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The Wager | The Folio Society

It mentions only five "part-title black and white scraperboard illustrations", but in the sixth photo, you can see a double-page map. The mass-market hardback also has plenty of photos.

Forfilled a dream and to own my first folio society book ...the quality is great and I didnt expect the pages that contain illustrations to be coated in special coating , which reslly makes the illustrations stand out , which of course is the goal

It is cloth-bound, printed letterpress, with a silver gilded top edge and a slipcase.

I bought on ebay Sharpe's Triumph.

It smelled strange. I wondered perhaps mold, but I do not know what a moldy book smell like.

Then after a few hours in room temperature I took the book out of the slipcase and I noticed the papers where bent/warped. Feeling the book I felt it would bend lightly back and forth when pressed.

Could this be a mold problem, or the book has been stored improperly?

I am considering returning it, but wanted to check if this perhaps was a know structural weakness of this book.

I have bought many FS books on ebay. All up until now have been in excellent quality. Those have smelled completely different (a good book smell) and none have been this warped.

Help is appreciated to decide if I should return it and get a refund.

With relieving the folio society The Princess Bride , I notice that earlier editions have a different colour slipcase than the version that I have .... do The Folio Society often change elements of books the more printings that they do ? Is this common??

I've made this comment a few times before, but now I'm getting annoyed. Please just stop printing Anna Karenina and give us something more original. There are hundreds of other Russian literature titles I'd absolutely love to see Folio publish...

This post might make it sound like I'm hating on Folio Society or just trolling, but I genuinely love Folio. About a quarter of my entire book collection is made up of Folio editions, and I've recommended Folio Society countless times on r/RussianLiterature. That said, it's become increasingly difficult to be a fan over the past few years.