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WALDEN, OR LIFE IN THE WOODS.
Thoreau, Henry David
With an Introduction by Raymond Adams.

   

- Illustrated by Rudolph Ruzicka. Chicago : The Lakeside Press 1930
- 8vo.
- cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, slipcase.
- xviii, 355, (3) pages.
- Order Nr. 39698
- Price: $ 225.00



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Limited to 1000 copies. Designed and illustrated by Rudolph Ruzicka and printed at the Lakeside Press under the supervision of William Kittredge. Slipcase soiled. With clear plastic dust jacket present but with pieces of it's spine missing.

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THE DESERTED VILLAGE.
by Goldsmith, Oliver

Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., by John Henry Nash, in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies, with an accompanying facsimile edition (O'Day, pp.48-9). Introduction by William Andrews Clark, Jr. (1877-1934), the book collector who constructed a fireproof building for his collection that became the library named for him at UCLA. Printed in Caslon Oldstyle Roman and Italic type on VanGelder paper. Frontispiece, title and text within ornamental green borders and green rule designs. Frontispiece portrait of Goldsmith by William H. Wilke done in drypoint after a bas-relief by Helen Hall Culver. In his introduction Clark makes a spirited defense of Goldsmith against the charges of some of his contemporaries--notably Boswell and Walpole. With a facsimile of the first edition of The Deserted Village, published on May 26, 1770. Offset to endpapers, minor wear to slipcase, with some chipping to spine, a few small pieces flaked off, and light stains on one side.




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