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2010"As the sole remaining heir to the Earl of Daventry, Alexander Randall knows his duty: find a wife and sire a son of his own. The perfect bride for a man in his position would be a biddable young girl of good breeding. But the woman who haunts his imagination is Julia Bancroft, a village midwife with a dark secret that thrusts her into Randall's protection " Book
1991Beautiful Alys Weston had found refuge from heartbreak in a most unlikely post. Fleeing a treacherous suitor, she had become manager of an isolated country estate by masquerading by mail as a man. But now her masquerade was over. The estate had a new master, whom she had to meet face-to-face. Book
1988Beautiful Lady Jocelyn Kendal had two pressing reasons to find a husband. First, she would lose her vast legacy to her grasping cousin Elvira if she did not. And second, the man she adored, the dashing Duke of Candover, refused to take a wife, but had a definite taste for married ladies. In Major David Lancaster, Jocelyn thought she found the perfect husband. For this wounded officer lay on the brink of death, badly in need of funds to support his orphaned sister. Thus the deal was struck, the vows exchanged, all Jocelyn's problems solved - until the maddeningly Major Lancaster made it clear that a death bed was not for him...and that a marriage bed most certainly was Book
1993They called him the Demon Earl. They said he could do anything. Son of a rogue and a gypsy, Nicholas Davies was a notorious rake until a shattering betrayal left him alone and embittered in the Welsh countryside. Desperation drives quiet schoolteacher Clare Morgan to ask the Demon Earl to help save her village. Unwilling to involve himself in the problems of others, Nicholas sets an impossible price on his aid --- only if Clare agrees to live with him for three months, letting the world think the worst, will he intervene. Furiously, Clare accepts his outrageous challenge, and finds herself drawn into a glittering Regency world of danger and desire. As allies, she and Nicholas fight to save her community. As adversaries, they explore the hazardous terrain of power and sensuality. And as lovers, they surrender to passion that threatens the very foundations of their lives.... Book
1993(Signet Regency Romance) Miss Sarah Baxter possessed both beauty and wit, but she knew that the Earl of Drakefield was after one thing only: the wealth he would gain when he made her his. Drakefield was the handsomest man Sarah had ever seen, but all she could see in him was everything she hated. Drakefield was a wastrel and rake to the core, with only his title to make her father command that she wed him. Sarah vowed to make this lord she loathed despise her in turn. She vowed as well to ignore his polished perfection. But in a game of deception with this master of seduction, keeping her vows proved to be heartbreakingly hard... Book
réf. 1453Tunis, Sapi, 1931. In 8 broché, 153 pp., (couverture renforcée).
réf. ML3239P, A Colin, 1932 , in8br, 238pp Langue: Français
1993"this lively guide...clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!" at a fox hunt, or how one landed in "debtor's prison," This book serves as an indispensable historical and literary resource to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, The Brontes, Dickens, Trollope and others. 426p. illus bibliography. index. Book
1780réf. GIT01514A paris chez Eugène Onfroy 1780. In-12 366pp 2ff n ch. Pleine basane fauve, dos lisse orné de volutes et ancres dorés, grande pièce de titre et de tomaison de maroquin noir, dentelle dorée surbordure intérieure, tranches dorées, rel époque. Dorure de la pièce de titre et de tomaison altérée. Bel exp.
19898vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1971Historical novel about Princess Caroline daughter of George IV. Book
19478vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and very numerous monochrome plates and illustrations in the text; orange cloth, backstrip lettered in red, orange top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at edges. One of the scarcer titles in Batsford's 'British Art & Building' series.
2000A Tragic Misunderstanding. After fending off the advances of a malicious lord, Lady Miranda is discovered in a state of dishevelment by her husband--Julian Grosvenor--who believes she's been in a tryst. Betrayed and hurt, Julian accepts a major's commission with the army and goes to war, but not before initiating divorce proceedings. Disowned by her family, Miranda is taken in by her ex-husband's aunt--and soon gives birth to her son, Justin. Seven years later, Julian returns from service as a titled marquess and enters Miranda's life once again. Though shocked to discover that he is a father, he plans to raise Justin as his heir, but Miranda doesn't want her son to inhabit the aristocratic world that shunned her after the divorce. As Julian and Miranda try to decide what's best for their son, former passions are reawakened. But if they are to love once again, they must first learn to forgive.... Book
1992[Harlequin Regency Romance No. 31180] The third book in the Thackery Jewels series SHE had expected an heirloom but all she got was the headache! Wed and widowed four times, Lady Udora Middlesworth was quite certain she'd experienced all. This became patently untrue as she was charged with the guardianship of The Thackery Jewels: Amythest, Emerald and Topaz, three of the mangiest mudlarks she'd ever beheld. Too much of a handful, Udora decided to hire on Aaron Bently who had volunteered his help. Little was Udora to know that having done so, she had leapt from the fat into the fire! Book
1987Could her head rule her heart? Juliana Penridge was beautiful, intelligent ... and penniless. She had been deprived of her dead husband's estate when an unscrupulous cut-throat presented false papers of ownership. But Juliana's spirit remained unbroken, and she set out to find herself a job. Instead she found Miles Harcourt lying injured in the road. Juliana helped the enigmatic, undeniably attractive gentleman to a nearby country house and nursed him back to health.Miles repaid Juliana for her kindness by escorting her to London. The gossip-mongers soon began wagging their tongues, however, and Juliana thought it best to leave. If only she hadn't fallen in love . Book
1949réf. LFA-126715902Un ouvrage de 283 pages, format 145 x 205 mm, broché, publié en 1949, Editions NRF Gallimard, bon état
réf. 17999broché - 14.5x21 - 281pp - éditions GALLIMARD - 1938
1984No lady had more suitors than lovely Alexa Eiseley, but few were more adamantly opposed to the married state. Alexa enjoyed her life, did, not consider herself on the shelf to the great consternation of her stuffy brother, George, had no plans to change her status.Then, one night, she gave shelter to young Leigh Winslow on a stormy night with no servants at home and in full view of her neighbors. To quiet the gossips Alexa agreed to announce her "betrothal" to Leigh's uncle, her good friend the Earl of Winslow, himself a confirmed bachelor. They planned to continue the hoax only until the wagging tongues stopped wagging. But the betrothal seemed to have a life of its own. What's more, these two good friends found themselves in a near constant state of quarreling. Book
réf. 241996Fayard, 1986 22,2 x 14 x 4,2 cm., 727 pp, Broché
1868Broché. 573 pages. Manques à la couverture. Fortes rousseurs.
Grand in-8, demi-chagrin rouge de l'époque, dos à 5 faux-nerfs filetés or, orné de filets dorés en tête et pied, titre doré, (2) f., 548 p., portrait frontispice gravé sous serpente. Edition originale. La marquise du Deffand (1697-1780), célèbre par sa culture, son esprit et sa beauté, mena une vie très libre dans les salons de la Régence. Charles Hénault devint président de la Première Chambre des enquêtes du Parlement de Paris, il demeura l'un de ses amants les plus constants. Ami de la reine, c'est lui également qui introduisit la marquise auprès de la duchesse du Maine, alors grande ordonnatrice des plaisirs à la Cour de Sceaux. L'auteure Clara Adèle Luce Herpin (1825-1914) composa plusieurs études historiques sous le pseudonyme de Lucien Perey. Quelques rousseurs éparses. Bon exemplaire, bien relié.
réf. 37513Grand in-8, demi-chagrin rouge de l'époque, dos à 5 faux-nerfs filetés or, orné de filets dorés en tête et pied, titre doré, (2) f., 548 p., portrait frontispice gravé sous serpente. Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1893.
réf. 7144Collection Encyclopédique des Classiques Quillet In-12°, demi reliure cuir cognac marbré éditeur pour la série- 488p, gardes enrichies de motifs décoratifs,portrait frontispice , bel exemplaire,d'une remarquable fraicheur.Illustrations en sépia ht.
réf. 23334P., Bossard (Collection des Chefs-d'Oeuvre Méconnus), 1921, in 8° broché, 237pp. ; des rousseurs.
1996réf. 43745London : Phaidon Press, 1996. 240 Seiten ; ill. ; Sprache: Englisch broschiert
