11 VOLUMES FROM THE WHITEOAKS OF JALNA SERIES. BUILDING OF JALNA / MORNING AT JALNA / YOUNG RENNY / WHITEOAK HERITAGE / WHITEOAK BROTHERS / WHITEOAKS / FINCH'S FORTUNE / WHITEOAK HARVEST / RENNY'S DAUGHTER / VARIABLE WINDS AT JALNA / CENTENARY AT JALNA. by De la Roche, Mazo - 1971

London: Pan, 1971. Partial set containing 11 of the 16 Whiteoaks of Jana series - mass market paperbacks, 7" H. **Please note: this grouping does not include: Mary Wakefield / Jalna / The Master of Jalna / Wakefield's Course / Return to Jalna.** The following description gives each volume's number as it appears in the chronological sequence. 1. The Building of Jalna - 250 pp, 1971 6th printing, ISBN 0330101587. "Tells how Captain Philip Whiteoak brought his passionate, impulsive young bride, Adeline - the matriarch of the later stories - from India to the spacious beauty of Canada. Then came the building of Jalna itself, a widening circle of new friends, the first birth within the walls of Jalna, a grand christening - countless occasions for quarrels and strong emotions, happiness and humour." 2. Morning at Jalna - 269 pp, 1969 4th printing, ISBN 0330101366. "1863 - South of the Canadian border from Jalna, the American Civil War rages. Into the peaceful, budding Ontario settlement come intriguing visitors with the polished manners and soft accents of Old Carolina. Are these elegant newcomers genuine fugitives from war, or, far more alarming to Philip and Adeline Whiteoak, are they agents of the slave-trading Confederate States?". 4. Young Renny - 255 pp, 1971 8th printing, ISBN 0330101404. "(We meet Adeline's handsome and indolent third son, Philip), suffer with Meg in the throes of her first unhappy love affair, and take pride in the unshakeable clannishness of the family. Above all there is Renny, in his fiery youth and first passion, standing at the side of Adeline in their bitter feud with the swarthy, dangerous Cousin Malahide from Ireland." 5. Whiteoak Heritage - 256 pp, 1971 7th printing, ISBN 0330101579. "Captain Renny Whiteoak returns from World War I to find a challenging heritage: His father and step-mother have died. The old uncles, Ernest and Nicholas, threaten the estate with their extravagance. Young Eden, now a student, is involved in a strange and damaging love affair. To help put Jalna on its feet, Renny employs a brash and beautiful horsewoman, and soon finds that he too is in love." 6. The Whiteoak Brothers - 255 pp, 1968 6th printing, ISBN 0330201999. "1923 - and the young Eden has met a persuasive mining broker, whose new venture promises miracles to anyone buying a handful of shares. One by one Eden persuades the Whiteoaks to part with their savings, even old Adeline. Each is anxious to conceal it from the others - and Jalna becomes electric with secrecy and excited expectation." 8. Whiteoaks - 347 pp, 1971 8th printing, ISBN 0330201980. "Young Finch Whiteoak, callow and thwarted, found the tough life of Jalna a torture he could bear no longer - and tried to escape. This is a story, too, of love, of how chance brought back to Jalna the girl whom Renny had once possessed and remembered always - with a passion, forbidden yet smouldering, he knew he could never conquer!" 9. Finch's Forturne - 348 pp, 1971 7th printing, ISBN 0330202006. "At twenty-one Finch Whiteoak, proud, sensitive, reckless, becomes the bewildered inheritor of his grandmother's fortune. The ever generous Finch takes his two Uncles to England, and against a lovely Devonshire background, falls in and out of love with the bewitching Sarah Court - suffering all the youthful agonies of disillusion and frustrated passion." 11. Whiteoak Harvest - 255 pp, 1969 5th printing, ISBN 0330101188. "Jalna in the thirties. Renny and his wife Alayne - their marriage near disaster - Finch and Sarah return from their honeymoon to upset the household with Eden Whiteoak's love-child - Wakefield, engaged to Pauline Lebraux, but tormented by religious doubts - ." 14. Renny's Daughter - 284 pp, 1968 7th printing, ISBN 0330202014. "It's 1948 - and the youthful Adeline Whiteoak, daughter of the Master of Jalna, is journeying from Canada to Ireland and then on to London with her Uncle Finch and Cousin Maruice. On board ship she meets a dashing Irishman - and, with all the stubborness of her ancestor and namesake, refuses to give him up when scandal breaks. Meanwhile, a crisis at Jalna - its rural peace and beauty threatened by a neighbour's speculative desings." 15. Variable Winds at Jalna - 251 pp, 1968 7th printing, ISBN 0330021680. "Tough, downright, passionate - characteristics of all the Whiteoaks - from old Adeline, the matriarch, to young Adeline, her great granddaughter - who threw the stones!" 16. Centenary at Jalna - 318 pp, 1968 5th printing, ISBN 0330020692. "Family pride is Renny Whiteoak's god - even to planning a loveless marriage for his daughter. Tension, excitement, sorrow - even tragedy - hover over Jalna in its centenary year. Yet this vivid story of the Whiteoaks family finds them seemingly united for the celebrations." Interiors - moderate browning to the pages in all volumes, 'Finch's Fortune' has some foxing on the inside of the front cover. Exteriors - several volumes have old price stickers on the covers, a few have some corners creases on the covers - one with a very small tear archivally taped, moderate browning to the top of the text blocks - light browning to covers and spines - one volume with two foxing marks, light lean to the spines and also faint creases, light edge wear - moderate on some spine edges including the odd small tear.. Not Signed. Reprints.. Soft Cover. Good.