Saturday, April 27, 2013

The Folio Society: Devoted to Beautiful Books

The Icelandic Sagas edited by Magnus MagnussonAbeBooks: The Folio Society: Devoted to Beautiful Books: Standing like an island amid the sea of cheap mass produced paperbacks and formulaic new releases from the latest bright young things is the Folio Society. This organization is half publisher, half book club (as it has members) and was founded in 1947 on the principle that books should be beautiful to the eye as well as captivating to the mind.

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