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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust: A Tragedy. Jonathan Cape, New York, 1930.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated with 6 wood-engravings by Lynd Ward, well-reproduced by electrotype. Translated by Alice Raphael. With an Introduction. by Mark Van Doren. 262 pages. 8vo, blue cloth; spine and top edge of boards are lightly sunned. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1930). First trade edition. Very good. Autographed by Lynd Ward on the half-title.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. Limited Edition of 501 copies signed by Lynd Ward at base of frontispiece and by Alice Raphael at limitation page; this copy unnumbered. Octavo. 262 pp. Six woodcuts by Ward, including frontis with tissue guard, complete. Patterned boards with blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt; patterned endpapers. Housed in publisher's slipcase with same pattern design as boards. Boards show light edgewear with some general mild rubbing, and spine lightly sunned and rippled. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown, ownership stamp to half title, slight discoloration to corners of illustrations, as appears common with this title. Slipcase shows light wear and rubbing along edges, else sturdy and sound.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Number 183 of 501 copies signed by the translator. Frontispiece signed by Lynd Ward. xxi, 262p. Illustrated by Lynd Ward with six full-page tipped-in woodcuts. Gilt-titled blue cloth spine with pattern paper boards with circular designs highlighted in gilt with matching endpapers, t.e.g. Spine with moderate fading as usual, all esle fine. Slipcase wanting Number 183 of 501 copies signed by the translator. Frontispiece signed by Lynd Ward.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 262p quarto, illustrated by Lynd Ward and signed by him on his woodcut /frontispiece and signed by the translator on the colophon. Limited to 501 copies this copy #445. A very good copy , top edge gilt, previous owner;s name on front fly leaf , small personal library sticker partially removed on inside front panel. Light discoloration at the spine head, , sine sunned. Light horizontal mark on each board caused by slipcase which is rubbed. Nicer than it sounds.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: Number 434 of 501 copies signed by the translator. Frontispiece signed by Lynd Ward. xxi, 262p. Illustrated by Lynd Ward with six full-page tipped-in woodcuts. Gilt-titled blue cloth spine with pattern paper boards with circular designs highlighted in gilt with matching endpapers, t.e.g. Spine with slight fade - much less than normally found, else fine in very good slipcase. Quite a nice copy Number 434 of 501 copies signed by the translator. Frontispiece signed by Lynd Ward.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.