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Shakespeare, William. The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies: Henry the Sixth Part II the Text of the First Folio Edited and Amended Where Obscure By Herbert Farjeon.. Limited Editions Club, 1940.

Price: US$14.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VERY GOOD/ NO DUST JACKET. Former library book. 110 p. Number 565 of limited edition of 1950 copies. Vol. 26 of the 37 volume set. Pages are of heavy paper, rough cut on edges. Text is in Shakespearean English in folio size with lithographs. Text is clean and unmarked except for usual library treamtents. Pink and brown design cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Spine is tight and sound. No wear on covers or spine.

Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Henry the Fifth. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.

Price: US$22.50 + shipping

Description: #1642 of 1950 copies. VERY GOOD+. SLIGHTLY DARKENED SPINE, SLIGHT BUMPING TO CORNERS, BINDING TIGHT, GILT TOP EDGE BRIGHT, INTERIOR CLEAN. BOOKPLATE. NO SLIPCASE. Subscriber commentary laid in. Illustrated from drawings by Vera Willoughby.

Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Shakespeare, William (Edited and Amended By Herbert Farjeon). The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare: Henry the Sixth, Part II. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 110 pages. Number 1749 of a limited edition of 1950 copies. Top edge is gilded. Lower outside corner is lightly bumped with a little wear to paper over covers. Volume shows slight signs of age and use, though is otherwise tight and very clean. Lacking slipcase and publisher's newsletter.

Seller: Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps, Chanute, KS, U.S.A.

Shakespeare, William (Edited and Amended By Herbert Farjeon). The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare: Henry the Sixth, Part II. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: 110 pages. Number 1599 of a limited edition of 1950 copies. Top edge is gilded. Slight signs of age and use, and there is a small previous owners' book plate on front paste down. Otherwise, a tight and clean copy. Lacking slipcase and publisher's newsletter.

Seller: Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps, Chanute, KS, U.S.A.

William Shakespeare. Henry the Fifth. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.

Price: US$33.75 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This copy Henry the Fifth being 1238 of 1950 copies unsigned as issued. 118-10th publication of LEC in the Eleventh Series dedicated to Shakespeare. Pencil drawings by Vera Willoughby, lithographed by Mourlot Freres. Book is VG+ with some browning on the spine. The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare were released in 37 volumes between 1939 and 1940. Edited by Herbert Farjeon to restore the original typographic style and spelling. The typography planned and production supervised by Bruce Rogers, set in monotype Shakespeare (designed by Rogers based on Janson). Printed on Worthy special paper and printed by A Colish. Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in half natural buckram, gold stamped, gilt top, paper sides printed in four colors from a pattern redrawn by Rogers after the wall painting in the Davenant house at Oxford where Shakespeare is known to have visited. 130 pages, 8 ¾ x 12 inches. This is a heavy book and extra shipping charges may apply; The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 130 pages

Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia

William Shakespeare. Henry the Sixth: Part II. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.

Price: US$33.75 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This copy Henry the Sixth Part 2 being 1238 of 1950 copies unsigned as issued. 118-12th publication of LEC in the Eleventh Series dedicated to Shakespeare. Lithographs by Carlotta Petrina, pulled by Georg C Millar. Book is VG with some browning on the spine. The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare were released in 37 volumes between 1939 and 1940. Edited by Herbert Farjeon to restore the original typographic style and spelling. The typography planned and production supervised by Bruce Rogers, set in monotype Shakespeare (designed by Rogers based on Janson). Printed on Worthy special paper and printed by A Colish. Bound by Russell-Rutter Company in half natural buckram, gold stamped, gilt top, paper sides printed in four colors from a pattern redrawn by Rogers after the wall painting in the Davenant house at Oxford where Shakespeare is known to have visited. 130 pages, 8 ¾ x 12 inches. ; The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 130 pages

Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia

(Steinbeck, John) Jackson, Joseph Henry. Why Steinbeck Wrote the Grapes of Wrath and Other Essays. Limited Editions Club, 1940.

Price: US$37.50 + shipping

Description: 30 pages. Also includes: Did Shakespeare translate The Decameron by Carter Meredith and Mr. Grahame; Mr. Roosevelt, and I by A. A. Milne. Typed letter signed by George Macy, on The Limited Editions Club letterhead, dated April 23, 1940, addressed to Mr. William A. P. White. Letter informs White of the booklet publication and offers him subscriptions to The Wind in the Willows, The Decameron and The grapes of Wrath, with details re each book. About 275 words. A near fine copy in orange wrappers of booklet. With subscription form. William A. P. White (1911-1968) may be better known by his pseudonym Anthony Boucher.

Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.

Shakespeare, William. Henry the Fifth. The Limited Editions Club, 1940.

Price: US$39.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near Fine minus copy, due only to moderate spotting of buckram spine. The text is of the First Folio with Quarto insertions. Illustrated with drawings by Vera Willoughby. Gilt stamped vertical title of play to spine. Top edge gilt. Patterned paper cloth-backed boards. Pages in Fine shape with no markings. Four page subscribers¿ 'A Shakespeare Commentary' for Henry the Fifth loosely laid in. Number 1811 of 1950 copies. Eminently readable large type edition designed by master typographer Bruce Rogers, in a wonderful folio-sized production. About 9 x 13 in (22.6 x 33.1 cm).

Seller: Classic Choice Rare Books, Gaithersburg, MD, U.S.A.

Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Parts I, II & III (3 volumes). Limited Editions Club, 1940.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of 1950 copies in the LEC edition of Shakespeare's plays. Half linen, patterned boards, t.e.g., others uncut. Spine and fore-edges lightly foxed, else fine unopened copies, I and II in original glassine wrappers which are browned and tattered.Laid in is the commentary on all three parts of Henry the Sixth, with a preface to the plays by Barrett Wendell and notes by Sutherland and the other two illustrators. Size: Folio

Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.

SHAKESPEARE, William. HENRY THE SIXTH: PART II. , 1940.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Description: SHAKESPEARE, William. HENRY THE SIXTH: PART II. The text of the First Folio, edited and amended where obscure by Herbert Farjeon; illustrated with lithographs by Carlotta Petrina. Part of "The Plays of William Shakespeare," a series of thirty-seven volumes put out by the Limited Editions Club. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Number 354 of 1,950 copies. 4to., beige cloth-backed, decorative paper-covered boards, t.e.g. Bookplate. Very good plus.

Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

William Shakespeare. Henry the Sixth Part II. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of 37 volumes published in this series. Number 1107 of 1950 copies. 98 pages. Lithographs. Printed boards with nice design over cloth. Some darking and fading on the spine. The corners are rubbed down. The hinges and the spine are very good. The inside pages are bright and look unmarked. Some uncut pages.

Seller: M and N Books and Treasures, Bellevue, WA, U.S.A.

Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth: Part II (from)The Plays of William Shakespeare in Thrity-Seven Volumes: The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: 112 Pp. B&w frontis, b&w illus. throughout by Charlotta Petrina The text of the First Folio Edited and amended where obscure by Herbert Farjeon Sl. wear to spine, generally Vg Paper covered boards with cloth spine. Boards are decorated with a floral design

Seller: Schooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC), Halifax, NS, Canada

Shakespeare, William. henry the sixth, part II. Limited Editions Club, 1940.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Edition limited to 1,950 numbered copies. Couple tiny bumps to top boards.

Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

Shakespeare (ed. Herbert Farjeon, illust. Carlotta Petrina. Henry the Sixth Part II: The Plays of William Shakespear:. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.

Price: US$63.83 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of a limited edition published in series 1939+ by The Limited Editions Club of New York., this being from set number 1249 of the original edition of 1950 sets, published for subscribers only. Internally the text and all illustrations are in Near Fine to Fine condition. Pages on front edge are uncut at section ends. An excellent copy of a member of a now-scarce matching set, all thirty-seven of which have been offered for sale individually at different prices by this bookseller. All those of which are still unsold are listed separately on this site, under their individual titles. Size: Large Book - between A4 and A3. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Deckled edges (rough cut), browned. Top edge gilt in good condition. Illustrator: Carlotta Petrina. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Theatre & Plays; All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 8285. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.

Seller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books, Katoomba, NSW, Australia

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Henry the Sixth, Parts I, II, and III (three volumes). Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: Part I: #1401 of 1950 copies; Part II: #890 of 1950 copies; Part III: #149 of 1950 copies. Part 1: NEAR-FINE (SMALL DISCOLORATION AT SPINE TOP). Part 2: VERY GOOD. LIGHT SPINE DARKENING AND CORNER WEAR, OTHERWISE CLEAN AND TIGHT. Part 3: VERY GOOD+. LIGHT DARKENING AND FOXING TO SPINE, OTHERWISE FINE. NO SLIPCASES. BOOKMARKS IN ALL VOLUMES. Part I illustrated with lithographs by Graham Sutherland; Part II illustrated wiwth lithographs by Carlotta Petrina; Part III illustrated from drawings by Jean Charlot.

Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Shakespeare, William. henry the sixth, part I. Limited Editions Club, 1940.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Edition limited to 1,950 numbered copies. Commentary laid in. Part I only

Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

William Shakespeare; Herbert Farjeon [ed.]. Henry the Sixth, Part I: The Plays of William Shakespeare. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.

Price: US$162.44 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A lovely limited edition copy of William Shakespeare's Henry the Sixth, Part I, illustrated by Graham Sutherland. One volume only of a thirty-seven volume edition of Shakespeare's works published by The Limited Editions Club. This volume is drawn from set number 1,850 out of 1,950 sets produced.Illustrated with seven lithographs from English artist Graham Sutherland. Collated, complete.An excellent copy of the first part of Shakespeare's history play 'Henry the Sixth', edited from the text of the first folio by Herbert Farjeon. In the publisher's original cloth backed paper covered boards. Externally, lovely. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with only the odd light handling mark to page perimeters, and with a significant number of leaves unopened to fore edge. Near Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Shakespeare (ed. Herbert Farjeon, illust. Graham Sutherland). Henry the Sixth Part I: The Plays of William Shakespeare. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.

Price: US$235.16 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of a limited edition published in series 1939+ by The Limited Editions Club of New York., this being from set number 1249 of the original edition of 1950 sets, published for subscribers only. Internally the text and all illustrations are in Near Fine to Fine condition. Pages on front edge are uncut at section ends. An excellent copy of a member of a now-scarce matching set, all thirty-seven of which have been offered for sale individually at different prices by this bookseller. All those of which are still unsold are listed separately on this site, under their individual titles. Size: Large Book - between A4 and A3. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Deckled edges (rough cut), browned. Top edge gilt in good condition. Illustrator: Graham Sutherland. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Theatre & Plays; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 8296. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.

Seller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books, Katoomba, NSW, Australia

[PFORZHEIMER, Carl H.]. The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature, 1475–1700.. New York, Privately Printed [at the Morrill Press], 1940., 1940.

Price: US$4548.41 + shipping

Description: Three vols, tall 4to, with 3 frontispieces, each with tissue guard, and 80 leaves of plates, of which several printed on both sides; half-titles, titles printed in red and black, limitation to each volume numbered '17'; an excellent set in the original beige cloth, 'CHP' monogram blocked in gilt to boards, gilt red morocco lettering-pieces to spines, top-edges gilt, others uncut, preserved in the matching slipcase, numbered '17' in gilt; a few very slight marks to boards, otherwise a pristine copy; pencil correction to vol.I, p.278, Robert Pirie Reference Library booklabels to front pastedowns, bookplate of John de Zulueta to vol. IFirst edition, limited, numbered 17 of 150 copies and signed by Pforzheimer on the frontispiece portrait, from the library of the pre-eminent collector of English literature Robert S. Pirie. From his beginnings as a runner on Wall Street, the pioneer banker and founder of the American Stock Exchange Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879–1957) became one of the foremost private book collectors of the twentieth century by his mid-forties, competing at auctions with Folger, Huntington, and Rosenbach to acquire rarities including a perfect copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the 1535 Coverdale Bible, and an early Shakespeare quarto with the only perfect copy known of the Tragedy of Richard III. The collection was 'principally one of classical English books from the beginning of printing to 1700; that is, of major literature between Henry VII and William and Mary. It contains most of the great monuments of Renaissance poetry and prose, from Caxton, Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare to Bacon, Donne, Milton, the English Bible, Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration drama, and the earliest translations of major foreign authors. The heart of it is set out fully in the famous three-volume catalogue, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, English Literature, 1475–1700 (New York, 1940), begun by Emma Va. Unger, directly supervised by the collector, and upon her retirement completed by W.A. Jackson. The Catalogue remains the standard bibliographical reference work for its period – owing very largely to the excellence of the library it describes. It enumerates over eleven hundred English books (including a very few duplicates), some 675 of which are STC, i.e., printed before 1641, and 450 Wing, i.e., printed between 1641 and 1701; there are also above 250 manuscripts or coherent groups of manuscripts of the same period' (Quaritch). 'The descriptions of the 1,105 printed books and 169 autographs and manuscripts are the chef d'oeuvre of William A. Jackson and the non plus ultra of "critical" bibliography as postulated by Sir Walter Greg The catalogue is a model of its kind' (Breslauer & Folter). On Pforzheimer's death in 1957, the library passed to the Carl H. and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation. When sold en bloc by Quaritch in 1986 – with the exception of the Romantics collection, now at the New York Public Library – it was reported as 'the largest transaction of rare books ever made'; it is now held at the Harry Ransom Center in Texas. Provenance: From the collection of Robert S. Pirie (1934-2015), which began with a copy of Donne's Pseudo-Martyr (1610) purchased from Quaritch for £65 and grew to be 'one of the finest private libraries of English literature, not just of our time but of all time' (James Stourton). Breslauer & Folter, Bibliography: Its History and Development (1984) 162. See Barker, The Pirie Library (2019); The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library (Quaritch, 1977).

Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Unger, E.V. ; Jackson, W.A.. The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library : English Literature, 1475-1700. [ 3 volumes, complete set ].. Privately printed, New York, first edition, 1940, 1940.

Price: US$5523.07 + shipping

Description: Limited edition of 150 copies, printed at the Morrill Press. 3 vols, leather spine-labels, 4to, 31 cm, xli, 377, [2] + v, 379-791, [2] + 793-1303, [2] pp, lx leaves of plates, frontispiece signed by Carl H. Pforzheimer. 1105 entries for books; plus manuscript entries numbered 1a-169. The splendid first edition of the catalogue of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library of English Literature, 1475- 1700. The Collection -acquired in 1986 by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center - is "principally one of ‘classical' English books from the beginning of printing to 1700; that is, of major literature between Henry VII and William and Mary. It contains most of the great monuments of Renaissance poetry and prose, from Caxton, Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare to Bacon, Donne, Milton, the English Bible, Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration drama, and the earliest translations of major foreign authors. The heart of it is set out fully in the famous three-volume catalogue, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, English Literature, 1475-1700 (New York, 1940), begun by Emma Va. Unger, directly supervised by the collector, and upon her retirement completed by W. A. Jackson. The Catalogue remains the standard bibliographical reference work for its period - owing very largely to the excellence of the library it describes. It enumerates over eleven hundred English books (including a very few duplicates), some 675 of which are STC, i.e., printed before 1641, and 450 ‘Wing', i.e., printed between 1641 and 1701; there are also above 250 manuscripts or coherent groups of manuscripts of the same period." - from Quaritch's brochure offering th Library for sale. Only 150 copies of the catalogue were printed and it remains very scarce in the market, although later reprints are readily available. The 1940 catalogue was designed by Frederic Warde but completed after his death by Bruce Rogers: it is a most attractive production with sparing use of a brick-red contrast colour for headings etc. Breslauer and Folter commented: "The descriptions of the 1,105 printed books and 169 autographs and manuscripts are the chef d'oeuvre of William A. Jackson and the non plus ultra of 'critical' bibliography as postulated by Sir Walter Greg. Miss Unger had been the librarian of the Pforzheimer Library since 1920. The catalogue is a model of its kind." Includes indexes of I Anonymous Books; II Provenance; III Bibliographica. Set No. 34. Minor finger-soiling and one small mark to boards otherwise a Fine set. Without the slipcase.

Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom