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Lot 622

Grouping of 6 Books, Limited Edition, Dr. Seuss, Lebowitz, Oates, Toole

Estimate: $300 - $400

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1st Item: METROPOLITAN LIFE / SOCIAL STUDIES, by Fran Lebowitz, published in Paris by Edition 7L, 2003. Limited edition, one of 1500 copies, (unopened, so # unknown) both signed by Lebowitz, Two volumes bound in blue cloth, housed in publisher's yellow slipcase. No dust jackets, as issued. Set retains publisher's shrink wrap with price label, ISBN 3-88243-933-5. 2nd Item: THE SEVEN LADY GODIVAS, by Dr. Seuss, New York: Random House, 1987. Limited commemorative edition, one of 300, (unopened, so # unknown), signed by Seuss on limitation page. Boards with tan cloth and gilt stamped spine, housed in publisher's tan cloth slipcase. Book remains unopened in publisher's original shrink wrap with price label, ISBN 394-56779-X. 3rd Item: A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, by John Kennedy Toole, Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Limited 20th anniversary edition, #286 of 495 copies, with foreword by Walker Percy and new introduction by Andrei Codrescu, octavo, boards and slipcase in purple cloth and gilt stamping. Book remains unopened in publisher's original shrink wrap with price label with "286" in pen, ISBN 0-8071-2607-1. 4th Item: A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, by John Kennedy Toole, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, May 2000, octavo 1st Printing of 20th Anniversary Edition. 5th Item: A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, by John Kennedy Toole, Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press, 1980, 2nd printing of the First Edition, octavo in beige boards and unclipped DJ in protective cover. 6th Item: ON BOXING by Joyce Carol Oates, Dolphin/Doubleday, Garden City, 1987, Limited Edition, #43 of 250 copies, signed by Oates on limitation page, 118 pp, Brown cloth boards and slipcase with paper cover affixed, gold price label en verso, ISBN 0-385-23942-4. Largest book 10 5/8"H x 7 5/8" W.

Condition

Shrink wrapped books As New; 4th Item CONFEDERACY 20th Anniversary Fine in Fine jacket; 5th Item CONFEDERACY (1980) Good in Good unclipped DJ, clean with slight looseness to spine and 1/8" chip to DJ; ON BOXING Fine in Fine slipcover.

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