Two Limited Editions Club Books Illustrated and Signed by Arthur Szyk

To include:

Geoffrey Chaucer; Arthur Szyk, illus.; Frank Ernest Hill, trans. THE CANTERBURY TALES. New York: The Limited Editions Club, [1946]. Limited edition; no. 133 of 1500 copies; signed by the illustrator on the colophon, as issued. White leather-backed patterned cloth-covered boards with gilt-lettered spine and stained top edge, in original glassine; housed in matching patterned slipcase. 4to; xx, 550pp. (Boards with minor edge rubbing, one corner slightly bumped, and light wear to spine ends including tail bumped; interior with occasional light foxing with heaviest at leaf edges and spotting to title page, infrequent small stains or marks, and offsetting from plates, with pages overall clean; wear to glassine including toning, faint spotting, edges with tears and chips, and area of loss at spine; slipcase with mostly light wear to corners with one area with paper lifting; very good in like slipcase.)

Arthur Szyk, illus. THE BOOK OF JOB. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1946. Limited edition; no. 133 of 1950 numbered copies; signed by the illustrator on the colophon, as issued. Half white leather over gilt-decorated paper boards, gilt label on the spine and gilt top edge, in original glassine; housed in red felt-lined gold slipcase. 4to; 148pp. From the translation prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James I; with preface by Mary Ellen Chase, and mounted color plates. (Boards with some toning to paper, minor red marks from slipcase interior, and light rubbing to extremities; one page with a few small stains, one with finger grime, and one leaf with a small tear at lower margin, occasional additional light mark or minor handling wear but overall clean with some leaves still partially unopened; glassine with toning, chips, tears, and creases; slipcase with scuffing and wear to gold paper but very sturdy; very good/good.)

In slipcase 10 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.; In slipcase 12 3/4 x 9 in.

A Private High Point, North Carolina Collection