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Richard Contiguglia

I shall try to reconstruct my long, uninterrupted membership of The Folio Society from my teenage years. If memory serves me correctly, I responded to an advertisement, probably in the Book Section of...

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Maurice Dunlevy

When I joined The Folio Society in the mid-1960s I was already a committed classics collector.  I bought my first Collins Classic at the age of 10 from money I had earned selling programmes at a race...

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Meeting Ray Bradbury

Don Mowatt recalls a 1966 interview with the late writer I first met Ray Bradbury in the fall of 1966 at his upstairs office in Beverly Hills. I was 23,  a junior radio producer from Canada and...

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The Folio Society: Celebrating Literature

  I have never understood why we readers treat literature so poorly. We confine our classics to cheap paperbacks, five-dollar hard copies, bulk versions, and we throw them in bargain bins alongside...

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Warwick Carter – addicted to Folio

My name is Warwick Carter, and I suffer from FAD (Folio Acquisition Disorder). This is an incurable psychiatric condition that causes those affected to purchase too many Folio Society books, and is a...

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“Thank you for a very enjoyable evening”

Jackie Cavallaro, a long time Folio member from Australia recently attended an event we hosted in Sydney on 25 June. This was the first Folio event in the southern hemisphere and there are plans afoot...

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