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London: Folio Society, 1997. 288 pp, 8vo (8 15/16" H). Quarter black cloth, white paper boards with a repeat pattern in black by Brockway; grey-green endpapers, grey-green slipcase. "There are 16 wood-engravings printed in the text, one being used on the title-page. This was one of the most successful books of the period, with the typography, binding and illustrations in harmony." Slipcase has minor rubbing and a tiny piece of cardboard exposure at one top front corner.. Not Signed. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Harry Brockway, wood engravings..

London: Folio Society, 1998. 443 pp, 8vo (8" H). Quarter teale blue buckram, Ann Muir marbled paper boards; maroon endpapers, maroon slipcase. B&w illustrations by Miriam Macgregor + fold-out genealogical table. "Thomas Turner's diary covers a little over eleven years in the life of a man who kept a shop in the Sussex village of East Hoathly - a village some seven miles north-east of Lewes. When the first surviving volume of the diary begins in February 1754 Turner was a newly married twenty-four-year-old recently arrived in the village. When he stopped writing his diary in 1765 he was thirty-five and one of the pillars of the community. His bride of eleven years before was dead and so was their only child. He had come through times of worry and depression to acquire maturity and a modest status - and he was about to embark on a fruitful second marriage." Tiny liquid mark on top of text block. Slipcase has very light rubbing, three small light stains on one side panel.. First… Read More

London: Folio Society, 2010. 212 pp, large 8vo (9" H). Dark brown cloth spine with gold lettering, black illustration of Dickens' Swiss Chalet on the mid brown paper covered front and rear covers. Map endpapers, b&w interior illustrations. Dark brown slipcase. Chapter headings: Crossing the Channel (July 1837); The First Visit to Italy (1844-45); Genoa (1844); The Adventure of 'The Chimes' (1844-45); Towards Rome (Spring 1845); Rome (1845); Naples (1845); A Secret Expedition (1845); Goodbye to Italy (June 1845); In Switzerland (1846); Paris (1851); In Provincial France (1853 and later); Switzerland and Italy (1853); Hommage a l'illustre ecrivain d'Angleterre (1855-65); Return Via Staplehurst (June 1865); At Home in the Swiss Chalet). Minor rubbing on slipcase.. Third impression.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London: Folio Society 6 issues of the Folio Society magazine, approx. 8 1/4" H. B&w and colour illustrations. 1. October-December 1968 - 15 pp. 2. Winter/Spring 1996 - 36 pp. 3. Autumn 1996 - [32] pp. 4. Summer 1997 - 32 pp. 5. Summer 1998 - 32 pp. 6. Winter 1998 - [32] pp. Articles/reviews/excerpts/illustrations about/from Folio Society publications. Interiors - minor browning to the edges of the pages and inside edges of covers, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exteriors - minor edge wear, very light wear on the spines, books 1 to 4 have light browning on the rear rear cover at the spine - book 4 has also some rubbing.. Stapled in Wraps. Very Good.

London: Folio Society, 2001. 214 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H) - full dark blue cloth blocked in silver and red/brown with a design by David Rooney; light blue endleaves - blue/black slipcase. B&w photographs, maps. "This book tells the (true) story of what is remembered in Great Britain as a tremendous jape, yet is recalled in Crete - as Paddy Leigh Fermor explains in his afterword - as an act of just revenge for past German atrocities. It recounts the kidnapping, by two young officers serving in S.O.E. (Special Operations Executive), of a German general from his headquarters in Crete, and the spiriting of him over the mountains of that island into a motor-launch, and so to captivity." Slipcase has minor rubbing, tiny dint on one front edge. . Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

London: Folio Society, 1998. 510 pp, large 8vo (9" H) - quarter maroon buckram series binding, bright pink paper boards with border in maroon, bright pink endpapers, maroon slipcase. B&w illustrations. "The central concern of (this book) is not so much the question set out in the title - important though that question may be in keeping the story going - but the matter which Trollope examines in novel after novel; where should power and authority lie in a satisfying, workable marriage?" Slipcase has one very small corner bump.. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Kate Aldous..

London: Folio Society, 1997. 423 pp, 8vo (8" H) - quarter blue buckram with paper sides marbled by Anne Muir, endpapers and top edge of textblock dark green, in dark green slipcase. B&w illustrations. "Many of the sketches which form 'Our Village' were first published in various periodicals. They were first published in book form under the title 'Our Village' in five volumes which appeared between 1824 and 1832. This edition is a selection from the five-volume edition." Chapter headings include: Frost and Thaw; The First Primrose; The Cowslip Ball; A Country Cricket Match; The Copse; The Old Gypsy; A Christmas Party; The Two Valentines; A Country Apothecary; Our Maying; The Mole-Catcher; Cottage Names; Going to the Races; The Haymakers, etc., etc. Several small light soiling marks on bottom of text block, very light rubbing to board edges. Slipcase has minor rubbing. . Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Joan Hassall, wood engravings..

London: Folio Society, 2012. 320 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H), maroon cloth blocked in gilt with design by Neil Gower - in slipcase. Pictorial endpapers, b&w and colour illustrations. Chapter headings: London; The Houses; Interiors; Gardens, Parks and Open Spaces; Communications; Medicine and Dentistry; Clothes, Jewellery, Cosmetics, Hairdressing, Washing and So On; Housework, Laundry and Shopping; Cooking, Meals, Food and Drink; Sex; The Household; Education, Literacy and Speech; Hobbies, Excursions, Family Occasions and Etiquette; Divers Events and Acts in the Law; Money, Poverty and Class; Religion and Popular Beliefs; The World Picture; Epilogue.. Hard Cover. Fine.

London: Folio Society, 1994. 326 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H) - mustard coloured cloth with wraparound illustration by Edward Bawden, in plain cream coloured slipcase. Map endpapers, b&w photographs, drawings. Slight small dye marks and a small corner clip at the top edge of the rear pastedown, faint soft crease at the bottom corner of page 223. Slipcase has a small raised wrinkle in the paper cover at the front edge of one side panel, minor rub at bottom edge of one side panel. . 6th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Sketches by Edward Bawden. Photographs by T.E. Lawrence and others..

London: Folio Society, 2002. 244 pp, 252 pp, 232 pp - 3 volumes, 9" H, bound in blocked printed parchment (colour illustrations on front boards), gilt lettering on spines. Volumes 1 & 3 have map endpapers, all three volumes have colour and b&w plates. Red slipcase with gilt titling on front panel. Volume 1 contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Troyes: 1250; A Burgher's Home; A Medieval Housewife; Childbirth and Children; Weddings and Funerals; Small Business; Big Business; The Doctor; The Church; The Cathedral; Schools and Scholars; Books and Authors; The New Theatre; Disasters; Town Government; The Champagne Fair; After 1250; Genealogy of the Counts of Champagne; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Volume 2 contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Prologue: Elton; The Village Emerges; The English Village: Elton; The Lord; The Villagers: Who They Were; The Villagers: How They Lived; Marriage and the Family; The Village at Work; The Parish; Village Justice; The Passing of the Medieval… Read More