Author: RABELAIS, Francois
Title: Gargantua & Pantagruel: The Five Books
Description: New York, The Heritage Press, 1942. Hardcover. Translation by Jacques LeClercq. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Small 4to. Tan cloth, slipcase. xxix, 146pp, 124pp, 178pp, 175pp, 141pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Mild slipcase edge and corner wear; discreetly, archivally mended tear to leaf 133-34, else tight, clean, quite nice. Handsome slipcased "poor man's LEC" edition of this mid-16th century satire about two giants -- the trade edition of the fine 1936 Limited Editions Club small printing. .

Keywords: World Literature


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