British Literature from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1977. Hardcover. Illustrations by Ben F. Wohlberg. Small 4to. Full orange calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 546pp. All edges gilt. Color illustrations, orange moire silk endpapers, sewn-in orange satin page marker. Fine. Pristine, tight limited (unspecified) first edition, slightly preceding the Knopf first trade edition,… Ler mais sobre este item

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Illustrations by Warren Chappell. Introduction and commentary by Martin C. Battestin. Edited by Fredson Bowers. Small 4to. Beige cloth with brown lettering, slipcase with color plate. xxx, 999pp. Color frontispiece, full-page color plates, line drawings, color map endpapers, sewn-in purple satin page marker. Fine/fine. Academic owner signs top edge of 11 text… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Heritage Press, 1942. Hardcover. Illustrations by Robert Ball. Small 4to. Tan decorated cloth, slipcase. 846pp. Color frontispiece, 7 full-page color plates, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Spine lightly age tone; slipcase a bit sunned and edgeworn. John T. Winterich introduces this tight, clean, handsome copy of the smaller, mass-produced version of the Limited Editions Club limited edition.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington. Illustrations by Robin Jacques. Small 4to. Quarter brown calf with gilt lettering/decorations and gilt-ruled tan cloth, slipcase. x, 284pp. Color frontispiece, color illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. First published in 1901, this lovely LEC production is the tenth title in their 30th series. Rear colophon notes… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1962. Hardcover. Introduction by Lewis Casson. Illustrations by Charles Mozley. 4to. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown cloth over bevelled boards with black pictorial stamping. xxix, 138pp. Numerous illustrations, full-page color plates, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Faint binding wear only, with tiny scuff at upper right of front board, else internally… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge: The Limited Editions Club, 1958. Hardcover. Introduction by Robert Cantwell. Engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Small 4to. Quarter natural sheepskin with gilt spine lettering and decorative paper over boards, slipcase. xxi, 401pp. Illustrations. Very good/near fine. Spine (only) a tad rough, else tight and internally fine and bright. Nice tight copy of the LEC's eighth title in their… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. 4to. Full tan calf with brown lettering. 82pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Calf spine and edges a bit rough and edgeworn, though internally tight and near fine. Nice copy of one of the LEC's "special" publications" (not signed or numbered), with Paul Beaujon contributing "The Books as Printed Books," Edward Alden… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Foreword by Huxley. New introduction by Ashley Montagu. Illustrations by Mara McAfee. Small 4to. Glossy paper over boards, slipcase. xxvi, 237pp. 10 full-page aquatints. Fine/fine. This first thus represents the seventh title in the LEC's 41st Series, with rear colophon noting limitation of 2,000 numbered copies (this #89) signed hugely by… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge: The Limited Editions Club, 1977. Hardcover. Edited and introduced by Jim Lees. Illustrations by David Gentleman. Small 4to. Quarter green cloth with gilt spine lettering/decorations and pale green decorative paper over boards, slipcase. xxiii, 206pp. Color frontispiece, full-page color plates, numerous line drawings. Fine/near fine. Handsome, tight copy of the seventh title in the LEC's 44th Series, with… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Illustrations by T.M. Cleland. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Small 4to. Quarter blue cloth with paper label and patterned brown paper over boards. xviii, 231pp. Color illustrations. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. Lovely copy of this LEC production, the fifth volume in their 14th series, in which Fielding chronicles the exploits of the… Ler mais sobre este item

Philadelphia: John F. Watson, 1810. Hardcover. 8vo. Rebound in modern brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. xvi, 414pp. Very good overall. Rebind is pristine and fresh, while text block is moderately age toned and foxed sporadically throughout, with bit of old dampstain to preliminary leaves. First American edition of this travelogue originally published in London in 1785 -- here… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Introduction by Christopher Morley and note by A.S.W. Rosenbach. 4to. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and green/gold decorative paper over boards, green cloth-covered clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. ix, 190pp (mostly uncut). Top edge gilt. Fine/very good. Mild wear and age toning to clamshell case. Tight and handsome copy… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. Hardcover. Preface by Sir Walter Scott. Illustrations by Honoré Guilbeau. Small 4to. Quarter black calf with gilt spine lettering and decorative rose paper over boards, decorative gilt slipcase. lii, 232pp; ix, pp. 235-498. Frontispieces, numerous full-page line drawings. Very good/near fine. Slightest of spine wear. Handsome, tight LEC production of the 1824… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. Hardcover. Translation by A.W. Evans. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Preface by Anatole France. Illustrations by Malcolm Cameron. Small 4to. Quarter vellum with gilt spine lettering and pale blue decorative paper over boards, slipcase with paper label. xvi, 324pp. Frontispiece, full-page illustrations. Near fine/very good. Vellum spine lightly age toned; faint slipcase… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Small 4to. Full brown sheepskin with gilt lettering, rules and pictorial stamping, color pictorial chemise, slipcase. viii, 221pp. Top edge gilt. Color lithographs. Fine/near fine/very good. Minor slipcase wear and age toning. Superb, tight LEC production of the British writer's popular 1929 novel, quickly retitled "A High… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Dent, 1976. Hardcover. Translation by Eugene Mason. Introduction by Gwyn Jones. 12mo. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 264pp, (4pp ads). Near fine/very good. Jacket rubbed, with spine a tad sunned; ownership name/address on front pastedown. Attractive and tight later printing of volume 578 in the "Everyman's Library" series (first published 1912).… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1893. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. vi, 64pp. Top edge gilt. Single illustration. Near fine. Bright and tight, with gilt as fresh as the day published, this superb first edition about the Civil War and its aftermath in the South bears the most intriguing of provenances: It hails from the library… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, n.y.. Hardcover. 12mo. Tan cloth with ornate gilt lettering and elaborate brown and black rules and decorations. iv, 418pp. Floral endpapers. Very good. A tight and handsome later printing (undated, but circa 1890) of this tale first published in 1863, a "New Edition" from this publisher's "Select Library of Fiction" series -- the best… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Illustrations by T.M. Cleland. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Small 4to. Pale grey linen with paper spine labels lettered in black and red, paper-covered slipcase with paper spine label. xvii, 362pp; pp. 363-782. Color illustrations. Near fine/very good. Both spines faintly tanned; bookplate on each front pastedown; minor expert… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Oxford University Press, n.y.. Hardcover. 16mo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. vii, 506pp. Front endpaper map. Near fine. Handsome, tight later printing of #268 in the "World's Classics" series, arguably one of his best and most popular novels. First published in 1857 and in this series 1925 (here undated and post-1949, likely 1970s vintage). This unique… Ler mais sobre este item