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Auction archive: Lot number 84

Fourteen facsimile editions from the First Edition Library

Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$390
Auction archive: Lot number 84

Fourteen facsimile editions from the First Edition Library

Estimate
US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$390
Beschreibung:

Title: Fourteen facsimile editions from the First Edition Library Author: Place: [Shelton, CT] Publisher: The First Edition Library (FEL) Date: 1980-1990's Description: Fourteen octavo volumes. Cloth, illustrated dust jackets, slipcases. Each copy with original laid-in card of explanatory notes. In the late 1980's, the First Edition Library (FEL) began publishing high quality facsimiles of famous first editions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sold via subscription, the FEL eventually produced over one hundred titles. The degree of accuracy maintained in the duplication of original first editions was extraordinary. FEL facsimiles had the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish and texture as the originals. Even mistakes were duplicated. Includes: Baldwin, James. Go Tell it on the Mountain. Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. (No dust jacket, as issued). Dickey, James. Deliverance. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Faolkner, William. Soldiers' Pay. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. O-Hara, John. Appointment in Samarra. Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus. Steinbeck, John. Grapes of Wrath. Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (No dust jacket, as issued). Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 285297

Auction archive: Lot number 84
Auction:
Datum:
27 Jul 2017
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Fourteen facsimile editions from the First Edition Library Author: Place: [Shelton, CT] Publisher: The First Edition Library (FEL) Date: 1980-1990's Description: Fourteen octavo volumes. Cloth, illustrated dust jackets, slipcases. Each copy with original laid-in card of explanatory notes. In the late 1980's, the First Edition Library (FEL) began publishing high quality facsimiles of famous first editions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sold via subscription, the FEL eventually produced over one hundred titles. The degree of accuracy maintained in the duplication of original first editions was extraordinary. FEL facsimiles had the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish and texture as the originals. Even mistakes were duplicated. Includes: Baldwin, James. Go Tell it on the Mountain. Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. (No dust jacket, as issued). Dickey, James. Deliverance. Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. Faolkner, William. Soldiers' Pay. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. O-Hara, John. Appointment in Samarra. Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus. Steinbeck, John. Grapes of Wrath. Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (No dust jacket, as issued). Updike, John. Rabbit, Run. Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 285297

Auction archive: Lot number 84
Auction:
Datum:
27 Jul 2017
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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