Fleker, James Elroy; Basil Dean (Intro.); Peter Bucknell (Illust.)

Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Bagdad and How He Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand

London, The Folio Society, 2015. Third Printing. Hardcover. pp. 95. Small 4to. Bound in sumptuous navy blue silk with gilt lettering to spine, gold endpapers. Gorgeous colour illustrations in the syle of Middle-Eastern and Ottoman miniatures. No detectable flaws, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding and housed near fine slipcase. .

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Book number: 587

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: rare books; scarce; iraq; afghanistan; travel; travel narrative; marco polo; history; illustrations;

Graves, Robert; Kenneth McLeish; Grahame Baker (Illust.)

The Greek Myths (Two Volumes in Slipcase)

London, The Folio Society, 2000. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Illustrated buckram boards with gilt rules and lettering to spine and front board, map endpapers; fine and housed in fine orange slipcase. .

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Book number: 3661

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: illustrations; history; mythology; sociology; scarce; rare books;

Graves, Robert; Kenneth McLeish; Grahame Baker (Illust.)

The Greek Myths (Two Volumes in Slipcase)

London, The Folio Society, 2001. Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. 8vo's. Uniformly bound in quarter brown buckram over illustrated boards with gilt rules and lettering to spine and front board, map endpapers; fine and housed in fine orange slipcase. .

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Book number: 6993

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: illustrations; history; mythology; sociology; scarce; rare books;

Lawrence, T.E.; Edward Bawden (Illust.); Raleigh Trevelyan (Intro.)

Revolt in the Desert

London, The Folio Society, 1994. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. pp. viii, 326. 8vo. Lovely pictorial cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine, map endpapers. Rich with additional photographs, and illustrations. No detectable flaws, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed ivory slipcase. Overall, very good+. .

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Book number: 4340

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: travel; saudi arabia; middle esat; second world war; great war; military history; militaria; arab history; arab

Parker, Dorothy; Mervyn Horder (Intro.); Helen Smithson (Illust.)

The Best of Dorothy Parker

London, The Folio Society, 1998. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. pp. 233. Small 8vo. Pictorial boards. Lovely black-and-white illustrations throughout. No detectable flaws, contents remain bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in near fine like slipcase. .

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Book number: 2648

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: literature; american literature; english literature

Leeson, Edward (Selected and Introduced by); Posy Simmonds (Illust.)

The Folio Book of Humorous Verse

London, The Folio Society, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. xv, 263. 8vo. Bound in brightly illustrated cloth over boards. Charming, whimsical, colour illustrations throughout. No detectable flaws to the extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in near fine navy-blue slipcase. .

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Book number: 4608

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: humor; humour; literature

Staebler, Edna; Carol Noel (Illust.)

More Food That Really Schmecks

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1985. Hardcover. pp. 318. 8vo. Cream coloured boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Black-and-white illustrations. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine and housed in near fine price-clipped dustjacket. .

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Book number: 3316

Catalogue: Folio Society

Thomas, Dylan; Douglas Cleverdon (Ed. & Intro.); Ceri Richards (Illust.)

Under Milk Wood, a Play for Voices

London, The Folio Society, 1999. Third Printing. Hardcover. pp. 93. Tall 8vo. Quarter lilac cloth over gray cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Lovely colour illustrations throughout. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding and housed in near fine slipcase. Overall, near fine. .

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Book number: 1175

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: rare; fine binding;

Toklas, Alice B. [Babette] (1877-1967); Natacha Ledwidge (Illust.); Diana Souhami (Intro.)

The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook

London, The Folio Society, 1993. First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. pp. 282. 8vo. measuring 6.25" x 9.25". Charming, silver balacron boards, illustrated endpapers. Lovely black-and-white illustrations throughout. Entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in near fine lightly rubbed, black slipcase. Overall, very good+, to, near fine. .

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Book number: 6085

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: food and drink; food & drink; gender studies; gertrude stein; ernest hemingway

Boccaccio, Giovanni; Richard Aldington (Trans.) with Aquatints by Buckland-Wright

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (Two Volumes in Slipcase) / Vol I: The First Five Days & Vol II: The Second Five Days

Westminster, The Folio Society, 1969. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Uniformly bound in illustrated terracotta cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Green publisher's topstain. Lovely black and white illustrations throughout. No detectable flaws, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed like slipcase showing one very small spot to one side of the panel. Overall; very good+. .

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Book number: 259

Catalogue: Folio Society

Keywords: fine bindings; history; literature; sex;