Fraser, Antonia
A Splash of Red a Jemima Shore Mystery

Imprint: W. W. Norton,NY, 1981
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

HBDJ, 1981 reprint, orig 1981, slight browning of DJ, VG+/VG. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good

Stock number: 1088.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Bluff Park Rare Books

$US 12.50

"Fraser, Antonia"
A Splash of Red

Imprint: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981
Edition: First Edition
Binding: hardcover, With Dust Jacket

"The third novel to feature Jemima Shore. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Top edge of book block showing very faint signs of spotting else a clean, unmarked copy in an unclipped dust-jacket."

Stock number: 5776. ISBN: 0 297 77937 0

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: The Glass Key

£ 9.00 (approx. $US 11.71 )

Fraser, Antonia
The Cavalier Case : a Jemima Shore Mystery

Imprint: Toronto, ON, Canada, Seal Books, 1992
Edition: First Thus 1st Printing
Binding: Softback

16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Please email us if you would like further information or if you would like us to send you a picture of the book. Thanks for looking!. Book Condition: Very Good +. Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Stock number: 016683. ISBN: 0770425194

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Wally's Books

$US 1.99

FRASER, Antonia
The Cavalier case

Imprint: Bloomsbury 1990
Edition: First Edition

1st ed, fine in fine d/w.

Stock number: 7798.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Collectors Treasury

$US 25.00

FRASER**, ANTONIA:
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT: Terror & Faith in 1605.

Imprint: LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1996.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp, clean,glossy laminated,dark green background with contemporary,historical b/w llustration reproduction with a gilt border,to centre of front panel of dw/dj with gilt+white lettering,similar lettering to spine,to rear panel contemporary colour portrait painting illustration; with some negligible shelf-wear, bumping with reciprocal creasing - mainly to top edges - and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore- edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a headband and immaculate plain brick red endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,x-xxxvpp+4-347pp [paginated] includes an illustrations list/table,author's note includes a prologue,Pts One - Five,24pp historical,contemporary b/w+colour facsimile reproduction illustrations in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp124/5,pp188/9 and pp252/3 respectively,notes,reference books and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table,first page of illustrations list,an English Succession genealogical tree and a Conspirators relationships tree/chart,and individual Pts separator pages. 'Remember,remember the fifth of November.' The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 is one of the most commemorated events in English history.Yet this astonishing episode remains shrouded in mystery and the subject of passionate argument.The central aim of Antonia Fraser's rich and immensely readable book is to explain why there should have been a plot at all,and to understand why the courageous,idealistic,but terrifyingly misguided conspirators risked their lives for what they believed to be the cause of God and their country. Although Guy Fawkes is today the name best known of the thirteen conspirators,the plot was conceived and masterminded by the charismatic Catholic,Robert Catesby.Against the background of Elizabeth I's death and James I accession, Antonia Fraser reveals the underlying motive of these men,including the gallant Sir Everard Digby,the wealthy young Ambrose Rookwood and the Wintour brothers.Together,they came close to blowing up the Houses of Parliament and with them the King and Royal Family.She brings to life the harsh conditions endured by the persecuted Catholic community,especially their illegal priests,condemned to secret refuges in safe Catholic houses (some of which still survive today),and an extensive cast of characters,not least the courageous Catholic women,with her usual biographical skill. Although anti-Catholic legislation was introduced soon after the plot's discovery,many important and loyal Catholics retained high office during King James I's reign.The thwarting of the plot was commemorated for many years afterwards by special sermons and other public events such as the ringing of church bells,which have evolved into the Bonfire Night of today. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** UK,buyers note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded after order receipt and before order's despatch,especially if offered P/p included or free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always.

Stock number: rja869620. ISBN: 029781348X.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY

£ 16.00 (approx. $US 20.82 )

FRASER**, ANTONIA:
THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII.

Imprint: LONDON.BCA by arrangement with WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1992.
Edition: UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Not SIGNED.

UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price as a Book Club subscription issue.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, wrap-around red background with colour pictorial Henry VIII full-length painting with his wives' heraldic badges arranged in an arc above his head,to front panel with white lettering,a red spine/backstrip with thumbnail colour illustration of the King from front's design, also with similarly coloured lettering,wives' colour illustrated heraldic badges with white+ gold coloured lettering; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – near pristine, possibly unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain red cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-ixpp+1-479pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illustrations lists/ tables,a Prologue,Pts 1-5 comprising 5,5,3,3,and 3 chapters respectively,an Epilogue,48pp contemporary facsimile b/w+colour illustrations reproductions in 6 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp50/1,pp146/7,pp242/3,pp306/7,pp338/9 and pp402/3 respectively,References,Reference Books and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with author's other works listed to verso of same, title page,2 double-page genealogical family tree charts: Plantagenet descent of Henry and his Queens and The Tudors and their Rivals,and to the rear 2pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. Divorced,beheaded,died; divorced,beheaded, survived.The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr - have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended.Divorced,beheaded,died; divorced,beheaded, survived.In the same way their characters are popularly portrayed as female sterotypes: the Betrayed Wife,the Temptress,the Good Woman,the Ugly Sister,the Bad Girl and,finally the Mother Figure. But,as Antonia Fraser brilliantly and conclusively proves,they were rich and feisty characters.They may have been victims of Henry's obsession with a male heir,but they were not willing victims.On the contrary,they exhibited remarkable degrees of spirit and defiance of which women living now might still be proud.They displayed considerable strength and intelligence at a time when their sex supposedly possessed little of either. Antonia Fraser deals with each woman in turn with sympathy - the sympathy they deserve for having had the unenviable fate of being Henry's wife.Inevitably there was great rivalry between them,so high were the stakes in the great game of marrying the King of England.There was jealousy too - the desperate jealously of Queens who found themselves abandoned,but also the sexual jealousy of the King who discovered himself betrayed. The story Antonia Fraser tells is romantic and cruel,funny and sad, dramatic and enthralling. This is historical biography at its very best. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

Stock number: rja1018722. ISBN: No ISBN.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY

£ 12.00 (approx. $US 15.62 )

Fraser, Antonia
The Warrior Queens

Imprint: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover

383pp. B&W Illustrations Neat ink name, DJ price clipped, 8vo, Fine in Fine DJ

Stock number: 014156. ISBN: 0394549392

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Chris Hartmann, Bookseller

$US 15.00

"Fraser, Antonia"
The Warrior Queen

Imprint: London, Ted Smart, 2002
Edition: First Edition
Binding: paperback

"1st printing of this Phoenix Press trade paperback edition produced for the Book People. Pp xvi + 431 + 32pp b&w and colour illustrations. Grease mark on top edge of fep, else a clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers -appears unread."

Stock number: 90513. ISBN: 1 84212 636 9

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: The Glass Key

£ 3.00 (approx. $US 3.90 )

Fraser, Antonia
The Weaker Vessel : Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England

Imprint: New York, NY, U.S.A., Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1984
Edition: 3rd Printing
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AA5 - An examination of British womens' lives and roles in the seventeenth century.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: Very Good

Stock number: NF89BB. ISBN: 0394513517

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Bookmarc's

$US 3.50

Fraser, Antonia
The Wild Island : a Jemima Shore Investigation

Imprint: ., Penguin, 1983
Binding: Softback

16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Please email us if you would like further information or if you would like us to send you a picture of the book. The book i am offering may not have the same cover as the one pictured. they are stock photos from the site. Thanks for looking!. Book Condition: Very Good +. Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Stock number: 025457. ISBN: 0140048200

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Wally's Books

$US 1.99

Fraser, Antonia
The Wives of Henry VIII

Imprint: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992
Binding: Softback

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CR2 - An uncorrected proof softcover in very good condition that has some xerox pages stapled to the opposite side of the front, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9"x6", 458 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket as Issued

Stock number: EC29353BB. ISBN: 067083307X

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Bookmarc's

$US 10.00

Fraser, Antonia
Warrior Queens, The

Imprint: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989
Edition: First American Edition (stated).
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

FIRST PRINTING of the First American Edition (stated). A series of short biographies of famous women warrior leaders, in all nations and throughout the ages, including Boadicea, Joan of Arc, Catherine the Great, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, more. Hardcover with dust jacket, 383pp. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine

Stock number: 00416. ISBN: 0394549392

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: JB Books

$US 15.00

Fraser, Antonia
Wives of Henry VIII, The

Imprint: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992
Edition: First American Edition (stated).
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

FIRST PRINTING of the First American Edition (stated). A fascinating biographical coverage of the many wives of English King Henry VIII, discussing the period of the Plantagenets and the world of that time, the Henry's lusts and paranoias, how and why each came to wed him but met untimely ends at his hands, what life was like for women and girls fo the period, expectations both in and out of matrimony, the traditional 'rights' or privileges of kings during this time, much more. A finely written scholarly work. Hardcover with dust jacket, genealological chart, illustrations, notes, references, indexed, 479pp. A nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Book Condition: Very Good+. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

Stock number: 00016188.

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: JB Books

$US 25.00

Fraser, Antonia
Your Royal Hostage

Imprint: Methuen, 1988
Binding: Softback

16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Please email us if you would like further information or if you would like us to send you a picture of the book. Thanks for looking!. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Stock number: 016830. ISBN: 0413163008

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Wally's Books

$US 1.99