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The Return

By: Aldrin, Buzz; Barnes, John

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Forge Books: 2000

Seller ID: 013287

ISBN: 0312874243

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but a scuff on the rear of the dust jacket at the bar code. First Edition, First Printing.

The Return is a story of outsized characters, global crises, and big, daring ideas...and-as told by Buzz Aldrin-it carries a ring of truth. He's been there. He's done that. And he's already helped change the world.
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A Roman Tale

By: Baker, Carroll

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Dutton Adult: 1986

Seller ID: 013330

ISBN: 0917657535

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

After twelve years as a slave to her movie studio, a despotic husband, and a sex-symbol image, Madeline, a beautiful American actress, moves to Italy for a fresh start in life.

Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear; over-opened before title-page.
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Imperial Purple

By: Bradshaw, Gillian

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 1988

Seller ID: 013309

ISBN: 0395436354

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket; Text has age-toned as is typical.

Set in early Christian times, the tale of the weaver Demetrias portrays her entrapment in a treasonous plot against the Byzantine emperor and her fight to protect her family and self as the battle for Constantinople rages
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The Kingdom of the Wicked

By: Burgess, Anthony

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1985

Seller ID: 009743

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Limited First Edition; SIGNED; No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Includes publisher's letter laid-in. Illustrations by Richard DeFlice.

The Kingdom of the Wicked is a 1985 historical novel by Anthony Burgess. Like two of his earlier works, the long narrative poem Moses and the novel Man of Nazareth, Burgess wrote The Kingdom of the Wicked in part as preparation for a screenplay; in this case for the television series A.D.

A Roman saga, taking in the excesses of Tiberius, Caligula and Nero and an irreverent account of the early days of Christianity.
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The Ides of April [Flavia Albia #1]

By: Davis, Lindsey

Price: $39.95

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 2013

Seller ID: 012725

ISBN: 1444755811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

SIGNED By the Author on the Title Page. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing. Book 1 of the Flavia Albia Series

The Ides of April is a 2013 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the first book in the Flavia Albia Mysteries series. Set in March and April AD 89, in the Aventine Hill area of Ancient Rome, the novel stars Flavia Albia, the British-born adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco.
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Two for the Lions (Book 10 of Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries)

By: Davis, Lindsey

Price: $49.95

Publisher: London, Century: 1998

Seller ID: 012783

ISBN: 0712677968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Davis makes this ancient world come alive. Her newest novel in the series featuring Marcus Didius Falco puts the tough private eye in the lions' den to investigate an extraordinary case of murder...

Signed by the author on the title page. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing. List of principal characters, family tree, maps. 325 pp,

Winner of the first Ellis Peters/British Crime Writers' Association Historical Mystery Dagger Award.
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Venus in Copper: Book 3 of Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries

By: Davis, Lindsey

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers, Inc.: 1992

Seller ID: 013196

ISBN: 0517584778

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

SIGNED by the author on the title page. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.

On the elegant slopes of the Pincian Hill, Falco finds himself beset by violent rent-racketeers, poisoners, and women without consciences who have dangerous designs on him. The body count mounts as Falco is caught up in a complex political web. Intriguing characters abound in this skillfully written, Chandleresque mystery that gives readers a peek at the seamy side of life in first-century Rome. [Lib Jor]
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Atticus of Rome 30 B.C. (Life and Times)

By: Denenberg, Barry

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Scholastic: 2004

Seller ID: 013160

ISBN: 0439524539

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.

Acclaimed author Barry Denenberg brings to life the intrigue of Roman politics and the bloody violence of the gladiator games in this story about ancient Rome. [az]
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Hadrian's Wall

By: Dietrich, William

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Harper: 2004

Seller ID: 013300

ISBN: 0060563710

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.

Page-turning historical fiction seething with action, adventure and passion. [Booklist]
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The Dakota Cipher (Book 3 of Ethan Gage Adventures)

By: Dietrich, William

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Harper: 2009

Seller ID: 013301

ISBN: 0061568007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.

Superb. . . . Dietrich combines a likable hero surrounded by a cast of fascinating historical characters. . . . Readers will cheer. (Publishers Weekly)

William Dietrich is back with another fast-paced new adventure-one that brings together Norse mythology, the American wilderness, and a swashbuckling explorer in an irresistible page-turner.
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The Rosetta Key (Ethan Gage Adventures Book 2)

By: Dietrich, William

Price: $14.95

Publisher: HarperCollins: 2008

Seller ID: 013304

ISBN: 0061239550

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.

An utterly captivating romp from the treacherous tunnels beneath Jerusalem to the lost City of Ghosts (Petra, Jordan) to the tumult of revolutionary Paris..Dietrich spins a merry magical mystery tour, winningly intricate and anchored to actual historical figures and events..Mr. Spielberg! Mr. Lucas! It's your move. [Seattle Times]
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Lehrter Station (Book 5 of A John Russell WWII Spy Thriller)

By: Downing, David

Price: $14.95

Publisher: USA, Soho Crime: 2012

Seller ID: 013296

ISBN: 1616950749

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes but small erd dot remainder mark on the lower edge, Unread. First Edition, First Printing.

'Epic in scope, Mr. Downing's Station cycle creates a fictional universe rich with a historian's expertise but rendered with literary style and heart.' [The Wall Street Journal]
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Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories

By: Finney, Jack

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1983

Seller ID: 013356

ISBN: 0385177216

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

The author magically transports his readers back into the strange and fascinating 19th-century world with this collection of mysterious and lurid stories that time forgot! [FF]

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. First Edition, First Printing.
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Commodore Hornblower

By: Forester, C. S.

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1945

Seller ID: 013154

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm.- Dust Jacket price-clipped is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve with minor loss top spine, light age-toning; scuff along the center-front. Pictorial Dust Jacket by N. C. Wyeth.

Hornblower returns in command of a small but powerful squadron. His mission is so delicate that the fate of Europe hangs on the outcome. Often outgunned and outmanned, but never outfought or outsailed, Hornblower takes his squadron north to Russia. There he wins the Czar's resistance against Napoleon. As with all Hornblower sagas, ...
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Hornblower in the West Indies

By: Forester, C. S. [Cecil Louis 1899 - 1966]

Price: $49.95

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1958

Seller ID: 012532

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing. [Boutell, p186] Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket designed by Brio. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. The Jacket with price intact has rubbing on the flap crease, corners and spine edges some toning from aging.

Forester's Hornblower novels in the series take place during the wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France; this one, however, takes place when Britain is at peace, May 1821 - October 1823.

Hornblower has been promoted rear-admiral and has been named in command of the West Indi...
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Rites of Passage

By: Golding, William

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux: 1980

Seller ID: 011411

ISBN: 0374250863

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks.

A first-rate historical novel that is also a novel of ideas--a taut, beautifully controlled short book with none of the windiness or costumed pageantry so often associated with fiction attempts to reanimate the past... [It is] the best of Golding's novels since Lord of the F...
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To Sail Beyond The Sunset

By: Heinlein, Robert A.

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, Putnam Adult: 1987

Seller ID: 013210

ISBN: 0399132678

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.

The author ties together themes and characters from his previous stories as her traces the life and loves of Maureen Johnson, the mother of Lazarus Long. Dust JAcket Art by Boris Vallejo.
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The War Chest: An Adam Horne Adventure

By: Hill, Porter

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Walker & Co: 1989

Seller ID: 013172

ISBN: 0802710492

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing. 18th century British Naval Historical Fiction.
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China Flyer: An Adam Horn Adventure

By: Hill, Porter

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Walker & Co: 1988

Seller ID: 013462

ISBN: 0802710360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A historical Fiction novel of the early years of the East India Company in the style of Hornblower and Ramage.

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.
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Bombay Marines: An Adam Horne Adventure

By: Hill, Porter

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Walker & Co: 1988

Seller ID: 013463

ISBN: 0802710484

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A historical Fiction novel of the early years of the East India Company in the style of Hornblower and Ramage. Adam Horne, captain of a vessel sailing for the East India Company, recruits and trains prisoners from Bombay Castle in order to rescue defeated French commander Thomas Lally from imprisonment in Fort St. George in Madras

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.
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