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Browse Books We have over 2,000 books available for sale, from antiques to contemporary bestsellers. Note that the prices below do not include shipping. Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. Order Now! BookId: C3-115 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 5 Old Mortality Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the `killing time'. Old Mortality is one of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. Set in south west Scotland, it forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of his Tales of My Landlord. Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 441 pages. This is number Five of a set of 25 volumes,. See vol #1 for more info. Order Now! BookId: C3-116 Title: Waverley Novels vol 6 Legend of Montrose and Black Dwarf Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:The main plot concerns a love triangle between Allan M'Aulay, his friend the Earl of Menteith, and Annot Lyle. Annot is a young woman who has been brought up by the M'Aulays since being captured as a girl during a blood feud against the MacEagh clan (also known as the Children of the Mist). A Legend of Montrose is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the 1640s during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It forms, along with The Bride of Lammermoor, the 3rd series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1819. One of the Waverley Novels by Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series (1816). It is set in 1708, in the Scottish Borders, against the background of the first uprising to be attempted by the Jacobites after the Act of Union. Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like endpapers, very solid and very clean , 382 pages. This is number six of a set of 25 volumes, with 2 separate novels . Order Now! BookId: C3-117 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 7 The Heart of Mid-Lothian Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:The Old Tolbooth prison in Edinburgh is called “the heart of Midlothian,” and there Effie Deans is held on charges of having murdered her illegitimate son. Her sister, Jeanie Deans, makes a dangerous journey through outlaw-infested regions to London to seek the queen's pardon for Effie. The Heart of Mid-Lothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels. It was originally published in four volumes on 25 July 1818, under the title of Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, and the author was given as "Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoolmaster and Parish-clerk of Gandercleugh". Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 576 pages. This is number Seven of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-118 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 8 The Bride of Lammermoor Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:Sir Walter Scott's novel 'The Bride of Lammermoor' (1819) is set in the Lammermuir Hills and tells of an ill-fated romance between two young lovers from feuding families. The story is believed to have been inspired by real life events and a favourite fireside tale of the young Walter Scott's mother. The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819, one of the Waverley novels. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, shortly before the Act of Union of 1707, or shortly after the Act. Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 330 pages. This is number eight of a set of 25 volumes,...see #1 for more info. Order Now! BookId: C3-119 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 9 Ivanhoe, a romance Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:It follows the Saxon protagonist, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who is out of favour with his father for Sir Wilfred's allegiance to the Norman king Richard the LionHeart. The story is set in 1194, after the failure of the Third Crusade, when many of the Crusaders were still returning to their homes in Europe. Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. Set in England in the Middle Ages, it marked a shift away from Scott’s prior practice of setting stories in Scotland and in the more recent past. Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 472 pages. This is number Nine of a set of 25 volumes,... Order Now! BookId: C3-120 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 10 The Monastery Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:The action is centred on the Monastery of Kennaquhair, probably based on Melrose Abbey in south east Scotland, on the River Tweed. At this time, circa 1550, the Scottish Reformation is just beginning, and the monastery is in peril. A love story is interwoven as the Glendinning boys fall in love with Mary Avenel. The Monastery: a Romance is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set in the Scottish Borders in the 1550s on the eve of the Reformation, it is centred on Melrose Abbey Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 396 pages. This is number One of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-121 Title: The Waverley novels vol 11 The Abbot being a sequel to the Monastery Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:The Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 453pages. This is number 11 of a set of 25 volumes. (more info in first volume. The novel takes place between July 1567 and May 1568, spanning the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots at Lochleven, her enforced abdication, her escape from the Castle, defeat at Langside and subsequent flight to England.he Abbot is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. A sequel to The Monastery, its action takes place in 1567 and 1568. It reaches its climax in the escape of Mary, Queen of Scots from Lochleven Castle leading to her defeat at the Battle of Langside and her final departure from Scotland. Order Now! BookId: C3-122 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 12 Kennilworth Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:The heroine Amy Robsart enters into a secret marriage with the Earl of Leicester, spurning her fiancé, Edmund Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman. A favourite of Queen Elizabeth, Leicester feels obliged to conceal his marriage in order to maintain his position at court. Kennilworth. A Romance is a historical romance novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, first published on 13 January 1821. The Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 473 pages and includes a map of Kennilworth catle.. This is number 14 of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-123 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 13 The Pirate Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:. The Pirate is set in a remote part of Shetland, where Basil Mertoun lives as a tenant of Magnus Troil. In his youth, Mertoun has been betrayed by a faithless wife, and in a spirit of vengeance, turned to piracy. The Pirate is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott, based roughly on the life of John Gow who features as Captain Cleveland. The setting is the southern tip of the main island of Shetland, towards the end of the 17th century, with 1689 as the likely date of the main incidents. The Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 478 pages. This is number 13 of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-124 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 14 The Fortunes of Nigel Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:A young Scottish nobleman, Nigel Olifaunt, Lord Glenvarloch, travels to London in order to ask the King to repay his father's loan. Nigel wishes to use the money to pay off a mortgage on his estate—but the Duke of Buckingham and Prince Charles already have their eyes on it. The Fortunes of Nigel is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Set in London in either 1623 or 1624, it centres on the Scottish community there after the Union of the Crowns and features James VI and I. The Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 478 pages. This is number 14 of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-125 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 15 Peveril of the Peak Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:Set against the backdrop of the Popish Plot to overturn Charles II, Peveril of the Peak explores the on-going tensions between Cavalier and Puritan loyalties during the fraught years of Restoration England. Peveril of the Peak is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, and Woodstock this is one of the English novels in the Waverley novels series, with the main action taking place around 1678 in the Peak District, the Isle of Man, and London, and centring on the Popish Plot. Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 635 pages, the longest novel of Scott. This is number fifteen of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-126 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 16 Quentin Durward Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:The novel is set in 15th-century France, where the title character saves the life of Louis XI, protects and falls in love with Countess Isabelle de Croye (a Burgundian heiress), helps defeat the king's brutal enemy, and wins Isabelle's hand in marriage. Quentin Durward is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1823. The story concerns a Scottish archer in the service of the French King Louis XI (1423–1483) who plays a prominent part in the narrative. Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 461 pages. This is number sixteen of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-127 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 17 St Ronan's Well Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:he novel concerns the rivalry of two men: Valentine Bulmer, the Earl of Etherington, and his half-brother Francis Tyrrel. Both wish to marry Miss Clara Mowbray, who is the sister of John, the laird of Saint Ronan's. Saint Ronan's Well is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Set in a fashionable spa in the Scottish Borders, it is the only novel he wrote with a 19th-century setting. Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 448 pages. This is number seventeenth of a set of 25 volumes, see more info on book #1 description. Order Now! BookId: C3-128 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 18 Redgauntlet, a tale of the Eighteenth century Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:The story follows the family Redgauntlet and portrays a fictional Jacobite uprising in 1765. The character Redgauntlet is chasing windmills with the Jacobite uprising and defeat in 1745-46 at Culloden a distant memory. Redgauntlet also known as Herries of Birrenswork kidnaps his young nephew Darsie Latimer. Redgauntlet is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, set primarily in Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland, in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson as "in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels." Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 459 pages. This is number eighteen of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-129 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 19 The Betrothed a tale of the Crusaders and The Chronicles of Canongate Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:The plot unfolds against the backdrop of border conflicts between the Anglo-Norman and Welsh barons. Having refused the hand of his daughter, Eveline, to the Welsh prince Gwenwyn, the Anglo-Norman Raymond Berenger is killed when the incensed Gwenwyn lays siege to his castle of Garde Douloureuse. The Betrothed is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Set in the Welsh Marches in the 12th century it is the first of two Tales of the Crusaders, the second being The Talisman. Forced to live in the debtors' sanctuary in the Canongate, Croftangry is restored to freedom with the help of a legal friend. Returning from abroad some years later he finds his friend senile and turns to family research. Chronicles of the Canongate is a collection of stories by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1827 and 1828 in the Waverley novels series. They are named after the Canongate, in Edinburgh. Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 495 pages , there is a third story named the Highland widow which explains why there are a bit more pages in this book.. This is number Nineteen of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-130 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 20 The Talisman a tale of the Crusaders and The chronicles of the Canongate Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:More of the Chronicles of Canongate. Chronicles of the Canongate is a collection of stories by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1827 and 1828 in the Waverley novels series. They are named after the Canongate, in Edinburgh. he Talisman is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Published in 1825 as the second of his Tales of the Crusaders, it is set during the Third Crusade and centres on the relationship between Richard I of England and Saladin. This novel focuses on the Third Crusade which had been triggered by the conquest in 1187 of almost the whole of Palestine, including Jerusalem, by Salah-ed-Din Yusef ibn Ayub or Saladin. The plot revolves around the Crusaders' camp in the Holy Land which is being torn apart by tensions between rival leaders. Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 431 pages. This is number Twenty of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-131 Title: The Waverley novels vol 21 Woodstock or The Cavalier , a tale of the Year 1651 Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652, during the Commonwealth, and his final triumphant entry into London on 29 May 1660. Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 493 pages. This is number twenty-one of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-132 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 22 The Fair Maid of Perth or St Valentine's Day.... the Chronicles of Canongate (second series ) Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:The King's son, the Duke of Rothsay, attempts to abduct Catharine Glover, the 'Fair Maid of Perth', daughter of an honest burgher. He is thwarted by the intervention of Henry Smith or Gow, an armourer and renowned swordsman, who hacks off the hand of Sir John Ramorny, the Duke's Master of Horse. The Fair Maid of Perth is an 1828 novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Inspired by the strange, but historically true, story of the Battle of the North Inch, it is set in Perth and other parts of Scotland around 1400. Chronicles of the Canongate is a collection of stories by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1827 and 1828 in the Waverley novels series. They are named after the Canongate, in Edinburgh.The Fair Maid is part of it . Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 467 pages. This is number twenty-Two of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-133 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 23 Anne of Geierstein or The maiden of the Mist Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:Two exiled Lancastrians are on a secret mission to the court of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, hoping to gain his help in regaining the English crown from the Yorkist Edward IV. The two Englishmen get into difficulties in the Swiss mountains. Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, shortly after the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Tewkesbury. Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 482pages. This is number twenty-three of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-134 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 24 Count Robert of Paris Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description: Count Robert is set during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus (1081-1118) and focuses on the arrival of the first Crusaders in 1096. During the oath-taking ceremony on the eve of the Crusade, the haughty Count Robert insults the Emperor by seating himself on the imperial throne. Count Robert of Paris was the second-last of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. It is part of Tales of My Landlord, 4th series, along with Castle Dangerous. Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 400 pages. This is number twenty-four of a set of 25 volumes, Order Now! BookId: C3-135 Title: The Waverley Novels vol 25 The Surgeon's Daughter and Castle Dangerous Author: Sir Walter Scott Publisher: Adam & Charles Black Price: 100.00 Description:t is the story of Menie Gray, daughter of Dr Gideon Gray (who is thought to have been modelled on Scott's own doctor, Ebenezer Clarkson of Selkirk). "The Surgeon's Daughter" is chiefly remarkable for its disregard of the unities of time and place. Though one of the shorter novels, its action extends through more than a quarter of a century, involving a great variety of characters and scenes widely remote, in all of which action the "Daughter" herself is little more than a lay figure. Dr. Gideon Gray, an estimable Scotch village surgeon, gives professional attention in his home to a masked lady, to whom a son is born. The lady proves to be Zilia de Mongada, daughter of a proud Portuguese Jew, who soon after reclaims her, but leaves her illegitimate child in the care of the surgeon. Castle Dangerous was the last of Walter Scott's Waverley novels. It is part of Tales of My Landlord, 4th series, with Count Robert of Paris. Castle Dangerous is the realisation of a thirty-year old project of Scott's to retell a story found in Barbour's Brus. Set in the early fourteenth century during the Scottish Wars of Independence, an English knight for a love wager commits himself to defend Douglas Castle against Scottish attempts to retake it. Book is as new, Half-leather , , gilt lettering and top of pages, marble like end papers, very solid and very clean , 424 pages. This is number twenty-five and the Last of a set of 25 volumes, a beautiful set which will be great to keep together .... special price of 1485.00 $ for the 25 volumes. Order Now! BookId: C4-002 Title: Great Ghost Stories Author: John Grafton Publisher: Dover Editions Price: 12.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: C4-002513 Title: The Old Curiosity Shop Author: Dickens Charles Publisher: Cassell and Co Price: 45.00 Description:London: Cassell and Company Limited. Publisher's Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Cassells Red Library edition dated 1885/6. Red cloth boards, with gilt lettering and black decoration to spine and boards. Bevelled edges to boards. All page edges red. Internally bright, binding cracked inside but good outside , 414 pages .several more books available in the collection Cassel's red Library Order Now! BookId: C4-002514 Title: Sketches By " Boz" Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People Author: Dickens Charles Publisher: Cassell and Co Price: 45.00 Description:London: Cassell and Company Limited. Publisher's Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Cassells Red Library edition dated 1885/6. Red cloth boards, with gilt lettering and black decoration to spine and boards. Bevelled edges to boards. All page edges red. Internally bright, 380 pages .several more books available in the collection Cassel's red Library Order Now! BookId: C4-002515 Title: The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent Author: Irving Washington Publisher: Cassell and Co Price: 45.00 Description:London: Cassell and Company Limited. Publisher's Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Cassells Red Library edition dated 1885/6. Red cloth boards, with gilt lettering and black decoration to spine and boards. Bevelled edges to boards. All page edges red. Internally bright, 379 pages .several more books available in the collection Cassel's red Library Order Now! BookId: C4-002516 Title: Lays of Ancient Rome with Selections from the Essays Author: Macaulay Publisher: Cassell and Co Price: 45.00 Description:London: Cassell and Company Limited. Publisher's Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Cassells Red Library edition dated 1885/6. Red cloth boards, with gilt lettering and black decoration to spine and boards. Bevelled edges to boards. All page edges red. Internally bright, 382 pages .several more books available in the collection Cassel's red Library Order Now! BookId: C4-002517 Title: Prose and Poetry Selections Author: Poe Edgar Allan Publisher: Cassell and Co Price: 50.00 Description:London: Cassell and Company Limited. Publisher's Cloth. Book Condition: Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Cassells Red Library edition dated 1885/6. Red cloth boards, with gilt lettering and black decoration to spine and boards. Bevelled edges to boards. All page edges red. Internally bright, 382 pages , .several more books available in the collection Cassel's red Library Order Now! BookId: C4-003 Title: The Kreutzer Sonata and other short Stories Author: Leo Tolstoy Publisher: Dover Editions Price: 16.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: C4-004 Title: Notes from the Underground Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Publisher: Dover Editions Price: 16.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: C4-005 Title: The Metamorphosis and other Stories Author: Franz Kafka Publisher: Dover Editions Price: 16.00 Description: |
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