[Rarebooks] FS: LEC Gilbert & Sullivan

[Charles Agvent]

 From our Holiday Catalogue now posted on our website
http://www.erols.com/agvent
containing 127 select items including a selection of fine bindings and Limited 
Editions Club titles, and a large selection of signed books by Susan B. Anthony, 
P. T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie, Clarence Darrow, Albert Einstein, Jacqueline 
Kennedy, Thomas Mann, Thomas Merton, Ronald Reagan, John Steinbeck, and more. 
Our new list will contain a superb collection of signed Presidential items, 
mostly books.  It will appear toward the end of the month as we have just 
acquired an extraordinary grouping of material that needs to be processed.

GILBERT, W. S. and SULLIVAN, Arthur. THE FIRST NIGHT GILBERT  AND
SULLIVAN  CONTAINING COMPLETE LIBRETTOS OF THE FOURTEEN OPERAS.... New
York:  Limited  Editions  Club  1958. EXACTLY AS  PRESENTED  AT  THEIR
PREMIERE  PERFORMANCES;  TOGETHER WITH FACSIMILES OF  THE  FIRST-NIGHT
PROGRAMMES.  Folio (8-1/4" x 12-1/8") bound in half red velvet  with a
green cloth spine label and gilt-decorated green cloth boards. Edited,
with  a  Prologue  and Copious Descriptive  Particulars,  by  Reginald
Allen;  Foreword  by  Bridget  D'Oyly Carte. Copy #961  of  1500  with
reproductions   of  contemporary  illustrations.   The  27  facsimiles
including  one  printed on red silk are loosely laid into a gold  foil
clamshell  box  which  also fits into the slipcase.  Issued  unsigned.
Fine in Near Fine gold foil slipcase with typical rubbing.     $300.00

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CHARLES AGVENT
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