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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.
[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.