Monthly FS book covers quiz

A new montage of 20 covers has been placed at the head of the FSD home page for devotees who wish amuse themselves and demonstrate their knowledge of all things Folio Society by searching for the names of books behind the covers.
Click on the picture to enlarge.
List what books you believe belong to each book in this thread.

Well I'll start!
Rows labelled A- D, Columns 1 - 5
A2 Landscape into Art
B3 The Remains of the Day

I do have some of the others, but I'll keep my powder dry for the time being

D1 :the Road to Oxiana , Robert Byron

B1: Periodic Table, Primo Levi

B4: Book of the New Sun - Sword of the Lictor.

C2: The Jungle Book

A1: Medieval Women

B2: London 1851, The Year of The Great Exhibition. Eric de Maré. 1972.
The first book I received from The Folio Society. It was the presentation volume for 1973.

D3: Two Tales, The Royal Slave and The Fair Jilt. Mrs Aphra Behn. 1953.

>8 bookfair_e: The first book I received from The Folio Society. It was the presentation volume for 1973.

Me too!

A summary so far - plus four more guesses in bold:

A1 Medieval Women
A2 Landscape into Art
A3 The Folio Book of Carols
A4
A5

B1 Periodic Table, Primo Levi
B2 London 1851, The Year of The Great Exhibition. Eric de Maré. 1972.
B3 The Remains of the Day
B4 Book of the New Sun - Sword of the Lictor.
B5 The Best of the Raconteurs - Edited by Sheridan Morley and Tim Heald

C1
C2 The Jungle Book
C3
C4
C5 Journal of my Service in India - John Corneille

D1 the Road to Oxiana , Robert Byron
D2 The History of England - Jane Austen
D3 Two Tales, The Royal Slave and The Fair Jilt. Mrs Aphra Behn. 1953.
D4
D5

C1: The Eclogues. Virgil. 2000.
C3: Domestic Manners of the Americans. Frances Trollope. 1974.
C4: The Nun, Denis Diderot. 1972.

D5: Cranford by Mrs Gaskell, with wood engravings by the great Joan Hassall, illustrator of the Folio Jane Austen (1987)

D4: Memoirs of a Mercenary - Johann Dietz

A5: The Folio Book of Historical Mysteries - Ian Pindar

A4: Folk-Tales of the British Isles (?)

OOPS!!!

Just reposted last month's image again (see post >1 wcarter: for image).

Lets try again. See >20 wcarter: below.

A new montage of 20 covers has been placed at the head of the FSD home page for devotees who wish amuse themselves and demonstrate their knowledge of all things Folio Society by searching for the names of books behind the covers.
Click on the picture to enlarge.
List what books you believe belong to each book in this thread.

B3 Remains of the Day - One of my most favorite books
B4 Sword of the Lictor

C2 The Jungle Book?

A1 Medieval Women

D3 Two Tales - The Royal Slave & The Fair Jilt

D4 Memoirs of a Mercenary

A5 A Short History of Time
C1 A Memoir of the Forty Five
D1 The Best After Dinner Stories
D2 Ill Met by Moonlight
D5 Dr Zhivago

OOPS!!!

Just reposted last month's image again.

Lets try again.

New image posted to home page and reproduced here as a high definition image for easier access.

A2 Kim
B5 The Country House
C3 Behind The Wall / C4 The Mask Of Dimitrios / C5 Once There Was A War
D1 Schliemann Troy / D2 Big Chief Elizabeth/ D3 The Book Left Unspoken / D5 Cloudstreet

B3 Saki - Short Stories
C3 - Colin Thubron - Behind the Wall
D4 - Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

B2 - One of the volumes from the Pax Britannica trilogy (Jan Morris)? Not 100% convinced though.
C2 - Call of Cthulu LE (Lovecraft)

>20 wcarter:
I had a feeling of déjà vu. I am glad that's sorted.

A1 Italian Cities, Venice - Christopher Hibbert

A4 The History of Myddle - Richard Gough

B2: The Great Enterprise. 1978
B4: Edward Gibbon’s Atlas of the World. 1991
B5: Life in the English Country House. 2019
D3: The much maligned The Herefordshire Pomona. 2014

B1 - Amercian Short Stories, 1997

D5 Cloudstreet

For fun, without looking at previous answers:

1 row: Venice, Kim, ???, ???, ???
2 row: American Short Stories, The Great Enterprise: The History of the Spanish Armada, Saki Short Stories, ?something very familiar?, Life in the English Country House
3 row : ???, ?something very familiar?, Behind the Wall, The Mask of Dimitrios , Once There Was a War
4 row: Troy, The Big Chief Elizabeth, The Hereforshire Pomona, Pride and Prejudice, Cloudstreet

A3: Pan. 1983

A5: The Genius of James Thurber
C1: Cold Comfort Farm

Another month, another quiz.

Great selection, I will start:

A1
A2 Hassan: The Story of Hassan 1966
A3
A4
A5 War and Peace LE 2006

B1
B2
B3 Satyrica 2003
B4
B5 Jayant Madhvani 1973 (Special Commission)

C1
C2 Elegant Universe 2017
C3 Mark of the Horse Lord 2017
C4
C5 Spring: A Folio Anthology 2017

D1 Slaughterhouse-Five 2006
D2
D3
D4 Book of Common Prayer 2004
D5 The Times Millennium Atlas of the World 1999

>34 F.Trier:
Wow! I am impressed!
I thought the Jayant Madvahni one would stump everyone, as it is rare, but you got it straight away.
The Times Atlas one was difficult too.

B2: Screwtape Letters
C4: Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
D3: Sagittarius Rising

A1: A Treasury of Mark Twain
B4: Journals of the Western Isles
D2: Kidnapped

A3: Diary of a Nobody

>35 wcarter: thanks, I guess I got them both since I have been paying close attention to your Folio archives series :)

A4: Faust, Goethe : https://www.librarything.com/topic/266958

B1: Tales by Leo Tolstoy. 1947
C1: Experience of an Irish R.M. 1984

ETA – I had forgotten that this (C1) was another Folio illustrated by Paul Cox.

Time for another covers quiz. You have all been so smart, I made this one with a couple of particularly hard covers to identify.

A1 - Paradise Lost (2015)
A3 - Inventions of the Middle Ages (2007)
A4 - The Golden Fleece (2003)
A5 - A Farewell to Arms (2015)
B3 - Enfants Terrible (1976)
B4 - Beowulf (1973)
C2 - The Outsider (2011)
C5 - A Clockwork Orange
D1 - The Illustrated Man
D5 - Rime of the Ancient Mariner (2010)

B2 With Napoleon in Russia
C3 Domesday Book

B1 Foucault’s Pendulum
C4 Principia Mathematica

B5 Mother Courage (1965)

C1: Two Tales of the Congo – not the book itself but the portfolio of ‘impressions of the original engravings’ by Dolf Rieser the book’s illustrator, issued in a limited edition of 75 copies. This is something I was aware of but have never seen in the flesh and not at all until wcarter featured it in his illustrated book review: http://www.librarything.com/topic/285992

C4: Principia Mathematica

D2: Anne Hughes: Her Boke

D3: Boxiana

>48 bookfair_e:
Very clever and observant!!
90% solved in less than 12 hours!
Which only leaves A2 (easy) and D4.

A2 - anything to do with Samuel Pepys?

Harriette Wilson's Memoirs.

D4: Beowulf (1973)

>52 NLNils:

Is Beowulf not B4?

D4: Henriette Wilson's Memoirs

>53 folio_books: You are right, of course. I misread the number!

>50 SimB:
Yes

A2: Pepys Diary three-volume set 1996.

I see the "old" pic has returned to the top of the main FSD page. Is that the end of the quizzes, Warwick, or are you just taking a (well-deserved) break?

>59 wcarter:
I was waiting to see if anyone missed them, and if there was any demand for their return.
Are others interested?

>59 wcarter: I had missed it, even if I never asked after it.

>59 wcarter: me too, please

Me too!

Back by popular (well, 3) demand.

I really enjoy the quiz too. Thanks for taking the time to create it, Warwick.

A1: Le Miserables
A3: Lord of the Flies
A4: Catch 22
A5: Schindler's Ark
B3: Voyages to the Moon and the Sun
B4: We
C1: I Am Legend
D1: Steppenwolf
D2: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
D5: Hide My Eyes


Thanks Warwick!

Oh, yay! I wasn't one of the 3 but I was looking forward to this. I'll start:

A1 Les Mis LE
A2 Love is Enough
A3 Lord of the Flies
A4 Catch-22
A5

B1
B2 The Wanderer
B3 Voyages to the Moon and Sun
B4
B5

C1 I am Legend
C2
C3
C4 Metamorphoses
C5

D1
D2 Kama Sutra
D3
D4
D5

edited to add that apparently between when I started typing and when I posted I was what to the punch! :-)

A3 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
B1 The Towers of Trebizond- Rose Macaulay
C5 Summer: A Folio Anthology
D3 A Few Royal Occasions - selected by Sue Bradbury

B5 The Yantze Valley and Beyond

Isn’t D1 Steppenwolf?

B4: We

C2: Confessions of a Thug. 1974
C3: The London Journal 1762-63. 1985

D4: The Playfair Hours

A1: Les Miserables LE
A3: Lord of the Flies
A4: Catch 22
A5: Schindler's Ark

B4: We

C5: Summer

D1: Stephen wolf
D5: A book by Margery Allingham whose title I've forgotten.

>73 Kainzow: correct, D5 Hide My Eyes

It's a long time since we had one of these - May 9, it says.

>75 folio_books:
OK, when I get home from the coast on Sunday I’ll post another one.

>76 wcarter:

Thank you.

>76 wcarter:
Looking forward to the quiz. Thank you.

>76 wcarter: Excellent! Could I suggest people consider wrapping their answers in spoiler tags to help everyone else have a clean shot at it?

>79 ubiquitousuk:
Good idea. How do I do that?

>80 emgcat: you need to enclose your post in spoiler tags as described at this link:

https://help.disqus.com/en/articles/1717306-spoiler-tags

See >65 ubiquitousuk: for an example in use.

>81 ubiquitousuk:
Thank you

Here it is!
It would be a good idea to follow the suggestion of >79 ubiquitousuk: which is explained in >81 ubiquitousuk:

Hmm, slightly tougher one this week.


A2: Wind, Sand and Stars
B3: The Shooting Party
B4: British Myths and Legends
C1: A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (confession: I had to look the precise title up)
C2: The Rosetta Stone
C4: A Letterpress Shakespeare comedy--I'll guess A Midsummer Night's Dream

I can only identify two more:

A1: Chartres: The Making of a Miracle
B4: How to See Fairies

A3: Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

> 84-88

Interesting...all of you have used the tags but in Firefox all I'm seeing is:

Spoiler (click to see)
--all of your guesses in plain unhidden text.

I only own seven of these twenty but how are we to possibly guess which Shakespeare Comedy?

Damn, I've only seen four of them.
The rest I didn't even know existed.

Only know 10:
A1 Chartres
B1 The Quest for Corvo
B2 Under Milkwood
B3 The Shooting Party
B4 British Myths & Legends
B5 How to See Fairies
C1 A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
C2 The Rosetta Stone
C4 a Letterpress Shakespeare Comedy
D3 As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning

>89 treereader:

I'm seeing the same behavior on my iPad, as well. I thought these spoiler tags were supposed to hide all of your guesses until clicked upon. Perhaps I am misunderstanding the function?

One problem with the hidden (spoiler) approach is we don't have a cumulative answer list so I've started one here:

A: Chartres; Wind, Sand, and Stars; Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb; In Xanadu; St Peter's Umbrella
B: The Quest for Corvo; Under Milkwood; The Shooting Party; British Myths & Legends; How to See Fairies
C: A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates; Rosetta Stone; A High Wind in Jamaica; Letterpress Shakespeare Comedy; English Eccentrics
D: William Allingham: The Diaries; Mass Observation Britain in WW2; As I Walked Out one Midsummer Morning; English Journey; Charing Cross Road

It looks like everything is solved

Well done everyone.
I’ll try to remember to do another one in the middle of August.

>99 wcarter:
Thank you, Warwick. I'll look forward to the next one.

Thank you for doing this it’s a great game.

>99 wcarter: Warwick, just for the record, which Shakespeare Comedy did you choose?

Got 12 this time:

??? | Wind, Sand and Stars | Memoirs from beyond the Tomb | In Xanadu | St Peter's Umbrella
??? | Under Milk Wood | The Shooting Party | British Myths & Legends | How to See Fairies
Notorious Pyrates | The Rosetta Stone | something familiar | one of LS comedies | ???
??? | Mass Observation | ??? | ??? | ???
I'm sure others already solved everything by now, so on to check what I missed

A new covers quiz for August.

Ooh, this is going to be my best one yet - 16:

Beowulf, Midnight's Children, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, The Dead Sea Scrolls, Dickens in Europe
The Drowned World, Vile Bodies, Riddley Walker, The Bull from the Sea, The Last Man
???, ???, ???, The Deeds of the English Kings, Mani
Disgrace, ??? (I know I should know this one), Officers and Gentlemen, The Camberwell Beauty and Other Stories, The Hole in the Wall

One more to add to the two above:

Row 3, cover 2: Diary of a Provincial Lady

>108 ranbarnes:
No.

Time for the September quiz.

Adding to the above:

A3 - Wuthering Heights
B2 - Pax Brittanica
B3 - A Nervous Splendour
C3 - Art of Love
C4 - Cities and Civilisations
D2 - Pliny
D3 - Black Prince
D4 - Pliny’s Natural History
D5 - Fall of Constantinople

Thanks for posting another quiz >113 wcarter:. I struggled a bit with this one, only managing four---all of which have been named above,

>113 wcarter: Thankyou again, Warwick.

I agree with >117 ubiquitousuk:, very tricky this time.

I cannot add any more titles to those listed above.

>118 emgcat: "I cannot add any more titles to those listed above."

That's because there aren't any more! :-D

I tried to do this purely from memory, without looking at any of my books. I managed 9, which is pretty appalling given I own 13 of them! I always get confused which "war" book bindings are which, as many of them are similar!

I've been going through the back catalogs on the wiki lately, looking to see if there were any books I'd like to add to my collection. Definitely helps with the quiz.

Another new covers quiz:-

Thanks for the latest edition >123 wcarter:

Interesting. A lot of more modern editions this month.

A1: Oryx and Crake
A4: Killing Floor
B1: The Secret Agent
B2: Mr Rabbit's Symphony of Nature
B3: The Longest Day
B4: Homage to Cotalonia
B5: The Voyage of Argo
C1: Madame Bovary
C4: The Golden Bough
D2: The Bayeux Tappestry
D3: The Left Hand of Darkness
D4: A Letterpress Shakespeare Tragegy

>131 boldface: Well done, that's put me out of my misery.

Collated answers then:


A1 Oryx and Crake
A2 Pliny's Natural History V5
A3 The Kings of England
A4 Killing Floor
A5 Pinocchio

B1 The Secret Agent (2019)
B2 Mr Rabbit's Symphony of Nature
B3 The Longest Day
B4 Homage to Catalonia
B5 Shackleton's Boat Journey

C1 Madame Bovary
C2 Memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill (1969)
C3 Lamas of the Western Heavens
C4 The Golden Bough
C5 The Surinam Album (2006 LE)

D1 The English Language
D2 The Bayeux Tapestry (1973)
D3 The Left Hand of Darkness
D4 Letterpress Shakespeare Tragedy
D5 The Venetian Empire



edited to correct spelling

>130 Hrodberht: Yes, I got B5 wrong.

Time for November's covers quiz. Some very easy, others not so........

>144 affle:

Well spotted. A case of a leopard changing its "spots", or at least its case.

>144 affle:

Congratulations, you win the spot prize.

>147 ranbarnes:. Oops. Good catch. Edited previous post to fix.

I was motivated to buy that one by Dr Carter’s Folio Archive post.

>136 ubiquitousuk: I was fooled by B3.

I thought it was The Name of the Rose:

You really are a very clever bunch! Well done.

The December covers quiz -

>159 teppi2:
Very well done for A4!

>160 wcarter:

That was one of the eight or nine I recognised immediately! I suppose it helps if you own a copy.

January Folio Society book covers quiz

I'll start before you more knowledgeable folk get onto it!


A1 - Dr Zhivago LE
B2 - Justine
B5 - Winter
C2 - The Great Plague
D2 - Mostly Harmless
D4 - Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

>164 RRCBS:
B4 is the back cover of Unconditional Surrender. Bit of a twist, so to speak. Seems less interest this time. Was everyone relying on the unobtainable wiki?

>166 Jayked: The wiki is still available, bookmark this:

https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:Folio_Society_Devotees

>162 wcarter:

Very enjoyable as usual!

Were you going to switch the group image for this month?

>169 Jobasha:
Until the end of 2020, anyone could change the image at the head of any group page, which in some groups, caused problems (and has with FSD in the past).
With the introduction of LT2, only the group administrator can change the picture. As the FSD administrator has been missing for many years, we are now awaiting the appointment of a new administrator(s). Once this is done, the picture can be changed again.

>170 wcarter:

Perfect! You have my vote.

>166 Jayked:
'Was everyone relying on the unobtainable wiki?'

Well, me, I tend to rely on what I can remember. And a look at my shelves. So I generally do very badly in these quizzes, lol :-)

I'm the one in the pub quiz who isn't checking their mobile for the answers.

Such is life.

One day, someone with a large Folio collection and a lot of wall space is going to get wise and reorient their books, all facing out!

February's quiz.

C3: Wonders of the World

>177 Akes:


Yes, i knew i had seen it somewhere before. D4 is also a book i think i have seen before. London or the British Empire in the early 19. century or something. My guess at D3 is the one about angular fishing

B1: History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, LE, 2005
B2: One of the Bronte’s novels (Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, or other) in the blue cover design, 1991
D3: Sharpe's Birds of Paradise, LE, 2011. I’m lucky enough to own one of these.

>181 ubiquitousuk:
You posted as I was typing!

March quiz

B5 - Over Sea, Under Stone

B2 is the one that started my Folio journey.

C1 - Journal of a Country Curate, selections from the Diary of Francis Kilvert I happen to be reading it now - what a delightful book!

>192 affle:

Helluva spot, Alan.

>193 folio_books:

Except I meant eight, not six. Age.

>194 affle:

Oops. I had that edition. Sold it on and collected the individual plays from fifties, sixties, seventies.

B1 is the back cover of course, the front cover was C4 last month.

C4 The Life and Letters of John Keats

edited because i had forgotten the spoiler tags! Sorry!

April 2021 covers quiz.

Last one is:
B3: The Witches of Salem

..... and now the May Covers Quiz.

I think I know 6! Quite pleased with that number

A2: I think it's called The Life of Charlemaigne, although I could have the exact title wrong.
B3: The Handmaid's Tale
B5: The Last White Rose
C3: Dune LE
C5: Looks like the Doctor Zhivago LE
D1: Killing Floor
D2: True Grit


Thank you for assembling another quiz >206 wcarter:

Now for the June 2021 FS Covers Quiz

Thanks for the latest quiz >214 wcarter:. This is a frustrating one because I see several I recognise and should know (but don't). Here's what I have come up with:


A3: A Man on the Moon
B1: Northanger Abbey
B2: Brideshead Revisited
B4: Fahrenheit 451
B5: The Folio Book of Food and Drink
C5: Jane Eyre
D4: A Life in Letters and Diaries (George Orwell)

Thanks for another quiz Warwick.

A1 The Wit of Oscar Wilde
A3 Man on the Moon
B1 Northanger Abbey
B2 Brideshead Revisited
B4 Fahrenheit 451
C2 Human Factor
C4 Irish Fairy and Folktales
C5 Jane Eyre
D1 Middlemarch
D2 Midnight Folk
D3 The Nursery Rhyme Book
D4 George Orwell - A Life in Letters and Diaries

Thank you >214 wcarter:. Always great fun.

A1: The Wit of Oscar Wilde
A2: Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc
D2: The Midnight Folk by John Masefield
D3: The Nursery Rhyme Book by Andrew Lang

>216 assemblyman: you beat me to it!

I always think I have a good collection of FS books, then I see these and realise that I own none of them but recognise at least ten...

Then again, a few of the older ones could easily be lurking on my shelf!

Now for the July 2021 covers quiz.

>223 wcarter:
A1 hunting of the snark
A2 Alice LE
A3: the loved one
A4:
A5:
B1: treasure island
B2: wide sargasso sea
B3:
B4:
B5: in a glass darkly
C1: lord of the rings
C2: Juvenal
C3: dream days
C4: stranger in a strange land
C5: first love
D1: 1984
D2: Jurassic park
D3:
D4: noughts and crosses
D5: perfume

D3: Trilby

ETA:
A4: The Devils of Loudun
A5: The Somme

August 2021 quiz.

Hmmm - only one left for a latecomer


A4 Early Medieval Art and Civilisation


Thank you, Warwick

September Folio Society book covers quiz.

No time to post answers now but I like the "trick question" element to D5!

You guys are very very good!

>236 Jobasha:
>239 wcarter:

Isn't A3 My Life, by Thomas Bewick?

>240 ranbarnes:
Yes!

>240 ranbarnes:
Sorry!

>242 Jobasha:
Don't be sorry. You did say maybe, but after looking at the image it seemed familiar, so I took down my copy from the shelf. Otherwise you and the others had already identified the rest before I even opened LT today.

October 2021 quiz

Adding to >245 Jobasha:


B3: To Kill a Mocking Bird
C5: Kidnapped
D2 (not D1) is The Wessex Tales

A1 - Nursery Rhymes - Paula Rego

C1 - The Hound of the Baskervilles

C3 - Eminent Victorians (reprint)

C4 - The History of England in the Eighteenth Century - Macaulay

D1 - A Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Beagle - Capt Robert FitzRoy R.N.

November covers quiz.

Hmm...

A4 - The Siege of Krishnapur

B5 - Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas - one of my favourite FS volumes!

D2 - The Selfish Gene

D4 - Trafalgar: An Eyewitness History

B3: Never Let Me Go
D3: Catriona

A2: At the Back of the North Wind
A3: The Golem
B4:The Box of Delights

A1: Thermopylae
A3: The Golem
B3: Never Let Me Go
B1: The Good Soldier

B2: The Dark is Rising
C1: One Hundred Years of Solitude
C4: Don't Look Now and Other Stories
D4: Trafalgar, An I Witness to History

C3 - The Gunpowder Plot: The Narrative of Oswald Tesimond alias Greenway

It was pure coincidence that I found this one, as I've been researching the older FS "eyewitness to history" books.

I randomly stumbled upon another one (I think).

D5 - Macaulay's The History of England from 1485 to 1685

D1:
The Country Child

A5: Torrents of Spring
C5: Katherine Mansfield - Short Stories

C2 - The Old Wives' Tale

December Folio Society book covers quiz.

A4 Laxdaela Saga
C2 H. G. Wells Short Stories

B3 In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
C1 The Crimson Fairy Book
D5 Mayflower

A2 The Monk

B2 The Conquest of New Grenada by Juan Rodriguez Freile

I only know the top left corner book.

D4 Nightmare Abbey
C5 The one I have is This Side of Paradise, but it's a series binding, and so might also be The Beautiful and the Damned or Gatsby/Tycoon. Was there also a Tender is the Night done like this? - I think so.

A5 The Folio Golden Treasury
B4 An Alphabet for Gourmets
C5 The Great Gatsby & the Last Tycoon
D2 Summer
D4 Nightmare Abbey

B4 An Alphabet for Gourmets
D2 Summer

>275 ubiquitousuk: Snap :)

B5
Coleridge Among the Lakes and Mountains

That just leaves C3 I think, which has me stumped.

>273 affle:

Yes, Alan - could be any one of those four.

C3 - Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff

>278 ranbarnes: If it wouldn't be for the ochre lines on the cloth, I would have said C3 is the 1954 "The Castle of Fratta", displayed here in the wonderful "The Early Years" posts.
The marbled paper and the color of the spine are a match, but those lines make me wonder if my assumption is incorrect.

All correct again!

>282 wcarter:

I thought this was one of the tougher ones.

>281 teppi2: so those lines seem not to be real, if you look at the Early Years post for 1952, and the entry for the memoirs. Your suggestion seems just as likely. I find the images are difficult to see on a mobile anyway.

>282 wcarter:
Thanks once again for the effort you put into these Warwick, much appreciated.

>281 teppi2:, >284 ranbarnes:


Fratta is surely right? The Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff cover shown on the LT work page is bound in black, unlike C3, and the marbled papers only loosely similar

>282 wcarter: A colophon quiz could spice things up :)

>286 bacchus.:
See post 8 in this thread - https://www.librarything.com/topic/286521

>287 wcarter: Wicked - I could barely recognize the ones I own

January 2022 quiz.

>289 wcarter:

A1 Treasury of Mark Twain
A2 The Master and Margarita
A3 Fables of Aesop
A4 The Folio Book of War Poetry

B3 The Colour Purple
B5 La Belle Sauvage

C3 The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
C5 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

D2 The Living Mountain
D4 The Art of War
D5 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

To add to that:
B2 Leonardo da Vinci by Kenneth Clarke
B4 The Folio Book of Comic Short Stories
C1 In Search of the Dark Ages
C4 Travels with my Aunt

C2 The Domesday Book
D3 At the Back of the North Wind

D1 Folktales of the Native Americans
A5 Age of Illumination

B1: Huckleberry Finn

That one was too easy!!

February FS Covers quiz.

A1 Perfume
A2 Travels with My Aunt
A3
A4
A5 The Inimitable Jeeves
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5 The Life of Mozart
D1
D2
D3
D4
D5

These are really hard.

A1 -
A2 -
A3 Thomas Hardy poems
A4
A5 -
B1 The Life of the Bee
B2 Lost Cities of The Ancient World: ...Troy?
B3
B4 Selfish Gene
B5 Reach for the sky
C1 Famous Trials
C2 Berlin
C3 On The Psychology Of Military Incompetence
C4
C5 -
D1
D2
D3
D4
D5

D2 Chance by Joseph Conrad

>302 ranbarnes: That was a hard one! I believe we attempted all.
Still not 100% sure about B2, it could be one of the others in the set.

>303 bacchus.:

No, it's not what you suggest, but is one of the set

>305 ranbarnes:
Outstanding forensic skills. I'm impressed.

>306 Hrodberht:
It reminded me of my favourite quiz question. Who wrote Mozart's 37th symphony? one point for Haydn, two points for Michael Haydn

Oddly enough, no-one else thought it was funny.

Less than 24 hours and its solved. Well done!

March 2022 quiz.

Just for once I recognised quite a few of these but Jobasha got there first with a lot of them so I shall just add

A5 Nights at the Circus
A4 To the Lighthouse

Here's my stab:


A1: Petra, from the Lost Cities of the Ancient World
A3: The Minoans
A5: Nights at the Circus

B1: Waiting for Godot
B2: The Odyssey
B3: The Vikings
B4: The Celts
B5: The Road

C2: Rebecca
C3: I Am Legend
C4: Phantom of the Opera
C5: Ubik

D1: Castles in the Air
D2: A Brief History of Time
D3: The Tomb of Tutankhamun
D4: The Great Gatsby
D5: China: A History

April covers quiz.

A1 Pink Fairy Book
A2 Robert Frost Selected Poems
A3 Uncle Silas
A4 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
A5 The Yangtze Valley
B1 Wuthering Heights
B2 Seven Gothic Tales
B3 Don't Look Now and Other Stories
B4 Anna Akhmatova - Selected Poems
C1 The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus
C2 At the Back of the North Wind
C3 Irish Myths and Legends
C4 The House of The Seven Gables
C5 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D1 Rudyard Kipling Selected Poems
D2 The Godfather
D3 Death Comes to the Archbishop
D4 Rob Roy LE
D5 Anton Chekhov Selected Stories

>316 assemblyman:
Good grief! Obviously far too easy!
You must have a far larger FS collection than you have listed on LT.

>317 wcarter: If only lol. What is listed is all I have at the moment. Knowing what they look like and owning them are two different things. I just happened to recognize quite a few this time which would not happen often.

B5 Chaos

May covers quiz

Adding to >321 SinsenKrysset::

C4 The Lost World
I think D5 is a sneaky look at the back cover from South Polar Times

A3 The Smith of Smiths

>321 SinsenKrysset: D4 - looks like it but it's not..

A4 - Travels Through France and Italy
B4 - The Divine Comedy
C3 - Anna Karenina
D1 - The Owl Service

>324 bacchus.: It's...

D4 - My Brilliant Career

And

C1 - The Hobbit
C2 - The Greengage Summer

A1 - Wren’s London
A2 - The Castle of Otranto
D2 – The Disinherited
D3 - Aubrey’s Brief Lives (1975)

>324 bacchus.: Yes, you are absolutly right! Jeremy53 have the correct answer.

>328 SinsenKrysset: I had to check my copy before posting ;) >320 wcarter: didn't make it easy for us this month, so I thought he might have posted the back cover

>326 Jeremy53: Pretty sure C1 = LOTR 1977 (3-vol. in pale grey quarter basil)

June 2022 Covers quiz

>331 wcarter:
Tough one - I only got two..

C5 Uncle Silas
D2 Tess of the d’Urbervilles

>332 bacchus.:

B1: over sea and under stone

Edited - >333 F.Trier: beat me to it!

A3 - Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
C1 - Babylon (from the Lost Cities of The Ancient World set)

One of the rare occasions where I've recognised a book immediately and no-one else has. My moment in the sun:

A4 The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

Wait, wait .. I'm on a roll:

D3 Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries by Joanna Richardson

Oops. Make that C3. Thanks >341 Son.of.York:.

D5 - A Life of Love and Music by Hector Berlioz

An enjoyable Saturday morning, thank-you.

>341 Son.of.York:

I have to say my copy of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains doesn't look much like that...

>345 affle:

Nor mine, but I do recognise the binding, which means I have a copy somewhere.

Not a good one for me: I only recognised three (and one of them was only as 'one of the Hardys').

But: They published Berlioz's memoirs? I must track down a copy of that :-)

>345 affle: Ha ha, you're right! I obviously got my wires cross somewhere...

July 2022 Folio Society covers quiz.

Frustrating. Several of these look familiar but I can't think of the titles.

These ones I am sure of, though:

A5 The Iliad
C1 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
C4 2001
D3 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

B2:The Vampyre and Other Macabre Tales
B3:Vita Nuova
B4:Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
B5:Goblin Market and Selected Poems
C2:Lives of the Engineers
C3:In Search of the Dark Ages
D2:Sense and Sensibility (illus. Philip Bannister)
D4:She-Wolves

ETA:
A4:The Citizen of the World

A1: Chivalry
B1: The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy
C5: Sophie's World
D1: 1776
D5: Atonement

That should leave A2, A3, A4.

A2: Tess d’Urbervilles

A3: Out of Africa - 1980 edition

I'm not sure but maybe A4 might be Our Village.

>355 Jobasha:

A4 is not your suggestion - wrong sort of marbling - but alternative ideas are not easy to come by: the book of mine that most closely resembles it is The citizen of the world, by Oliver Goldsmith but my confidence level is fairly low.

>356 affle:

Well I'm definitely sold, well spotted.

August 2022 covers quiz (a bit later than usual!).

A3:The Rise and Fall of Athens
A5:A New Birth of Freedom
B1:Candide (illus. Quentin Blake)
B2:The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
B4:The Grey Fairy Book
C1:Symposium (illus. Linda Baker-Smith)
C2:Troy and the Trojans
C3:The Discovery of Tahiti (1955, quarter green cloth)
C4:Three Men on the Bummel
D1:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (illus. Valentina Catto)
D3:Thermopylae
D4:Twelfth Night (illus. Balbusso twins)
D5:Une Vie

>358 wcarter:
>359 mr.philistine:

And I was just about to comment it looks a bit harder this time.

B5: Sowing the wind
C5: The Tudor Age

A1: Washington Square
A2: Homage to Catalonia
B3: The Body in the Library

D2: A Tour Through The Whole Island Of Great Britain, Daniel Defoe – 1983 edition – The image above shows the front panel of the three-volume slip case and not the books themselves.

>363 bookfair_e: A4 A Gardener's Year

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The September 2022 covers quiz is an all red affair!

A1:Fear and Trembling
A2:Vita Nuova
A3:Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb
A4:Alice in Wonderland (2019, illus. Charles van Sandwyk)
A5:The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
B1:The Diary of a Young Girl
B2:The Dam Busters
B4:The Godfather
B5:The Loved One
C1:The Bell Jar
C2:The Fire of Liberty
C3:Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (2018, William Morris facsimile edition)
C4:Rubicon
D1:House of Many Ways
D2:The Merchant of Prato
D3:Waterloo
D4:A History of Africa
D5:Metamorphosis and Other Stories

C5 Richard III: England’s Black Legend

Wow! This is a bright selection of covers. Well Done.

B3: El Zarco the Bandit

I like the cool colour theme.

October 2022 covers quiz.

>373 wcarter:

Where'd it go?

A5:Chekhov A Life in Letters
B4:The Trial and Execution of Socrates
B5:Vathek
C2:The Vikings
C3:The Virgin and the Gipsy
C4:Walden (1980)
D5:Shades of the Alhambra

B3:The Third Crusade
C5:The Waterloo Campaign (1957)
D1:Wuthering Heights (2014)
D3:Nostromo (1984)

C1: Mayflower

A2 The Story of San Michele

Oh, I think I got one before anyone else:

D2 The Young Visiters

>379 folio_books: Oh, I think I got one before anyone else...

Based on reliable sources, you have already got all things FS :)

B1: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1958

A44:50 from Paddington

>380 mr.philistine: Based on reliable sources, you have already got all things FS :)

Your reliable sources are not entirely wrong :) I've been collecting Folios (and only Folios) for over 40 years and in that time (even more so since I retired) I have gathered a large collection. It is not complete but it's more or less as complete as I want it. I'm not interested in Marvel comic books or some other ventures of the last fifteen years or so. What I can't do is name a cover from Warwick's quizzes simply by recall. I recognise many of them but to attach a name I'd have to search through a lot of books, spread over two houses (space in the second donated kindly by a cousin) and by the time I did that next month's competition will have started! So I'm just pleased the title came to me quickly and I could participate, for once.

A1:Portrait of a Lady

A3:A Visit to Don Otavio

B2:Solo Recital: The Reminiscences of Michael Kelly

D4: The Oresteia

>383 folio_books: see, that's where you are at a huge disadvantage. You already have the books, whereas the rest of us have to spend hours ogling them on eBay, through which process we naturally become familiar with their varied designs.

>385 ubiquitousuk:

Let me assure you I paid my dues by ogling them for many years on eBay, too. If you give me a book title I can probably find it relatively quickly but just going off the cover is too much for my tired brain :)

November 2022 Folio Society book covers quiz

A1:The History of Western Philosophy (2004 or 2016, full leather or buckram)
A2:A Wrinkle in Time
A3:Crime and Punishment (1997 or 2016, spine variation)
A4:Anne of Avonlea
A5:Sleeping Murder
B1:The Great Gatsby (2013)
B4:The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy
B5:The Little White Horse
C4:Short Stories by Saki (2017)
D1:A Kestrel for a Knave
D2:The Southern Gates of Arabia
D3:An Omelette and a Glass of Wine

A1History of Western Philosoph
A2A Wrinkle in Time
A3:Crime and Punishment
B1:Great Gatsby
C4:Short Stories by Saki (
D2:Southern Gates of Arabia
D3:An Omelette and a Glass of Wine
D5:Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

B3Almayer's Folly
C2Stuart Little
C3Between the Acts
D4Barchester Towers

C1: Paris in the Revolution

C5: Three Tragedies – Garcia Lorca - 1977

>393 ranbarnes: My search for the most quintessentially British victory dance led me here....

December 2022 Folio Society book covers quiz

At a first glance:

C1: Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies
C5: Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler

A1:A Pocket Full of Rye
A2:Lord Byron: Selected Poems
A3:The World of Late Antiquity
A4:The Sixteen Satires
A5:Sons and Lovers
B1:Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down
B2:The Selfish Giant and Other Stories
B4:The Icelandic Sagas Vol.1
B5:A Circle in the Fire and Other Stories
C2:The Mapmakers
C3:Thomas Wolsey: His Life and Death (1962)
C4:A Life in Letters and Diaries by George Orwell
D1:Anna Karenina (illus. Angela Barrett)
D2:A Story as Sharp as a Knife
D3:I Am Legend (Std. Edn.)
D4:Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
D5:The War in Granada

ETA: A2, A5, B5 C2, D4, D5

>396 AnnieMod: You got C5 twice (once in >237 AnnieMod:) !

That seems to leave

B3: Volume 1 of Conrad Totman's A History of Japan

Edited to add thanks to Warwick for the continuing pleasure of these monthly quizzes

>397 mr.philistine: It’s also on my shelves :) Which is why I got it fast twice. :)

The Folio Society covers quiz for January 2023

Thanks Warwick!

A start:

C5: Beloved
D2: Breakfast at Tiffany's
D3: The Gastronomical Me

A1:The Informer
A2:Paris in the Revolution
A4:Expedition to Surinam
A5:The Beach of Falesá
B1:The Life of Alexander the Great
B2:The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
B3:The Struggle for Greece by Herodotus
B4:Thomas Wolsey: His Life and Death (1962)
C1:Mohammed and Charlemagne
C2:The Classical World
D1:The Orange Fairy Book
D5:A Confederacy of Dunces

ETA: A2, A5, B2, D5

B5: The pilgrim: Travels of Pietro della Valle
C3: Garden of the Finzi-Continis
C4: A Memoir of Jane Austen

D4: I found this on the Folio site when i looked through fiction. I thought it was an older book, but it's new Cat’s Cradle

A3: A Shameful Revenge & Other Stories (1963)

February 2023 covers quiz.

>405 wcarter:
A1: Travels with Charley
A2: Wind, Sand & Stars
A5: Finnegans Wake
B1: Seven Gothic Tales
B2: The Haunting of Hill House
B4: Joan of Arc
B5: Japanese Tales
C1: Agatha Christie something
C2: 101 Dalmations
C3: Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
C4: The Princess & the Goblin
C5: Children's Poetry
D1: Dam Busters
D2: Night at the Circus
D3: Kafka on the Shore
D4: Never Let Me Go

Nice blue theme!

A3:The Stories of English
A4:Fuller’s Worthies
C1:The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
D5:The Trial of Joan of Arc

Well, this threatened to be a bit of a Blue Monday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYH8DsU2WCk - but then I did unusually well at the cover gallery quiz so that cheered me up :-)

A1 Travels With Charley
A2 Wind, Sand and Stars
A3 The Stories of English

A5 Finnegan’s Wake

B2 The Haunting of Hill House

B4 Joan of Arc
B5 Japanese Tales
C1 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
C2 The Hundred and One Dalmations
C3 The Narrative of Arthur Pym

C5 The Folio Book of Children’s Poetry

D2 Nights at the Circus
D3 Kafka on the Shore

B3 is Agincourt

Also, I think D1 is not Dam Busters (which was in September's quiz) but is rather Reach for the Sky. Funny that the initials on the cover could be misleading this this way.

>410 ubiquitousuk: ah yes, you’re right.

March 2023 quiz.

A1: The Confessional Of The Black Penitents (1956)

A2 Chaos

A3 The Call of Cthulhu (SE)

A4 The Owl Service

B1 The Odyssey

C2 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

C3 The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

B3: Berlin
B4: Between Silk and Cyanide
C4: Brideshead Revisited
C5: Dostoyevsky's Best Short Stories
D1: Strangers on a Train
D2: East of Eden
D4: Emma

A5 Crime and Punishment
B2 The Travels of Marco Polo
B5 A Tale of Two Cities
C1 Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
D5 The Selected Poems of Dylan Thomas

D3: Etruscan Places

April 2023 Folio Society book covers quiz

A2 The Handmaid’s Tale
A3 Fahrenheit 451
A5 The Folio Book of Food and Drink
B1 Famous Trials
B2 Five Little Pigs
B3 The Folio Book of War Poetry
D2 The Great Escape

C1 Dream Street

A1 Tender Is The Night
C4 The Folio Book of Ghost Stories

B5 The Norse Myths

A4: Father and Son. Edmund Gosse. 1972.

C5: Ghost Stories. Walter de la Mare. 1956.

D1: Pages from the Goncourt Journal. 1980.

D5 Pompeii from the Lost Civilisations set

C3: Venice, The Most Triumphant City. 1980. Presentation Volume for 1981.

D4: The Rise of Rome

B4:Buddenbrooks
C2:The Island of Sakhalin
D3:Period Piece: The Cambridge Childhood of Darwin's Granddaughter

ETA: D3

>427 mr.philistine: I think you mean B3 rather than B4. I knew I had seen it somewhere but I did a quick Google image search for The Magic Mountain and that wasn't it. Right author, wrong title.

>428 ubiquitousuk: B3 has been spoken for by >419 Cat_of_Ulthar:

But thanks to your mention of Google Images, I also did an image search for D3 and was led to this website: http://unraveltravel.org/category/unitedkingdom/#:~:text=And%20soon%20after,boat...'
...where the highlighted text precedes the matching FS cover image!

>429 mr.philistine: sorry, yes my counting as well as my Folio knowledge is clearly failing me : /

May 2023 Folio Society book covers quiz.

>432 wcarter:
A1 Iliad
A2 Jekyll and Hyde
A3 Jane Eyre
B2 The Longest Day
B3 Ulysses
B4 Phillip Larkin Poems
C1 The Lost World
C4 Moby Dick
C5 Austen Mansfield Park
D1 Garden of Good and Evil
D2 Middlemarch Eliot
D3 Mort by Pratchett

B1: The Mabinogion

C2: Two Years Before the Mast

D5: Memoirs of the Mogul Court

ETA

A5: The Virginian

A1:The Iliad *(1996 Ed. illus. Grahame Baker-Smith)*
A2:Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde *(1994 2nd Ed. reset, illus. Mervyn Peake)*
A3:Jane Eyre *(2014 Ed. illus. Santiago Caruso)*
A4:Knossos/ Vol.2 from Lost Cities of the Ancient World
B3:Ulysses *(LE 2022)*
B5:The Living Mountain
C3:The Great Plague in London
C4:Moby Dick *(2017 Ed. illus. Rockwell Kent)*
C5:Mansfield Park *(2017 Ed. illus. Darya Shnykina)*
D1:*Midnight* in the Garden of Good and Evil
D2:Middlemarch *(2018 Ed. illus. Pierre Mornet)*
D3:Mort (2016 Std. Ed.)
D4:My Family and Other Animals (2017 Ed. new cover binding)

ETA: A1, A2, A3, B3, C5, D2, D3 (specifying editions)