Will Ransom Assistant Editor (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Angelo, Valenti; & Fritz Kredel; William Sharp; W. A. Dwiggins; etc. (illustrator). First Edition. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Very Good condition. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Number 4, Fall 1940, Part 1 only. Illustrations throughout. This issue includes Lawrence Blochman's ALDINE FOLIO MURDERS (with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel); THE PRINTER AS AUTHOR by John T. Winterich; Holbrook Jackson's EDWARD LEAR, LAUREATE OF NONSENSE; THE PURLOINED LETTER by Edgar Allan Poe (illustrated with lithographs by William Sharp); etc. Bound in the original white and green pictorial wraps, stamped in black (with white parts a little sun darkened at the extremities, as usual). LEC Bibliography #S-5. Oversize Softcover. 8.5" wide by 12" tall. This large, heavy book may require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by Angelo, Valenti; & Fritz Kredel; William Sharp; W. A. Dwiggins; etc. 124pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. Angelo, Valenti; & Fritz Kredel; William Sharp; W. A. Dwiggins; etc. (illustrator). First Edition, Limited 500 copies. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Scarce HARDCOVER edition. Limited to only 500 copies. In beautiful, bright and shiny Very Near Fine condition. Bound in the original bright, glossy green cloth, stamped in dark green. Binding is sewn, NOT stapled like some inferior copies. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Corners are NOT bumped. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. All other pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Number 4, Fall 1940, Part 1 only. Illustrations throughout. This issue includes Lawrence Blochman's ALDINE FOLIO MURDERS (with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel); THE PRINTER AS AUTHOR by John T. Winterich; Holbrook Jackson's EDWARD LEAR, LAUREATE OF NONSENSE; THE PURLOINED LETTER by Edgar Allan Poe (illustrated with lithographs by William Sharp); etc. LEC Bibliography #S-5. Oversize HARDCOVER. 8.5" wide by 12" tall. This large book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition, Limited 500 copies. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Angelo, Valenti; & Fritz Kredel; William Sharp; W. A. Dwiggins; etc. 124pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. Appleton, LeRoy H. (wood engravings) (illustrator). First Edition. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1941. A gorgeous copy. Fine condition. NO fading. Almost NO rubbing. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Bound in the original bright, glossy green cloth, stamped in dark green. Number 4, Spring 1941, Part III only. Illustrations throughout. Among this part's articles are: TOM SAWYER AND THE ILLUSTRATORS by Warren Chappell; THE MAN WHO BECAME A BOOKBINDER [Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson] by Ward Ritchie; HOW TO LOOK AT A BOOK by Philip Van Doren, with drawings by Donald McKay; BROTHER JONATHAN READS THE SONG OF SONGS by Emma L. Patterson, with drawings by Carlotta Petrina; MY FAVORITE BOOK AND WHY: A SYMPOSIUM with James Daugherty, Edmund Thompson, Zhenya Gay, Robert Ward Johnson, David T. Potinger, and Carlotta Petrina; THE CRANBROOK PRESS by Paul McParlin; --PATTERNS IN PRINT [typography] by Holbrook Jackson; BYWAYS OF BOOKMAKING edited by Dr Culrarity; THE GOOD BOOKS OF 1940 by Joseph Blumenthal. The separately paginated section at the end is a short story, THE AMBITIOUS GUEST by Nathanial Hawthorne, illustrated with wood- engravings by LeRoy H. Appleton. LEC Bibliography #S-5. 8.5" wide by 12" tall. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Appleton, LeRoy H. (wood engravings). pp. 233-312 + 14 pages. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1941. A superior copy. Fine condition with almost none of the spine fading that afflicts so many copies. NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. Bound in the original bright, glossy green cloth, stamped in dark green. Number 4, Winter 1941, Part II only. Illustrations throughout. Among this part's articles are: BOOKS THAT NEVER GREW UP (about miniature books) by Wilbur Macey Stone; SOME AUTHORS WHO LOOKED AT THEIR BOOKS by John T. Winterich, Booth Tarkington, and Andre Maurois; THE SHAKESPEARE TITLE-PAGE MYSTERY by Carolyn Wells; DON QUIXOTE AND THE ILLUSTRATORS by Philip Hofer; THE PASSIONATE BIBLIOPHILE TO HIS LOVE by Newman Levy, A PRESS IN THE LIVING ROOM by John Williams Andrews; etc. The separately paginated section at the end is a short story, Jean-Ah Poquelin, by George W Cable, illustrated with linoleum cuts by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. LEC Bibliography #S-5. 8.5" wide by 12" tall. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. pp. 109-232 + 16 pages. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.