Search Results: 17th Century Literature from Charles Agvent

(Mexico): Limited Editions Club, 1950. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume; spines slightly darkened. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Edy Legrand. Two small folio volumes (8-3/4" x 12-1/4") bound in yellow cloth-backed marbled paper boards. An attractive printing of what is considered to be the first novel. Translated by John Ormsby with a new introduction by Irwin Edman. Copy #39 of 1500 illustrated by Edy Legrand with colors applied by Fernand Mourlot. Issued unsigned.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1966. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and an unevenly sunned, Near Fine slipcase. Albert Decaris. Folio (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in gilt-stamped quarter green morocco leather and blind-stamped natural linen, 336 pages. Edited by Havelock Ellis with an introduction by him. Illustrated with 16 full-page ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVINGS by Albert Decaris and woodcut monograms by Fritz Kredel. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by Decaris on the colophon page. Monthly letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with uneven sunning. Albert Decaris. Folio (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in gilt-stamped quarter green morocco leather and blind-stamped natural linen, 336 pages. Edited by Havelock Ellis with an introduction by him. Illustrated with 16 full-page ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVINGS by Albert Decaris and woodcut monograms by Fritz Kredel. Copy #894 of 1500 SIGNED by Decaris on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with some sunning. Albert Decaris. Folio (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in gilt-stamped quarter green morocco leather and blind-stamped natural linen, 336 pages. Edited by Havelock Ellis with an introduction by him. Illustrated with 16 full-page ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVINGS by Albert Decaris and woodcut monograms by Fritz Kredel. Copy #473 of 1500 SIGNED by Decaris on the colophon page. Monthly letter laid in.

Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Largely unopened. Spine with faint spotting. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in linen with a solid rust color along the spine and a pattern-printed linen on the boards. Designed by Francis Meynell with an introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan, with the plates hand-colored through stencils by Maurice Beaufume in France. Copy #1307 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator.

Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Some offsetting to the endpapers, the front endpaper with an owner blindstamp. Spine a little darkened. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in linen with a solid rust color along the spine and a pattern-printed linen on the boards. Designed by Francis Meynell with an introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan, with the plates hand-colored through stencils by Maurice Beaufume in France. Copy #844 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator.

Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Largely unopened. Mild darkening to the spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in linen with a solid rust color along the spine and a pattern-printed linen on the boards. Designed by Francis Meynell with an introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan, with the plates hand-colored through stencils by Maurice Beaufume in France. Of a total edition of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this is one of only 25 Presentation Copies with the publisher's blindstamp attesting to such on the colophon page where instead of a number the initials "G.M." are handwritten. Acquired directly from the publisher's files, and most likely the publisher George Macy's very own copy.

Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Largely unopened. Mild rubbing to the spine. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in linen with a solid rust color along the spine and a pattern-printed linen on the boards. Designed by Francis Meynell with an introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan, with the plates hand-colored through stencils by Maurice Beaufume in France. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered (in place of the number is written in ink "Office Copy") and bears the Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 25 presentation copies.

Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown, largely unopened. About Fine in a Fine plain brown heavy dustwrapper and a Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in linen with a solid rust color along the spine and a pattern-printed linen on the boards. Designed by Francis Meynell with an introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan, with the plates hand-colored through stencils by Maurice Beaufume in France. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.