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Limited Editions Club Books & Ephemera
Cathay, Poems After Li Po
by Pound, Ezra; Clemente, Francesco (Artist)
New York: The Limited Editions Club [Printed at Horton Tank Graphics], 1992. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Clemente, Francesco. Number 269 of 300 copies, quarto size, 41 pp., signed by Francesco Clemente, with LEC Monthly Newsletter. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (1885-1972) was a major figure in the early modernist movement; his early poetry was devoted to the development of Imagism, a movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language. Of...
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CA$1,372.44
The Book of Ballads
by Leach, MacEdward (Editor); Kredel, Fritz (Illustrations)
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club [printed at the Press of A. Colish], 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Kredel, Fritz. Number 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 240 pp., signed by Fritz Kredel, with LEC Monthly letter and announcement. Ballads - or, "the singing of story" - have a long history within many cultures. Part of the interest of a ballad is that it is of "unknown authorship that tells a story in a special way" - take, for example, a favourite that has been printed and...
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CA$152.49
WESTWARD HO!
by KINGSLEY, Charles
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. hardcover. Spines somewhat darkened. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Edward Wilson. Two quarto (7" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in half canvas stamped in red, black, and gold leaf with a design by Edward Wilson, and green paper sides bearing a two-color drawing. Introduction by John Winterich. Copy #380 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with brush drawings by Wilson hand-colored by Paul Baruch and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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CA$51.99
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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CA$5,753.14
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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CA$6,515.61
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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CA$4,436.16
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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CA$55.45
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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CA$83.18
The Gentleman from Cracow and The Mirror
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Limited Editions Club, 1979. Limited. Hardcover. Used - Like New. Signed Limited Edition (copy #117 of 2000). Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1979. Quarto. Gray quarter cloth over marbled boards stamped in silver with gray endpapers and gray topstain. In gray slipcase with paper spine label. Signed by both Isaac Bashevis Singer and artist Raphael Soyer on limitation page. Book is like new; clean and crisp with no writing or names. Has a light crease on first two pages. Some light spotting...
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CA$277.25
TALES OF EAST AND WEST
by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Charles Raymond
CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1973. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 x 11 in. Cloth boards. Signed by Raymond on the limitation pg., copy 323/2000. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers like new, endpapers mildly foxed. Slipcase is very good, a couple of scuffs, edges a bit sunned. Ltd. Stax.
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CA$41.59
Everything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O'Connor
O'Connor's shivery story set in the mid 20th century South that the celebrated artist, Benny Andrews, knew all too well. The two lived only thirty miles from one another, but worlds and worlds apart, in Georgia farm country. Why he chose this book, this author, he will tell you in his brilliant Afterword.The white O'Connor flourished within the system. Andrews, a son of black sharecroppers, flourished in spite of it. Imagine. School, for him, was permitted only when it was too wet to work the fields....
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CA$4,089.58
PETER IBBETSON
by George Du Maurier
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1963. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8 x 11 in. Morocco and paper boards. Limited edition, copy 323/1600. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers like new, spine leather supple. Binding tight and text unmarked. Text edges mildly foxed. Slipcase is very good, edges a touch sunned, a couple of small spots. Ltd. Stax.
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CA$34.66
The Book of Ballads
by MacEdwaed Leach
Limited Editions Club, 1967. Limited. Hardcover. Used - Like New. First Edition Thus, First Printing (Copy #255 of 1,500). Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1967. Octavo. Teal cloth over red patterned boards with beveled edges, a paper spine label, and blue stopstain. In light blue paper over boards slipcase with paper spine label. Signed by artist Fritz Kredel on limitation page in back. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Binding tight and pages crisp. Sharp corners and spine...
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CA$48.51
The Pilot
by [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] COOPER, James Fenimore
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1968. Limited edition, number 636 of 2000 copies signed by the illustrator. Fine. Quarto. Illustrated by Robert M. Quachenbush. Original two-toned cloth; original glassine; publisher's board slipcase. Introduction by John T. Winterich.
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CA$90.11
MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN
by GAUTIER, Theophile
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Small nick and very slight sunning to the spine. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Andre Dugo. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in quarter burgundy morocco leather and decorated boards with a gilt-stamped leather spine label. Mildly erotic illustrations by Andre Dugo hand-colored in the studio of Charlize Brakeley. Copy #710 of 1000 copies SIGNED by the artist, one of the smaller limitations at this time for the press.
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CA$130.03
The Natural History of Selborne
by [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] WHITE, Gilbert
Ipswich: W.S. Cowell for The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited edition, number 605 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. A few chips to glassine, otherwise fine. Folio. Illustrated by John Nash. Original morocco-backed decorated boards; original glassine; publisher's board slipcase. Introduction by the Earl of Cranbrook.
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CA$242.60
THE TRAVELS OF LEMUEL GULLIVER
by SWIFT, Jonathan
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1929. Hardcover. Spine a little darkened and dry with a small rubbed spot at the heel and a small chip at the head. Still Near Fine in a Very Good or better slipcase. Alexander King. Quarto (7-3/8" x 11-1/8") bound in natural linen backed with pigskin leather and illustrated by Alexander King. The first book of the press and apparently the first illustrated edition of this classic satire aimed at adults. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon...
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CA$779.79
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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CA$69.32
THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments
by BURTON, Sir Richard [translator]
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Small university bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. The spine leather has no wear or rubbing and retains its suppleness; the corners are straight and the contents fresh. The slipcases also are very nice, intact with one edge on one case split. About Fine set in most of original glassines and Near Fine slipcases. Valenti Angelo. Six octavo volumes (5-3/4" x 9-1/4") bound in half natural cowhide leather and printed paper sides designed by...
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CA$2,772.60
THE ESSAYS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON
by EMERSON, Ralph Waldo
San Francisco: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Spine a little darkened. Near Fine in a Fair slipcase lacking the backstrip. Folio (9" x 13-1/2") bound in cloth-backed blue paper boards. Contains both the First and the Second Series of Emerson's masterful essays with a critical introduction By Edward F. O'Day. Copy #7 of 1500 beautifully designed, printed in red and black, and bound by John Henry Nash and SIGNED by him on the colophon page. A beautiful presentation of these classic essays....
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CA$259.93
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
by BRONTE, Emily
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1993. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine clamshell box, as issued. Balthus. Folio (12-3/4" x 16-1/2") bound in goatskin leather dyed grey-green to evoke the Yorkshire moors and housed in a cloth slipcase with leather spine label. Illustrated with 15 drawings by the artist Balthus which were begun in 1933 when he was 25 for an edition of WUTHERING HEIGHTS that did not materialize. Balthus, in his eighties, agreed to have the entire suite presented for the first time if the...
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CA$8,664.38
GENTLEMAN FROM CRACOW; THE MIRROR
by SINGER, Isaac B
Northampton: Limited Editions Club, 1979. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Raphael Soyer. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound with a gray buckram spine and gray paper board sides. One of 2000 numbered copies illustrated with reproductions of watercolors by Raphael Soyer and SIGNED by both the artist and the Nobel Prize-winning author on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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CA$216.68
THE BIRDS
by Aristophanes, illustrated by Marian Parry
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1959. Limited ed. Hardcover. Good +. 8 x 11 in. Paper boards. Chemise folder inside slipcase. Signed by Parry on the limitation pg., copy 323/1500. Condition is GOOD+ ; text and endpapers have mild foxing. Text edges foxed. Covers like near new, binding tight. Chemise is excellent, spine a bit foxed. Slipcase is very good, toned, spine label mostly gone. Ltd. Stax.
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CA$27.73
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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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CA$346.58
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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CA$4,089.58
