[Rarebooks] FS: 10 Illustrated Classics, most signed by the illustrators

[Charles Agvent]

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ADAMS, Henry. MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES. New York: Limited Editions 
Club, 1957. Large octavo (7" x 10") bound in gray buckram with 
gilt-stamped black leather spine label and marbled paper slipcase. 
Designed by T. M. Cleland. With a new introduction by Francis Henry 
Taylor. Illustrated with 59 photographs made in France following the 
Adams itinerary by Samuel Chamberlain and reproduced as gravures. Copy 
#1087 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Lovely 
edition of this classic. Spine slightly sunned. About Fine in a Near 
Fine slipcase. (#016060)        $75.00

BIERCE, Ambrose (Paul LANDACRE). TALES OF SOLDIERS & CIVILIANS. New 
York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") 
imaginatively bound with a decorated linen center panel flanked by 
gilt-decorated dark sheepskin panels. Edited with an introduction by 
Joseph Henry Jackson. Copy #946 of 1500 illustrated with original wood 
engravings by Paul Landacre printed directly from the blocks and SIGNED 
by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in a 
Fine chemise, housed in a Fine slipcase and very scarce in this 
condition. (#016056)        $450.00

DOUGHTY, Charles M. TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA. New York: Limited 
Editions Club, 1953. Octavo (7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in a rough natural 
linen stamped with designs in dark Arabian brown ink and with a 
traditional Arabian wallet-flap. The First Illustrated Edition of this 
travel classic with drawings by Edy Legrand who retraced the author's 
footsteps. Copy #1307 of 1500. Near Fine, as issued without slipcase and 
unsigned. (#016065)        $100.00

HUGO, Victor. THE TOILERS OF THE SEA. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 
1960. Small quarto (7-1/8" x 10-1/4") bound with a soft black cotton 
spine and decorated boards. Hapgood's translation, edited and augmented 
by David Glixon for the first complete English text. Designed by 
Giovanni Mardersteig and printed by him at the Officina Bodoni. 
Illustrated with 99 wood engravings of various sizes by Tranquillo 
Marangoni. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist and by the designer 
on the colophon page. Small stain on the spine; lacking the dustwrapper. 
Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. A beautifully made book. (#016061)        
$100.00

RILKE, Rainer Maria. SELECTED POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE. New York: 
Limited Editions Club, 1981. Octavo (6-1/8" x 9-1/4") bound in half 
buckram and boards covered with blue Fabriano Roma paper handmade in 
Italy. Translated and annotated by C. F. MacIntyre. Copy #1019 of 2000 
illustrated with 4 full-page and 6 half-page ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS by 
Robert Kipniss and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly 
Letter laid in. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. (#016067)        
$75.00

SCOTT, Sir Walter. THE TALISMAN. Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1968. 
Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter black sheepskin and red 
cloth. Introduction by Thomas Caldecot Chubb. Illustrated with line 
drawings and aquatints by Federico Castellon. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED 
by the artist on the colophon page. Light wear to the head of the spine. 
Near Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. (#016059)        $45.00

SIENKIEWICZ, Henryk. QUO VADIS? Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1959. 
Large octavo (6- 7/8" x 10-1/2") bound in full natural linen decorated 
with an overall gray-blue pattern from an old wood-engraving; 612 pages. 
Translated by Jeremiah Curtin with an introduction by Harold Lamb. 
Illustrated with 35 drawings by Salvatore Fiume reproduced in three-tone 
process and mounted by hand. Copy #1087 of 1500 numbered copies designed 
and printed on antique laid paper made in Italy at the Officina Bodoni 
by Giovanni Mardersteig and SIGNED on the colophon page by the artist 
and the printer. Sunning to the spine; lacking the dustwrapper. Near 
Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. (#016064)        $60.00

THOREAU, Henry David. CAPE COD. Portland, ME: Limited Editions Club, 
1968. Small quarto (6-3/4" x 10-1/4") bound in pictorial buckram. 
Printed at the Anthoensen Press. Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. 
Copy #1087 of 1500 illustrated with drawings by Raymond Holden and 
SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Fine in glassine and a Near 
Fine slipcase. (#016055)        $85.00

WISTER, Owen. THE VIRGINIAN. A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS. Los Angeles: 
Limited Editions Club, 1951. Quarto (7" x 10-1/4") bound in full natural 
linen with a leather spine label and a gilt-decorated leather vignette 
on the front cover. Designed by Saul Marks and printed at the Plantin 
Press. Introduction by Struthers Burt. Illustrated with pen drawings by 
William Moyers hand-colored at the studio of Walter Fischer. Copy #1087 
of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter 
laid in. Spine sunned with slight fraying to edge of leather spine 
label. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. (#016063)        $95.00

YEATS, W. B. (editor). IRISH FOLK TALES. Avon, CT: Limited Editions 
Club, 1973. Tall octavo (6-1/2" x 10") bound in green buckram stamped in 
pure gold leaf, 456 pages. Collected, edited, and introduced by William 
Butler Yeats. Illustrated with 12 full-page tipped-in color plates and 
17 part-page line drawings by Rowal Friers. Copy #1087 of 2000 SIGNED by 
the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in 
glassine and a Fine slipcase. (#016069)        $75.00

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