Category: Pick of The Week

Pick of The Week Sept 12th 2011 – Heron Books Charles Dickens The De-Luxe Edition

Superb opportunity to own this Magnificent De-Luxe Full Set Of Charles Dickens Works published by Heron Books in 1970 to celebrate 100 years after the death of Dickens. This set was issued in two formats; this burgundy de-luxe set with full leather binding, and gilt page tops, and the more common green simulated leather standard set.

This set comes complete with a unique full set of the Novel Summaries that came with each novel.

Currently I have two copies available, one in Very Good Condition and one in Good Condition with slight cover colour variation, click on the links below to view.

De-Luxe Dickens Centennial Edition Very Good

De-Luxe Dickens Centennial Edition Good

What makes a Charles Dickens novel so great to read, why not post a comment on why you enjoy his books?

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Pick of The Week September 5th 2011

Rarely Seen, The Complete Buchanan Portfolio of Dickens Characters

Commissioned by the James Buchanan Company (Distillers) in London, England, for use in their advertising.

In the late 1920’s they finally gave their permission for this one time collection to be copied and presented in a fantastic portfolio of Dickens characters immortalized by Frank Reynolds in the early 1900’s.

For a full list of the prints click on the link below.

Buchanan Portfolio of Characters From Dickens

You can view this superb portfolio by clicking on the link below

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Pick of The Week August 8th 2011

Rarely Seen Complete 52 Volume Dennis Wheatley Collection

Dennis Wheatley, storyteller supreme, made a lifelong study of the occult. His meticulous research into the black arts reveals almost unbelievable sorcery. No writer cared more about authenticity. This is true not only of his Satanist books, but also of his many other novels. He wrote with great intensity and created an amazing variety of characters and situations.

Why not take this rare opportunity to purchase the complete 52 volume Heron Edition of the Works of Dennis Wheatley?

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Pick of The Week June 27th 2011 – Jane Austen Collection

A Superb Edition of The Selected Works of Jane Austen

If one English novelist were to be selected for purity of style, Jane Austen, the quiet recorder of love and manners among the lesser landed gentry, would be a popular choice. One of the principal wonders of literature, she laid her victims bare with unerring intuition. Her pen was deliciously wicked – but wit was her weapon – astringency and, perhaps, gentle irony. And always her prose was pure delight.

This collection contains all Miss Austen’s six classics;

Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Northanger Abbey/Persuasion

These fine, beautiful, powder blue volumes were created as a tribute to Jane Austen.

Bound in real lambskin, these books are ornately embellished with 23ct gold on spines, covers, and all page edges.

Blue Silk Endpapers and Blue Silk Ribbon Marker.

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Pick of The Week June 20th 2011 – Complete 40 Volume Agatha Christie Thriller Collection

Sold within hours of being listed, another collection available now!

Agatha Christie – The First Lady of the Thriller. Even before you reach the bottom of the first page, an Agatha Christie thriller has you utterly, hopelessly, ecstatically hooked! There is simply no escape, as you are drawn inexorably into the labyrinth of intrigue . . . hypnotised, tempted, thrilled, deceived . . . until at last, breathless and bewildered, you see the murderer unmasked in the final drama of revelation. From the pristine neatness of Hercule Poirot’s moustache to the twinkle in Miss Marple’s china-blue eyes, the magic never fails.

In honour of one of the world’s greatest writers of criminal fiction, Heron Books published this magnificent Heirloom Collectors’ Edition of her incomparable thrillers. And furthermore, each beautifully bound volume contains two enthralling Agatha Christie thrillers.

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Pick of The Week June 15th 2011 – Complete Works of W. Somerset Maugham

SOLD 27/6/11 and going to Australia …..Look out For Another Set Coming Soon

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Complete in 31 Volumes – Gripping tales from the master story-teller.

Why is Maugham now hailed as a literary genius when so many critics once considered his novels too earthy, too sordid?

He may shock you, even outrage you – but he will always hold you spellbound with the sheer power of his stories.

Particularly compelling are his ‘Ashenden’ stories of a First World War Secret Service Agent, which is based on his own experiences.

In ‘Rain’, one of the marvellous stories in ‘The Trembling Of A Leaf’, he dared to build his story on a ‘reformed’ tart who is corrupted by a young missionary.

In ‘The Moon And Sixpence’, inspired by the life of the painter Gauguin, he further outraged society by making his hero reject his wife and Western values for primitive life in Tahiti where, as a cynical privilege of his rank, he took a woman as second wife as casually as one would buy a loaf of bread. How the critics howled! But how the public loved his earthy realism.

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Zane Grey – Master Writer Of The Western Story

Zane Grey (1872–1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the Old West. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his bestselling book.

In addition to the success of his printed works, they later had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and TV productions.

Zane Grey, the Western writer, shaped the way the world will forever perceive the “Old West.”

In 57 novels, 10 books of Western nonfiction, and 130 movies, Grey, who died in 1939 at age 67, almost single-handedly created the “Myth of the West.” His respectful treatment of Indians was ahead of its time; his word paintings of some of the most spectacular country may never be equalled.

A prolific American writer and pioneer of Western as a new literary genre, Zane Grey produced over sixty books during his career. He presented the West as a moral battle ground, in which his characters are redeemed through a final confrontation with their past, or destroyed because of their inability to change.

Grey’s stories, set against the beautiful but harsh landscape of the West, have fascinated readers all over the world.

Have a look at at the Zane Grey’s West Society Website for Why you Should Read Zane Grey

If you are a Zane Grey fan, why not post a comment to say why you enjoy his books so much?

Pick of the Week Commencing April 25th 2011

Superb Complete 53 Volume Set of Balzac’s Human Comedy

Honoré de Balzac (1799 – 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815.

This literary work consists of a hundred short stories and novels written by Balzac during the early 19th century. They are compiled into different sections. The titles of these sections are: Scenes from Private life, Scenes from Provincial life, Scenes from Parisian life, Scenes from Political Life, Scenes from Military life, Scenes from Country Life, and Philosophical Studies. Balzac wrote these stories because he wanted to study and examine every day life via the lives of individuals in different levels of Parisian society.
These novels were first published between the years 1825-1848.