[Rarebooks] FS: THE ILIAD OF HOMER, 1931, designed by Jan van Krimpen, LEC Office Copy

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HOMER. THE ILIAD OF HOMER. Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Tall 
quarto (8" x 12") bound in full red linen, gold-stamped. Translated with 
an introduction by Alexander Pope. One of 1500 copies printed by Joh. 
Enschede and designed by Jan van Krimpen and SIGNED by the designer on 
the colophon page, this copy is marked as an Office Copy and has the 
publisher's presentation blindstamp below the limitation.The black 
slipcase is a later one, made by the publisher in the 1960s. This copy 
was acquired from the family that owned the club in the middle of the 
twentieth century. Only minor darkening to the spine which is often 
badly darkened; slight wear to one bottom corner. Near Fine in a Fine 
slipcase. 		$250.00

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