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...]
Handsome Heron edition of the first novel to feature Lord Ramage and set during the French Revolutionary Wars. Red faux-leather cloth with gilt decoration and decorated end-papers. Mild foxing to top edge. Small marks to free end-papers (caused by tape resi [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Wouk's pulitzer prize winning novel set during world war 2. Brown faux-leather cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations. . Foxing to top edge. Small marks to free-endpapers (tape residue from [more...]
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...]
Faux leather with gilt design. Silken marker, decorated endpapers and frontis portrait of Mitchell and illustrated with b/w stills from the film. Gilt fading to spine. Contents bright and sound. Good+ [more...]
Tremendous Folio Society edition of Carroll's nonsensical poem, featuring lavish b/w illustrations throughout by Quentin Blake. Pictorial cloth covers. Complete with slipcase. Spine is sunned, as is common, and slipcase has some shelf-wear and marking. Mil [more...]
Elegant Folio Society of Wilde's 1895 wildly succesful drawing room play. Bound in silk moire cloth, with decorated end-papers. Illustrated in colour by Cecil Beaton, with further b/w illustrations within the text. Lacks slipcase. Sunning to spine with f [more...]
Glorious Folio Society edition of Einstein's epochal texts. Bound in grey paper with foil blocked design by Jonathon Kitchen. An introduction by Roger Penrose. Complete with slipcase. In crisp, fine condition. [more...]
Handsome Heron edition of Priestley's novel on duelling civil servants. Blue faux-leather cloth covers with elaborate gilt decoration. Decorated endpaper and b/w frontispiece. Very faint foxing to page edge. A previous owner's protective dust jacket has le [more...]
Interesting Folio Society edition of Isherwood's Berlin set 1935 novel. With colour illustrations by Beryl Cook and an introduction by Samuel Hynes. Complete with slipcase. Some very slight shelf-wear to slipcase and slight rubbing to edges. Contents bright [more...]
Charming, and interesting, edition of Fitzgerald's final novel on morality and psychoanalysis. Text is in English but introduction and notes are in Russian. Attractive gilt design and titling to black covers. Decorated endpapers. Without dust-jacket. A fe [more...]
Handsome leather edition of Stevenson's memoir of his immigrant experiences in America describing his arrival in New York and his journey to San Francisco. Fine paper edition. Red leather covers with gilt titling and design. All edges gilt. Decorated endpa [more...]
Handsome leather edition of Stevenson's historical novel set during the Jacobite uprising. Dark leather covers with gilt titling and design. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Signature to ffep. Conten [more...]
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...]
Charming cloth edition of Goldsmith's 1766 novel from Dent's English Idylls series, featuring elaborate gilt decoration and 25 colour plates by C. E. Brock. Light green cloth. Top edge gilt. Fore edge rough cut. Decorated end-papers. Previous owner's inscri [more...]
Collections of short stories of O. Henry, american master of the short story. With frontispiece. Faux leather blue cloth. Contents clean and tight. Good/very good. [more...]
Terrific Folio Society edition of Power's gallery of Medieval people, from Marco Polo, to Madame eglentyne to the peasant Bodo. An examination of their times, lifestyles and histories. Bound in printed parchment. Reprinted with a new binding. Complete with [more...]
The second volume of the deluxe leather edition of Dickens' classic novel. Elaborate gilt design to spine and cover. Silken bookmarker, decorated end-papers. Top edge gilt, sewn headband. Features illustrations by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). Some light ru [more...]
Charming and compact biography of this 'Man of Destiny', from the Men of Destiny Series. Dark blue leatherette cloth with extravagant gilt titling and design. Some shelfwear with light tanning to page edges otherwise bright with prim, Very good. [more...]
The seventh volume from the Folio History of England Series. With b/w images and frontispiece. Complete with slipcase. Previous owner's small sticker to ffep. Else crisp and clean. Near Fine. [more...]
