The Limited Editions Club: A Collecting Guide

For more than 80 years, bibliophiles have been awestruck by the beautiful books of the Limited Editions Club. It's a simple formula - take a classic title and add illustrations of the highest order. Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Norman Rockwell, Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham are among the famous artists to have illustrated books for the Club.

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Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920’s by Malcolm Cowley with photos by Berenice Abbott Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope & illustrated by Fritz Kredel Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad & illustrated by Lynd Ward The Circus of Dr Lao by Charles G. Finney & illustrated by Claire Van Vliet Omoo by Herman Melville & illustrated by Reynolds Stone

February's Most Expensive Sales

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

Last month’s list spans five centuries of natural history, physics and philosophy, and fiction. There are also two significant contributions from 20th century artists and the ultimate book for North American tree-spotters.

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Stephen King's 40 Years of Fear

Misery by Stephen King

More than 70 titles and the master of horror is still going strong after all these years. It began on April 5, 1974 with the publication of Carrie and Stephen has been literary royalty ever since.

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Otherworldly Books

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Fictional places have their own cultures and fantastical inhabitants, from unicorns to flying monkeys. It takes skill and creativity to create a strange and wondrous land, and we've found 25 books that are truly out of this world.

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Coffee Table Luxury

Coca-Cola 125th Anniversary published by Assouline Publishing

Assouline publishes big, bold and beautiful books about art, architecture, design, fashion, food, travel, photography and much more. This selection ranges from Cecil Beaton to Penthouse and from Rene Magritte to Coca-Cola.

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February 2014 Top 10 Bestselling Signed Books


  1. The Martian
    by Andy Weir
  2. The Goldfinch
    by Donna Tartt
  3. The Fault In Our Stars
    by John Green
  4. Allegiant
    by Veronica Roth
  5. Unbroken
    by Laura Hillenbrand
  6. It's Okay to Be Different
    by Todd Parr
  7. With
    by Skye Jethani
  8. Red Rising
    by Pierce Brown
  9. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    by Ransom Riggs
  10. Codex Seraphinianus
    by Luigi Serafini