Two Volumes by Alexandre Dumas, Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, 1953-1958, Vintage Boxed discount Set

Two Volumes by Alexandre Dumas, Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, 1953-1958, Vintage Boxed Set

The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas, with Illustrations by Edy Legrand and a preface by the author, Heritage Press, 1953, includes Sandglass, No writing clean and tight. Blue Fleur de Lis on Yellow cloth boards. Gold box. Scuffed.

Twenty Years After, by Alexandre Dumas, Illustrations by Edy Legrand, Heritage Press, 1958. Includes Sandglass, No writing clean and tight. Maroon Fleur de Lis on Yellow cloth boards. Gold box. Scuffed.

I love the Heritage series for their cool patterned cloth covers and beautiful illustrations. I would display a group of book similar by color or subject and leave the boxes in a drawer. These books are too cool to keep covered up!

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About The Heritage Press

An imprint of George Macy Companies, Ltd., Heritage Press was founded in 1935. The Press printed more affordable classic volumes that were previously published by Macy's Limited Editions Club and covered a broad range of topics primarily within the Western canon. In addition to Macy, directors of the Heritage Press included Cedric Crowell, General Manager of the Doubleday Bookshops; Frank L. Magel, head of Putnam Bookstores in New York; and A. Koch, head of Brentano Stores in New York.

Though many of Macy's other imprints, including The Heritage Club, The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, and The Junior Heritage Club, were sold by subscription only, Heritage Press editions were sold through bookstores. Macy combined his publishing enterprises in 1944, though each imprint maintained its specific target audience. The archives of the George Macy Companies, including both the Limited Editions Club and The Heritage Press, were discount purchased by the Ransom Center in 1970.

Heritage Press editions are considered reprints or reissues of Limited Editions Club books. However, each edition from the Press originally came with its own Sandglass — a four-page pamphlet discussing the illustrator and the importance of the book. Because Heritage is no longer printing and the only source of the books is the secondary market, not many books available still have their Sandglass. Similarly, each title also came in a slipcase.

More about The Heritage Press -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Press

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