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Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 20 pp. Fine in original red boards stamped in gilt. Precedes the edition of 500 copies published by Zonne & Co. in Chicago in 1936. One of only 100 copies printed, all "for private distribution," by Norman W. Forgue, Sr., and with a splendid hand-colored frontispiece by Calvin Brazelton. This Aesopic fable with a twist, which first appeared in the author's PROSE FANCIES (London, 1894), is a kind of ANIMAL FARM -- but not nearly as long, and based on the French Revolution not the Russian. Moreover, books (and even bookworms, but not barnyard animals) are the protagonists: talking among themselves, raising the standard of revolutionary equality, taking over the library from its human owner. Their revolution soon finds its Robespierre, however, and the short-lived community of octavos and folios descends into Terror, followed by Reaction.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Le Gallienne, Richard. ANARCHY IN A LIBRARY A FABLE FOR SOCIALISTS. Black Cat Press, 1935.
Price: US$81.20 + shipping
Description: ANARCHY IN A LIBRARY A FABLE FOR SOCIALISTS, Black Cat Press, 1935, first edition, spine somewhat tanned, some minor bleeding from the red dye of the boards to the head and heel of paste-downs at the inner gutters, else a fine copy. 1/100 copies, each with a hand-colored frontis by Calvin Brazelton. Books in a library about to be resorted become rebellious and demand equality.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good and tight copies of the Limited Editions. Published by The Black Cat Press. A very nice matching set, showing only light rubbing to spine tips. No bumped corners to books. No cracked hinges. No signatures. The Philosophy of Ltd. Ed.'s is one of one hundred copies as is Anarchy In A Library. Poets & Publishers was limited to five hundred copies. Issued without jackets.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.