Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$55.11 + 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
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; 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.