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Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1929.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No 1073 of 1500, signed by the designer Frederic Warde Green cloth cover binding partially faded front and back hinges partially separated frontispiece Whitman portrait All pages clean and unmarked
Seller: H&G Antiquarian Books, Sheboygan, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Medium-green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine; darker-green and red decorations to binding; no slipcase; limited edition 1393/1500; signed by designer Frederic Warde. No slipcase. Book in very good plus condition with spine a bit sunned, otherwise book is in excellent condition. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller: The Old Sage Bookshop, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1929.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition, this is number 165 of 1,500 copies printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club. Introduction by Carolyn Wells. Green patterned cloth with gilt-stamped spine, topedge gilt. Quarto. xlvi, 154pp. Affectionate gift inscription from the students of poet Daniel Hoffman penned on the front fly, small blue stain on front board, spine and edges age-toned, spine ends rubbed, very good. Signed by the designer Frederic Warde on the limitation page.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Xlvi, 154 Pp. One Of A Limited Edition Of 1500 Copies, Signed By The Designer, The Second Publication Of The Limited Editions Club. A Reprint Of The First Edition, 1859, Retaining The Author's Preface Omitted From Later Editions. Fine, Just A Trace Of Fading To Spine, Otherwise Immaculate. In The Original Slipcase, Retaining The Printed Spine And Side Panels But Lacking The Top Panel And Most Of The Bottom Panel, And With Rear Side Panel Detached.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. #478/1500 copies (the whole edition). A lovely Fine copy in decorative green cloth, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. 154pp. with photogravure frontis photo of Whitman (with glassine guard). Designed by Frederic Warde, who has signed the colophon. Second publication of the LEC. Includes Whitman's original Preface to the first edition. Lacking the slipcase. Q12766
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 1500 numbered copies signed by designer Frederic Warde. Hardcover, bound in green cloth in a slipcase. The book lightly rubbed at the spine ends; the slipcase with tape repair to the top edge.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$5081.16 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An exceptionally scarce Limited Edition of Machiavelli's sixteenth century political treatise, limited to only ten copies printed on vellum leaves. Number ten of ten copies printed on vellum.Illustrated with a photogravure portrait frontispiece of Machiavelli, retaining the original tissue guard.A beautifully presented and very scarce edition of Niccolo Machiavelli's instructional guide for new princes and royals, credited with bringing the pejorative term 'Machiavellian' into common parlance.Derived from Edward Dacres's 1640 English translation of the work, and with an introduction from W. E. C. Baynes.With the former owner's inscription 'With regards, Ralph Poole, Feb. 1948' to the head of a front blank.Loosely inserted is a letter from Poole, with the letterhead 50, Bedford Square, London. Poole addresses a 'Mr John', and discusses his desire to 'make similar token gifts to your brothers'. He discusses the merits of giving these brothers 'an autographed copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, which as you know is scarce and much sought after in the states' and a 'Birket Foster watercolour', and 'some old Flemish silver'. He closes the letter with the entreaty 'I will be grateful if you will help me in this matter without mentioning it to your brothers'.A wonderfully scarce and beautifully produced Limited Edition work. In a full morocco binding. Externally, excellent, with light fading to back strip and perimeters of rear board. Otherwise, externally fine. Inscription to head of front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Tissue guard age toned, with pages otherwise exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom