[Rarebooks] FS: The Golden Ass bound in full natural ass's hide
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Sat Jan 14 12:23:19 EST 2006
From our Holiday Catalogue now posted on our website
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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.
APULEIUS, Lucius. THE GOLDEN ASS. New York: Limited Editions Club
1932. 414 pp. Large octavo (6" x 10-1/4") bound in full natural ass's
hide. Newly translated and with an introduction by Jack Lindsay.
Illustrated with drawings, many of a mildly and appropriately erotic
nature, by Percival Goodman. Copy #574 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist
on the colophon page. A few minor scratches to the leather. Light,
inevitable wear to the gold paper-covered slipcase. Fine in Near Fine
slipcase. $250.00
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CHARLES AGVENT
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