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Title: Lot of 9 titles in 11 volumes in the LEC Second Series Author: ** Place: New York, et al. Publisher: Limited Editions Club Date: 1930-31 Description: With: Hugo. Notre-Dame De Paris. 2 vols. Intro. by Andrew Lang. Illus. with woodcuts by Frans Masereel 10x7½, original wrappers. No chemise or slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies designed by H. Barthelemy & printed on Velin D'Arches paper at L'Imprimerie Coulouma, signed by the artist, 1930. * De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Illus. with 12 lithographs drawn on stone by Zhenya Gay. 13½x10, cloth-backed marbled boards, slipcase. 1 of 1525 copies printed by B.H. Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press, signed the artist and printer, 1930. * Moliére. Tartuffe or the Hypocrite. Verse Translation by Curtis Hidden Page. Lithograph Illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag Folio. Cloth-backed boards. No slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Poeschel Und Trepte at Leipzig, signed by the artist, 1930. * The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi. Illus. with woodcuts by Paolo Molnar. 4to. Decorative cloth, slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies printed by the Officina Bodoni, signed by the artist, 1930. * Carlyle. Sartor Resartus. Preface by Emerson. 8vo. Cloth, slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Oliver Simon at the Curwen Press, signed by the printer, 1931. * Lang, trans. Aucassin and Nicolette. Illus. with stencils by Vojtéch Preissig. Cloth. No slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies printed by the Státní Tiskárna, signed by the artist, 1931. * Loti. An Iceland Fisherman. Illus. with lithographs by Yngve Berg Cloth-backed dec. boards. No slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies printed by P.A. Norstedt & Söner, signed by the artist, 1931. * Hawthorne. The Marble Faun. 2 vols. Illus. by Carl Strauss 12mo. Cloth. No slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Fretz Brothers, signed by the artist, 1931. * The Iliad of Homer. Trans. with an intro. by Alexander Pope 12x7¾, red cloth (spine sunned), slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies designed by J. Van Krimpen & printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, [Holland], signed by the designer, 1931. Together, 11 volumes. Original bindings, 4 titles in slipcase. Each signed by the illustrator or the designer in the colophon. All but three titles of the second series present (needs: The Odyssey of Homer; Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Thackeray’s Vanity Fair). Lot Amendments Condition: Light to mild wear overall, from very good to about fine; slipcases good to very good. Item number: 191655