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The Second Jungle Book
£14.00 +
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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 +
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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...]
Hours in a Library
£14.00 +
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Leslie Stephen
Folio Society 1991
Pleasant Folio Society edition of essays on great literature written between 1874 and 1879 by the critic and biographer Leslie Stephen, father of Virginia Woolf. Topics include the works of Sterne, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Walter Scott, Balzac and many [more...]
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and The City at the Height of The Empire
£13.00 +
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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 Nude
£13.00 +
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Kenneth Clark
The Folio Society 2010
Splendid Folio Society edition of Clark's exploration of the nude form throughout Art History. With hundreds of colour images. An introduction by Charles Saumarez Smith.4to. Quater cloth with pictorial covers. Complete with slipcase. Some light marking [more...]
The Decameron (two volumes)
£12.00 +
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Giovanni Boccaccio; Richard Aldington (trans)
The Folio Society 1954
Early Folio Society edition of Boccaccio's renaissance compendium of short stories. With illustrations by Buckland-Wright. Complete with Dust-jackets. Decorative cloth boards. Some water damage to rear cover of volume 1, affecting rear free end-papers and [more...]
Travels with my Aunt
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Graham Greene
The Folio Society 2004
Pleasant Folio Society edition of Greene's comedic novel. With colour illustrations by John Holder and an introduction by John Mortimer. Complete with slipcase. Some very light rubbing to edges. Contents are crisp and clean. Near fine. [more...]
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Walter Scott
Folio Society 1985
Brooding Folio Society edition of Scott's 1819 historical novel set around the union of England and Scotland. With an introduction by Gilbert Phelps with b/w illustrations by Sue Scullard. Complete with slipcase. Some very light toning to spine and slipcase. [more...]
The Leopard
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Guiseppe Di Lampedusa; Archibald Colquhoun (t
The Folio Society 1988
Folio Society edition of Lampedusa's classic novel set in Sicily during the unification of Italy in the nineteenth century. With illustrations by Ian Ribbons. Quarter Cloth with decorative paper. Complete with slipcase. Some very light toning to spine. Co [more...]
Poetic Gems Selected from the works of William McGonagall, Poet and Tragedian
£10.50 +
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William McGonagall
The Folio Society 1985
Interesting Folio Society edition of the poetic works of McGonagall, the somewhat limited scottish bard. In later years he gained notoriety for his bad verse which was propagated by, among others, Spike Milligan, who writes the foreword here. Illustrated wit [more...]
Wonders of the World
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Simon Goldhill; Richard Barber; Theodore K. R
The Folio Society 2006
Glossy, hefty Folio Society volume detailing the seven wonders of the Ancient world, the seven wonders of the medieval world and so on. Complete with numerous full page colour images. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some light shelfwear. volume crisp [more...]
Boswell's London Journal 1762-63
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James Boswell
The Folio Society 2006
Neat redesigned quarter Cloth Folio Society edition of Boswell's journal, written during a year in London whilst 22, that was only found much later and published in 1950. Interesting for containing his first meeting with Samuel Johnson and for the recorded co [more...]
The Prisoner of Zenda
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Antony Hope
The Folio Society 1961
Fancy Folio Society edition of Hope's 1894 Ruritanian adventure novel. Quarter cloth with jaunty decorative paper to boards. With colour illustrations by Biro. Complete with slipcase. Some light sunning to spine. Very light rubbing to corners. Contents c [more...]
Persuasion
£10.00 +
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Jane Austen
The Folio Society 1961
Early Folio Society edition of Jane Austen's Persuasion. With wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. Quarter cloth with decorated paper boards. Portrait of Austen to end-papers. Introduction by Richard Church. complete with slipcase. Spine is faded as is common [more...]
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Tobias Smollett
The Folio Society 1961
Jaunty Folio Society edition of Smollett's semi-autobiographical 1748 picaresque novel. In decorative cloth with leather label to spine. With b/w illustrations by Frank Martin. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has marking and toning. Some very light toning [more...]
Darkness at Noon
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Arthur Koestler; Daphne Hardy (trans)
The Folio Society 1980
Impressive Folio Society edition of Koestler's allegorical 1940 novel on Stalin's purges and trials of bolsheviks. Handsome three quarter cloth binding with b/w wood engravings by George Buday. With an introduction by Vladimir Bukovsky. Complete with slipca [more...]
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
£9.50 +
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Laurence Sterne
The Folio Society 1949
Pleasant early Folio Society edition of Sterne's autobiographical novel on his travels through France and Italy. Bound in decorative cloth with illustrations by Nigel Lambourne. No DJ. Some toning to spine, some bumping to edges. Light markings to top edge [more...]
Robinson Crusoe
£9.50 +
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Daniel Defoe
Folio Society 1972
Early Folio Society Edition of Defoe's thoughtful adventure story about the Castaway Robinson Crusue. Tremendous linocuts by John Lawrence. Leather label to spine. Previous owner's neat bookplate to front pastedown. Slipcase has some mild shelfwear. Very f [more...]
The Devil's Dictionary
£9.50 +
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Ambrose Bierce
The Folio Society 2003
Wicked yet elegant Folio Society edition of Bierce's satirical dictionary published in 1906. Full of acerbic definitions. With illustrated letters by Peter Forster. Quarter cloth with flame like marbled papers. Complete with slipcase. Some very light shelf [more...]
Love and Death: Six Stories by Ivan Turgenev
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Ivan Turgenev; Richard Freeborn (trans)
The Folio Society 1983
Decorative Folio Society edition of this collection of six short stories/novellas by Turgenev. Including Diary of a Superfluous man, Mumu, Asya, First Love, King Lear of the Steppes and The Song of Triumphant Love. With b/w illustrations by Elisa Trimby. Co [more...]
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