Gilgamesh

Avon, Connecticut: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Limited edition, this one of 15 out-of-series copies with out-of-series blindstamp on colophon and numbered. "G. C." (for the LEC owner, Gordon Carroll), signed by the artist Irving Amen; 4to, pp. xvii, [3], 105, [1]; woodcut illustrations (many in color), translated by William Ellery Leonard, introduction by Leonard Cottrell, printed at The Stinehour Press; fine in full ochre cloth, upper cover stamped in brown with a motif replica of a Babylonian clay tablet, spine lettered in brown; bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on pastedown, else fine, in fine publisher's slipcase. Monthly newsletter laid in. LEC Bibliography 473. Item #59933

Price: $175.00