The Collected Works of ….

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922-24.

Price: $2,500.00


About the item

The Carra Edition. No. 624 of 1000 numbered sets, SIGNED BY MOORE in vol. 1, on paper watermarked with a facsimile of GM's signature. 18 frontispiece photographs tipped in to vols. 2-19, many being portraits of Moore himself. 21 vols. 8vo. Half purple morocco and cloth, partly unopened. Fine. Gilcher: A6-3c; A34-3a; A13-3b; A19-2c; A22-3a; A25-3a; A26-2c; A-22-3a; A25-3a; A 26-2c; A27-2d; A29-3d; A31:I-4a, A40-2b; A35-4a; A44-b; A17-b4; A46-2a; A49-2a; A-50-a; A47-2a; A51-2a; Dardis pp. 1230-31.

Item #229482

With description on letterhead of Harry F. Marks, N.Y. (distributor of Black Sun Press)

Priced at the Extraordianry sum of eight and a half dollars per volume, or $176 for the complete set, the Carra edition was ulimately successful...B & L made a profit of $309,000 on the venture. Dardis.