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The Folio Society

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Moby-Dick or, The Whale with a Commentary (two volumes)
£1650.00 +
£24 p&p
(US)
Herman Melville; Harold Beaver
The Folio Society 2009
Special Limited Folio Society of Melville's epic 1851 novel. Featuring Rockwell Kent's iconic b/w illustrations from the 1930 Lakeside Press edition. Limited to 1750 copies, of which this is number 797. Bound in black leather and blocked in silver after a de [more...]
Darwin's Essential Works: On the Origin of Species; The Voyage of the HMS Beagle; The Expression of the Emotions; The Descent of Man
£285.00 +
£24 p&p
(US)
Charles Darwin; Stephen Pinker; Richard Keyne
The Folio Society 2006
Pleasant decorative Folio Society editions of Darwin's key works: On the Origin of Species by the Means of Natural Selection (2007, fourth printing); The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals & the Autobiography (2008, first thus); Journal of Research [more...]
The Golden Ass or, Metamorphosis
£270.00 +
£24 p&p
(US)
Lucius Apuleius; E. J. Kenney (trans)
The Folio Society 2015
Special limited Folio Society edition of The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, the only extant Roman novel, first appearing in the 2nd century AD. With new colour illustrations by Quentin Blake. With an introduction by James Wood. Limited to 1000 copies of which th [more...]
In Search of Lost Time [Remembrance of Things Past] (six volumes)
£128.00 +
£24 p&p
(US)
Marcel Proust; C. K. Scott Moncreiff & Terran
The Folio Society 2000
Stylish Folio Society edition of Proust's modernist masterpiece. Complete in six volumes, containing all seven volumes of the cycle: Swann's Way, Within a Budding Grove, the Guermantes Way, the Fugitive, Time Regained, the Captive, Sodom and Gomorrah. With p [more...]
The Baburnama
£95.00 +
£24 p&p
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Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (?ahir-ud-Din Muham
The Folio Society 2013
Impressive Folio Society edition of the memoirs of the Timurid Prince, a descendant of Tamerlane, who founded the Murghal Empire in the early sixteenth century. A learned and inquisitive man, Babur's autobiography provides a fascinating and detailed account o [more...]
The First Folio of Shakespeare: The Norton Facsimile
£82.00 +
£24 p&p
(US)
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 Vision of Piers the Plowman
£78.00 +
£24 p&p
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William Langland; E. Talbot Donaldson (trans)
The Folio Society 2014
Impressive special quarter leather Folio Society edition of Langland's c.1377 religious allegory, written in verse. With the original middle english here, alongside a translation by E. Talbot Donaldson, edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Stephen H. A. Shepherd [more...]
A History of Rome
£45.00 +
£24 p&p
(US)
Theodor Mommsen
The Folio Society 2007
'From the foundation of the City to the sole rule of Julius Caesar'. Splendid special quarter leather Folio Society edition of Mommsen's classic work of Roman History published in three volumes from 1854-1856. Mommsen considered Caesar the paragon of enlight [more...]
The Birth of a New Freedom: The Selected Writings of Abraham Lincoln
£35.00 +
£24 p&p
(US)
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...]
The Persian Expedition [Anabasis]
£21.00 +
£24 p&p
(US)
Xenophon; Rex Warner (trans.)
The Folio Society 2009
Handsome Folio Society edition of Xenophon's great Anabasis, the expedition of 10,00 Greek mercenaries in the service of Cyrus. Betrayed after the death of Cyrus, they had to fight their way home through hostile and inhospitable territory. The inspiration fo [more...]
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