Aucassin and Nicolette (Signed)
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1931.
Illustrated by Vojtech Preissig. Limited Edition. Hardcover. #388 from a limited edition of 1500 copies published for members of the Limited Editions Club. Signed by the illustrator. It was designed and illustrated by Vojtech Preissig; printed in the Preissig type and decorative material, on J. W. Zanders hand-made paper, by the Statni Tiskarna in Praha and bound by Tvrdy of the same locality in Czechoslovakia.
A comic medieval French chatefable (song-story) telling the story of the aristorcratic and unheroic young lord Aucassin and his beloved Nicolette in alternating sections of verse and prose. Item #901419
8 x 113/4", green/purple/black illustration on off-white cloth, gilt spine title and decoration, 77pp, decorative endpapers, deckled fore- and bottom-edges, charmingly illustrated throughout in color.
Modest cracking to hinges, clean and crisp, bright, clean of owner's marks, fine in near fine dust wrapper and protective mylar, in publisher's slip-case with a bit of wear to extreme corners.
Price: $125.00