Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Full black leather, faux cameo inset. Covers edge worn. Original mezzotints. LIMITED 1232/1500 SIGNED by artist Lynd Ward. No slip case. Small glue stain front end paper.; 110 pages
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: xv, 110p., Ex-Library. (This copy, which is no. 737), Chipping to spine., Lower of slip case is broken.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Price: US$156.30 + shipping
Description: Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheep leather with an ivory medallion inset on the front cover. Translated from The Latin text by Harry Carter, with an introduction by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. Illustrated with 10 original mezzotints by Lynd Ward hand-pulled in the shop of Charles Furth in New York. Ward also contributes numerous marginal illustrations. Designed by George Macy, letterpress composed and printed on special Worthy paper in black and rubric red by the J.Horace McFarland Company at the Mount Pleasant Press in Harrisburg. Copy #617 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean. Light chipping to the tips of the spine which is rather fragile with a long vertical tear down the center. Good, internally Near Fine, in a Good slipcase with the bottom portion partly split
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$168.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, pp. xv, 110, [1 leaf]colophon. 10 mezzotints. tissue guards with legends. marginal illus. & captions, headings & typographical ornaments printed in red. Bound in original black sheep, ivory medallion inset on upper cover (rubbed at corners & spine ends worn & chipped, slight wear to medallion, internally very good). Offered without the slipcase. Limited to 1500 [# 1363] numbered copies, signed by the Illustrator Ward. Designed by George Macy, letterpress composed and printed on special Worthy paper in black and rubric red, by the J.Horace McFarland Company at the Mount Pleasant Press in Harrisburg, the mezzotints by Ward hand-pulled in the shop of Charles Furth in New York, bound by Russell-Rutter Company, NY. Laid in are a large page of three proofs (2 printed in red one in black) of the headings and typographical ornaments that are used in the book.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$398.63 + shipping
Description: 4to. pp. xv, 110, [1 leaf]colophon. 10 mezzotints. tissue guards with legends. marginal illus. & captions, headings & typographical ornaments printed in red. original black sheep, ivory medallion inset on upper cover (corners & spine ends worn & chipped, slight wear to medallion, internally very good). without the slipcase. Limited to 1500 [limitation not stated] numbered copies, signed by the Illustrator Ward. Designed by George Macy, letterpress composed and printed on special Worthy paper in black and rubric red, by the J.Horace McFarland Company at the Mount Pleasant Press in Harrisburg, the mezzotints by Ward hand-pulled in the shop of Charles Furth in New York, bound by Russell-Rutter Company, NY. LEC Quarto-Millenary 144.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada