Translated by Robert Graves. Lithographs by Michael Ayrton. Pp. 208, the frontispiece, 8 plates, and pictorial endpapers all printed in brown & black, appendix; roy. 8vo; cream vegetable parchment papered boards, lettered and decorated in gilt & brown, a trifle soiled and slightly browned (heavier on spine); top edges brown;..... More

Collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honore de Balzac. Translated into modern English by Alec Brown. With drawings by Mervyn Peake. Pp. viii+408, frontispiece plus 23 plates printed in two colours; roy. 8vo; brown canvas, lettered in gilt and decorated in darker brown &..... More

Pp. xvi+366, coloured frontispiece plus 16 plates (13 coloured), 5 text diagrams, index; purple cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; within purple card slipcase; The Folio Society, London, 2002. Folio 60/1110. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his book label on upper pastedown. Originally published by Weidenfeld..... More

Or, an Oxford Love Story. With illustrations by the author. Pp. 228, coloured frontispiece and 7 plates, plus coloured pictorial endpapers; gilt lettered yellow cloth, decorated in brown, the spine slightly soiled and rubbed; top edges brown; within grey card slipcase, a trifle worn; inked ownership inscription at head of..... More

In two volumes. Volume One: Edited and selected by Sir Norman Birkett. With contemporary engravings. Pp. [iv]+260, frontispiece, plus 7 plates; Volume Two: Edited with an introduction by Lord Birkett. Pp. [ii]+266(last blank), frontispiece, plus7 plates; marching qr. black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, brown papered boards patterned in gilt..... More

Translated by Roger Senhouse. Dry-point etchings by Philippe Jullian. Pp. 160, 7 plates; pink art. silk, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards a trifle canted and slightly scuffed, edges lightly worn, with faint damp stain and slight bruise to top edge of lower board, spine cloth lightly faded; top..... More

An autobiography in fact and fiction. Translated and edited by Dan Hostadter. Drawings by Emma Chichester Clark. Pp. viii+140, coloured frontispiece plus 5 plates; navy cloth, lettered and decorated in silver; top edges navy; within cream card slipcase;The Folio Society, London, 1986. Folio 581. More

Edited with an Introduction by Eveline Cruickshanks. Pp. xii+340, frontispiece portrait plus 11 plates, 1 full page text map plus endpaper map, index; red buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt, with dark green skiver label on spine, the boards a trifle bowed and slightly scuffed; top edges dark green; text..... More

Being the Memoirs of Master Johann Dietz, Surgeon in the Army of the Great Elector and Barber to the Royal Court. Translated by Bernard Miall. Edited and Introduced by Mervyn Horder. Pp. viii+222(last blank), frontispiece plus 5 plates, 2 text illustrations; pictorial purple cloth, spine blocked in black and lettered..... More

Wood-engravings by Derrick Harris. Pp. xviii+320, frontispiece, text illustrations (a couple full page), decorative title page border and headpieces; brown and white patterned cloth, with gilt lettered skiver label on spine, the spine cloth faintly discoloured; top edges yellow; within brown card slipcase; The Folio Society, London, 1967. Second Folio..... More

With wood engravings by Frank Martin. Pp. 188(last blank), pictorial title page, text illustrations; brown patterned cloth, gilt lettered label on spine; top edges dark green; within card slipcase, corners slightly split; The Folio Society, London, 1966. Folio 219. More

Pp. 16 (including wrappers), illustrated in orange & black: printed paper wrappers, staples slightly rusted; The Folio Society, London, 1959. *Includes articles on Fielding's Tom Jones,and A Courtly Entertainment: Love's Labour's Lost and its audiences,by Richard Moore. More

Pp. 16 (including wrappers), illustrated, printed in blue & black; printed paper wrappers; staples rusted; The Folio Society, London, 1960. *Includes The American Short Story, by Christopher Adams. More