Large Group of Limited Editions Club and Heritage Press Books

(3) Limited Editions Club titles to include:

Giovanni Boccaccio; Frances Winwar, trans. THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO. 2 vols. (complete). New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1930. Signed limited edition. No. 1210 of 1500. Hardcover. Cloth-covered boards, black label with gilt lettering on spine, all edges stained blue. 4to; 199pp.; 382pp. Signed on rear limitation page/colophon by designer T.M. Cleland. With an introduction by Burton Rascoe. (Boards scuffed, corners rubbed, with staining and residue on spine and joints; interior with light toning and minor foxing, cracking at front hinge; lacking slipcase. Good/none.)

Andrew Lang. AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1931. Signed limited edition. No. 507 of 1500 copies. Hardcover. Decorated cloth boards with gilt on spine, in illustrated jacket, in black slipcase. 4to; 77pp. Signed by the illustrator on the rear limitation page/colophon. (Beautiful boards with minor staining and very light wear to head and tail of spine; near complete separation from textblock; jacket scuffed and toned with tears and losses, spine browned; slipcase with light marks, wear to corners, title slightly faded. A fair and fragile copy but with lovely illustrations.)

Victor Hugo; Edouard Detaille, illus. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1977. Limited signed edition. No. 853 of 1600 copies. Hardcover. Quarter bound green leather over green marbled paper boards, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt, green endpapers, in green slipcase. 4to; 99pp. Epilogue by Reginald Colby. Introduction by Drew Middleton; signed by Middleton on rear limitation page/colophon. (Near fine in good to very good slipcase.)

(7) Heritage Club and Heritage Press titles to include:

Izaak Walton; Robert Ball, illus. THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, OR, THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION. BEING A DISCOURSE OF FISH AND FISHING FOR THE PERUSAL OF ANGLERS. New York: The Heritage Club, 1938. Hardcover. Green illustrated buckram boards, illustrated endpapers, top edge stained, in green slipcase. 4to; 241pp. (Spine sunned, slight separation from text block; minor toning and foxing; very good in fair slipcase.)

Giovanni Boccaccio; John Boccaccio; Fritz Kredel, illus. THE DECAMERON PRESERVED BY JOHN BOCCACCIO. New York: The Heritage Press, 1940. Hardcover. Patterned cloth-covered boards, top edge stained, in slipcase. 4to; 536pp. (Spine lightly sunned and dented, with slight separation from text block; interior with light toning, previous owner's name on paste-down, very good in fair to good slipcase.)

Homer; Alexander Pope, trans.; John Flaxman, illus. THE ILIAD OF HOMER. New York: The Heritage Press, 1943. Hardcover. Maroon blind patterned boards, gilt lettering and design on spine, in slipcase. (Spine sunned, edges with light wear and residue, slight separation from text block; interior with light toning and foxing; very good in fair slipcase.)

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin; M. F. K. Fisher, trans.; Sylvain Sauvage, illus. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE OR, MEDITATIONS ON TRANSCENDENTAL GASTRONOMY. New York: The Heritage Press, 1949. Hardcover. Quarter blue cloth over patterned paper boards, silver lettering on spine, top edge stained red, in red slipcase. 4to; 471pp. (Very light wear to corners and head and tail of spine, spine sunned with faint foxing, slight separation from text block; interior with occasional light mark or foxing, endpapers toned, previous owner's name on front paste-down; cracking at front hinge. Good in good slipcase.)

Thomas De Quincey. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER. New York: The Heritage Press, 1950. Hardcover. Quarter black cloth over patterned green paper boards, in glassine jacket, in patterned green slipcase, all edges stained red. 4to; 77pp. With an introduction by William Bolitho; gravures by Zhenya Gay. (Light residue and sunning to spine, sturdy binding; endpapers with toning and foxing, previous owner's name on front paste-down; jacket foxed and torn at spine; very good in fair jacket and good slipcase.)

Aristotle; Benjamin Jowett and S. H. Butcher, trans.; Leonard Baskin, illus. POLITICS & POETICS. New York: The Heritage Press, 1964. Hardcover. Patterned buckram boards, in red slipcase, all edges speckled. 4to; 331pp. Introduction by Horace M. Kallen. (Spine sunned, slight separation from text block; toning to endpapers; very good in very good slipcase.)

Petrarch; Thomas G. Bergin, trans.; Aldo Salvadori, illus. THE SONNETS OF PETRARCH. New York: The Heritage Press, 1966. Hardcover. Grey cloth-covered boards, in slipcase. 4to; 369pp. (Boards with light staining, minor warping, spine lightly sunned, slight separation from text block with binding still very sturdy; light foxing on front endpaper and edges with some staining at top edge, otherwise pages extremely clean and crisp; slipcase scuffed; overall very good.)
Tallest 11 3/4in.
From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.
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