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Limited Editions Club Books & Ephemera
Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul
by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou's Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul is a groundbreaking event for us, a first edition that she wrote especially for our members! She also inspire the exceptional artist, Dean Mitchell, to create six glorious etchings for the book.Even better, Maya Angelou inspired Wynton Marsalis to compose and perform with her a thirty minute CD with Dr. Angelou reading her poem.And, inspired by Dean Mitchell, the esteemed art critic of The New York Times, Michael Kimmelman, in the April 26, 2002 edition...
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$3,200.00
![The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver [Limited Edition, Signed by King]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/044/471/1597471044.0.b.jpg)
The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver [Limited Edition, Signed by King]
by Jonathan Swift; Shane Leslie [intro.]; Alexander King [illus.]
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1929. Very Good +. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1929. Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by Alexander King at rear, this being #129. Quarto. 293 pp. Color illustrations by King. Pig skin over linen boards; dark topstain; illustrated endpapers. Lacks publisher's slipcase, but housed in custom-made slipcase. Two publisher's advertisements laid in at front: first announcing the publication of Gulliver's Travels as the first book issued by the Club, and the...
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$250.00
THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS
by CONRAD, Joseph
Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Millard Sheets. Tall octavo (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") bound in imported green morocco-backed boards decorated in black and gilt. Introduction by Howard Mumford Jones. Printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Illustrated with six full-page watercolors and line drawings by Millard Sheets. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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$106.30
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
In 1890, Joseph Conrad shipped out from Brussels to the Congo, to rescue a Monsieur Klein, ailing agent of a Belgian trading company dealing in ivory. In Heart of Darkness, it is Marlow who ships out from Brussels and sails up the Congo to rescue Mr. Kurtz. Kurtz had come with the noble aim of enlightening the natives. Instead, they envelope him in darkness. As Conrad startles the reader out of complacency, so does Sean Scully with his etchings. Born in Ireland, Scully is one of the world's most renowned...
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$4,150.00
NORTHANGER ABBEY
by AUSTEN, Jane
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Sunning to the spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip. Clarke Hutton. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound ina varicolored, narrow-striped, satin-finish fabric with a black leather spine label stamped in gold. Designed by Richard Ellis and printed at the Garamond Press with an introduction by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Illustrated with 12 full-page paintings and 22 monochrome drawings by Clarke Hutton .Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the...
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$100.00
THE VOICE OF THE CITY AND OTHER STORIES
by HENRY, O
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover. Some browning to the front endpaper and pastedown but none of the spotting to the cloth which is fairly common to this title. Very minor wear. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. George Grosz. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in black buckram. Selected with an introduction by Clifton Fadiman. Copy #501 of 1500 illustrated with 21 full-page color plates and line drawings by George Grosz and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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$437.50
Tales of Hoffmann, stories. Translated out of the German by various hands, illustrated with lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Parg together with a prologue from the illustrator
by Hoffmann, E.T.A. [Hugo Steiner-Prag illustrations]
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. xxiv, 336p., illus., very good condition in a shelf worn slipcase with a faded spine label and a small splash stain on the front panel. This is no. 683 signed by Hugo Steiner-Prag and with an introductory essay by Arthur Ransome.
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$40.00
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 Fine slipcase. 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 Fischer. One of the sentences in this...
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$125.00
THE SECRET SHARER
by CONRAD, Joseph
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1985). hardcover. Fine in a Fine clamshell box in the original shipping box. Bruce Chandler. Octavo (7" x 10") bound in full handwoven silk from Thailand with an inlay of goatskin stamped in gold. Introduction by Ian Watt. Copy #457 of 1500 illustrated with 3 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS by Bruce Chandler and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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$218.80
Poems of Léopold Sédar Senghor
by Léopold Sédar Senghor
Born in French West Africa, Leopold Senghor became the first Black member ever inducted into the French Academy. In 1960, he was unanimously elected the first president of Senegal and then re-elected four times. As a poet, he represented the literary and artistic expression of the black African experience. Four of Senghor's poems appear in this edition, in the original French and in English translation. The lush, exotic diction of Senghor's poetry finds its ideal complement in the vibrant paintings of...
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$2,300.00
Sunrise Is Coming After While
by Langston Hughes
"Mother to Son", "The Weary Blues", "Dream Variation", "Daybreak in Alabama" and "I, Too". From these glorious poems it is easy for us to see why Langston Hughes is so beloved and admired.As is Phoebe Beasley, the painter chosen by Dr. Maya Angelou to illustrate these poems with her six colorful silkscreen prints. Phoebe Beasley is the only artist whose work has twice been awarded the Presidential Seal (Bush and Clinton). Her silkscreen prints express "the love and humor that come out of Black family...
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$2,300.00
Shakespeare. A Review and a Preview
by Bruce Rodgers
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939. First Edition. Softbound. Very good/Very good. 25 pp text, plus 3 sample text pages and 4 color illustrations from the future LEC Shakespeare, artists including Arthur Rackam and Gordon Ross. 1 vols. Folio. Prospectus for LEC Shakespeare, designed by Bruce Rogers.
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$50.00
Sister Carrie
by [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] DREISER, Theodore
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1939. Tall octavo. Illustrated by Reginald Marsh. Original linen-backed brown boards, gilt-lettered leather letting-piece (spine slightly sunned, a few small scuffs on label); publisher's board slipcase (one bottom joint split). LIMITED EDITION, number 1,238 of 1,500 copies printed by Joseph Blumenthal at The Spiral Press and SIGNED by Reginald Marsh.
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$250.00
The Sonnets to Orpheus
by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Sonnets To Orpheus by the greatest writer of poetry in German since Goethe. Rainer Maria Rilke endowed the words of his native tongue with a new and unique significance. Rilke "rarely describes a thing straightforwardly," explains a biographer. "Instead, he uses the methods of a painter…He hints at parallels in other, unrelated realms, until the object stands before us, clearly and recognizable as itself…"These fifty-five sonnets, published in 1923, three years before the poet's death, describe...
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$2,500.00
ANNA KARENINA
by TOLSTOY, Leo
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1951. Hardcover. Moderate foxing to first and last few pages and bulked text edges; spines evenly sunned. Near Fine, lacking the plain dustwrappers, in an intact, Very Good slipcase. Barnett Freedman. Two octavo volumes (5-7/8" x 8-3/4") bound in cloth decorated with lithographic drawings by Barnett Freedman drawn on and printed from the stones. Illustrated with color autolithographs drawn on the stone (225 separate stones!) by Barnett Freedman and printed from the...
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$343.80
Metamorphosis
by Kafka, Franz; Trans. Willa and Edwin Muir
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good. Cuevas, Jose Luis. Limited Editions Club edition of 1984, translated by Willa and Edin Muir, with drawings and etchings by Jose Luis Cuevas. "The text and drawings were printed by Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Letterpress. The Book designed by Ben Shiff, was set in American Monotype Deepdene by Pat Taylor at his Out of Sorts Letter Foundery. The etchings were printed at Water Street Press. The mold-made paper was made for this edition by...
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$189.00
The Overcoat / The Government Inspector
by [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] GOGOL, Nikolai
Westport, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1976. Limited edition, number 605 of 2000 copies signed by the illustrator. Portions of glassine lacking. Quarto. Illustrated by Saul Field. Original two-toned cloth; original glassine; publisher's slipcase. Introduction by Alfred Kazin.
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$50.00
STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Small university bookplate on the front pastedown. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Edward Wilson. Quarto (8" x 11-1/4") bound in half black morocco and marbled paper sides. Illustrated with lithographs by Edward Wilson, pulled by George Miller. Introduction by John Mason Brown. Copy #1185 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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$187.50
POEMS OF HEINRICH HEINE
by Heinrich Heine, illustrated by Fritz Kredel
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1957. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 10 in. Calf and paper boards. Limited edition #323/1500, signed by Kredel on limitation pageCondition is VERY GOOD ; covers like new, spine a bit sunned with some wear and chips to head. BInding tight and text unmarked. Slipcase is very good, rubbed, a few small spots. Ltd. Stax.
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$25.00
THE SCARLET LETTER
by HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1941. Hardcover. Foxing to endpapers. Spine a bit darkened and dry with light wear at tips. About Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Henry Varnum Poor. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full scarlet-stained sheepskin with a large red letter "A" set off on black leather surrounded by a gilt design on the front cover and a gilt-stamped black leather spine label. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield. Illustrated with lithographs drawn on the stone by Henry Varnum Poor and pulled...
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$156.30
Youth / Typhoon / The End of the Tether
by [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] CONRAD, Joseph
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press for The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited edition, number 605 of 1500 copies signed by the printer and illustrator. A few short tears to glassine, the spine panel of which somewhat toned, one joint of slipcase separated. Quarto. Illustrated by Robert Shore. Original blue morocco-backed cloth; original glassine; publisher's slipcase.
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$60.00
MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN
by SASSOON, Siegfried
[London]: Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Fine, lacking the slipcase. Paul Hogarth. Octavo (7" x 9-7/8") bound in buckram stamped with designs and a spine of red cowhide leather stamped in gold; 300 pages. Designed by John Lewis and printed at the Curwen Press. Introduction by Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Illustrated by Paul Hogarth with 8 full-page color plates and 20 monochrome drawings. Copy #1228 of 1600 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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$62.50
Three Poems
by Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz "was able to cull from the language of the avant-garde the very best to create a Latin-American poetic language," said Yale professor Gonzales Echevarria. Three Poems are printed in the original Spanish in red alongside English translations in black. Included is, "The Skin of the World, The Sound of the World" Paz's tribute to Robert Motherwell. " . . . sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my unconscious, the way a dream might," declared Motherwell—a statement that resonates...
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$4,700.00
THE POEMS OF ROBERT BROWNING
by BROWNING, Robert
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Touch of sunning to spine tips. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Peter Reddick. Tall octavo (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in blue morocco-backed boards inlaid with a black embossed portrait. Selected and with an introduction by C. Day Lewis. Designed by John Dreyfus and printed at the University Printing House in Cambridge. Copy #970 of 1500 illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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$93.80
Letter from Birmingham City Jail
by Martin Luther King, Jr
Letter from Birmingham City Jail, honors the hero who made our nation and our world vastly better. From the dank confines of a hell-on-earth Southern jail cell, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote one of the most eloquent and important documents in American history. Faith Ringgold has written a brilliant introduction and created eight magnificent serigraphs for the book and print portfolios. Dr. C. T. Vivian, one of Dr. King's dearest friends, marched and endured beside him the beatings and tragedies. He...
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$2,950.00
