Published by Limited Editions Club, NY, 1938
Seller: THE OLD LIBRARY SHOP, Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Lynd Ward (illustrator). 5 volumes. Limited Editions Club #1485/1500 & SIGNED by the illustrator; contents clean; burgundy illustrations; red top edges; bindings solid; 10.5" tall; black covers with black illustration & lettering on red title bands; chips & wear to black slip case with paper label on back. Hardcover.
Published by For the Members of the Limited Editions Club, New York, 1938
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lynd Ward (illustrator). Limited Edition. SIGNED by illustrator. Thick quarto [29 cm] Black cloth over boards with gilt stamped brown cloth spine labels. Publisher's red top stain. The text is printed in black and the illustrations are printed in color. Slipcase absent. Mild fading to gold stamping on spine labels as usual. Occasional light shelfwear or scuffing to the boards. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown of volume 1. Interiors are clean and bright. Dance, 087. May require extra postage due to number of volumes. In the translation by Lascelles Wraxall authorized by the Author. Printed with a new Introduction by André Maurois and with illustrations by Lynd Ward. Number 709 in an edition of fifteen hundred copies. This edition was designed by Peter Beilenson and was printed by him at the Walpole. Signed by Lynd Ward on the colophon page of volume 5. A beautiful edition of Victor Hugo's classic novel of oppression and redemption, in the author approved Wraxall translation and divided into five volumes as the author intended.