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Folio 34: A Checklist of the Publications of the Folio Society 1947 -1980
£8.00 +
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John Dreyfus & John Letts
The Folio Press; The Folio Society 1981
The Third bibliographic account of the Folio Society's output, with succinct descriptions and details of each volume. With b/w illustrations adapted from the many books mentioned. With introductions. Some mild shelf-wear and bumping to top of spine. Else cl [more...]
Folio 21: A Bibliography of the Folio Society 1947 -1967
£8.00 +
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Francis Meynall
The Folio Press; The Folio Society 1967
Bbibliographic account of the Folio Society's output, with succinct descriptions and details of each volume. With colour and b/w images of the many books mentioned. With introductions. Complete with No slipcase. Some rubbing and toning to cloth covers. Co [more...]
Bel-Ami
£8.00 +
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Guy de Maupassant; Eric Sutton (trans)
The Folio Society 1955
Early Folio Society edition of Guy de Maupassant's 1885 novel about a Parisian social climber. Illustrated with colour lithographs by Alistair Grant. Lacks dust jacket. Spine is cocked. Toning and rubbing to covers. Contents clean and binding sound. Fair [more...]
The Gold Rush
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E. Gould Buffum
The Folio Society 1959
'An account of six months in the California diggings.' Oft thrilling, featuring encounters with Native Americans and ambitious prospectors. With black and white illustrations. Complete with slipcase. Marking to spine. Tanning to page edges. Contents clea [more...]
Astrophel and Stella
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Phillip Sidney
The Folio Society 1959
Quarter Leather Folio Society edition of Sidney's late 16th century collection of interconnected sonnets and poems. With an introduction by Kingsley Hart. Decorated end-papers and matching decoration throughout. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some wea [more...]
Three Men in a Boat
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Jerome K. Jerome
The Folio Society 1964
First Folio Society edition of Jerome's humorous travelogue of boating down the Thames in the late nineteenth century. With b/w illustration by Ian Ribbons. Complete with slipcase. mild shelf-wear to slipcase. Sunning and light marking to spine, faint foxin [more...]
The Life of Mozart Including his Correspondence
£7.50 +
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Edward Holmes
The Folio Society 1992
Folio Society edition of Holmes' great biography of Mozart, first published in 1845. Edited and with an introduction by Christopher Hogwood. Quarter cloth with gilt silhouette to cover. Complete with slipcase and b/w images. Some very slight fading to spin [more...]
The Vicar of Wakefield
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Oliver Goldsmith
The Folio Society 1952
Early Folio Society edition of Goldsmith's popular 18th century novel, With illustrations by Margaret Weathebee. Decorative boards with decorative edn-papers. No slipcase as issued. Some toning to spine and Some tanning to page edges but otherwise is clean, p [more...]
Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes
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Robert Louis Stevenson
The Folio Society 1975
Charming Folio edition of Stevenson's first published work. Written to secure independence from his parents and a future with the woman he loved, Travels with a Donkey is a pioneering work of travel writing. Detailing Stevenson's journey through the curious [more...]
The Unlucky Family
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Mrs Henry de la Pasture (Elizabeth Lydia Rosa
The Folio Society 1980
Pleasant Folio Society edition of de la Pasture's 1907 Children's novel. With an introduction by Auberon Waugh. b/w illustrations by John lawrence. Complete with slipcase. Some very light shelf-wear to slipcase. Very light toning to spine. Contents clean [more...]
The First Colonists: Hakluyt's Voyages to America
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Richard Hakluyt; A. L. Rowse
The Folio Society 1987
'A Modern Version' edited and introduced by Rowse, containing Hakluyt's key writings on the English colonization of the Americas. Generously illustrated in colour and b/w. Nice 4to sized (280x220mm). Complete with slipcase. Some light toning and shelf-wea [more...]
Our Village
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Mary Mitford
The Folio Society 1997
Pleasant quarter cloth edition of Mitford's evocative collection of sketches of rural life, first published in The Lady's Magazine in the early 19th century. With wood engravings by Joan Hassall. Slipcase has light shelfwear else crisp and clean. In Near Fi [more...]
The Worlds of John Aubrey
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John Aubrey
The Folio Society 1988
'Being a further selection of Brief Lives, together with excerpts from his writings on antiquities and science'. Selected and edited by Richard Barber. With b/w images. Complete with slipcase. Some shelfwear and marking to slipcase. Light rubbing to label [more...]
The Third Crusade: An Eye-Witness Account of the Campaigns of Richard Coeur-De-lyon in Cyprus and the Holy Land
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Ambroise of Normandy (?); Kenneth Fenwick (ed
The Folio Society 1958
Elegant Folio Society edition of the prose version of this chronicle of Richard I's crusade, thought to derive from the verse of Ambroise. With dramatic illustrations by Raymond Hawthorn. Bound in full vellum style vegetable parchment with gilt decoration. [more...]
The Vicar of Wakefield
£7.25 +
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Oliver Goldsmith
The Folio Society 1971
Redesigned Folio Society edition of Goldsmith's popular 18th century novel, With illustrations by Margaret Weathebee. Decorative boards with decorative end-papers. Complete with slipcase. Some very light sunning to spine. Mild shelf-wear and rubbing to edge [more...]
Eminent Victorians
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Lytton Strachey
Folio Society 1967
Stout Folio Society edition of Strachey's influential, pioneering and controversial sketches of a number of eminent victorians. Complete with slip case. Some sunning to spine and very minor shelfwear. Otherwise clean and square. Good+ overall. [more...]
What are the Seven Wonders of the World
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Peter D'Empiro; Mary Desmond Pinkowash
The Folio Society 2005
Amusing Folio Society volume featuring 61 culturally significant lists including what are the seven wonders of the world and what are the seven ages of man according to Shakespeare. Each list is supported with context and background information. With b/w dec [more...]
The Memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill
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James Melville
Folio Society 1972
Memoirs of the Elizabethan diplomat, valuable for Melville's proximity to Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth. Complete with slip case. Features full colour illustrations and images. Sewn head band and coloured top-edge. Slight sunning to spine and very min [more...]
Voice from the ranks: A personal narrative of the Crimean campaign
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'A Sargeant of the Royal Fusiliers'; Kenneth
The Folio Society 1954
Early Folio Society volume, account by a veteran of the Crimean war with contemporary illustrations. Some light toning and marking to covers. Mild tanning to page edges but contents clean and tight. Good+ [more...]
Charles Lamb: Essays
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Charles Lamb; Rosalind Vallance & John Hampto
The Folio Society 1963
Handsome Folio Society edition of this selection of Lamb's engaging essays that appeared first in the London Magazine in the 1820s. Taken from the Essays and Last Essays of Elia, popular fallacies and other miscellaneous pieces. Black cloth with gilt decorat [more...]
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