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Price: US$27.28 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine/As New/, $49.77 POOR RICHARD`s ALMANAC ~ FAMILIAR LETTERs; Copy # 245 * FRANKLIN, Benjamin Advertisers Composition Company 1964 Limited Edition Of Twelve Hundred Copies, Copy # 245. Los Angeles, California * * * * * Slip Case + H/c. Rust Brown Slip Case: Fine/, Almost As New/, Slightest Wear. Brown Top / Tan Bottom Spine With Title Polished Gold Letters, Hard Cover Book: Fine/As New/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 92 Numbered Pages Printed On 0ff~White Paper That Are Clean And Tight To The Spine, In As New / Condition. Probably UnRead. = No Odors, No Writing, No Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, No Book Plate, Not X~Library, No Remainder Or Other Marks. This Item Will Be Sent In A Mailing B0X To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described. Description Applies To This B00K, Only. = This B00K Is Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped Carefully, = To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE *
Seller: L. Michael, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Benjamin Franklin. Poor Richard's Almanacs. Paddington Press, 1964.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover with mylar wrap, approx 8x10". A heavy book, domestic sales only. Rockwell adds small line-drawn art to the many almanacs, which are reprinted here from the Limited Editions Club 1964 issue, the original source. Virtually all the known almanacs are presented, in their original language of the mid-18th century. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. Embossed brown and tan cloth, with spine title applied. First thus issue, and a reprint of the 1964 LEC original.
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 300pp. Quarto. 1/4 tan leather with marbled paper over boards and a red leather spine label. Symbols of the zodiac embossed on the boards. Title page printed in red and black. Previous owner's small address label on rear pastedown. In the slipcase with scuffing to the surface, the underlying boards exposed at the corners and occasionally along the edges, and a short split at the bottom fore-edge corner. May require extra postage due to weight. Now containing an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. Illustrated with representations of oil paintings and pen drawings by Norman Rockwell. One in an edition of 1500 copies. This copy is number 731. Signed by Norman Rockwell on the limitation page.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 300pgs. Tan cowhide with maroon spine label, gilt lettering. Marbled boards. Six color plates. this is one of 1,500 limited copies signed by Norman Rockwell, the illustrator. (This copy being #1,500!) Light rubbing to he corners, a touch of wear to the spine, internally fine. Overall a presentable copy.Housed in a Dark Brown slipcase which has some wear along the extremities, a bumped corner at the top of the side board next to the spine label. One of the more attractive LEC volumes. Size: Large 4to
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
[FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758. Wherein Are. , 1964.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758. Wherein Are Retain'd in Their Entirety the Author's Prefaces, Proverbs, Verses and Entertaining Remarks; Together With Those Chronological, Historical and Scientific Observations Which the Author Has Illumin'd With His Characteristic Wit and Wisdom. Now Containing an Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks and Embellish'd by Norman Rockwell. 4to. Orig. suede-backed marbled boards in publisher's slipcase. Philadelphia: The Limited Editions Club, 1964. Limited to 1,500 copies designed by Richard Ellis and printed at the Sign of the Stone Book. Signed by Rockwell. A fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$343.75 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by Norman Rockwell (this, no. 682); folio, pp. xi, [3], 300, [2]; title page printed in red and black, illustrations in the text and 6 color plates by Rockwell (2 double-page); generally a fine copy in original reversed calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco label on spine and publisher's slipcase with printed paper label on spine, the glassine not preserved.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$378.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is the 362nd book issued by the Limited Editions Club and is one of a limited edition of 1,500 signed by the illustrator NORMAN ROCKWELL. This book is in wonderful condition (almost FINE). The slipcase has some minor rubbing to the right rear to corner and the smallest rub mark to the front bottom and top corners otherwise very nice. Slipcase is very tight without any splits. Great illustrations in this book with is cloth bound with a leather spine. This is # 817 of 1500 Copies.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$437.50 + shipping
Description: Tall quarto (8-3/8" x 12-1/2") bound in quarter natural top-grain suede cowhide and imported French hand-marbled boards; 336 pages. Designed by Richard Ellis. Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. The complete text of the 26 issues published by Franklin, with minor omissions. Copy #323 of 1500 copies illustrated with drawings and color plates by Norman Rockwell and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Light markings to the sides of the suede spine. About Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with slight damage to the spine label
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$468.80 + shipping
Description: Tall quarto (8-3/8" x 12-1/2") bound in quarter natural top-grain suede cowhide and imported French hand-marbled boards; 336 pages. Designed by Richard Ellis. Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. The complete text of the 26 issues published by Franklin, with minor omissions. Copy #457 of 1500 copies illustrated with drawings and color plates by Norman Rockwell and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Some mottling to the color of the suede spine. About Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.