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642. Wyss, Johann David
The Swiss Family Robinson

Illustrated by David Gentleman.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963
Signed Limited Edition. 7 3/4 X 11 inches. 432 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 280 of 1500. Signed by illustrator, David Gentleman. Consists of thirty-one full-page two-color wood engravings, printed in various color combinations. Three dozen smaller black-and-white wood engravings and a map for the endpapers. The binding boards are covered with imported handmade grasscloth, and the buckram shelfback is stamped in gold leaf.

50/100     SOLD: $34.50


643. Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, translator
Journals and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Illustrated by Lima de Freitas.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963
Signed Limited Edition. Broad Quarto. 440 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 280 of 1500. Signed by illustrator, Lima de Freitas. Consists of seventy sgraffiti, of which sixty-five are in black-and-white and five are double-page spreads; a colored endleaf map and six text maps have been drawn by Raphael Palacios. The binding is of a fine buckram, having a portrait medallion embossed on front cover, and on spine a leather label stamped in gold leaf. Monthly newsletter laid in.

75/150     SOLD: $69.00


644. Margaret Armour, translator
The Nibelungenlied

Illustrated by Edy Legrand.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960
Signed Limited Edition. Octavo. 312 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No, 280 of 1500. Signed by Edy Legrand. Consists of twenty-three full-page line-and-wash drawings. Binding is a rich black fabric stamped in rust and gold with lettering in medieval style.

50/100     SOLD: $69.00


645. Thoreau, Henry D.
Walden or The Life in the Woods

Illustrated by Edward Steichen.
Boston: Limited Editions Club, 1936
Signed Limited Edition. Med. Octavo. 290 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 1155 of 1500. Signed by photographer, Edward Steichen. Illustrations reproduced from photographs made at Walden Pond. Navy buckram over decorated boards.

300/600     SOLD: $569.25


646. Pearl Buck, translator
All Men Are Brothers

Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948
Signed Limited Edition. 12 X 9 1/2 inches. 800 pp. Two Volume Set.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 10 of 1500. Signed by illustrator, Miguel Covarrubias. Consists of numerous illustrations in the fashion of popular Chinese prints. Book is divided into two volumes. Both volumes are sewed, by hand, in Chinese fashion; and the sheets are sewed in to the boards, covered with an Oriental bark-paper, and decorated with labels in Chinese red. Solander container.

75/150     SOLD: $80.50


647. Horace
Odes and Epodes / Pages From Earlier Editions of Horace


New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961
Limited Edition. 480 pp. (both volumes) Two Volume Set.

Odes and Epodes. 5 X 7 1/4 inches (424 pp.). Latin and English on facing pages.
Pages From Earlier Editions of Horace. 9 1/2 X 13 3/4 inches (56 pp.). Reproductions of thirty-nine pages from twenty-three volumes selected from the George Macy collection of editions of Horace ranging from the period of the incunabula to the present century.
Both volumes are half-bound in natural buckram, sides being covered with a highly distinctive hand-marbled paper made by Putois Freres of Paris; titles are stamped on the shelfbacks in pure gold over panels of color leaf.

75/150     SOLD: $57.50


648. Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Master of Ballantrae

Illustrated by Lynd Ward.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1965
Signed Limited Edition. Royal Octavo. 360 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 280 of 1500. Signed by illustrator, Lynd Ward. Consists of twenty-eight two-color lithographs drawn on stone. Bound in Black Watch tartan. The shelfback title is gold-stamped on a black leather label.

50/100     SOLD: $57.50


649. Eliot, George
The Mill on the Floss

Illustrated by Wray Manning.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963
Signed Limited Edition. Royal Octavo. 548 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 280 of 1500. Signed by illustrator, Wray Manning. Included are twenty-four oil paintings. The book is bound in boards covered with a rugged woven fabric, bearing a leather spine label stamped in gold.

50/100     SOLD: $46.00


650. Shaw, George Bernard
Man and Superman / The Revolutionist's Handbook

Illustrated by Charles Mozley.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962
Signed Limited Edition. 268 pp. Two Volume Set.

Man and Superman. 8 1/2 X 11 3/8 inches (204 pp.). Bound in beveled boards covered with an English-made brown linen cloth for which Mozley has created an overall silk-screened design. Signed by Charles Mozley, No. 280 of 1500.
The Revolutionist's Handbook. 5 1/2 X 8 inches (64 pp.). Covered in limp red cloth.
The two volumes are enclosed in a dual slipcase.

50/100     SOLD: $34.50


651. Jefferson, Thomas
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson

Illustrated by Lynd Ward.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967
Signed Limited Edition. Super Royal Octavo. 384 pp.

No. 280 of 1500. Signed by illustrator, Lynd Ward. Saul K. Padover, editor. Included are sixteen full-page two-color lithographs and thirty-six part-page monochrome drawings. The volume is three-quarter bound in blue vellum cloth and a harmonizing hand-marbled paper.

50/100     SOLD: $69.00


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