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Title: Lot of 12 Miscellaneous LEC's Author: ** Place: New York, et al. Publisher: Limited Editions Club Date: 1932-72 Description: With: Hearn, Lafcadio. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Intro. by Oscar Lewis. With color illus. throughout, including a double-page color frontis., by Yasumasa Fujita; printed on hand-made paper. 8vo. Dec. brocade silk, sewn in the Japanese-style, wrap-around brocade silk box with paper label (box worn with splits, book still nice). 1 of 1500 copies by Shimbi Shoin, Ltd., Tokyo, 1932. * Landor, Walter Savage. Imaginary Conversations. Selected & introduced by R. H. Boothroyd. 10x6½, patterned cloth, jacket. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Hans Mardersteig (signed) at the Officina Bodoni, 1936. * Hale. The Man without a Country. Intro. by Carl Van Doren. Illus. by Edward A. Wilson 10x7, embossed calf. 1 of 1500 copies printed by The Marchbanks Press, 1936. * Peattie, Donald C. An Almanac for Moderns. 2 copies. New intro. by the author. Illus. with wood engravings by Asa Cheffetz 9¼x7, green cloth stamped in black & gilt. 1 of 1500 copies designed by Lester Douglas & printed by Judd and Detweiler, 1938. * Willkie, Wendell L. One World. The Photographic Album Edition "The Faces & The Places That Willkie Saw." Illus. from photographs taken by Wendell L. Willkie. 4to. ¼ leather & pictorial boards, enclosing slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies printed by The American Book--Stratford Press, designed by George Macy, 1944. * Lucretius Carus, Titus. De Rerum Natura: Of the Nature of Things. Trans. into English verse by William Ellery Leonard. Illus. with wood-engravings by Paul Landacre 9¼x5½, full dark blue morocco stamped in gilt. 1 of 1500 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press, 1957. * Bulfinch, Thomas. The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes. Illus. with full-page lithographs and pen & ink chapter headings by Joe Mugnaini. 11x8½, ¼ vellum & patterned boards. 1 of 1500 copies designed by Robert Dothard & printed by Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1958. * Congreve. The Ways of the World. Illus. by T.M. Cleland. 10x7, cloth. Newsletter, laid in. 1 of 1500 copies printed by A. Colish, 1959. * Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. Intro. by Isac Dinesen. Illus. with color lithographs & pen & crayon drawings by Paul Hogarth 11x7¼, bark-cloth, morocco spine label. 1 of 1500 copies printed at the Westerham Press, 1961. * Nietzsche. Thus Spake Zarathustra. Trans. by Thomas Common. Dec. by Arnold Bank. 11x8½, ¼ vellum & blue boards, stamped in gilt. Not signed as issued. 1 of 1500 copies planned by Adrian Wilson & printed at the Thistle Press, 1964. * The Panchatantra. Trans. from Sanskrit by Arthur W. Ryder. Illus. by Y. G. Srimati. 10½x7½, maroon buckram stamped in gilt, folding box with ties. 1 of 1500 copies from the Stinehour Press, 1972. Together, 10 volumes. Original bindings, slipcases. Each signed by the illustrator or contributor in the colophon, except one as issued. Lot Amendments Condition: Light to mild wear; mostly near fine or better, slipcases mostly good to near fine. Item number: 191698