Author: FRANCE, Anatole
Title: At the Sign of the Queen Pedauque
Description: New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1933. Hardcover. Translation by Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson. Introduction by Ernest Boyd. Illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and red/gold decorative stamping. xii, 174pp. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece, color illustrations. Very good. Tight and internally fine, with just faint spine sunning. Quite nice and tight copy of the LEC's first title in their fifth series, printed by Chicago's famed Lakeside Press. Colophon at rear notes limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #1108) signed boldly by Sauvage. Interestingly, the front flyleaf bears the early custom 3½" X 3" Art Deco-ish bookplate of Ralph G. Newman (1911-98), founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop and co-author of the 1989 reference work " Great and Good Books: a Bibliographical Catalogue of the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985," one of the standard LEC bibliographies. NEWMAN 49. .

Keywords: World Literature


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