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The Folio Society

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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...]
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 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
(UK)
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 Age of Constantine the Great
£25.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Jakob Burckhardt; Modes Hadas (trans)
The Folio Society 2007
Impressive Folio Society edition of Burckhardt's 1853 study of Constantine and the later Roman empire, from the reforms of Diocletian and the tetrarchy to constantine's ascension and his adoption of christianity, using the text of the updated 1880 edition. Wi [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...]
The Great fire of London in 1666
£21.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Walter George Bell
The Folio Society 2004
Striking Folio Society edition of Bell's revised 1952 account of the Great Fire of London, describing the state of the city prior to the inferno; the cause of the blaze and accounts of its spread throughout London, as well the immediate and long term aftermat [more...]
The Shadow-Line & Within the Tides
£21.00 +
FREE p&p
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Joseph Conrad
The Folio Society 2001
Striking Folio Society edition of conrad's 1917 novella and Within the Tides, a collection of four short stories. With illustrations by Francis Mosley. Introduction by Alan Ross. Blue cloth with silver and black design. Complete with slipcase. In crisp fine [more...]
Hard Times for these Times
£19.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Charles Dickens
The Folio Society 1994
The Folio Society's 'second series' edition of Dickens' shorter, somewhat peculiar, 1854 novel. Illustrated in b/w by Charles Keeping. Bound in cream cloth decorated with Keeping's drawings. With an introduction. Complete with slipcase, decorated with Dick [more...]
Thank You, Jeeves
£19.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
P. G. Wodehouse
The Folio Society 2015
Delightful Folio Society edition of Wodehouse's first full length novel featuring Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, in an updated quarter cloth binding. With black and white illustrations by Paul Cox. No Slipcase. Spine very slightly cocked. Clean and prim. Very [more...]
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
£18.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
George Johnson
The Folio Society 2011
Quirky Folio Society edition of Johnson's 2008 explanation of ten significant and elegant experiments; describing the science, the scientist and the experiment itself, as well the context in which it took place. Includes Newton's exploration of colour and opt [more...]
The Fixed Period
£18.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Anthony Trollope
The Folio Society 1997
Handsome quarter cloth edition of Trollope's innovative short novel; the author's only piece of speculative/dystopian fiction describing a British colony that has ordained that citizens must be euthanised at the age of 68. With b/w illustrations by Eliza Tri [more...]
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and The City at the Height of The Empire
£16.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Jerome Carcopino; E. O. Lorimer (trans)
The Folio Society 2004
First Folio Society edition of Carcopino's 1939 account of the realities of life in Ancient Rome. Split into two sections, the first describes the material and moral background of the Roman Empire, the second details the specifics of daily life. With an intr [more...]
The Shadow of Vesuvius: Pompeii AD 79
£15.00 +
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Raleigh Trevelyan
The Folio Society 1976
Splendid, generously illustrated Folio Society edition detailing the rediscovery of Pompeii and the effect it had on europe in the early 18th century. Issued without a slipcase but complete with glassine wrapper. Some light shelfwear, but otherwise bright, c [more...]
Antony and Cleopatra
£15.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
William Shakespeare
The Folio Society 1956
First printing From the Folio Society series of Shakespeare's complete plays. Illustrated with the designs of costumes by Audrey Cruddas and b/w images of decor and staging by Roger Furse. With an introduction by Laurence Olivier. Complete with Dust Jac [more...]
The Second Jungle Book
£14.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Rudyard Kipling
The Folio Society 1994
Impressive Folio Society edition of Kipling's 1895 sequel to the Jungle book, continuing the tale of Mowgli in a series of short stories. Featuring the striking illustrations of Edward Detmold, redone in colour by David Eccles. Complete with slipcase. Some [more...]
Adventures of Casanova
£14.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Giacomo Casanova; Willard R. Trask (trans.)
The Folio Society 2007
The most amusing and/or exciting episodes extracted from Casanova's famous memoir. Lavish pictorial cover, full colour plates. Some light rubbing to edges. Contents bright and clean. Very good. [more...]
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