Handsome edition featuring thirteen short stories of Doyle's great detective, including The Dancing Men. Quarter cloth with decorated boards. b/w illustrations throughout. Very Good condition. [more...]
Handsome edition featuring Doyle's most famous Sherlock Holmes adventures. Quarter cloth with decorated boards. b/w illustrations throughout. Very Good condition. [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...]
Nice littler universal library of Lord Lytton's historical novel based on the life of Cola di Rienzo. Green cloth with gilt decoration. Decorated initials throughout. Small tear to top of spine. Contents clean and binding sound. Good overall. [more...]
From the Tauchnitz collection of British and American Authors, copyright edition. No. 4904. Neatly rebound in blue cloth with leather label to spine. 12mo. We have many more similarly bound Tauchnitz editions. Previous owner's name to dedication page. Mis [more...]
From the Collins collection of British and American Authors, copyright edition. No. 219. Neatly rebound in blue cloth with leather label to spine. 12mo. We have many more similarly bound Tauchnitz editions. Some light wear to covers. Contents tanned. Good [more...]
Cloth rebinding of Dickens' classic victorian character sketches, written under the pseudonym, Boz. Features illustrations by George Cruikshank and Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). Leather label to spine. Kelly College crest to cover. Prize plate to front past [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of two of Goldsmith's novels plus his poems. In blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. With b/w illustrations by Christopher Bradbury and introduction. In crisp fine condition. [more...]
Handsome special collectors' Heron edition of Spencer Dunmore's wartime novel. Red faux-leather cloth with gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. Foxing to top edge. Small marks to free end-papers (caused by tape residue from a previous owner's protectiv [more...]
Attractive Heron edition of Malraux's 1933 novel of the communist insurrection in Shanghai. 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 [more...]
Illustrated edition of Dickens' novel featuring the b/w original drawings of Phiz. No date but c. 1910. Light wear to boards. Previous owner's name and prize plate to endpapers. Tanning to page edge. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Leather edition of Lytton's novel. Gilt decoration to spine. With frontispiece. Top edge gilt. Some rubbing and cracking to spine. Binding sound and contents clean. Fair. [more...]
Two volumes bound as one. Nice compact edition of Dickens' Pickwick papers with colour frontispiece by Phiz. No date but c. 1900. Rubbing and marking to covers but contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Biography of the Writer Hugh Walpole, written by his colleague and friend. With b/w images and maps to end-papers. No dust jacket. Marking and rubbing to green cloth boards. Toning and fading to spine. Light foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and binding [more...]
'Biographies' of characters from Dickens' novel, including Sam Weller, Mr. Micawber, Bumble and more. No DJ. Foxing to page edge and occasionally within, mainly around plates. Otherwise clean and binding tight. Good. [more...]
Leather prize binding of Scott's historical novel set during the crusades. Westminster City school crest to cover and bookplate to ffep. Decorated end-papers. Marbled page edges. Rubbing to leather. Foxing to front-matters but contents clean. Binding tig [more...]
Handsome Heron Literary Heritage edition of Ainsworth's intriguing historical novel with supernatural elements, focusing on Henry VIII's pursuit of Anne Boleyn. Blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. With b/w illustrations. Extremely light m [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of the classic bushranger adventure novel. Blue faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. Introduction by G. F. Maine. B/w illustrations. Some light shelf-wear. Else clean and prim. Fine. [more...]
Pleasant Guild edition of Dickens' novel. Green faux leather cloth with gilt decoration. Decorated end-papers. Some very mild bumping to top and tail of spine. Contents clean and tight. Very good. [more...]
