Christopher John Sansom (22 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Printing. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Introduction; Just a Song at Twilight by Robert Aickman; The Private Torture Chamber by Rosemary Timperley; Fear by Paul Tabori; Hapladies by John Christopher writing as Anthony Rye; A Bit Simple by Ronald Blythe; The Face in the Mirror by Denys Val Baker; The Home Stretch by Peter Ford; Sarah by D. G. Compton; Consanquinity by Ronald Duncan; The Lorraine Cross by Evelyn Fabyan; The Expert by Kate Barlay; A Local Haunting by Charles Causley; The Game of Dice by Alain Danielou; Dear Ghost by Fielden Hughes; Exorcizing Baldassare by Edward Hyams; On Terms by Christine Brooke-Rose; Ivory Joe by John Pudney; A Saving Grace by William Sansom; The Unquiet Spirit by Jean Stubbs; The House by the Water by R.W. Thompson; Water Water Wallflower by Fred Urquhart; Averil at Endercombe by Rosalind Wade; and The Guardian by James Turner. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback. 176 pages Illustrated Very Good + condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket Original owner's inscription on front end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing with full number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. Minor edge wear to top and bottom of jacket, corners slightly pushed and rubbed, not price clipped £18.99), no inscriptions, slight lean, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 593pp. The Great Smog. London. A dense, choking fog engulfs the city and beneath it, history is re-written . . .…

Soft Cover. Condition: VG. Reprint. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a little rubbed & creased, slightly toned); pp. [xiii (last blank)], 464 (last blank), with a map. A very good copy. The first volume in the Matthew Shardlake series of Tudor mysteries, ths one set in Sussex during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537.…

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Fifth Printing. VG/VG. 8vo. original purple boards gilt (a little rubbed & marked, silk bookmark torn) in dustwrapper priced £20.00 (a little rubbed & nicked); pp. xiv, 642, with an endpaper map of London, family tree + plan of Whitehall Palace. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. Volume six in the Matthew Shardlake series of Tudor mysteries, ths one set in 1546 as Henry VIII lay dying. …

Soft Cover. Condition: F-. First Edition. 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed & nicked); pp. viii, 552 (last blank)], with 2 maps. A near fine copy. The fourth volume in the Matthew Shardlake series of Tudor mysteries, ths one set in London and Westminster during the wooing of Catherine Parr in 1543.…

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. VG+/VG. 8vo. original black boards (a trifle rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper priced £18.99 (a little rubbed & frayed); pp. [x (last blank)], 594 (last blank), with endpaper maps. Heavy item (1.3 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. Cold War espionage thriller set in London in 1952.…

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. F-/VG+. 8vo. original black blindstamped boards gilt (a trifle rubbed) in dustwrapper priced £18.99 (slightly rubbed & frayed); pp. [vi (last blank)], 634, with an endpaper map + text map of London. Heavy item (1.3 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. Volume five in the Matthew Shardlake series of Tudor mysteries, ths one set during the attempted French invasion of 1545.…

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. VG/VG. 8vo. original brown boards gilt (a little rubbed, prev. owner's initials to FFE, some leaf edge toning & spotting) in dustwrapper priced £16.99 (a little rubbed & nicked, some sunning and marking); pp. [vi (last blank)], 538 (last blank). Heavy item (1.2 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. Wartime espionage thriller set in Madrid in 1940.…

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original purple boards gilt (a little rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper priced £20.00 (a trifle rubbed & creased); pp. xiv, 642, with an endpaper map of London, family tree + plan of Whitehall Palace. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. Volume six in the Matthew Shardlake series of Tudor mysteries, ths one set in 1546 as Henry VIII lay dying.…

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Second Printing. VG+/VG. 8vo. original tan boards gilt (a little rubbed & marked, occ. spots) in dustwrapper priced £20.00 (a little rubbed & nicked); pp. xii (last blank), 866, with an endpaper map of Norwich. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. Volume seven in the Matthew Shardlake series of Tudor mysteries, ths one set in Norwich in 1549, two years after the death of Henry VIII.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Tombland - Christopher John Sansom *** [EN] Categories: English Books; Historical Fiction; Crime & Mystery; Fiction | Condition: good, slanted spine | Binding: Paperback *** [DE] Kategorien: Englische Bücher; Historische Romane; Detektivromane; Belletristik | Zustand: gut, schräger Rücken | Einband: Taschenbuch *** [CZ] Kategorie: Anglicke knihy; Historicke romany; Detektivky; Beletrie | Stav: dobry, zkoseny hrbet | Vazba: brozovana. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Nine Volumes, Very Good + To Near Fine, As Issued; Note: January 1957 With Loose Index To Volume Three; March 1957, No. 3, In Publisher's Wrap-Around Band And With Publisher's Order Card.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Signed limited first edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION ON ADDITIONAL TITLE PAGE. Some edge wear, short closed tears, chipping and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners bruised and rubbed with small loss, very slight lean, some faint yellow staining to page fore edges, not price clipped (£20.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a reasonable copy. 642pp. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle, whoever wins will control the government of Henry's successor, eight year old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, and the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at the stake, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henry's sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake's old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr. Shardlake, still haunted by events aboard the warship Mary Rose the year before, is working on the Cotterstoke Will case, a savage dispute between rival siblings. Then, unexpectedly, he is summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by his old patron, the now beleaguered and desperate Queen. For Catherine Parr has a secret. She has written a confessional book, 'Lamentations of a Sinner', so radically Protestant that if it came to the King's attention it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down. But, although the book was kept secret and hidden inside a locked chest in the Queen's private chamber, it has inexplicably vanished. Only one page has been found, clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer. Shardlake's investigations take him on a trail that begins among the backstreet printshops of London but leads him and Jack Barak into the dark and labyrinthine world of the politics of the royal court, a world he had sworn never to enter again. Loyalty to the Queen will drive him into a swirl of intrigue inside Whitehall Palace, where Catholic enemies and Protestant friends can be equally dangerous, and the political opportunists, who will follow the wind wherever it blows, more dangerous than either. The theft of Queen Catherine's book proves to be connected to the terrible death of Anne Askew, while his involvement with the Cotterstoke litigants threatens to bring Shardlake himself to the stake.The sixth Matthew Shardlake novel. Christopher John Sansom (1952- 2024), was a British writer of historical crime novels, best known for his Matthew Shardlake series. He also wrote the spy novel 'Winter in Madrid' and the alternate history novel 'Dominion'. He won numerous book awards, including the 2005 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2013 and the Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2022. Shardlake, a television series based on Sansom's novel 'Dissolution', started streaming on Disney+ less than a week after his death. Quite scarce signed. Jacket by Danita Delimomi (illustrator).…

Condition: new. Pages: 640 Language: Russian. Ispanija. 1940 god. V kachestve perevodchika britanskogo posolstva Garri Brett po zadaniju britanskoj sekretnoj sluzhby priezzhaet v razrushennyj Grazhdanskoj vojnoj Madrid. Garri dolzhen ustanovit kontakt s Sendi Forsajtom, starym shkolnym drugom, kotoryj, po dannym britanskoj razvedki, zanimaetsja somnitelnym biznesom. A v eto vremja podruga Sendi, Barbara Kler, vypolnjaet sobstvennuju sekretnuju missiju - pytaetsja najti svoego byvshego ljubovnika Berni Pajpera, voevavshego na storone internatsionalnykh brigad i propavshego bez vesti v odnom iz srazhenij. Garri, Sendi i Barbara okazyvajutsja vovlechennymi v opasnuju igru, ikh sudby perepletajutsja i neumolimo vedut k dramaticheskoj i zakhvatyvajuschej dukh kulminatsii romana. 9785389241145. …

6 volumes, paperback.

Condition: new. Pages: 536 Language: Ukrainian. Vidomij londonskij advokat Metju Shardlejk pislja rozsliduvannja nizki vbivstv u monastiri v Skarnsi uspishno vede zemelni spravi, jaki prinosjat chimalij pributok i zabezpechujut dostojne zhittja. Ale nespodivano vin otrimuje lista vid davnogo klijenta z prokhannjam dopomogti vrjatuvati junu pleminnitsju, zasudzhenu za vbivstvo dvojuridnogo brata. Chasu obmal, divchina vperto movchit, a jikhni rodichi bud-scho namagajutsja domogtisja pokarannja. Zdavalosja b, sprava prograna, suddja ot-ot vigolosit virok, odnak zavdjaki vtruchannju lorda Kromvelja Shardlejk otrimuje sche dva tizhni na svoje rozsliduvannja i, paralelno, rozsliduvannja spravi derzhavnoji vagi - znajti tajemnichij Gretskij vogon dlja demonstratsiji pered korolem i formulu dlja jogo vigotovlennja.Metju Shardlejk i jogo pomichnik Dzhek Barak stikajutsja z zhakhlivimi zlochinami, rizikujut vlasnim zhittjam i plich-o-plich rozplutujut klubok pidstupiv i zrad, schob urjatuvati Kromvelja na posadi ta ne dopustiti povernennja do vladi papistiv. 9786176298595.…

Cloth over boards. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First editions. A near fine set of the first four books of Sansom's Mathew Shardlake Series. All first editions and signed by the author. Dissolution Hardcover black cloth over boards with complete dustjacket. 8vo. 390 pp. Illustrated endpapers with a full colour map/floor plan of the Monastery of St. Donatus and the Ascendant of Scarnsea (same map repeated front and back). Gilt title, author, and publisher on spine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Pages bright and clean. Page 255 dog-eared at the bottom. Binding strong and square. Boards and spine unblemished. The d/j is unmarked and wrapped in protective mylar. Dark Fire Hardcover black cloth over boards with complete dustjacket. 8vo. 503 pp. Illustrated endpapers with a full colour map of the City of London (same map repeated front and back). Gilt title, author, and publisher on spine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Pages bright and clean. Binding strong and square. Boards and spine unblemished. The d/j is unmarked and wrapped in protective mylar. Sovereign Hardcover black cloth over boards with complete dustjacket. 8vo. 583 pp. Illustrated endpapers with a full colour map of the Route of King Henry VIII's Progress to the North, 1541, and York, 1541 (same map repeated front and back). Gilt title, author, and publisher on spine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Pages bright and clean. Binding strong and square. Boards and spine unblemished. The d/j is unmarked and wrapped in protective mylar. Revelation Hardcover black cloth over boards with complete dustjacket. 8vo. 551 pp. Illustrated endpapers with a full colour map of the City of London (same map repeated front and back). Additional b/w map of Westminster 1543. Copper foil title, author, and publisher on spine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Pages bright and clean with a tiny bit of binder's glue on the fore edge corner of the foot (pages turn fine, printer's error). Binding strong and square. Boards and spine unblemished. The d/j is unmarked save for a tiny enclosed tear (1 cm) on the back, and wrapped in protective mylar. Signed. …

Wrappers. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. 72 pp., illustrated. Features "To my exigent friends" by Paul Eluard, "A note on Jean Genet," by Sartre; "Fragment from Plexus" by Henry Miller, and other contemporary works. Black and white illustrations, 1 black and white plate (portrait of Alexander Trocchi). 2" x .5" chip, corner chip front cover, a few short tears. Good. Illustrated (illustrator).…

Condition: new. Pages: 704 Language: Russian. Anglija, 1546 god. Poslednij god zhizni korolja Genrikha VIII. Samyj slozhnyj za vse vremja ego pravlenija. Ereticheskij bunt, grubye napadki na korolevu, korennye izmenenija vo vneshnej politike, vynuzhdennaja popytka primirenija s papoj rimskim, a pod konets - udar nizhe pojasa: perekhod Tajnogo soveta pod kontrol reformatorov.Na etom trevozhnom fone syschik-advokat Metju Shardlejk rassleduet strannoe prestuplenie, sluchivsheesja v pokojakh Ekateriny Parr, suprugi Genrikha, - pokhischenie dragotsennogo perstnja. Na samom dele (Shardlejk v etom skoro ubezhdaetsja) persten - prosto obmanka. Pokhischena rukopis korolevy pod nazvaniem "Stenanie greshnitsy", i ee publikatsija mozhet stoit Ekaterine zhizni.V mire literaturnykh geroev i v soznanii segodnjashnego chitatelja obraz Metju Shardlejka zanimaet pochetnoe mesto v rjadu takikh izvestnykh personazhej, kak Sherlok Kholms, Erkjul Puaro, Niro Vulf i komissar Megre. 9785389198531.…

Condition: new. Pages: 640 Language: Russian. Ispanija. 1940 god. V kachestve perevodchika britanskogo posolstva Garri Brett po zadaniju britanskoj sekretnoj sluzhby priezzhaet v razrushennyj Grazhdanskoj vojnoj Madrid. Garri dolzhen ustanovit kontakt s Sendi Forsajtom, starym shkolnym drugom, kotoryj, po dannym britanskoj razvedki, zanimaetsja somnitelnym biznesom. A v eto vremja podruga Sendi, Barbara Kler, vypolnjaet sobstvennuju sekretnuju missiju - pytaetsja najti svoego byvshego ljubovnika Berni Pajpera, voevavshego na storone internatsionalnykh brigad i propavshego bez vesti v odnom iz srazhenij. Garri, Sendi i Barbara okazyvajutsja vovlechennymi v opasnuju igru, ikh sudby perepletajutsja i neumolimo vedut k dramaticheskoj i zakhvatyvajuschej dukh kulminatsii romana. Vpervye na russkom jazyke! 9785389215641. …