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1BuzzBuzzard
Favorite Heritage Press Titles:
1935 Romeo and Juliet - illustrated and signed by Sylvain Sauvage.
1935 Song of Songs Which is Solomon's - printed on Japanese rice paper, decorated and signed by Valenti Angelo. Printed at the Harbor Press.
1935 Shropshire Lad - illustrated and signed by Edward Wilson and bound in pig skin I believe.
1935 David Copperfield - illustrated and signed by John Austen.
1936 Green Mansions - first Heritage Club book from regular subscription. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. Designed and printed to perfection by Frederic Warde at the Stratford Press, NY.
1938 Crime and Punishment - first Eichenberg commission for G. Macy. Love it so much that hunted down two copies.
1938 Scarlet Letter - designed and illustrated by Dwiggins.
1939 Vicar of Wakefield - illustrated by John Austen in his usual style.
1940 Gulliver's Travels - designed by Bruce Rogers to perfection. Illustrated with woodcuts by Fritz Eichenberg.
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1935 Romeo and Juliet
1935 Song of Songs Which is Solomon's
1935 Shropshire Lad
1935 David Copperfield
1936 Green Mansions
1938 Crime and Punishment
1938 Scarlet Letter
1939 Vicar of Wakefield
1940 Gulliver's Travels
1935 Romeo and Juliet - illustrated and signed by Sylvain Sauvage.
1935 Song of Songs Which is Solomon's - printed on Japanese rice paper, decorated and signed by Valenti Angelo. Printed at the Harbor Press.
1935 Shropshire Lad - illustrated and signed by Edward Wilson and bound in pig skin I believe.
1935 David Copperfield - illustrated and signed by John Austen.
1936 Green Mansions - first Heritage Club book from regular subscription. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. Designed and printed to perfection by Frederic Warde at the Stratford Press, NY.
1938 Crime and Punishment - first Eichenberg commission for G. Macy. Love it so much that hunted down two copies.
1938 Scarlet Letter - designed and illustrated by Dwiggins.
1939 Vicar of Wakefield - illustrated by John Austen in his usual style.
1940 Gulliver's Travels - designed by Bruce Rogers to perfection. Illustrated with woodcuts by Fritz Eichenberg.
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1935 Romeo and Juliet
1935 Song of Songs Which is Solomon's
1935 Shropshire Lad
1935 David Copperfield
1936 Green Mansions
1938 Crime and Punishment
1938 Scarlet Letter
1939 Vicar of Wakefield
1940 Gulliver's Travels
2asburytr
I have the HP Gulliver's Travels and love it. All in lovely condition! The Sauvage Romeo and Juliet is definitely on my list; the illustrations he did for the HP/NS Candide are also wonderful.
5Django6924
I am also very partial to the first HP edition of Penguin Island with Sauvage's illustrations (which for me rank at the top of all of his work for Macy), the Sauvage-illustrated HP exclusive of Sterne's delightful A Sentimental Journey, and the Lynd Ward-illustrated Beowulf, which I prefer to the LEC re-incarnation several years later.
Also, although the artist seems to divide people into love-him or leave-him camps, I would add the HP exclusive Rubaiyat with Szyk's illustrations.
Also, although the artist seems to divide people into love-him or leave-him camps, I would add the HP exclusive Rubaiyat with Szyk's illustrations.
6wcarter
>4 kdweber:
I agree about the Salome, done in a very similar style to the Song of Songs.
I agree about the Salome, done in a very similar style to the Song of Songs.
7asburytr
>5 Django6924: Penguin Island and Sentimental Journey are also two of my favorites!
8BuzzBuzzard
>5 Django6924: >7 asburytr: Yes Sentimental Journey is beautiful too. Often hard to find with undamaged spine.
>4 kdweber: >6 wcarter: I would agree that Salome is in the same league as Song of Solomon had they used a nicer paper. Over the years I had four different versions of the HP SoS. The paper for the first limited edition is very similar (may be the same) to the paper in the LEC Rubaiyat. This makes a huge difference.
I also forgot the HP Wind in the Willows. My copy was printed after 1962. This book had an extremely high limitation. By the year 1962 Heritage Press had already printed 185,000 copies. Very high quality for such a high limitation.
>4 kdweber: >6 wcarter: I would agree that Salome is in the same league as Song of Solomon had they used a nicer paper. Over the years I had four different versions of the HP SoS. The paper for the first limited edition is very similar (may be the same) to the paper in the LEC Rubaiyat. This makes a huge difference.
I also forgot the HP Wind in the Willows. My copy was printed after 1962. This book had an extremely high limitation. By the year 1962 Heritage Press had already printed 185,000 copies. Very high quality for such a high limitation.
9Django6924
Vasil, your copies are in magnificent condition! I have sought the first Heritage edition of The Scarlet Letter for years and never found one, let alone one such as yours.
10BuzzBuzzard
>9 Django6924: I have been at this for some time now. More or less checking daily. All of these were also magnificently inexpensive.
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