The Limited Editions Club, founded in 1929 by George Macy, produced high-quality, finely illustrated limited editions of the classics of literature and some few contemporary titles. The press paired texts by great authors such as Angelou, Borges, Cather, Conrad, Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Kafka, Milosz, Paz, Poe, Rilke, Rimbaud, Walcott, Margaret Walker, and Walt Whitman with original art by 20th century masters like Romare Bearden, Berenice Abbott, Balthus, Cartier-Bresson, Elizabeth Catlett, Allan Rohan Crite, de Kooning, Edmund Dulac, Eisenstaedt, Ellsworth Kelly, Jacob Lawrence, Sol Le Witt, Mapplethorpe, Matisse, Motherwell, Alice Neel, Picasso, Arthur Rackham, and Robert Ryman.
The Limited Editions Club, [1994]. CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Cartier-Bresson. "Just twenty‑eight when he wrote this magical novel, he compares a poet’s love for his city to a peasant’s love for his land. A leading Surrealist writer, Aragon was keenly aware of the hidden..... Read More about Le Paysan de Paris
Price: $1,900
New York: The Limited Editions Club, [2001]. No. 55 from a limited edition of 300 copies, signed by Balthus. Read More about Cosi Fan Tutte, Dramma Giocoso in Due Atti
Price: $1,500
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1989. Ryman, Robert. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies signed by Beckett and Ryman. Read More about Nohow On
Price: $2,750
The Limited Editions Club, 1993. Balthus. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Balthus. "What could they have had in common ‑- Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, the Paris‑born modern artist (better known as Balthus) who has filled scores of canvases with paintings of female nudes, and Mistress Emily..... Read More about Wuthering Heights
Price: $5,500
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934. Angelo, Valenti. One of 1500. Read More about The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. A Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights...
Price: $600
The Limited Editions Club, 1996. Franck, Martine. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Franck. "Imagine a book about a man who planted trees in an edition that itself comes from a tree, for this magnificent volume is covered with the bark of the mulberry tree. Imagine also an..... Read More about The Man Who Planted Trees ... L'homme qui plantait des arbres
Price: $2,250
The Limited Editions Club, 1993. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Harrer. Signed by the Author. "After his escape from a British prisoner-of-war camp in India, Heinrich Harrer spent seven years among the Tibetan People and recounted his experiences in this memoir called by the Indian novelist and..... Read More about Seven Years In Tibet
Price: $4,250
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. Lawrence, Jacob. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Hersey, Warren and Lawrence. Printed at the Wild Carrot Letterpress, with the silkscreens printed at Studio Heinrici Ltd. Read More about Hiroshima. With A New Poem by Robert Penn Warren
Price: $2,500
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1987. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies. Read More about Monthly Letters. The First Fifty Monthly Letters The Limited Editions Club 1929-1933
Price: $250
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1990. Edition limited to 375 numbered copies signed by Hejduk. Read More about The Black Swan
Price: $900
The Limited Editions Club, 1995. Balthus. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Paz and Balthus. "In awarding Octavio Paz the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy said that Paz’s work “seems to incorporate, interpret, and reconstrue major existential questions-death, time, love, and reality.” Paz dedicated his..... Read More about Sight and Touch
Price: $2,750
The Limited Editions Club, [1993]. Clemente, Francesco. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Clemente. "This volume is all the more remarkable for the fact that Pound knew no Chinese. Yet these translations of eighteen medieval poems, mainly by Li Po (A.D. 70I-762), are acknowledged masterpieces. Pound worked from..... Read More about Cathay: Poems After Li Po
Price: $1,125
The Limited Editions Club, 1997. Balthus. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Balthus. "These fifty-five sonnets, published in 1923, three years before the poet’s death, describe his relationship to every aspect of creation, and view death as a continuation not a termination of life. In the original German..... Read More about The Sonnets to Orpheus
Price: $2,250
The Limited Editions Club, 1996. Cartier-Bresson, Henri. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Cartier-Bresson. "A forerunner of the surrealists, Arthur Rimbaud wrote every one of his extant poems before he was twenty years old, including the 'Sonnet des voyelles ('Vowels'), here presented in French and with the English..... Read More about Vowels
Price: $1,900
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1990. Edition limited to 550 numbered copies signed by Siskind. Read More about Song of the Open Road
Price: $950