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NEW IN OUR BOOKSTORE (last updated 02 February 2012 )

Free delivery in February!

all books now with FREE STANDARD UK DELIVERY during February and pro rata for OVERSEAS DELIVERY (NB excepting ultra-heavy multiple sets for which we offer preferential rates.)

Complete collection of 'Lucky' Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin titles, all 21 volumes in uniform matching set [see description for titles] O'Brian, Patrick (HarperCollins) London, All 21 titles in series, in the better quality larger B format 8vo in matching livery, including the Unfinished Last Voyage, out-of-print sbks, provenance known: all purchased new & read once only, showing only faint spine opening creases or slight edge markings in storage o/w near fine, virtually unblemished copies. VG+++. Titles include: Master & Commander, Post Captain, HMS Surprise, Mauritius Command, Desolation Island, Fortune of War, Surgeon's Mate, Ionian Mission, Treason's Harbour, Far Side of the World, Reverse of the Medal, Letter of Marque, Thirteen-Gun Salute, Nutmeg of Consolation, Clarissa Oakes, Wine-Dark Sea, Commodore, Yellow Admiral, Hundred Days, Blue at the Mizzen, & The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey. NB multiple volume set - non-standard for delivery, p&p tba. *see an actual image of this copy on our website or by request. [FFS 34248] £195.00 ($310.00)
Charles Dickens complete Centennial Edition in 36 volumes Heron Books [Complete Works collection] see description for titles Dickens, Charles (Heron Books) London, 1970 Centennial edition, 36 Volumes complete, matched set of out-of-print hardbacks in luxurious faux-leather sage-green Skivertex, lavish gilt tooling & scrolling, silken marker-ribbon, decorative/gilt endpapers, portrait frontis plus contemporary illustrations by Seymour and Phiz, Charles Green, Greiffenhagen, Marcus Stone, Cruikshank, Landseer, Maclise, Leech, Tenniel, Stanfield et al, with general intro & preface by J B Priestley, and with individual Intros by Eleanor Farjeon, Frederick Page, Sir Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell, Sir John Shuckburgh, Dingle Foot, Humphrey House, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Earl of Wicklow & others, and with literary/biographical notes by eminent reviewers; bright boards/gilt, most copies in the set are excellent, most apparently unread, a very few may show very minor blemishes from shelf-wear or dusty top-edge o/w clean white pgs with clear print, but no major defects; one or two may have the spine giltop/tailitling faintly dulled with time, a quality set overall VG++ - Fine. NB non-standard item for delivery, substantial shipping charge to any destination, tba; Titles include: American Notes & Pictures from Italy, Barnaby Rudge (in 2 volumes), Bleak House (in 2 volumes), Child's History of England, Christmas Books, Christmas Stories (in 2 volumes), David Copperfield (in 2 volumes), Dombey & Son (in 2 volumes), Edwin Drood & Master Humphrey's Clock, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Little Dorrit (in 2 volumes), Martin Chuzzlewit (in 2 volumes), Miscellaneous Papers (in 2 volumes), Nicholas Nickleby (in 2 volumes), Old Curiosity Shop (in 2 volumes), Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend (in 2 volumes), Pickwick Papers (in 2 volumes), Reprinted Pieces, Sketches by Boz (in 2 volumes), A Tale of Two Cities, & Uncommercial Traveller. [CDS 34223] £275.00 ($437.00)