Emily Bronte: Signed (22 results)
Published by Penguin Books, England 1994
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Seller: Llibrenet, Sant Feliu del Raco, SpainLlibrenet
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Add to basketEncuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. El servicio contrareembolso tiene un coste adicional de 3 euros. Roman (illustrator). Sello del anterior propietario.
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Seller: Tarrington Books, Tarrington, United KingdomTarrington Books
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Hardback. Printed pages: 96. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket: A few light marks. Slight rubbing to ends of spine. Unclipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: First printing. Blue cloth binding with a very slight lean. Ver…y clean condition throughout. Signed by editor Naomi Lewis to title page. Overall book condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14.5 x 22 cm). Signed by Author.
Published by Douglas Hyde Gallery 2009
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Seller: °ART...on paper - 20th Century Art Books, Lugano, Switzerland°ART...on paper - 20th Century Art Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8° - Unpaginated, full-page illustrations, english text. A very good copy. Annelies trba (born 7 October 1947) is a Swiss multimedia artist, who lives in the Zurich metropolitan area. She works with video, photography, and digital media to approach her subjects, which range from domestically them…ed images, portraiture, and both urban and natural landscapes. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Paris, Hazan, 1947. 452 pp. Nouvelle édition traduite par Frédéric Delebecque et ornée d'un frontispice (eau-forte) de Alexandra Grinevsky. 1947
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Seller: Antiquariaat Hortus Conclusus, Bergambacht, NetherlandsAntiquariaat Hortus Conclusus
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Add to basketFine full leather binding with painted endpapers in matching cassette, signed A. Hanania. Title gilt on spine. Hinges slightly split at spine ends, else a very good copy. Text in French. Number 1227 of an edition of 1700. Please see description or ask for photos.
Published by Ian Hodgkins, & Co. Ltd. 1978
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Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, U.S.A.Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Original 1/2 red calf over matching buckram, gilt stamped spine with raised blads. Fine, fresh copy. Enclosed in dark red cloth slipcase. Contains 646 detailed entries on the famous literary sisters. #14/25 specially bound copies, signed by Yablon and Turner… on the limitation page. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by The Grey Walls Press/ Crown Classics, London 1952
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Seller: Quair Books PBFA, Leeds, United KingdomQuair Books PBFA
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Add to basketPaper boards. Condition: Good+. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY EDITOR. Slim 8vo, pp. 62, [2]. Illustrated paper boards. Toned, spine gently cocked, pushing and wear to spine ends, front joint tender and starting. Edges foxed. Inscribed by Spark in blue biro to ffep: "To Philip Mairet, with kind wishes from Muriel Spark, 13-7-53," e…ndpapers toned. Some spotting, short closed tear to heel of title page. Else, clean. Good+ Unusual inscribed. A pleasing presentation copy of Muriel Spark's early editorial outing for The Grey Walls Press, which marked the beginning of a Brontë streak for the Scottish author; inscribed in the actual year of publication (1953, rather than 1952) to the British designer, writer and former editor of the New English Weekly, Philip Mairet, "with kind wishes". Following on the heels of this commission from Wrey Gardiner for his Crown Classics series, Spark co-edited Emily Bronte: Her life and work (1953) and The Bronte Letters (1954). One biographer has argued that Spark's 'Introduction' to this selection "hinted at personal associations" in her readings of "the various critical images of Emily 'as mystic, as poet of Christianity, as heretic, as heathen, as intellectual thinker, as psychical hermaphrodite' Muriel seems obliquely to be noting the misdefinitions from which she had herself suffered" and concluded: "Consciously or unconsciously, Muriel seems to have been talking as much about herself as about her subject" (Stannard, 2009). As with many of her publications of the era (the majority with small presses), Spark "had to wait for a long, long time for my money" (Spark, 1992). Despite the 1952 publication date, Selected Poems didn't appear until 1953. Spark's dedicatee Philip Mairet (18861975; also the dedicatee of T S Eliot's Notes towards the Definition of Culture (1948)) lived a long, active and diversely interested life, with connections to the Arts and Crafts movement, the Adler Society, Guild Socialism and Social Credit, as well as organic farming and early environmentalism. He was also a translator (of Jean-Paul Sartre), biographer (of Alfred Orage and John Middleton Murry) and editor. Spark likely knew him through his editorship (1934-49) of the New English Weekly, which had published her poetry. Muriel Spark (1992) Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. London: Constable; Martin Stannard (2009) Muriel Spark: The Biography. London: Phoenix.
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York 1848
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Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, CanadaTBCL The Book Collector's Library
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Add to basketCondition: New Clamshell case. First Edition. Bronte Emily, WUTHERING HEIGHTS Custom Clamshell Case Only. (NO BOOK INCLUDED) New York: [1848, Book Date] Excellent Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] For The First American Edition. Elegant Deep Green leather and fine black cloth, Custom Gilt-Stamped Titles to spine. Embossed multi…-layered, [sculpted] design on the side graphically inspired from the love story and the couple under a tree illustration. Finished in rich Black velour on the interior. A superb & unique protective clamshell case for the first edition. When you place your order: Please confirm the actual size of your first edition as sizes may vary with age or if the edition is covered in Mylar. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included Size can be adapted to soft or hardcover first editions.
More imagesPublished by The Limited Editions Club, New York 1993
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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, U.S.A.Heritage Book Shop, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. BALTHUS, [artist]. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Wuthering Heights [LEC]. Fifteen Lithographs and an Afterword by Balthus New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993. Full Description: BRONTË, Emily. BALTHUS, [artist]. Wuthering Heights. Fifteen Lithographs and an Afterword by Balthus. New York: The Limited Editions Club,…1993. First edition. One of 300 copies signed by Balthus, this being number 69. With fifteen lithographs by Balthus and an Afterward by the artist. Folio (16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches; 410 x 313 mm). Printed on Arches paper. Publisher's full tan leather, lettered in brown on front board. Spine very lightly toned. Housed in full cloth velvet-lined clamshell, with leather spine label. About fine. Publisher's prospectus laid in. "But when he made the early drawings for Wuthering Heights back in 1933, he stopped at a point about halfway through the book. As Jean Leymarie has noted, 'Only the artist's interest continued so long as the world of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw is that if childhood and adolescence. In these drawings Balthus clearly identifies himself with Heathcliff, the willful outsider unamenable to morality and society, in his vengeful satanism and headlong transgressions-an exemplary creation and an undying presence on the absolute level of art and human destiny.' .Unable to forget his early fascination with Wuthering Heights, Balthus agreed to have the entire suite of fifteen drawings presented here for the first time in their destined context, if in a strictly limited edition. He was 25 when he began these remarkable illustrations; today he is 85, happy to behold their fruition, and to write a personal Afterword for the book." (from the LEC newsletter). LEC Bibliography. HBS 69329. $4,500. BALTHUS; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB (illustrator). Signed.
More imagesPublished by Paris Chez Jean Porson 1947 1947
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Seller: Harrison-Hiett Rare Books, Richelieu, FranceHarrison-Hiett Rare Books
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Add to basketA beautiful copy of this first edition thus, limited edition. Four volumes. This copy is one of 30 copies in rives blanc or teinté, in four volumes, Containing a suite of 147 lithographed illustrations. With the suite of 23 portraits as a separate volume, and with two original illustrations by Masson, in India Ink and enhanced w…ith wash are bound into volume one. Also presented are the 12 refused plates. Beautifully presented in a Martin-Brés signed binding. Each volume has a uniform dark brown full leather, with gilt and embossed design to the boards and gilt titles to the spines. There is a touch of rubbing to the ribs and to the edges of the spines. Other than this, in excellent condition inside and out. We cannot find another copy of this work in the four volumes, with the original illustrations. 330 by 260mm (13 by 10¼ inches). 10kg. .
Published by John Murray 1920-1926, London 1920
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Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, U.S.A.Raptis Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerThe Haworth edition of the works of the sisters Bronte. Octavo, 7 volumes bound in full crushed levant scarlet morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles stamp-signed by Riviere & S…on, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, illustrated. In near fine condition. A stunning set. The Brontes were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with the village of Thornton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention, although not always the best, for their passion and originality. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature.
More imagesPublished by Limited Editions Club 1994
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Seller: The Limited Editions Club, New York, U.S.A.The Limited Editions Club
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. What could they have had in common-Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, the Paris-born modern artist (better known as Balthus) who has filled scores of canvases with paintings of female nudes, and Mistress Emily Brontë, the mid-nineteenth century British spinster who seems never to have…left the Yorkshire moors? Precisely, those moors. In his youth, the Count visited that wild landscape and, in 1933, made a series of drawings based on her gripping novel. Some say that he saw himself as Heathcliff. Sixty-one years later, and after creating a vast array of famous paintings, many reminiscent of those drawings, Balthus agreed in 1994 to have The Limited Editions Club present, for the first time in their destined context, the entire suite of fifteen drawings. Happy to behold their fruition, Balthus wrote an Afterword for the book. Fifteen lithographs and Afterword by Balthus. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Each signed by Balthus. The Balthus drawings have been turned into lithographic plates and printed, in brown-toned black ink, on fine Japanese paper by Bruce Porter at his Trestle Editions in New York City. They were mounted on mould made paper from the Arches mill, in Epinal, France. The text was also printed on this paper, uniquely watermarked with the coat of arms of the family Klossowski de Rola. The book is bound in Nigerian goatskin dyed gray-green to suggest the Yorkshire moors. Linen covered and lined case. One Volume, 12-3/4 x 16-1/2 inches. As the publisher, we unconditionally guarantee that all books are authentic and the condition is As New (NOS). Signed by Illustrator(s).
Published by Limited Editions Club, New York 1993
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Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, U.S.A.Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Folio (12-3/4" x 16-1/2") bound in goatskin leather dyed grey-green to evoke the Yorkshire moors and housed in a cloth slipcase with leather spine label. Illustrated with 15 drawings by the artist Balthus which were begun in 1933 when he was 25 for an edition of WUTHERING HEIGHTS that did not materialize. Balthus, in…his eighties, agreed to have the entire suite presented for the first time if the publication was strictly limited. The drawings were turned into lithographs and printed on fine Japanese paper and then mounted on mould-made paper from France uniquely watermarked with the coat of arms of Balthus's family: Klossowski de Rola. Copy #5 of only 300 copies SIGNED by the artist and with an afterword by him as well. Monthly Letter laid in. Fine in a Fine clamshell box, as issued. Balthus (illustrator).
Published by Limited Editions Club, New York 1994
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Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, U.S.A.MARK POST, BOOKSELLER
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. #44 of 300 copies signed by Balthus. Binding of grey-green goatskin. Printed on off-white, heavy mould-made stock from Arches Mill in England. FINE, VIRTUALLY AS NEW, BOOK, IN NEAR-FINE CLOTH-COVERED CLAMSHELL BOX WITH SLIGHT DISCOLORATION ON BOTTOM PANEL. A variety of items laid in: 1) LEC monthly letter, 2) two typ…ed (or printed) letters signed by Sidney Shiff, one describing the forthcoming book to a subsciber, and the other informing the subscriber of the print porfolio issued later. 3) A six-page glossy paper reprint of an article on Balthus by Ted Morgan from the New York Times Magazine of January 9, 1994. 4) newspaper photo of Balthus, 5) large color except from a Bonham auction catalogue about the first edition of Wuthering Heights (2007). One of the less common titles of the Shiff era LECs. Illustrated with 15 drawings by Balthus.
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Seller: Librairie Victor Sevilla, Paris, FranceLibrairie Victor Sevilla
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Add to basketEditions Gallimard 1961 In-12 broché à petites marges, de 158 pages au format 12,2 x 19 cm. Couvertures crèmes, avec titre imprimé en rouge et noir. Dos carré. Plats et intérieur frais, proche du parfait. Livret d'Opéra en 3 actes, un prologue et 7 tableaux d'après le roman éponyme d'Emily Brontë. Partition musicale composée par… Thomas Stubbs. Complet du prière d'insérer. Un des 10 exemplaires, hors commerce, numérotés, imprimés sur parchemin teinté, réservés à l'auteur. Le nôtre porte le n° V. De plus il à été imprimé spécialement pour Mme Germaine Michel. Le spécialement est rayé et remplacé de la main de l'auteur à l'encre bleue par " Affectueusement ". Edition originale. Rare dans un tel état de fraicheur et avec note autographe de Philippe Hériat.
Published by [New York: 1946] 1946
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Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketThe artist's copy of this proof wood engraving, signed by him in pencil, and from his estate. This illustration headed Chapters 9 and 27 in Eichenberg's brooding edition of Wuthering Heights (1946, expanded from 1943). The initial run of proofs consisted of no more than ten unnumbered copies. Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) moved t…o the US in 1933 and quickly became acknowledged as one of the leading wood engravers of his generation, also illustrating such authors as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Poe. His proofs for Wuthering Heights were reprinted in a signed run of 20 numbered copies in 1980 by Harold McGrath. The original blocks are now part of the Eichenberg Archive at Yale University's Sterling Library. Thin paper (154 x 228 mm) with card backing, image size approx. 53 x 90 mm. Mounted, framed, and glazed (frame size: 273 x 222 mm). Mild toning and creases, near-fine.
Published by [New York: 1946] 1946
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Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketThe artist's copy of this proof wood engraving, signed by him in pencil, and from his estate. This illustration headed Chapters 2 and 20 in Eichenberg's brooding edition of Wuthering Heights (1946, expanded from 1943). The initial run of proofs consisted of no more than ten unnumbered copies. Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) moved t…o the US in 1933 and quickly became acknowledged as one of the leading wood engravers of his generation, also illustrating such authors as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Poe. His proofs for Wuthering Heights were reprinted in a signed run of 20 numbered copies in 1980 by Harold McGrath. The original blocks are now part of the Eichenberg Archive at Yale University's Sterling Library. Thin paper (154 x 227 mm) with card backing, image size approx. 54 x 92 mm. Mounted, framed, and glazed (frame size: 273 x 222 mm). Mild toning and creases, near-fine.
Published by [New York: 1946] 1946
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Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketThe artist's copy of this proof wood engraving, signed by him in pencil, and from his estate. This illustration headed Chapter 8 and 14 in Eichenberg's brooding edition of Wuthering Heights (1946, expanded from 1943). The initial run of proofs consisted of no more than ten unnumbered copies. Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) moved to… the US in 1933 and quickly became acknowledged as one of the leading wood engravers of his generation, also illustrating such authors as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Poe. His proofs for Wuthering Heights were reprinted in a signed run of 20 numbered copies in 1980 by Harold McGrath. The original blocks are now part of the Eichenberg Archive at Yale University's Sterling Library. Thin paper (151 x 226 mm) with card backing, image size approx. 54 x 91 mm. Mounted, framed, and glazed (frame size: 273 x 222 mm). Mild toning and creases, near-fine.
Published by [New York: 1946] 1946
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Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketThe artist's copy of this proof wood engraving, signed by him in pencil, and from his estate. This illustration headed Chapter 31 in Eichenberg's brooding edition of Wuthering Heights (1946, expanded from 1943). The initial run of proofs consisted of no more than ten unnumbered copies. Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) moved to the U…S in 1933 and quickly became acknowledged as one of the leading wood engravers of his generation, also illustrating such authors as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Poe. His proofs for Wuthering Heights were reprinted in a signed run of 20 numbered copies in 1980 by Harold McGrath. The original blocks are now part of the Eichenberg Archive at Yale University's Sterling Library. Thin paper (152 x 227 mm) with card backing, image size approx. 53 x 90 mm. Mounted, framed, and glazed (frame size: 273 x 222 mm). Mild toning and creases, near-fine.
Published by [New York: 1946] 1946
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Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketThe artist's copy of this proof wood engraving, signed by him in pencil, and from his estate. This illustration headed Chapters 4, 12, and 21 in Eichenberg's brooding edition of Wuthering Heights (1946, expanded from 1943). The initial run of proofs consisted of no more than ten unnumbered copies. Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) mo…ved to the US in 1933 and quickly became acknowledged as one of the leading wood engravers of his generation, also illustrating such authors as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Poe. His proofs for Wuthering Heights were reprinted in a signed run of 20 numbered copies in 1980 by Harold McGrath. The original blocks are now part of the Eichenberg Archive at Yale University's Sterling Library. Thin paper (154 x 227 mm) with card backing, image size approx. 54 x 90 mm. Mounted, framed, and glazed (frame size: 273 x 222 mm). Mild toning, a little creasing with negligible wear to left margin, still near-fine.
Published by [New York: 1946] 1946
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Add to basketThe artist's copy of this proof wood engraving, signed by him in pencil, and from his estate. This illustration headed Chapters 10 and 19 in Eichenberg's brooding edition of Wuthering Heights (1946, expanded from 1943). The initial run of proofs consisted of no more than ten unnumbered copies. Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) moved…to the US in 1933 and quickly became acknowledged as one of the leading wood engravers of his generation, also illustrating such authors as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Poe. His proofs for Wuthering Heights were reprinted in a signed run of 20 numbered copies in 1980 by Harold McGrath. The original blocks are now part of the Eichenberg Archive at Yale University's Sterling Library. Thin paper (151 x 228 mm) with card backing, image size approx. 53 x 91 mm. Mounted, framed, and glazed (frame size: 273 x 222 mm). Mild toning and creases, near-fine.
More imagesPublished by The Limited Editions Club 1993
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerBalthus. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Balthus. Illustrated with 15 lithographs by Balthus on Japanese paper printed in brown-toned black ink. Text set by Michael Bixler using Monotype Dante, printed on specially made off-white mould-made Arches paper with watermark. Original prospectus laid in. Folio (approx.… 16-1/2 x 13 inches). "What could they have had in common ?- Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, the Paris?born modern artist (better known as Balthus) who has filled scores of canvases with paintings of female nudes, and Mistress Emily Brontë, the mid?nineteenth-century British spinster who seems never to have left the Yorkshire moors? Precisely, those moors. In his youth, the Count visited that wild landscape and, in 1933, made a series of drawings based on her gripping novel. Some say that he saw himself as Heathcliff. Sixty-one years later, and after creating a vast array of famous paintings, many reminiscent of those drawings, Balthus agreed in 1994 to have The Limited Editions Club present, for the first time in their destined context, the entire suite of fifteen drawings" (Publisher). Original gray-green morocco with title stamped in dark-brown, publisher's cloth box. Fine Illustrated with 15 lithographs by Balthus on Japanese paper printed in brown-toned black ink. Text set by Michael Bixler using Monotype Dante, printed on specially made off-white mould-made Arches paper with watermark. Original prospectus laid in. Folio (approx. 16-1/2 x 13 inches) Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Balthus. Signed.
More imagesPublished by Limited Editions Club, New York 1993
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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, U.S.A.Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)
Contact seller3-star seller420 x 315 mm. (16 1/2 x 12 1/2"). 3 p.l., 208 pp., [2] leaves.With an afterword by Balthus. Publisher's sage-green crushed morocco, upper board with title stamped in brown, smooth spine. In the original linen clamshell box. With 15 lithographs by Balthus. Colophon with small embossed armorial stamp. Prospectus laid in at front.…âIn mint condition. Printed on beautifully thick paper, this impressive oversized production brings together an intense 19th century gothic novel and the work of a major modern artist, both inspired by the power and rugged beauty of the Yorkshire moors. "Wuthering Heights" was first published in 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell, and it was to be Emily Brontë's first and only novel. Though many contemporary reviewers found the story strange and disturbing, her potent language and enthralling characters have secured it a place among the classics of English literature. The modern (and sometimes controversial) artist Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (known as Balthus) wouldn't seem a likely choice to illustrate this work; in fact, the two could hardly be more different. Brontë (1818-48) was a parson's daughter who spent most of her life in an isolated village in northern England, while Balthus (1908-2001) was a famous cosmopolitan painter whose friends included Pablo Picasso and Albert Camus. But the pair had at least one thing in common: a deeply felt connection to the Yorkshire moors. In Bathus' own words, recounting a visit to northern England made when he was a young man, "the wild beauty of the moors around Haworth . . . left an indelible impression on me." Years later, in 1933, still inspired by what he had seen, Balthus made a series of 15 drawings to accompany the novel that is practically synonymous with the moors. Compelling, moody, and a little wild, these drawings are a formidable complement to Brontë's words. The LEC Newsletter, introducing the present work, notes the "incisive linear quality" of the black & white drawings; Balthus' biographer and critic, Jean Leymarie, is also quoted, describing the work as "lit up with something of the book's flame and storm-flashes." It is also worth noting that this impressive production marks the first time these 15 illustrations appear alongside the text that inspired them--60 years after Balthus completed them. No. 15 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED by the artist.
