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The Confessional of the Black Penitents

By: Radcliffe, Ann

Price: £5.50

Publisher: London, THE FOLIO SOCIETY: 1956

Seller ID: 001943

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

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
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A Man of Singular Virtue . Being a Life of Sir Thomas More by His Son-In-Law William Roper and a Selection of More's Letters.

By: Rowse, A. L. (selected, Edited and Introduced by)

Price: £5.50

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1980

Seller ID: 000569

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

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 con...
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FIVE JAPANESE LOVE STORIES Koshoku Gonin Onna

By: Saikaku, Ihara, Illustrated by Severin, Mark

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1958

Seller ID: 000622

Binding: 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
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THE LIVES OF GEORGE AND ROBERT STEPHENSON

By: SMILES SAMUEL

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, THE FOLIO SOCIETY: 1975

Seller ID: 60029

ISBN: 0850670802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Green cloth bound boards with picture onlay on front board (Stephenson's Rocket) and gilt titling to spine. In the original cream imitation parchment paper covered board SLIPCASE ( Good plus to VG condition, with a little edge wear one light stain and a small split near the bottom). A couple of round Marks on the front boards (not too noticeable). The gilt edged Onlay on the front board is a 'View of the railway across Chat Moss.' Introduction by Eric de Mare. Illustration of 'excavation of Olive Mount' and 'Victoria Bridge' on endpapers. One of the attractive bindings that the Folio Society d...
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Malleus Maleficarum : The Hammer Of Witchcraft

By: Sprenger Jacobus and Heinrich Kramer, ( Translated by Montague Summers, Introuction by Pennethorne Hughes )

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1968

Seller ID: 120033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

A FINE copy (looks unused) in a FINE slipcase which is covered in a grey/black marbled paper showing some very slight discolouration to the back panel - 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 with some very slight fading to the t...
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes . (In the Original Slipcase - Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone)

By: Stevenson Robert Louis

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1967

Seller ID: 120035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

FIRST FOLIO SOCIETY Edition . FIRST PRINTING. In the original FINE light green cloth pictorial boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, the boards illustrated with black line drawings by Edward Ardizzone. The base colour to the spine has faded slightly but 'sort of' matches the slipcase, and all titling/illustration is clear and bright. This book is in the original near fine grey-green slipcase, which has a few slight 'rubs' due to shelfwear but which are almost unseen - negligible. NO Inscriptions or Marks. Plain orange-rust coloured endpapers. Internally EXCELLENT. 136 pp. Illustrated t...
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First Folio . A Little Book of Folio Forewords

By: Taylor, Catherine

Price: £3.50

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2008

Seller ID: 112385

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New with no dust jacket

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 ...
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Nana

By: Zola, Emile (Translated by Charles Duff)

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1956

Seller ID: 108865

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Pinky/Mauve silk taffeta covered boards, with . VERY slight fading to spine, with bright gilt clear titling to the spine. Some old (damp? ) staining to the edges of the boards but is difficult to see this due to the ripples in the lovely watered silk taffeta covering - so although the fault is there, but it is negligible. NO Slipcase. Traces of a small n/a label removed from the front free e/p, some light foxing to the first few, last few pages and page fore-edges o/w Very Clean - No Inscriptions or Marks. Translated by Charles Duff. Black and white frontispiece and 14 other b/w 'etchings' (as...
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