The complete 36 Volume Heron Centennial set of Charles Dickens' collected works. Bound in rich green faux-leather 'kidron' cloth with gilt lettering and design. Raised bands. Decorative endpapers. Frontis portraits. Silken ribbon-markers. A general introd [more...]
The complete Set of the Heron edition of Hardy's works in seventeen volumes (an additional non-uniform volume of poetry was sometimes included). Green leatherette cloth bindings with terrific gilt decoration. Featuring maps of Wessex to endpapers. With b/w [more...]
Pleasant Heron edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works. Containing all his plays; his longer poems, The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis; and all of his sonnets. Faux-leather burgundy cloth with gilt decoration. Infinitesimal foxing to top edge, very li [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of the monumental anthology of Poetry in the English Language, selected by W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson in 1952. Mustard faux-leather cloth with gilt titling and decoration. Very faint foxing to top edge, else crisp and cle [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Macaulay's controversial history of England, published from 1848 to 1855, starting from the ascension of James II to peace of Ryswick in 1697. Fascinating not only for the turbulent time depicted but for Macaulay's ebullient style [more...]
Three volumes of Gorky's most popular stories and novels including the short stories of Through Russia and his novel The Spy, also called The Life of a Useless Man, a dark satirical piece on an informer in Tsarist Russia. Elaborate gilt decoration and titling [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Mitchell's beloved epic of the American South. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations of stills from the film starring Vivian Leigh and Clerk Gable. Foxing to top and fore [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of Melville's classic. From the 'Books that have shaped Man's thinking' series. Quarter cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. With an introduction and b/w images. An Appreciation of the author to the rear. Lig [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Heller's dark yet riotous world war 2 themed satirical novel. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. Foxing to top and fore edge. Small marks to free-endpapers (tape resi [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Amis' great comic novel. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. Foxing to top and fore edge. Small marks to free-endpapers (tape residue from a previous owner's protect [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Waugh's darkly comedic first novel. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. Complete with originally issued bookmarker that describes the novel and author. Foxing to top e [more...]
Deluxe two volume leather edition of Dickens' classic victorian character sketches, written under the pseudonym, Boz. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edge gilt, sewn headband. Features illustrations by G [more...]
Deluxe two volume leather edition of Dickens' novel. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edge gilt, sewn headband. Features illustrations by George Cattermole and Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). Some light [more...]
Deluxe two volume leather edition of Dickens' popular novel. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edge gilt, sewn headband. Features illustrations from an unknown source. Some light rubbing/marking to extr [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Tschiffely's astonishing journey, by horse, from Argentina to New York, first published in 1933. Bound in blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. With b/w images and introduction. Some very mi [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Orwell's enduring dystopian Novel. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. Complete with originally issued bookmarker that describes the novel and author. Foxing to top edg [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Joyce's complex 1916 novel that preceded Ulysses, describing the maturation of Stephen Dedalus. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. . Foxing to top and fore edge. Smal [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Mackenzie's well received bildungsroman set in Oxford. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. Foxing to top and fore edge. Small marks to free-endpapers (tape residue fro [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Lee's great pulitzer prize winning novel. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. Foxing to top and fore edge. Small marks to free-endpapers (tape residue from a previous [more...]
Attractive brown leatherette Heron edition of Capote's 'non-fiction novel' on the murders of the Clutter family in 1959. Lavish gilt design and titling. Foxing to top and fore edge. Small marks to free-endpapers (tape residue from a previous owner's protec [more...]
