Search Results: Roman Literature from Charles Agvent

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Foxing to first and last few pages, heaviest to pastedowns and then very light; touch of rubbing to the spine with mild wear to the tips. Very Good, lacking the clamshell box. Carlotta Petrina. Tall quarto (8" x 12") bound in green morocco-backed brocade cloth-covered boards. Translation and introduction by John Dryden. Illustrated by Carlotta Petrina. Copy #323 of 1100 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. One of the smaller limitations of the press.

[Mt. Vernon]: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. About Fine in a Fine slipcase of this charming book. A wonderful Valentine's Day present. Eric Fraser. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9") bound in full imported natural vellum over heavy beveled boards with Cupid stamped in pure gold leaf on both covers and lettered in gold leaf on the spine; 152 pages. Translation, introduction, and notes by B. P. Moore. Illustrated with 20 black-and-white part-page and 10 two-color full-page pen-and-ink drawings by Eric Fraser. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

[Mt. Vernon]: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase of this charming book. A wonderful Valentine's Day present. Eric Fraser. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9") bound in full imported natural vellum over heavy beveled boards with Cupid stamped in pure gold leaf on both covers and lettered in gold leaf on the spine; 152 pages. Translation, introduction, and notes by B. P. Moore. Illustrated with 20 black-and-white part-page and 10 two-color full-page pen-and-ink drawings by Eric Fraser. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in worn glassine and a close to Fine slipcase. Marcel Vertes. Large quarto (9- 1/8" x 12-1/4") bound in imported gold-toned Shiki silk, bearing on the front cover a drawing by Vertes, with a matching linen spine stamped in gold. Translated by Charles Stuart Calverley with an introduction by Moses Hadas. Copy #120 of 1500 designed by George Salter with 25 color illustrations by Marcel Vertes and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in lightly worn glassine and a Fine slipcase. Marcel Vertes. Large quarto (9- 1/8" x 12-1/4") bound in imported gold-toned Shiki silk, bearing on the front cover a drawing by Vertes, with a matching linen spine stamped in gold. Translated by Charles Stuart Calverley with an introduction by Moses Hadas. Copy #1087 of 1500 designed by George Salter with 25 color illustrations by Marcel Vertes and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Spine evenly sunned. Light, inevitable wear to the gold paper-covered slipcase. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Percival Goodman. Large octavo (6" x 10-1/4") bound in full natural ass's hide leather, 414 pages. Newly translated and with an introduction by Jack Lindsay. Illustrated with drawings, many of a mildly and appropriately erotic nature, by Percival Goodman. Copy #103 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Salvatore Fiume. Quarto (6-7/8" x 10-1/4") bound in Verona with a backstrip of wine-colored Italian linen stamped in gold and boards covered in a decorative wood-blocked paper hand made by Antonio Gabrielli of Montecatini, 512 pages. Planned at the Officina Bodoni and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega by Giovanni Mardersteig. The Elizabethan translation of Philemon Holland, emended by Moses Hadas who has also written an introduction. Illustrated with a dozen full-color paintings and a medallion portrait of each of the twelve Caesars by Salvatore Fiume. Copy #263 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist and by the printer on the colophon page. Suetonius is a primary source for the lives of the Caesars including the infamous Caligula.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Fine in glassines and a slipcase housing both volumes. Two volumes in octavo (5" x 7-1/4") and folio (9-1/2" x 13-3/4") bound in half buckram with highly distinctive hand-marbled paper sides by Putois Freres of Paris. The smaller volume, printed in red and black, consists of the original Latin odes with English translations on facing pages selected and edited by Louis Untermeyer with no less than 45 translators represented. The larger volume consists of facsimile pages, in the same size as the originals, of 39 pages from 23 various volumes of Horace dating from 1482 to 1910. Copy #887 of 1500, issued unsigned.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Essentially New in glassines and a slipcase housing both volumes. Two volumes in octavo (5" x 7-1/4") and folio (9-1/2" x 13-3/4") bound in half buckram with highly distinctive hand-marbled paper sides by Putois Freres of Paris. The smaller volume, printed in red and black, consists of the original Latin odes with English translations on facing pages selected and edited by Louis Untermeyer with no less than 45 translators represented. The larger volume consists of facsimile pages, in the same size as the originals, of 39 pages from 23 various volumes of Horace dating from 1482 to 1910. Issued unsigned. Of a total edition of 1500 copies, this copy, not numbered, is an apparent overrun and was still in the original 1961 publisher's box containing 5 copies of this title until it was taken out to be cataloged by us.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Fine in glassines with small tears and a Near Fine dual slipcase with a paint streak. Two volumes in octavo (5" x 7-1/4") and folio (9-1/2" x 13-3/4") bound in half buckram with highly distinctive hand-marbled paper sides by Putois Freres of Paris. The smaller volume, printed in red and black, consists of the original Latin odes with English translations on facing pages selected and edited by Louis Untermeyer with no less than 45 translators represented. The larger volume consists of facsimile pages, in the same size as the originals, of 39 pages from 23 various volumes of Horace dating from 1482 to 1910. Of a total edition of 1500 copies, this is one of only 15 Presentation Copies with each volume with the publisher's blindstamp attesting to such on the colophon page where instead of a number the initials "G.C." are handwritten. Acquired directly from the publisher's files, this copy belonged to Gordon Carroll who was in charge of the club's… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Essentially New in torn glassine, lacking the folio facsimile volume and the slipcase. One of two volumes in octavo (5" x 7-1/4") bound in half buckram with highly distinctive hand-marbled paper sides by Putois Freres of Paris. The smaller of the two volumes, printed in red and black, consists of the original Latin odes with English translations on facing pages selected and edited by Louis Untermeyer with no less than 45 translators represented. The larger volume (not present here) consists of facsimile pages, in the same size as the originals, of 39 pages from 23 various volumes of Horace dating from 1482 to 1910. Issued unsigned. Of a total edition of 1500 copies, this copy, not numbered, is an apparent overrun and was still in the original 1961 publisher's container.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Antonio Sotomayor. Quarto (7-1/8" x 11") bound in vellum-backed red cloth with a gilt-stamped satyr design on the front cover and the spine stamped in gilt. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. William Burnaby's translation of the classic satire of life in ancient Rome revised by Gilbert Bagnani. Illustrated by Antonio Sotomayor with two double-page and eight full-page illustrations drawn in wash, and forty text drawings in line. Copy #894 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Antonio Sotomayor. Quarto (7-1/8" x 11") bound in vellum-backed red cloth with a gilt-stamped satyr design on the front cover and the spine stamped in gilt. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. William Burnaby's translation of the classic satire of life in ancient Rome revised by Gilbert Bagnani. Illustrated by Antonio Sotomayor with two double-page and eight full-page illustrations drawn in wash, and forty text drawings in line. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Antonio Sotomayor. Quarto (7-1/8" x 11") bound in vellum-backed red cloth with a gilt-stamped satyr design on the front cover and the spine stamped in gilt. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. William Burnaby's translation of the classic satire of life in ancient Rome revised by Gilbert Bagnani. Illustrated by Antonio Sotomayor with two double-page and eight full-page illustrations drawn in wash, and forty text drawings in line. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered (in place of the number is written in ink "Office Copy") and bears the Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 15 presentation copies.