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Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Cloth cover with decoration in gilt shows minor wear, rubbing, and soiling. Pages are tanned and clean. Missing plates 7, 8, 10, 21, 25, and 35.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$172.76 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & illus to front board, top page edges stained grey, 43pp + colour plates to rear with tissue guards- all present, VG- (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning to spine with gilt rubbed away also, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, minor foxing to pages throughout- plates not affected, heavy cracking to gutters with shaky boards)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. 43 [1] pp. With 44 tipped-in color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf. 4to, publisher's cloth. First trade edition. Latimore & Haskell p. 42. Endsheets a little tanned; gold decoration on cloth dulled; slight bumping at corners and extremities of spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$512.81 + shipping
Description: Grey green cloth, gilt with a bird block below the title on the front board and a cat similarly placed on the spine. No dustwrapper. 44 tipped in coloured plates, mounted on card. All with numbered and captioned tissues. First trade edition with Rackham's (uncompleted) book plate printed on the front board paper. The cloth shows a few faint marks, with a small ink stain at the foot of the front board. Spine darkened. Endpapers browned with minor spotting of some of the tissues but the plates clean and bright. Blank lower corner torn from tissue 3. Top edge coloured. Contents otherwise clean and tight. A very good copy. Deservedly regarded as one of the most desirable of Rackham's collections with fantasy and fairy story subjects drawn and coloured to perfection.
Seller: Cobnar Books, Deal, United Kingdom
Price: US$541.47 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 43 pages.44 tipped-in colour plates, which are all in good order with no creased corners etc. Small neat near contemporary ownership inscription on the blank endpaper, which is lightly tanned, Original pictorial cloth in it's rare orignal dust wrapper, which has edge tears a bit more pronouced at the top of the spine area but largely complete. Now in clear loose plastic sleeve to protect it.
Seller: Roger Collicott Books, Widecombe in the Moor, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto ( 10 1/4 x 7 5/8 in; 261 x 193 mm). Collating 43, [1]. Original gray green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Later (1918) printed dust jacket. Top edge stained gray. Small bump to fore edge of upper board Forty-four color plates (including frontispiece) mounted on tan paper, with descriptive tissue guards, and ten drawings in black and white. A Near Fine copy. "Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures brings together a number of drawings unrelated in theme. Most of them, it is true, are drawings of the supernatural, of goblins, elves and fairies, and many are based on actual fairy tales; but there are also delightful straightforward drawings of children at the seaside or in the Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens; there is also the well-known 'Cupid's Alley' [the original of which is in the Tate Gallery], which illustrates verses by Austin Dobson, and there are subject pictures and landscapes of wide variety" (Hudson 97-98). Latimore and Haskell 41-42. Riall 118.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Rackham, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures. William Heinemann, London, 1913.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. [1-6] 7-43 + 44 plates. Limited edition of 1030 copies, this is number 651. Signed by Arthur Rackham on limitation page in bold brown ink and hand-numbered. Off-white cloth, rebacked with original spine laid on. Top edge gilt, deckle fore and bottom edge. Gilt titling and top edge somewhat faded. Soiling to cloth, heavier at spine. Dampstain to lower edge front board does not affect interior. Tipped-in plates all present, with tissue guards in tact. Some foxing scattered throughout, not affecting plates. Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
Seller: Small Volume Books, Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Rackham, Arthur. ARTHUR RACKHAM'S BOOK OF PICTURES. William Heinemann, London, 1913.
Price: US$1380.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Scarce with dust jacket, however, it may be a later state dust jacket. Book is 1913. Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. 44 full-page colour tipped-in Plates with captioned tissue guards. Plates and tissue are FINE. Inside pages are FINE. Original beige/green cloth, with gilt illustration and titles on front and spine. Beige DJ with black titles on front and spine; black illustration on front cover. DJ has minor chips along top and bottom of edge, and very small water stain top front and back corner. Photograph available. Overall FINE/VG+.
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Description: With Forty-Four Mounted Color Plates Including 'Cupid's Alley' RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: William Heinemann. n.d. [1913]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 1,130 numbered copies, signed by the artist (this copy being no. 165). Large quarto (11 1/2 x 9 inches; 292 x 232 mm). 43, [1] pp. Forty-four color plates (including frontispiece) mounted on tan paper, with descriptive tissue guards, and ten drawings in black and white. Publisher's pictorial white buckram. Front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, decorative end-papers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine darkened and gilt somewhat dull, a few small marks on upper cover, some very slight wear at top of spine, still a very good copy. "Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures brings together a number of drawings unrelated in theme. Most of them, it is true, are drawings of the supernatural, of goblins, elves and fairies, and many are based on actual fairy tales; but there are also delightful straightforward drawings of children at the seaside or in the Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens; there is also the well-known 'Cupid's Alley' [the original of which is in the Tate Gallery], which illustrates verses by Austin Dobson, and there are subject pictures and landscapes of wide variety. It was important that such a book should be drawn together by an introductory essay, and natural for Rackham to invite [J.M.] Barrie to write it. The answer he received was cordial but disappointing: '24 June 1913. Dear Rackham, I wish I could, but I have promised to write two introductions this autumn, and had better not undertake more. Added to which I would be very bad at it as I have no skill in criticism. I am very glad to hear of the book and look forward to it. You have no greater admirer than myself, and few there are more warmly indebted to you. 'Yours very sincerely J.M. Barrie'. Rackham was fortunate in obtaining Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch as a substitute for Barrie. 'Q' not only admired Rackham's work; he also thoroughly understood a child's instinctive longing for the imaginative and fanciful. 'To this instant, constant, intellectual need of childhood no one in our day,' he wrote, 'has ministered so bountifully or so whole-heartedly as Mr. Rackham.' And Quiller-Couch was happy, too, in associating the random, impressionistic nature of much of the Book of Pictures with 'the wayward visions that tease every true artist's mind, while he bends over the day's work'". (Derek Hudson. Arthur Rackham. His Life and Work, pp. 97-98). Latimore and Haskell, pp. 41-42. Riall, p. 118.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2229.57 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, deluxe issue, number 101 of 1,030 copies signed by the illustrator. This is a finely printed selection of colour drawings by Rackham, a few of which had previously appeared in magazines in black and white, but for the most part previously unpublished. "Most of them are drawings of the supernatural, of goblins, elves and fairies, and many are based on actual fairy tales; but there are also delightful straightforward drawings of children at the seaside or in the Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens; there is the well-known 'Cupid's Alley' (see page 59), which illustrates verses by Austin Dobson, and there are subject pictures and landscapes of wide variety" (Hudson, p. 96-8). A trade edition was also published in the same year. Latimore & Haskell p. 41; Riall, p. 118. Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham. His Life and Works, 1960. Quarto (275 x 220 mm). Near-contemporary blue morocco by Bayntun (Rivière), spine with raised bands, compartments lettered and richly tooled in gilt, gilt frames on covers, elaborate gilt decoration on edges and turn ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt. With 44 numbered colour plates, including frontispiece, each mounted on thick brown paper and with captioned tissue guard. Spine faded, faint foxing to margins of text leaves and tissue guards, plates unaffected and vibrant. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: With Forty-Four Mounted Color Plates Including 'Cupid's Alley' RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: William Heinemann. n.d. [1913]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 1,130 numbered copies, signed by the artist (this copy being no. 581). Large quarto (11 1/2 x 9 inches; 292 x 232 mm). 43, [1] pp. Forty-four color plates (including frontispiece) mounted on tan paper, with descriptive tissue guards, and ten drawings in black and white. Original pictorial white buckram. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine very slightly darkened, still an excellent copy. "Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures brings together a number of drawings unrelated in theme. Most of them, it is true, are drawings of the supernatural, of goblins, elves and fairies, and many are based on actual fairy tales; but there are also delightful straightforward drawings of children at the seaside or in the Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens; there is also the well-known 'Cupid's Alley' [the original of which is in the Tate Gallery], which illustrates verses by Austin Dobson, and there are subject pictures and landscapes of wide variety. It was important that such a book should be drawn together by an introductory essay, and natural for Rackham to invite [J.M.] Barrie to write it. The answer he received was cordial but disappointing: '24 June 1913. Dear Rackham, I wish I could, but I have promised to write two introductions this autumn, and had better not undertake more. Added to which I would be very bad at it as I have no skill in criticism. I am very glad to hear of the book and look forward to it. You have no greater admirer than myself, and few there are more warmly indebted to you. 'Yours very sincerely J.M. Barrie'. Rackham was fortunate in obtaining Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch as a substitute for Barrie. 'Q' not only admired Rackham's work; he also thoroughly understood a child's instinctive longing for the imaginative and fanciful. 'To this instant, constant, intellectual need of childhood no one in our day,' he wrote, 'has ministered so bountifully or so whole-heartedly as Mr. Rackham.' And Quiller-Couch was happy, too, in associating the random, impressionistic nature of much of the Book of Pictures with 'the wayward visions that tease every true artist's mind, while he bends over the day's work'". (Derek Hudson. Arthur Rackham. His Life and Work, pp. 97-98). Latimore and Haskell, pp. 41-42. Riall, p. 118.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2388.83 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, deluxe issue, number 822 of 1,030 copies signed by the artist. This is a finely printed selection of colour drawings by Rackham grouped in six sections: "Of the Little People", "Classic", "Some Fairy Tales", "Some Children", "Grotesque & Fantastic", and "Various". A trade edition was also published in the same year. "Most of them. are drawings of the supernatural, of goblins, elves and fairies, and many are based on actual fairy tales; but there are also delightful straightforward drawings of children at the seaside or in the Broad Walk, Kensington Gardens; there is the well-known 'Cupid's Alley'., which illustrates verses by Austin Dobson, and there are subject pictures and landscapes of wide variety" (Hudson). Latimore & Haskell p. 41; Riall, p. 118. Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham. His Life and Works, 1960, pp. 96-8. Quarto. Original white cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, front pastedown printed with a sketch of a bookplate by Rackham, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 43 colour plates mounted on thick brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Contemporary ownership initials to front free endpaper. A notably clean copy. Head and foot of spine slightly bumped, some minor marks to binding, crease to sixteenth plate, occasional foxing and browning; a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2415.84 + shipping
Description: Erste Ausgabe. 26,8 x 20,5 cm. 43 (1) Seiten, 44 montierte Farbtafeln. Olivgrüner Original-Leinenband mit vergoldeten Titeln. Rechte untere Ecke etwas bestoßen. In einer schönen privaten Halblederkassette mit vergoldetem Rückentitel. Innendeckel mit eigenhändiger Widmung von Arthur Rackham an den englischen Jugendstilkünstler "H[erbert] Granville Fell from Arthur Rackham, 14.11.13". Dedication copy. Signed. Rackham, Arthur. Book of Pictures. With an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch. With 44 mounted color plates and some text illustrations and vignettes. First edition. London, William Heinemann, 1913. 26.8 x 20.5cm. 43 (1) pages, 44 mounted color plates. Original olive-green cloth with gilt titles. Lower right corner slightly bumped. In a beautiful private half-leather cassette with gilt spine title. Inside cover with handwritten dedication by Arthur Rackham to the English Art Nouveau artist "H[erbert] Granville Fell from Arthur Rackham, 14.11.13". Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Stader Kunst-Buch-Kabinett ILAB, Stade, Germany
Price: US$2675.49 + shipping
Description: A first, limited edition of Arthur Rackham's illustrated anthology. In the original white cloth binding, signed by Rackham to the limitation page. Limited edition, numbered 766 on 1001 copies. Signed by Rackham to the limitation page.Collated, complete with 44 plates.During the "Golden Age" of British book illustration Rackham was one of its leading artists. He used expressive line paired with a subtle use of watercolour to create his beautiful images. This work contains examples of Rackham's ethereal figures such as his elves, and goblins; his fairy tale characters; and hisgrotesque and fantastic.With an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch.Bookplate to the front pastedown, which was issued with this work,is blank.Held in a custom slipcase, with marbled edges.A beautiful example of this important illustrator's works. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Several light marks to the boards. Minor bumping to the head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with just the odd spot and thumbing to the bottom of text pages. Slipcase is in a FINE condition. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$2930.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 1030 copies. This is no.92. With signature by Arthur Rackham on limitation page. Bound in navy morocco, gilt decorationto boards and spine. T.e.g. Marbled e.ps. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath. 43pp.and 44 mounted color plates with tissue guards. Text pages and tissue guards sl.foxing. There are no spots and stains on color plates. [f1333-171441]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan