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Avon, Connecticut: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Limited edition, this one of 15 out-of-series copies with out-of-series blindstamp on colophon and numbered. "G. C." (for the LEC owner, Gordon Carroll), signed by the artist Irving Amen; 4to, pp. xvii, [3], 105, [1]; woodcut illustrations (many in color), translated by William Ellery Leonard, introduction by Leonard Cottrell, printed at The Stinehour Press; fine in full ochre cloth, upper cover stamped in brown with a motif replica of a Babylonian clay tablet, spine lettered in brown; bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on pastedown, else fine, in fine publisher's slipcase. Monthly newsletter laid in. LEC Bibliography 473.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59933
- Title
- Gilgamesh
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- Avon, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Limited Editions Club , , ,
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