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The Folio Society

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Moby-Dick or, The Whale with a Commentary (two volumes)
£1750.00 +
FREE p&p
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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...]
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
£460.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Omar Khayyam; Edward Fitzgerald (trans.)
The Folio Society 2009
Glorious limited Special Folio Society edition of the Rubiayat, done to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Edward Fitzgerald's enduring translation of 1859. Limited to 1000 copies, of which this is number 430. Featuring all new colou [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 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
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 +
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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 +
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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...]
Metamorphoses
£120.00 +
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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso); Mary Innes (tran
The Folio Society 1995
Elegant Folio Society edition of Ovid's poem rendered into Prose by Innes. Quarter leather with illustrated cloth to boards. With colour illustrations and b/w decorations by Shirley Smith. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some light rubbing and toning w [more...]
African Adventures: King Solomon's Mines, She, Allan Quartermain (three volumes)
£95.00 +
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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...]
The Baburnama
£95.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
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 +
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...]
Comedies: Scoop; A Handful of Dust; Put Out More Flags; Black Mischief; Vile Bodies; Decline and Fall (six volumes)
£80.00 +
FREE p&p
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Evelyn Waugh
The Folio Society 1999
Jaunty Folio Society collection of Waugh's satirical comedies. With colorful pictorial covers and colour full page illustrations plus b/w images throughout by John Holder. With an introduction by David Lodge. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has rubbing to [more...]
The Vision of Piers the Plowman
£78.00 +
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(UK)
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...]
The War with Hannibal
£78.00 +
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Livy (Titus Livius); J. C. Yardley (trans)
The Folio Society 2011
Handsome Folio Society edition of the later extant books of Livy's History of Rome, primarily describing the second Punic War. with an introduction by Kenneth McLeish. From the fetching series of Classical historians, in brown cloth with a gilt trophy of arms [more...]
Carthage: A History
£60.00 +
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Serge Lancel; Antonia Nevill (trans)
The Folio Society 2012
Striking Folio Society edition of the English translation of Lancel's comprehensive 1992 history of the Carthaginian Empire, from its founding by Phoenician traders and its associated myths, to its heights under the forebears of Hannibal, to its destruction by [more...]
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
£59.00 +
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(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...]
Chronicles of the Dark Ages: The Coming of the Anglo-Saxons; Lore; The Fall of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (three volumes)
£52.00 +
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Richard Barber (editor)
The Folio Society 2008
Fascinating Folio Society set of selected key works telling of the history and culture of the Anglo-saxon, from their origins in Germany to the collapse of the seven Kingdoms and the Norman conquest. Includes poems such as Beowulf and Hereward the Wake and th [more...]
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (The Adventures, Memoir, Return etc.) (five volumes)
£50.00 +
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(UK)
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Folio Society 2004
Striking Folio Society edition of the collected Sherlock Holmes short story anthologies, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; The Return of Sherlock Holmes; His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes; [more...]
A History of Rome
£45.00 +
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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...]
Catch 22
£39.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Joseph Heller
The Folio Society 2004
Lively Folio Society edition of Heller's satirical 1961 World War 2 novel. With an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury and nine colour illustrations by Neil Packer. Decorated end-papers. Green cloth with blocked colour design. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase [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...]
The Forsyte Saga (three volumes)
£35.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
John Galsworthy
The Folio Society 1984
Handsome First Folio Society edition of Galsworthy's epic series based on a nouveau rich family, much like his own, and their journey through English society of the early 20th century. With colour frontispieces and b/w illustrations by Anthony Gross. With sl [more...]
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