

THE CROWN OF VIOLET
Written by Geoffrey Trease. Illustrated by C. Walter Hodges.
Stock no. 1330171
Published by Penguin. 1st thus 1968. Very good condition.

Puffin Story Book PS330. Pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. Slight rubbing to cover edges. Page browning else contents clean.

ENSIGN CAREY
Written by Ronald Welch.
Stock no. 1329855
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Orange boards, silver title to spine. 175 pages. ISBN: 0192713868. Spine and corners bumped. Small indentation to top edge of front cover. Dustwrapper is lightly browned, there is a barcode label to rear panel.