Limited Edition Club
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- - - Note: Each listing below has a Lorson Number (LN #); please include thepress name, book title, and this number when inquiring about or ordering a book.
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| Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, The; translated by Tobias Smollet | 1937, Limited Editions Book Club, two vol. set, cloth bound, some wear on illustrated dust wrapper, good condition, slipcase taped together | LN
#85 | $35.00 |
| | Adventures of Simplicissimus, The; Grimmelshausen, Johann Jakob Christoffel Von | 1981,12 3/4" x 9 5/8", 2,000 copies printed by The Heritage Printers, signed by the illustrator Fritz Eichenberg, good condition, cloth bound light mark on spine, slipcase slightly worn | LN
#1 | SOLD |
| | Ah, Wilderness!; O'Neill, Eugene | 1972, 1,500 copies printed by Clifford Burke, signed by the illustrator Shannon Stirnweis, printed paper bound, cloth spine, slipcase some staining | LN
#2 | $20.00 |
| | Analects of Confucius | 1933, 11" x 7", 1500 copies printed in Shanghai, soft bound in patterned silk and housed in a carved wooden box | LN
#85 | SOLD |
| | Anna Karenina; Tolstoy, Leo | 1951, 9" x 6 1/4", two vol. set, 1,500 copies printed at the Cambridge University Press, signed by the illustrator Barnett Freedman, printed cloth bound, good condition, slipcase slightly worn | LN
#3 | $125.00 |
| | Antigone; Sophocles, translated by Wyckoff, Elizabeth | 1975, 11 7/8"x 8 5/8", 2,000 copies printed by Bram de Does, signed by illustrator Henry Bennett, cloth bound, slipcase slightly worn, Greek with English translation | LN
#4 | SOLD |
| | At the Sign Of The Queen Pedauque; France, Anatole | 1933, 11 5/8" x 9 3/8", 1,500 copies printed at Lakeside Press, signed by the illustrator Sylvain Savage, cloth bound, some wear | LN
#5 | $25.00 |
| | Battle of Waterloo, The; Hugo, Victor | 1977, 10 3/4" x 8 1/2", 1,600 copies printed by Harbor Press, illustrations reproduced by from engravings by Edouard Detaille, marbled paper, gilt leather spine, slightly worn | LN
#6 | SOLD |
| | Ben Hur; Wallace, Lew | 1960, 10 3/4" x 7 1/2", 1,500 copies printed by The Connecticut Printers Inc, signed by the illustrator Joe Mugnaini, slipcase slightly worn, cloth bound | LN
#7 | SOLD |
| | Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the LEC 1929-1985 | 1985, 13 5/8" x 9 3/4", 800 copies printed by Anthoensen Press, good condition, leather spine, marbled paper bound, slipcase cloth covered slightly worn | LN
#8 | SOLD |
| | Break of Day; Colette | 1983, 11/14" x 9 1/4", 2,000 copies printed by Wild Carrot Letterpress, signed by the illustrator Francoise Gilot, slipcase slightly worn, cloth bound | LN
#9 | SOLD |
| | Bridge, The: A Poem; Crane, Hart | 1981,12 1/4" x 9 1/4", 2,000 copies printed Meriden Gravure Co., signed by the photographer Richard Benson, cloth bound, slipcase light wear | LN
#10 | SOLD |
| | Captive Mind, The; Milosz, Czeslaw | 1983, 1,500 copies printed by Darrell Hyder, signed by the author and illustrator Janusz Kapusta, cloth bound good condition, slipcase slightly worn | LN
#11 | SOLD |
| | Circus of Dr. Lao, The; Finney, Charles G. | 1982, 12 1/4" x 9 1/2", 2,000 copies printed at Stinehour Press, signed by the illustrator Claire Van Vliet, good condition, patterned cloth bound, slipcase very lightly worn | LN
#12 | SOLD |
| | Conciliation With The Colonies, On; Burke, Edmund ; edt. by Peter J. Stanlis | 1975, 10 1/4" x 7 1/4", 2,000 copies printed at Stinehour Press, signed by the illustrator Lynd Ward, patterned cloth bound | LN
#13 | $30.00 |
| | Connecticut Yankee in King Authur's Court; Twain, Mark | 1959, 1,500 copies printed by the Ferris Printing Co. among others, signed by the illustrator Honore Guilbeau, gold paper bound, cloth spine, somewear on spine, slipcase worn on edges | LN
#14 | $50.00 |
| | Daphnis and Chloe; Longus | 1934, 11 1/2" x 8 1/4", 1,500 copies printed Porter Garnett, signed by the illustrator Ruth Reeves, leather bound, embossed cover, little wear, slipcase worn | LN
#15 | $50.00 |
| | Dialogues on Love and Friendship; Plato | 1968, 11" x 7 3/4', 1,500 copies printed at the Press of A. Colish, signed by the illustrator Eugene Karlin, paper bound, leather spine slight discoloration, slipcase | LN
#16 | $40.00 |
| | Divine Comedy, The; Dante | 1932,12 7/8", 8 1/2", 1,500 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni, Verona english translation signed by the designer Hans Mardersteig, decorative cloth bound, good condition, slipcase very distressed | LN
#17 | SOLD |
| | Erewhon; Butler, Samuel | 1934, 9 3/4" x 7 1/8", 1,500 copies printed Pynson Printers N.Y., signed by the illustrator Rockwell Kent, patterned cloth bound, light wear, slipcase distressed | LN
#18 | SOLD |
| | Eugenie Grandet; Balzac, Honore De | 1960, 10 5/8" x 7", 1,500 copies printed by the Curwen Press, signed by the illustrator Rene ben Sussan, slipcase slight worn, cloth bound | LN
#19 | $35.00 |
| | Exile's Return, A Literary Odyssey of the 1920's ; Cowley, Malcolm | 1981, 9 7/8" x 6 3/4", 2,000 copies printed at the Wild Carrot Press, signed by the author Malcolm Cowley and photographer Berenice Abbott, paper bound, slight discoloration on spine, some discoloration on slipcase | LN
#20 | SOLD |
| | Faerie Queen, The; Spenser, Edmund | 1953, 11 3/5" x 8", two volume set, 1,500 copies printed by Charles Batey, printer to the Oxford University Press, signed by the illustrator wood engraver Agnes Miller Parker, dust wrapper, discolored spine, cloth bound good condition, slipcase slightly worn | LN
#21 | $250.00 |
| | Fairy Tales; Andersen, Hans Christian | 1942,9 3/8" x 6 3/8", two vol. set, english translation, printed at Stratford Press, signed by the illustrator Fritz Kredel, worn, patterned paper bound, slipcase worn | LN
#22 | SOLD |
| | Far From the Madding Crowd; Hardy, Thomas | 1958, 9 1/8" x 6 1/4", 1,500 copies printed at the Cambridge University Press, signed by the illustator Agnes Miller Parker, patterned paper bound, | LN
#23 | $75.00 |
| | Flounder. The; Grass, Gunter | 1985, 10 7/8" x 11", three vol. set, 1,000 copies printed by Wild Carrot Press, signed by the author/ illustrator Gunter Grass, cloth bound, leather spine, slipcase some water damage | LN
#24 | SOLD |
| | Flowers of Evil, The; Baudelaire, Charles | 1971, two book set, 11 1/2" x 7 /8", and 9" x 5 3/4", 1,500 sets printed at the press of A. Colish, English and French, signed by the illustrator, Pierre-Yves Tremois, slightly worn slipcase, cloth bound | LN
#25 | SOLD |
| | Four Plays; Marlowe, Christopher | 1966, 12 1/2" x 91/2", 1,500 copies printed at Thistle Press, signed by the illustrator Albert Deceris, good condition, cloth bound, leather spine, slipcase discolored some distess at seams and corners | LN
#26 | SOLD |
| | Frankenstein; Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft | 1934, 5/8" x 7 1/4", 1,500 copies printed at the Walpole Printing office, signed by the illustrator Everett Henry, patterned cloth bound, litttle wear, leather spine, slipcase distressed | LN
#27 | $125.00 |
| | Gentleman from Cracow, The, The Mirror; Singer, Isaac Bashevis | 1979, 10 1/2" x 7 3/4", 2,000 copies printed by Hampshire Typothetae, signed by the author and illustrator Raphael Soyer, slipcase, paper bound | LN
#28 | $200.00 |
| | Gulliver's Voyage to Brodingnag; Swift, Jonathan | 1950, 18 1/4" x 13 1/2", 1,500 copies printed by the Aldus Printers, signed by Bruce Rogers, good condition, paper bound, slipcase worn with some water damage | LN
#29 | $265.00 |
| | House Of Mirth, The; Warton, Edith | 1975, 10 3/4" x 6 7/8", 2,000 copies printed at the club's printing office, signed by the illustrator Lily Harmon, patterned cloth bound, good condition, slipcase light wear | LN
#30 | $50.00 |
| | House of the Dead, The; Dostoevsky, Fyodor | 1982, 10 1/2" x 7 1/4", 2,000 copies printed by Wild Carrot Letterpress, signed by the Illustrator Fritz Eichenberg, slipcase slightly worn, cloth bound | LN
#31 | $40.00 |
| | Iceman Cometh, The; O'Neill, Eugene | 1982, 11 1/2" x 7 1/4", 2,000 copies printed at Stinehour Press, signed by the illustrator Leonard Baskin, paper bound, printed label, slipcase slightly worn | LN
#32 | SOLD |
| | Journey to the Center of the Earth, A; Verne, Jules | 1966, 10 1/4" x 7 1/2", 1,500 copies printed by A. Colish, Inc., signed by the illustrator, Edward A. Wilson, slipcase, cloth bound | LN
#33 | SOLD |
| | Jurgen , A Comedy of Justice; Cabell, James Branch | 1976, 11 1/8" x 7 1/4", 2,000 copies printed at the Stinehour Press signed by the illustrator Virgil Burnett, slipcase, cloth bound | LN
#34 | $40.00 |
| | Kenilworth; Scott, Sir Walter | 1966, 9 1/4" x 6 1/8", 1,500 copies printed by Lane Press, signed by the illustrator Clarke Hutton, cloth bound, slipcase slightly worn | LN
#35 | SOLD |
| | Kim; Kipling, Rudyard | 1962, 10 1/4" x 7 6/8", 1,500 copies printed by Marbridge Press, signed by the illustrator Robin Jacques, slipcase, slightly worn, cloth bound | LN
#36 | SOLD |
| | King Lear, The Plays of William Shakespeare; Shakespeare, William | 1939, 12 3/4", 8 7/8", 1,950 copies printed at the Press of A. Colish, decorative paper bound, slight wear | LN
#37 | $25.00 |
| | Leaves of Grass; Whitman, Walt | 1929, 11 1/4" x 7 7/8", 1,500 copies printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, signed by Frederic Warde, pattern cloth bound, slipcase worn | LN
#38 | SOLD |
| | Leaves of Grass; Whitman, Walt | 1929, 11 1/4" x 7 7/8", 1,500 copies printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, signed by the designer Frederic Warde, pattern cloth bound | LN
#39 | $80.00 |
| | Light of Asia, Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama; by Arnold, Sir Edwin | 1976, 11 1/2" x 9 5/8", 2,000 copies printed at A.Colish Press, signed by illustrator Ayres Houghtelling, decorative cloth bound, slipcase slightly worn | LN
#40 | SOLD |
| | Lives of Twelve Ceasers, The; by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, translation by Holland, Philemon | 1963, 10 1/2" x 7 1/8", 1,500 copies printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, signed by the illustrator Salvatore Fiume, some discoloration on slipcase | LN
#41 | SOLD |
| | Lost Lady, A; Cather, Willa | 1983, 10 1/2" x 7 1/2", 1,500 copies printed by Anthoensen Press, signed by the illustrator William Baily, floral pattern cloth bound, slipcase | LN
#42 | $50.00 |
| | Maggie a Girl of the Streets, a story of New York; Crane, Stephen | 1974, 10 3/4" x 7 3/4", 2,000 copies printed by the Press of A. Colish, signed by the illustrator Sigmund Abeles, cloth bound, gilt leather spine, slipcase | LN
#43 | SOLD |
| | Man and Superman, together with the Revolutionist's Handbook; Shaw, George Bernard | 1962,11 1/2" x 8 5/8", 1,500 copies printed at the Press of A. Colish, signed by the illustrator Charles Mozley, printed cloth bound | LN
#44 | SOLD |
| | Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man; Sassoon, Siefried | 1977, 10 1/8" x 7 1/4", 1,600 copies printed by Curwen Press, signed by the illustrator Paul Hogarth, slipcase slightly worn, cloth bound | LN
#45 | SOLD |
| | Merchant of Venice, The; Shakespeare, William | 1939, 12 3/4" x 8 7/8", 1,950 copies printed at the Press of A. Colish, illustrated, decorative paper bound, slight wear | LN
#46 | SOLD |
| | New Arabian Nights; Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1976, 11 1/4" x 7", 2,000 copies printed at Garamond Press, signed by the illustrator Clarke Hutton, cloth bound, gilt design on cover, good condition, slipcase lightly worn | LN
#47 | SOLD |
| | Notre-Dame de Paris; Hugo, Victor | 1930, 10" x 6/7", two vol. set, 1,500 copies printed by R. Coulouma, signed by the illustrator Frans Masereel, paper cover, good condition, slipcase being made | LN
#48 | SOLD |
| | Odyssey, The; Homer | 1981,11" x 7", english translation, 2,000 copies printed by Hampshire Typothetea, signed by the illustrator Barry Moser, cloth bound, good condition, slipcase lighly worn | LN
#49 | SOLD |
| | Outcast of the Islands, An; Conrad Joseph | 1975, 11 1/2" x 8 7/8", 2,000 copies printed at Steinhour Press. signed by the illustrator Robert Shore, good condition, decorative cloth bound, slipcase some wear | LN
#50 | $30.00 |
| | Overcoat, The and Government Inspector, The; Gogol, Nikolai | 1976, 10 3/4" x 6 3/4", 2,000 copies printed by the Meriden Gravure Co., slipcase, cloth bound, signed by the illustrator Saul Field | LN
#51 | SOLD |
| | Peer Gyant; Ibsen Henrik | 1955, 10 1/2" x 8", 1,500 copies printed at Centraltrykkeriet, Oslo, signed by the illustrator Per Krohg, paper and cloth bound, good condition, slipcase distressed | LN
#52 | $30.00 |
| | Peter Ibbetson; Maurier, du George | 1963, 11 1/8" x 8 3/4", 1,500 copies printed at the Sign of the Stone Book, book paper bound, gilt, slipcase distressed | LN
#53 | $35.00 |
| | Picture of Dorian Gray, The; Wilde Oscar | 1957, 11 1/8" x 7 7/8", 1,500 copies printed by Case, Lockwood and Brainard, signed by painter Lucille Cross, marbled paper bound, leather spine, little wear, slipcase discolored | LN
#54 | SOLDSOLD |
| | Pilot, The; Cooper, James Fenimore | 1968, 10 3/4" x 8 1/8", 1,500 copies printed at the Garamond Press, signed by illustrator Rober Quackenbush, slipcase slightly worn, cloth bound | LN
#55 | SOLD |
| | Poems and a Memoir; Heaney, Seamus | 1982, 12 1/4" x 7 5/8", 2,000 copies printed by Wild Carrot Press, signed by the author, and illustrator Henry Pearson, good condition, leather bound, embossed design, slipcase slightly worn | LN
#56 | SOLD |
| | Poems of The Caribbean; Walcott, Derek | 1983, 12 1/4" x 9 5/8", 2,000 copies printed by the Seaboard Lithograph Corp. signed by the author Derek Walcott (1992 Nobel Prize in literature) and the illustrator Romare Bearden, decorative cloth bound, slight wear, good condition, slipcase some discoloration and slight wear | LN
#57 | SOLD |
| | Poems of The Caribbean; Walcott, Derek | 1983, 12 1/4" x 9 5/8", 2,000 copies printed by the Seaboard Lithograph Corp. signed by the author Derek Walcott (1992 Nobel Prize in literature) and the illustrator Romare Bearden, with one original lithograph included, decorative cloth bound good condition slight wear on spine, slipcase some discoloration and water stain | LN
#58 | $250.00 |
| | Poems of William Shakespeare; Shakspeare, William | 1967, 11" x 6 7/8", 1,500 copies printed at the University House in Cambridge, signed by the illustrator Agnes Miller Parker, slipcase slightly worn, cloth bound | LN
#59 | SOLD |
| | Pudd'n Head Wilson; Twain, Mark | 1974, 10 3/4" x 7 1/2", 2,000 copies printed at the Stinehour Press, signed by the illustrator John Groth, slipcase slightly worn, cloth bound | LN
#60 | $65.00 |
| | Religio Medici; Browne, Thomas Sir, edt.'d by Keynes, Geoffrey | 1939, 11 1/4" x 8", 1,500 copies printed at University of Oregon, by John Henry Nash, signed by John Henry Nash, marbled paper bound, spinless slipcase worn | LN
#61 | SOLD |
| | Rennaissance, The; Pater, Walter | 1976, 12" x 8 7/8", 2,000 copies printed at Stamperia Valdoneg, Verona, good condition decorative paper bound, cloth spine, slipcase slightly worn | LN
#62 | $40.00 |
| | Richard the Second; Shakespeare, William | 1940, 12 3/4" x 8 7/8", 1,950 copies printed at the Press of A. Colish, wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, decorative paper bound, slight wear | LN
#63 | SOLD |
| | Saint Thomas Aquinas, Selected Writings; selections made by Shuster, George N. | 1969, 12" x 8 3/4", 1,500 copies printed by W & J Mackay and Co., signed by wood engraver Reynolds Stone, cloth bound cover, gilt spine, slipcase slight wear | LN
#64 | SOLD |
| | Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, The; Addison, Joseph, Steele, Richard, and Budgell, Eustace | 1945, 9 3/8" x 6 1/4", 1,500 copies printed at The Aldus Printers, signed by the illustrator Gordon Ross and colored by hand, patterned cloth bound, slipcase slightly worn | LN
#65 | SOLD |
| | Song of Roland, The; rendering by Moncrieff, Charles Scott | 1938, 10 5/8" x 7", 1,500 copies printed at Hawthorn House by Edmund B. Thompson, signed by illustrator Valenti Anelo, paper bound, gilt, slipcase slightly discolored | LN
#67 | SOLD |
| | Street Car Named Desire, The; Williams, Tennessee | 1982, 12 3/4" x 8", 2,000 copies printed by Wild Carrot Press, signed by the illustrator Al Hershfeld, good condition, bound in floral patterned cloth, leather spine, slipcase, slightly worn | LN
#68 | SOLD |
| | Tales of East and West; Kipling, Rudyard | 1973, 10 6/8" x 8 1/4", 2,000 copies printed by Connecticut Printers, signed by the illustrator Charles Raymond, cloth bound, good condition, slipcase lightly worn | LN
#69 | SOLD |
| | Tender Is The Night; Fitzgerald, F. Scott | 1982,11 1/4" x 8 3/4", 2,000 copies printed by Steinehour Press, illustrations by Fred Meyer, floral cloth bound good condition, slipcase slightly discolored and some wear | LN
#70 | SOLD |
| | Three Men in a Boat; Jerome, Jerome K. | 1975, 9 1/4" x 11 1/4", 2,000 copies printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd., signed by the illustrator John Griffiths, slipcase, cloth bound | LN
#71 | $40.00 |
| | Three Penny Opera, The; Brecht, Bertolt | 1982, 11 1/2" x 9 7/8", 2,000 copies printed by Wild Carrot Press, signed by the illlustrator Jack Levine, slipcaseslighrly worn, cloth bound | LN
#72 | $40.00 |
| | Three Tales: A Simple Heart, The Legend of Saint Julian, Herodias; Flaubert, Gustave | 1978, 11 3/4" x 8 1/4", 1,600 copies printed by A. Colish Press, signed by the illustrator May Neama, paper bound, cloth spine, slipcase slight discoloration | LN
#73 | $40.00 |
| | Torrents of Spring, The; Turgenev, Ivan | 1976, 9 3/4" x 6 5/8", english translation, 1,600 copies printed by The Press of A. Colish, signed by the illustrator Lajos Szalay, marbled paper bound, slipcase slightly discolored with some staining | LN
#74 | $25.00 |
| | Travels of Lemuel Gulliver; Swift, Jonathan | 1929, 11 1/8" x 7 1/8", 1,500 copies printed by Norman T. Munder and Co., signed by the illustrator Alexander King, cloth bound, leather spine, good condition, slipcase worn | LN
#75 | $125.00 |
| | Trial, The; Kafka, Franz | 1975, english translation, 9 3/4" x 7 3/4", 2,000 copies printed at the Sign of the Stone Press, signed by the illustrator Alan E Cober, leather bound, good condition, slipcase | LN
#76 | SOLD |
| | Troilus and Cressida; Chaucer, Geoffrey | 1939, 1,500 copies printed at Fanfare Press, good condition, paper bound, cloth spine, slipcase distressed at corners and seams | LN
#77 | SOLD |
| | Twenty Years After; Dumas, Alexandre | 1958, 9 5/8" x 6 3/4", 1,500 copies printed by the Photogravure and Color Co., signed by the illustrator Edy Legrand, cloth bound, slipcase worn | LN
#78 | SOLD |
| | Twice-told Tales; Hawthorne, Nathaniel | 1966, 11 1/2" x 7 6/8", 1,500 copies printed at the Stinehour Press, signed by illustrator Valenti Angelo, slipcase, slightly worn, cloth bound | LN
#79 | $50.00 |
| | Three Tales of the Sea: Youth, Typhoon, and The End of the Tether; Conrad, Joseph | 1972, 11/1/4" x 8", 1,500 copies printed at the Ward Ritchie Press, signed by printer and illustrator,slipcase slightly worn, cloth bound, | LN
#81 | $60.00 |
| | Voyage to the South Seas, The; Bligh, William | 1975, 14 3/8" x 9 7/8", 2,000 copies printed at Griffin Press, signed by the illustrator Geoffrey C. Ingleton, good condition, cloth bound, spine slightly dicolored, slipcase some fading | LN
#82 | $75.00 |
| | Voyage to the South Seas, The; Bligh, William | 1975, 14 3/8" x 9 7/8", 2,000 copies printed at Griffin Press, signed by the illustrator Geoffrey C. Ingleton, good condition, cloth bound, spine slightly discolored, slipcase slightly worn | LN
#83 | $75.00 |
| | Winesburg, Ohio; Anderson, Sherwood | 1978, 12" x 10", 1,600 copies printed by Stinehour Press, signed by the illustrator Ben F. Stahl, cloth bound, good condition, slipcase, some discoloration | LN
#84 | $65.00 |
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