THE GOLD RUSH

1959 FOLIO SOCIETY

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1ST EDITION. SLIPCASE SCUFFED AT THE CORNER OTHERWISE ONLY SLIGHTLY RUBBED. THE BOOK IS FINE. AN ACCOUNT OF SIX MONTHS IN THE CALIFORNIA DIGGINGS WITH A PREFACE BY OSCAR LEWIS. A VERY TIDY, SCARCE 1ST.

THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM: PALERMO, 1860

1968 THE FOLIO SOCIETY

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1ST EDITION. NO SLIPCASE OR WRAPPER. DECORATED CLOTH BOARDS ONLY SLIGHTLY FADED AT THE SPINE. VERY GOOD. TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY JOHN PARRIS. ILLUSTRATED

COLD COMFORT FARM

1990 FOLIO SOCIETY

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FOURTH PRINTING, THIS EDITION ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1977. NEAR MINT BOOK IN A FINE SLIPCASE. ILLUSTRATED WITH WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS BY QUENTIN BLAKE.

WILLIAM RUSSEL Special Correspondent of The Times

1996 FOLIO SOCIETY

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SECOND PRINTING. VERY NEAR MINT BOOK AND SLIPCASE. CONTAINS COVERAGE OF THE CRIMEAN WAR, THE INDIAN MUTINY, THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR AND THE ZULU WAR PLUS MUCH MORE BESIDES FROM 1854-1882. INTRODUCED BY MAX HASTINGS.

Published by Folio Society, London. 2006

Ninth printing, hardback in fine condition. The slip case is also fine. There are no previous owner names or marks. This edition originally published in 1998. When Charles Perrault, a civil servant in Paris in the 17th century, heard his son's nurse recounting old French folk stories, he decided to write his own versions, thereby creating a new genre - the literary fairy tale. His legacy includes some of the most enduringly popular fairy tales - 'Cinderella', 'The Sleeping Beauty', 'Blue Beard' - complemented here by the paintings of Edmund Dulac, one of the greatest artists of the Golden Age of book illustration.

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

1964 THE FOLIO SOCIETY

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SECOND EDITION. RED CLOTH DECORATED WITH BLACK AND GILT TO SPINE AND UPPER. FINE IN A POOR SLIPCASE. INTRODUCED BY SIR LEWIS CASSON WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND DESIGNS BY MICHAELAYRTON AND JOHN MINTON.FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1951

The Life and Opinions of TRISTRAM SHANDY Gentleman

1974 FOLIO SOCIETY

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SECOND IMPRESSION, THIS EDITION ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1970. FINE BOOK IN A VERY GOOD SLIPCASE. EDITED BY GRAHAM PETRIE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILBERT PHELPS. ILLUSTRATED WITH WOOD-ENGRAVINGS BY JOHN LAWRENCE.

2261. Wells, H.G.: Classics of Science Fiction: The War Of The Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Time Machine.

Published by Folio Society, London. 2004

1st thus, hardback set in slip case. Each volume newly illustrated with colour plates by Graham Baker, and each volume with a new introduction - by Michael Moorcock, Bryan Appleyard and Iain Sinclair respectively. Fine copies as issued without dust jackets in a fine slipcase.

Published by The Folio Society, London. 1987

UK hardback, 1st thus, in fine condition. Quarter-bound in dark green buckram with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Illustrated with the drawings of Charles Keeping. There are previous owner names or inscriptions. The slip case has a couple of slight marks but is otherwise very good. This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780. Dickens' targets are prejudice, intolerance, religious bigotry and nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who exploit these for selfish ends.

Published by The Folio Society, London. 1987

UK hardback, 1st thus, in fine condition. Quarter-bound in dark green buckram with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Illustrated with the drawings of Charles Keeping. There are previous owner names or inscriptions. The slip case has a couple of slight marks but is otherwise very good. The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens' most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate.

Published by The Folio Society, London. 1981

UK hardback, 1st thus, in fine condition. Quarter-bound in dark green buckram with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Illustrated with the drawings of Charles Keeping. There are previous owner names or inscriptions. The slip case has a couple of slight marks but is otherwise very good. Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself.