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  • SHARPE'S SWORD: Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign, June and July 1812 by Cornwell, Bernard.
    Cornwell, Bernard.
    SHARPE'S SWORD: Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign, June and July 1812

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth in the Richard Sharpe series, set during the Napoleonic wars and the most difficult to find title in the series. Maps. Historical note. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-670639419.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual pocket, but relatively few other markings and overall tight and clean in a just about fine, unmarked dustjacket.

    Book ID: 34793
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  • SHARPE'S DEVIL: Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-1821. by Cornwell, Bernard.
    Cornwell, Bernard.
    SHARPE'S DEVIL: Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-1821.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: HarperCollins, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 11th in this very popular series: Sharpe comes out of retirement to undertake a mission to Chile, and on the way stops by Saint Helena to visit the exiled Napoleon. Author's note. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0179775.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (hint of toning to the pages, but otherwise a tight and clean copy.)

    Book ID: 50689
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  • Cornwell, Bernard.
    SHARPE'S DEVIL: Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820-1821.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: HarperCollins, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 11th in this very popular series: Sharpe comes out of retirement to undertake a mission to Chile, and on the way stops by Saint Helena to visit the exiled Napoleon. Author's note. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0179775.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (erasure on front endpaper, but otherwise a tight and clean copy, appears unread.)

    Book ID: 54893
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  • THE BLACK COUNT: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. by [Dumas, General Thomas-Alexandre, 1762-1806], Reiss, Tom
    [Dumas, General Thomas-Alexandre, 1762-1806], Reiss, Tom
    THE BLACK COUNT: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Pulitzer Prize winning biography of General Alexandre Dumas, the father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas. In discussing this book, Reiss comments that "Napoleon buried the memory of this great man, the son of a black slave who led more than 50,000 men at the height of the French Revolution and then stood up to the megalomaniacal Corsican in the deserts of Egypt. Letters and eyewitness accounts show that Napoleon came to hate Dumas not only for his stubborn defense of principle but for his swagger and stature - over six feet tall and handsome - and for the fact that he was a black man idolized by the white French…

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    New York: Crown, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Pulitzer Prize winning biography of General Alexandre Dumas, the father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas. In discussing this book, Reiss comments that "Napoleon buried the memory of this great man, the son of a black slave who led more than 50,000 men at the height of the French Revolution and then stood up to the megalomaniacal Corsican in the deserts of Egypt. Letters and eyewitness accounts show that Napoleon came to hate Dumas not only for his stubborn defense of principle but for his swagger and stature - over six feet tall and handsome - and for the fact that he was a black man idolized by the white French army.. . I first came across Gen. Dumas's life in the memoir of his son Alexandre, the novelist. Alex Dumas was born in Saint Domingue, later Haiti, the son of a black slave and a good-for-nothing French aristocrat who came to the islands to make a quick killing and instead barely survived. In fact, to get back to France in order to claim an inheritance, he 'pawned' his black son into slavery, but then he bought him out, brought him to Paris, and enrolled him in the royal fencing academy. . What really stuck with me from reading the memoir was the love that shows through from the son, the writer, for his father, the soldier. When he grew up, young Alexandre took a greater sort of revenge, infusing his father's life and spirit into fictional characters like Edmond Dantes and D'Artagnan." Also awarded the 2013 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.Double page map, notes, selected bibliography, index. ix. 414 pp. ISBN: 978-0307382467.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88771
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  • THE LIFE OF EMPRESS JOSEPHINE: First Wife of Napoleon. by Headley, P. C.
    Headley, P. C.
    THE LIFE OF EMPRESS JOSEPHINE: First Wife of Napoleon.

    Edition: Hardcover.

    Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers. (1856.). Hardcover - Engraved frontispiece, 384 pp. Bound in dark green cloth with black embossed design on front cover, large gold decoration on spine.

    Condition: Good only - wear to edges of boards and corners, especially upper edge of rear cover, binding tight with front hinge just starting, foxing to prelim pages and tissue guard of frontispiece.

    Book ID: 16275
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  • MY BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War by Meyer, L. A.
    Meyer, L. A.
    MY BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth novel in the Bloody Jack Adventure series written for older children and young adults. In this, "the infamous pirate, riverboat seductress, master of disguise, and street-urchin-turned-sailor Jacky Faber has been captured by the French apparently beheaded in full view of her friends and crew." 436 pp. ISBN: 978-0152061876.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj, top edge of rear cover).

    Book ID: 81302
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  • [Nelson, Horatio, 1758-1805 ] Pocock, Tom.
    HORATIO NELSON.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of one of the best known figures in British history, based in part on previously unpublished diaries and other materials. This covers his life from boyhood adventures in the Arctic, to being a captain in Nicaraguan jungle, his first love affair with a married woman, to his scandalous relationship with Emma Hamilton and his death at Trafalgar at the height of his fame. Maps, 55 illustrations, chronology, bibliography, notes on sources and Nelsonian sites. xx, 367 pp. ISBN: 0-394-570561.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 34750
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  • PETER DOYLE: A Novel. by Vernon, John.
    Vernon, John.
    PETER DOYLE: A Novel.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Following the premise that someone removed appendages from Napoleon's corpse, this literary tour-de-force follows the errant body parts through Victorian London, to post-Civil War New York, to the Colorado territory, and back again - A "rowdy, wide-ranging, biting, and often bizarre story of post-Civil War America and the myth of Manifest Destiny. The dreams that drew people to the West were varied and often filled with romantic illusions: the chance for a better life, to make a fast buck, to escape civilization. The dreamers and schemers are all represented here, many based on real people. Protagonist Peter Doyle was a friend of Walt Whitman, who appears along with Horace…

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    New York: Random House, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Following the premise that someone removed appendages from Napoleon's corpse, this literary tour-de-force follows the errant body parts through Victorian London, to post-Civil War New York, to the Colorado territory, and back again - A "rowdy, wide-ranging, biting, and often bizarre story of post-Civil War America and the myth of Manifest Destiny. The dreams that drew people to the West were varied and often filled with romantic illusions: the chance for a better life, to make a fast buck, to escape civilization. The dreamers and schemers are all represented here, many based on real people. Protagonist Peter Doyle was a friend of Walt Whitman, who appears along with Horace Greeley, Nathan Meeker, and, even though she never left Amherst, Emily Dickinson." (Library Journal) Afterword. 417 pp. ISBN: 0-394582497.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 85984
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