The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes [SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR]
by Bulfinch, Thomas; Dudley Fitts (introductory essay); Joe Mugnaini (illustrator)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1958. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very good. Mugnani, Joe. Quarto. xix, (3), 230, (2)pp. Index of names. Double column text. Japan vellum spine with black lettered gold label, over gray & green patterned boards. Housed in publisher's slightly toned cardboard slipcase with gold trimmed fore-edge and black on gold spine label. Illustrated with 24 unnumbered lithograph plates and numerous woodcut headpieces. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363). Signed on the limitation leaf by Joe Mugnani. One of the finest illustrated books from the stone lithographs of George C. Miller. Library donation stamp on half-title as well as several text leaves. But for those stamps, a near fine copy (priced accordingly).
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50565
- Title
- The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes [SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR]
- Author
- Bulfinch, Thomas; Dudley Fitts (introductory essay); Joe Mugnaini (illustrator)
- Illustrator
- Mugnani, Joe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Mythology
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- First Edition
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- Quarto
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- Fine
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- Leaves
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- Vellum
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- Spine
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