Poor Richards Almanack, Signed (7 results)

Hardcover. Maud and Miska Petersham (illustrator). First printing. About 36 pgs. Inscribed to previous owner by both authors on front endpaper. Very good hardcover copy in good dust jacket; price-clipped; normal chips and small tears to jacket, now protected in mylar jacket. (750).

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontispiece by Vojtech Preissig (illustrator). 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. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition thus, limited. Typographic paper-covered boards with spine label. Covers toned. Red pen mark to upper cover. Cold pressed paper, deckle edges. Soiled, foxed, lightly scuffed covers, slightly sun-darkened edges. Soiled topedge of textblock. Foxed endpapers & first/last leaves, pages toned. Color frontis with tissue, colored borders throughout. Cardboard slipcase with paper labels: soiled, dampstains, cracks to spine extremes & head joints. Designed & illustrated by Vojt?ch Preissig. Signed by Preissig & numbered 344 of 390 copies to colophon. Number 2 from the New Fine Book Series.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Vojtech Preissig (illustrator). #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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in a Fine clamshell box. Norman Rockwell (illustrator). First Edition. Portfolio with loose sheets of handmade Velin d'Arches paper (approximately 19-1/2" x 25-1/2") laid in, as issued. Sheets include title page, limitation page, 7 print title pages, and 7 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS by Norman Rockwell printed by Fernand Mourlot in Paris based on the illustrations done for the Limited Editions Club/Heritage Press POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACKS. Each lithograph is numbered 2 of 200 and SIGNED by the illustrator. The lithographs are titled "Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia," "The Drunkard," "Ben's Belles," "The Village Smithy," "Ye Olde Print Shoppe," "The Golden Age," and "The Royal Crown." Also laid in is a smaller printed sheet from the publisher describing the work.