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The Works of William Shakespeare (thirty-seven volumes)
£326.00 +
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William Shakespeare
The Folio Press; The Folio Society 1960
The Complete set of the Folio society series of Shakespeare's dramatic works that began in 1950 with Romeo and Juliet and ended in 1976 with Timon of Athens. Sometimes called the Rainbow edition for the colour cloth. A mixture of 1st and 2nd impressions, wit [more...]
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 +
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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...]
Myths and Legends of Ancient Rome
£120.00 +
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Lawrence Norfolk (editor); Virgil, Horace, Pl
The Folio Society 2008
Impressive quarter leather Folio Society edition of selected pieces and extracts that describes the mythological history of Rome plus elements of her early history that contributed to the city's legend. Included is verse by Horace, extracts from Virgil's Aene [more...]
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
£120.00 +
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Jorge Luis Borges
The Folio Society 2007
Striking Folio Society edition of Borges' singular collection of short stories and essays. Including the Garden of Forking paths, The Library of Babel, Death and the Compass and others. By a variety of translators. With colour illustrations by Neil Packer. [more...]
The Dark is Rising
£120.00 +
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Susan Cooper
The Folio Society 2012
Impressive Folio Society edition of the second (and most important, introducing Will Stanton) volume in Susan Cooper's much loved fantasy sequence written between 1965 and 1977. With colour illustrations by Laura Carlin. With a new preface by the author. Q [more...]
The Baburnama
£95.00 +
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Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (?ahir-ud-Din Muham
The Folio Society 2013
Impressive Folio Society edition of the memoirs of the Timurid Prince, a descendant of Tamerlane, who founded the Murghal Empire in the early sixteenth century. A learned and inquisitive man, Babur's autobiography provides a fascinating and detailed account o [more...]
Crime and Punishment
£95.00 +
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoevsky]; David McDuff
The Folio Society 1997
Imposing Folio Society edition of Dostoevsky's great novel. With b/w illustrations by Harry Brockway and an introduction by Stephen Tumin. Quarter cloth with illustrated cloth covered boards. Complete with slipcase. Some toning and mild shelf-wear to slipc [more...]
The Vision of Piers the Plowman
£78.00 +
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William Langland; E. Talbot Donaldson (trans)
The Folio Society 2014
Impressive special quarter leather Folio Society edition of Langland's c.1377 religious allegory, written in verse. With the original middle english here, alongside a translation by E. Talbot Donaldson, edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Stephen H. A. Shepherd [more...]
The Gallic and Civil Wars
£78.00 +
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Julius Caesar; S. A. Handford & Jane. F. Gard
The Folio Society 2006
Handsome Folio Society edition of Caesar's accounts of his wars in Gaul and the civil wars of his lifetime. Complete with slipcase. Maps to endpapers. Full page colour plates of relevant artifacts. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some mild shelf-wear, [more...]
A Christmas Carol: A Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library
£70.00 +
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Charles Dickens
The Folio Society; Folio Press 1970
Splendid edition of Dickens' enduring classic, published under the Folio Society's special Folio Press imprint. Featuring a facsimile of Dickens own (and the only) manuscript of the text, written in his hand and showing his alterations, printed on the recto. [more...]
Les Miserables (two volumes)
£70.00 +
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Victor Hugo; Norman Denny (trans)
The Folio Society 1976
Striking first Folio Society edition of Hugo's epochal novel. Decorative cloth with grey canvas front cover. Illustrated with somewhat macabre two colour lithographs by Charles Keeping. With introduction and footnotes. 8vo. (250x160mm) Complete with slipcas [more...]
Montaigne's Essays (three volumes)
£70.00 +
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Michel de Montaigne; John Florio (trans)
The Folio Society 2006
Impressive Folio Society edition of Montaigne's essays. Appearing in the later half of the 16th century, the essays explore the human condition and the limits of knowledge whilst addressing a variety of topics profound and mundane. Featuring the 1603 transla [more...]
The Raj Quartet: The Towers of Silence, The Day of the Scorpion, The Jewel in the Crown, A Division of the Spoils (four volumes)
£60.00 +
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Paul Scott
The Folio Society 2009
Handsome Folio Society edition of Paul Scott's great quartet of historical novels, tracing the decline and collapse of British rule in India during WWII and its aftermath. With colour illustrations by Finn Campbell-Notman. Bound in cloth with a design by the [more...]
The Book of Common Prayer
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The Folio Society 2007
Beautifully produced Folio Society edition of the Book of Common Prayer, 'ornamented with wood-cuts from designs by Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbien and others'. A reproduction of William Pickering's elaborate 1853 edition, itself an imitation of Queen Elizabeth' [more...]
A History of Rome
£45.00 +
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Theodor Mommsen
The Folio Society 2007
'From the foundation of the City to the sole rule of Julius Caesar'. Splendid special quarter leather Folio Society edition of Mommsen's classic work of Roman History published in three volumes from 1854-1856. Mommsen considered Caesar the paragon of enlight [more...]
Lord of the Flies
£40.00 +
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William Golding
The Folio Society 2009
Striking Folio Society edition of Golding's great novel. With an introduction by Ian McEwan and colour illustrations by Sam Weber. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some very light shelf-wear. Previous owner's small sticker to ffep. Otherwise crisp and [more...]
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
£39.00 +
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Oliver Sacks
Folio Society 2011
Quirky Folio Society edition of Sacks' interesting account of various neurological issues through the prism of various (semi fictionalized) cases of his own patients. With colour illustrations/collages by Martin O'Neill. Complete with slipcase. Previous own [more...]
The History of England (five Volumes)
£39.00 +
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Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Folio Society 1987
Elegant Folio Society edition of Macaulay's controversial history of England, published from 1848 to 1855, starting from the ascension of James II to peace of Ryswick in 1697. Fascinating not only for the turbulent time depicted but for Macaulay's ebullient [more...]
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
£37.00 +
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W. B. Yeats; Paul Muldoon
The Folio Society 2007
Ominous Folio Society edition of Yeats' collection of Irish myths and legends, telling stories of giants, Banshees, Fairies and worse. With b/w illustrations by Farquharson and an introduction by Paul Muldoon. Bound in pictorial cloth blocked with the demon [more...]
Moby Dick or, The Whales
£36.00 +
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Herman Melville
The Folio Society 1974
The first Folio Society edition of Melville's Moby Dick. Bound in blue illustrated cloth. With 25 b/w wood engravings by Garrick Palmer. Complete with slipcase. Slipcase has some rubbing, wear and toning. Toning to spine, previous owner's small sticker to [more...]
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