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Books published by publisher Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Thistle Press

  • The eclogues

    Virgil

    Hardcover (Printed for members of the Limited Editions Club at the press of A. Colish, Jan. 1, 1960)
    None
  • Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle

    M.D. Smollett, Tobias

    Hardcover (Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, March 15, 1936)
    Signed by Illustrator Two volumes in Good slipcase with closed end yellowed, and cloth tape repairs to some edges. Some darkening to spine cloth on both volumes, light shelf rubbing to covers. In Vol. 2, there are two tears in the paper covering the front hinge, and one tear near the bottom of the rear hinge, but no damage to the weave. No. 853 of 1500. (w)
  • 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..
  • The Analects of Confucius

    Confucius

    Hardcover (Printed at the Plantin Press for the members of the Limited Editions Club, New York, March 15, 1970)
    Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Yu-Ho LEC 428 . Designed and printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. With Monthly Newsletter / prospectus loosely inserted. Slipcase cracked at ends. Book is in very fine condition with glassine wrapper intact. xxxii, 131, 3 pages. woven cloth, paper spine label, cord-tied folding box.. tall 8vo..
  • The portrait of a lady

    Henry James

    Hardcover (Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by the Garamond Press, March 15, 1967)
    The spine is lightly sunned.
  • 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 Renaissance: Studies in art and poetry

    Walter Pater

    Hardcover (Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Stamperia Valdonega, March 15, 1976)
    In publisher's original quarter bound yellow cloth with red patterned paste paper boards. Stamped in gilt on the spine and cover. Spine stamped in gilt and red. With publisher's original matching red slipcase in an imitation red leather. Eight tipped-in full color plates. Designed, printed, and signed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. One of 2000 numbered copies.
  • Les miserables;

    Victor Hugo

    Hardcover (For the members of the Limited Editions Club, March 24, 1938)
    Trade edition of the five volume set issued by the Limited Editions Club. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Translated by Lascelles Wraxall. Introduction by Andre Maurois. xxii ,291; xii ,272; xii ,257; xii ,358; xii ,289 pages. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, slipcases.. thick 8vo..
    Y
  • The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

    Charles Dickens, Robert Gibbings, Hugh Thomson

    Hardcover (The Golden Cockerel Press, Printed for the members of the Limited editions club, March 15, 1933)
    FAIRY TALE
  • The chimes,

    Charles Dickens

    Hardcover (Printed by G.W. Jones for the members of the Limited Editions Club, Jan. 1, 1931)
    None
  • Childhood, boyhood, youth

    Leo Tolstoy

    Hardcover (Printed for the Limited Editions Club, New York [at the Press of A. Colish], March 24, 1972)
    None
  • Oedipus the King

    Sophocles

    Hardcover (Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club by J. Enschedé, March 15, 1955)
    None