Search Results: Historical Fiction from Bytown Bookery

Ballantine Books. Very Good+. 1991. Mass Market Paperback. 0345370732 . A Very Good+ Mass Market Paperback with a solid binding and a clean, unmarked interior. Light cover edgewear and rubbing. "In Germany, 1933, Johann Ingersoll, star of screen and master of disguise, enjoys a sinister talent. It is one that lets him indulge a taste for cruel sex and casual murder. And one soon spotted by Hitler's brutal regime." ; 7.0 X 4.2 X 1.1 inches; 512 pages .

Toronto, Ont: Alfred A. Knopf. As New in As New dust jacket. 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0676974554 . Cream colored hard boards with red titles to the spine. Stated First Edition. Deckled fore edges. In As New condition with light shelf wear to the spine ends, decled edges. The DJ is unclipped and also in As New condition. "We meet 13-year-old Briony Tallis in the summer of 1935, as she attempts to stage a production of her new drama "The Trials of Arabella" to welcome home her older, idolized brother Leon. But she soon discovers that her cousins, the glamorous Lola and the twin boys Jackson and Pierrot, aren't up to the task, and directorial ambitions are abandoned as more interesting prospects of preoccupation come onto the scene. The charlady's son, Robbie Turner, appears to be forcing Briony's sister Cecilia to strip in the fountain and sends her obscene letters; Leon has brought home a dim chocolate magnate keen for a war to promote his new "Army… Read More

Viking Press. Very Good+. 1981. Paperback. 0140058796 . Trade Paperback in Very Good+ condition. Tightly bound with notes on three pages, other wise a clean text. Cover edgewear and scuffing. "Set at a boardinghouse in rural New Jersey in the summer of 1939, this novel revolves around four people who experience the comedies, torments and rare pleasures of family, romance and sex while on vacation from Brooklyn and the Depression." ; 7.70 X 5 X 0.40 inches; 211 pages .

Scribner. As New. 1997. Paperback. 0684831546 . Trade paperback in As New condition. Tight, bright & unmarked. " It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker and his son, carrying little more than his finest button accordion, begin their voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion-maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynch mob, but his instrument carries the novel into another community of immigrants: German-Americans founding a new town in South Dakota. Moving from South Dakota to Texas, from Montana to Maine, the nine instantly compelling and intricately connected sections of the novel illuminate the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, Irish, Scots and Franco-Canadians." ; 7.90 X 5.20 X 1.20 inches; 432 pages .

McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1994. Trade paperback. 0771082452 . Trade Paperback in good condition. Tightly bound, unmarked with a black remainder mark on the bottom edge. Wear to the cover edges and corners. "n this stunning and original novel, John Steffler has recreated a lost time and place, and has given life to an enigmatic figure from Canada's 18th-century past. Described quietly by historians as "soldier, diarist, entrepreneur," George Cartwright emerges in Steffler's tale as a character of overwhelming appetite and ambition." ; Remainder; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 293 pages .

St Martins Pr. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 0312017081 . An ex-library hardcover book with pocket and stamps. On very good condition with a clean, bright interior. The DJ is unlcipped and is protected by a clear plastic covering. ; Ex-Library; 1 x 8.3 x 5.8 Inches; 244 pages .

London, England: Jonathan Cape. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Light green Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. A Very Good++ book with a solid binding, bright, unmarked pages. The DJ is Very Good+ with light cover rubbing and edge wear. Light bumping to the bottom spine end, sharp corners. "It is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart’s second requiem) is about to be sung to lay him to rest. In the choir is our hero, Hubert Anvil, an extremely ordinary ten-year-old boy with a faultless voice." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages .

GP Putnam And Sons. As New in Fine dust jacket. 2004. 1st Edition. 0399151842 . Grey hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine. First Edition. This copy is in As New condition, read once, tightly bound with a bright, unmarked text. The DJ is unclipped and in Fine condition. "Amagansett" is a novel as sweeping and haunting as the landscape of sky and sea it evokes. Beautifully and powerfully told, it announces the arrival of a gifted writer who skillfully weaves together a delicate love story, a brutal murder, an unforgettable evocation of a place and time, and characters shaped by the epic forces of nature, class, war, and memory." ; 8.40 X 5.80 X 1.40 inches; 392 pages .

Curlew Classics. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Trade Paperback. Trade paperback. Textured covers, with a sticker scar on the cover, scuffing and edgewear. Previous owner's name written neatly on half title page. Very clean interior. "An American ambassador in Vietnam faces a moral and political crisis when he is placed in the position of having to decide the fate of the country and the life or death of its rulers. "; Maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 230 pages .

Toronto, Ont: Coach House Pr. Very Good+. 1988. Paperback. 088910364X . Trade Paperback. Very Good++, tightly bound with a bright, unmarked text. Light cover wear. "Ana Historic is the story of Mrs. Richards, a woman of no history, who appears briefly in 1873 in the civic archives of Vancouver. It is also the story of Annie, a contemporary, who becomes obsessed with the possibilities of Mrs. Richards's life." ; 0.5 x 8.2 x 5.1 Inches; 152 pages .

Doubleday. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Nard. 0385491328 . Black hardcovers, a Near Fine copy with a solid binding and a bright, unmarked interior. Stated First Edition, First Printing, (number line) . The DJ is unclipped, Very Good++ with light cover scuffing. "Published to critical acclaim in his native Argentina, Andahazi's sensational #1 bestseller transports readers to Venice in the 16th century, telling the story of Colon--a man of science and reason--who is on the verge of making a most earthshaking discovery." ; 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.3 Inches; 213 pages .

Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1998. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0385491328 . Black hard boards with edgewear. An ex-library book with stamps on the title page, an outline on the front free end paper where the date sheet was and there is no library pocket in this book. Stated First Edition, October 1998, First Printing. Clean, bright & tightly bound. The DJ is unclipped and is protected by a clear plastic covering. "An erotic novel by the Argentinian writer that takes place in 16th-century Venice." ; Ex-Library; 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.2 Inches; 215 pages .

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 0151002207 . Orange hardboards with silver print on spine, the bottom of the spine is bumped. Very clean, tight copy. The DJ is unclipped, and the spine bottom is bumped. Great condition. Contemporary fiction. "From czarist Russia to America at the time of the Great War, when bigotry and ruthless repression were at their highest, this novel is about anarchy and violence, about books and reason and language itself. "; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 450 pages .

Pocket Books, # 550238. Very Good. 1967. Mass Market Paperback. A Very Good Mass Market. Tightly bound, a name on front free end paper, otherwise a clean & unmarked copy. There is cover edgewear and rubbing. "Lucinda Delaney is a southern belle ruled by a vision of life that no longer exists. The Civil War has come and gone and her side has lost, yet she is determined to proceed as if nothing has changed—a denial that stokes the flames of her irrational angers. Despite her returned husband’s devotion, Lucinda is sure he is having an affair with one of their slaves." ; 6.9 X 4.1 X 0.7 inches; 250 pages .

Signet / New American Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1961. Mass Market. An oversize Mass Market Paperback in very good condtion. Squared and well bound with a bright and unmarked text, light creasing to the spine and hinge with some rubbing to the cover edges. Previous owner's name stamp on the inside of the front cover. "the story of a harmless flirtation that gradually develops into a destructive passion: the love affair between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. Anna turns to Vronsky, a dashing military man, as a refuge from her passionless marriage to a pompous, chilly bureaucrat--a move that results in social ostracization, the loss of her position in the world, and the relentless self-doubt that destroys her confidence and leads to her sad end. A parallel plot follows the contrasting fortunes of Levin (Tolstoy's alter ego, with his deep love of the land) and Kitty, whose marriage thrives and prospers because of mutual commitment, sympathy, and respect." ;… Read More

Henry Holt & Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0030704871 . Blue hard boards / black cloth spine / silver lettering on the spine. An ex-library book with pocket in the back and library stamps. The interior text is clean and the book has a solid binding. The DJ is unclipped, protected by a clear plastic covering. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 278 pages .

London, England: Sceptre. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0340556048 . Blue hardcovers, silver titles to the spine. In As New condition, tight, bright, &n unmarked. Small black dot to the bottom edges. The DJ is unclipped and in Near Fine condition. Light top cover edge wear. "Narrated partly by Antony himself as he stands on the verge of ruin, and partly by his Greek secretary Critias, the novel charts Antony's fortunes since the murder of Julius Caeser. This is the final book of the author's quartet of Roman novels. "; 9.21 X 6.06 X 1.02 inches; 213 pages .

Harpercollins Publishers. Fine+. 2008. Paperback. 1554685087 . A Fine+ Paperback. Tightly bound with clean and unmarked pages. An uncreased spine with the previous owner's blind stamp to the half title page. "Langston Cane V is 38, divorced and working as a government speechwriter, until he’s fired for sabotaging the minister’s speech. It seems the perfect time for Langston, the eldest son of a white mother and prominent black father, to embark on a quest to discover his family’s past -- and his own sense of self. Any Known Blood follows five generations of an African-Canadian-American family in a compelling story that slips effortlessly from the slave trade of 19th-century Virginia to the modern, predominantly white suburbs of Oakville, Ontario "; 6 X 1.32 X 9 inches; 528 pages .

St. Martin's Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1998. First US Edition. Hardcover. 0312183135 . Black hardcovers in Near Fine condition, tightly bound, a bright unmarked text with light spine end bumping . The DJ is unclipped, light cover scuffing, overall in Very Good+ condition. "When World War II breaks out, Laura learns what war means, and she finds love--or thinks she has. But always haunting her is the image of her father--handsome (she believes) , brave (she hopes) , but always, mysteriously, absent. A superbly plotted, romantic saga reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier. Everyone assures Laura that Edwin Anstey died a hero's death in France in 1918. But Laura suspects there is something about her father unrevealed. ; 1.34 x 8.27 x 5.91 Inches; 459 pages .

Pocket Star. Very Good+. 2011. Paperback. 1439181802 . Mass Market Paperback in Very Good+ condition. Pages are tightly bound with a bright, unmarked text. The spine is uncreased and the cover has a small bend on the cover. "Dilara Kenner, an ambitious young archaeologist, must run for her life when an old friend is murdered right in front of her. Before he dies in her arms, he gasps a few cryptic words about a vast conspiracy to hide an awesome historical artifact and tells Dilara that the only person who can help her is a former Army combat engineer named Tyler Locke." ; Tyler Locke; Vol. 1; 6.69 X 4.09 X 1.34 inches; 464 pages .