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LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB
 Every one of these handsome books, published between 1929 and mid-century, offers what the LEC CREDO celebrates as "a text of quality, beauty of illustration, [and] artistic and technical excellence of presentation." ALL WORKS are giants or simply beloved in the Western tradition of humane letters, the texts interpreted by introduction-writers and translators often provocatively chosen. Designers and presses were thoughtfully selected; bindings are pleasing and often witty — a favorite here is The Call of the Wild done up in a cloth binding of black and green checked lumberjack flannel!
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LEC Memorabilia — An Evocative Small Archive 
(An
Appropriate “#1”).
Limited Editions Club.
Ephemera, 29 items. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1971–95. Various.
Click the image for an enlargement. The 29 letters, catalogues, and offprints gathered here are 
OFFERED AS A COLLECTION ONLY. For detail, click to the full description in our 
collection of COLLECTIONS, here.
A LovelyProduction of a Timeless Story
Alcott, Louisa May. Little women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. 8vo. viii, [6], 428, [4] pp.; 14 plts. (2 double).
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• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 396. Binding as above, in original glassine dust wrapper and publisher's slipcase; volume clean and fresh, wrapper with small chips to spine extremities, slipcase gently sunned and with a little soiling, one corner bumped. (30120)
Tales
for the Ageless: ILLUSTRATED
Fairy Tales,Andersen,
Hans Christian; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Charles Perrault; et al.
Aladdin and the wonderful lamp. Joseph and his brothers. The three bears. The
ugly duckling. The sleeping beauty in the wood. The tale of Ali Baba and the
forty thieves. Bluebeard. Hansel and Gretel. Jack and the beanstalk. The emperor's
new clothes. Pandora's box. King Midas and the golden touch. Beauty and the
beast. Dick Whittington and his cat. St. George and the dragon. New York: The
Limited Editions Club, 1949-1952. 8vo (31 cm, 12.1"). 15 vols. Illus.
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entire
15-volume run of the Evergreen Tales, the Limited Editions Club's
only books specifically produced and labelled as being for children —
the Club's gathering of what they considered to be the most beloved and time-honored
of classic children's stories. Edited by Jean Hersholt, these lovingly prepared
renditions were illustrated by some of the LEC's biggest names, including Arthur
Szyk, Edy Legrand, Raffaelo Busoni, Fritz Eichenberg, et al. Many
of the volumes are signed at the colophon by Hersholt, and
illustrators who signed are: Edward Ardizzone,
Everett Gee Jackson, Ervine Metzl, Robert Lawson, Henry C. Pitz, Busoni, and
Eichenberg.
These examples are numbered copy 238 of either 2000 or 2500 printed depending on the set (except for one trio out of the five, which is numbered 236); the appropriate LEC newsletter is present.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 1931-3, 2024-6, 2037-9, 22210-13, 22812-15. Publisher's cloth of various colors, eight volumes in the original glassine dust wrappers, all in publisher's red paper–covered slipcases with printed paper spine labels; some wrappers with tears or chips, slipcase spines gently sunned, slipcases showing light shelfwear overall with Aladdin set case dust-soiled, Emperor's New Clothes spine lettering rubbed. Ali Baba and a few other volumes with scattered spots of light foxing, overall most pages clean. Newsletter moderately worn. Complete sets are uncommon; this one shows no signs of having been in the hands of any actual child. (30766)
“Changeless” Message — Cherishable Example
Bible. N.T.
Matthew. English. Authorized. 1977. The sermon on the mount.
Oxford: Pr. for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1977. 8vo (31 cm,
12.25"). [8], 87, [3] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. This is
numbered
copy 538 of 1600 printed; the appropriate LEC newsletter and prospectus
are laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 507. Binding as above, spine with gilt-stamped title, in original glassine wrapper and cream paper–covered slipcase; volume pristine save for one tiny nick to leather edge along front cover, wrapper with spine slightly sunned else unworn, light-colored slipcase showing a few faint smudges, with spine and edges gently sunned. In fact, crisp and fresh. (30693)
Isaiah
Illustrated by Chaim Gross Bible. O.T. Isaiah. English. 1979. The book of the prophet Isaiah in the King James version. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1979. Tall 4to (32.2 cm, 12.7"). xi, [1], 121, [3] pp.; 11 col. plts.
Click the images for enlargements. 
This is numbered copy 538 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by both Littell and Gross. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 512. Binding as above in original glassine wrapper and dark brown slipcase; wrapper with spine sunned and lower front corner crumpled, slipcase showing minimal wear to outer extremities only. Volume with two small brown spots visible on the pale leather, otherwise clean and lovely. (30528)
Mr.
Brecht, Bring Down
This “Fourth Wall”
Brecht,
Bertolt. The threepenny opera. New York: The Limited Editions
Club, 1982. Folio (28.4 cm, 11.2"). 155, [3] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. 12
full-page illustrations are reproductions of Jack Levine's etchings
of scenes from G.W. Pabst's 1931 film version of The Threepenny Opera,
and one three-color lithograph
pulled
by Emiliano Sorini specially for this edition. Howard I. Gralla
designed the book choosing a 12-point Walbaum font with two points leading-space
between the lines.
The colophon is signed by both the designer and the illustrator. This offering includes the monthly newsletter.
Binding: Full black linen, stamped in gold on the front cover from a design by Levine. The slipcase is covered with black paper and bears a gilt title on the spine.
Binding,
slipcase, and illustrations all properly evoke the grittiness of the London
underworld.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 529. Bound as above, in publisher's slipcase; black paper peeling slightly at upper spine edge. A fine copy in a near-fine slipcase. (30475)
LEC: Burke on the American Controversy — Ward Engravings Burke, Edmund. On conciliation with the colonies and other papers on the American Revolution. Lunenberg, VT: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. 8vo (26 cm, 10.25"). xxix, [1], 267, [3] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. wood
engravings by Lynd Ward and marking the first LEC production for
which Ward did wood engravings, according to the newsletter. Ward provided
12 full-page two-color engravings, six roundels for sectional title-pages,
and eight “scutiform tailpiece decorations”; the volume was designed
and printed by Roderick Stinehour at the Stinehour Press, and the Tapley-Rutter
Company bound it in “full Schumacher cloth with an allover multicolor
Colonial pattern.” 
signed
at the colophon by the artist. The appropriate LEC newsletter is
laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 491. Binding as above, in original glassine wrapper and paper-covered slipcase; wrapper with a few tiny nicks at spine extremities, slipcase showing minimal shelfwear, volume fresh and clean. A handsome, crisp copy. (30718)
Illustrated & Signed by
Françoise Gilot Colette. Break of day. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. 4to (27.9 cm, 11"). xiii, [1], 137, [5] pp.; three plates.
Click the images for enlargements. signed on the colophon page by Françoise Gilot, a longtime companion of Pablo Picasso and a great painter in her own right. She created the illustrations for this edition, which includenine monochrome line drawings in-text(eight in blue, one in terra-cotta) printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress and three full-page silk-screen multicolor plates printed at the Studio Heinrici, which show the influence of Matisse more than Picasso. Gilot also contributed a page of reflections on what it meant for her to illustrate this work. Her goal, she wrote, was more to “sustain a mood” than provide “visual commentary” — before adding, “Re-reading Colette is like falling in love all over again.”
The work was introduced by Robert Phelps and translated by Enid McLeod.
Gilot and Ben Shiff designed the work choosing 16-point Bembo with four points leading-space between the lines. The title on the title-page and half-title are printed in blue ink. The blue of the inside of the book is matched by the binding by Robert Burlen and Son, which is full deep-blue Chinese pongee silk, stamped in gold on the spine and front. On the whole, a very pleasing production!
The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 534. Binding as above, in publisher's blue-gray slipcase; silk very slightly rubbed on rear cover and spine, slipcase showing only minimal shelf wear. Text pristine. (30862)
Island Highs & Lows
Conrad, Joseph. An outcast of the islands. Avon, CT: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club, 1975. Folio (28.6 cm, 11.25"). ix, [3], 212, [2] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. The edition was designed by John O.C. McCrillis and printed atThe Stinehour Press in Lunenberg, VT, using monotype Bembo on creamy Curtis smooth-antique rag paper. Robert Shore contributed the12 full-page color illustrations, reproduced from his acrylic paintings by the Holyoke Lithograph Company. Of 2000 copies printed, this is no. 1412, beingsigned by the artist below the colophon and bound at the Sendor Bindery in full cream linen printed in an all-over brown and black batik pattern, with the title gilt-stamped on a brown spine label. The illustrated LEC newsletter is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 486. Binding as above, in publisher's brown slipcase with paper label; minor shelf wear on box bottom and book spine edges, else fresh and clean. (30563)
For
PACIFICA, click here.
For
MARITIME matters,
LEC:
American Expatriate Literary
Culture
Cowley, Malcolm.
Exile's return[:] a literary odyssey of the 1920's. New York: The Limited
Editions Club, 1981. 8vo (25.2 cm, 9.9"). xx, [2], 281, [3] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. contemporary
photographs by Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, André Kertész, and
others, in a volume designed by Laurie Rippon and printed by Daniel
Keleher at the Wild Carrot Letterpress. A. Horowitz & Sons bound the work
in quarter brown cloth with gray Fabriano Ingres paper, the front cover stamped
in brown to reproduce the front cover of a 1920s literary magazine.
Numbered copy 1496 of 2000 printed, this issigned
at the colophon by both Cowley and photographer Abbott. The appropriate
LEC newsletter and prospectus are laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 523. Binding as above, in matching slipcase of brown cloth and gray paper. A clean, fresh, attractive copy. (30717)
TooVicious & Offensive for its Time Crane, Stephen. Maggie a girl of the streets. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1974. 8vo. 105, [3] pp.; 6 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. This is numbered copy 538 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by the illustrator; the appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 479; BAL 4068; Williams & Starrett 1. Binding as above, in original glassine dust wrapper and publisher's slipcase; binding very clean and fresh, wrapper also, slipcase showing very minor shelfwear only. A very nice copy. (31258)
Virtue
& Vice (But
Mostly Vice)
Defoe,
Daniel. Roxana the fortunate mistress or a history of the life
and vast variety of fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, afterwards called the
Countess de Wintselheim in Germany being the person known by the name of Lady
Roxana in the time of Charles II. Avon, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1976.
Folio (29.2 cm, 11.5"). xiv, 256, [2] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. 12
full-page two-color woodcuts (in three different color schemes
reflecting the stages of Roxana's life) and14
black-and-white cuts; it was printed — with the illustrations
done from the original blocks — at the Stinehour
Press and bound by the Tapley-Rutter
Company in scarlet linen stamped with heart and sword motif in white, with white
vellum-finish linen shelfback stamped in scarlet and gilt. This is numbered
copy 1265 of 2000 printed, andsigned
at the colophon by the artist; the appropriate LEC newsletter
and descriptive sheet in the original (unlabelled and unstamped) envelope are
laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions
Club, 498. Binding as above, in original glassine wrapper and slipcase;
binding and wrapper all but unworn, slipcase spine label wrinkling very slightly.
A gorgeous, fresh, clean copy. (30640)
From a DARK Place / 10STRIKING Wood Engravings
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The house of the dead. New York:
The Limited Editions Club, 1982. 4to (25.9 cm, 10.2"). xxiii, [1], 360, [3] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. Designed by Michael and Winifred Bixler of Boston, the text is set in Monotype Dante and Wilhelm Klingsporschrift, printed by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress in Hadley, MA, on white Monadnock high-finish paper. Fritz Eichenberg contributed the illustrations, allwood engravings numbering one full-page engraving opposite the title-page, one double-page and seven full-page engravings in the text, with another small engraving above the colophon. Of 2,000 copies this is number 1496, signed by Eichenberg and Bixler in the colophon, and bound by Robert Burlen and Son in full dark-gray Toile Athena cotton imported from France by Clarence House of New York, stamped in copper with cover typography designed by Antonie Eichenberg.
The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 526. Binding as above, in publisher's brown slipcase with title stamped in copper on spine. One page number smudged in printing. Fine. (31264)
Watercolors Abound France,
Anatole. At the sign of the Queen Pédauque.
Chicago: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by The Lakeside
Press, 1933. Tall 4to. Frontis., [5], v–xii, 174, [2] pp., [3 (blank)]
ff.; 19 plts.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. The binding is full blue linen stamped in gold on the spine and front cover, with additional ornamentation to both covers in deep pink. Top edges are gilt, others deckle; one leaf is left unopened.
• Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 49. Binding as above; spine sunned and with thumbnail sized dark patch at head and foot. Some cracking along the top edges and spine of the slipcase, which is still sturdy; spine of case sunned, paper label a little soiled. Pages clean; no ownership markings or labels. A very good, clean copy. (22313)
Magic Realism & SurrealismGarcía Márquez, Gabriel. One hundred years of
solitude. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Folio (28.5 cm, 11.25"). xii, [2], 348,
[3] pp.; 9 pls.
Click the images for enlargements. This is copy number 1496 in edition limited to 2000, translated from the Spanish by
Gregory Rabassa with an introduction by Alastair Reid. The colophon page issigned by
both Rabassa and Reid, and also by the illustrator, Rafael Ferrer. The illustrations by Ferrer, a
native Puerto Rican, number
eight full-page oil paintings reproduced by the Seaboard
Lithograph Corporation and25 in-text ink drawings plus a full-page original graphic
handprinted by the Blackburn Studio, New York, on Rives paper, laid in at the back. Ferrer's
images, with their bold lines and colors, belong to the New Image school of painting, which
bears the unmistakable influences of Neo-Expressionism, Surrealism, and Dada. G.G. Laurens
designed calligraphy for the text, which was set in Monotype Fournier by Michael and Winifred
Bixler at their Boston Letterfoundry, and printed by theStinehour Press in Lunenburg, VT.
Binding: Quarter dark brown leather by Robert Burlen & Son over straw-colored natural jute and linen, with the title gilt-stamped on the spine.
This offering includes the monthly newsletter.
• Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 532. Binding as above, in matching brown slipcase with gilt title on box spine. Spine leather evenly sunned to café au lait, else clean and bright, in a near fine slipcase. (30805)
LEC
Printing:
One of
the Great Russian Novels
Gogol,
Nikolai. [Dead souls] Chichikov's journeys;
or, home life in Old Russia. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. 8vo
(22.5 cm, 8.8"). 2 vols. I: xvi, [4], 308 pp.; illus. II: [6], 309–484,
[2] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. This is numbered copy 616 of 1200 printed, and is signed at the colophon by the artist.
• Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 164. Bindings and blue cloth slipcase as above; case with “spine” and top sides sunned, one joint just starting and lower edge showing light shelfwear. Books clean and bright; despite minor wear to slipcase, a beautiful set. (30541)
For
TRANSLATIONS, click here. For more SETS, click here.
A Pioneer ofRussian RealismGogol, Nikolai. The overcoat. The government inspector. Westport, CT: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1976. 8vo (27.2 cm, 10.75"). xiii, [3], 187, [3] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. This is numbered copy 801 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist. The appropriate Club newsletter is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 500. Binding as above, in publisher's green paper-covered slipcase. A handsome copy. (31987)
“The Everlasting, TWIN Bonds ofFood & Sex”
Grass, Günter. The flounder. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1985. Oblong 8vo (26.5 cm, 10.4"). 3 vols. I: 156 pp.; illus. II: [157]–326 pp.; illus. III: [327]–530, [4] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. the Limited Editions Club's first time publishing an edition illustrated by the author, with much intriguing interplay between Grass's etchings and text; the latter is Ralph Manheim's English translation of the original German.
This isnumbered copy 46 of 1000 printed, signed at the colophon by the author/artist. The appropriate newsletter is laid in.
• Publisher's gray Italian bookcloth with “natural eelskin spines,” each front cover with printed paper label, in a single matching slipcase; slipcase with minor dust-soiling, volumes clean and unworn. (31524)
“Something Which Belongs to the Muse, the Moon”Graves, Robert. Poems. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Folio (25.3 cm, 10"). xx, 144, [2] pp.; 8 pls.
Click the images for enlargements. Elaine Kerrigan selected and wrote the introduction to this group of Graves's poems, illustrated witheight double-page plates by Paul Hogarth reproduced by Meriden Gravure Company from original watercolors. This is copy number 1496 of 2000 designed by Freeman Keith in monotype Bembo and Arrighi, and printed on Curtis cream-toned paper at The Stinehour Press in Lunenberg, VT. BothKeith and Hogarth signed the colophon.
A. Horowitz & Sons designed the binding in quarter brown buckram over black and red patterned tan boards, with author and title gilt on spine and gilt top edge. The appropriate LEC prospectus is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 517 (200 pp., in error). On Graves, see: ODNB online. Binding as above, in a matching slipcase with cloth at top and bottom edges and printed spine. Very minor shelfwear on box, else like new. (31259)
Once
Shocking — Still Harrowing Hardy, Thomas. Jude the obscure. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1969. Large 8vo (24.13 cm, 9.5"). 452 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. 
26 wood engravings in-text by Agnes Miller Parker. This copy has anadditional full-page bicolor wood-engraving signed by Parker, not called for in the LEC bibliography.
Of 1500 copies printed, this is no. 889, signed by the artist below the colophon. It was bound by Russell-Rutter Company in quarter dark green morocco over mottled green paper boards, with the title gilt on the spine.
The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 418. Binding as above, in publisher's matching mottled green slipcase; minor shelf wear to slipcase. Pristine, in a fine slipcase. (30462)
Smart
as Paint!
Howells, William Dean.
The rise of Silas Lapham. Philadelphia: The Limited Editions Club, 1961.
Small folio. [2 (1 blank)], frontis. spilling over upon the title-page, [1],
v–xiii, [3 (2 blank)], 3–365, [3 (2 blank)] pp., [1 (blank)] f., [1 (blank)]
p.; 15 plts.
Richard Ellis handled the design for this edition (limited to 1500 copies), using a linotype Caledonia font and an assortment of other fonts — Fournier, Waverley, Perpetua — printed by The Beck Engraving Company in Philadelphia. The binding is full natural buckram, gold-stamped on the spine, and printed on all sides with a four-color panorama of Boston's Beacon Street. Mimi Korach, who has signed the colophon, created the cover illustration as well as the 15 full-page and the numerous in-text color paintings; she also created the frontispiece illustration of a four-horse carriage leaving the premises of Lapham's Vermont-based paint company.
The monthly newsletter and mailing card are included with this offering.
• Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 324. Spine a little darkened; in the slipcase, which is sunned but sound.
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COMMERCE / TRADE /
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Hudson, William Henry. Green mansions: A romance of the tropical forest. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. 8vo. xvi, 206, [2] pp.; col. illus.
Click the images for enlargements. This edition is limited to 1,500 copies of which this is copy no. 398, beingsigned by the illustrator at the colophon.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 63. Binding as above, in original glassine dust wrapper and publisher's slipcase; binding clean and fresh, wrapper with edge chips, slipcase unworn save for mild sunning to spine label. Pages clean. A very nice copy. (30454)
LEC: A Southern Californian Landmark
Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona. Los Angeles: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at The Plantin Press, 1959. 8vo. xiv, [6], 428, [2] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. The LEC illustrations consist of 8 full-page and 41 in-text color drawings by Everett Gee Jackson (no relation to the author), who also signed the colophon. Saul Marks designed the book, selecting a monotype Bembo font with the chapter titles printed in red ink, and the printing was done by Saul and Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press, Los Angeles.
Binding: In an attractive full woven fabric derived from a striated Native American design, with a colorful paper spine label.
This is numbered copy 972 of 1500 printed; the appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 298. Binding as above in original slipcase, volume spine label slightly darkened, slipcase showing only minimal wear and with a spot or two of darkening to front panel. A very nice copy. (30117)
Up the THAMES in a Rowboat Jerome, Jerome K. Three men in a boatto say nothing of the dog! Ipswich: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. Oblong 8vo (23.6 cm, 9.3"). xv, [1], 174, [2] pp.; 12 col. plts., 2 double-p. col. plts.
Stella Gibbons (a great choice) provided the introduction, and John Griffiths produced the12 full-page and two double-spread color plates, as well as numerous black-and-white ink drawings. John Lewis set the horizontally formatted work (so done “because so few rivers in England are perpendicular”) in Modern Extended and ultra-bold Bodoni type; it was printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd. on Abbey Mills cream-colored eggshell paper, and snazzily bound in gaily striped scarlet, slate, and yellow linen. 
signed by the artist at the colophon. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 487. Binding as above, with ochre linen shelfback and gilt-stamped title, yellow paper–covered slipcase with gilt-stamped title; slipcase showing minimal shelfwear, otherwise a clean, fresh, beautiful copy. (31257)
“A
Remarkable Piece of Apparatus
. . . ”
Kafka,
Franz. In the penal colony.
South Portland, ME: The Limited Editions Club, 1987. 8vo (26.5 cm, 10.5"). 53,
[5] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. the
Shagbark Press in Maine, and hand-sewn and hand-bound by
Carol Joyce. The work is illustrated with four dark, abstract lithographs done
by painter Michael Hafftka and printed on hand-made Japanese paper. This is
numbered copy 538 of 800 printed, beingsigned
at the colophon by the artist.
Binding: Parchment paper–covered limp boards with sewing bands left visible, in original tan linen cloth–covered clamshell case with printed paper spine label.
• Bound and cased as above, clamshell cases being unusual for the LEC. A clean, crisp copy in excellent condition. Fine copy. (30564)
Koran
Designed & Illustrated
by
Valenti
Angelo
Koran.
English. 1958. The Koran: Selected suras. New York: The Limited
Editions Club, 1958. 8vo. 231, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Also designed
by Angelo, this is accomplished in red- and blue-stamped tan cloth and incorporates
a “wallet-like
flap” following traditional Arabic Qu'ran binding style.
Volume housed in publisher's blue cloth-covered clamshell slipcase (with a
drop-down front element), box bearing a rectangular stencilled label of gilt
applied on the cloth so “The Koran” is left set forth in the underlying
blue.
This is numbered copy 972 of 1500 printed by A. Colish, signed at the colophon by Angelo. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 284. Binding and box as above; volume pristine, slipcase showing mild shelfwear with small scuff to gilt title. A lovely copy. (30158)
“The Vitality of Fictionalized Autobiography”Lawrence, D.H. Sons and lovers. Avon, CT: The
Limited Editions Club, 1975. 8vo (27.2 cm, 10.7"). 443, [3] pp.; 12 col. plts.
Click the images for enlargements. This is numbered copy 538 of 2000 printed, and wassigned by the artist at the
colophon. The appropriate LEC newsletter and prospectus are laid in, in the original envelope.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 493. Binding as above, spine with printed paper label, in original glassine wrapper and paper-covered slipcase with printed paper spine label; slipcase spine gently sunned, the whole otherwise in beautiful condition. (30709)
Robin is to the Greenwood GoneLees, Jim, ed. The ballads of Robin Hood. Cambridge: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1977. 8vo (27.9 cm, 11"). Frontis., xxiii, [1], 206, [2] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. This is numbered copy 538 of 1600 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 508. Publisher's quarter green buckram and cream paper printed in dark gray in a foliage-inspired pattern, spine gilt-stamped with title and vignettes, in matching paper-covered slipcase; slipcase spine and edges sunned, with book fresh inside; a clean, crisp copy. (32631)
That Blessed Wolf
London, Jack. White Fang. Lunenburg, VT: Pr. at the Stinehour Press for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1973. 8vo (27.2 cm, 10.75"). 245, [3] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. This is numbered copy 538 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist. Both the prospectus and the appropriate Club newsletter are laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 468. Publisher's binding of light blue-green buckram stamped in black, spine with title in white and black, in original black paper–covered slipcase with affixed illustration on blue paper on either side; slipcase showing mild wear with spine label a bit rubbed and illustrations lightly spotted. Volume itself clean and fresh in original glassine wrapper. A thoughtfully designed and illustrated edition. (31470)
The LEC Visits Old RussiaLord, Albert B., ed. Russian folk tales. New York: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1970. 4to (27.2 cm, 10.75"). xx, 196, [4] pp.; 16 col. plts.
Click the images for enlargements. This is numbered copy 1475 of 1500 printed, with the colophon signed by the artist.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 432. Binding as above, in original slipcase; slipcase showing tiny traces of shelfwear at corners, the whole otherwise pristine. A gorgeous copy. (30465)
Victorian
ArabicaNicely
Presented
Meredith,
George. The shaving of Shagpat. New York: Pr. by the George
Grady Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1955. 4to.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 260. Publisher's quarter leather over printed paper-covered sides; spine extremities slightly rubbed, in slipcase showing a bit of scraping and refurbished at top fore-edge. Very nice. (13276)
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Arthur Miller & Leonard Baskin Miller, Arthur. Death of a salesman: certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem ... With five etchings by Leonard Baskin. New York City: The Limited Editions Club, 1984. 4to. [12], 5–164, [3 (1 blank)] pp.; 5 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. signed by both the playwright and the illustrator at the colophon.
The binding is full rusty-brown Nigerian goat, stamped in gold on the spine. The etchings are by Leonard Baskin, a series of five portraits tracing the downward spiral of Willy Loman — a powerful complement to Miller's portrait of a salesman at the end of his career and at the end of his rope! The plates, printed by Bruce Chandler, are each protected by a brown paper tissue guard. The book is designed by Benjamin Schiff, who chose a Bulmer font for the text.
This offering includes the monthly newsletter but not the mailing notice.
• Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 540. Binding as above. One of the tissue guards is loose but otherwise undamaged. Fine, in the original slipcase. A handsome production of one of the most performed plays in the world! (21754)
First Peformed at Ludlow Castle 1634 — Comus with the Music Milton, John, & Henry Lawes. The masque of Comus. Cambridge: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1954. 4to (26.6 cm, 10.4"). Frontis., [6], 3–57, [3], [12 (music)], [2] pp.; 5 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. The illustrations consist of six full-page watercolors by Edmund Dulac. The LEC bibliography says they were “printed in process offset,” but this is in error: The mailing notice (not present with this offering) asserts they were “reproduced in six printings by the Sun Engraving Company,” and a member of the family that owned that enterprise observes to us that it did not in fact have offset presses — while it was noted for its color letterpress productions, including the original (1940) Szyk Haggadah. The design is by John Dreyfus, who chose a monotype Bembo font printed by the University of Cambridge Press; the engraving of the music was done by G.T. Friend.
The binding is quarter gold-stamped vellum with marbled paper sides; top edges are gilt.
• Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 250. Binding with a light, small stain on back cover. Clean inside; bookseller's small label on rear pastedown. Original slipcase, with light scuff marks and minor paper loss at head and foot of mouth. A fine book, in a very good slipcase. (23002)
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