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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
    Keywords: Historical Fiction, napoleon
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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
    Keywords: Historical Fiction, napoleon, st helena
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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
    Keywords: biography, History: World, napoleon
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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
    Keywords: Historical Fiction, napoleon, pirates
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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
    Keywords: Biography, autobiography, memoirs, emma hamilton, history, military, napoleon, navy, trafalgar, west indies
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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
    Keywords: 19th century, Historical Fiction, horace greeley, napoleon, walt whitman
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