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MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES
by ADAMS, Henry
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Hardcover. Spine mildly sunned. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Samuel Chamberlain. Large octavo (7" x 10") bound in gray buckram with gilt-stamped black leather spine label and marbled paper slipcase. Designed by T. M. Cleland. With a new introduction by Francis Henry Taylor. Illustrated with 59 photographs made in France following the Adams itinerary by Samuel Chamberlain and reproduced as gravures. Copy #982 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon...
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$106.30
THE AGE OF FABLE
by BULFINCH, Thomas
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Hardcover. Small university bookplate on the front pastedown; mild soiling to the spine. Near Fine in a lightly soiled, Very Good slipcase. Joseph Mugnaini. Quarto (8-1/4" x 11-1/8") bound in vellum-backed decorated boards with the spine stamped in black on gold. Introduction by Dudley Fitts. Illustrated with ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS drawn on the stone by Joseph Mugnaini and printed from the stone by George C. Miller. Copy #1185 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the...
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$100.00
THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
by ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Hardcover. Just about Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. William Sharp. Tall octavo (6-1/8" x 9-3/4") bound with brown Oasis goatskin morocco leather stamped with the title in gold leaf and with hand-made French marbled kraft on the sides. The anonymous translation into English of 1783 & 1790 revised and completed by A. S. B. Glover with a new introduction by him. Illustrated with a profusion of pen drawings scattered throughout the text by William Sharp printed in...
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$93.80
Three Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal
by Charles Baudelaire
When Baudelaire published the first edition of Les Fleurs du mal in 1857, the subject matter and the style touched off a scandal. The resulting outcries from some critics and his defense by others led to Baudelaire's trial for obscenity. He was ordered to pay a 300-franc fine and exclude six poems from the book. (Even his mother thought the poems were blasphemous.) Today, we can appreciate how Baudelaire extended the subject range of poetry.Inspired by Baudelaire's images, Henri Cartier-Bresson has...
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$2,600.00
HEART OF DARKNESS
by CONRAD, Joseph
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Robert Shore. Tall octavo (7-1/8" x 10-7/8") bound in half ivory-toned imported English sheep vellum and boards decorated by the illustrator with "an African Negro mask through which can be discerned a pair of Caucasian blue eyes." Introduction by Leo Gurko; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #1000 of 1500 illustrated in color by Robert Shore and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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$406.30
THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY
by FLAUBERT, Gustave
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in slightly worn glassine and a Near Fine slipcase. Warren Chappell. Small folio (8-1/4" x 12-1/2") bound in full tan linen stamped in gold, red, and black. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn. Designed and illustrated with color lithographs by Warren Chappell. Copy #258 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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$125.00
SISTER CARRIE
by DREISER, Theodore
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939. Hardcover. Spine slightly darkened with a vertical scrape to the spine label. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Reginald Marsh. Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in half natural Irish linen with a gilt-stamped brown leather label and brown cloth sides. Copy #710 of 1500 numbered copies desgned and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press with 47 soft crayon pencil drawings by Reginald Marsh beautifully reproduced and merged with the text. SIGNED by the...
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$93.80
ANNA KARENINA
by TOLSTOY, Leo
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1951. Hardcover. Slight sunning to the spines. About Fine in a close to Fine slipcase with light wear to the open edge. 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 stones at the Curwen Press. Translated by Constance Garnett. Copy...
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$687.50
A SEASON IN HELL
by RIMBAUD, Arthur (Robert MAPPLETHORPE)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1986. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Robert Mapplethorpe. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") handsewn and handbound in full crimson Oasis goatskin leather stamped in black. The original French with the acclaimed English translation by Paul Schmidt on facing pages. One of 1000 numbered copies illustrated with 8 hand-pulled dust-grain photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe printed in two colors on handmade paper and SIGNED by the photographer and the translator. "Of the...
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$1,187.50
MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS
by CRANE, Stephen
(Avon, CT): Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Very small stain on the front cover. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Sigmund Abeles. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in half glazed black goatskin and boards covered with homespun buckram printed with a stripe pattern in dark grey. Illustrated with 7 full-page copper etchings by Sigmund Abeles reproduced by gravure. Of a total edition of 2000 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this is one of only 15 Presentation Copies with the...
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$68.80
Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
by Crane, Stephen
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase. Gorgeous Limited Edition, Number Two in the Forty-Second Series produced for the Limited Editions Club, this being #523 of 2000 copies printed for the LEC by the Press of A. Colish in Mount Vernon, NY. 4to, 124(2)pp. Bound in original fine 1/4 black goatskin over striped buckram covered boards. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Very well-preserved. About Fine publisher's slipcase has some very...
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$85.00
Arabian Nights and Days
by Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz' brilliant, intrigue-woven, timeless and witty satire, Arabian Nights and Days. We are honored that this Nobel Prize winning author chose to have us to publish his 1979 masterpiece.For the prints, Mahfouz wisely chose his friend, the superb Cairo artist, Nazli Madkour. We were amazed when we saw her images. So intricate and luminous, they dance before the eyes. Almost three dimensional, their portrayals capture the essence of Mahfouz' wicked, biting, horrifying, at times amusing novel. We...
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$2,550.00
Bookmarks in the Pages of Life
by Zora Neale Hurston
Six insightful, tragic, yet sometimes even laugh-out-loud funny stories, that Betye Saar chose to illustrate with six glowing multi-colored serigraphs of incredible depth and power. Zora Neale Hurston, one of America's foremost writers is here matched with Saar, one of America's most important artists. The stories take place from the time of slavery to 1930's and 1940's Harlem and small-town Florida. They range from courtroom drama to misadventure and comedy.Afterword by Betye SaarSix serigraph prints...
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$2,500.00
WAR AND PEACE
by TOLSTOY, Leo
Glasgow: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Fine in close to Fine glassines and Near Fine slipcases with a little staining. Uncommon in this condition. Barnett Freedman. Six octavo volumes (5-3/4" x 9") bound in decorated red linen and housed in two slipcases. Numerous full-page color lithographs and black and white drawings in the text, as well as color endpaper and cover designs, by Barnett Freedman. Translated by Louis and Aylmer Maude. Copy #900 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist with his thumbprint...
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$1,187.50
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON and AROUND THE MOON
by VERNE, Jules
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1970. Hardcover. Fine in glassines and a typically rubbed, about Very Good slipcase. Robert Shore. Two quarto volumes (7" x 10-3/4") bound in ochre buckram-backed boards stamped in green and gold leaf and covered with a segment of a map of the lunar surface. This is copy #333 of 1500 with an introduction by the author's grandson and illustrated with color plates by Robert Shore. SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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$187.50
THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Hardcover. About Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Lynd Ward. Large octavo (6-1/4" x 10-3/8") bound in the blue, green, and black tartan of the Black Watch. Introduction by G. B. Stern. Illustrated with color lithographs drawn on the stone by Lynd Ward. Copy #1087 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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$93.80
THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
by [BIBLE]
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Hardcover. Mild foxing to the pastedowns; slight rubbing to the spine tips. Near Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with a little spotting on one side. Edgar Miller. Large octavo (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in full embossed lambskin. Text in both Hebrew and English, printed in red and black, from the Revised King James Version. Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. Illustrated by Edgar Miller with color tempera paintings. Copy #457 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator...
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$187.50
POEMS
by GRAVES, Robert
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase, in the original shipping box. Paul Hogarth. Octavo (6-7/8" x 10") bound in half buckram and paper sides printed letterpress. Copy #457 of 2000 illustrated with 8 water-color reproductions by Paul Hogarth. SIGNED by the typographer Freeman Keith and by the illustrator on the colophon page. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Monthly Letter laid in.
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$125.00
BACK TO METHUSELAH
by SHAW, George Bernard
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939. Hardcover. Foxing to endpapers; spine browned. Very Good in a Good slipcase with fading, soiling, and split at top edge. John Farleigh. Quarto, bound in lime green natural linen with a dark green morocco label on the front cover with gilt lettering and decoration. With a new, previously unpublished 49-page introduction by Shaw. Printed at the Marchbanks Press. Copy #845 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist, John Farleigh, who has contributed handsome wood engravings with...
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$56.30
MORIAE ENCOMIUM; OR, THE PRAISE OF FOLLY
by ERASMUS, Desiderius
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean. Light chipping to the tips of the spine which is rather fragile with a long vertical tear down the center. Good, internally Near Fine, in a Good slipcase with the bottom portion partly split. Lynd Ward. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheep leather with an ivory medallion inset on the front cover. Translated from The Latin text by Harry Carter, with an introduction by Hendrik Willem...
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$156.30
LES MISERABLES
by HUGO, Victor
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Minor browning to gutters. Near Fine in a Good only slipcase with the top edge mostly detached. Lynd Ward. Five quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in black Irish linen with rust-colored, gilt-lettered cloth spine labels. The translation by Lascelles Wraxall authorized by the author. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Copy #65 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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$375.00
NANA
by ZOLA, Emile
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Spine sunned, as often the case. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Bernard Lamotte. Quarto (8-1/4" x 11") bound in raspberry watered-silk covers with a French blue linen gilt-stamped spine label. Translated by F. J. Vizelelly with an introduction by Lewis Galantiere and a preface by Henry James. Illustrated with drawings by Bernard Lamotte reproduced in collotype by George Duval in Paris. Copy #1221 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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$62.50
THE POEMS OF WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
by BRYANT, William Cullen
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Hardcover. Foxing to endpapers and very light to title and colophon pages; typical mild offsetting of illustrations to text. Rubbing to the spine with loss of color and minor loss of leather. Good, lacking the slipcase. Thomas Nason. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheepskin leather with gilt lettering. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with lovely wood engravings by Thomas Nason, perhaps best known for his...
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$37.50
THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
by HALE, Edward Everett
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown. Minor wear to the top of the spine which is lightly sunned. Still Near Fine in a Very Good, intact slipcase. Edward Wilson. Octavo (7" x 10") bound in full terra-cotta leather with a blind embossed design of North America without the United States on the front cover and gold-stamped on the spine. Printed on hand-made paper. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrated with hand-colored watercolors by Edward...
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$75.00
Todesfuge
by Paul Celan
This important work by Paul Celan includes a photogravure by Gisèle Celan- Lestrange of her 1967 "Echo d'une terre". Todesfuge In German with English translation, justly hailed as brilliant and nuanced by The New York Review of Books by John Felstiner. Included is a CD of Paul Celan speaking his poem. One photogravure by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange.Translation and Afterword by John Felstiner.CD of Paul Celan speaking his poem.Edition limited to 300 numbered copies.Each book signed by John Felstiner.The...
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$950.00
