Historical
/ Pirate / Early 20th Century Books
19th
May 2003
Condition Of Books:
Excellent Condition / Never Been Read ~ A
Very Good Condition / Very Few Spine Creases If Any ~ B
Good-Fair condition / Spine Creases ~ C
Fair condition / Average / Well Read / Very Creased ~ D
Below Average / Still Very Readable But Looks Tatty ~ E
Alcott, Louisa May |
The Chase | A novel of love, desire and deceit which was found, unpublished, over a century after the author's death. Brought up as a recluse on an island off the English coast, Rosamond has no knowledge of the outside world. When Philip Tempest appears one stormy night, he finds a peach ripe for plucking! | B |
£1.25 |
Andrews, Lyn |
When Tomorrow Dawns | Mary O'Malley, widowed with a child to support and her wayward sister, leaves Dublin to live in bombed Liverpool with her relatives, the O'Sheas. But Bryan O'Shea makes a pass at her, and Chris Kennedy, whom she's built up an understanding with, marries Rosie - then he's accused of murder. | D |
.60p
|
Andrews, Lyn |
Liverpool Lamplight | Georgie Deegan will do anything for money. His sister Katie will do everything for love. When their father dies, Georgie assumes the family fish and chip shop will be his. Katie has other ideas though, and as the shadow of World War II draws closer, Georgie's schemes gain momentum. | C |
.70p |
Bailey, Elizabeth |
An innocent miss | B | .60p | |
 Cach,
Lisa |
The Wildest Shore | Teasing the female passengers about the perils of the sea is great fun, but once Horatio Merivale opens his mouth to laugh at danger, he wishes he'd kept it shut. A storm drags the Coventry under, and it is all the East India Company officer can do to rescue a lovely but terrified blonde. Still, the whole escapade seems the start of a marvelous adventure. The dream luring Anne Hazlett from England is grand--a turquoise seascape with a jade-carved island whose beaches beckon. Yet she hadn't expected to arrive on flotsam, be accosted by pirates, or have such an odd entourage. Indeed, the man who saves her is thrilled by their bad luck, calling it ""The Hand of Destiny."" And looking into her eyes, Horatio promises to see Anne to the wildest shore. | B slight wear and creasing with stamped inside cover | £1.25 |
| Cartland
Barbara |
Light of the moon | B/C with a lot of wear | .35p | |
| Cartland,
Barbara |
The dream and the glory | B/C | .50p | |
 Coulter,
Catherine |
Midnight Star | Revenge had brought Chauncey FitzHugh all the way from England to San Francisco. She had come with the full intention of ruining the man who had drove her father to suicide. Chauncey had vowed to destroy Delaney Saxton in the cruellest way a woman could - by making him love her and marry her. Chauncey had plotted to reject his fiery advances but her resolve weakened.The unforeseen happened - she desired the man she had sworn to hate and she could only pray that tomorrow she would have enough strength to betray him... | C some wear and slight markings, pages starting to yellow |
£1.00 |
Dain, Claudia |
To Burn | VENI
He had sworn to battle the empire wherever he found it, and an isolated Roman villa in Britannia seemed the perfect target for his revenge. He and his fierce Saxon warriors would sweep through it like an inferno, destroying all in their path. VIDI From the moment he saw her, he knew she embodied all that Rome stood for: pride, arrogance, civilization... beauty. She was a woman like no other, fighting with undaunted spirit even as he made her his slave. And as he gazed into her glittering golden eyes, he reliazed he could not leave until he had satisfaction from her. VICI She called him barbarian, called him oaf, called him her enemy. Yet when he took her in his hard-muscled arms, her body trembled with excitement. But would the fire flaring between them conquer him or her? Was the passion that burned in their souls born of hatred, or of love? |
A/B Stamped inside cover | £1.25 |
| Dain,
Claudia |
The Marriage Bed | It started with a kiss, an explosion of longing that could not be contained.
He was a young knight bent on winning his spurs; she was a maiden promised
to another man; theirs was a love that could never be.
But a year's passing and a strange destiny brought them together again. Now he was a monk desperately fleeing temptaion, and she was the lady of Dornei, a woman grown, yearning to fulfill the forbidden fantasies of girlhood. They were a couple with nothing in common but a wedding night neither would ever forget. Eager virgin and unwilling bridegroom, yielding softness and driving strength, somehow they must become one soul, one purpose, one body within... |
A/B slight spine creasing and stamped inside cover | £1.25 |
| Dain,
Claudia |
The Holding | WITH THIS RING I THEE ESPOUSE
It was done. She was his wife. Wife of a knight so silent and stealthy, they called him "The Fog". Everything Lady Cathryn of Greneforde owned - castle, lands and people - was now safe in his hands. But there was one barrier yet to be breached... WITH MY BODY I THEE HONOR There was a secret at Greneforde Castle, a secret embodied in its seemingly obedient mistress and silent servants. Betrayal, William feared, awaited him on his wedding night. But he had vowed to take possession of the holding his king had granted him. To do so he must know his wife completely, take her in the post elemental and intimate holding of all. |
A/B slight spine creasing and stamped inside cover | £1.25 |
| Dain,
Claudia |
Tell Me Lies | They were pirates - lawless, merciless, hungry. Only one way offered hope
of escaping death, and worse, at their hands. Their captain must claim her
for his own, risk his command, his ship, his very life, to take her.
And so she put her soul into a seduction like no other - a virgin, playing the whore in a desperate bid for survical. As the blazing sun descended into the wide blue sea, she was alone, gazing into the eyes of the man who must lay his heart at her feet... |
B/C alot of wear and spine creasing, stamped inside cover | £1.00 |
| Daniels,
Elizabeth |
Paradise in his arms | B | 1.25 | |
| Davidson, Carolyn | Maggie's Beau | Harlequin 297 pages. Rancher Beau Jackson knows Maggie is on the run, but he feels an overwhelming need to protect the battered girl and her abused pets. So when his cook is called away he hires Maggie for the job. Maggie has a great love for all God’s creatures. Even though she should fear Beau she is unwillingly attracted to the gentle giant who has taken her into his home. As their love grows, suspicions of murder threaten their happiness | C Some wear |
.90p |
| Gracie,
Anne and Brendon Mary |
Regency Rakes | M&B | B with spine creasing | £1.00 |
| Herries,
Anne |
Counterfeit Earl | B | .60p | |
| Jonker, Joan | Try a Little Tenderness | Jenny and Laura Nightingale are as different as chalk and cheese. Jenny has a pretty face and a lively sense of humour; Laura is spoilt and moody and never far from trouble. So when Jenny and her best friend Janet are pursued by the boys in their street, Laura's resentment begins to build. |
C |
.90P |
| Jackson,
Melanie |
Amarantha | “O, I forbid ye, maidens a’, that wear gold in your hair,
To come or go by Carterhaugh, for young Tamlane is there.
'Twas not Robert Burns's legendary elfin knight who greeted Amarantha upon her arrival at her folklorist uncle's Cornish mansion, but the dark and wild-haired Tamlane Adair. The Scotsman's languorous movements enthralled her, and the rumors of his nighttime rides across Bodmin Moor only heightened the virile man's mystery. His voice was like satin or silk, sliding over her, clothing her in blissful delirium. Listening, she could almost forget the anguish that had driven her from London, the Jacobite rebellion that had cost her so much. In Tamlane's green eyes, Amarantha could not help but see the danger of the Cornish coast ... and in his arms, its wonderful promise. “There's none that goes by Carterhaugh, but maun leave him a wad; either gold rings or green mantles... or else their maidenhead.” |
A | £1.25 |
| Jackson,
Melanie |
Iona | Isolated by the icy storms of the North Atlantic, the isle of Iona is only a temporary haven for its mistress. Lona MacLean, daughter of a rebel and traitor to the crown, knows that it is only a matter of time before the bloody Sasannachs come for her. But she has a stout Scottish heart, and the fiery beauty gave up dreams of happiness years before. One task remains—to protect her people. | A | £1.25 |
Jonker, Joan |
Taking a chance on love | B |
£1.00 |
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| Laurence, Anne
|
Lady Mistress | B |
£1.50 | |
| Luellen,Valentina |
Mistress of Tanglewood | B | .60p | |
| Maitland,
Joanna |
Marrying the Major | B/C | .60p | |
| Nichols,Mary |
Lady Lavinia's Match | A lady is torn between a handsome stranger and the man she's know since childhood | B/C | .50p |
| Riley, Sandra | Captain's Ladies | B Somespine creasing |
£1.00 | |
| Saunders, Kate | Lily-Josephine | B |
£1.00 | |
| Winslow, Betty | The Lady And The Lawman | C Spine creasing |
.90p |
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