Wuthering Heights [Includes the Limited Editions Club Newsletter] by Emily Bronte - 1993

New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1993. First Thus. Leather. Fine. Balthus . Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights was the only novel written by Emily Bronte, who lived from 1818 to 1848. The adjective wuthering, in Yorkshire dialect, refers to the turbulent weather, and of course to the turbulent atmosphere that permeates the book." (N.B., from Newsletter.) The drawings, whose incisive linear quality has been described by Jean Leymarie, Balthus' biographer and critic, as 'lit up with something of the book's flame and storm-flashes, have a place apart in his work and have provided the inspiration for several of his paintings' Folio. Limited Edition. Full leather. Number 87 of 300. 208 pp. Signed by Balthus. First edition with these illustrations. Original binding by John von Isakovics at Jovonis Studio, gray-green goatskin with title stamped in dark-brown to upper board, plain white endpapers, 15 full-page inlaid lithographs on Japanese paper, Monotype Dante type, specially made off-white mould-made Arches paper, folio 12-3/4" x 16-1/2". Pagination: [4 blank], [viii], 208, [2 blank], [1 colophon], [4 blank] pp., limited edition, number 87 of 300. Signed by Balthus, with The Limited Editions Club newsletter present and laid in. Housed in a beige cloth clam-shell case lined in velvet and title onlay to back-strip. Clamshell case is slightly sunned along one edges and has some light stains. Full refund if not satisfied.