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Limited Editions Club Books & Ephemera
THE POEMS OF JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
by WHITTIER, John Greenleaf
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Spine sunned with slight wear at the head. Near Fine in an intact, Very Good slipcase. Raymond Holden. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full green sheepskin leather and illustrated with pencil drawings by Raymond Holden. Edited with commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Copy #845 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Most copies seem to have been bound in black leather.
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£66.37
THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. JONATHAN WILD THE GREAT
by FIELDING, Henry
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good slipcase. T. M. Cleland. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10") bound in half blue linen and paper sides decorated by Veronica Ruzicka. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Printed at the Marchbanks Press on all-rag Worthy special paper. Copy #710 of 1500 numbered copies designed and illustrated by T. M. Cleland with watercolor drawings hand-colored by Charlize Brakeley. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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£102.05
A WOMAN'S LIFE (UNE VIE)
by MAUPASSANT, Guy de
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Edy Legrand. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10-7/8") bound with a white sheepskin leather spine with a burgundy leather spine label lettered in gilt and French marbled paper sides; 280 pages. Designed by Francis Meynell and printed at the Marchbanks Press. Introduction by Edmond Jaloux. Illustrations by Edy Legrand, hand-colored through stencils (pochoir) at the studio of Walter Fischer. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies,...
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£61.23
SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS. SELECTIONS FROM HIS WORKS
by AQUINAS, St. Thomas
Chatham, England: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Reynolds Stone. Large quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") in slate-gray pyroxylin-impregnated vellum cloth stamped in black pigment leaf with a checkerboard pattern of multiple crosses; 132 pages. Book designed by Will Carter. The translation of Father Thomas Gilby, selected and arranged by Dr. George N. Shuster who has also written the introduction. Copy #887 of 1500 copies illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone and...
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£102.05
CAPE COD
by THOREAU, Henry David
Portland, ME: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with a small stain on one side. Raymond Holden. Small quarto (6-3/4" x 10-1/4") bound in pictorial buckram. Printed at the Anthoensen Press. Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. Copy #887 of 1500 illustrated with drawings by Raymond Holden and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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£76.58
ROUGHING IT
by TWAIN, Mark (CLEMENS, Samuel)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Noel Sickles. Tall octavo (7" x 11") bound in quarter tan buckram over patterned paper boards, spine lettered in gilt. Introduction by Edward Wagenknecht. Printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. Copy #887 of 1500 with 13 full-page color plates and a number of black-and-white text drawings by Noel Sickles. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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£86.78
AH, WILDERNESS!
by O'NEILL, Eugene
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and lightly soiled slipcase. Shannon Stirnweiss. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in blue linen with decorated paper sides; 186 pages. Copy #533 of 1500 numbered copies designed by Adrian Wilson and illustrated with four double-page and four full-page oil paintings by Shannon Stirnweiss. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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£45.96
AN ICELAND FISHERMAN
by LOTI, Pierre
Stockholm: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Hardcover. Mild soiling to covers. Near Fine in a soiled, intact, Very Good slipcase. Yngve Berg . Large octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound with a white buckram spine and corner tips with a lovely original lithographed fish design on the front and rear boards. Printed on handmade linen rag paper at the Royal Printing Office, Norstedt & Soner of Sweden. Translated from the French by Guy Endore. Copy #216 of 1500 illustrated with 20 black-and-white lithographs by Yngve...
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£102.05
OEDIPUS
by DURRENMATT, Friedrich
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1989). First English Edition. Hardcover. Spine mildly sunned. Fine in a close to Fine, mildly sunned cloth slipcase with suede lining. Marie Cosindas. Folio (10-3/4" by 14-1/2") handsewn and quarter-bound by hand with burgundy Nigerian Oasis Goatskin on the spine and natural linen boards; xv, 41 pages. This First English-language edition of Durrenmatt's version of the Oedipus myth has been translated by Leila Vennewitz and includes a foreword by the author....
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£204.10
THE VIRGINIAN. A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS
by WISTER, Owen
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1951. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown; spine just a tad darkened. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with some fading of the backstrip. William Moyers. Quarto (7" x 10-1/4") bound in full natural linen with a leather spine label and a gilt-decorated leather vignette on the front cover. Designed by Saul Marks and printed at the Plantin Press. Introduction by Struthers Burt. Illustrated with pen drawings by William Moyers hand-colored at the studio of Walter...
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£112.26
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA
by HOPE, Anthony
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1966). Hardcover. Light foxing to gutters and some soiling to the covers. Near Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Donald Spencer. Octavo (6-1/2" x 10") bound in quarter red morocco leather with heavy gilt stamping and white linen stamped with the gilt coat of arms of Ruritania. Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates and line drawings by Donald Spencer. Copy #333 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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£40.82
THE LYRICS OF FRANCOIS VILLON
by VILLON, Francois
Croton Falls, NY: Limited Editions Club, 1933. Hardcover. Small remnant of bookplate on front endpaper, otherwise Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Howard Simon. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in brown buckram, 136 pages. Done into English verse by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Ernest Henley, John Payne and Leonie Adams. With an Introduction by Leonie Adams. Hand-set type and hand-printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press. Illustrated with thirty woodcuts in two colors...
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£127.60
RAMONA
by JACKSON, Helen H
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1959. hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Everett Gee Jackson. Large octavo (7" x 10") bound in colorful full woven fabric with a printed paper spine label, 446 pages. An historical novel championing the rights of Native Americans, first published in 1884 and here printed by the Plantin Press with an introduction by J. Frank Dobie and with color illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson. Copy #39 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the illustrator...
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£76.58
METAMORPHOSIS
by KAFKA, Franz
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1984). Hardcover. Typical sunning to the spine and a few small rubbed spots to the edge of the front board. Still Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with some rubbing on the backstrip. Jose Luis Cuevas. Large octavo (8-1/4" x 11") bound in quarter gray-green goatskin with paper covered boards. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir with an introduction by Robert Coles. Illustrated with five subtle yet striking ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE ETCHINGS by Jose Luis Cuevas specially...
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£280.68
ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE
by HORACE
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...
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£102.05
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER OR THE MISTAKES OF A NIGHT
by GOLDSMITH, Oliver
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Slight soillng to the spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. T. M. Cleland. Large octavo (8" x 11") bound in yellow buckram over beveled boards with a pattern embossed in blind on the front cover and a gilt-stamped black leather spine label; 140 pages. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Designed and illustrated in color by T. M. Cleland. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered (in place of the...
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£51.02
THE SPECTATOR
by ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard; et. al
London: Limited Editions Club, 1970. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Lynton Lamb. Tall octavo (7-3/8" x 11") bound in decorated buckram with spine label stamped in pure gold leaf. Printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb with 16 full-page and 30 part-page line drawings, the full-page plates hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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£45.96
THE POEMS OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
by TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Reynolds Stone. Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter maroon goatskin and terra cotta linen boards with the front board embossed with an oval relief portrait of Tennyson; 308 pages. Selected and introduced by John D. Rosenberg; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with 25 wood-engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone. Copy #887 of 2000 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter...
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£61.23
OLD GORIOT
by BALZAC, Honore de
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Light rubbing to the spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored in the Atelier Beaufume in Paris. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the...
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£51.02
THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS FROM THE SPECTATOR, LONDON: 1711-1712
by ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard; and BUDGELL, Eustace
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Hardcover. Fine in the glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip. Gordon Ross. Octavo (6" x 9-1/4") attractively bound in full glazed chintz boards. Illustrations by Gordon Ross hand-colored by Charlize Brakeley; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #1076 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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£91.84
VOLPONE, OR THE FOX
by JONSON, Ben
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Some offsetting to the endpapers, the front endpaper with an owner blindstamp. Spine a little darkened. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in linen with a solid rust color along the spine and a pattern-printed linen on the boards. Designed by Francis Meynell with an introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan, with the plates hand-colored through stencils by Maurice Beaufume in...
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£61.23
THE CANTERBURY TALES
by CHAUCER, Geoffrey
London: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. George W. Jones. Two volumes, tall quarto (8" x 12-1/2") bound in half cream canvas and decorated gray boards. Illustrated with floriated initials in green and yellow with each page ruled in pale gold on pale gray paper. Copy #397 of 1500 designed, printed, and bound by George W. Jones at The Sign of the Dolphin. SIGNED by the printer on the colophon page. Handsome edition of this classic collection of bawdy tales.
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£153.08
THE DOLPHIN, III. A HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK
by WROTH, Lawrence (editor)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Scattered mostly light foxing, heaviest to the first and last pages. Very Good. Large quarto (8-1/2" x 12-1/8") bound in black cloth. Wonderful compendium on printing, papermaking, binding, illustration, etc., over 500 pages illustrated with plates and facsimiles. One of 1800 unnumbered copies designed by Carl Purington Rollins and printed at Yale University Press.
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£76.58
THE LATER ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
by DOYLE, Arthur Conan
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Slight marks to one spine. Near Fine in intact, Very Good slipcase. Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget, and others. Three octavo volumes (6" x 9-1/8") bound in gilt-stamped quarter black linen and wall-paper sides with a cameo decoration reproducing the section of the wall over the mantel in Mrs. Hudson's chambers at 221B Baker Street showing two examples of Sherlock Holmes's prowess in emblazoning the initials of Victoria Regina "in bullet-pocks," with...
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£255.12
THE RIVALS. A COMEDY
by SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley
London: Limited Editions Club, 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Good slipcase with the backstrip partly detached. Rene ben Sussan. Large octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in yellow linen buckram. Designed by Oliver Simon and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated with ORIGINAL COPPER ETCHINGS by Rene ben Sussan hand-colored in Paris. Copy #1062 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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£40.82
