Pleasing volume featuring 'The life of Thomas More' written by his son in Law, Roper, and a selection of his letters, introduced and edited by A. L. Rowse. Contains numerous full colour images. Attractive gilt to cover. Complete with slipcase. slipcase has [more...]
Quarter cloth Folio edition of Pushkin's enduring short story and novella. Illustrated with etching by Clarke Hutton. Quarter cloth with interesting decorative paper to boards. Lacks slipcase. Boards bowed. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to edges. Content [more...]
Profusely illustrated collection of letters and primary sources relating to Nelson and Emma. Edited by Roger Hudson. Complete with pictoral slip case. Crisp, clean. Fine condition. [more...]
Lively study of the apogee of the avaricious and amoral city-state. Issued without slipcase as issued, but complete with glassine wrapper. Some light shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Very Good. [more...]
Reprint of the first Folio Society edition of Trollope's Barsetshire novel. With illustrations by Peter Reddick. Complete with slipcase. Maps to endpapers. Some light shelfwear to slipcase. Contents bright and clean. Very good. [more...]
Generously illustrated Folio Society edition of Ward's study of the design, construction and influence of Chartres Cathedral. Red cloth with gilt decoration. Numerous colour and b/w images of the cathedral, its plans, stained glass etc. Complete with slipc [more...]
Handsome leather edition of Stevenson's second collection of literary essays, including pieces on Victor Hugo and Francois Villon. Red leather covers with gilt titling and design. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities. Contents clean. Nice and tight. [more...]
Quarter cloth Folio edition of Pushkin's enduring short story and novella. Illustrated with etching by Clarke Hutton. Quarter cloth with interesting decorative paper to boards. Complete with slipcase. Sunning and light marking to spine. Rubbing and cracki [more...]
Pleasant compilation of writings detailing life in the jubilee years from 1887 to 1897. Features diary entries, articles and sketches from a range of characters describing society, technology, culture and more. With colour images. Complete with slipcase. Sl [more...]
Splendid Folio Society volume of selected crime stories that appeared in the Strand Magazine. Including How the Brigadier came to the Castle of Gloom by Arthur Conan doyle; The Lost Legion by Rudyard Kipling; Mirage by W. Somerset Maucgham; The News in Englis [more...]
Folio Society edition of Morrison's 1902 novel, set in working class london. With b/w illustrations by Val Biro. With an introduction by Peter Forster. Lacks slipcase. Previous owner's sticker to ffep. Some mild shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Goo [more...]
Folio Society edition of Saki's terrific short stories selected by John Letts. With drawings by Osbert Lancaster. Complete with slipcase. Some toning to spine, light shelfwear to volume and slipcase. Previous owner's sticker to ffep. Contents clean and prim [more...]
A selection from the letters and writing of the well traveled Soldier-farmer, describing the emergence of American society in the second half of the 18th century. With b/w illustrations by Sarah Van Niekerk. Quarter cloth with marbled paper by Ann Muir. No [more...]
Elegant Folio Society edition of White's 1946 novel. With colour illustrations by Charles Stewart plus the original end-papers and illustrated title page showing the palace of Malplaquet. Bound in decorated silk moire covers. Complete with slipcase. Slipca [more...]
'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. Slight sudge mark to cover. previous owner's bookplate to fron [more...]
Striking Folio Society edition of Cohen's selection and translation of numerous primary sources detailing the conquest of Peru. Featuring 'A translation of books I - IV of Agustin de Zarate's History of these events, supplemented by eye witness accounts of ce [more...]
A creamy selection chosen by Michael Cox from the writings of Noel Coward. Features extracts from his plays and his poems. Fun gold cloth binding. Illustrations by Helen Smithson. Complete with slipcase. Small nick to spine. Contents crisp and clean. V [more...]
Folio Society edition of the New Newgate Calendar, the continuation of the Newgate Calendar. A series of 'edifying' sketches of notorious trials and executions of well known criminals of the 18th and 19th centuries, including William Burke and the Earl of Car [more...]
Charming edition of Dickens' account of his childhood. He describes, often whimsically, his studies, his toys and all the peculiar things that shaped him. Quarter cloth and decorative boards. B/w and colour images throughout. Some light wear and bumping to [more...]
'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 rubbing to edges of slipc [more...]
