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WITH MOORE AT CORUNNA
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Wal Paget.
Stock no. 2114707
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1898. Very good condition.

Green pictorial cloth, gilt titles to spine and front board. 12 b/w plates. 384 pages + 32 page booklist. All edges green. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Some foxing to pages internally. Name in ink to front endpaper. All plates present.

IN THE REIGN OF TERROR
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by John Schonberg.
Stock no. 1312975
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1888. Good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front and gilt pictorial spine. 8 b/w plates. The Adventures of a Westminster Boy. 351 pages plus 32 page booklist. Spine and corners are bumped and worn. Spine is rubbed. Covers ever so slightly marked. Inscription in ink to front endpaper and name in ink on verso. Some light foxing and fingering throughout. Book leans to one side a little.

WHEN LONDON BURNED
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by J. Finnemore.
Stock no. 1312972
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1895. Very 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 covers edge rubbed. Some light scuff marks to rear cover. Foxing to prelims and catalogue pages. Some hinges pulled but binding still tight.

DEATH AND THE ARROW
Written by Chris Priestley.
Stock no. 1207925
Published by Doubleday. 1st 2003. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. B/w chapter headers. A Tom Marlowe adventure. ISBN: 0385604920. SIGNED by author. Small blemish to top of front joint, probably a binding error.

THE HUNTED KING
Written by Laurence Meynell.
Stock no. 1108651
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Earlham Library Series. Yellow cloth with black title ot spine. Novel based on Charles I's son when he is hunted from place to place in southern England. A little bumping to a couple of cover edges. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with fading to spine and a few marks; couple of small nicks to edges.

BEYOND THE SUNSET
Written by Arthur D. Howeden Smith.
Stock no. 1108637
Published by Brentano's Ltd. 1st 1923. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth with gilt titles. Light bumping and wear to spine and corners. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is grubby with some edge-tears and chips - a few small pieces of loss.

PLOT FOR THE QUEEN
Written by Margaret J. Miller. Illustrated by John Lawrence.
Stock no. 1108521
Published by Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A historical story. Although they held Mary Queen of Scots a prisoner, Queen Elizabeth and her Ministers knew that she was still a deadly threat to the throne because she provided a focus for all England's oppressed Catholics. Both sides felt they had found an ally in Anthony Babington - an English gentleman convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England and conspiring with the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, for which he was hanged, drawn and quartered. Blue cloth boards, black title to spine. B/w decorations by John Lawrence. 143 pages including index. ISBN: 035602671X. Heavy bumping along bottom edge of front cover. Ink stamp to front endpaper. A few tiny top corner creases. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners and lightly scuffed.

HELGI THE HIGH-BORN
Written by Captain W.H. Milligan. Illustrated by John De Walton.
Stock no. 1310178
Published by The Boy's Own Paper. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A story of the Days of Athelstan. Brown pictorial cloth. 4 b/w plates. 272 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Fingerprints to endpapers and light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with slight loss and a little grubby, removal of small label to rear panel.

WHEN LONDON BURNED
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by J. Finnemore.
Stock no. 1108435
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 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. Covers are scuffed and unevenly browned. 2 plates are detached. Binding is a bit weak in places. Some foxing. Inscription in ink to verso of frontis.

WHEN LONDON BURNED
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by J. Finnemore.
Stock no. 1206545
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. Circa 1899. Almost very 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. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some scattered foxing throughout. Corners bumped and rubbed.

THE LION AND THE WHITE ROSE
Written by Richard De Methley.
Stock no. 1805976
Published by White Boar Publishing. 2011. Nearly fine condition.

A story of love, murder, treachery, sex and high adventure in the days of King Richard Coeur de Lion. Pictorial cardwraps. ISBN: 9780955748011. SIGNED with dedication to title page.

MY LADY VENTURESOME A STORY OF 1685
Written by Dorothea Moore. Illustrated by P. Walford.
Stock no. 1805769
Published by The Sheldon Press. 1st 1926. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth boards, black titles and vignettes with pink highlighting. Colour frontispiece by Walford. Boards a little grubby, Top & tail of spine edges worn. Prize plate to front pastedown. A few marks to margins. Some hinges pulled.