signed first edition Hardcover
1969 · [New York]
by IRVING, Washington
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Hardcover. Small stains on bulked fore-edge of text. Thus Near Fine in glassine and a close to Fine slipcase. Lima de Freitas. Quarto (8" x 11-1/4") beautifully bound in full Toledo damask, woven in a Hispano-Morrish pattern of henna and gold, with a spine label oval of dark henna-brown leather stamped in pure gold leaf. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. Illustrated with 16 full-page drawings and 25 text drawings by Lima de Freitas. Copy #1085 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. (Inventory #: 021871)