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Product Description: First edition of this classic text to be illustrated.Richard III and the fate of the Princes is a subject of perennial interest. The 'Princes in the Tower' is a cause ce'le'bre of English history. Did Richard III murder his two nephews Edward V and Prince Richard to usurp the throne of England? Shakespeare certainly thought so and together with later Tudor propagandists - keen to legitimize their new royal dynasty - Richard became a hunchback, crippled by his evil deeds...read more
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9781848683211 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, November 19, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: First edition of this classic text to be illustrated.
9780750929431 | Sutton Pub Ltd, September 1, 2002, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Debate about the disappearance of Edward V and his younger brother Richard - the Princes in the Tower - has raged for over five hundred years.

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Product Description: On December 22, 1550 an old bricklayer named Richard Plantagenet was buried at Eastwell in Kent. Unusually for a bricklayer, he had been able to read Latin and, when pressed, he had claimed to be a natural son of King Richard III and to have met him the day before the Battle of Bosworth...read more
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9780750943352 | Trafalgar Square, November 15, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The story of the Princes in the Tower is one of history's most enduring, poignant and romanticised tales.

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9780750943369 | Trafalgar Square, November 15, 2008, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: On December 22, 1550 an old bricklayer named Richard Plantagenet was buried at Eastwell in Kent.

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A portrait of the Romantic- and Victorian-era essayist, poet, and critic describes his relationship with such contemporaries as Keats, Shelley, and Dickens; his imprisonment for insulting the Prince of Wales; and his role in the creation of theater criticism. 25,000 first printing.
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9780316067522 | Little Brown & Co, December 1, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Holden's narrative brings to life a pivotal moment in literary and political history--the world of England in the first half of the 19th century and the transition from the Romantics to the Victorians.

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Product Description: London, 10 July, 1998: Elaine Moore's life is about to change forever. In a simultaneous raid, Irish and British police forces arrested the 21-year-old Dubliner and nine others for alleged terrorism offence. After four days of harrowing police interrogations, she was charged and sent to an all-male maximum security prison, where she was classified as a "High Risk, Category A" prisoner...read more
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9781903582473 | Merlin Pub, March 31, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: London, 10 July, 1998: Elaine Moore's life is about to change forever.

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Product Description: The first biography of the king whose fate remains one of the greatest mysteries in English history.
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9780752419961 | Tempus Pub Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The first biography of the king whose fate remains one of the greatest mysteries in English history.

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Product Description: Was Richard III a victim or villian? This book explores the events surrounding his life to look at the facts behind the folklore. surrounding his life.
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9780312067151 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 1991, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This book tells the story of one of the most controversial kings in European history.

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9780750930222 | Sutton Pub Ltd, October 1, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Was Richard III a victim or villian?
9780312126407 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This book tells the story of one of the most controversial kings in European history.
9780750903547 | Sutton Pub Ltd, August 1, 1993, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Explores the life and reign of Richard III, the disappearance of the Princes in the Tower, and the tales that have been woven round the historic events.

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A modern-day lawyer uses his investigative tools to solve one of the great mysteries of English history--the murders of King Richard III's nephews. Reprint. (view table of contents)
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9780060392697 | Regan Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A noted lawyer investigates the historical controversy surrounding King Richard III of England and the disappearence of his nephews from the Tower of London, examining Richard's vilified career and offering a surprising and history-changing theory.

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9780060987381 | Reprint edition (Regan Books, July 1, 2000), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A modern-day lawyer uses his investigative tools to solve one of the great mysteries of English history--the murders of King Richard III's nephews.
9780750925457 | Sutton Pub Ltd, June 1, 2000, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: Notoriously immortalized by Shakespeare and historians, Richard III is history's most infamous royal villain.

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Product Description: Traces the disillusionment of the one-time Labour's youngest MP into a follower of Mosley's British Union of fascists to his founding of Britain's fascist National Socialist League.
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9781902809045 | Allison & Busby, March 1, 2000, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Traces the disillusionment of the one-time Labour's youngest MP into a follower of Mosley's British Union of fascists to his founding of Britain's fascist National Socialist League.

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Product Description: This edition makes available for the first time to a wider audience two historically important fifteenth-century English chronicles, with full scholarly apparatus and comprehensive introductions. The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotisgives full and graphic accounts of the murder of James I of Scotland in 1437, and the subsequent executions of his assassins; translated from a lost Latin narrative by John Shirley, it is edited from the only full text that has survived...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Lister M. Matheson (editor)
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9780851157252 | Boydell Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This edition makes available for the first time to a wider audience two historically important fifteenth-century English chronicles, with full scholarly apparatus and comprehensive introductions.

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A heavily researched reconstruction of the events of 1483 considers whether or not Richard III actually killed the boy king Edward V and his younger brother. By the author of The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Reprint.
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9780345383723 | Ballantine Books, January 1, 1994, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Offers a solution to the centuries-old mystery of the fate of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother, who were believed killed by their uncle, Richard III

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9780345391780 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 1995), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Offers a solution to the centuries-old mystery of the fate of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother, who were believed killed by their uncle, Richard III

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Portrays the life and personality of Richard III and his seizure of the English throne from his nephew Edward V
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9780689114090 | Atheneum, October 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Portrays the life and personality of Richard III and his seizure of the English throne from his nephew Edward V

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