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354. (Limited Editions Club) Aristophanes. The Birds. Intro. by Dudley Fitts. Illus. by Marian Parry. Printed on double leaves. 11x7-3/4, half leather & patterned boards. 1 of 1500 copies from the Thistle Press. 1959. * Armour, trans. The Nibelungenlied. Intro. by Franz Schoenberner. Illus. by Edy Legrand. 11-3/4x7-1/2, gilt- lettered black cloth, glassine. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Joh. Ensched‚ en Zonen. 1960. Together, 2 vols. Slipcases. Various places:. Limited Editions Club, 1959 & 1960. Signed by illustrators in the colophons. Fine. (100/150).
355. (Limited Editions Club) Austen. Pride and Prejudice. Preface by Frank Swinnerton. Illus. by Helen Sewell. 9-1/4x5-3/4, blind-stamped leather, t.e.g. No. 938 of 1500 copies by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. 1940. * Stevenson. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Illus. by Edward A. Wilson. 11-1/4x8, morocco-backed marbled cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Marchbanks Press. 1952. * Howells. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Illus. by Mimi Korachi. 10-3/4x7, pictorial cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Beck Engraving Co. 1961. * Galsworthy. The Man of Property. Intro. by Evelyn Waugh. Illus. by Charles Mozley. 10-3/4x7, gilt-lettered cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by A. Colish. 1964. * Henry. The Stories of O. Henry. Chosen & intro. by Harry Hanson. Illus. by John Groth. 11x7-1/4, gray & white patterned cloth, gilt-lettered leather spine label. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Lane Press. 1965. * Alcott. Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Illus. by Henry Pitz. 9-1/4x6- 1/4, brocade cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Clarke & Way. 1967. Together, 6 vols. Slipcases. Various places:. Limited Editions Club, various dates. Signed by illustrators in the colophons. Fine. (100/150).
356. (Limited Editions Club) Dana. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of a Life at Sea. Intro. by William McFee. Illus. by Hans Alexander Mueller. 10-1/2x6-3/4, cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Richard W. Ellis. 1947. * Mardrus & Mathers, trans. The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. Intro. by C.S. Forester. Illus. by Edward A. Wilson. 11x7-1/4, quarter morocco & boards. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Eilert Printing. 1949. * Melville. Billy Budd. Illus. by Robert Shore. 11x7-1/4, cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Press of A. Colish. 1965. Together, 3 vols. Slipcases. Various places:. Limited Editions Club, various dates. Signed by illustrators in the colophons. Fine. (80/120).
357. (Limited Editions Club) France. Penguin Island. Trans. by A. W. Evans. Intro. by Carl Van Doren. Illus. by Malcolm Cameron. 9-3/4x6-3/4, half vellum & dec. cloth. 1 of 1500 copies planned by Joseph Blumental & printed by the Aldus Printers. 1947. * Zola. Nana. Trans. by Vizetelly. Note by Henry James. Illus. by Bernard LaMotte. 11x8, red silk cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies. 1948. * France. The Revolt of the Angels. Trans. by Wilfred Jackson. Illus. by Pierre Watrin. 10-1/2x7, dec. blue silk. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. 1953. * Rostand. Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in 5 Acts. Trans. & intro. by Louis Untermeyer. Illus. by Pierre Brissaud. 10-1/4x6-3/4, full brocade, gilt-lettered leather spine label. 1 of 1500 copies printed by the Marchbanks Press. 1954. * Alain-Fournier. Le Grand Meaulnes: The Wanderer. Intro. by Henri Peyre. Illus. by Dignimont. 10-1/2x6-1/2, cloth, paper spine label. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Thistle Press. 1958. * Flaubert. Salambo. Intro. by Justin O'Brien. Illus. by Edward Bawden. 11x7-3/4, boards. 1 of 1500 copies printed by the University Press, Cambridge. 1960. Together, 6 vols. Slipcases. Various places:. Limited Editions Club, various dates. All but 3rd signed by illustrators in the colophons. About fine. (100/150).
358. (Limited Editions Club) Stendahl. The Red and the Black. Illus. by Rafaello Busoni. 10-1/4x6-3/4, quarter morocco & cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Aldus Printers. 1947. * France. Crainquebille. Trans. & intro. by Jacques LeClercq. Illus. by Bernard Lamotte. 12-1/4x9, red-lettered burlap. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Eugene A. Clauss at the Akerman-Standard Press. 1949. * Voltaire. The History of Zadig: Or, Destiny an Oriental Tale. Trans. from the French by R. Bruce Boswell. Intro. by Rene de Messieres. Illus. with hand- colored plates & decorative borders by Sylvain Sauvage. 8-1/2x6-1/2, brown cloth with pictorial stamping in gilt after Sauvage, leather spine label. No. 938 of 1500 copies of the Sylvain Sauvage Memorial Edition. 1952. * Stendahl. The Charterhouse of Parma. Preface by Balzac. Illus. by Rafaello Busoni. 10-1/4x6-3/4, quarter cloth & marbled boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies. 1955. * Rousseau. The Confessions of.... Illus. by William Sharp. Cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Peter Beilenson. 1955. * Du Maurier. Peter Ibbetson. Preface by Daphne Du Maurier. Illus. after drawings by the author. 11x8-1/4, half gilt-stamped black leather & patterned boards. No. 938 of 1600 copies printed at the Sign of the Stone Book from the typographic plan by George Salter. 1963. Together, 6 vols. Slipcases. Various places:. Limited Editions Club, various dates. Most signed by illustrators in the colophons. Fine. (100/150).
359. (Limited Editions Club) Turgenev. Fathers and Sons. Preface by John T. Winterich. Illus. with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Spiral Press. 1951. * Goetz & Morley, trans. The Book of the People: Popol Vuh, the National Book of the Ancient Quiché Maya. Illus. by Everett Gee Jackson. 10-1/2x7, cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Plantin Press. 1954. * Dostoevsky. The Idiot: A Novel in Four Parts. Trans. by Constance Garnett, revised & edited by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. 11-1/4x7-3/4, gilt & silver dec. cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Marchbanks Press. 1956. * Tolstoy. Resurrection. Trans. by Leo Weiner. Ed. for this edition by F. D. Reeve. Intro. by Ernest J. Simmons. 10-1/2x7- 1/4, blue & tan buckram stamped in gilt. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press. 1963. * Chekhov. Two Plays of...The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Intro. by John Gielgud. 9-1/2x6-3/4, half leather & red brocade cloth. No. 938 of 1500 copies by the Thistle Press. 1966. Together, 5 vols. Slipcases. Various places:. Limited Editions Club, various dates. Signed by illustrators in the colophons. About fine. (100/150).
TWO ILLUSTRATED BY SZYK
360. (Limited Editions Club) The Book of Job. Preface by Mary Ellen Chase. Illus. with mounted color plates by Arthur Szyk. 12x8-1/4, 3/4 white leather & pictorial gilt & white boards, t.e.g., glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1950 copies printed by Lewis F. White. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1946. Signed by Szyk in the colophon. Fine. (100/150).
361. (Limited Editions Club) The Book of Ruth. Preface by Mary Ellen Chase. Illus. with mounted color plates by Arthur Szyk. 12x8-1/4, 3/4 white leather & pictorial gilt & white boards, t.e.g., glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1950 copies printed by The Aldus Printers. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Signed by Szyk in the colophon. Fine. (100/150).
3 ILLUSTRATED BY VALENTI ANGELO
362. (Limited Editions Club) The Book of Psalms. From the authorized King James version. Preface by Mark Van Doren. Decorations & borders by Valenti Angelo. 6-1/2x4-1/4, full orange morocco dec. in blind on covers, stamped in gilt on spine, chemise, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by A. Colish. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Signed by Valenti Angelo in colophon. Fine. (100/150).
363. (Limited Editions Club) The Book of Proverbs. From the authorized King James version. Intro. by Robert Gordis. Dec. with borders & initials by Valenti Angelo. 9-1/2x6-1/2, full red leather dec. & lettered in gilt, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies set by Valenti Angelo & printed by the Thistle Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Signed by Valenti Angelo in colophon. Fine. (100/150).
364. (Limited Editions Club) The Koran: Selected Suras. Trans. from the Arabic by Arthur Jeffery. Decorations & illumination by Valenti Angelo. 9-3/4x6-3/4, dec. buckram bound in the Islamic style, glassine; blue cloth box. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by A. Colish. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Signed by Valenti Angelo in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
365. (Limited Editions Club) The Romance of Tristan & Iseult. Retold by Joseph Bedier. Trans. by Hilaire Belloc & Paul Rosenfeld. Intro. by Padraic Colum. Illus. with color plates by Serge Ivanoff. 10x7-3/4, half red morocco & gilt-stamped boards, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Adrian Wilson & printed at the Thistle Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Signed by Ivanoff in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
366. Limited Editions Club) The Singular Adventures of Baron Muchausen. By Rudolph Raspe and others. Ed. & intro. by John Carswell. Color illus. by Fritz Kredel. 9-1/2x6-1/4, half leather & marbled boards, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Marchbanks Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Signed by Kredel in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
367. London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. Intro. by Pierre Berton. Illus. by Henry Varnum Poor. 10-1/2x8-1/2, buffalo plaid weave in green & black wool, leather spine label, glassine, matching wool slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Ward Ritchie & printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Signed by Poor in colophon. Fine. (60/90).
368. London, Jack. The Sea-Wolf. Intro. by Edmund Gilligan. Illus. with color plates & line drawings by Fletcher Martin. 11x7-3/4, silk-screened linen, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Connecticut Printers. Hartford: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Signed by Martin in colophon. Fine. (60/90).
SIGNED BY PAUL LANDACRE
369. Lucretius Carus, Titus. De Rerum Natura: Of the Nature of Things. Trans. into English verse by William Ellery Leonard. Intro. by Charles E. Bennett. Illus. with wood-engravings by Paul Landacre. 9-1/4x5-1/2, full dark blue morocco stamped in gilt on spine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Signed by Landacre in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
370. Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince. Trans. by Hill Thomson. Preface by Irwin Edman. 9-1/2x6-1/4, bevelled full Florentine morocco, spine & covers stamped in gilt, t.e.g., slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed on Della Robbia rag paper at the Garamond Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Fine. (50/80).
MANN'S MAGIC MOUNTAIN
371. Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. 2 vols. Trans. by T. Lowe Porter. Intro. by the author. Illus. with wood engravings by Felix Hoffmann. 11x6-3/4, cloth-backed gilt-lettered boards, paper spine labels, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Case, Lockwood & Brain. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Signed by Hoffmann in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
372. Manzoni, Alessandro. I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed). The 1844 translation revised & with an intro. by Ronald H. Boothroyd. Illus. after the 1840 engravings by Francesco Gonin, newly engraved on wood by Bruno Bramanit. 10-1/2x6-3/4, half linen & patterned boards, jacket, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officinia Bodoni. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1951. Signed by Bramanit & Mardersteig in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
373. Maupassant, Guy de. A Woman's Life. Trans. by Marjorie Laurie. Intro. by Edmond Jaloux. Illus. with hand-colored gravures by Edy Legrand. 10-3/4x6-3/4, half leather & marbled boards, morocco spine label. 1 of 1500 copies from the Marchbanks Press. 1952. * The Tales of... Trans. by Lafcadio Hearn & others. Intro. by Justin O'Brien. Illus. by Gunter Bohmer. 9-1/2x6-1/2. blue cloth, contrasting spine & cover labels. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Curwen Press. 1963. * Bel-Ami. Intro. by Alec Waugh. Illus. by Bernard Lamotte. 11-1/4x8, dec. blue cloth, t.e.g. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the press of A. Colish after a design by Adrian Wilson. 1968. Together, 3 vols. Glassine, slipcases. New York & London:. Limited Editions Club, various dates. 2nd & 3rd signed by the illustrators in colophon. Fine copies. (50/80).
374. Melville, Herman. Omoo. Intro. by Van Wyck Brooks. Illus. with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. 9-3/4x5-3/4, marbled cloth, beveled edges, leather spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by John Dreyfus, printed at the University Press, Oxford. Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Signed by Stone in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
375. Milton, John. L'Allegro * Il Penseroso. Together, 2 works in 1, printed dos-a-dos. With a Note upon the Poems by W. P. Trent. Illus. after paintings by William Blake. 10x7, gilt-lettered green cloth, slipcase. 1 of 1780 copies planned by Bruce Rogers & printed by the Thistle Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1953. Fine. (50/80).
376. Milton, John. The Masque of Comus. Preface by Mark Van Doren. Printed with The Airs by Henry Lawes. Preface by Hubert Foss. Illus. with color plates after watercolors by Edmund Dulac. 10- 1/2x7-1/4, half vellum & marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed on handmade paper by Brooke Crutchley, printer of the University, Cambridge, England. Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Includes some of Dulac's last illustrations. Fine. (80/120).
GONE WITH THE WIND ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN GROTH
377. Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind. 2 vols. Intro. by Henry Steele Commager. Illus. with color plates & line drawings by John Groth. 11-1/2x8-1/4, blue & gray buckram, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Signed by Groth in colophon. Fine. (100/150).
378. Moliere. Tartuffe and the Would-Be Gentleman. Trans. by H. Baker & J. Miller. Intro. by Henri Peyre. Illus. by Serge Ivanoff. 10-3/4x7-1/4, red patterned cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Thistle Press from a design by Jean Garcia. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Signed by Ivanoff in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
379. Montaigne, Michel de. The Essays of Michel de Montaigne. 4 vols. Trans. by George B. Ives. Intro. by Andre Gide. Accompanying handbook to the essays by Grace Norton. 7-1/2x5, 3/4 vellum & patterned boards, spines stamped in gilt, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed & decorated by T. M. Cleland & printed by the Aldus Printers. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1946. Signed by Cleland in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
380. Morrier, J. J. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan. 2 vols. Preface by Sir Walter Scott. Illus. by Honore Guilbeau. 9-1/4x6-1/4, half black morocco & dec. boards, spines stamped in gilt, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed & decorated by W. A. Dwiggins & printed by the Aldus Printers. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Signed by Guilbeau in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
381. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spake Zarathustra. Trans. by Thomas Common. Intro. by Henry David Aiken. Dec. by Arnold Bank. 11x8-1/2, half white vellum & blue boards, stamped in gilt on spine & front cover, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies planned by Adrian Wilson & printed at the Thistle Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Fine. (70/100).
382. Nordhoff, Charles & James Norman Hall. Mutiny on the Bounty. Appendix by Peter Heywood. Illus. with color plates & drawings by Fletcher Martin. 9-1/4x6, full dark brown leather with pictorial stamping & lettering in gilt, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Garamond Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Signed by Martin in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
383. Ovid. Ovid's Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. Trans. into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve, etc. Illus. with original etchings by Hans Erni. 9-1/2x6-1/4, half tan cloth & patterned boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Signed by Erni & Mardersteig in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
LITHOGRAPHS BY LYND WARD
384. Paine, Thomas. Rights of Man. Intro. by Howard Fast. Illus. from lithographs by Lynd Ward. 12-1/4x9- 1/4, gilt-lined red buckram & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Roderick Stinehour & printed at the Stinehour Press. Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Signed by Ward in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
385. Petronius. The Satyricon of Petronius. Trans. by William Barnaby. Intro. by Gilbert Bagnani. Illus. by Antonio Sotomayor. 11x7, half vellum & gilt-dec. cloth, gilt-lettered spine, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by A. Colish. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Signed by Sotomayor in the colophon. Fine. (70/100).
386. Plato. Lysis, or Friendship; The Symposium; Phaedrus. Trans. & intro. by Benjamin Jowett. Preface by Whitney J. Oates. Illus. by Eugene Karlin. 10-3/4x7-1/4, half vellum & boards, leather spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Press of A. Colish. [Mount Vernon, NY]:. Limited Editions Club, 1968. Signed by Karlin in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
387. Plato. The Trial and Death of Socrates. Trans. & intro. by Benjamin Jowett. Preface by Huntington Cairns. Illus. by Hans Erni. 11-1/2x8, blue buckram, portrait of Socrates in gilt by Erni on front cover, dust wrapper, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies planned at the Officina Bodoni & printed by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Signed by Erni & Mardersteig in colophon. Fine. (60/90).
388. Prescott, William Hickling. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. Ed. by C. Harvey Gardiner. Illus. in color, incl. endpaper maps of Spain, by Lima de Freitas. 10-1/4x6-3/4, full leather, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, coat of arms blindstamped on front cover, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Garamond Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Signed by de Freitas in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
PRESCOTT ON PERU
389. Prescott, William Hickling. History of the Conquest of Peru, 1524-1550. Intro. by Samuel Eliot Morison. Illus. with water colors by Everett Gee Jackson. 12-1/2x8-1/2, full marbled sheepskin, raised bands, 3 red leather spine labels stamped in gilt, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Harry Block at the Imprenta Nuevo Mundo in Mexico City. Mexico City: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Signed by Jackson & Block in colophon. Fine. (100/150).
390. Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way. Trans. by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. Intro. by Justin O'Brien. Illus. by Bernard Lamotte. 11x7-3/4, patterned gray cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Garamond Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Signed by Lamotte in colophon. Near fine. (40/70).
SIGNED BY EDMUND DULAC
391. Pushkin, Alexander. The Golden Cockerel. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. 12x7-3/4, gilt-stamped cloth, dec. boards chemise. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Fanfare Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, [1949]. Signed by Dulac in the colophon. Fine. (150/250).
LEC'S FIRST 250 BOOKS
392. Quarto-Millenary: The First 250 Publications and the First 25 Years, 1929-1954, of the Limited Editions Club. Intro. by Robert L. Dothard. Illus. with plates from title pages, text pages, illustrations & bindings, many color, some tipped-in, from the works included in the bibliography. 12-1/4x9-1/4, half black morocco & red cloth, embossed black morocco medallion on front cover, slipcase. 1 of 2250 copies printed by Clarke & Way & the press of A. Colish. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Includes a critique, conspectus, bibliography, & indexes with information on the authors, translators, illustrators, designers, printers, binders, etc. Fine. (250/350).
393. Rhodius, Apollonius. Argonautica, or The Quest of Jason for the Golden Fleece. Trans. by Edward P. Coleridge. Preface by Moses Hadas. Illus. by A. Tassos. 12-3/4x9-1/4, cloth, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Aspioti-Elka in Athens. Athens:. Limited Editions Club, 1957. Signed by Tassos in the colophon. Fine. (70/100).
SIGNED BY THOMAS HART BENTON
394. Riggs, Lynn. Green Grow the Lilacs: A Play. Intro. by Brooks Atkinson. Illus. with lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton. 11-3/4x8-3/4, tan buckram, pictorial stamping in blind, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the University of Oklahoma Press from the typographic plans of Will Ransom. Norman: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Signed by Thomas Hart Benton in colophon. Fine. (150/250).
395. Saint-Simon. The Memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy Duc de Saint-Simon Covering the Years 1691-1723. 2 vols. Trans. & ed. by Desmond Flower. Illus. with plates by Pierre Brissaud, hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. 10x6-1/2, gilt-dec. & lettered crimson buckram, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Thistle Press.[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Signed by Brissaud in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
396. Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von. William Tell. Trans. from the German by Theodore Martin. Intro. by Thomas Carlyle. Illus. from lithographs by Charles Hug. 10-1/2x7-1/2, cloth-backed wood veneer boards with gilt vignette; slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Fretz Bros. from the typographic plan of W. Diethelm. Zurich: Limited Editions Club, 1951. Signed by Hug in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
397. Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. Intro. by Isac Dinesen. Illus. with color lithographs & pen & crayon drawings by Paul Hogarth. 11x7-1/4, bark-cloth, morocco spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Westerham Press. [Westerham, Kent]: Westerham Press, 1961. Signed by Hogarth in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
398. Scott, Sir Walter. Waverly or: 'Tis Sixty Years Since. Intro. by Andrew Lang. Illus. by Robert Ball. 10x6-1/2, gilt-dec. & lettered tan leather. No. 983 of 1500 copies from the Stinehour Press. 1961. * Kenilworth. Intro. by David Daiches. Illus. by Clarke Hutton. 9x5-1/2, full brocade cloth, morocco spine label. No. 983 of 1500 copies printed at the Lane Press from a typographic plan of Robert L. Dothard. 1966. Together, 2 vols. Glassine, slipcases. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961 & 1966. Signed by the illustrators in the colophons. Fine. (70/100).
37 VOLUMES OF SHAKESPEARE
399. Shakespeare, William. The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare. 37 vols. Ed. by Herbert Farjeon. Each illus. by a different illustrator, incl. Arthur Rackham, Gordon Craig, Gordon Ross, Agnes Parker Miller, et al. 13x8-3/4, cloth-backed boards, t.e.g. No. 1372 of 1950 copies designed by Bruce Rogers & printed at the Press of A. Colish. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939-41. Some foxing & darkening to spines, else a very good set. (300/500).
400. Shakespeare, William. The Life of King Henry V. Ed. & intro. by Herbert Arthur Evans. Prefatory note by Mark Van Doren. Illus. with paintings by Fritz Kredel based on the film version of the play created by Laurence Olivier. 13x8-3/4, gilt-dec. cloth over beveled boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Eastern Printing Corp. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1951. Fine. (50/80).
401. Shakespeare, William. The Poems of.... 2 vols. Edited by Herbert Farjeon. Intro. by Louis Untermeyer. 13x8-3/4, cloth-backed dec. boards, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g., slipcase. No. 465 of 1500 copies designed by Bruce Rogers & printed at the Press of A. Colish. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1941. Signed by Bruce Rogers in the colophon. A bit of darkening to spines, else near fine. (70/100).
402. Shakespeare, William. The Poems of.... Edited and Introduced by Peter Alexander. Illus. with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 10-3/4x6-1/4, half brown morocco & reddish-brown cloth, embossed portrait medallion on front cover, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by John Dreyfus & printed at the University Printing House in Cambridge by Brooke Crutchley. Cambridge, Eng.: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Signed by Parker in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
403. Shaw, George Bernard. Two Plays for Puritans. Illus. with drawings by George Him, hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. 11-3/4x6-3/4, red cloth stamped in gilt & black, glasine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1966. Signed by Him in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
404. Sienkiewicz, Henryk. Quo Vadis? Trans. by Jeremiah Curtin. Intro. by Harold Lamb. Illus. with tipped-in plates by Salvatore Fiume. 10-1/2x6-3/4, patterned cloth, spine label, jacket, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Signed by Fiume & Mardersteig in colophon. Fine. (60/90).
405. Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New preface by the author. Color illus. by Fletcher Martin. 10-3/4x6-3/4, half pigskin & boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Garamond Press. Baltimore: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Signed by Sinclair & Martin in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
406. Sophocles. Oedipus the King. Text in Greek & English. Trans. by Francis Storr. Intro. by Thornton Wilder. Illus. with wood engravings by Demetrios Galanis. 12x8, dec. cloth stamped in gilt, slipcase. 1 of 2000 copies printed at Joh. Enschede en Zonen in types designed by Jan van Krimpen. Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Signed by Galanis in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
407. Southey, Robert, trans. The Chronicle of the Cid. Intro. by V. S. Pritchett. Illus. with 16 color plates & 11 pen & ink drawings by Rene Ben Sussan. 11-1/2x7-3/4, dec. cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen. Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Signed by Rene Ben Sussan in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
408. Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Intro. by Anthony Boucher. Illus. with wood engravings by Felix Hoffmann; incl. eight three-color engravings printed at the Buchdruckerei Aargauer Tagblatt in Aarau, Switzerland. 11x7, black cloth stamped in gilt on spine, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the press of A. Colish. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Signed by Hoffman in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
409. Suetonius Tranquillus, Caius. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Trans. by Philemon Holland. Rev. & intro. by Moses Hadas. Illus. with paintings by Salvatore Fiume. 10-1/4x7, half linen & patterned boards, dust wrapper, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies planned at the Officina Bodoni & printed by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Signed by Fiume & Mardersteig in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
DESIGNED BY BRUCE ROGERS
410. Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Voyage to Brobdingnag. * A Voyage to Lilliput. 2 vols. 18- 1/2x13 & 3-1/2x2-1/2, cloth-backed pictorial map boards. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Aldus Printers, designed by Bruce Rogers. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950. Initialed by Bruce Rogers in the colophon. Fine. (200/300).
SZYK'S INK & BLOOD
411. Szyk, Arthur. Ink & Blood: A Book of Drawings. Preface by Struthers Burt. Illus. throughout by Szyk. 12-1/4x9, black morocco, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies. First Edition.New York: Heritage Press, 1946. Fine. (100/150).
412. Tegner, Esaias. Frithiof's Saga. Trans. to English verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lucius Sherman, Thomas & Martha Holcomb & William Lewery Blackley. Intro. by Bayard Taylor. Illus. with drawings by Eric Palmquist. 11x7, red pastepaper boards with white buckram back & corners, matching slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies by the Royal Printing House, P.A. Norstedt & Soner. Stockholm: Limited Editions Club, 1953. Fine. (40/70).
413. Tennyson, Alfred Lord. Idylls of the King. Intro. by Henry Van Dyke. Illus. with color lithographs by Lynd Ward. 10-1/2x6-1/2, half red morocco & cloth dec. & lettered in gilt. No. 938 of 1500 copies from a typographic plan by Carl Purington Rollins & printed at the Yale University Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Signed by Ward in colophon. Fine. (80/120).
414. Thackeray, William Makepeace. The History of Pendennis. 2 vols. Intro. by Robert Cantwell. Illus. with colored plates by Charles W. Stewart. 9-3/4x6-1/4, blind-stamped mustard cloth, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by W. S. Cowell, Ltd from the typographic plan by John Lewis. Ipswich, [Eng.]: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Signed by Stewart in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
415. Thoreau, Henry David. Cape Cod. Intro. by Joseph Wood Krutch. Illus. by R. J. Holden. 10-1/4x7, pictorial cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Anthoesen Press. Portland, ME: Limited Editions Club, 1968. Signed by Holden in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
416. Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. 2 vols. Trans. by Constance Garnett. Ed. by Bernard Guilbert Guerney & Gustavus Spett. Intro. by Anatole Lunacharsky. Illus. with wood engravings by Nikolas Piskariov. 10-1/4x7-1/4, gilt- lettered cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by in the U.S.S.R. by the State Publishing House for Fiction and Poetry. Moscow: Limited Editions Club, 1933. Signed in the colophon by Piskariov. Fine. (70/100).
417. Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Intro. by Carl Van Doren. Illus. by Honore Guilbeau. Headlines, adapted from 6th- Century illuminated manuscripts, by Charles E. Skaggs. 12x8-1/4, half cloth & dec. gold boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by the Aldus Printers. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Signed by Guilbeau in colophon. Fine. (60/90).
418. Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress. Intro. by Edward Wagenknecht. Illus. by Fritz Kredel. 9-3/4x6-1/2, half cloth & marbled boards, morocco spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by George Salter & printed at the Thistle Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Signed by Kredel in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
419. Twain, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper. Intro. by Edward Wagenknecht. Illus. with sketches & color plates by Clarke Hutton. 10-1/2x7-1/2, half blue velvet & gray buckram, gilt spine label, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by Westerham Press. Westerham, [England]:. Limited Editions Club, 1964. Signed by Hutton in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
MARDERSTEIG'S VASARI
420. Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters. 2 vols. Selected, Edited and Introduced by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin. Illus. with color plates from the works of Italian masters. 11-1/2x8-1/4, brown buckram, dust wrappers, marbled slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed & printed by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1966. Signed by Mardersteig in colophon. Fine. (150/200).
421. Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days. Intro. by Ray Bradbury. Illus. by Edward A. Wilson, hand- colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. 10-1/4x7, half vellum & marbled boards, gilt spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Plantin Press. Los Angles: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Signed by Wilson in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
422. Verne, Jules. The Mysterious Island. Trans. by W. H. G. Kingston. Intro. by Ray Bradbury. Illus. with gravures after Edward A. Wilson & hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. 10-1/2x6-3/4, pictorial cloth, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies lettered "F.D.F" from the Garamond Press. Baltimore: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Signed by Wilson in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
423. Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Trans. by Mercier Lewis. Intro. by Fletcher Pratt. Illus. with gravures after drawings by Edward A. Wilson & hand-colored in the studio of Martha Berrien. 10-1/2x7, half green morocco & pictorial boards, gilt-lettered spine label, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from the Plantin Press. Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Signed by Wilson in colophon. Fine. (60/90).
424. Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro]. The Georgics. Trans. by John Dryden. Illus. with wood engravings by Bruno Bramanti. 12x8-1/2, half green cloth & patterned boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Signed by Bramanti & Mardersteig in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
425. Virgil [Publius Virgilius Maro]. The Ecologues. Trans. by C.S. Calverley. Intro. by Moses Hadas. Illus. from drawings by VertŠs. 12-1/4x9, pictorial cloth, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by The Press of A. Colish. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Signed by Vertès in the colophon. Fine. (70/100).
426. Wallace, Lew. Ben Hur. Intro. by Ben Ray Redman. Illus. by Joe Mugnaini. 10-1/2x7, half leather & natural linen, leather cover label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by John Fass & printed by the Connecticut Printers. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Signed by Mugnaini in colophon. Fine. (60/90).
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER
427. Walton, Izaak & Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler; or, The Contemplative Man;s Recreation: Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing for the Perusal of Anglers...with Instructions, How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream... Intro. by James Russell Lowell. Illus. by Douglas W. Gorsline, incl. original engravings. 13x8-1/2, half parchment & boards, gilt-dec. & lettered spine. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by The Aldus Printers. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Signed in the colophon by Gorsline. Fine. (100/150).
428. Wells, H.G. The Invisible Man. Intro. by Bernard Bergonzi. Illus. with full page color plates & line drawings by Charles Mozley. 11-1/2x7-1/2, red buckram stamped in gilt on spine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies from a plan by Francis Meynell & printed at the press of A. Colish. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Signed by Mozley in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
429. Wells, H.G. The Time Machine. * The War of the Worlds. Together, 2 vols. Intro. by J. B. Priestly. Illus. with color plates & black & white line drawings by Joe Mugnaini. 10x6-3/4, black & red cloth, spines lettered in gilt, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Peter Oldenburg & printed at the press of A. Colish. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Each vol. signed by Mugnaini in colophon. Fine. (50/80).
430. Whittier, John Greenleaf. The Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier. Ed. by Louis Untermeyer. Illus. by R.J. Holden. 10-1/2x6-1/2, gilt-lettered black morocco, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed by The Aldus Printers. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Signed by Holden in the colophon. Fine in good glassine. (70/100).
431. Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Intro. by Andre Maurois. Illus. from paintings by Lucille Corcos. 11x7-1/2, half gilt-stamped morocco & marbled boards, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Richard Ellis & printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Signed by Corcos in colophon. Fine. (40/70).
432. Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Intro. by Granville Hicks. Illus. with color lithographs by Jean Charlot. 11x6-3/4, half black morocco & pictorial buckram, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies printed at the Thistle Press. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Signed by Charlot in colophon. Fine. (70/100).
433. Wyss, Johann. The Swiss Family Robinson. Intro. by Robert Cushman Murphy. Illus. with wood engravings by David Gentleman. 11x7-1/2, half buckram & grasscloth-covered boards, morocco spine label, glassine, slipcase. No. 938 of 1500 copies designed by Will Carter & printed by W. S. Cowell. Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Signed by Gentleman in colophon. Fine. (50/80).