Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 235

Price Realized: $ 570
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(OVERBROOK PRESS.) Prévost, L'Abbé. Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux. Color silk-screen illustrations and decorations designed and printed by T.M. Cleland. 4to, full brown calf, a few light scuff-marks, five raised bands, morocco lettering label, cloth slipcase; prospectus regarding printing method laid-in. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. Stamford, 1958

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one of 200 copies. A handsome copy of this desirable and elaborately printed edition that is relatively scarce at auction, and whose production "consumed somewhat more than six years of intensive and unremitting labor"--publisher's prospectus.