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Introduction by Raymond Weaver. A reprint of the Limited Editions Club edition. "Sandglass" laid in. Fine in a very good (edge worn at the top and bottom open edges) slipcase.

1938. Numbered 514 of 1500 copies and signed by the illustrator. Marbled paper covered boards with leather spine and gold spine titles; mild wear; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; slipcase has some surface tears at base of spine, cracked along back edge; bookplate removed from free front endpaper; text in columns; interior is unmarked; 294 pages. Additional shipping charges may be required due to the size and weight of book.

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.

Limited Edition. Copy 891 of 1500; SIGNED by Miguel Covarrubias on colophon; w/ orig. slipcase; glassine cover paper torn; text unmarked; no bent/torn pp; boards fine

SIGNED by illus. Miguel Covarrubius, limited #541 of 1500 copies. Marbled boards, leather spine and tips, lightly worn. Top spine ragged. No slipcase.; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches; 294 pages

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.

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.

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. Spine pleasantly sunned. About Fine in a Very Good slipcase with some tape repairs

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1938. 4to, xv, 294 pp. 16 lithographs by Covarrubias, and with his signature on the colophon. Half brown morocco with marbled boards and edges, gilt lettering to backstrip. A very good copy, backstrip slightly faded with a few light scuffs, some toning to the pastedowns but pages clean. In the original slipcase which is somewhat stained. § Limited edition of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator. Introduction by Raymond Weaver. Miguel Covarrubias was a Mexican artist and ethnologist and the co-discoverer of the Olmec civilization.

One of 1500 copies illustrated with 16 lithographs by Miguel Covarrubias, signed by the artist on the colophon page. Folio, original half morocco over marbled paper covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine, a near fine copy in original slipcase. Miguel Covarrubias was a Mexican artist and ethnologist and the co-discoverer of the Olmec civilization. Miguel's artwork and celebrity caricatures were 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 fell in love with the Harlem jazz scene, which he frequented with his wife Rosa and friends including Eugene O'Neill and Nickolas Muray. 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, as here, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and also Green Mansions, Herman Melville's Typee, and Pearl Buck's All Men Are Brothers.