London: James Cochrane and Co., 1831. Cruikshank, George. Leather. Volumes I and II (Novelist's Library), sixmo size, 882 pp., in a custom binding. A stand-alone story, this story was part of the Novelist's Library (Vol. III). Edited by Roscoe Tobias, Esq. (1791-1871), himself an author and translator; his own works..... More
Oxford: The Limited Editions Club [printed by the Oxford University Press], 1931. Austen, John. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), no. 183 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 798 total pp., signed by John Austen. This Limited Editions Club publication of William Makepeace Thackeray's (1811-1863) best-known work, "Vanity Fair", contains line..... More
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London: Chapman & Hall (printed by The Whitefriars Press, Ltd.), 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition with John Austen illustrations, quarto size, 214 pp. Morality plays have been an important part of society for centuries, with their conveyance of religious and/or moral lessons; the earliest dated morality play was..... More
[New York], Printed in Haarlem, Holland: The Limited Editions Club, Printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, 1972. ben Sussan, Rene. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 521 pp., signed by Rene ben Sussan, with LEC Monthly Letter and announcement. Casanova was recognized by his contemporaries as a...... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, (1985). Chandler, Bruce. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 66 pp., signed by Bruce Chandler, with LEC Club Letter. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer who, despite not being fluent in English until his twenties..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 480 pp. Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) has delighted generations with his depictions of 19th-century British life; no one can describe his characters with such precision, allowing us to not only visualize the physical attributes of the various..... More
The Limited Editions Club, 1950. Legrand, Edy. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), no. 386 of 1500, folio size, 684 total pp. "Don Quixote", a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), tells of the adventures of the nobleman Alonso Quixano, who, after reading many chivalric romances, decides to set..... More
East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, 1901. Limp leather. Quarto size, 67 pp. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) gave the world a literary legacy that few can match - who amongst us has not read many of his stories such as "The Tell-Tale Heart" or poems such as "The Raven", with..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), quarto size, 2093 pp., the first printing of this second, revised edition. The works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) continue to inspire and delight both the average reader as well as provide food for continued scholarly study. The Riverside Shakespeare is the..... More
![From the Earth to the Moon [and] Around the Moon. Jules Verne, Jean Jules-Verne, Robert Shore,...](/pictures/thumb/171031054_1.JPG?v=1568588158)
New York: The Limited Editions Club [printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard], 1970. Shore, Robert. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, two volumes (complete), quarto size, 457 pp., signed by Robert Shore, with LEC Monthly Letter and announcement. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) remains widely read today, having authored..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. Kipling, Rudyard. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 257 pp., in a custom clamshell box. A prolific author known for his varied works from "The Jungle Book" to "Captains Courageous", in the "Just So Stories" Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) creates delightful stories of animals..... More