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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is copy number 770 of 1,500 signed by the illustrator, Agnes Miller Parker, who cut 39 wood engravings for the book. The prospectus and The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club are laid in. Quarto. Original henna-colored cloth-covered boards over a deep red-brown cowhide spine, with an oval silhouette of Shakespeare embossed on the front, and titles in gilt and black. Faint spot to the top edge; otherwise a nearly fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 298 pages. In Very Good condition. Quarter bound in dark red leather with red cloth boards and gilt lettering on black spine label, embossed silhouette of Shakespeare on front Housed in publisher's Very Good minus black slipcase with glassine wrapper. Slipcase has slight tearing to tail edge, glassine has tearing to corners and spine edges. Textblock clean. Signed by illustrator on limitation page. Shelved Limited Editions Club. 1373544. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: No. 321 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist. Wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 1 vols. 4to. Half brown morocco. Slight scuff to spine, else Fine, in Very Good, edgeworn slipcase Wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 1 vols. 4to No. 321 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 297 pages. Number 1332 from a limited edition of 1500 copies. Edited and introduction by Peter Alexander. Includes numerous wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. A fine copy in cloth boards with leather spine with laid in newsletter for the Limited Editions Club in a good glassine jacket with large chips to the spine, some tears and other wear and in a near fine slipcase. Signed by Agnes Miller Parker on the colophon page. A very attractive edition of this collection.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
William Shakespeare. The Poems of William Shakespeare. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1967.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A beautiful fine copy of this LEC title.1/4 leather with cloth boards and a medallion. #1342 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator Agnes Miller Parker. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Illustrator
Seller: Rare Collections, Brighton East, VIC, Australia
William Shakespeare. The Poems of William Shakespeare. The Limited Editions Club, Cambridge, 1967.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: The limited edition, signed by illustrator. Minor scratch to spin (visible up-close). Shelfware to bottom of slipcase, else in perfect condition. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
William Shakespeare. The Poems of William Shakespeare. The Limited Editions Club, Cambridge, 1967.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: The limited edition, signed by illustrator. Minor scratch to spin (visible up-close). Shelfware to bottom of slipcase, else in perfect condition. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
SHAKESPEARE, William. THE POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Limited Editions Club, Cambridge, 1967.
Price: US$218.80 + shipping
Description: Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter deep red-brown cowhide and henna-colored natural-finish cloth boards with the front board embossed with an oval portrait of Shakespeare. Edited and introduced by Peter Alexander; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with 39 wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Includes Venus & Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece, the Sonnets; A Lover's Complaint; The Passionate Pilgrim; The Phoenix and Turtle; and a useful Glossary. Copy #894 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
SHAKESPEARE, William. THE POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Limited Editions Club, Cambridge, 1967.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto (6-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter deep red-brown cowhide and henna-colored natural-finish cloth boards with the front board embossed with an oval portrait of Shakespeare. Edited and introduced by Peter Alexander; designed by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with 39 wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Includes Venus & Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece, the Sonnets; A Lover's Complaint; The Passionate Pilgrim; The Phoenix and Turtle; and a useful Glossary. Of a total of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page, this is not numbered but marked as an Office Copy with a blindstamp stating that it is one of 15 Presentation Copies. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with some wear
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.