Books published by publisher The Folio Society

A stunning book of military history about a telegram that pushed the US into the first world war. The telegram was decoded by the British from a message sent by a German minister to the German ambassador in the US instructing him to endeavor to get Mexico to fight against the Americans. What a story! Includes many black and white photographic plates of the people, documents, and events surrounding the story. Frontispiece photograph of Arthur Zimmerman. Introduction by Margaret MacMillan. Extensive Sources, Notes, and Index. Brown cloth spine and pictorial boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Brown card slipcase.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Folio Society 2010. Thick Royal 8to. 267pp. Profuse illustrations from photgraphs. Volume appears unopened and unread, excellent clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. Excellent in bright gilt lettered dog-tooth patterened cloth, featuring coloured illustration of Mitford family to upper. Also excellent slipcase. Memoir of familial discord, between the communist author Jessica and her Nazi sypathiseing siblings Unity and Diana, friends of Moseley and HItler. Fascinating for reader and collector alike.

This edition of The Name of the Rose, translated from Italian, is set in centaur at the Folio Society, and was printed on Caxton-wove paper at St. Edmundsbury Press and bound in Edinburgh in full cloth blocked with a design by the artist. Winter, 1327. The medieval Church is rife with corruption. High in a remote monastery in Northern Italy, a young monk has been found murdered in bizarre circumstances. Brother William, a learned member of the Franciscan order, is sent to the monastery to investigate. Accompanied by his young scribe, Adso of Melk - who at the beginning of his account asks only that 'the Lord grant me the grace to be a transparent witness of the happenings that took place in the abbey' - William sets about his task. But before he has had time to become acquainted with his new surroundings, another corpse is discovered, plunged head first into a vat of pig's blood. As the murders multiply, William must navigate his way through a bewildering maze of riddles, conundrums, signs and symbols to solve the ever-deepening mystery. With digressions on everything from theological history to the intricacies of classical philosophy, from the art of manuscript illumination to the darker arts of the occult, the story provides a rich and enthralling feast of love and betrayal, skulduggery, faith and heresy.

The classic Dickens story retold for children growing in reading confidence. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean-spirited old man who hates everything - even Christmas! But when three spirits visit him one Christmas Eve, Scrooge is taken on a journey into the past, present and future that will change him forever. Part of Young Reading Series 2. The audio CD includes a dramatic listen-along recording with music and sound effects, followed by a read-along version with prompts for page turns.

In 1933, the delightfully eccentric travel writer Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana, near the border between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Throughout, he kept a thoroughly captivating record of his encounters, discoveries, and frequent misadventures. His story would become a best-selling travel book throughout the English-speaking world, until the acclaim died down and it was gradually forgotten. When Paul Fussell published his own book Abroad, in 1982, he wrote that The Road to Oxiana is to the travel book what "Ulysses is to the novel between the wars, and what The Waste Land is to poetry." His statements revived the public's interest in the book, and for the first time, it was widely available in American bookstores. Now this long-overdue reprint will introduce it to a whole new generation of readers. This edition features a new introduction by Rory Stewart, best known for his book The Places In Between, about his extensive travels in Afghanistan. Today, in addition to its entertainment value, The Road to Oxiana also serves as a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers, and a nostalgic look back at a more innocent time.