No date but c. 1920. Pleasant red leather edition of Scott's historical novel. With b/w illustrations. Top edge gilt. Sunning, rubbing and wear to spine with slight loss to top. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Semi-autobiographical account of von Armin's attempts to integrate into German aristocratic life. Blue leather with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to edges with small tear to top of spine. Contents clean and sound. Good. [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...]
No date but c. 1910, attractive edition of Lytton's works. 8vo. Green cloth in a half-leather style with elaborate gilt to spine. b/w plates. Slight bumping to extremities. Minor foxing to page edge and endpapers but text-block is clean, binding sound. Goo [more...]
No date but c. 1910, attractive edition of Lytton's works. 8vo. Green cloth in a half-leather style with elaborate gilt to spine. b/w plates. Slight bumping to extremities. Minor foxing to page edge and endpapers but text-block is clean, binding sound. Goo [more...]
No date but c. 1910, attractive edition of Lytton's works. 8vo. Green cloth in a half-leather style with elaborate gilt to spine. b/w plates. Slight bumping to extremities. Minor foxing to page edge and endpapers but text-block is clean, binding sound. Goo [more...]
Neat collection of Stevenson's memories and elegiac portraits of people he knew, linked, he claims, in a way that reveals himself. Fine paper edition. Bound in full leather with decorated end-papers. All edges gilt. Some rubbing to spine and extremities bu [more...]
Handsome but well-traveled edition of Goldsmith's miscellaneous works including The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer. All edges gilt. Leather with decorated spine and title. Rubbing to extremities of spine with a little loss. Crease to cover. [more...]
Handsome 16mo. leather edition of Stevenson's first collection of essays. Fine paper edition. Red leather covers with gilt titling and design. All edges gilt. Decorated endpapers. Rubbing to extremities, top of spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front [more...]
Nice red leather edition of Kipling's novel featuring a wealthy American teen lost at sea. Top edge gilt. Spine is somewhat rubbed especially at top. But contents clean and tight. Good condition. [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...]
Neat little 32mo. leather bound People's edition of Tennyson's early poems and writings, including his sonnets. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Rubbing to extremities and some tears and cracking to spine but contents tight and clean. Fair/good overal [more...]
From the Tauchnitz collection of British and American Authors, copyright edition. No. 4771. Neatly rebound in blue cloth with leather label to spine. 12mo. We have many more similarly bound Tauchnitz editions. Some light wear to covers. A couple of pages l [more...]
Small suede edition of Emerson's poetic essay on friendship. 90x60mm. Some marking to covers. Rubbing to leather. Splitting to inner hinge but binding still sound. Clean. Fair/good. [more...]
Biography of the Cricket great who's life was cut short in WW2. Foreword by Don Bradman. Dust jacket has some rubbing and toning to extremities. Light foxing to page edge. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
Essays on christian themes, especially the state of Christianity in the US. Half leather. Spine partially detached with bottom portion missing. Missing labels. Poor, but contents generally clean. [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...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Defoe's pseudo-autobiography of the life of Moll King. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. Some very light shelf-wear and rub [more...]
Handsome limp leather edition of Dickens' historical novel plus other shorter pieces; from the Nelson's New Century Library. No date but c. 1904. Top edge gilt. Some rubbing and toning to covers. Sunning to spine. Contents sound and tight. Good. [more...]
