Charles Agvent

THE FIRST NIGHT GILBERT AND SULLIVAN CONTAINING COMPLETE LIBRETTOS OF THE FOURTEEN OPERAS, EXACTLY AS PRESENTED AT THEIR PREMIERE PERFORMANCES; TOGETHER WITH FACSIMILES OF THE FIRST-NIGHT PROGRAMMES

GILBERT, W. S. and SULLIVAN, Arthur · 1958

$218.80 (€198.51 | £165.61 | ¥34,928)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Folio (8-1/2" x 12") bound in half red velvet with a green cloth spine label and green linen boards gold-stamped with a conventional Victorian pattern; 488 pages. Edited, with a Prologue and Copious Descriptive Particulars, by Reginald Allen; f...

ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS [SHUI HU CHUAN]

BUCK, Pearl (translator) (COVARRUBIAS, Miguel) · 1948

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two folio volumes (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in Oriental bark paper in the traditional stab-sewn Chinese style. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias with the plates hand-colored in the studio of Paul Baruch. Calligraphic titles by Jeanyee Wong. Copy...

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

HARDY, Thomas · 1958

$218.80 (€198.51 | £165.61 | ¥34,928)

Cambridge. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6" x 9") bound with a natural sheepskin spine and sides covered with paper printed in England bearing a design by the illustrator; 424 pages. Introduction by Robert Cantwell; book designed by John Dreyfus. Copy #751 of 1500 copies illu...

JOURNALS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS ON THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

MORISON, Samuel Eliot (editor) · 1963

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Folio (9" x 12") bound in full blue natural linen buckram with a large black medallion of Columbus embossed on the front cover and a gilt-lettered and decorated black leather spine label; 440 pages. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was so impressed wi...

CRAINQUEBILLE [L'AFFAIRE CRAINQUEBILLE]

FRANCE, Anatole · 1949

$62.50 (€56.70 | £47.31 | ¥9,977)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (9-1/8" x 12-1/4") bound in full tapestried burlap with the title stamped in burgundy leaf on the front and spine. Newly translated with an introduction by Jacques Le Clercq. Illustrated with paintings by Bernard Lamotte. Copy #751 of 15...

THE ORESTEIA

AESCHYLUS · 1961

$156.30 (€141.81 | £118.31 | ¥24,951)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall quarto (10" x 13") bound in a brown natural finish cloth, backed in crimson cowhide leather. Includes Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, and The Furies. Designed by Adrian Wilson and printed by A. Colish. Translated from the Greek by E. D. A...

THE LIFE OF KING HENRY V

SHAKESPEARE, William · 1951

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Folio (8-1/2" x 13") bound in full "blond" English buckram lavishly stamped in bright gold leaf, with beveled edges. The Arden text, edited and introduced by Herbert Arthur Evans with a prefatory note by Mark Van Doren. Copy #751 of 1500 number...

ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE

HORACE · 1961

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Two volumes in octavo (5" x 7-1/4") and folio (9-1/2" x 13-3/4") bound in half buckram with highly distinctive hand-marbled paper sides by Putois Freres of Paris. The smaller volume, printed in red and black, consists of the original Latin odes...

THE SONNETS OF PETRARCH

PETRARCH · 1965

$168.80 (€153.15 | £127.77 | ¥26,947)

Verona. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (8-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in half blue levant morocco leather with the title stamped in gold leaf and the boards covered with a beige mould-made Italian paper with the front cover impressed with a head of Petrarch drawn by the illustra...

GILGAMESH

1974

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

Avon, CT. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8-3/4" x 12-3/4") bound in ochre buckram stamped in brown pigment leaf with a reproduction of a 7th century B.C. cuneiform tablet mounted on the front cover. Translated by William Ellory Leonard. Illustrated with 9 three-color woodcuts ...

THE PRISONER OF ZENDA

HOPE, Anthony · 0

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (6-1/2" x 10") bound in quarter red morocco leather with heavy gilt stamping and white linen stamped with the gilt coat of arms of Ruritania. Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates and line drawings by Donald Spencer. Copy #751 of 15...

BEOWULF

1952

$231.30 (€209.85 | £175.08 | ¥36,924)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12") bound in blue linen and a richly decorative patterned paper hand-made by Ingeborg Borjeson in Stockholm. Modern verse translation of this Anglo-Saxon epic by William Ellery Leonard. Text is printed in three colors wit...

FRITHIOF'S SAGA

TEGNER, Esaias · 1953

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

Stockholm. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7" x 11") bound with a white natural Swedish linen spine and corner tips with sides of a tough rag paper colored by hand. Printed on paper made in Sweden for this book at the Royal Printing Office, Norstedt & Soner of Sweden. Tra...

THE RING AND THE BOOK

BROWNING, Robert · 1949

$81.30 (€73.76 | £61.54 | ¥12,978)

Los Angeles. Limited Editions Club. Two quarto (7-1/3" x 10") volumes bound in half red sheepskin leather and boards decorated with Italian hand-made paper. Printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Copy #751 of 1500 llustrated with ORIGINAL COPPER ETCHINGS by C...

THE DISCOURSES AND MANUAL OF EPICTETUS

EPICTETUS · 1966

$281.30 (€255.22 | £212.92 | ¥44,906)

Berne. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (7-7/8" x 11-3/8") bound in black buckram stamped in gold with designs by Hans Erni who has also illustrated the book with 6 color plates (5 of them double spreads) and a dozen line drawings. Translated with an introduction by P. E. Matheso...

THE SPECTATOR

ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard; et. al · 1970

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

London. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7-3/8" x 11") bound in decorated buckram with spine label stamped in pure gold leaf. Printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb with 16 full-page and 30 part-page line drawings, the full-page plates hand-colored in the s...

THE BLACK TULIP. A ROMANCE

DUMAS, Alexandre (Pere) · 1951

$218.80 (€198.51 | £165.61 | ¥34,928)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Octavo (7-5/8" x 11") bound in full natural morocco leather with a tulip design stamped in gilt and black leather on the front cover and a gold-stamped black leather spine label. Translated by S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald with an introduction by Ben...

THE RED AND THE BLACK

STENDHAL (BEYLE, Marie-Henri) · 1947

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/4") bound in red morocco leather stamped in gold with black linen boards with a gold-stamped decoration. Designed by Richard Ellis and illustrated with lithographs by Rafaello Busoni printed from the stones by George Mil...

THE WOMAN IN WHITE

COLLINS, Wilkie · 1964

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

Woodstock, VT. Limited Editions Club. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 10") bound in deep blue cloth stamped with gilt decoration and sides covered with a harmonizing hand-marbled paper imported from France; 616 pages. Designed by Frank J. Lieberman and printed at the Elm Tree Press. In...

OLD GORIOT

BALZAC, Honore de · 1948

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben...