Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Diana years

People, weekly collectors, edition

Books 1-16 Thomas and Charlotte Pitt historical mysteries by Anne Perry. Selling as a set for less than they would be individually. More pictures on request. I bought these used just to read. 
Note: Anne Perry’s books are a little darker in tone than many “cozy” mysteries, but they are not quite as graphic as other mysteries.
Book conditions as follows (more details upon request): 
1 Cater Street Hangman - good
2 Callander Square - good
3 Paragon Walk - good
4 Resurrection Row - good
5 Rutland Place - excellent
6 Bluegate Fields - excellent
7 Death in the Devil's Acre - good
8 Cardington Crescent - fair
9 Silence in Hanover Close - good
10 Bethlehem Road - good
11 Highgate Rise - fair
12 Belgrave Square - good
13 Farriers' Lane - fair
14 Hyde Park Headsman - good
15 Traitor's Gate - good
16 Pentecost Alley - fair, ex-library

4/7 weight corrected for packaging; 📚will be shipped in a recycled ♻️ box

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Minnesota

Cater Street Hangman 

Anne Perry bundle Thomas and Charlotte Pitt #1-16

A. K. Blakemore

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the residents of a small English town in the grip of the seventeenth-century witch trials and the young woman tasked with saving them all from themselves.
 
"This is an intimate portrait of a clever if unworldly heroine who slides from amused observation of the 'moribund carnival atmosphere' in the household of a 'possessed' child to nervous uncertainty about the part in the proceedings played by her adored tutor to utter despair as a wagon carts her off to prison." --Alida Becker, The New York Times Book Review

England, 1643. Puritanical fervor has gripped the nation. And in Manningtree, a town depleted of men since the wars began, the hot terror of damnation burns in the hearts of women left to their own devices.

Rebecca West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only occasionally by her infatuation with the handsome young clerk John Edes. But then a newcomer, who identifies himself as the Witchfinder General, arrives. A mysterious, pious figure dressed from head to toe in black, Matthew Hopkins takes over the Thorn Inn and begins to ask questions about what the women on the margins of this diminished community are up to. Dangerous rumors of covens, pacts, and bodily wants have begun to hang over women like Rebecca--and the future is as frightening as it is thrilling.

Brimming with contemporary energy and resonance, The Manningtree Witches plunges its readers into the fever and menace of the English witch trials, where suspicion, mistrust, and betrayal run amok as a nation's arrogant male institutions start to realize that the very people they've suppressed for so long may be about to rise up and claim their freedom.

The Manningtree Witches

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

English

Faiths and Folklore of the British Isles

Kentucky

Far from the Madding crowd

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#Antiquarian #Vintage #Hardcover #FirstEdition published in London, 1939. Fine condition with a near-fine dust jacket, dulled naturally by age. Now in Mylar sleeve. Has held up extremely well, minimal overall degradation and nothing to disrupt enjoyment of the book. #history #GreatBritain #Historic #England 

New Jersey

Speeches (1937-1938) by The Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain

In Search of Peace 

Published 1965, 1st Edition/Dust Jacket. Ex-library copy with some NYPL markers evident. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Oxford University Press. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Guide to English Manners and Deportment from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century

The Polite World 

Daniel Pool

From Fox Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in 19th Century British Life

Essays provide a view of British life during the nineteenth century

What Jane Austen Ate & Charles Dickens Knew By Daniel Pool HC First edition

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#hardcover #fantasy #historicalfiction #England #tudors signed first edition

My Lady Jane

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Connecticut

#1 New York Times Bestseller An Amazon Best Book of 2020 The thrilling and addictive prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages "Just as transporting as [The Pillars of the Earth] . . . A most welcome addition to the Kingsbridge series." --The Washington Post It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined. A young boatbuilder's life is turned upside down when his home is raided by Vikings, forcing him and his family to move and start their lives anew in a small hamlet where he does not fit in. . . . A Norman noblewoman marries for love, following her husband across the sea to a new land, but the customs of her husband's homeland are shockingly different, and it soon becomes clear to her that a single misstep could be catastrophic. . . . A monk dreams of transforming his humble abbey into a center of learning that will be admired throughout Europe. And each in turn comes into dangerous conflict with a clever and ruthless bishop who will do anything to increase his wealth and power. Thirty years ago, Ken Follett published his most popular novel, The Pillars of the Earth. Now, Follett's masterful new prequel The Evening and the Morning takes us on an epic journey into a historical past rich with ambition and rivalry, death and birth, love and hate, that will end where The Pillars of the Earth begins.

The Evening and the Morning

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Julia Kelly

"From the author of The Light Over London and the "gripping, moving" (Kelly Rimmer) The Whispers of War comes a poignant and heartwrenching tale of five women in three eras, whose lives are tied together by one very special garden"--

The Last Garden in England

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Darwin Porter

WHAT IS A $-A-DAY GUIDE. • It documents hundreds of budget accommodations and restaurants-the most difficult type of establishments to find on your own because they're less publicized and therefore less well known. • It was personally researched and written by the author (not a committee), who has gone there before you. • It's reliable and detailed, giving full descriptions of accommodations and restaurants, not cryptic, uninforma-tive lists. • It quotes exact prices in local currency and U.S. dollars. • It provides full particulars about sights, transportation, attractions, sports, shopping, culture, nightlife, and history. • It includes alphabetically arranged sections on the practicalities of daily life.

History

England on Thirty-Five Dollars a Day

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2003 Tauck, signed by the author (who is Churchill’s granddaughter). This book is a biography that details the travels of Churchill. Many accounts and photographs throughout. The book is in great shape. No damage or another annotations besides the signature. There are some very small pinholes in the top corner of the last few pages of the book. 

New Mexico

The Travels of Winston Churchill

Chasing Churchill (signed)

Jonathan Sumption

Colorado

Triumph and Illusion

The Hundred Years War

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#international #travel #England #beatles #anthology #music

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Massachusetts

The Beatles’ story told for the first time in their own words and pictures  

The Beatles Anthology

Pennsylvania

From highly acclaimed two-time Man Booker finalist David Mitchell comes a glorious, sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. In his previous novels, David Mitchell dazzled us with his narrative scope and his virtuosic command of multiple voices and stories. The New York Times Book Review said, "Mitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across [Cloud Atlas's] every page." Black Swan Green inverts the telescopic vision of Cloud Atlas to track a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the 13 chapters create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. Pointed, funny, profound, left field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell's subtlest yet most accessible achievement to date. Excerpt from from Black Swan Green: Picked-on kids act invisible to reduce the chances of being noticed and picked on. Stammerers act invisible to reduce the chances of being made to say something we can't. Kids whose parents argue act invisible in case we trigger another skirmish. The Triple Invisible Boy, that's Jason Taylor. Even I don't see the real Jason Taylor much these days, except for when we're writing a poem, or occasionally in a mirror, or just before sleep. But he comes out in woods. Ankley branches, knuckly roots, paths that only might be, earthworks by badgers or Romans, a pond that'll ice over come January, a wooden cigar box nailed behind the ear of a secret sycamore where we once planned a treehouse, birdstuffedtwigsnapped silence, toothy bracken, and places you can't find if you're not alone. Time in woods's older than time in clocks, and truer.

Black Swan Green (autographed copy)

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L. C. Seaman

Asa Briggs

Oklahoma

A New History of England, 410-1975

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Lochithea

Florida

The Rarest of Princes

Be calm good wind, blow not a word away for this is a meticulous account of Sir Francis Bacon's lifetime, written as journal entries, and with his style: I have no more made my book, than my book has made me: 'tis a book consubstantial with the author, of a peculiar design, a member of my life, and whose business is not designed for others, as that of all other books.

Sir Francis Bacon's Journals

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Five vintage and one antique. Select the titles you may be interested in (feel free to combine with books from my other vintage bundles) and message me. I will then create your listing. If you select 2 or more, I will deduct $1 from the total price. “LITERARY HERITAGE” - $5.   1944. 50 B&W photos of places made memorable in British literature. No writing, no owner name. Solid with sunned boards, faded spine, bumped corners. “LYCK SOKARNA” - $4. 1982. In Swedish. Scarce. Previous owner name, otherwise clean, bright pages. Novel about Swedish immigrants in Gold Rush America. Edge wear to DJ with 1” tear. “WHAT BIRD IS THAT?” - $7. 1920. First edition, first printing, as designated by publisher, with color illustrations. ANTIQUE by famous ornithologist Frank Chapman. Ex- library copy with usual markings. Tanned pages with wear, fraying and staining to boards. “SONGS OF THE MUSCONETCONG” - $4. 1973. Poems about NW New Jersey with a few B&W photos and illustrations. Clean pages, no writing. Two small tears on DJ back. “THE HORNBEAM TREE” - $7. 1955. Scarce novel and AUTOGRAPHED. First edition, first printing. Foxing to page edges. Wear and tear to DJ with a missing  2.5” piece. “AUDUBON BIRD GUIDE - EASTERN LAND BIRDS” - $2. Copyright 1949. Field book with color illustrations. Boards very worn and frayed with bumped corners and staining. Previous owner notes on last page. #bundle #vintage #antique #collectible #autographed #birds #England #NewJersey #Swedish #rare (Shelf 10F)

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Create Your Own Vintage BUNDLE 

2010 edition. With contributions by Colin Ford; Ian Jeffrey; Monica Bohm-Duchen; and Manchester City Art Gallery Staff. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Arizona

A World Observed, 1940-2010

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Nancy Atherton

Washington

"Imagine a scene of rural serenity, a night scene. Above the mountains surrounding this faraway place, the stars are a menagerie of silver flickering motes. Imagine a solitary ranch, a man and a woman asleep. It would be hard to fathom a purer vision of people at peace in the natural world. Who could foresee that this tranquility would be so brutally shattered by the night visitors?" "When Grant hears of the campaign of malice being waged against his only living relatives, he abandons Rome and a crumbling marriage to do what he can to help them. His brash confidence is quickly bruised as the night visits escalate in violence, and the death of Giovanni Trentas, a dear family friend found mutilated in a gorge above the ranch, takes on new meaning. When his aunt presents him with Giovanni's legacy - an old cigar box filled with letters, photos, and seemingly random knick-knacks - Grant finds himself in possession of a puzzle that might hold the answers to much more than Giovanni's death. Grant's unfolding passion for Giovanni's daughter, Helen, forces him to choose between loyalty and love as the night terrors come to their catastrophic end."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Aunt Dimity's Good Deed

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Venturing to a sprawling mansion in Cornwall--led by the ghost of Aunt Dimity--Emma Porter puts aside her broken heart to restore a once-glorious chapel garden, where she overhears rumors about the near-death of a beautiful family cousin. 15,000 first printing.

Aunt Dimity and the Duke

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Poppy Alexander

#romance #England #fiction #library #PoppyAlexander #paperback 

A Romance Novel

A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the littlest library in England and brings together a struggling town.

A little red telephone box full of stories, a chance to change her life...

Jess Metcalf is perfectly content with her quiet, predictable life. But when her beloved grandmother passes away and she loses her job at the local library, Jess' life is turned upside down.

Determined to pick up the pieces, Jess decides it's time for a new beginning. Unable to part with her grandmother's cherished books, she packs them all up and moves to a tiny cottage in the English countryside. To her surprise, Jess discovers that she's now the owner of an old red phone box that was left on the property. Missing her job at the local library, Jess decides to give back to her new community--using her grandmother's collection to turn the ordinary phone box into the littlest library in England.

It's not long before the books are borrowed and begin to work their literary magic--bringing the villagers together... and managing to draw Jess' grumpy but handsome neighbor out of his shell.

Maybe it's finally time for Jess to follow her heart, let go of her old life, and make the village her home? But will she be able to take the leap? 

The Littlest Library

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Vintage History of England by Thomas Macaulay Volume 2 Sully and Kleinteich 1899. Book is in good vintage condition with spine having some issues. cxx#hardcover #hardcover #england #history

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Vintage History of England by Thomas Macaulay Volume 2 Sully and Kleinteich 1899

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The Manningtree Witches

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Thomas Hardy

Far from the Madding crowd

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In Search of Peace

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The Polite World

Daniel Pool

What Jane Austen Ate & Charles Dickens Knew By Daniel Pool HC First edition

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My Lady Jane

Ken Follett

The Evening and the Morning

Julia Kelly

The Last Garden in England

Darwin Porter

England on Thirty-Five Dollars a Day

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Chasing Churchill (signed)

Jonathan Sumption

The Hundred Years War

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Black Swan Green (autographed copy)

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A New History of England, 410-1975

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Create Your Own Vintage BUNDLE

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A World Observed, 1940-2010

Nancy Atherton

Aunt Dimity's Good Deed

Nancy Atherton

Aunt Dimity and the Duke

Poppy Alexander

The Littlest Library

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Vintage History of England by Thomas Macaulay Volume 2 Sully and Kleinteich 1899