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Fine Hardback. No inscriptions or bookplates. Fine slipcase. Introduced by Diana Athill. Bound in Cloth, blocked with design by Neil Gower. Pp. (no inscriptions)
THE COUNTRY CHILD is a semi-autobiographical story about a girl growing up in the country. Alison Uttley has drawn on her own youth to produce memories so vivid and nostalgic that you can almost smell the honeysuckle and hear the owls calling at dusk.She writes about the small intense joys and sorrows of life on a small farm: the fun of haymaking, the sadness of favourite animals being slaughtered, and the close sweetness of Christmas celebrations in the farmhouse kitchen

FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured plates; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in gilt and black, blue endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
This edition follows the text of the first edition of 1922.

FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured plates; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in gilt and black, blue endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
This edition follows the text of the first edition of 1922.

London: Folio Society, 2007 4to Pictorial Cloth 1st Ed. Fine copy in slip case. Heavyset illustrated boards, a fine clean sound unmarked copy with an olive green plain slipcase also sound & unmarked; A later revised edition of book first published in 1973. 416 pages with index fully illust. with b/w & colour illustrations and maps throughout. Explores the history and development of food through the centuries.For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

London: Folio Society, 2004. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 279pp. Illustrated cloth in slipcase. With illustrations by Paul Cox.
The gardens of Blandings Castle are that original garden from which we are all exiled. All those who know them long to return." ―Evelyn Waugh When Lord Tilbury receives a letter from Galahad Threepwood stating he will no longer be publishing his memoir, he decides to travel to Blandings Castle and steal the manuscript. But he isn't the only one after the memoir. Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe and Lady Constance Keeble are also trying to lay their hands on it to prevent Ronnie Fish and Sue Brown from getting married. Monty Bodkin, Lord Emsworth's new secretary, is also after the manuscript in order to secure a year's employment at the Mammoth Publishing Company.

JUSTINE Folio Society. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Folio Society, New York 2008 Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing
Justine, first published in 1957, is the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. Justine is one of four interlocking novels which each tell various aspects of a complex story of passion and deception from various points of view. The quartet is set in the Egyptian city of Alexandria of the 1930s and 1940s, and the city itself becomes as much of a complex character as the human protagonists.
At head of title :"Volume one of the Alexandria Quartet"
" All four volumes of The Alexandria Quartet were published together in 1962 by Faber & Faber in a revised edition. This edition follows the text of the 1962 revised edition, with minor emendations, and is published by arrangment with Faber & Faber and the Estate of Lawrence Durrell" -- title page verso. Printed on Caxton Wove paper at L.E.G.O. SpA, Vicenza, Italy. Bound by them in three-quarter cloth with front board printed… Read More

Fine Hardcover in slipcase. Blue and brown cloth with gilt decorations in a fine brown slipcase. Illustrated
Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries - and there he dies suddenly. Jealous of his marriage, racked by suspicion at the hints in Ambrose's letters, and grief-stricken by his death, Philip prepares to meet his cousin's widow with hatred in his heart.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Special Edition. First Folio Society edition in 2009. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. No inscriptions or bookplates. Preface by Peter Kemp. Colour illustrations by Katherine Streeter.

London : Folio Society, 1997. First Folio Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth, in a slip-case. Pages tight, bright, clean and strong. Never Read. Overall a Fine copy. Physical description: xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23cm.

As new Hardcover. Purple spine with gilt lettering and purple boards and richly illustrated.

First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette, illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth, gilt back, a fine copy bound in fully illustrated cloth in publisher's slip-case also in fine condition. Black and white illustrations throughout by Paul Cox and with pictorial cloth covers with drawings by the artist.
Hugh Carmody loved Millicent, Lord Emsworth niece, but he was very good friends with Sue Brown - an attachment which Millicent, perhaps, could hardly be expected to enthuse over. Ronnie Fish loved Sue, and entertained feelings of unrestrained ferocity towards Pilbeam, a blister of the first water, who was pestering her with flowers. When Millicent and Ronnie heard that Hugo and Sue were having dinner on the quiet, there was trouble; and when Ronnie, descending upon Mario's, found not Hugo but the execrable Pilbeam, summer lightning flashed in truth. How Lord Emsworth's pig was stolen, how Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe was accused of the crime, how Mr… Read More

Ivory pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and red; gilt back. Pages clean and tight and bright. A very good copy in publisher's board slip-case with coloured title-vignette, numerous coloured illustrations (a number double- or full-page) in the text, and coloured endpaper maps. With the co-operation of several hampers of food and a covered boat, the three men (not forgetting the dog) set out on a hilarious voyage of mishaps up the Thames. When not falling in the river and getting lost in Hampton Court Maze, Jerome K. Jerome finds time to express his ideas on the world around many of which have acquired a deeper fascination since the day at the end of the 19th century when this excursion was so lightly undertaken.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean, tight and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Slipcase is clean and solid. Overall a near fine copy. Colour illustrations throughout. A lovely copy of this anthology of accounts of Christmas spent abroad. With contributions by Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Noel Coward, Shelley, Paul Theroux, Richard Burton, Dostoevsky, Alice B Toklas, Rommel, Solzhenitsyn, and many others. A lovely Christmas Gift

First Folio Society edition. Hardback binding in publisher's original British racing green buckram covered boards, printed archive sepia photographs to the front side, gilt back, photographic end sheets. Near Fine condition in slip case. Includes bibliographical references and index.Subjects:Frith, Francis, 1822-1898 Travel Great BritainGreat Britain History 19th centuryGreat Britain Social life and customs 19th centuryLiterary journeys Great BritainPhotography, Artistic