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The Heritage Club Edition, 1971. Heritage Press, Avon, Connecticut, 1971. Parchment -finish fabric, stamped in pigment and pure gold leaf in red Slipcase. Very Good/Slipcase Very Good. Illustrated by Eric Fraser. IN ROME OF LOVELY WOMEN THERE IS NO DEARTH; HERE YOU SHALL FIND THE PICK OF ALL THE EARTH" Translated by B. P. Moore. Illustrated by Eric Fraser.. The ARS AMATORIA (English: The Art of Love) is an instructional elegy series in three books by the ancient Roman poet Ovid. It was written in 2 AD. It teaches basic gentlemanly male and female relationship skills and techniques. If there be anyone among you who is ignorant of the art of loving, let him read this poem and, having read it and acquired the knowledge it contains, let him address himself to Love. Heritage Press, Avon, Connecticut (1971). The Heritage Club Edition. with SANDGLASS. Very Good, clean and bright. 116 pages, 9.0 by 6.25 Binding is parchment -finish fabric, stamped in pigment and pure gold leaf. antique white with red… Read More

"IN ROME OF LOVELY WOMEN THERE IS NO DEARTH; HEREYOU SHALL FIND THEPICK OF ALL THE EARTH" Translated by B. P. Moore. Illustrated by Eric Fraser.The Ars Amatoria (English: The Art of Love) is an instructional elegy series in three books by the ancient Roman poet Ovid. It was written in 2 AD. It teaches basic gentlemanly male and female relationship skills and techniques.IF there be anyone among you who is ignorant of the art of loving, let him read this poem and, having read it and acquired the knowledge it contains, let him address himself to Love.Heritage Press, Avon, Connecticut (1971). With SANDGLASS. The Heritage Club Edition.Binding is parchment -finish fabric, stamped in pigment and pure gold leaf. antique white with red and gold designs. A BOOK TO FALL IN LOVE WITH.

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (£2,075,400 in 2017)[3] set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. (wiki)HERITAGE PRESS, New York, 1962. Introduction Ray Bradbury. Illustrations Edward A. Wilson. Very Good , clean and bright except for spine,slightly pulled and spotted, Slipcase is good some spotting. Not collector's but a good reading copy

HERITAGE PRESS, New York, 1962. HERITAGE PRESS, New York, 1962. . Very Good , clean and bright except for spine,slightly pulled and spotted, Slipcase is good some spotting. Not collector's but a good reading copy/Slipcase. Edward A. Wilson. Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 wager (75,400 in 2017).set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. (wiki).HERITAGE PRESS, New York, 1962. Introduction Ray Bradbury. Illustrations Edward A. Wilson. Very Good , clean and bright except for spine,slightly pulled and spotted, Slipcase is good some spotting. HERITAGE PRESS, New York, 1962. Introduction Ray Bradbury. Illustrations Edward A. Wilson. Very Good , clean and bright except for… Read More

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical... (Good Read)HERITAGE PRESS 1943. With SANDGLASS. Very Good +, slipcase also better than good. clean and bright. Great Gift

#829 0 HERITAGE PRESS, 1943. HERITAGE PRESS 1943. Paper/boards/slipcase. Very Good+/Very Good+. Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself - and the fates and affections of three women - Tatyana the provincial beauty, her sister Olga, and Pushkin's mercurial Muse. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical. HERITAGE PRESS 1943. With SANDGLASS. Very Good +, slipcase also better than good. clean and bright. Great Gift.

On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about seven years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother Georgiana, father Philip Pirrip and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive elder sister and her kind husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another escaped convict; the two are returned to the prison ships. Great Gift for someone Special.
Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1967, With SANDGLASS. Near Mint on both book and slipcase. Very clean,no yellowing. Text is Baskerville, onhigh quality paper. Binding beautiful blue cloth over boards Gold design on front and gold lettering. Antique white slipcase. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, he made fifty-one drawings, one to go at the beginning of each of the fifty-one chapters. He has also made seven actual… Read More

The Heritage Press, 1972. The Heritage Press. 1972. With SANDGLASS. Cloth/green pattern over boards, green pattern/gold lettering. Very Good+/Very Good/Slip Case. A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the 'green mansions' of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. The love that flowers between them is soon overshadowed by cruelty and sorrow... One of the acknowledged masters of natural history writing, W. H. Hudson forms an important link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement..First published in 1904 and a bestseller after its reissue a dozen years later, Green Mansions offers its readers a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between savage and civilized man..The Heritage Press. 1972. With SANDGLASS.… Read More

Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1984. Heritage Club Edition, copyright 1956-1984 Heritage Press. Book in Near Mint condition as is slipcase/Slip case. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Fritz Eachenberg. The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lyov Nikolaevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two. Heritage Club Edition, copyright 1956-1984 Heritage Press With sandglass Translstion by by Constance Garnett & revised and edited for this edition, with an introduction, by Avrahm Yarmolinsky… Read More

The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lyov Nikolaevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two...
Heritage Club Edition, copyright 1956-1984 Heritage Press. With sandglass. Translstion by by Constance Garnett & revised and edited for this edition, with an introduction, by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Illustrated by Fritz Eachenberg with 29 wood-engravings, most of them large full-page blocks, all of them of a hypnotic beauty. Book in Near Mint condition as is slipcase. Extra postage needed 3lb

The Heritage Press, The George Macy Companies, Inc. N.Y., 1968. The Heritage Press, The George Macy Companies, Inc. N.Y. , 1968. Boards a covered with an interesting texture, a burlap pattern in allusion to the wrapping of the plague victims. Near Fine/Very Good+ slipcase. Being Observations or Memorials of the most Remarkable Occurrences, both Public and Private, which happened in London during the last Great Visitation in 1665. And written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Now newly Introduced to the Public by James Sutherland, of London & Berkshire, and Embellished with notable Illustrations by Signor Gnoli, of Rome. For A Journal of the Plague Year, Domenico Gnoli created eighth full-page paintings, each of them dominated by a somber, plaque-ridden tone--chartreuse, mulberry, olive, purple-- that captures the horror and madness of that terrible period. The Heritage Press, The George Macy Companies, Inc. N.Y. , 1968. With SANDGLASS. Book Near Fine, Slip Case Better than Very… Read More

Redirected from The Wanderer (Alain-Fournier novel)) Le Grand Meaulnes is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier who was killed in the first month of WW I. It is somewhat biographical - especially the name of the heroine Yvonne, with whom he had a doomed infatuation in Paris. Fifteen-year-old François Seurel narrates the story of his friendship with seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes as Meaulnes searches for his lost love. Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the search for the unobtainable, and the mysterious world between childhood... The Illustrator Andre Dignimont has made for this Edition, thirty two pen- and-pencil-plus-wash drawings, a three in-one technique that combines grace with strength, delicacy with power. Beautiful Gift to be appreciated for many years.HERITAGE PRESS, New York, 1958. Heritage Club Edition with SANDGLASS. Translated by Francoise Delisle, introduction by Henri Delisle and Illustrated by Dignimont. Near Mint, clean and… Read More

Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1974. Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1974, The Heritage Club. Book in fine condition,very clean and solid, colors are vibrant, no soiling or writings/Slip case. Illustrated with wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock, and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1974, The Heritage Club With SANDGLSS Book in fine condition,very clean and solid, colors are vibrant, no soiling or writings, pastedowns and end papers beautifully… Read More

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock, and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1974, The Heritage Club. With SANDGLSS. Book in fine condition,very clean and solid, colors are vibrant, no soiling or writings, pastedowns and end papers beautifully designed. Slipcase in fine condition.. Selected, edited, and introduced by Stephen Spencer. Illustrated with forty-five wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith. A beautiful copy and great for gift giving.

The George Macy Companies, Inc. / The Heritage Press, 1971. The Heritage Press, The George Macy Companies, Inc. 1971. The three piece?á binding?á was designed by John Dreyfus Paper over boards/Cloth spine. Fine/Slipcase Near Mint. GREAT GIFT. Selected,, Edited & Introduced by C. Day Lewis. llustrated with wood carvings by Peter Reddick. The type and illustration were printed by the Connecticut Printers of Bloomfield on a natural , white woven stock made specially for this edition by Finch. Pruyn & Company in Glen Falls N. Y. The three piece binding was designed by John Dreyfus Paper over boards/Cloth spine. Book as new, slip case has two small spot and very light shelf wear. Great Gift. The Heritage Press, The George Macy Companies, Inc. 1971. With SANDGLASS. Near Mint, clean, solid and vibrant. llustrated with three dozens wood carvings by Peter Reddick, that seem to be intuitive graphic versions of the Browning poems that they accompany.

The Heritage Press, The George Macy Companies, 1964. The Heritage Press, The George Macy Companies, Inc. 1964. Very Good+/Very Good+Slip Case. Norman Rockwell. Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanacks: Benjamin Frankklin was a lot of man any way you looked at him: big-hearted, big brained, big-bodied It was in 1757, the year in which he issued the last of his Poor Richard's Almanacks, the first number of which had appeared in 1732 Wherein are retain'd in their Entirety the Author's Prefaces, Proverbs, Verses, & entertaining Remarks; Together with those Chronological, Historical, and Scientific Observations which the Author has illumin'd with his Characteristic Wit & Wisdom. Now Containing an Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks and Embellish'd with Illustrations by Norman Rockwell B&W and Color Illustrations; 4 to 11" - 13" tall; 300 pages. This unique Edition is printed on a fine laid paper specially made for it by the Monadnock Paper Company of New Hampshire. The Heritage Press, The George Macy… Read More

The Red and the Black is a historical psychological novel It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy. He ultimately allows his passions to betray him.
Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1947. Illustratedby Rafaello Busoni. Book in Very Good condition, no soiling,clean,colors are and text vibrant, front endpapers has slight crease. Slip case shows shelfwear, corners are bumped,and some abrasions to spine.

Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1947. Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1947. Book in Very Good condition, no soiling,clean,colors are and text vibrant,/Slip case. Rafaello Busoni.. The Red and the Black is a historical psychological novel It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy He ultimately allows his passions to betray him. Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1947 Illustratedby Rafaello Busoni Book in Very Good condition, no soiling,clean,colors are and text vibrant, front endpapers has slight crease Slip case shows shelfwear, corners are bumped,and some abrasions to spine.

The Heritage Press, 1933. The Heritage Press. 1933. Very Good/Good-Slip Case. The Story of Manon Lescaut as a novel of psychological analysis Manon Lescaut is a novel by French author Abb?? Pr??vost Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of M??moires et aventures d'un homme de qualit?? It was controversial in its time and was banned in France upon publication Despite this, it became very popular and pirated editions were widely distributed In a subsequent 1753 edition, the Abb?? Pr??vost toned down some scandalous details and injected more moralizing disclaimers (Wiki) 1933 With SANDGLASS Very good, solid, Illustrated by Pierre Brissaud, text is clear, Paper not greatest quality, has yellowed around the edges Slipcase in not in great condition, shows much shelf wear.

The Cherry Orchard is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It opened at the Moscow Art Theatre on 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. Chekhov described the play as a comedy, with some elements of farce, though Stanislavski treated it as a tragedy. Since its first production, directors have contended with its dual nature. It is often identified as one of the three or four outstanding plays by Chekhov, along with The Seagull, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya.
Heritage Press, Norwalk, Connecticut,1966. With SANDGLASS. Book in fine condition, solid, clean, no writing no soiling, colors are vibrant. Slipcase in good condition, some discoloration and fading around opening. Sandglass c 1996. Illustrations by Lajos Szalay, he created sixteen black-and-white drawings and seven tempera painting. . Introduction by John Geilgud. Binding is beautiful shade of gay cloth over boars with red designs and gold lettering. A Beautiful copy.