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Jane Eyre – Empress
Exclusively designed cover by Carmen Di Mauro Copper foil blocking combined with spot-gloss UV on a matte laminated dust jacket Textured hardback cover complete with matching foil blocking (on front, spine and back) Full coloured hand-designed patterned endpapers Digitally sprayed edged on all 3 sides in full colour Co-ordinating head and tail bands Matching ribbon… Read More
Wuthering Heights – Empress
Exclusively designed cover by Carmen Di Mauro Silver foil blocking combined with spot-gloss UV on a matte laminated dust jacket Textured hardback cover complete with matching foil blocking (on front, spine and back) Full coloured hand-designed patterned endpapers Digitally sprayed edged on all 3 sides in full colour Co-ordinating head and tail bands Matching ribbon… Read More
Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
‘There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about’, said Oscar Wilde more than a hundred years ago. But this remark seems perhaps even more relevant to our present world where so many seek publicity at any cost. Wilde’s well-turned phrases and spontaneous insults… Read More
Peter Pan Limited Collector’s Edition
The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find wolves, Mermaids and… Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a… Read More
For The Fallen: The Poetry of the First World War
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.
Alice in Wonderland Limited Collector’s Edition
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll’s delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky. These exquisite compact hardbacks are cloth-bound with matching coloured endpapers… Read More
The Little Prince Limited Collector’s Edition
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book’s brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on a reconnaissance flight, it is one of the… Read More
The Jungle Book Limited Collector’s Edition
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli’s parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the… Read More
Irish Ghost Stories From the Haunted 19th Century
He told more about it to the priest than to others. He certainly had a secret to tell. He might as well have divulged it frankly, for the neighbours all knew well enough that it was the face of dead Ellen Coleman that he had seen. – J.S. Le Fanu I felt a strange creeping sensation… Read More