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Title: Large group of miscellaneous LEC books, pamphlets, paper items, etc. Author: ** Place: New York Publisher: Limited Editions Club Date: 1929-80's Description: Comprises: Books: The Limited Editions Club Incorporated. 8vo. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Printed by D.B. Updike, Merrymount Press, [1929]. * The Scribner Bookstore: The Limited Editions Club in First Editions, Catalogue No. 123. 10½x7½ , red cloth. [c.1930’s]. * "Samples": A Book Containing many fine pages from the books to be published by the Limited Editions Club in its seventh series with a note…by Sinclair Lewis. Preface by Allen. Illus. with samples from LECs published in 1934/35. 13½x9¼, gilt-lettered spiral-bound stiff wrappers. 1st Ed., 1935/36. * Prospectus booklet for 7th series, [1935/36]. * Robert & Warde. A Code for the Collector of Beautiful Books. 3 copies (each a variant binding) 10½x6¾, cloth-backed dec. boards (one tan boards, one blue striped and one orange striped). 1936. * Jackson, Holbrook. Of the Uses of Books. 3 copies. Illus. with designs. 9½x7, cloth-backed dec. paper over boards. Two with printed greetings slip, laid in. Each 1 of 1500 copies. [1937]. * Lewis, Sinclair, footnote. A Book of Prefaces by Ten Famous Men-of-Books. 8vo. Wrappers. 1941. * Pamphlets/leaflets: Le Gallienne, The Philosophy of Limited Editions, 1 of 2000 copies printed by Frederic Goudy, 1933. * With the advice of G.B.S. [George Bernard Shaw]. [c.1940]. * 3 Philip Duschnes LEC bookseller catalogues Nos. 205, 216, 217, (1972-76). * 6 LEC Series booklets: Series 42-44, 48 (two copies), 49 (two copies). * 3 LEC prospectus booklets: 1974, 1980, 1983 (the latter with additional paper items, laid in). * Happy New Year 1985, 2 copies, leaflet with tipped-in woodcut plate. * LEC Christmas Gifts booklet, [1983]. * LEC: A catalogue fine books and portfolios, 1979-87. 4to. Wrappers. With related paper items, laid in. 1987. * Ad leaflet for The Adventures of Simplicissimus. [1981]. * LEC reception invitation for Death of a Salesman. * Season’s Greetings leaflet with woodcut for Finney’s The Circus of Dr. Lao. * Paper items: 106 various LEC Monthly Newsletters, 1930’s-80’s, some with mailing envelope addressed to Paul Harter (Los Angeles), plus related items (order forms, series sheets, memorandums, etc.); 35 smaller printed series information slips (1930’s); a collector’s personal LEC folder of approximately 85 pages of letters, inventory lists, bookseller’s for sale lists, invoices, articles, etc., etc. Together, 11 books, 21 booklets/leaflets, and over 100 paper items. Lot Amendments Condition: General wear, mostly very good or better. Sold as is. Item number: 191705