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...]
Striking Folio Society edition of Victor Klemperer's diaries that provided unprecedented insight into the rise of the Nazi party in Germany and the realities of German Society during the second world war. With maps to end-papers, b/w images and frontispieces [more...]
Elegant Folio Society edition of Faulks' acclaimed 1993 novel. With nine colour illustrations by Swara Harasymowicz and an introduction by Faulks. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some mild shelf-wear. Small marking/abrasion to ffep, probably from stic [more...]
Folio Society edition of Barrie's classic play. With stylish colour illustrations by Paula Rego. With a significant introduction by Andrew Birkin, which includes hitherto unpublished sections from Barrie's notes. 4to. Complete with slipcase. Previous owner [more...]
Pleasant edition of Dickens' Christmas books including the classic Christmas/Ghost story A Christmas Carol plus The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Battle of Life. A facsimile of Dickens' favoured 1876 edition. Bound with quarter [more...]
Devilish Folio Society edition of Carter's 1979 collection of stories, sometimes macabre, sometimes risque retellings of various children's stories and folktales, including Bluebeard (the novella The Bloody Chamber), Puss in boots, Red riding hood, Beauty and [more...]
Nicely produced Folio Society edition of Gaskell's tragic 1863 novel. Bound in patterned cloth with gilt titling. With a colour frontispiece and 9 b/w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. With an introduction by Jenny Uglow. Complete with slipcase. Previous own [more...]
Nicely produced Folio Society edition of Gaskell's 1866 novel. Bound in patterned cloth with gilt titling. With a colour frontispiece and 10 b/w illustrations by Alexy Pendle. With an introduction by Victoria Glendinning. Complete with slipcase. Previous [more...]
Charming deluxe leather edition of three of Kipling's dog stories: Thy Servant a Dog; Toby Dog and The Great Play Hunt. Features b/w illustrations by G. L. Stampa throughout. Blue mottled leather wth gilt decoration and titling. Inner dentelles, all edges [more...]
Nicely produced volume featuring the complete Sherlock Holmes stories with the original illustrations from the Strand Magazine. Contains A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear and all the collections of sho [more...]
First edition of the influential edition of Gaskell's popular comic novel on rural and small town life in Victorian Britain. Lavishly illustrated by Hugh Thomson with over one hundred b/w drawings and decorations. Bound in the publishers's simple cloth cover [more...]
Brooding Folio Society edition of Dostoevsky's great novel. With b/w illustrations by Charles Keeping. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some rubbing and wear commensurate to age. Mild shelf-wear to volume, faint mark to spine. Contents clean and tight. [more...]
Jaunty Folio society edition of Bryson's first travel book, published in 1989, Bryson toured the small towns of America, trying to present everyday life, whilst recounting his childhood in Iowa. With colour images. Complete with slipcase. Sealed In Publishe [more...]
Fetching gilt and green cloth binding in the 'Cranford series' style. Illustrated throughout by Charles Brock in b/w. All edges gilt. Previous owners name to ffep. Dusty staining to covers and bumping to edges. Occassional light spotting to front matte [more...]
Impressive Folio Society edition of Barbero's examination of the life and rule of Charlemagne and the influence of the Carolingian Empire. With decorative cloth binding. Maps to endpapers and colour images. narrow 8vo. With slipcase. Some mild shelf-wear [more...]
Splendid First Folio Society Edition of Defoe's epistolary account of his travels through Britain, first published between 1724 and 1727 as A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain. Complete with three volumes in pictorial slipcase. Bound in brown cloth [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of four of Ibsen's key works. With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrations by Tony Eubanks. elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some mild shelf-wear, else crisp and clean. Near fine. [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of a selection of 29 essays, chosen by Mortimer J. Adler . With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrations by Carol Wald. elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some mild shelf-wear, else crisp [more...]
Handsome quarter leather Franklin library edition of Fielding's novell. With marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson. Elaborate gilt design to spine and covers. Some marking to covers. Some mild shelf-wear, otherwise Crisp and [more...]
Neat collins edition of Charlotte Bronte's classic. In a limp faux-leather cover with gilt titling. Top edge gilt. Some light shelfwear. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Contents clean and prim. Good+ condition overall. [more...]
