One of 300 Copies, Signed by the Artist

BRONTË, Emily. BALTHUS; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB.

Wuthering Heights [LEC]. Fifteen Lithographs and an Afterword by Balthus.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993.

BALTHUS, [artist]. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Wuthering Heights [LEC]. Fifteen Lithographs and an Afterword by Balthus New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993.

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BRONTË, Emily. BALTHUS, [artist]. Wuthering Heights. Fifteen Lithographs and an Afterword by Balthus. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1993.

First edition. One of 300 copies signed by Balthus, this being number 69. With fifteen lithographs by Balthus and an Afterward by the artist. Folio (16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches; 410 x 313 mm). Printed on Arches paper.

Publisher's full tan leather, lettered in brown on front board. Spine very lightly toned. Housed in full cloth velvet-lined clamshell, with leather spine label. About fine. Publisher's prospectus laid in.

"But when he made the early drawings for Wuthering Heights back in 1933, he stopped at a point about halfway through the book. As Jean Leymarie has noted, 'Only the artist's interest continued so long as the world of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw is that if childhood and adolescence. In these drawings Balthus clearly identifies himself with Heathcliff, the willful outsider unamenable to morality and society, in his vengeful satanism and headlong transgressions-an exemplary creation and an undying presence on the absolute level of art and human destiny.' ...Unable to forget his early fascination with Wuthering Heights, Balthus agreed to have the entire suite of fifteen drawings presented here for the first time in their destined context, if in a strictly limited edition. He was 25 when he began these remarkable illustrations; today he is 85, happy to behold their fruition, and to write a personal Afterword for the book." (from the LEC newsletter).

LEC Bibliography.

HBS 69329.

$4,500.

Price: $4,500.00

Item #69329