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The Folio Society

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Darwin's Essential Works: On the Origin of Species; The Voyage of the HMS Beagle; The Expression of the Emotions; The Descent of Man
£285.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Charles Darwin; Stephen Pinker; Richard Keyne
The Folio Society 2006
Pleasant decorative Folio Society editions of Darwin's key works: On the Origin of Species by the Means of Natural Selection (2007, fourth printing); The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals & the Autobiography (2008, first thus); Journal of Research [more...]
Atonement
£125.00 +
FREE p&p
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Ian McEwan
The Folio Society 2017
Elegant Folio Society edition of McEwan's popular 2001 novel. Bound in quarter cloth with a design by Tina Berning. Complete with 9 colour illustrations by Berning and decorative end-papers. With an introduction by Adam Begley. Complete with slipcase. In [more...]
A Wizard of Earthsea
£110.00 +
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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...]
African Adventures: King Solomon's Mines, She, Allan Quartermain (three volumes)
£95.00 +
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H. Rider Haggard
The Folio Society 1995
Jaunty Folio Society edition of three of Haggard's greatest victorian adventure stories that appeared in quick succession, in 1885, 1886 and 1887 respectively. With black and white illustrations by David Eccles. Bound in tan cloth with gilt decoration by the [more...]
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
£88.00 +
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(UK)
Anna Funder
The Folio Society 2016
Stylish Folio Society edition of Funder's 2003 account of the lives of various East Germans working for and against the Stasi. With colour images and map. With a new introduction by the author. Complete with slipcase. Some light shelf-wear to slipcase. Vol [more...]
The First Folio of Shakespeare: The Norton Facsimile
£82.00 +
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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...]
Empires of the Nile
£82.00 +
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Derek A. Welsby; David W. Phillipson
The Folio Society 2008
Impressive Folio Society edition of Welsby and Phillipson's account of the Empires of the Nile, including the Kush, the Nubian and Ethiopian Empires. Decorated cloth binding. Top edge gilt. Complete with slipcase. Features colour Plates. Maps to endpapers. [more...]
The Scramble for Africa 1876-1912 (two volumes)
£76.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
Thomas Pakenham
The Folio Society 2011
Impressive Folio Society edition of Pakenham's popular but controversial 1991 history of the European colonization of Africa. With an introduction by Saul David. Bound in quarter cloth with pictorial paper. With b/w images and maps. Complete with slipcase. [more...]
The Birth of a New Freedom: The Selected Writings of Abraham Lincoln
£35.00 +
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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 +
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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 +
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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...]
Eugene Onegin
£25.00 +
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Alexander S. Pushkin; Gillon R. Aitkin (trans
The Folio Society 2012
Striking Folio Society edition of Pushkin's great verse novel. With 7 colour illustrations by Anna and Elena Balbusso and an introduction by Elaine Feinstein. Large 8vo. Complete with slipcase. Mild shelf-wear to slipcase. Volume is crisp and clean. Fine. [more...]
An Outcast of the Islands
£24.00 +
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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...]
Epitaph for a Spy
£23.00 +
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Eric Ambler
The Folio Society 2013
Striking Folio Society edition of Ambler's breakthrough 1938 mystery espionage thriller in which a unwitting refugee is drawn into a game of internation espionage. With stylish colour illustrations by Paul Blow and an introduction by ex-Mi6 head Stella Rimmi [more...]
The Great fire of London in 1666
£21.00 +
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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
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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...]
Epitaph for a Spy
£21.00 +
FREE p&p
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Eric Ambler
The Folio Society 2013
Striking Folio Society edition of Ambler's breakthrough 1938 mystery espionage thriller in which a unwitting refugee is drawn into a game of internation espionage. With stylish colour illustrations by Paul Blow and an introduction by ex-Mi6 head Stella Rimmi [more...]
The Fixed Period
£18.00 +
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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...]
Around the World in Eighty Days
£16.00 +
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Jules Verne; G. M. Towle & N Danvers (trans)
The Folio Society 1982
Pleasant Folio Society edition of Verne's classic novel. With b/w illustrations by Peter Brookes. Complete with slipcase. Some light shelf-wear and bumping to slipcase. Mild sunning to spine Contents crisp and clean. Good+ [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...]
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