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First Limited Editions Club (stated). This copy is VG; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked except for previous owner's name on fep; binding is tight but slight wear on edges. No jacket, the cover are also VG; intact, including very good color and design, but liquid stains on spine, slight wear on corners. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We ship all books to U.S. buyers with Delivery Confirmation. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES

xv, [3], 294, [2] pages. No dust jacket present. Slight wear and soiling. Format is mostly two columns per page. Introduction by Raymond Weaver. Sixteen Lithographs by Miguel Covarrubias. The four page The Heritage Club Sandglass Number Ix:26 laid in, text relates to this book. Miguel Covarrubias, also known as José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud (22 November 1904 â" 4 February 1957) was a Mexican painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ethnologist and art historian. Miguel's artwork and celebrity caricatures have been featured in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines. The linear nature of his drawing style was highly influential to other caricaturists such as Al Hirschfeld. Miguel's first book of caricatures The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans was a hit, though not all his subjects were thrilled that his sharp, pointed wit was aimed at them. He counted many notables among his friends including Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and W.C. Handy for whom he also illustrated books. Miguel's caricatures of the jazz clubs were the first of their kind printed in Vanity Fair. He managed to capture the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance in much of his work as well as in his book, Negro Drawings. He did not consider these caricatures, but serious drawings of people, music and a culture he loved. Covarrubias also did illustrations for George Macy, the publisher of The Limited Editions Club, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, Green Mansions, Herman Melville's Typee, and Pearl Buck's All Men Are Brothers. Heritage Press, the sister organization of The Limited Editions Club, reprinted unsigned editions. Raymond Melbourne Weaver (1888 - April 4, 1948) was a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in 1916-1948, and a literary scholar best known for publishing Herman Melville: Mariner and Mystic, the first full biography of American author Herman Melville (1819-1891) in 1921 and editing Melville's works. Weaver's scholarly credentials, training, and persuasiveness were important in launching the "Melville Revival" of the 1920s that brought Melville from obscurity to wide recognition. Weaver was an influential teacher. He published a novel, wrote introductions for editions of American fiction, book reviews, and literary essays, but never published another scholarly book after his book on Melville. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and became best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and in Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and for her public stances and debates on social issues of the day. George Macy founded the Limited Editions Club, publishing finely illustrated books that were limited to 1500 copies and signed by the author or artist. By setting up a subscription service, Macy was able to work with a larger budget for subscribers. In 1935, he expanded his publishing with The Heritage Press. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War". Stowe wrote the novel to depict the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love could overcome slavery. The novel focuses on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of the other characters revolve. In the United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. The influence attributed to the book was so great that a likely apocryphal story arose of Abraham Lincoln meeting Stowe at the start of the Civil War and declaring, "So this is the little lady who started this great war. The novel remains a "landmark" in protest literature, with later books such as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson owing a large debt to it. Special Edition by the George Macy Companies, Inc.

294p quarto, illustrated A very good copy bound in 3/4 maroon morocco and marbled boards, rubbed along the spine. Enclosed in publishers' printed cardboard slipcase which is cracked along the bottom edge.

Lacks slipcase. Tight binding, solid 1/2 leather, marbled boards and edges, bright gilt lettering to spine strip with gently ruffled ends, clean, unmarked pages throughout. Number 144/1500.

Octavo, xv, [3], 294pp, [6]. Publisher's quarter red morocco, marbled boards. Light wear to spine. Includes the publisher's slipcase, shelf wear, ring mark on one side, title printed in blue on spine. From a limited edition of 1500 copies, this is number 592, signed by Miguel Covarrubias.

Book. Octavo, xv, 294 pages. In Very Good condition. Half binding of marbled paper boards and burgundy leather, with gilt lettering on spine. Housed in publisher's Very Good minus cardboard slipcase. Minor shelf wear. Light rubbing to leather on spine. Marbled pattern to edges of text block. Interior pages clean. Signed flat by Covarrubias on limitation page. Shelved in Room A. 1371421. Special Collections.

Octavo, xv, 294 pages. In Very Good condition. Half binding of marbled paper boards and burgundy leather, with gilt lettering on spine. Housed in publisher's Very Good minus cardboard slipcase. Minor shelf wear. Light rubbing to leather on spine. Marbled pattern to edges of text block. Interior pages clean. Signed flat by Covarrubias on limitation page. Shelved in Room A. 1371421. Special Collections.

Limited Edition. Copy #1262 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist Miguel Covarrubias on the colophon. Near fine in 1/4 morocco & marbled boards enclosed in a very good only publisher's slipcase. (Leather on spine lightly faded) Features 16 full-page lithographs and the title-page vignette & colophon vignette by Miguel Covarrubias. Printed at the Harbor Press in New York.

Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in half brown morocco with morocco corners and marbled boards. Introduction by Raymond Weaver. Copy #1377 of 1500 copies illustrated with 16 powerful lithographs drawn on the stone by Miguel Covarrubias and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

Limited Edition. Copy #1262 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist Miguel Covarrubias on the colophon. Near fine in 1/4 morocco & marbled boards enclosed in a very good only publisher's slipcase. (Leather on spine lightly faded) Features 16 full-page lithographs and the title-page vignette & colophon vignette by Miguel Covarrubias. Printed at the Harbor Press in New York.