Authors with multiple books published by the LEC

I feel like this may be a repeat topic but couldn't find the old post.
With an excellent 1942 Leaves of Grass currently up for eBay auction, I might bid on that and buy Song of the Open Road to have all 3 Whitman LECs. I already have the 1929 Leaves of Grass, and the other two seem like great productions as well.

Are there other authors who had multiple works published by the LEC that you feel were all great, or maybe just one miss? Some authors with a high hit ratio in my opinion are Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Hemingway, and Cervantes. Probably somewhat obvious picks. A bit easier to have a good record with authors with only 2 publications like the last 2.

There a few that have a mix of very exciting and plain books. I think Twain is an easy pick for this, which is understandable since 12 of his works were published.

I have more picks for both categories but would like to hear others weigh in, especially if you have opinions that you think are a minority opinion. Any authors you think that all publications were disappointing/average? Judge the books on original design, not on how they may have aged, or someone like Melville or Austen doesn't have a chance to have a good record with how their major works have aged.

>1 PBB: Good thread to get the juices flowing PBB...here's my take:

Home Runs:
Homer: "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" (1931) designed and printed by Jan Van Krimpen
Harrer, Heinrich: "Seven Years in Tibet" (1993) and "The White Spider" (1996)
Carroll, Lewis: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1932) and "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There" (1935)

Triple:
Doyle, Arthur Conan: "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1950), "The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1952), and "The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1952)

Double:
Darwin, Charles: "Voyage of the HMS Beagle" (1956) and "On the Origin of the Species" (1963).
I felt like "The Descent of Man" (1971) was a hard grounder to third, but the runner didn't beat the throw to first.

Base Hit:
All five of the LEC Jules Verne titles. It gives Verne collectors a chance to own several choice titles in letterpress form. I'm not aware if anyone else has given him Fine Press treatment.

>2 Sport1963: I had Homer in mind too. The Barry Moser 1981 Odyssey is a very nice one too at its price point, but not quite in the league with the van Krimpen works.

The story of the production of the Sherlock set in Carol Grossman's book is very interesting. Designed by W.A. Dwiggins. 7 years from conception to publication of the first set, contributions from several Sherlock experts, some new illustrations, and reprints from earlier publications. The books had been out of print in the US because of difficulty with English publishers and Conan estate.

>1 PBB: Are there other authors who had multiple works published by the LEC...

You can sort alphabetically the 'Author column B' of this excellent spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/104iYrlXLQOyHMHdS0ulKei_wv71yEAeE9LQvvSgK...

The spreadsheet was created by SteveJohnson and first mentioned(?) here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/212797#6187556

There are a few more authors with multiple books from LEC. Off the cuff:
- Joseph Conrad
- Franz Kafka
- Aristophanes
- Charles Dickens
- Jane Austen
- Edgar A. Poe
- Ovid

>3 PBB: Good catch. I overlooked the 1981 Shiff-era Odyssey. While not in Van Krimpen's league, Moser's solid design and engravings, along with T. E. Lawrence's translation make it a sentimental favorite on my shelf. Added bonus is that a collector can add it to their shelf for a modest sum.

And of course Shakespeare, with the 37 volume set of his plays published in 1939.

Dumas, Hugo, Verne, and Flaubert as well

George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, Aristophanes, James Boswell, Honore de Balzac, John Milton, Henry David Thoreau, Plato and James Joyce are some more that come to mind. I’ll let the experts weigh in on which collections are worth owning entirely but at least the 3(?) Shaw books are affordable! I am very close to owning all Twain, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy titles and have been delighted by all of them.

>9 cartographer144: Aristophanes Birds and Frogs are very special indeed. If it wasn’t for the infamous outlier it’d be a home run

The six LEC titles authored by James Fenimore Cooper were a major faux pas by George and Helen Macy. Cooper is neither that good nor that interesting to warrant it.

>11 dlphcoracl: I think only the first two -- Last of the Mohicans (E.A. Wilson illus.) and The Prairie (J.S. Curry illus.) -- were done under Macy's tenure.

>12 kermaier:

You are correct. The other four Cooper books were published under the direction of his wife Helen following his death in 1956. I have amended the post >11 dlphcoracl: accordingly.

Not sure if Thomas Hardy was already mentioned. For me he was a delight!

>13 dlphcoracl: but you’re right — that number of Cooper titles a bit mystifying.

>11 dlphcoracl: I agree. Seen a few of those in stores before and never been tempted to get one. Had a convo about reading and books at a business dinner once and the guy I was talking to, who wasn't a collector, just an avid reader, was so excited to tell me about this excellent edition of The Spy he had just found. As he described it I could tell he was talking about the LEC edition. Told him a bit about the LEC and that they have so much more (and better) to offer than that one. Pretty cool to have that come up somewhere that wasn't a bookstore.

I have 4/5 of Thackeray LECs, missing Vanity Fair. They're all nice and affordable too. Wish there was a LEC Barry Lyndon

>3 PBB:
I don't know if you read my post on Macy written for a Sherlockian audience. Macy was investitured into The Baker Street Irregulars in 1951 under the name "The Bruce-Partington Plans". It was stumbling on the minutes of that meeting which led me to write The Quest for Macy. My own investiture in the B.S.I. is as "Holloway& Steele"
https://www.librarything.com/topic/328334#n7374190