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CAPTAIN JUSTICE: Secret Agent against Napoleon.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Hill & Wang, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first in a series of novels featuring Captain Justice - This combines well-researched historical fiction, set in the summer of 1804 when Napoleon was poised to invade England, with a tale of espionage. ISBN: 0-8090-33577.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20830More details Price: $20.00 -
CAPTAIN JUSTICE: Secret Agent against Napoleon.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Hill & Wang, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first in a series of novels featuring Captain Justice - This combines well-researched historical fiction, set in the summer of 1804 when Napoleon was poised to invade England, with a tale of espionage. ISBN: 0-8090-33577.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 31477More details Price: $25.00 -
RITES OF PASSAGE
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980 dj. Hardcover first edition - Set on an aged ship during the Napoleonic era, which is making its way from England to the Antipodes - a fascinating study of life in a stratified society-in-miniature on board the ship. In 1983, Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-374-250863.
Condition: Near fine in a very good (line on upper edge of text block, bit of wear to dj, especially at top of spine.)
Book ID: 10538More details Price: $18.00 -
RITES OF PASSAGE
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980 dj. Hardcover first edition - Set on an aged ship during the Napoleonic era, which is making its way from England to the Antipodes - a fascinating study of life in a stratified society-in-miniature on board the ship. In 1983, Golding was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-374-250863.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 55567More details Price: $21.50 -
THE RAPE OF THE ROSE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A highly praised novel by this award winning writer. Set in 1812 in an England gripped by poverty and hunger - a revolution erupts across northern England, sending angry Luddite mobs on a rampage. A self educated weaver and schoolmaster is caught up in the events and is forced to flee. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-671725165.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line, short tear to upper edge of dj)
Book ID: 66764More details Price: $15.00 -
APRIL THIRTIETH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, a police procedural set in Napoleonic Paris,introducing Chief Inspector Blanc, and involving the murder of a courtesan. ISBN: 0-06-013707x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 32749More details Price: $17.50 -
APRIL THIRTIETH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, a police procedural set in Napoleonic Paris, and involving the murder of a courtesan. ISBN: 0-06-013707x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 45475More details Price: $16.50 -
APRIL THIRTIETH.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - A police procedural set in Napoleonic Paris, and the second mystery featuring Chief Inspector Blanc, who is involved in a case of seven bodies, sitting upright but with their throats slit. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-06-013707x.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (very faint remainder spray to bottom edge, discoloration to front cover of dj,)
Book ID: 87353More details Price: $16.50