HUGO, Victor; Lynd Ward [Illustrator].
Les Miserables.
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two”: The Limited Editions Club Edition of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables; Finely Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe and signed by illustrator Lynd Ward
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938.
$2,800.00
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Item Number: RRB-148556
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The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece. Royal octavo, five volumes, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and numbers to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, with hand-drawn illustrations. Boldly signed by illustrator Lynd Ward on the colophon page at the rear. One of 1,500 numbered copies, this is number 331. In fine condition. Translated from the French by Lascelles Wraxall. Introduction by André Maurois. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. An exceptional example.
Victor Hugo’s “great novel has been hailed as a masterpiece of popular literature, an epic poem in prose about God, humanity, and Hugo… Hugo hoped that Les Misérables would be one of if not the ‘principal summits’ of his body of works. Despite its length, complexity, and occasionally unbelievable plot and characterization, it remains a masterpiece of popular literature. It anticipates Balzac in its realism, but in its flights of imagination and lyricism, its theme of redemption, and its melding of myth and history, it is uniquely Hugo” (Dolbow, 149, 214). Charles E. Wilbour was hired by the Carleton Publishing Company to translate Hugo's grand masterpiece, and he did so very quickly, allowing the first American edition to be published within months of its French release. The intense advertising campaign waged by Carleton resulted in massive sales for Les Misérables, solidifying Hugo's epic in second place (behind only Uncle Tom's Cabin) in pre-Civil War American book sales.
Les Miserables.
$2,800.00
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