Historical Fiction from Goldring Books

London: HQ, 2017. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 499 pages. Genealogy charts. ‘A dangerous word, perhaps, for a woman. Power.’ From her first clandestine marriage, Joan of Kent’s reputation is one of beauty, rumour and scandal. Her royal blood makes her a desirable bride. Her ambition… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins, 2005. A near Fine unmarked opy which has a little foxing to closed edges withnear Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 383 pages. Firethorn remembers little of her past; her parents a vague and teasing memory, but service in the Dame's household provides a more tolerable existence than that of… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1984. A Very Good+ copy which has light foxing to top edge else unmarked with G+ dustjacket which is not price-clipped. 599 pages. Here, in one volume, are the four celebrated novels of Paul Scott set in the closing years of British rule in India. The main events of the sequence of four novels - The Jewel… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins, 2008. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Very Good unmarked copy which has bumping to lower corner tips and light foxing to top edge with near Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. Map endpapers and 452 pages. Temujin of the Wolves has become Genghis Khan, a man who must unite the fractious, warlike tribes on earth -… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990. A Very Good copy which has a small indentation to lower front board and a name and date to front endpaper else unmarked.. Dustjcket has fading to spine, a little wear to top edges and is not price-clipped. 303 pages. FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Translated frome the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. … Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury, 2005. A Near Fine unmarked copy which has a few marks to top edge with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 1721. George I is on the throne and Britain is just emerging as the world's leading commercial power. Handsome young Adam Hanaway arrives in Lisbon, where his uncle is a merchant,… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 1978. A Very Good+ copy which has an inscription to front endpaper and minor bumps to lower corner tips with VG dustjacket which is not price-clipped. 524 pages. For 25 years Nicholas Monsarrat has lived with a dream: a dream to stretch a novelist's imagination to the limit - of one man living the hazardous life… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1956. Gold title on green cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with just a touch of wear to spine head. Internally there is a taped repair to the page describing The Tontine else very clean, tight and unmarked. 928 pages. Illustrations by Herbert Ryman. The story of a Tontine ( a strange and enticing form… Read more about this item

London: Tom Stacey, 1973. A ery Good unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. A reprint of the 1933 first edition. A novel about gypsies, acrobats and tumblers travelling through Southern Europe and North Africa and the annual gathering of gypsies in the Camargue. The author Eleanor Furneaux Smith, eldest daughter of the first Earl of… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1933. Black titles on green cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with fading to spine and a little wear to spine head and tail. Internally there is a neat name and address to front endpaper else clean and unmarked. A Good + copy. A novel of seafaring and privateers in the late 18th century set in… Read more about this item

London: The Bannisdale Press, 1950. Gold title on green boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear but with some bumping to corners and age darkening to spine . Internally there is an inscription to front pastedown else clean, tight and unmarked. Although a novel many of the people who feature actually lived and it is also drawn from… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz, 2000. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not pice-clipped. 215 pages. Translated from the French by Rory Mulholland. Chartres, 1145. Ten years earlier, a fire believed to be deliberate, destroyed the town and the culprit has still not been traced. The Chevalier Galeran de Lesnevan, summoned by the Count of Blois to… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a small repaired closed tear and is not price clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A novel of attachments, especially between a mother and daughter, who yearn for closeness but are also estranged. From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter,… Read more about this item

London: Orion, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. The author is the pseudonym of David Donachie. An historical novel, the second in the Markham of the Marines series, set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars and where Lieutenant George Markham leads his men ashore to wrest the island of Corsica from the French but as the British… Read more about this item

London: Methuen, 1947. Blue title on light blue boards. Faded spine with bumping to board corners. Brown decorative title page with vignette of girl playing a lyre, internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A novel set in classical times involving both Greek and Roman characters. B2B. First. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾"… Read more about this item

London: Little Brown, 1998. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a small closed tear to rear top corner edge. Richard Howard is the pseudonym of a bestselling British novelist and this is the second in a major historical trilogy, featuring Alain Lausard, who is now leaving Toulon harbour aboard the frigate L'Esperance and the discontented ranks… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1960. Gold title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear and just light bumping to corners. Internally there is a small neat signature to verso of front endpaper else clean and unmarked. Pictorial dustjacket is price clipped with chipping and wear. Coloured map endpapers. A novel of six people in search of an… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTINGThe author's FIRST NOVEL. Sub-titled 'Being the tale of a Whitby orphan boy's longing to navigate the broad seas' of advenrurous voyages aboard fighting ships; of commerce and the profits of greed; of a young man's loves, his losses,… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1978. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket. A novel from the leading gothic novelist of orphaned Charity Carew, 24 years old, living with her retired barrister uncle, who becomes secretary to famous poet Martin Revesby, who has returned from the continent to live at his inherited Cornish mansion, Malmaynes. Soon Charity is mistress of the great… Read more about this item

London: Orion, 1997. A Fine unmarke copy in a Very Good + dustjacket which is not price clipped and has minor wear to lower edges. First UK edition. 478 pages. The story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors - two proud, passionate men whose remarkable quest to carve a future out of Indian Territory… Read more about this item