Historical Mystery
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Of Human Bondage
by W Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention. " Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from Spinoza's Ethics
The Viceroy Of Ouidah
by Bruce Chatwin
In this vivid, powerful novel, Chatwin tells of Francisco Manoel de Silva, a poor Brazilian adventurer who sails to Dahomey in West Africa to trade for slaves and amass his fortune. His plans exceed his dreams, and soon he is the Viceroy of Ouidah, master of all slave trading in Dahomey. But the ghastly business of slave trading and the open savagery of life in Dahomey slowly consume Manoel's wealth and sanity.
Prince Of Foxes
by Samuel Shellabarger
Prince of Foxes is a novel of historical fiction by Samuel Shellabarger, following the adventures of the fictional Andrea Orsini, a captain in the service of Cesare Borgia during his conquest of the Romagna.
The House Of the Dead
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Dostoyevsky was sentenced to 4 years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp. Years later, he developed this semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to penal servitude for murdering his wife. This haunting and remarkable work ranks amoung Dostoyevsky's greatest masterpieces.
Death Of a Dude
by Rex Stout
Death of a Dude is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1969.
Dragon's Lair
by Sharon Kay Penman
The long-awaited third novel in Sharon Kay Penman's much-loved medieval mystery series.July 1193: Richard Lionheart, eldest and most favored son of Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitane, languishes in an Austrian dungeon, held for ransom by the Holy Roman Emperor. Lusting after the crown in England, his brother John plots with his country's bitterest foe, King Philippe of France, to see to it Richard never leaves Austria alive. But the Queen has already begun to meet the ransom demands, and it is only a...
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The History Of the Kings Of Britain
by Geoffrey Of Monmouth
The Historia Regum Britanniae is a pseudohistorical account of British history, written c.1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It chronicles the lives of the kings of the Britons in a chronological narrative spanning a time of two thousand years, beginning with the Trojans of Homer's Iliad founding the British nation and continuing until the Anglo-Saxons assumed control of Britain around the 7th century. It is one of the central pieces of the Matter of Britain.
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
An orphaned young woman working as a maid is swept off her feet by a wealthy widowed Englishman, and quickly married him. But when she arrives at his estate she learns she pales in comparison with his seemingly perfect deceased first wife Rebecca, especially in the eyes of the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers. When Rebecca’s body is found on her shipwrecked boat the dark secrets held by the husband are discovered as well. Rebecca has had many adaptations in film, radio, and television,...
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The Moon and Sixpence
by W Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle aged English stock broker who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist.
Historical Mystery Books & Ephemera
Silver Pigs
by Davis, Lindsey
Lindsey Davis now writes full time. She is the author of eleven Falco novels and one historical love story, A Course of Honour. Two For the Lions won the first CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.From the Hardcover edition.
North Star Conspiracy
by Monfredo, Miriam Grace
Miriam Grace Monfredo, a former librarian and a historian, lives in Rochester, New York. This is the seventh Seneca Falls Mystery. A previous Seneca Falls Mystery, The Stalking-Horse, was chosen by the Voice of Youth Advocacy as one of 1998’s best adult mysteries for young adults and received a “best” review in Library Journal’s young adult section.
The Iliad
by Homer
Penguin, New York. 17th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer's timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and...
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NZ$18.63
Sharpe's Eagle
by Cornwell, Bernard
New York: Signet, 2004. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 6-STBX-006 Sharpe, Book 8 - Very Good: may show signs of shelf wear, may show signs of reading, including light spine stress, may show signs of normal shelf aging.
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NZ$8.49
The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
by Henry James
Bantam, New York. 11th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early...
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NZ$4.92
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Condition: Good minus, red leather binding, gold title on spine, corner bump and spine edge wear, slight ungluing of spine but book still holds together, no dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on inside front cover, writing and underlining on interior pages.An interesting edition from Woolworth's Library circa 1913 based on the previous owner's inscription.After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in...
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NZ$6.17
By Gaslight
by Steven Price
Mcclelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2017. 4th printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and spine wear, corner bumps.London, 1885. In a city of fog and darkness, the notorious thief Edward Shade exists only as a ghost, a fabled con, a thief of other men's futures -- a man of smoke. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of a brutal detective, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead. His father died without ever tracing Shade; William, still reeling from...
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NZ$8.66
Colomba
by Prosper Merimee
Condition: Good, book has light edge wear and corner bumps, slight scuffing at spine ends, some notes and underlining and previous bookstore stamp on inside front cover. no dust jacket. No date or edition noted.Edited with notes and vocabulary by Osmond T. Robert and new-type exercises, passages for prose translations by H.L. Humphreys.
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NZ$7.42
The Moon and the Thorn
by B.J. Chute
This book is in good condition, although the dust jacket is torn in many places. There is minimal wear on the front, back, edges, and spine of the cover boards. There is no bumping and little fraying on the cover boards. The dust jacket is taped down on the cover boards. The pages are beginning to yellow, but the pages are clear of any markings. "When, after thirty years, Henrietta Blackwell returned to Great Island, garlanded in her private grief, she was still a remarkably beautiful woman and...
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NZ$133.88NZ$66.95
The History Of Henry Esmond
by William Makepeace Thackery
This book is in good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The corners of the cover boards are not bumped. The previous owners name is affixed to the inside of the front cover board. The pages are yellowed and tanned, but clear of any markings. The seam between front cover board and the spine has cracked all the way through. "The estate of Castlewood, in Virginia, which was given to our ancestors by King Charles the First, as some return for the...
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NZ$38.30NZ$19.15
And Four To Go
by Rex Stout
This book is in very good condition except for the dust jacket. It is in acceptable condition THe dust Jacket is worn, torn and fading. The previous owner's name is written at the top of the first page.Four Nero Wolfe novels in miniature, published in book form for the first time. Christmas Party, Easter Parade, Fourth of July Picnic and Murder is no Joke. There is a marking on the first page.
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NZ$178.73NZ$89.37
The Fala Factor
by Kaminsky, Stuart M
New York: St. Martin's Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0312279671 . Signed by Kaminsky on the title page. Convinced that her famous Scottish terrier, Fala, has been kidnapped and replaced with an inferior pooch, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt asks L. A. Private Eye Toby Peters to find the real Fala. ; 174 pages; Signed by Author .
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NZ$28.94
The Venetian Bargain
by Marina Fiorato
St Martin's, New York, 2014. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Light edge wear and creasing on spine and along top edge, price sticker on rear cover.1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague—and the...
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NZ$12.40
Black Hills
by Dan Simmons
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed, limited, and numbered edition; number 426 of 500. From the publisher: Black Hills is an important and revelatory novel, the most singular accomplishment to date by the always unpredictable Dan Simmons. With empathy and great narrative power, it illuminates a significant chapter in the nation s history, and takes us deep into the heart of an extraordinary American life. The story begins at the Battle of Little Big Horn in June of 1876. Eleven-year-old Paha...
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NZ$118.41
Traitors' Legion
by Jay Scotland
Ace G-532. 1963. First paperback edition. Condition: Very good, light edge wear and spine nicks, slight yellowing of interior pages due to age.A vivid, action-packed novel of Imperial Rome's days of shame and glory from Ace vintage paperbacks.
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NZ$14.96
Laura Blundy
by Myerson, Julie
United Kingdom: Fourth Estate Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 1841153206 . SIGNED BY AUTHOR - A Very Good Plus First Edition hardcover (full number line starts with '1') in a Very Good Plus dustjacket. Book is in clean black boards, bumped to the spine ends and corners, with slight spine lean. Signed by author to title page, unmarked pages, slightly toned to the upper text-block edge. The price-intact dustwrapper is lightly shelf-worn and creased to...
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NZ$21.19
Downfall of the Gods
by K. J. Parker
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed, numbered, and limited edition; number 766 of 1000 copies.A goddess has to do what a goddess has to do.And in World Fantasy Award winner K.J. Parker's sharply inventive new novella Downfall of the Gods that means everything from soothing supernatural egos to accompanying the argumentative Lord Achias on an epic quest to save his soul...and get her own way.
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NZ$74.78
A COMEDY OF TERRORS; A Flavia Albia Novel / Lindsey Davis
by Davis, Lindsey
New York: Minotaur Books, 2021. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. Maps. Tall 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with a fashionable woman looking into the Colusseum, illustrated with frontispiece maps of "Rome, The Aventine Hill" and "Rome," [xii] + 320 pages. SUPERIOR CONDITION: internally & externally. Tight, bright, & clean. <br /> <br /> A Flavia Albia Novel:...
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NZ$34.04
Hard Twisted
by Greaves, C. Joseph
New York: Bloomsbury. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1608198553 . Signed by Greaves, "To Zang Wood/Enjoy! Chuck Greaves/Nov 2012." A fictional recounting of Depression-era drifter Clint Palmer’s real-life killing spree, told largely from the perspective of his 13-year-old girlfriend, Lottie Lucile Garret. ; 291 pages; Signed by Author .
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NZ$62.98
The Great Wall Of China
by Franz Kafka
This book is in fair condition The binding is loose and there is a large amount of wear on the cover as well as stains on the cloth board. The previous owner's name is written on the front page.The Great Wall of China (German : Beim Bauder Chinesischen Mauer) is the first posthumous collection of short stories by Franz Kafka published in Germany in 1931. It was edited by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps and collected previously unpublished short stories, incomplete stories, fragments and aphorisms...
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NZ$34.04NZ$17.02
Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key
by Kage Baker
Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2008. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Deluxe Edition, signed by Baker and limited to 2000 unnumbered copies according to the publisher.His name is John James - at least, that's the name he gives to anyone asking. He's a former pirate just back from Port Royal from the sack of Panama, and he has every intention of settling down and leading a respectable life. First, though, he must honour a promise and deliver a letter to the mistress of one of his dead...
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NZ$24.93
Young Bess
by Margaret Irwin
This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, edges, and the spine of the coverboards. There is severe bumping and fraying on the cover boards.The previous owner's stamp is affixed tothe inside of the front cover board . The pages are yellowing and tanning , but the pages are clear of any markings. Some of the pages are dog-eared. " She had been allowed to come out to the royal flagship, and had been eating cherries and strawberries dipped in wine. All round her the sea was a...
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NZ$86.45NZ$43.24
Poseidon's Gold
by Davis, Lindsey
London: Century. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0712658319 . Signed by Davis on the title page. Tanning to the page edges. The dust jacket has mild creasing to the flaps. Returning to Rome from the outskirts of the empire, Marcus Didius Falco becomes the prime suspect in his brother's murder.; 336 pages; Signed by Author .
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NZ$49.36
Take Me To Texas
by T. W. Lawrence
This book is in very good condition. The book has minimal wear on the front, back, edges, and spine of the covers. The pages are crisp and white and there are no markings on the pages. There is no bumping or fraying, although the covers are somewhat bent. "Algarre del Diablo - the Devil's Stranglehold. That's what folks called the oppressive temperatures that July in Texas, on the fifth day of the year's major heat wave. Unless major efforts to irrigate were underway, you could not find a spot anywhere...
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NZ$99.39NZ$49.70
Lettres Philosophiques
by Voltaire
Condition: Very good, light edge wear and small corner creases, spine has creasing, previous owner's name on inside front cover.In French. Preface and chronology by Rene Pomeau.
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NZ$3.68
Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby
Grove Press Evergreen edition, New York. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine nicks, price sticker on rear cover.Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn.Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled...
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NZ$7.42
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley / Berni Wrightson
Marvel Comics, New York, 1983. First edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, spine has light nicks at end.Introduction by Stephen King.Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter,...
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NZ$155.80
