[Rarebooks] FS: Lovely Edition of Tolstoy Illustrated and SIGNED by Fritz Eichenberg

[Charles Agvent]

One of hundreds of titles from the Limited Editions Club in our 
inventory,  including a number of titles still in their original 
shipping boxes, as well as presentation and publisher's copies, 
portfolios of signed prints, and pieces of original art for the book, 
including in some cases the entire set of original drawings and even 
unused pieces.

TOLSTOY, Leo. CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH. New York: Limited Editions 
Club, 1972. Octavo (6-1/8" x 9-3/4") bound in a light sepia 
English-finish buckram bbearing an allover design of roundles in dark 
sepia and a shelfback of matte-finish black buckram titled in gold leaf; 
400 pages. The Leo Wiener translation, newly revised. In his 
introduction John Bayley states: "No writer in the world has written 
better and more understandingly of childhood and adolescence than 
Tolstoy." Designed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press and 
illustrated with 14 full-page and 6 part-page wood engravings by Fritz 
Eichenberg printed at the press of A. Colish. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED 
by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in 
glassine and a Fine slipcase. (#003853)        $125.00

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