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  • Roughing It.

    Mark Twain

    Hardcover (The Limited Editions Club, March 15, 1972)
    Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." A timeless classic of American literature.
  • Imaginary conversations,

    Walter Savage Landor

    Hardcover (Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, Jan. 1, 1936)
    One of 1500 signed and numbered copies printed at the Officina Bodoni, Verona. Printed by Hans Mardersteig, signed by him on the limitations page. Bound in illustrated cloth covered boards, spine labels stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is sunned at the spine and chipped at the heel. Previous owners bookplate on half-title page. Matching slipcase worn at the edges and extremities.
  • The sea-wolf

    Jack London

    Hardcover (Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by Connecticut Printers, Sept. 3, 1961)
    The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London about a literary critic, survivor of an ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Its first printing of forty thousand copies were immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild.[ Ambrose Bierce wrote, "The great thing—and it is among the greatest of things—is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen... the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime...
  • Far away and long ago: A history of my early life

    W. H Hudson

    Hardcover (Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by Guillermo Kraft Ltda, March 15, 1943)
    Lang:- eng, Pages 246. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back[1943]. This book is in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, there may be some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Title: Far away and long ago : a history of my early life 1943 [Hardcover], Author: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine), Rosarivo, Raúl M. , ill,Limited Editions Club
  • A Journal of the Plague Year Limited Edition signed Domenico Gnoli

    Daniel Defoe, Domenico Gnoli, James Sutherland

    (The Limited Editions Club, July 6, 1968)
    The great plague of London begin in the fall of 1664 and reached its peak in the following year, dying out in 1666.
  • Le Morte D'Arthur

    Sir Thomas Malory

    Hardcover (The Limited Editions Club, Aug. 16, 1936)
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  • Kwaidan;: Stories and studies of strange things,

    Lafcadio Hearn

    Hardcover (Printed for the members of the Limited editions club by the Shimbi Shoin, ltd, Jan. 1, 1932)
    238pp. Ltd. to 1500 copies of which this is No. 1381. Hardboard case w/ glassine cover. Case: Very Good w/ some tanning on spine area, each corner w/ about 1/2inch surface tear, a 3inch tear on edge, a few tiny paint spots. Cover: Very Good w/ some edge/corner wears. The Book: Very Good++ w/ minute corner wears. Intro by Oscar Lewis. Famous stories by Hearn, a.k.a. Koizumi Yagumo.
  • The sea around us

    Rachel Carson

    Hardcover (The Limited Editions Club, March 15, 1980)
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  • Fairy Tales

    The Brothers Grimm

    Hardcover (The Limited Editions Club, March 15, 1931)
    Fairy Tales - 1500 Pieces. Finished size: 26" x 32". Artist: James Christensen.Sunsout puzzles are 100% made in the USAEco-friendly soy-based inksRecycled boardsNot sold in mass-market stores
  • ARGONAUTICA. Or, The Quest of Jason for the Golden Fleece, the Epic Poem First Set Down in the Ancient Greek Tongue. in the Third Century B.C. Together With the Translations Into English Prose by Edward P. Coleridge; With a Preface by Moses Hadas, Illus

    Appollonius of Rhodes.; Edward P Coleridge; Moses Hadas; A Tassos; Elias Eliopou

    Hardcover (Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club by Aspioti-Elka Graphic Art, March 15, 1957)
    Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Tassos LEC 285 . Printed in Athens by the Aspioti-Elka Graphic Arts Company. Slipcase shows some minor rubbing. Monthly Letter / prospectus loosely inserted. Front inside hinge cracked. xx, 307, 3 pages. cloth, slipcase.. 4to..
  • Rights of man

    Thomas Paine

    Hardcover (Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Stinehour Press, Jan. 1, 1961)
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  • Flowers of Evil

    Charles Baudelaire, James Laver, Jacob Epstein

    Hardcover (Printed for members of the Limited editions club at the Fanfare press, Jan. 1, 1940)
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