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 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 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...]
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...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Fielding's great comic novel. Complete in two volumes. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. In crisp fine condition. [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Hemingway's posthumously published 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 [more...]
Deluxe leather edition of Dickens' travel writings. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edge gilt, sewn headband. Features illustrations by Maurice Grieffenhagen. Some light rubbing to extremities but cont [more...]
Deluxe leather edition of Dickens' final unfinished novel together with his own entirely delf-written periodical, Master Humphrey's Clock, a plethora of short stories. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edg [more...]
Deluxe leather edition of Dickens' entertaining and engaging history of England, intended for his own Children. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edge gilt, sewn headband. Features illustrations by Hutton [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Stevenson's great gothic novel. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations by Christian Broutin and Arthur Wragg and introduction. Crisp and clean. F [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Dickens' beloved novel. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations by Charles Green and introduction. Some very light bumping to corners, otherwise C [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of the first novel to feature Lord Ramage and set during the French Revolutionary Wars. Red faux-leather cloth with gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. Mild foxing to top edge. Small marks to free end-papers (caused by tape resi [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Polo's description of his voyages to China in the late thirteenth century. Bound in blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. With b/w images and introduction. Some very mild foxing to top edge. [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Wouk's pulitzer prize winning novel set during world war 2. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. . Foxing to top edge. Small marks to free-endpapers (tape residue from [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Donleavy's controversial 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 owne [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Leskov's short stories. In red faux-leather with elaborate gilt decoration and titling. With terrific b/w illustrations by Michael Treganza. Contents crisp and clean. Near fine condition. [more...]
Handsome quarter vellum privately printed edition of the Testaments of Francois Villon, legendary 15th century poet and rogue. Limited to 750 copies of which this is number 707. Facsimile from P. Levet's 1489 edition as frontispiece. Fore-edge uncut. Sli [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Priestley's novel on duelling civil servants. Blue faux-leather cloth covers with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpaper and b/w frontispiece. Very faint foxing to page edge. A previous owner's protective dust jacket has le [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Franklin's account of his overland Coppermine expedition across the north coast of Canada. Bound in blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. With b/w images and introduction. Some very mild fox [more...]
Pleasant Heron edition of Balzac's novel from his La Comédie humaine series. Foxing to top edge. Marks to free-end-papers (tape residue from a previous owner's protective jacket) Contents clean and tight. Very good overall. [more...]
