Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Swift enduring satire. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations by Herbert Cole and introduction by Peter Quennell. Mild shelfwear. Small white mar [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Thackeray's great social novel. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. Mild shelfwear. Small white marking and rubbing to top of [more...]
Cheeky, special Reader's digest edition of Stevenson's classic adventure story. With b/w illustrations by Frank Godwin. Colour frontispiece. Quarter faux leather. Very faint spotting to top edge. Contents crisp and clean. Very good+ [more...]
Charming Folio Society edition of Fielding's great comic novel of 1749. With splendid b/w engraves by Derrick Harris. Pictorial cloth covers with leather lable to spine. Lacks slipcase. A little rubbing to label, slight bumping to edges. Light marking to [more...]
Pleasant red leather pocket edition of Kipling's first, semi-autobiographical novel of unrequited love. All edges gilt. Previous owner's name to ffep. Rubbing to edges. Creasing to cover and spine. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Green faux-leather edition of Gulliver's classic satire. marbled end-papers. Complete with slipcase. With b/w frontispiece. No date but c. 1920. Covers are toned, stained/mottled. Rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight. Fair overall. [more...]
Green faux-leather edition . marbled end-papers. Complete with slipcase. With b/w frontispiece. No date but c. 1920. Spine is faded Rubbing to edges. Contents clean and tight. Fair/good overall. [more...]
Collins Library of Classics edition of Poet Southey's popular biography of Horatio Nelson, first published in 1813. Illustrated with b/w illustrations. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges. Previous owner's name to ffep. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Attractive Heron edition. Scarlett leatherette boards with gilt titling and design, decorated endpapers and silken bookmarker. Fading to gilt on spine. Interior is clean and unread. Good overall. [more...]
Neat volume of three novels including Sharpe's popular 'Blott on the Landscape.' Blue leatherette covers has some light shelfwear but contents are clean and binding tight. Very good overall. [more...]
Nice red leather edition of Kipling's adventure novel. Gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Some rubbing and cracking to top of spine. Contents clean, binding tight. Good condition. [more...]
Nice edition of Raleigh's biography and critical appraisal of Wordsworth. Top edge gilt, printed on thick paper, probably intended for a leather rebinding. Some light foxing. Some instances of pencil underlining. Otherwise clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Pleasant edition of Trollope's Barsetshire novel. Red leather with top edge gilt. Tear to front joint but binding holding. Light foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean. Fair+ [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Butler's provocative social novel. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. With b/w illustrations and introduction. Very light shelfwear. Contents prim and clean. Very g [more...]
Cheeky, special Reader's digest edition of Stevenson's classic adventure story. With b/w illustrations by Frank Godwin. Colour frontispiece. Quarter faux leather. Very faint spotting to top edge. Bump to top of spine. Contents clean and sound. Good [more...]
Swift, readable history of english literature from Chaucer to the victorian era. With b/w images. Quarter leather with gilt decoration. Complete with slipcase. slipcase has some rubbing and toning. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Toning and light marking t [more...]
Handsome first Folio Society edition of Hardy's controversial novel. With woodcut illustrations by Peter Reddick. Leather label. Lacks slipcase. Slight wear to label, sunning to spine. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Slight lean to spine. Contents clean an [more...]