A collection of hardcover volumes published by the Folio Society, encompassing a variety of classic literature, historical accounts, and non-fiction works. The collection is highlighted by two significant multi-volume sets: Steven Runciman’s A History of the Crusades in three volumes (comprising The First Crusade, The Kingdom of Jerusalem, and The Kingdom of Acre) and Jan Morris’s Pax Britannica trilogy (comprising Heaven’s Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell the Trumpets). Also included is a five-volume collection of works by Rudyard Kipling, featuring Short Stories, Kim, Captains Courageous, Puck of Pook’s Hill, and Poems. Further notable works include omnibus editions of H.G. Wells (containing The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and others) and George Orwell (containing Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, and others). Additional individual titles include Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped, Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, Richard Burton’s The Source of the Nile, Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Life of the Bee, Charles Darwin’s Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, The First Colonists, The Cream of Noel Coward, and a two-volume set of The Complete Savoy Operas by Gilbert and Sullivan. The books are bound in the publisher’s decorative cloth, many featuring gilt or silver lettering and pictorial spine designs. The majority of the volumes are housed in their original protective cardboard slipcases.
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