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The Folio Society, 1982. Hardcover. Good. 1982. No Edition Remarks. 371 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with decorations. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Contains black and white illustrations. Slipcase is missing. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

A fine copy. Bound in gold cloth with gilt and mauve design on cover. Slip case is present. Light shelf wear.

London, The Folio Society, 1982, 8vo tutta tela editoriale con fregi in oro e viola ai piatti e al dorso, titoli in argento al dorso, cofanetto originale cartonato, pp. 371 con un'illustrazione a piena pagina in antiporta e numerose altre illustrazioni in nero nel testo (di Joan Freeman). Testo in inglese. Pregevole edizione. Minimi difetti al cofanetto. Ottimo.

In a fitted box. Tan cloth binding with gilt title and purple decoration.
Before it is too late, we need to recall the incontrovertible truth that underlies all Helen Waddell's work – that our Western civilization is firmly rooted not only in the Christian faith, but also in the immemorial Latin tongue of the classical poets. The book is edited with a preface by Dame Felicitas Corrigan.
Helen Jane Waddell(31 May 1889 – 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal.
She was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was lecturing in the Imperial University. She spent the first eleven years of her life in Japan before her family returned to Belfast. Her mother died shortly afterwards, and her father remarried. Hugh Waddell himself died and left his younger children in the care of their stepmother. Following the marriage of her elder sister Meg, Helen was left at home to care for Mrs… Read More

Folio Society, 1982. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, octavo, brown cloth lettered gilt and blocked with a design in purple and gilt, dust jacket not called for, dated name of a previous owner on the front pastedown, the remainder of the text is clean and unmarked, 371pp. Housed in a rubbed and lightly faded slipcase..

The Folio Society 1982. Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Folio Society. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Slipcase Very Good. From the collection of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his custom bookplate on front endpage. (Latin Poetry, Goliards)

London: The Folio Society, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Folio Society, 1982 (first thus). Octavo, 371 pages with illustrations from wood-engravings by Joan Freeman. Decorated cloth; spine slightly sunned; small patch of excess glue on the half-title (a production flaw); an excellent copy in the slipcase (a little sunned and rubbed, and beginning to split at one joint). Edited and with a preface by Dame Felicitas Corrigan.

Folio Society,, 1982. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and purple, buff endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.