[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 2000. Bruskin, Grisha. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 143 of 300 copies, elephant folio size, [62] pp., signed by Sir John Tavener and Grisha Bruskin, with LEC Newsletter and CD. Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (1889-1996), known by her pen name Anna Akhmatova, was one of the... More about Requiem
New York: Limited Editions Club [printed at the Press of William E. Rudge's Sons, under the direction of Bruce Rogers], 1944. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 540 of 1100, folio size, 203 pp., signed by Bruce Rogers. The first book published by the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Baron of... More about The Essays or Counsels Civill & Morall
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, (1989). Ryman, Robert. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Number 351 of 550 copies, quarto size, [136] pp., signed by Samuel Beckett and Robert Ryman, with LEC Newsletter. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was renowned for his writing which often had a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence;... More about Nohow On
New York: The Limited Editions Club [printed at the Thistle Press], 1968. Miller, Edgar. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 65 pp., signed by Edgar Miller, with LEC Monthly Letter. The Book of Ecclesiastes, part of both the Christian Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible, offers... More about The Book of Ecclesiastes; In the Revised King James Version
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 351 of 1500, quarto size, 611 pp. for both volumes. The westward explorations of Lewis and Clark remain a source of fascination, with the courage and daring it took to explore then-unknown territory. This edition of Lewis and Clark’s Expedition... More about The Journals of the Expedition under the Command of Capts. Lewis and Clark; to the sources of the...
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Kredel, Fritz. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 253 pp., signed by Fritz Kredel, with LEC Monthly Newsletter and Announcement. Journalist and fiction writer Ambrose Bierce (1842- ca. 1914) was a prolific and diverse writer, often drawing from his experiences... More about The Devil's Dictionary
New York: The Limited Editions Club, [1993]. Balthus. Limited Edition. Leather. No. 177 of 300, folio size, 208 pp., signed by Balthus, with LEC Monthly Letter. "What could they have in common --Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola and Mistress Emily Bronte--the Paris-born modern artist who has filled scores of canvases with... More about Wuthering Heights
New York: The Limited Editions Club [at the printing-office of the Yale University Press], 1937. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 231 of 1500 copies, sixteenmo size, 96 pp., signed by Valenti Angelo. "The Kasidah of Haji Abdu el-Yezdi" was written by British explorer and orientalist Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890);... More about The Kasidah of Haji Abdu el-Yezdi
Limited Editions Club, (1987). Juarez, Roberto. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 331 of 750, signed by Alejo Carpentier and Roberto Juarez, with LEC Monthly Letter. A significant novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980), "The Kingdom of This World" depicts Haiti and the time surrounding the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint... More about The Kingdom of This World
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New York: The Limited Editions Club [printed by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress], 1983. Gilot, Francoise. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 2000, quarto size, 155 p., signed by illustrator, with Monthly Newsletter and separate, additional silk-screen. Colette (1873-1954), author, actress, journalist, and mime, is best known for her... More about Break of Day [with additional silk-screen
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1969. Shore, Robert. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 351 of 1500, fine in a fine slipcase, quarto size, 117 p., signed by Robert Shore. First published in 1902, this story, written at the height of the British empire, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad... More about Heart of Darkness
New York: The Limited Editions Club [Printed by The Spiral Press], 1939. Marsh, Reginald. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 113 of 1500, 4to - over 9.75” - 12” tall, 404 p., signed by illustrator. Dreiser is considered one of American's greatest naturalists for his movement away from the emphasis on the... More about Sister Carrie
New York: Printed by Edna Beilenson for The Limited Editions Club, 1965. Legrand, Edy. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, octavo size, 448 pp., signed by Edy Legrand, with prospectus and announcement. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) is one of the most widely read French authors, whose works have been translated... More about The Man in the Iron Mask
New York: The Limited Editions Club, printed at Heritage Printers, (1989). Cosindas, Marie. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 650, folio size, 41 pp., signed by Friedrich Durrenmatt and Marie Cosindas, with LEC Monthly Letter. A lovely production by the Limited Editions Club of a new telling of the ancient... More about Oedipus
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 938 of 1500, 4to - over 9.75” - 12” tall, 492 p., signed by illustrator. "The Mill on the Floss" occupies a special place among George Eliot's works. While it has no claim to be the greatest of her novels... More about The Mill on the Floss
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, (1988). Welliver, Neil. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 850, folio size, 111 pp., signed by Neil Welliver, with LEC Monthly Letter. William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962), winner of the Nobel Prize (1949) and two Pulitzers (in 1954, for "A Fable", and again in 1962... More about Hunting Stories
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Leather bound. No. 510 of 1500 copies, sixteenmo size, 80 unnumbered pp., signed by Valenti Angelo. Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer, best known for his work on cubic equations and for designing the Jalali calendar;... More about The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1970. Etchemendy, Teje. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 218 pp., with announcement and prospectus. This collection of Russian folk tales contains stories of magic and enchantment, of harrowing adventure, and of love lost and found; they were collected and edited... More about Russian Folk Tales
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1973. Neama, May. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 141 pp., signed by May Neama, with LEC Monthly Newsletter and Announcement. A master of letters and wit, French writer Francois-Marie Arouet, best known by his pen name Voltaire, wrote on... More about Candide, or Optimism
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Nash, John. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 276 pp., signed by John Nash, with LEC Monthly Newsletter and Announcement. A collection of letters written by naturalist Gilbert White (1720-1793), this volume details the plant and animal life in the... More about The Natural History of Selborne
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1962. Corcos, Lucille. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes (complete), no. 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 990 total pp., signed by Lucille Corcos, with LEC Monthly Letter and announcement. Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm (1785-1863 and 1786-1859, respectively), known as the Brothers Grimm, have popularised... More about Grimm's Fairy Tales
New York: Limited Editions Club [printed by The Spiral Press], 1969. Parker, Agnes Miller. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, octavo size, 451 pp., signed by Agnes Miller Parker, with the separate plate also signed by her, and with the LEC Monthly Letter. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is one... More about Jude the Obscure
Paris: The Limited Editions Club, Printed by R. Coulouma, 1930. Masereel, Frans. Limited Edition. Wraps. No. 714 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 724 pp., signed by Franz Masereel, two volumes (complete) with original chemise and slipcase. Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) remains a household name today; he was a prolific author... More about Notre-Dame de Paris
Westport, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club, printed at the Harbor Press, 1977. Detaille, Edouard. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1600 copies, quarto size, [110] pp., with LEC Monthly Letter, signed by Drew Middleton. Victor Hugo's (1802-1885) rendition of the Battle of Waterloo, taken straight from the pages of his... More about The Battle of Waterloo
[New York] (Munich): The Limited Editions Club (printed by Typostudio Schumacher-Gebler), (1987). Ionesco, Eugene. Limited Edition. Cardboard. Number 425 of 1000, folio size, 145 pp., signed by Eugene Ionesco. Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994), one of the formost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre, wrote this work later in his career. In... More about Journeys Among the Dead, A Play With Lithographs