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 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...]
Early Folio Society edition of Boccaccio's renaissance compendium of short stories. With illustrations by Buckland-Wright. Complete with Dust-jackets. Decorative cloth boards. Some water damage to rear cover of volume 1, affecting rear free end-papers and [more...]
Faux leather with gilt design. Silken marker, decorated endpapers and frontis portrait of Mitchell and illustrated with b/w stills from the film. Gilt fading to spine. Contents bright and sound. Good+ [more...]
Striking Folio Society edition of this 2004 translation of Chekhov's 1884 novel, with colour illustrations by Francis Mosley. Complete with slipcase. In crisp, fine condition. [more...]
Elegant Folio Society edition of Fagles' 1966 translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia triology: Agamemnon; Libation Bearers and Eumenides. Wih an introduction by Peter Levi and black white illustrations by Laurence Preece. Decorated canvas covers and end-papers. [more...]
Impressive Folio Society edition of Plato's Symposium, a series of speeches on Eros and the nature of Love, from a variety of viewpoints. With an introduction by Anthony Quinton and colour illustrations by Tom Phillips. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has [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...]
Gorgeous Folio Society of Wilde's 1891 one act play based on the tragic attempted seduction of John the Baptist by Salome. Originally written in French and specially translated for this edition by Wilde's son Vyvian. Bound in special brocade cloth by Britis [more...]
'The Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature' indeed. Attractive Heron edition of Turgenev's wonderful novel together with Liza. In red faux-leather with wonderful gilt tooling. Decorated endpapers, sewn headband, silken bookmarker. With original illu [more...]
Attractive Collins edition of Dickens' classic, specially bound by the Chaucer Press. Faux-leather boards with ample gilt design and titling. Decorated endpapers, sewn headband. Slight tanning to page edge and minor shelfwear and bumping. Slight indent/scr [more...]
Attractive Collins edition of Dickens' classic, specially bound by the Chaucer Press. Faux-leather boards with ample gilt design and titling. Decorated endpapers, sewn headband. Slight tanning to page edge and minor shelfwear. Clean and tight. Very good/n [more...]
Handsome leather edition of Stevenson's memoir of his immigrant experiences in America describing his arrival in New York and his journey to San Francisco. Fine paper edition. Red leather covers with gilt titling and design. All edges gilt. Decorated endpa [more...]
Handsome leather edition of Stevenson's historical novel set during the Jacobite uprising. Dark leather covers with gilt titling and design. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Signature to ffep. Conten [more...]
Glossy, hefty Folio Society volume detailing the seven wonders of the Ancient world, the seven wonders of the medieval world and so on. Complete with numerous full page colour images. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some light shelfwear. volume crisp [more...]
Pleasant Heron edition of Stevenson's complex short novel, written with his step-son Lloyd Osbourne, along with Island Nights' Entertainment. Bound in brown faux-leather with elaborate gilt decoration. With decorated endpapers. No date but c.1970. Introduc [more...]
Jaunty Folio Society edition of Smollett's semi-autobiographical 1748 picaresque novel. In decorative cloth with leather label to spine. With b/w illustrations by Frank Martin. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has marking and toning. Some very light toning [more...]
Pleasant Folio Society edition of Chekhov's selected short stories. Featuring 13 stories, including The Dragonfly, Sleep... Sleep..., The Enemies, The Wife and Hatred. With b/w illustrations by Nigel Lambourne. Complete with slipcase. Spine has some very [more...]
Beautiful Folio Society edition of Kalidasa's play, written in the fourth century AD and based on the story of Sakuntala as told in the Mahabharata. The source material is included here as are two other adaptations including an pictorial version included in th [more...]
Collections of short stories of O. Henry, american master of the short story. With frontispiece. Faux leather blue cloth. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
