The Limited Editions Club Grouping of Novels, Including Walpole, Wilder, Crane, Galsworthy, Faulkner, and Kafka 10 PCS
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe): 1959. Thomas Carlyle translation. Introduction: Franz Schoenberner. Illustrations: William Sharp (16 full-page lithographs drawn directly on the stone). Printing: George C. Miller (lithographs). 1071/1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Quarto, bound in full floral gilt-decorated buckram with gilt-stamped leather spine label. Slipcase.
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (Horace Walpole): 1975. Introduction: W. S. Lewis (also signed the colophon). Contemporary illustrations. Design: Ruari McLean. Printing: Rowley Atterbury at the Westerham Press (Westerham, Kent); illustrations reproduced by Meriden Gravure. 1071/2,000 numbered copies, signed by the editor. Quarto, quarter blue morocco (or levant) with patterned paper boards, gilt lettering and decoration on spine; glassine wrapper. Slipcase.
The Trial (Franz Kafka): 1975. Translation: Willa and Edwin Muir. Illustrations: Alan E. Cober (color plates and drawings). Design: Peter Oldenburg. Printing: Sign of the Stone Compass (Lunenburg, Vermont). 1071/2,000 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Quarto, full red morocco (oasis-grain leather) stamped in gilt and blind, top edge stained red; glassine. Slipcase.
The Gentleman from Cracow / The Mirror (Isaac Bashevis Singer): 1979. Introduction: Harry T. Moore. Illustrations: Raphael Soyer (watercolors and preliminary sketches). Design: Bruce Campbell. 1071/2,000 numbered copies, signed by the author and the illustrator. Quarto, quarter buckram with decorated paper boards, silver lettering on spine; glassine. Slipcase.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder): 1962. Introduction: Granville Hicks. Illustrations: Jean Charlot (16 full-color lithographs drawn on the plates and printed in multiple colors). Printing: Thistle Press; lithographs by George C. Miller. 1071/1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Tall octavo/quarto, quarter black Morocco over pictorial buckram/cloth with silhouette frieze stamped in black and gilt, gilt edges. Slipcase.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Stephen Crane): 1974. Introduction: Shirley Ann Grau. Illustrations: Sigmund Abeles (full-page copper etchings reproduced in gravure). Design/typography: Abe Lerner. Printing: A. Colish (Mount Vernon, New York); photogravures by The Photogravure & Color Company. 1071/2,000 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Large octavo/quarto, quarter glazed black goatskin with gilt spine title and decoration over gray striped/homespun buckram boards. Slipcase.
Ramona (Helen Hunt Jackson): 1959. Introduction: J. Frank Dobie. Illustrations: Everett Gee Jackson (color drawings throughout). Printing: The Plantin Press (Los Angeles). 1071/1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Octavo/royal octavo, full multi-color woven/burlap-weave cloth with spine lettering and decorations (designed with input from the artist). Slipcase.
The Man of Property (John Galsworthy): 1964. Introduction: Evelyn Waugh. Illustrations: Charles Mozley (line drawings and color lithographs). Design: John Dreyfus. Printing: A. Colish (Mount Vernon, New York); color plates at The Stellar Press. 1071/1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Quarto, full dark-brown buckram/cloth stamped in red and gilt. Slipcase.
Hunting Stories (William Faulkner): 1988. Contains “The Old People” and “The Bear.” Introduction: Cleanth Brooks. Illustrations: Neil Welliver (two original color etchings/aquatints). Design: Benjamin Shiff. Printing: Heritage Printers (Charlotte, North Carolina); etchings printed by Peter Pettengill and Paul & Clary Taylor. Binding: Craig Jensen / Jensen Bindery. 1071/850 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Large quarto/folio, quarter dark-green Nigerian oasis goatskin over natural/beige linen boards, gilt spine lettering. Matching linen slipcase.
The Rise of Silas Lapham (William Dean Howells): 1961. Introduction: Henry Steele Commager. Illustrations: Mimi Korach (full-page color plates and smaller color illustrations; wrap-around pictorial design). Design: Richard Ellis. Printing: Beck Engraving Company (Philadelphia area). 1071/1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Quarto, full pictorial buckram printed with a four-color panorama of Boston’s Beacon Street (by the illustrator), gilt spine lettering, top edge stained. Slipcase.
Provenance: Property from the Collection of Marianne Endicott, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI
Dimensions:Goethe, Willhelm Meister's Apprenticeship 1 PC
Walpole, Horace: The Castle of Otranto 1 PC
Kafka, Franz: The Trial 1 PC
Bashevis Singer, Isaac: The Gentleman From Cracow 1 PC
Wilder, Thornton: The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1 PC
Crane, Stephen: Maggie a Girl of the Streets 1 PC
Hunt Jackson, Helen: Ramona 1 PC
Galsworthy, John: The Man of Property 1 PC
Faulkner, William: Hunting Stories 1 PC
Howells, William Dean: The Rise of Silas Lapham 1 PC
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