1967-85 Collector's Library Sets

Description

Illustrated

A collection of forty seven volumes by famed authors, each in its attractive, uniform imitation leather. A great addition to a collector's library. With illustrations throughout. Heron Books publications, known for publishing collections by famous authors during the mid-late twentieth century.

The present collection comprises:  

Three sets of History of England to the death of William III by Lord Macaulay in four volumes, 1967. 

Four volumes from 'The Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature' series: Anna Karenina I-II by Leo N. Tolstoy, 1967; Taras Bulba and Other Tales, by Nikolay Gogol; The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1968; A Hero Our Time by Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov. 

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, 1973. 

More Spots from the Leopard by Fenton Wyness, 1973. 

Three works by Hammond Innes: Maddon's Rock; Golden Soak; Levkas Man; The White South; The Angry Mountain. All published in 1975.

The Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, 1980.

From the Purnell De Luxe Classics, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, 1987 and Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1985.

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, 1966. In three volumes: vol. I Stories: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray,' 'The Young King,' 'The Happy Prince' &c.; Vol. II Plays: 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' 'An Ideal Husband,' 'A Florentine Tragedy,' and others. Vol. III: Poems, 'Essays and Letters,' 'Rome Unvisited,' 'Madonna Mia,' 'Louis Napoleon.'

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. I Comedies: 'The Tempest,' 'Much Ado About Nothing,' 'As You Like It' and others. Vol. II The Histories: 'King Richard II,' 'King Henry VI,' 'Henry VIII' and others Vol III The Tragedies: 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet.' Vol IV, Tragedies and Poems: 'Antony and Cleopatra,' 'Cymbeline,' sonnets and others. 

The Works of John Steinbeck complete thirteen volumes: 'Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday;' 'The Grapes of Wrath;' 'East of Eden;' 'The Long Valley;' 'To a God Unknown;' 'The Pearl;' 'Tortilla Flat;' 'Of Mice and Men;' 'The Wayward Bus;' 'The Moon is Down'; 'Burning Bright;' 'The Winter of Our Discontent;' 'In Dubious Battle.'