Heron Books Collectors Edition

Cashel Byron's Profession

A Novel

by Bernard Shaw

This great novel follows Cashel Byron, a world-champion prizefighter, as he tries to woo wealthy aristocrat Lydia Carew without revealing his illegal profession. Lydia, portrayed as a moral and intelligent woman, is contrasted throughout with the ruffian and rogue Cashel. When Cashel goes to England to secure his world title in that country he meets Lydia at her country manor. As their romance deepens, Byron finds his world unavoidably facing rupture, forced to choose between his two loves.

250 pages. Frontis piece Black and White Portrait of Author.

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The Irrational Knot

A Novel

by Bernard Shaw

Within a framework of leisure class preoccupations and frivolities Shaw disdains hereditary status and proclaims the nobility of workers. Marriage, as the knot in question, is exemplified by the union of Marian Lind, a lady of the upper class, to Edward Conolly, always a workman but now a magnate, thanks to his invention of an electric motor that makes steam engines obsolete. The marriage soon deteriorates, primarily because Marian fails to rise above the preconceptions and limitations of her social class and is, therefore, unable to share her husband's interests.

336 pages. Frontis piece Black and White Portrait of Author.

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Love Among The Artists

A Novel

by Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw's third novel, written in 1888 but not accepted by a publisher until 1900, and then not distributed in England until 1914. A satirical sage of romantic musicians within the high-society circles of the late 19th century, the story contained several heavy doses of Shaw's socialism, but not so much as to dampen the entertainment value.

339 pages. Frontis piece Black and White Portrait of Author.

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The Advancement of Learning

by Francis Bacon

Edited with an Introduction by G W Kitchin

Bacon's great claim to fame is not that he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of 12, not that he was Lord Chancellor of England under James I, nor even that he has been reputed the real writer of Shakespeare's plays, but that he was a philosopher of the first rank and the effective founder of the modern, experimental, scientific, approach to understanding. Before Bacon, 'learning' largely meant memorizing the classics, especially Aristotle, and acceding to every dictate of established religion. In The Advancement of Learning, he argued that the only knowledge of importance was that which could be discovered by observation- 'empirical' knowledge rooted in the natural world. He championed the idea of state funding for experimental science and the creation of an encyclopedia. In Novum Organum 1620, he redefined the task of natural science, as a way of increasing human power over nature, and in The New Atlantis 1626, describing a utopian state exploiting scientific knowledge. The expression "Knowledge is power" is his. In 1621 Bacon was evicted from office for taking a bribe and died four years later after catching a cold while stuffing a chicken with snow in an early experiment in refrigeration.

246 pages. Frontis piece Black and White Portrait of Author.

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Utopia

A Dialogue of Comfort

by Thomas More

Introduction by John Warrington

Utopia consists of two books, the first book is critical, it presents a picture of English social life at the beginning of the sixteenth century, on the eve of Reformation. Tyranny and corruption are everywhere. The second book shows the opposite picture, an ideal society in an imaginary island. Here tyranny and luxury have been abolished.

428 pages. Frontis piece Black and White Portrait of Author.

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The Travels of Marco Polo

introduced by John Masefield

Marco Polo born about 1254 at Venice. Before he was twenty he joined a trading expedition to China. Given an official post at Peking and stayed in China twenty years. Returned to Venice in 1295. In 1298 commanded a Venetian Galley, but was captured by the Genoese and imprisoned for about a year. Died in Venice in 1324.

A well written book with black and white illustrations, indexed.

Good Condition, wear marks on front edge of cover otherwise no marks, internal pages mint condition

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Heron Books Centennial Edition

Charles Dickens

Complete Works

David Copperfield Volumes I and II

Illustrations by Phiz

General introduction and preface by J B Priestley

This 1850 novel invites us to enter into the world of David Copperfield, a young boy on a hero's journey. David's widowed mother marries a cruel man, and his wicked stepfather sends the child to a terrible boarding school. When his mother dies, David is dragged back home and forced into hard factory work. But, against all odds, David escapes the drudgery and danger of the factory and manages to find a home with his only relative, Aunt Betsy. True friends, comic misadventures, poignant losses, and encounters with one of Dickens's most famous villains (the dastardly Uriah Heep) await David as he grows up. A story full of moving scenes of childhood hardship that echo many of Dickens's own experiences, David Copperfield is the story of a young man who must learn to overcome tragedy and trust that real love and happiness may yet be his.

Burgundy Leatherette with gilt decoration, ribbon page marker, Gold edging to top of pages

Volume I - 523 pages, Volume II - 534 pages. Frontis piece Black and White Portrait of Author.

Very Good Condition

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Nevil Shute

Complete Works

A Town Like Alice

Original Illustrations by Geoffrey Plant

General Introduction by William Buchan

Noel Strachan, an ageing and widowed solicitor, had almost forgotten his client Douglas Macfadden when, in 1948, he received a telegram announcing his death. Refreshing his memory,

 he made a journey to Ayr, and found that the estate he was to administer amounted to a quite substantial sum. It had been left in trust with peculiar conditions, one being that if the estate passed through the death of her brother, to a young woman named Jean Paget the trust would continue until she had reached the age of thirty-five. When found, working as a secretary in a leather-bag factory, she proved to be twenty-six, a capable young woman, but naturally taken aback at learning that she had inherited £53,000 - or would, in 1956.

311 pages. Frontis piece Black and White Portrait of Author.

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