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 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 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 Scott's historical novel. Brown faux-leather cloth with gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w images by Adolphe Lalauze. Mild foxing to top edge. Small marks to free end-papers (caused by tape residue from a previous o [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of Milton's great epic poem plus Samson Agonistes. 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 [more...]
Attractive heron edition of the Diary of Anne Frank. Sewn headband, silken bookmarker, frontis portrait and illustrations by Elizabeth Trimby. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers.Foxing to top and fore edge. Small [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...]
