Historical Fiction from JimsOldBooks

Bideford, Devon: Letterbox Books, 2017. The tiniest bit of scuffing to outer corners of cover, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. A novel based around the life of Edward Capern (1819-94), the "Postman Poet" of Bideford in north Devon. Signed by the author on half-title. 321pp..… Read more about this item

Lerwick, Shetland: The Shetland Times Ltd, 2011. A very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book. The story deals with a woman trying to find out about her grandfather's early life, when he emigrated from Shetland to Canada in the early 1900s, but later returned. This is the author's first novel,… Read more about this item

London: Peter Davies, 1949. Creasing and quite a few tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, some yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Slightly misleading title, really a novelised account of the life of the English poet Matthew Arnold from 1848… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1939. Unclipped dustwrapper is in poor shape: torn in half at left-hand side of spine, top inch and bottom two inches or so missing at spine, tears and small bits missing along edges. Some bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, gilt titles on spine are a bit faded, a previous owner's name on f/ep, but… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1963. Creasing and some tears to unclipped dustwrapper, with a few small bits missing along top edge at spine and back panel. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of black boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A story by the author of the "Poldark" series, also set mostly in… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1946. Some creasing and small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, particularly to top end of the spine. Minor bumping to corners of green boards, previous (original?) owner's name on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The story, set in mid nineteenth century France, deals with the lives… Read more about this item

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… 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..… 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

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: 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