Historical Fiction from JimsOldBooks

London: Jarrolds, 1959. Ex penny library copy (Eskside Lending Library, Musselburgh) with f/ep remoned, ink stamp and number on title page, first and last pages of text, and on last page. Unclipped dustwrapper has creasing and tears to the edges, with the top inch or so and the bottom two inches missing at the spine. Some bumping to spine ends… Read more about this item

London: Readers Union, 1952. Readers Union edition from 1952. No dustwrapper, spine of blue boards has faded to a khaki colour, but titles thereon are still clear, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover historical novel. The story is based around the ill-fated Spanish expedition to the Solomon Islands in 1595. 417pp, 1 map.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1948. Creasing and some small bits missing from edges of unclipped dustwrapper, inner front flap has been torn off and mended with sellotape a long time ago, some bumping to spine ends and corners of green booards, but otherwise a good, internally clean and tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in June 1946, this is… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961. A slight crease to the spine, minor scuffing to spine ends and corners of cover, a small tear to the bottom right-hand side of the spine just next to the front cover, some yellowing to the pages as is often the case with these older paperbacks, but otherwise a good clean tight copy. Originally published in… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. Ex school library copy with paper label inside front board and on f/ep, ink stamp on title page and on top edge of text blaock. Slight creasing to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of brown boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The story,… Read more about this item

London: Fontana, 1992. Fontana paperback edition, no date shown but would be early 1990s. Some creasing to the spine and to a lesser extent to the corners of cover, a previous owner's name and date (1994) in pencil inside front cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this paperback historical novel set in the Viking world of… Read more about this item

London: Methuen, 1931. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, some old water-marking to boards, an old (original?) owner's name and date (July 1934) on f/ep, unfortunately along with a much later owner's name and date (1996). But otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, a novel about Oliver Comwell from… Read more about this item

London: W & R Chambers, 1933. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of green boards, slight fading to spine but gilt titles thereon are still bright; a small ink stamp on f/ep, binding just starting to split at half-title, some foxing to outer pages and to page edges throughout, but otherwise a good clean copy of this hard-cover book.… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1964. Creasing and some tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of brown boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A novel based on the life on Anne Boleyn. 359pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hutchinson, 1961. A lot of wear to edges and folds of unclipped dustwrapper, also a tear two-thirds up the left-hand side of the spine and across, then up the other side, so really in two parts but for an old piece of sellotape. Some bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, a previous owner's… Read more about this item

Byrgisey, 1998. A couple of creases to the spine, corners of cover also have minor creasing, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. A historical novel set in Birsay, Orkney in the mid fifteenth century, around the time that the islands passed from Danish to Scottish rule. 326pp..… Read more about this item

London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1939. Some creasing, scuffing and small tears to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A novel set in Shetland, the story is in two parts. The first, set in modern (well, 1930s) times, involves… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1966. Creasing and some tears to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, with two pieces torn away at the top edge of front panel; minor bumping to spine ends of blue boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A novel set in Anglo-Saxon England and in Greenland and North America in the… Read more about this item

London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1941. No dustwrapper, minor wear to spine ends and corners of yellow boards, some old water splash-marks to boards, some foxing to outer pages, a previous (original?) owner's name and date (July 1942) on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1935, this is… Read more about this item

London: Persephone Books, 2011. Persephone paperback edition, book number 17, with original bookmark. A crease to the bottom corner of front cover and corresponding part of dustwrapper and pages in first half of the book, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Originally published in 1946 and by… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1954. Some creasing and tears to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, more so to the lower edge, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, school prize label (class prize for Latin, 1958) on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel by the author of "The Bridge at… Read more about this item

London: The Macmillan Company, 1899. No dustwrapper, some bumping and wear to spine ends and corners of green decorated boards, spine has darkened to a brownish-green, silver titles thereon are faded but still readable but those on front board are still bright, as is the illustration of trees. Original owner's armorial bookplate (Owen Fitzgerald Knott) inside front board, but… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1953. Unclipped dustwrapper has a lot of creasing and tears to the edges, with about an inch being missing at bottom end of spine and a a bit less at the top end. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of brown boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel. The fourth… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1950. Creasing and tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, mostly at spine ends and sides, an old price label on back panel. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in 1937, this is a later printing from 1950, part… Read more about this item

London: Secker & Warburg, 1964. Minor creasing and some small tears to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, also a few old paint-splashes. Minor bumping to spine ends of red boards, original owner's gift message on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in the US in 1963, this is a British… Read more about this item