Books published by publisher London: Collins Clear-Type Press

This great historical novel discloses the warm and colorful story of Saxon resistance to the Norman invasion of Britain. The story is a magical achievement: the reader shares, as in an immediate experience, in the life of a Saxon boy. With him, he watches the Danes come over the hill, lives as hostage in a Norman stronghold, escapes to Britain, shares in the memorable ride to the Battle of Hastings, and has to come to terms with a conquest that alters history. Saxon life and landscape, with brilliant reconstructions, take on a wonderful vitality. The eleventh century lives again in its own terms. The world of A.D. 1066 is that of any people whose freedom is ever threatened or whose way of life seems doomed.

Two leather-bound volumes in dark burgundy color with gold gilt decoration and title, author, vol number, and publisher on spines. UNDATED. Other Internet listings date the books to between 1900-1912. Published in Great Britain by Collins' Clear-Type Press, London and Glasgow. Pages clean and tight. Slight wearing on the bottom front leather corners. Nice illustrations throughout.

670 pages, illustrated with plates. By Alexandre Dumas (1802 – 1870). A French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. Born in poverty, Dumas was the grandson of a French nobleman and a Haitian slave