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Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Prints are all present and in great shape, though a few have tiny creases at one corner. Tips of corners show hint of wear, small stain at bottom of spine, a few spots of foxing to outside edges of pages, back hinge thinly cracked but very solid, previous owner name in blue pencil on endpaper. otherwise in very nice shape, clean and presentable with a good binding. Also comes with vintage photo of young girl randomly inserted. Photos on request.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
RACKHAM (Arthur) & IRVING (Washington). Rip Van Winkle. , 1927.
Price: US$185.97 + shipping
Description: Published William Heinemann, London. 1905. Texte de Washington Irving, 50 illustrations en couleurs hors-texte d'Arthur Rackham. Cartonnage éditeur olive, titre estampé sur le premier plat, petits défauts, dos titré. Dim : 255 x 198 mm. 60 pages + 50 illustrations. Livres
Seller: LIBRAIRIE SEKSIK, Paris, France
Price: US$377.69 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4to., 44 pages of text, colour frontispiece and 43 other tipped-in colour plates each with captioned tissue guards (complete) mounted on to brown paper, some light occasional scattered spotting to text as is usual with this work, plates all very clean, original gilt decorated brown cloth. A generally VG++ clean tightly bound copy in the original binding. This is a wonderful selection of Rackham's paintings. The illustrations in this book are split into sections which include: pictures of little people, classics, some fairy tales, some children, grotesque and fantastic and a section entitled "various". Born and raised in London, Arthur Rackham began his career selling drawings to newspapers and periodicals. He quickly established himself as an illustrator of boy s adventure stories, for which he produced fairly uninspiring black and white drawings. In 1905 William Heinemann commissioned him to provide 51 watercolours to illustrated Rip Van Winkle. The book, aimed at the Christmas gift market, was produced in a sumptuous format and its launch coincided with a selling exhibition of the watercolours at the Leicester Galleries. Reviews and sales were exceptional and a new era of book illustration had begun. Arthur Rackham's career moved onto a totally different plane and over the following decades he worked at an astounding rate, producing his distinctive illustrations to books ranging from fairy tales to Shakespeare plays; from children's novels, such as Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland to the works of Dickens, Ibsen and Goldsmith. Rackham was a celebrated artist, whose work was much in demand. His earnings far exceeded those of his contemporaries and he had a shrewd eye for ways to maximise his income, for example selling sketches and embellishing books with humorous vignettes. His work is known for its extensive use of humour; his fantastical elfin creatures; the haunting anthropomorphic trees; dainty, ethereal fairies and his caricatured self portraits.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom