Resultados de búsqueda: German Literature from Charles Agvent

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Hardcover. Bookplate on front pastedown. Spine faded with a few rubbed spots. Very Good, contents Fine, in a Near Fine slipcase. Fritz Kredel. Octavo (6" x 9-1/2") bound in half smooth green calfskin leather, with a gold-stamped label, and hand-decorated paper over boards; 354 pages. Selected, translated, and with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. The text is set in Monotype Walbaum, employed here for the first time in America. With charming illustrations by Fritz Kredel, colored by hand through stencils in the studio of Walter Fischer. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Small tear to top of spine. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Rene Clarke. Large quarto (9-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in full dark purple cloth, gold-stamped on the spine and sides. Modern translation by Alice Raphael with an introduction by Carl Schreiber and a note by Mark Van Doren. Copy #397 of 1500 designed and illustrated by Rene Clarke and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Small manufacturer's defect to cloth. About Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Edy Legrand. Small quarto (7-3/4" x 11-3/4") bound in full black cloth with the title blindstamped on the front cover and goldstamped over red on the spine with lettering in medieval style by Arnold Bank. Translated from the German by Margaret Armour with an introduction by Franz Schoenberner. Printed by Joh. Enschede in Holland from the typographic plans of Jan van Krimpen. With 23 full-page line-and-wash drawings by Edy Legrand hand-colored through stencils in the studio of Walter Fishcer. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Hardcover. New and unread. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Alan E. Cober. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 9-1/2") bound in full red morocco with gilt rules and lettering and blindstamping. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir with an introduction by Erich Heller. Illustrated with color plates and black-and-white drawings by Alan E. Cober. One of 2000 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. This copy was acquired directly from the publisher and is not numbered, likely an overrun copy.

[Providence, RI], [1961-62]. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing to preliminaries. Near Fine. Ilse Buchert. Small thin folio (9-1/2" x 12-3/4") in decorated boards; [12] pages. Illustrated with a number of small black and red woodcuts scattered throughout the text. This version of Grimm's tale "The Kingbird and the Bear," a story of a humorous battle between the land animals and the flying creatures of the world, was printed and illustrated by Ilse Buchert in obviously small numbers, though no statement of limitation is included in the book.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Spine slightly darkened. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Fritz Eichenberg. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in natural linen and decorated boards. Translated into English verse by Thomas James Arnold with an introduction by Edward Lazare. Copy #1307 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1985. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a mildly soiled, close to Fine slipcase. Gunter Grass. Three nearly square quarto volumes (11" x 10-1/2") bound with eelskin spines and Italian cloth covers. Illustrated from etchings by the author and Nobel Prize winner Gunter Grass. Five years in the making, this massive effort is a tribute from some of America's finest book craftspeople to one of Germany's most creative and recognized artists. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Copy #323 of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Felix Hoffmann. Two quarto volumes (7" x 10-7/8") bound in linen shelfback with the title stamped in gold on a gray-green label of Italian Roma paper and boards covered with a smoke-brown, mould-made French paper impressed with a design by Max Caflisch. Illustrated with 53 wood engravings including 10 full page printed in three colors by Felix Hoffmann. Copy #1098 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1981. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Fritz Eichenberg. Folio (9-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in natural-color, blind-stamped coarse-weave linen imported from the Netherlands; 386 pages. Translated and introduced by John Spielman. Illustrated with 18 dramatic full-page wood-engravings and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Fritz Eichenberg. One of 2000 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good in soiled and stained but intact slipcase. Two volumes in slipcase. The third installment in the Joseph tetralogy. INSCRIBED to Paul Elkin and SIGNED by the author on the title page of the first volume. Mann first wrote an "A" to begin Elkin's last name and then wrote over it.

New York: Heritage Press, (1952). Fine in worn glassine and a Fine slipcase. Rafaello Busoni. Decorated cloth in slipcase. Translated from the German by Theodore Martin. Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. A different edition than that of the Limited Editions Club.