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London: The Folio Society. As New with no dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Original gilt lettered, pictorial green/black cloth contained in beige card slipcase. FIRST EDITION. Second PRINTING Folio Society. Book (Fine - As New). Slipcase (Nr Fine - one 'scratch mark on the rear cover o/w As New). (xxii) + 270 pp, illustrated throughout with printed b&w photos. All pages printed on a light sage greeny/beige coloured paper stock. This is The Folio Society compendium of over 200 poems, written by those who experienced The Great War, published in 2000. Lyn Macdonald, editor, writes: "It is more than eighty years (100 now! ) since the guns stopped and an uneasy peace fell across the devastated battlefields and the desolate graves of the young men who had fought to defend them. And for what? ... It never ceases to amaze me that interest in that momentous conflict, far from diminishing as time goes on, actually appears to increase - and with it the… Read More

London: The Folio Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Original gilt lettered, pictorial green/black cloth contained in beige card slipcase. FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING Folio Society. Book (Nr Fine - VERY slight rubbing to the front edges where it slides in and out of the s/c - o/w As New). Slipcase (Fine/As New). (xxii) + 270 pp, illustrated throughout with printed b&w photos. All pages printed on a light sage greeny/beige coloured paper stock. This is The Folio Society compendium of over 200 poems, written by those who experienced The Great War, published in 2000. Lyn Macdonald, editor, writes: "It is more than eighty years (100 now! ) since the guns stopped and an uneasy peace fell across the devastated battlefields and the desolate graves of the young men who had fought to defend them. And for what? ... It never ceases to amaze me that interest in that momentous conflict, far from diminishing as time goes on, actually… Read More

London: The Folio Society. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1949. 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition). Hardcover. Good to Very Good/No Slipcase. First Folio Society Edition. 8vo. Wood engraved line drawings. EARLY TITLE. Green cloth bound boards with gilt titling to front board and to spine, spine and extremities fading/sunned. Dustjacket torn and chipped. Decorated e/p's. Black and white frontispiece. 245 pp. Pencil note on last page. Best-loved romances from the Arabian Nights. Contents include; The tale of King Shahryar and of his brother King Shahzaman, the tale of Happy Handsome and Happy Fair, The Lovers Tomb etc. INTERNALLY NICE TIGHT AND BRIGHT. ; 000645; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

London: The Folio Society. As New with no dust jacket. 2002. 5th Printing of the 1999 Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Fifth printing (2002) of the 1999 Folio Society edition. Illustrated by Edward J. Detmold. In the Original FINE Pictorial Bright Gilt decorated white boards, with similar bright gilt titling and decoration to the spine. A bright, clean, crisp copy ( no fading, NO INSCRIPTIONS, fresh text block ). Looks unread. Housed in a Fine slipcase which shows only some slight smudging from storage if you look very closely. A Very handsome copy. (viii) + 239pp. , Full page full colour frontispiece and 11 further full page full colour beautiful plates (12 in all) all by the very talented E. J. Detmold. A reprint of 1924 Hodder & Stoughton edition. One of those handsome bindings and content, that the Folio Society do so well. NB: This book weighs over 1.5 Kg un-packaged, and will require an additional shipping charge from International buyers ONLY. GIFT Quality. See Images. ;… Read More

London: Folio Society. As New with no dust jacket. 2005. 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition). Hardcover. FINE Scarlet red boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. A coloured /gilt Illustration of Assassins attacking a man on the front cover. In the original FINE plain scarlet slipcase. This is the First Folio Society edition following the text of the true first edition (1967) with minor emendations and some corrections by the Author. Endpaper maps of The Near East. NO Inscriptions or Marks. Looks unread /untouched . (xii) + (2) + 242 pp. Illustrated with Colour (and one b/w) plates. Appendix (Hasan-i Sabbah and the Assassins of Alamut) ; Notes and Index. An Excellent Very Clean, Tight and Bright 'As New' copy. GIFT QUALITY. " The word 'Assassin' was brought back from Syria by the Crusaders, and in time acquired the meaning of murderer. Originally it was applied to the members of a Muslim religious sect - a branch of the Ismailis, and the followers of a leader known… Read More

London: The Folio Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1993. First Thus (Folio Society Edition). Hardcover. Bound in sand-coloured cloth with an illustration in chocolate brown that runs across the front cover, the spine and the back cover, with gilt lettering to the spine. The end papers and top edges of the pages are chocolate brown. In the Original plain chocolate coloured paper covered slipcase, in very good/near fine condition. The Illustrated cloth covered boards are crisp cornered, clean, no marks or bumps. (xviii) + 221pp. Long neat presentation note written sideways on to the inner edge of the front free endpaper. Translated by Donald Adamson. Illustrated in full page b/w plates by Helen Smithson. An Excellent Very Clean, Tight and Bright near 'As New' copy. ; 105718; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall .

London: The Folio Society,. As New with no dust jacket. 2002. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. AS NEW. Unused. The orange-red slipcase is Near As NEW. Cloth-covered boards, printed on an olive green base colour and blocked in red/black and yellow with an illustration by Posy Simmonds. Set in Walbaum. NO INSCRIPTIONS OR MARKS. 9 delightful full-page colour illustrations and 33 black & white illustrations by Posy Simmonds. This volume includes not only 'Cautionary Tales for Children' & 'New Cautionary Tales', but also 'The Bad Child's Book of Beasts', More Beasts for Worse Children', 'More Peers', 'A Moral Alphabet' , 'Ladies and Gentlemen' and 'The Modern Traveller'. All delightful excursions into the hilarious world of Belloc's verses. The acclaimed graphic novelist and illustrator Posy Simmonds has produced 8 full-page colour plates and a host of pencil cartoons to accompany the poems. Famous for her witty satirical… Read More

London: The Folio Society. As New with no dust jacket. 2004. 2nd Printing Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. As New. No dustjacket as issued. Second Folio Society Printing. Brown boards with bright gilt titling to the spine on a green blocking. With gilt decorations to the front cover. Housed in the Original slipcase with a pictorial paper side which has very slight small 'wrinkle/bubbling' marks to the paper surface- but no damage and hardly noticable. There are NO Inscriptions or other Marks. Illustrated with b/w and colour plates. 279 pp. List of Illustrations; Sources; Index. This is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, 'Fine' copy. "This book attempts to give generously illustrated impressions of the world's greatest cities at crucial points in their development, to glimpse at their origins, to indicate the nature of the civilisations in which they emerged and whose ethos they reflected as well as to describing their planning and architecture, the… Read More

London: THE FOLIO SOCIETY. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1956. First Thus Folio Edition. Hardcover. Half Black cloth to the spine with bright gilt titling/decoration, with marbled paper covered boards. One dent/closed tear to spine (not very noticeable) otherwise very good in the Original SLIPCASE, which is splitting and worn away a little on the rear spine edge, slightly dusty and worn to the corners/extremities. The previous owners name and date neatly written on the front paste down. Black and white frontispiece. Decorated title page. 404 pp. Black and white illustrations. Apart from the minor faults noted, A VERY CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT copy. ; 001943; 8vo .

London: The Folio Society. As New with no dust jacket. 2007. 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition); First Printing. Hardcover. As New with NO Inscriptions or Marks. Bound in a most attractive red buckram, with gilt, black and silver lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound. A Very Tight, Clean and BRIGHT copy in the original unlettered plain black slipcase. NO tears or similar - a few smudge marks which can only be seen if you look VERY closely from shelf wear - negligible. A VERY attractive omnibus edition of Davies's novels Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders. Overall GIFT QUALITY. If Sellers Images not shown, images are available on request. ; Large, Thick 8vo 10" tall x 7" wide x 2.75" deep .

London: The Folio Society. As New with no dust jacket. 2000. 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition); First Printing. Hardcover. A Beautiful Folio Society version of this classic tale in cream flecked faux vellum covers with bright gilt titles and decoration as on the original Kay Nielsen Illustrated Edition published in 1914 by Hodder and Stoughton. As New . Sharp cornered, tight and Bright - looks unused. The book is housed in a plain deep crimson-red slipcase in EXCELLENT condition. NO Inscriptions or marks - looks Unread. With Clean Bright White page edges, and Lovely cream, black and gilt illustrated end papers. 25 full page Colour plates by Nielsen as per the original. And many charming b/w illustrations in the text. An AS NEW copy of this First Folio printing. Fifteen wonderful stories selected from the volume of folk tales by Asbjörnsen and Moe entitled "Norske Folkeeventyr." Danish artist Kay Nielsen (1886-1957) studied in Paris and lived in England in the years before the… Read More

London: The Folio Society. 1958. Hardcover. Good to Very Good/No Jacket. First Folio Society Edn. 8vo. Black and white frontispiece. Translated into English by William Theodore de Bary. 159pp printed in pink and black/white throughout. Ribbed pale turquoise/green silk covered boards, gilt titling to spine. Some stains, spine sunned, tear to head of spine. Decorated e/p's. CONTENTS CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. Superior Duplicate copy available in a stained s/case - with 'sunned' spine, but o/w Nr Fine book @ £7.50 (000622A) please enquire of Bookseller.; 000622 .

London: The Folio Society. As New with no dust jacket. 2008. 1st Edition Folio Society. Hardcover. Black cloth bound boards with blue decorative lettering to the covers and bright gilt titling to the spine. IN the publishers' original blue SLIPCASE. Introduced by Catherine Taylor. (xii) + 132 pp. Colour Frontispiece and illustrated with colour plates. Biography. The book is still in the original shrink-wrap which has only been opened to access the publisher's details, so the book is unread, unused and there are No Inscriptions or Marks." A fine collection of introductions commissioned by The Folio Society from such acclaimed writers as William Trevor, Phillip Pullman, Peter Ackroyd and Helen Dunmore. Fifteen of the finest have been selected for this anthology. Iain Sincliar finds contemporary resonances in H. G. Well's The War of the Worlds. Tim Parks defends Machiavelli's The Prince. Jonathan Coe celebrates Tom Jones . These gems of literary insight make inspired… Read More

London: The Folio Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2002. 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition); First Printing. Hardcover. One of those Wonderfully Decorated Books that the Folio Society do so well - This one quite scarce and for CHRISTMAS! In FINE original burgundy coloured, gilt decorated, cloth-covered boards, with bright gilt decorative titling to the spine and front board. The front board with added bright red and green! Beautiful!. In the original green slipcase which has a few marks from storage (hence not marking the book 'As New') but it is crisp and sharp-cornered without damage. The top edge of the book is a light purple/mauve as issued, and the remainder of the fore-edges have a very few pale flecks, which you can only see if you peer very closely, but they present as very clean and white. Internally FINE with NO INSCRIPTIONS or MARKS. 255 pages. PLUS a full page, full colour frontispiece, and 6 other full page, full colour plates, all by the very talented John… Read More

London: The Folio Society. As New with no dust jacket. 2009. 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition); First Printing. Hardcover. AS NEW IN Nr. FINE SLIPCASE. In the original publisher's tan based cloth boards with a large illustration of a Hen in black, white and salmon and title in black on an oval salmon block to the front board, with bright white and black titling to the spine. The book is housed ln the Original Publishers' Near FINE Plain tan paper covered SLIPCASE with just two tiny spots on one side only, that mar it from being noted Fine. The book is Externally and Internally FINE. No dustjacket as issued. NO Inscriptions or Marks. (vii) + (1) + 333 pp. The Frontispiece and illustrations in the book are delightful, mainly full colour, but some b/w, drawings by Alice Tait. Now a Classic this is a superb Edition done in the way only the Folio society can do so well. "Seasonality is now the top priority of all those who take their eating and cooking seriously." She says in… Read More

London: The Folio Society. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1959. 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition). Hardcover. With the original Folio society dustjacket, not a slipcase, as issued. Illustrated with Bewick Type Stylized b/w engravings by Derrick Harris. Near fine in Near VG spine sunned and edge chipped dustjacket - now repaired on the reverse. Previous owners name/date in ink on the front pastedown underneath the front flap. Full decorated cloth boards with black leather spine label with bright gilt titling, corners and head/tail of spine bumped. Black and white illustrated title page/frontispiece. 636 pp. Overall A VG Clean tight and bright copy. ; 8vo .

London: The Folio Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1968. 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition); First Printing. Hardcover. A FINE copy (looks unused) in a VG + slipcase which is covered in a grey/black marbled paper showing some very slight wear - negligible - but NO splitting, rubbing or marks. Unusually in this copy there is NO FADING TO THE SPINE, which usually turns grey with exposure to light! Black cloth over boards, with stunning, bright, red and silver flame-like decorations to the front and rear covers and bright silver decoration to the spine. Fiona Campbell did the Binding Design & B. S. Biro the title border) . Top page edge is pale blue/grey with some very slight fading to the top edge near the spine, as usual as that is where the light gets in from the way the book is housed in the slipcase. The book is internally FINE with NO Inscriptions or marks. A Wonderful 1st Thus copy of a Scarce Folio Society title. First printing with the title details printed vertically to the… Read More

London: The Folio Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1980. 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition). Hardcover. Mint/No Jacket. First Thus Folio Edition. 8vo. Half red buckram with black spine, gilt design on black , gilt on front board. 127pp. Coloured frontispiece portrait of Sir Thomas More together with 56 black/white and coloured illustrations throughout the text. SIR THOMAS MORE (1478-1535) was a friend of ERASMUS and became LORD CHANCELLOR under HENRY VIII - but refused to take any oath that would impugn the authority of Rome or recognise the King's divorce from Queen Catherine, and this led to his trial for treason and beheading. ROPER was SIR THOMAS MORE's son-in-law. Book in fine as unread condition in slightly scruffy pink slipcase.; 000569; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: The Folio Society. As New with no dust jacket. 2007. 1st Edition Folio Society. Hardcover. The book is As New. The slipcase has a few light smudges and scratches from shelving o/w is Near Fine, Clean, Tight and Bright. No dustjacket as issued. The text of this edition follows that of the second edition with minor emendations and is published by arrangement with Penguin Books Ltd and The Perseus Books Group. Quarter Bound with a Dark Brown cloth spine with bright gilt titling to the spine, and pictorial paper-covered boards to the front and rear covers = FINE. Housed in the Original Slipcase which has bright gilt titling. The book has NO Inscriptions or Marks. Illustrated with b/w and colour plates. (x) + 278 pp. Bibliographical Note; Notes For Further Reading; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Index. This is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, NEAR 'As New' copy. "This is the seminal account of the life and works of the Renaissance Man,… Read More

London: The Folio Society. As New with no dust jacket. 2001. 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition). Hardcover. As NEW in pictorial gold covers with black line drawings and complete with the original As NEW olive green slipcase. NO INSCRIPTIONS OR MARKS - Never Read. 272 pp. As well as all the humerous stories the book is filled with many cartoons by artists such as Fougasse, Sillence, Thelwell, John Leech, Hoffnung, Phil May, etc, etc. A selection of witty extracts and cartoons from Punch with contributions from Graham Greene, W. M. Thackery, P. G. Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, Gerald Durrell, Sylvia Plath and many many more. One of those attractive bindings and contents that the Folio Society do so well. GIFT QUALITY. See Images. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .