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LEGENDS OF KING ARTHUR (3 VOLUME SET)
Written by Richard Barber. Illustrated by Roman Pisarev.
Stock no. 1208987
Published by Folio Society. 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

Edited and Introduced by Richard Barber. Three titles: Arthur, The Holy Grail, and Tristan. Green cloth spine, gilt titles. Green pictorial paper boards. Green endpapers. B/w illustrations. Second printing. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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GLENCOE & CULLODEN (2 VOLUMES)
Written by John Prebble. Illustrated by Harry Brockway.
Stock no. 1208986
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Two volumes. Dramatic grey and black pictorial cloth. B/w engravings. Very slight browning to spines, Culloden volume has crinkling to the top of a few pages, else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which has some shelf-scuffing.

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THE COMPLETE MEMOIRS OF GEORGE SHERSTON (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Siegfried Sassoon; Alan Lascelles. Illustrated by John Lawrence.
Stock no. 1208985
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

Re-issue. Three volumes: Sherston's Progress; Memoirs of an Infantry Office; Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles. Olive green pictorial cloth, red title label and gilt title to spines. B/w illustrations. Top edge red. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which has some scuffing to base and a thin edge of white paint to top along with faint foxspots.

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WAR AND PEACE (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Leo Tolstoy; Rosemary Edmonds. Illustrated by Feliks Topolski.
Stock no. 1208984
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1997. Slightly better than very good condition.

Reduced format. Translated and with an introduction by Rosemary Edmonds. Brick red spines with gilt titles. Cream/beige covers with line drawings. B/w illustrations. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which has a little scuffing, especially to the base.

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JEEVES & WOOSTER (6 VOLUMES)
Written by P.G. Wodehouse. Illustrated by Paul Cox.
Stock no. 1208983
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1996. Very good condition.

Titles are: Ring For Jeeves; The Mating Season; Joy In The Morning; The Code Of The Woosters; Thank You Jeeves; Right Ho, Jeeves. Attractive pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. A lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is shelf scuffed and has foxing to top end.

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WESSEX NOVELS (SIX VOLUMES)
Written by Thomas Hardy. Illustrated by Peter Reddick.
Stock no. 1208982
Published by Folio Society. 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Contains: The Woodlanders; The Return of the Native; Far From The Madding Crowd; Jude the Obscure; The Mayor of Casterbridge; Tess of the d'Urbervilles. All different colour cloths, with corn dolly motif to front covers. B/w illustrations. Some title blocks to spines slightly scuffed, small mark to base of spine of Tess, else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase with some scuffing, especially to the base.

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A CENTURY OF CONFLICT 1848-1948 (5 VOLUMES)
Written by A.J.P. Taylor.
Stock no. 1208981
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

Contains: The Struggle for Mastery In Europe Volumes I (1848-1878) and II (1878-1914); The First World War and its Aftermath 1914-1919; The Origins of the Second World War 1919-1939 and The Second World War and Its Aftermath 1939-1948. Top edge of text blocks very, very slightly dusty with a couple of tiny spots, else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is shelf-scuffed, especially to bottom, also some bubbling of the surface paper (not bad).

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THE SECOND WORLD WAR (6 VOLUMES)
Written by Winston S. Churchill.
Stock no. 1208980
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

6 Volume set. Starting with The Gathering Storm and ending with Triumph and Tragedy. Cloth spines, pictorial front boards. A lovely set contained in 2 slipcases produced by the publisher. Slipcases are shelf-scuffed, quite heavily on the bottoms, 1" split to top edge of slipcase containing volumes 1-3, tiny piece of surface paper lifting to rear of second slipcase.

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TWENTY-ONE TALES
Written by Rudyard Kipling; Tim Wilkinson. Illustrated by Ian Ribbons.
Stock no. 1830830
Published by Folio Society. 1985. Very good condition.

A collection of Rudyard Kipling's short stories. Selected and with an introduction by Tim Wilkinson. Yellow pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. xii and 355 pages. Sixth impression. Spine very slightly grubby (hardly noticeable). Else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is a little scuffed, faded and grubby.

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ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT
Written by W. Stanley Moss; M.R.D. Foot; Iain Moncreiffe; Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Stock no. 1830827
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

A non-fiction partly-autobiographical book written by W. Stanley Moss, a British soldier, writer and traveller. It describes an operation in Crete during the Second World War to capture German general Heinrich Kreipe. Introduction by M.R.D. Foot, Prologue & epilogue by Iain Moncrieffe, Afterword by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Dark blue pictorial cloth. B/w photos. 214 pages. Previous owner's ex-lib stamp to half-title page (very neat and unobtrusive). Else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed and has some white marks at ends.

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NELSON AND EMMA
Written by Roger Hudson.
Stock no. 1330581
Published by Folio Society. 1st 1994. Nearly fine condition.

Edited by Roger Hudson. A story of love and war. Dark blue cloth spine with gilt title. Ivory boards. Colour pictorial onlay to front and rear. Maps to endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations. 256 pages. A super copy contained in publishers original pictorial slipcase which is lightly foxed on top edge and slightly rubbed on open edges.

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THE BARSETSHIRE CHRONICLES (6 VOLUMES)
Written by Anthony Trollope. Illustrated by Alexy Pendle.
Stock no. 1208979
Published by Folio Society. 1998. Very good condition.

Two sets of 3 volumes. B/w illustrations. Titles are: The Warden; Doctor Thorne; Barchester Towers; The Last Chronicle of Barset; The Small House at Allington; Framley Parsonage. Second printing. Tiny piece of surface paper loss to vertical edge of front board of The Small House at Allington. Else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcases which are shelf-scuffed.

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