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The Folio Society

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Love is Enough or the Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality
£320.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
William Morris
The Folio Society 2018
Limited special Folio Society facsimile of publisher Frederick Startridge Ellis' copy of Morris' poem, a medieval morality piece, wherein a King abandon's station and finds contentment. Although published without adornment, Ellis had his copy bound in leather [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
£260.00 +
FREE p&p
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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...]
The Duke's Children (The Complete Text)
£145.00 +
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Anthony Trollope
The Folio Society 2015
Impressive, special Folio Society edition of Trollope's The Duke's Children, first published as a serial in 1879. The first edition to feature the full text, reconstructed by Steven Amarnick. Limited to 1980 copies, of which this is 854. Bound in half leath [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...]
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (three volumes)
£115.00 +
FREE p&p
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Adam Smith
The Folio Society 2008
Imposing Folio Society edition of Adam Smith's 1776 study of the changing modes of economic and political activity and how nations would generate wealth. Complete in three volumes with slipcase. With an introduction by John Galbraith and contemporary colour [more...]
The Baburnama
£95.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
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...]
The Vision of Piers the Plowman
£78.00 +
FREE p&p
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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...]
A Christmas Carol: A Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library
£70.00 +
FREE p&p
(UK)
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...]
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...]
Peter Pan or, The Boy Who Would not Grow Up
£31.00 +
FREE p&p
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J. M. Barrie
The Folio Society 1992
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...]
Sylvia's Lovers
£29.00 +
FREE p&p
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Elizabeth (Mrs.) Gaskell
The Folio Society 2005
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...]
Wives and Daughters
£28.00 +
FREE p&p
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Elizabeth (Mrs.) Gaskell
The Folio Society 2002
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...]
The Idiot
£24.00 +
FREE p&p
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoevsky]; David Margas
The Folio Society 1971
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...]
The Lost Continent
£23.00 +
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Bill Bryson
The Folio Society 2007
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...]
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (three volumes)
£19.00 +
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Daniel Defoe
The Folio Society 1983
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...]
The Second Jungle Book
£14.00 +
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Rudyard Kipling
The Folio Society 1994
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...]
The Face of Battle
£14.00 +
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John Keegan
The Folio Society 2008
Folio Society edition of Keegan's groundbreaking work. A study of the realities and mechanics of three battles: Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. With b/w images. Pictorial cloth covers. Complete with slipcase. Some very light rubbing to corners, els [more...]
The Decameron (two volumes)
£12.00 +
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Giovanni Boccaccio; Richard Aldington (trans)
The Folio Society 1954
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...]
Wonders of the World
£10.00 +
FREE p&p
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Simon Goldhill; Richard Barber; Theodore K. R
The Folio Society 2006
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...]
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
£9.50 +
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Laurence Sterne
The Folio Society 1949
Pleasant early Folio Society edition of Sterne's autobiographical novel on his travels through France and Italy. Bound in decorative cloth with illustrations by Nigel Lambourne. No DJ. Some toning to spine, some bumping to edges. Light markings to top edge [more...]
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