PRIVATE PRESS & Limited Editions page 1 of 3. Dept. _____ SKU Items 1 - 19.
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PP-2. Barrie, J.M. GEORGE MEREDITH: A TRIBUTE, 1909. Portland: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1919. 16mo; one of 950 copies on Kisogawa hand-made paper. Stiff wrappers with printed and glassine dust wrappers. Fine in the original glassine dust wrapper, with is lightly chipped. $17.50
PP-3. Beckford, William. VATHEK: AN ARABIAN TALE. NY: Limited Editions Club. #443/ 1500. 12mo, full decorated leather. Designed and illuminated by Valenti Angelo, who signed the book on the colophon. The smallest LEC book we haven encountered, but a beautiful production. Fine $50.00
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PP-6. Browne, Sir Thomas. RELIGIO MEDICI. Eugene: University of Oregon/Limited Editions Club, 1939. #1196/1500. 4to, 114 pp., cloth spine and marbled boards. Edited with a new introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. Printed for the Limited Editions Club by John Henry Nash, who signed the colophon. The title page, originally engraved by William Marshall, has been re-engraved in copper for this edition by Dolph Henry Murnik. Very good. $45.00
PP-7. Bunyan, John. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1941. #1196/1500. 214 pp., 4to, green cloth with leather spine label. Edited by G. B. Harrison. Illustrated with twenty-nine watercolor paintings by William Blake, the first edition of the book to include Blake= s illustrations. Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. Printed at the Spiral Press. Blake= s illustration for this classic work were known for years, and but never appeared in any of the many editions of this classic work. Their history is detailed in the introduction. The spine is a bit sunned, but it is a very good copy. $85.00
PP-8. De Quincey, Thomas. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER. Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1930. #584/1520. 4to. Introduction by William Bolitho; twelve lithographs on stone by Zhenya Gay. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press by B.H. Newdigate. Signed by Gay and Newdigate. Cloth spine and patterned paper-covered boards. Very good. $65.00
PP-9. Morris, William. A DREAM OF JOHN BALL. Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1908. 2nd edition. Printed on Van Gelder paper at the press of George D. Loring., in an edition of 925 copies. Very good. $30.00
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PP-11. . Stephens, James. THE CROCK OF GOLD. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1942. #1196/1500. 4to, 165 pp., green cloth. Illustrated and signed by Robert Lawson. Very good. $40.00
PP-12 Thackeray, William. THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1956. #443/1500,. 443 pp., patterned cloth. New introduction by Laura Benet. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, who igned the book on the colophon. Very good. $40.00
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PP-14. Whitbread, Thomas. AUGUST AND OTHER MOODS. Fort Johnson: Pinion Press, 1960. One of 135 copies produced by Alvin Fick at his Pinion Private Press. 12mo, marbled covers. Hand-set in Wayside Roman and Bulmer types and printed on R.B. Friendship Vellum paper. Frontispiece illustration by John Lehman. Printed in 1960, but not bound until 1987, when the work was done by Kurt Leisi. Fine. $20.00
PP-15. Zola, Emile. NANA. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1958. 4to. No. 443/1500, 410 pp. signed by the illustrator, Bernard Lamotte. Designed by George Salter and printed at the Garamond Press in Baltimore. Preface by Henry James. Translated into English by F.J. Vizetelly. Red cloth, with a bit of uneven sunning and a hint of wear at the spine ends. Uncut. Very good. $50.00
