Gargantua & Pantagruel: The Five Books.
New York: The Heritage Press, [1942]. Hardcover. Translation by Jacques LeClercq. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Small 4to. Tan cloth, slipcase. xxix, 146pp, 124pp, 178pp, 175pp, 141pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Mild slipcase edge and corner wear; discreetly, archivally mended tear to leaf 133-34, else tight, clean, quite nice. Item #39883
Handsome slipcased "poor man's LEC" edition of this mid-16th century satire about two giants -- the trade edition of the fine 1936 Limited Editions Club small printing.
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