The Limited Editions Club Famous and Popular Plays 6 PCS
The Threepenny Opera (Bertolt Brecht): 1982. English version by Desmond Vesey; English lyrics and new introduction by Eric Bentley (signed the colophon). Illustrations and an original three-color lithograph frontispiece by Jack Levine (signed the colophon); etchings/monochrome illustrations reproduced by Meriden Gravure (with additional color/duotone work by Princeton Polychrome Press; lithograph pulled by Emiliano Sorini). Design & typography: Howard I. Gralla. Printing: Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Letterpress (Hadley, Massachusetts); set in Monotype Walbaum on Mohawk Superfine. 1071/2000 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator and introducer. Tall octavo/quarto (approx. 8½–9" × 11–11¼"), full black linen (imported from Holland) stamped in gold (Levine design on cover, lettering on spine). Slipcase.
Tartuffe & The Would-Be Gentleman (Molière): 1963. Translated by H. Baker and J. Miller. Introduction: Henri Peyre. Illustrations (drawings, hand-colored) by Serge Ivanoff (signed the colophon); coloring in the atelier of Walter Fischer, printed by the Crafton Graphic Company. Design: Jean Garcia. Printing: The Thistle Press (New York); English Monotype and Bembo. 1071/1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Quarto, full patterned red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Slipcase.
The Way of the World (William Congreve): 1959. (Comedy in five acts.) Illustrations (sixteen color paintings/plates) by T. M. Cleland (also designed the book; signed the colophon); plates hand-colored in the studio of Walter Fischer. Bound in maroon linen embossed with a Cleland design, gilt-lettered black leather spine label. 1071/1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Quarto (approx. 7¼–8½" × 10–10¼"). Slipcase.
Three Plays of Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen): 1964. Introduction: John Gassner. Translations (revised by William Archer): Eleanor Marx-Aveling (Enemy), Frances E. Archer (Wild Duck), Edmund Gosse & William Archer (Hedda Gabler). Color woodcut/wood-engraving illustrations (full-page and vignettes) by Fredrik Matheson (signed the colophon; also involved in design with Agner and Arnstein Kirste). Printing & binding: Kirstes Boktrykkeri (Oslo); set in Monotype Garamond on Norwegian cream-tone wove paper. 1071/1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Small/short quarto (approx. 10½" × 7–8"), half leather (tan/brown sheepskin spine and corners) with patterned paper boards, gilt titling/ornamentation and colored spine labels. Patterned slipcase.
She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night (Oliver Goldsmith): 1964. Introduction: Louis Kronenberger. Designed and illustrated in color by T. M. Cleland (signed the colophon). Printing: Clarke & Way (New York). 1071/1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Large octavo/quarto (approx. 8–9" × 11–12"), yellow/yellow-gold buckram over beveled boards with blind-stamped pattern/design on front cover, gilt-stamped black leather spine label, yellow topstain. Slipcase.
Two Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple and Caesar and Cleopatra (George Bernard Shaw): 1966. Signed on the colophon by the illustrator, George Him. Planned and typographically designed by George Him and printed at the Sign of the Stone Book in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Features unique drawings and hand-colored frontispiece/title elements processed at Walter Fischer's studio, New York. Bound in r quarter leather/cloth with an eagle emblem stamped in gilt on the front cover and decorative spine Accompanied by mustard-yellow endpapers. Slipcase
Provenance: Property from the Collection of Marianne Endicott, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI
Dimensions:The Threepenny Opera (Bertolt Brecht): 1982. English version by Desmond Vesey; English lyrics and new introduction by Eric Bentley (signed the colophon). Illustrations and an original three-color lithograph frontispiece by Jack Levine H 12" W 9" 1 PC
Tartuffe & The Would-Be Gentleman (Molière): 1963. Translated by H. Baker and J. Miller. Introduction: Henri Peyre. Illustrations (drawings, hand-colored) by Serge Ivanoff (signed the colophon) H 11.5" W 8" 1 PC
The Way of the World (William Congreve): 1959. (Comedy in five acts.) Illustrations (sixteen color paintings/plates) by T. M. Cleland (also designed the book; signed the colophon) H 10.5" W 8.5" 1 PC
Three Plays of Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen): 1964. Introduction: John Gassner. Translations (revised by William Archer) H 10.5" W 8" 1 PC
She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night (Oliver Goldsmith): 1964. Introduction: Louis Kronenberger. Designed and illustrated in color by T. M. Cleland (signed the colophon) H 12" W 9" 1 PC
Two Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple and Caesar and Cleopatra (George Bernard Shaw): 1966. Signed on the colophon by the illustrator, George Him. H 12" W 7.5" 1 PC
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