Folio Society Editions

Lyn Macdonald ( Editor) - Anthem For Doomed Youth : Poets of the Great War ( HB Slipcased Edition 2000)

Hardcover, slipcased, the pages internally are a pale khaki colour, matching the cover deisign.  Selected and edited by Lyn Macdonald, a wider selection than is often included in similar anthologies. 

Alfred Tennyson - In Memoriam : Arthur M. Hallam - HB Slipcased HB - 1975

Slipcased, hardcover ( a smaller format hardcover) in khaki coloured cloth , maroon tint to upper edges of page block, titles in gilt to the black spine.  In Memoriam (1850) by Alfred Tennyson, is an...

Allesandro Manzini - The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) - HB - Slipcase

A hardcover slipcased edition, Folio Society UK , translated and with an introduction by Archibald Colquhoun. A solid clean unmarked copy, internally excellent, some very light scuffing to the plain...

Alphonse Daudet - Tartarin of Tarascon - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition

Tartarin of Tarascon (French: Tartarin de Tarascon) is an 1872 novel written by the French author Alphonse Daudet. The Provençal town of Tarascon is so enthusiastic about hunting that no game lives...

Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain - HB Slipcased Folio Society 1974

Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes...

Charles Dickens - Bleak House ( HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition) 1985

The interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has gone on for so long that it has become a subject of mirth in legal circles and a source of great profit to those professionally engaged in it. Held...

Charles Dickens - Dickens in Europe & Dickens' London - 2 x HB Slipcased Folio Society

Essays and travel writing by Charles Dickens, selected and introduced by Rosalind Vallance, Originally published by Folio circa 1975.  Uniform with Dicken's London, essays by him on his life in and...

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations ( HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition) 1981

One of Dickens's finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterious benefactor with the life of a gentleman, enabling...

Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit ( HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition) 1986

In Little Dorrit, Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached' George Orwell A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little...

Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers ( HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition) 1981

The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge...

Chinggis Khan - The Golden History of the Mongols - HB -Slipcased Folio Society Edition, 1998

Folio Society hardback edition of Chinggis Khan: The Golden History of the Mongols, translated and introduced by Urgunge Onon and revised by Sue Bradbury. Bound in original white cloth with black and...

Christopher Hibbert (Editor) - Greville's England : Selections From the Diaries of Charles Greville 1818-1860 - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition 1981

Charles Greville (1794–1865) was a prominent 19th-century diarist, clerk of the Privy Council, and insider to high society, a very well connected man who moved at ease within circles of politics,...

Desiderius Erasmus - Praise of Folly - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition - 1974

Harcover, red cloth without jacket as issued, in a marbled cream coloured slipcase. Sun fade to the red cloth spine, titles in gilt . Lettered in black to front. Uneven sunning to slipcase.  A...

Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood : A Play For Voices - HB - Folio Society 1972

An illustrated edition of Welsh author Dylan Thomas's masterwork - Under Milk Wood.  Edited with an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon, illustrations ( which are lithographs) by Ceri Richards...

Edward Lear - Complete Nonsense - HB - Slipcased Folio Society

Hardcover, slipcased, in bright yellow covers and matching illustrated slipcase. This edition pubished by Folio Society UK , 4TH PRINTING 1999 ( This edition originally 1996 )  Illustrated by the...

Ernest Hemingway - Short Stories - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition - 2011 Reprint

SELECTED AND WITH INTRODUCTION BY DAVID HUGHES, ILLUSTRATIONS BY IAN BECK. 1986, originally from Folio, this is a reprint edition.  In excellent condition , internally as new, some very light...

Ernest Sutherland Bates - The Bible - Designed to be Read as Literature - 2 Volume HB Slipcased

An abridged and edited version, illustrated, in two large volumes ( old Testament and New Testament respectively) - edited by Ernest Sutherland Bates, using a mix of bible texts - ( KJV and NSV...

F. Brancaccio Di Carpino - The Fight for Freedom : Palermo 1860 - HB - 1968

Translated and edited by John Parris ( the original title in Italian is Tre Mesi Nella Vicaria di Palermo nel 1860)  illustrated, with maps of Sicily to endpages.  Sunfade to spine base, slipcase...

Fernando de Rojas - The Spanish Bawd ( La Celestina) - HB Slipcased Folio - 1973

First published anonymously in 1499 as Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, with later editions naming Rojas—a Spanish lawyer and descendant of converted Jews—as the author. The Spanish Bawd is the...

Folio Society - The Folio History of Ancient Greece - 4 X HB - Slipcased - 2nd Printing 2002

A large and heavy set - weighs just over 4.3 kg unboxed.  All books in excellent ' as new' condition - matching uniform designs, light edgewear to the external slipcase, small compressed/ impacted...

George & Weedon Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody - HB - Folio Society 1969

The Diary of a Nobody is an 1892 English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter. It originated as an intermittent serial in Punch magazine...

H.V Morton - In Search of England - HB Folio Society

Hardcover in plain dark green slipcase, small bimp to lower spine of the slipcase, otherwise unmarked.  This edition Folio Society UK, 2002, introduction by Simon Jenkins, based on the 1927 original,...

Heinrich Vossler - With Napoleon in Russia 1812 - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition - 1969

An eyewitness account by Vossler , a soldier of Napoleon's Grand Army 1812-13, tarnslated from the original period German by Walter Wallich. ' Previous owner's name to endpages.  Map to front...

Helen Waddell - Songs of the Wandering Scholars - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition - 1982

Hardcover, 1982 edition, (Originally 1927, with content from later works by the author from the 1930's also)  In a plain purple slipcase which is bumped at the head to rear, sllight crack but holding...

Henry Mayhew - London Characters and Crooks - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition 1996

London Characters and Crooks is a famous compilation of writings by English journalist and social researcher Henry Mayhew about the lives of ordinary and criminal people in Victorian London - the...

Herman Melville - Typee - HB - 1974 Folio/ Dent Edition ( Originally 1846)

The loosely autobiograpical novel by Melville, first published in 1846, in this edition co-published by Dent UK & the Folio Society, 1974 Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical...

Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977

Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th...

James Boswell & Samuel Johnson - Journals of the Western Isles ( 2 in 1 HB Omnibus Edition) & The London Journal - HB Slipcased Folio Society Editions

Two hardcover slipcased Folio SOCIETY EDITIONS - AS FOLLOWS  James Boswell - The London Journal  (originally 1950) - dark blue cloth in a grey white slipcase, titles in gilt to spine. Edited and...

John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975

Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period...

John Cochrane - A Pedestrian Journey - HB Slipcased Folio Society - 1983

Through Russia and Siberian Tartary to the Frontiers of China , the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka  by Captain John Dundas Cochrane, edited by Mervyn Horder.  Hardcover, slipcased, published in this...

John Fothergill - An Innkeeper's Diary ( Folio Society ) ( Slipcased)

John Fothergill / An Innkeeper's Diary (Folio) third printing of the 2000 Folio Edition - 2000 , Originally 1931.  Eccentric and blunt-speaking Fothergill’s memoirs as an innkeeper in Thame at the...

John Keats - Collected Works (The Folio Poets ) HB - Slipcased Folio Society Edition - 2001

Published by Folio Society UK, 2001. A handsome green cloth and quarter bound in leather, edition, titles in silver gilt embossed to spine, green tint to page block ends, illustrated cloth covers...

Maria Perry - Elizabeth I : A Life From Contemporary Documents - HB - Slipcased Folio Society Edition - 1990

Until Maria Perry began her exploration of Elizabeth's papers, this vivid raw material had only been partially studied. From it, a fresh portrait of Elizabeth emerges, one which is often more...

Mary H. Kingsley - Travels in West Africa - HB - Folio Society Slipcased 1976

Synopsis: A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the bravest woman of all my knowledge'.Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a...

Patrick O'Brian - Mauritius Command (HB Folio Society) 2010

A hardcover slipcased Folio Society edition of Patrick O'Brian's Mauritius Command, . 2010.  Can Captain Jack Aubrey and his crew defy the odds, and outmanoeuvre the French, to take two small but...

Patrick O'Brian - The Fortune of War (HB Folio Society) 2009

A hardcover slipcased Folio Society edition of Patrick O'Brian's The Fortune of War . 2010.  Britain and America are newly at war, and Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are caught in the very thick of...

Peter Whitfield - Mapping the World : A History of Exploration - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 2000

Stunningly illustrated history of exploration and map making. First published by the British Library under the title `New Found Lands’. Hardcover, slipcased, in very good condition fully illustrated...

Piccolomini - Secret Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition - 1988

Hardcover, slipcased. Previous owner's name and adrres label on inside front cover, as well as name written on blank endpage. A few inner pages are creased ( from corners having been turned...

Pliny ( Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) - A Self Portrait in Letters ( Translation by Betty Radice - HB 1978)

Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This edition is translated...

Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens - HB - Folio Society Edition 1967

Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades,...

Richard Barber ( Editor) - The Pastons : A Family in the Wars of the Roses - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition - 1981

Hardcover, slipcased, wraparound cover art, 1981 In excellent condition throughout, the slipcase has scuffing and a small stain ( from a label)  Vivid first-hand accounts of life in England -...

Richard Barber ( Editor) - The Pastons : A Family in the Wars of the Roses - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition - 2001

Hardcover, slipcased, wraparound cover art , 2001, first published in 1980.  In excellent condition throughout.  Vivid first-hand accounts of life in England - primarily in Norfiolk where the family...

Richard Burton - The Source of the Nile - HB Slipcased Folio Society - 1993 ( The Lake Regions of Central Africa)

First published in 1960 as The Lake Regions of Central Africa, this is an illustrated 1993 Folio Society UK Edition.  Previous owner's adhesive bookplate to inside front endpage, handwritten name on...

Robert Fitzroy - A Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Beagle - HB - Slipcased Folio Society Edition - 1977

A single volume edition of the original 3 volume 19th century edition compiled by Captain Robert FitzRoy, covers the famous second voyage of the Beagle (1831–1836), charting coastlines and remote...

Robert Graves - Goodbye to All That - Folio Society HB Biography World War One

An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society from the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a pointed evocation of the Great War's...

Robert Graves - The Greek Myths - 1 VOLUME Folio Society HB SLIPCASED Edition 1996

  'Icarus disobeyed his father's instructions and began soaring towards the sun, rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings. Presently, when Daedalus looked over his shoulder, he could no...

Rudyard Kipling - Twenty One Tales - HB Slipcased Folio Society -1972

Published by Folio Sociewty, 1972, a solid clean copy in slightly dustdarkened yellow cloth covers, in a partly faded plain pale blue slipcase.  21 of Kipling's Indian themed short stories,...

Siegfried Sassoon - Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man - HB - Folio Society Ed- 1971 - Illustrated

George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare. The world he grows up in, of village...

Siegfried Sassoon - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer - HB - Folio Society Ed- 1974 - Illustrated

  This is a hardcover clothbound copy, published by Folio Society, London, 1974, with  illustrations by Lynton Lamb. It reproduces the original Faber text in full.  In a plain green original...

Thomas Babington Macauley - A History of England in the Eighteenth Century - HB - 1980

This volume presents Macaulay’s characteristically vigorous account of eighteenth-century British political history, covering the reign of Queen Anne, the Hanoverian succession, the rise and fall of...

Thomas De Quincey - The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - HB - Slipcased Folio Society Edition 1966

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an account of the early life and opium addiction of Thomas De Quincey, in prose which is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. ' Originally 1948,...

Tobias Smollett - Travels Through France and Italy - HB Slipcased Folio Society Edition 1979

Originally published in 1766, this edition published by the Folio Society in 1979, with an introduction by Christopher Hibbert.  Condition - Book - Excellent unmarked copy.  Condition - Slipcase,...