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Franklin, Benjamin, et al.. The Way to Wealth: The Preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the 1758 Written Under the Name of Richard Saunders. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$55.58 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: black cloth to spine, brown papered boards, black lettering to label to spine, no dust jacket, deckled pages, 25 pp, volume 2 only, signed by publisher, number 10 of 390previous owner's ex libris to front paste down, lower left corner and lower spine worn and slightly detached, corners slightly bumped.

Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France

Franklin, Benjamin, et al.. The Way to Wealth: The Preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the 1758 Written Under the Name of Richard Saunders. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$55.58 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: black cloth to spine, brown papered boards, black lettering to label to spine, no dust jacket, deckled pages, 25 pp, volume 2 only, signed by publisher, number 10 of 390previous owner's ex libris to front paste down, lower left corner and lower spine worn and slightly detached, corners slightly bumped.

Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France

FRANKLIN, Benjamin. PREISSIG, Vojtech [illus.]. The Way to Wealth. The Preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the Year 1758 Writ Under the Name of Richard Saunders.. Random House, [New York], 1930.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: Frontispiece by Vojtech Preissig. Large folio, publisher's white lettered boards in plain wrapper and slipcase. First edition; No. 113 of 390 copies signed bu Vojtech Preissig. A fine copy. The backstrip of the wrapper is split and chipped, and the slipcase is tanned. A review copy with the Random House purple stamp in the lower right corner of the half-title page. The New Book Series No. 2.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Franklin, Benjamin. The Way to Wealth: The Preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the Year 1758, Written Under the Name of Richard Saunders. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: Half-bound boards with white covers; light blue DJ; light blue slipcase; [10], 11-25, [5] pp.; richly illustrated. "This edition consists of 390 copies of which 350 are for sale. It was printed in the new Preissig type on J.W. Zanders hand-made special paper by the State Printing Office at Prague, Czechoslovakia"-- Colophon. This is copy #4, signed by Vojtech Preissig. Good (Boards are shelf/edgeworn, smudged; DJ is heavily worn and spine is missing; slipcase is heavily worn, toned and smudged, and there is tearing at the edges; interior is bright and clean; textblock is cracked.) Copy #4 of 390, Signed by Vojtech Preissig.

Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.

Franklin, Benjamin. THE WAY TO WEALTH, The Preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the Year 1758 Written under the Name of Richard Saunders VOLUME NO. TWO OF THE NEW FINE BOOK SERIES. Random House Inc., New York, 1930.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: LRG 039445 This is a lovely book, a limited edition, #160/360 printed on hand-made special paper made by J.W. Zanders and printed in the new Preissig Typ at the State Printing Office in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1930 and distributed by Random House. It includes a wonderful birds eye view of the grave of Benjamin Franklin surrounded by the tall building of Center City Philadelphia, designed by Vojtech Preissig using linocutting and making color plates without acid or tool. The color is quite stunning. Preissig also signed the limitation page. There are also several different very handsome illustrative "devices" -"hinges" on the front free endpapers and on the inside edge of the boards. On the pages with printing on them, there is a "margin" that delineates the text block and it is punctuated by a third device. The spine is covered with cloth and the boards with a grainy paper. There is some soiling to the boards and a little bit inside. The book was in a box which did a good job of protecting this large (12 x 15.5 inches) book but the box paid the price and is broken at top and bottom but been repaired with tape to some extent.

Seller: Walk A Crooked Mile Books, Williamsburg, PA, U.S.A.

Franklin, Benjamin; Vojtech Preissig (design). The Way to Wealth [SIGNED]. Random House, 1930.

Price: US$120.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed (by the illustrator, Preissig), limited edition. 40 x 30 cm. Bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards, with a paper spine label. [10], 11-25, [5] pages : illustrations. Clean, unmarked pages. The essay "Poor Richard's philosophy" is reprinted from Phillips Russell's foreword to the Holly edition of Poor Richard's almanack published in 1928. Cf. p. 23. "This edition consists of 390 copies, of which 360 are for sale. The text has been printed on Zanders hand-made paper by the State Printing Office in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in a new type cut by Vojtech Preissig and cast by the same Office."--Colophon. New fine book series, no. 2.

Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.

Benjamin Franklin. The Way to Wealth: the Preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the Year 1758 written Under the Name Richard Saunders. Random House, 1930.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: #203/360cc. Signed by the illustrator Vojtech Preissig. Second volume of the Fine Book Series by the illustrator. Plain gray jacket torn, chipped and in two pieces. In worn clipcase.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Franklin, Benjamin (Preissig, Vojtech; Illustrator.). The Way to Wealth: The Preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the Year 1758 Written Under the Name of Richard Saunders by Benjamin Franklin. Random House, 1930.

Price: US$137.66 + shipping

Description: 25pp. Excellent condition. Small stain to front board, corners lightly bumbed. Signed by illustrator. Printed in the new Preissig type, on J.W. Zanders hand-made special paper, by the State Printing Office at Prague

Seller: Jeffrey Blake, Willow Grove, PA, U.S.A.

Franklin, Benjamin (Preissig, Vojtech; Illustrator.). The Way to Wealth: The Preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the Year 1758 Written Under the Name of Richard Saunders by Benjamin Franklin. Random House, Prague, 1930.

Price: US$180.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Limited Edition, #326 of 390. Signed by the illustrator. Printed in the new Preissig type on J.W. Zanders hand-made special paper for Random House by the State Printing Office at Prague. Original publisher's box remains, but is broken. It has, however, protected the book very well over the years, and as a result the book is in close to fine condition. Presumably there was an original plain DJ, as a large panel, front or back, is laid in.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

Franklin, Benjamin; Vojtech Preissig (design). The Way to Wealth [SIGNED]. Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: 114/ 390 Signed on colophon by Vojtech Preissig. Folio. 25(4)pp. Original black cloth over beige boards with brown lettering on spine; housed in matching slipcase. Decorative endpapers. Original color linoleum cut by Preissig on half-title. Frontispiece linoleum cut by Preissig. Decorative ruling of text throughout. "The New Fine Book Series" designed and with a new type cut by Vojtech Preissig, Volume No. Two. Printed Zanders hand-made paper in Czechoslovakia. Franklin's "The Way to Wealth" was the preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the year 1758 written under the name of Richard Saunders. With the essay on Poor Richard's philosophy by Phillips Russel. Publisher's note regarding this edition from March 1929. Block untrimmed at foredge and bottom. Slipcase worn, rubbed with some staining and top and bottom mostly missing. DJ with moderate wear, chips and tears along edges loosely laid in. Binding slightly darkened along edges. Block slightly age-toned along edges. Slipcase in overall poor, dj in fair, binding in good+ and interior in very good condition.

Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Franklin, Benjamin. The Way to Wealth (Signed By Illus). Random House, New York, 1930.

Price: US$325.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 25+pp/color frontis. Hardcover Limited edition #55/360 copies signed by the illustrator, bound in 1/4 cloth and paper over boards, illustrated in color by Vojtech Preissig, with the essay on Poor Richard's Philosophy by Phillips Russell. A beautiful clean bright copy.

Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.