Books published by publisher The Folio Society

The book features premium hand-cut full leather boards with a distinct cover design in ornate 22-karat gold gild. The spine is hubbed with raised horizontal ridges formed in the leather. There are silk moire endpapers with a sewn in matching satin bookmark. The pages are gold gilded to protect against dust and moisture and the paper used is acid neutral to last generations without discoloring.

Macaulay, Rose. The Towers of Trebizond. London, The Folio Society, 2005. 15 cm x 23 cm. XIII, 234 pages with illustrations. Original hardcover / Illlustrated cloth with slipcase. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding. Includes the following chapters:- 'Take my camel, dear' / Father Chantry-Pigg set up his portable altar / The camel arrived at a canter / I went on down through the rhododendrons to the stream / She read it with a face of doom / I felt rather dizzy, and I shut my eyes / I enjoyed my weeks of camel travel in the Levant / Its chess was only moderate / It was the best week we had ever had etc. This story describes the experiences of a group of people on a trip to Turkey. Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women through the encouragement of a wider use of the bathing hat, whilst Laurie's only object is pleasure. (Amazon).

Ford's great novel examines the passionate and tragic events that beset five tangled lives in Edwardian England. Behind a facade of elegant ease and correctness lurk secret layered upon secret. The Good Soldier's revolutionary, impressionistic narrative techniques greatly influenced Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and Grahame Greene, among others. The Folio Society edition is bound in full gold and gray cloth blocked with a design by the book's illustrator, Philip Bannister. Introduction by Julian Barnes. 224 pgs, slipcased.