Buy this book on-line Gautier, Theophile : Mademoiselle de MaupinLimited Editions Club, **, 1943
very good condition, slipcase has wear, soil signed & Illustrated by Paul Landacre, #21 of 1,000. Previous owners bookplate on front inside.; signed & Illustrated by Paul Landacre, #21 of 1,000. Previous owners bookplate on front inside.; LIB2958006145; 9"x11"; 299 pages; The Limited Editions Club was started and operated by George Macy from 1929to 1971 and produced one book a month, usually limited to 1500 numbered copies. The books were printed by the finest printing cmpanies in various countries, in unusually fine bindings and papers,with beautifully decorated slipcases, illustrated by a well-known illustrator, sometimes hand-colored, sometimes with original etchings, and usually signed by the illustrator. They are some of the most beautiful books published in recent times and have become highly collectible. The club has continued since 1971under various owners and today produces small numbers of ultra-expensive books. Note: This volume is #21. This low number is important as the plates have better definition at the beginning of a printing run and lose much by the time the later numbered copies are printed. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Gautier, Theophile : Mademoiselle de Maupin. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. GAUTIER, THEOPHILE: : MADEMOISELLE de MAUPINUSA,NY.IVES WASHBURN,1929.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Green+orange decorated dw/dj with boxed blue letters and spine/ backstrip slightly sunned and faded as usual/normal.Though dw/dj is protected, there is light shelf-wear to all edges with some light creasing and minimal chipping with miniscule loss to both head+ foot of spine/backstrip.Corners lightly rubbed,again with miniscule loss.Top edge coloured but slightly faded,fore+bottom edges lightly aged and deckled (untrimmed).Black vellum cloth,die stamped silver gilt design to edges nearest to and including the spine/backstrip and bevelled bds.US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,1-375pp includes 8 (frntis included) b/w wood-engravings and illuminated style chapter-head letters and typography by Howard Simon,who also chose the paper.The engravings are unsigned but printed from the original engravings,which were signed
in the limited edition.Included inside is a publisher's contemporary paper book-mark,listing 10 other titles.One of 2000 trade copies,using the complete Vizitelly translation and printed on antique chain laid water marked rag-paper. Print is set in 12 point Garamond,printed and bound at the Vail-Ballou Press, Binghampton,New York; the paper furnished by Herman Scott Chalfant.The illustrator has been responsible for the design of the book from the a point of view of both typography and layout as well as the illustrations.Howard Simon's work has been collected both in USA and abroad by museums as well as individuals.One of his wood-engravings was included in the fifty best prints of the year for 1928.An illustration he has made for Madame de Maupin is in the collection of wood-engravings at the Baltimore Museum, and also his work is in the British Museum collection.
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