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Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones. The History of a Foundling. Limited Editions, NY, 1931.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two tone illustrations throughout Ed of 1500 Slipcased but frayed edges and spine
Seller: Weyhe Art Books, Mount Desert, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Number 1466 of fifteen hundred copies of this 4to leather-bound edition signed by illustrator Alexander King on the rear limitation page. Missing its slipcase; no dust jacket as issued. Modest condition grade because the front hinge is open. Also has a starter in the rear hinge. Aside from being tanned, the contents otherwise appear mark-free, complete, and securely bound. Laid in is issue number 29, October 1931, of The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club plus an member's printed Ex Libris bookplate. Uncut bottom edge. Grey flexible leather on construction paper boards so this special edition is more a soft cover than a hardcover. Gilt spine lettering and decoration. Erosion, rubbing, and some tears at the head and tail of the spine; additional rubbing along other edges. No ex-library markings. **Extra charges to cover shipping costs will apply to an order requesting international and/or expedited shipping because of the size and weight of this book.
Seller: Black and Read Books, Music & Games, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.
Henry Fielding. Tom Jones: The History of a Foundling. The Limited Editions Club, 1931.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Signed by Illustrator. Acceptable flexible blue/black leather wraps; light rubbing along edges. Binding broken at front cover; contents clean and unmarked except for Illustrator's signature in back and name on first page , text block intact. 869pp. Limited edition 1070 of 1500, signed by the Illustration Alexander King. Chipping at head and tail of spine. Includes Limited Editions club newsletter. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
Seller: Imperial Books and Collectibles, Wauwatosa, WI, U.S.A.
Henry Fielding. Tom Jones, The history of a Fondling. The Limited Editions Club, 1931.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 503/1500cc, signed by illustrator Alexander King. Leather binding worn and flaking along edges. Crown of spine missing. In worn slipcase.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Signed. Folio; in tan linen boards, with titling and decoration in gilt and in red; [12], 13-120 pages with illustrations in color, including a gatefold at the rear of the book; with a slipcase which has a few marks; while one edge of the slipcase is cracked, it is all still holding well, with no real separation; the book is housed the publisher's red slipcase, with a pastedown label to the spine. Good binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 870p. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. A flexible hardcover book bound in grey leather. Corners and spine edges lightly worn; otherwise, interior clean and binding tight. Comes with the slipcase. Limited edition; #541 of 1,500 copies signed by the illustrator, Alexander King. This is the 1931 version, much scarcer than the 1952 LEC version.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition. Quarto. Red slipcase with decorated paper title plate on rear foredge, blue leather over softcover with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, pale green pastedowns and free end papers, introduction by J. B. Priestley, number 1355 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. Very good, light wear to slipcase with corners bumped, head of spine split, few stains, a few pages with corners turned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones The History of a Foundling. Limited Editions Club, 1931.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Editions Club January 1931 Binding: Novelty 815 OF 1500 SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry; King, Alexander. TOM JONES. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Editions Club issue of Fielding's classic novel on human nature, one of 1500 copies signed by the artist. Originally published in 1749, TOM JONES has been an "incalculable influence" on the literature of "England, the United States and wherever English is written" (Yardley). An oft-humorous Bildungsroman set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rising, the work was met with "shock and delight" by contemporary readers - sometimes with more "shock" than "delight" (Yardley). Henry Fielding's frank descriptions of the hypocrisy of the upper classes and his characters' sexual encounters caused some blustering; as Samuel Johnson lectured Hannah More: "I am shocked to hear you quote from so vicious a book. I am sorry to find you have read it: a confession which no modest lady should ever make. I scarcely know a more corrupt work" (quoted in Roberts 168-9). 10.75'' x 7''. Original limp grey calf with gilt tooled titles and designs to spine. Illustrated in black and red throughout. 870 pages. Signed by King to limitation page, numbered 1423 of 1500. Original red slipcase with title plate to spine. Toning to top and front of slipcase, with some light edgewear. Spine ends lightly bumped with shallow bits of loss to head; mild soiling to front board. Else sharp and tight. Very good plus in very good plus slipcase.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: - Large octavo, 10-1/2 inches high by 7 inches wide. Bound in full gray limp leather titled and decorated in gilt on the spine. The book is housed in a red slipcase titled on a paper label on its spine. The extremities of the leather covers are lightly scuffed. The edges of the slipcase and it's label are darkened. 870 pages plus colophon, illustrated in black and white by Alexander King. Very good. "This edition of TOM JONES consists of fifteen hundred copies issued to members of The Limited Editions Club, with the illustrations by Alexander King. The edition was designed by George Macy and made under his supervision, the paper by the Worthy Paper Company Association of Mittineague Massachusetts, the printing by E.L. Hildreth and Company of Brattleboro Vermont, and the binding by George McKibbin and Son of Brooklyn New York." - from the colophon. This is copy number 112, SIGNED BY ALEXANDER KING.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Henry Fielding. Tom Jones: The History of a Foundling. Limited Editions Club, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good/Poor (slipcase) condition, no DJ. First Thus/first printing. No markings to the text block. Previous owner's markings on the front free end paper. Slipcase broken on seams. Limited Edition No. 1143 of 1500.; 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall; Signed by Illustrator(s)
Seller: Henniker Book Farm and Gifts, Henniker, NH, U.S.A.
FIELDING, Henry. TOM JONES, THE HISTORY OF A FOUNDLING. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931.
Price: US$93.80 + shipping
Description: Quarto (7" x 10") bound in full flexible gray cowhide leather stamped in gold on the spine. Introduction by J. B. Priestley. Illustrated with 40 full- page plates by Alexander King printed in black and vermilion. Copy #1006 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Light chipping to the heel of the spine. Very Good, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones. The History of a Foundling. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. 870pp. Original charcoal leather over flexible boards. Gold lettering and decoration on spine. Uncut. Ex-libris of Lucy Smith Battson (ex Lucy Doheny) on free front endpaper. Colored vignette on title-page. Decorative colored headpieces. Beautiful edition of this classic novel, profusely illustrated with numerous colored and b/w illustrations by Alexander King. Limited edition of 1500 copies, this being No. 1431 signed by the illustrator. Minor rubbing on spine edges and corners. Binding in overall very good, interior in fine condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Original suede, in slipcase. One of 1500 copies signed by the artist. Spine faded a bit, but a nice copy.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Henry Fielding. Tom Jones: The History of a Foundling. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931.
Price: US$109.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited Editions club limited to 1,500 copies (#623) signed by illustrator Alexander King on limitation page. Full limp dark gray cowhide with gilt decoration and titling on spine in red slipcase; 870[1]pp. (limitation page being extra page). Near Fine in VG slipcase. Book shows only minor wear at corners. Slip case shows edge wear and some soiling (see photos). Remarkable condition for a nearly 90 year-old book. A classic early publication (1931) by the Limited Editions Club. Came from a fine collection of an early subscriber as I have found the same numbered copy on several early Limited Editions Club books acquired. A beautiful book.
Seller: North Slope Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry. TOM JONES, THE HISTORY OF A FOUNDLING. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931.
Price: US$132.00 + shipping
Description: small 4to. limp full leather, slipcase. 870, (2) pages. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by King (LEC 25). With illustrations by Alexander King and an Introduction by J.B. Priestley. Designed by George Macy and printed by E.L. Hildreth and Company. Slipcase shows minor spotting on rear panel. Tail of leather spine shows light leatherot, else a fine copy.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones; The History of a Foundling. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931.
Price: US$144.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 1,500 copies signed by the illustrator. Inroductin by J. B. Priestly. Illustrations by Alexander King. Bound in publisher's original soft navy blue calf with spine lettered and lavishly ornamented in gilt. Slipcase in fine condition covered in red textured cloth with printed label.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: From the Estate of Barbara Walters. Signed by the illustrator, Alexander King. Number 1088 of 1500 limited edition copies. Very good shape, slight nick on the spineThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is the comical history of a young man who was adopted into a rich family and faces a brother who is against him all while they grow into maturity. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. This delightful Depression-era volume is bound in full charcoal-grey leather over flexible boards with an elaborately gilt tooled spine, yielding a deluxe leatherbound paperback housed in a red clothbound slipcase that is here in decent shape. The book itself is in beautiful condition. It is SIGNED by the illlustrator, Alexander King, on the colophon page. First Thus (In a limited edition of 1,500 numbered copies). 4to (870 pages, with 40 illustrations by Alexander King).
Seller: Clays rare and antique books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones. The History of a Foundling. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto (7" x 10") bound in full flexible gray cowhide leather stamped in gold on the spine. Introduction by J. B. Priestley. Illustrated with 40 full- page plates by Alexander King printed in black and vermilion. Copy number 174 of 1500 signed by the illustrator on the colophon page.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
FIELDING, Henry. TOM JONES, THE HISTORY OF A FOUNDLING. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Quarto (7" x 10") bound in full flexible gray cowhide leather stamped in gold on the spine. Introduction by J. B. Priestley. Illustrated with 40 full- page plates by Alexander King printed in black and vermilion. Copy #1205 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Touch of rubbing to the spine tips; tasteful bookplate on front pastedown. About Fine in a Very Good slipcase with a split along the bottom edge. Uncommon in this condition due to the fragile nature of the binding
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This delightful Depression-era volume is bound in full charcoal-grey leather over flexible boards with an elaborately gilt tooled spine, yielding a deluxe leatherbound paperback housed in a red clothbound slipcase that is here modestly worn. The book itself is in beautiful condition, save for four small tape shadows on the endpapers and pastedowns, front and rear. It is number 516 of 1,500 copies, SIGNED by the illlustrator, Alexander King, on the colophon page. First Thus (In a limited edition of 1,500 numbered copies). 4to (870 pages, with 40 illustrations by Alexander King)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
FIELDING, Henry. TOM JONES, THE HISTORY OF A FOUNDLING. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1931.
Price: US$218.80 + shipping
Description: Quarto (7" x 10") bound in full flexible gray cowhide leather stamped in gold on the spine. Introduction by J. B. Priestley. Illustrated with 40 full- page plates by Alexander King printed in black and vermilion. Copy #1240 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. About Fine in a Good, intact slipcase with a water stain on one side
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.