(also publishing as Edito-Service in europe) were active through the late 60s to the early 80s.
They produced affordable but attractive editions of popular and classic works often in faux-leather kidron bindings with lavish gilt tooling in contemporary or historically influenced designs.
Heron editions can often be found in unread condition but a light foxing to the page edge and some fading to the gilt on the spine is common.
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...]
Attractive Heron edition of Maupassant's selected works. Each volume contains a novel (Bel Ami, une Vie, Fort Comme la Mort, Pierre et Jean - All in English, despite the French Titles) plus several short stories. Decorative green cloth. Volume 1 has a tear [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...]
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 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...]
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...]
'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...]
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...]
Handsome Heron edition of Priestley's autobiography that seeks to explain his literary career and opinions on writing. Blue faux-leather cloth with gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. Small marks to free end-papers (caused by tape residue from a previ [more...]
Pleasant Heron edition of Stevenson's collaborative darkly comic novel. With introduction and b/w illustrations. Foxing to top edge. Some small marks to free-end-papers. Contents crisp and clean. Very good. [more...]
The second volume of the deluxe leather edition of Dickens' classic novel. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edge gilt, sewn headband. Features illustrations by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). Some light ru [more...]
The story of extravagant and parasitic Delaney siblings wherein Du Maurier employs some innovative narrative techniques. Summer green faux leather covers with ornate gilt design. Original illustrations by Christopher Bradley. Sewn headband and silken marker [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of Maugham's novel loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin. Faux quarter leather with rich red cloth and elaborate gilt tooling. Large crease to cover but contents are untouched. Unobtrusive stamp to end papers and slight bumping [more...]
Pleasant Heron edition of Stevenson's great adventure novel . Bound in brown faux-leather with elaborate gilt decoration. With decorated endpapers. No date but c.1970. Introduction by Rae Jeffs and illustrations by Michael Heslop. Light bumping and rubbin [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of R. D. Blackmore's historical romance. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w frontisportrait and introduction. Very slight bump to corner, otherwise crisp and c [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of the poet Blunden's traumatic WWI memoir. Dark Brown leatherette covers with lavish gilt design and titling. Decorated endpapers and silken ribbon marker. With original illustrations by David Whitfield. Foxing to top and fore ed [more...]
