[Rarebooks] FS: AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS Illustrated and SIGNED by Edward Wilson

[Charles Agvent]

One of hundreds of titles from the Limited Editions Club in our 
inventory, this copy offered to the public now for the first time:

VERNE, Jules. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. Los Angeles: Limited 
Editions Club, 1962. Quarto (7" x 11") bound in white English vellum 
with boards covered in hand-marbled paper imported from France and a 
spine label lettered in gold leaf. Printed at the Plantin Press with an 
introduction by Ray Bradbury and illustrated with plates by Edward 
Wilson with pochoir hand-coloring. Of a total edition of 1500 copies 
SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this is one of only 15 
Presentation Copies with the publisher's blindstamp attesting to such on 
the colophon page where instead of a number the words "Office Copy" are 
handwritten. In addition, just below the artist's signature are written 
the initials "G.C." Acquired directly from the publisher's files, this 
copy belonged to Gordon Carroll who was in charge of the club's 
operations in the 1970s when it operated out of Avon, CT. Fine in 
glassine and a Fine slipcase. (#016533)     $200.00

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