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Pp. [i–iv] v–xvii [xviii], [1–4] 5–300 [301–302]: [7] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [iii], 30, 39, 103, 151, 166 and 246). Type: Bembo. Printed and bound by Grafos in full pink cloth blocked in black and silver with a design by the artist sisters; red endleaves printed with repeat heart design in black. Silver slip case. The ‘other’ stories are Tales of the late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, The captain’s daughter and Peter the Great’s blackamoor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNear-fine book with pages tightly bound and free of any inscriptions, with just a little light wear to the closed text block. In like slipcase with a little shelf-wear and an innocuous bump to rear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49036623872339,"sku":"","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/The-Queen-of-Spades-Other-Stories-Alexander-Pushkin-Folio-Society-2014_1.webp?v=1760874095"},{"product_id":"tales-of-suspense-mystery-and-imagination-edgar-allan-poe-wilkie-collins-folio-society-1954-1957","title":"Tales of Suspense \u0026 Tales of Mystery and Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilkie Collins, Tales of Suspense. \u003c\/strong\u003eLondon: The Folio Society, 1954. First printing thus. Edited by Robert Ashley and Herbert van Thal, lithographs by Anne Scott. 226 × 149 × 27 mm. Pp. [i–viii], [1] 2–255 [256]: [8] leaves of two-colour plates (facing pp. 16, 33, 48, 112, 145, 176, 224 and 241). Type: Times New Roman with Bodoni, Bodoni Ultra italic and Thorne Shaded for display. Printed by Butler and Tanner, the lithographs by the Curwen Press. Bound by Butler and Tanner in full black cloth with a design in silver. White dust-jacket printed in brown and black. In addition to the black and brown plates, the title-spread is printed in black and brown, with an illustration by Scott. A very good book showing only light bumping to two corners, offsetting to endpapers and a little marking left behind on FFEP after a pencilled message was erased, else fine. In a very good dust wrapper showing a handful of foxing spots, light sunning to spine and a few very small nibbles to extremities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[together with]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination\u003c\/strong\u003e. London: The Folio Society, 1957. First printing thus. 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Quarter dark blue buckram, cream vegetable parchment (‘Elephanthide’) boards with oval portraits of Nelson and Emma in colour; cream endleaves with a map in dark blue. White slip case with a painting of the Battle of Trafalgar in blue. The Presentation Volume for 1995. There are 91 illustrations printed in the text, 48 in colour, reproducing contemporary paintings, prints, cartoons and documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Folio Book of Historic Speeches\u003c\/strong\u003e. London: The Folio Society, 2007, First Print Thus. Edited and introduced by Ian Pindar. 240 × 162 × 29 mm. Pp. [i–iv] v–xxiii [xxiv], [1–2] 3–324 [325–328]: [9] leaves of plates. Type: Dante and Gill Sans. Printed and bound by the Bath Press. Full black buckram blocked with a design in silver; silver endleaves. Black slip case covered with reproduction of photograph showing a crowd listening to Douglas Fairbanks. The plates reproduce paintings, cartoons and photographs. This was the last title printed for Folio by the Bath Press, who had produced more Folio books than any other supplier up to this point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Silk Road by Frances Wood\u003c\/strong\u003e. London: The Folio Society, 2002, First Print Thus. 262 × 192 × 26 mm. Pp. [1–4] 5–270 [271–272]. Type: Sabon with Ondine for display. Printed by Bath Press Colourbooks. Bound by the Bath Press in full blue-green artificial silk with a design in gold by Neil Packer; pale blue endleaves with a map by Reginald Piggott in green. Pale brown slip case with a sepia photograph. This is the first edition of this book, which is illustrated with a total of 132 photographs, largely in colour, including the title-spread. The binding design is ‘based on a 13th-century Mongolian garment’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Folio Book of Days\u003c\/strong\u003e. London: The Folio Society, 2002, First Print Thus. 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Quarter dark blue-green buckram, white paper boards with a design in colour by David Eccles; grey flecked endleaves. Grey slip case decorated in gold. The Presentation Volume for 1997. The text is illustrated with 67 colour and 49 monochrome reproductions of contemporary paintings, prints, documents and photographs. Eccles’s binding design is adapted from a Victorian poster. This book was chosen by Designer Bookbinders for their 1998 competition, and 200 sets of unbound sheets were supplied for this purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Silk Road\u003c\/em\u003e is discoloured to the spine and the slipcase is a bit rubbed. The other four books are very good+ with straight corners, pages tightly bound and free of inscriptions. 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In addition to two of the plates that are double-page spreads, Hillier has provided a title-page spread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncludes the following tales\u003c\/strong\u003e: Dagon, The Statement of Randolph Carter, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, Celephaïs, Nyarlathotep, The Picture in the House, The Outsider, Herbert West—Reanimator, The Hound, The Rats in the Walls, The Festival, He, Cool Air, The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour Out of Space, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Haunter of the Dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA near-fine book with pages clean, bright and tightly bound. 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