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The Folio Society

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Atonement
£149.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Ian McEwan
The Folio Society 2017
Elegant Folio Society edition of McEwan's popular 2001 novel. Bound in quarter cloth with a design by Tina Berning. Complete with 9 colour illustrations by Berning and decorative end-papers. With an introduction by Adam Begley. Complete with slipcase. In [more...]
Chronicles of Barsetshire: Barchester Towers, The Warden, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset (six Volumes)
£136.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Antony Trollope
The Folio Society 1996
Handsome Folio Society set of Trollope's series of novels set in the fictitious county. Written between 1855 and 1867, The Chronicles of Barsetshire are considered Trollope's greatest achievement. Quarter cloth binding with decorated boards. B/w illustration [more...]
The Tomb of Tutankhamun (two volumes)
£125.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Howard Carter
The Folio Society 2014
Tremendous Folio Society edition of Carter's account of his successful search for the tomb of 18th dynasty Pharoah Tutankhamun, with detailed descriptions of the find as well as contextualizing history. Originally published in three volumes from 1923 to 1933, [more...]
The Second World War: A Gathering Storm etc. (six volumes)
£120.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Winston Churchill
The Folio Society 2000
Impressive Folio Society set of Churchill's great history of the second world war. Includes A Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, The Hinge of Fate, Closing the Ring and Triumph and Tragedy. With b/w images. Introduction by Martin Gilber [more...]
A Wizard of Earthsea
£110.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Ursula K. le Guin; David Mitchell
The Folio Society 2015
Sophisticated Folio Society edition of le Guin's enduring 1968 fantasy, the first novel to be set in her world of Earthsea. Featuring seven colour illustratons of David Lupton and maps to end-papers. With an introduction by David Mitchell. Complete with slipc [more...]
African Adventures: King Solomon's Mines, She, Allan Quartermain (three volumes)
£95.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
H. Rider Haggard
The Folio Society 1995
Jaunty Folio Society edition of three of Haggard's greatest victorian adventure stories that appeared in quick succession, in 1885, 1886 and 1887 respectively. With black and white illustrations by David Eccles. Bound in tan cloth with gilt decoration by the [more...]
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
£88.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Anna Funder
The Folio Society 2016
Stylish Folio Society edition of Funder's 2003 account of the lives of various East Germans working for and against the Stasi. With colour images and map. With a new introduction by the author. Complete with slipcase. Some light shelf-wear to slipcase. Vol [more...]
The First Folio of Shakespeare: The Norton Facsimile
£82.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
William Shakespeare
W. W. Norton / Folio Society 1996
The Second edition of the Norton facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623, printed by Blount and Jaggard. With two introductions explaining the origins, printing methods and modern scholarship of the First Folio. Bound in quarter bonded leather with pic [more...]
The War of the Worlds
£78.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
H. G. Wells
The Folio Society 2004
Striking Folio Society edition of Well's enduring 1898 science fiction novel with colour illustrations by Grahame Baker. With an introduction by Iain Sinclair. Complete with slipcase. In crisp, fine condition. [more...]
The Complete Novels: Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Northanger Abbey; Emma; Persuasion; and shorter works (seven volumes)
£75.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Jane Austen
The Folio Society 1997
Pleasing set of Austen's novels as well as a volume of her short works including her letters and her unfinished novel Sanditon. With Joan Hassell's popular woodcuts. Quarter cloth with decorated boards. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some rubbing to edge [more...]
The Birth of a New Freedom: The Selected Writings of Abraham Lincoln
£35.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Abraham Lincoln; Fred Kaplan (editor)
The Folio Society 2015
Impressive Folio Society edition of Lincoln's selected writings, including speeches and pieces from his early political career in Illinois to his time as president, including the Gettysburg Address. With numerous b/w images. No slipcase. Some mild shelf-wea [more...]
Barchester Towers
£33.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Anthony Trollope
The Folio Society 2014
Elegant new Folio Society edition of Trollope's Barsetshire novel. With colour illustrations by Bill Bragg and an introduction by Kathryn Hughes. Complete with slipcase. Maps to endpapers. Some very faint spotting to fore-edge, else immaculate. Near fine. [more...]
Othello
£30.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
William Shakespeare
The Folio Society 1955
First edition from the Folio Society series of Shakespeare's complete plays. Illustrated with the designs for costumes and stages by Tanya Moiseiwitsch done for the Stratford Company's tour of Australia and New Zealand. With an introduction by Ivor Brown. [more...]
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
£28.00 +
FREE p&p
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Charles Dickens
The Folio Society 1995
The Folio Society's 'second series' edition of Dickens' final unfinished novel, that was nevertheless published in 1870. Illustrated in b/w by Charles Keeping. Bound in cream cloth decorated with Keeping's drawings. With an introduction. Complete with slipc [more...]
The Gastronomical Me
£28.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
M. F. K. Fisher
The Folio Society 2016
Jaunty Folio Society edition of Fisher's 1943 'food memoir'. The pre-eminent food writer of her era, Fisher's account of her life through the lens of her relationship with food and cooking, told through witty vignettes and anecdotes would go on to inspire a w [more...]
Claudius The God
£28.00 +
FREE p&p
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Robert Graves
The Folio Society 1995
Extremely fetching Folio Society edition of Graves' second volume in his fictional account of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and the life and struggles of the emperor Claudius in the vipers nest of Rome. Here focusing on his later life as emperor and the efforts [more...]
The Pax Britannica Trilogy: Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress, Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire, Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (three volumes)
£25.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
James Morris
The Folio Society 1994
Folio Society edition of Morris' consciously subjective trilogy detailing the rise and retreat of the British empire. Comprising of: Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (1973); Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire (1968) and Farewell the Trumpets: An Imper [more...]
An Outcast of the Islands
£24.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Joseph Conrad
The Folio Society 2003
Striking Folio Society edition of conrad's second novel published in 1896, leaning on his experiences at sea. With illustrations by Francis Mosley. Introduction by Richard Woodman. Blue cloth with silver and black design. Complete with slipcase. In crisp [more...]
Epitaph for a Spy
£23.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Eric Ambler
The Folio Society 2013
Striking Folio Society edition of Ambler's breakthrough 1938 mystery espionage thriller in which a unwitting refugee is drawn into a game of internation espionage. With stylish colour illustrations by Paul Blow and an introduction by ex-Mi6 head Stella Rimmi [more...]
A Victorian Trilogy: Victorian People, Things & Cities (three volumes)
£22.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Asa Briggs
The Folio Society 1997
Attractive set of Asa Briggs' acclaimed Victorian trilogy, comprising of his books on Victorian People, Cities and Things. Features colour images and diagrams. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some marking and shelf-wear. Faint marking to tinted top edg [more...]
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