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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.). A Wonder Book.. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1922.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 207 [1] pp. With tipped-in color plates and printed tissue overleaves; other color plates; and text illustrations in black and white by Arthur Rackham; however, in this copy, the plates are not placed in accordance with the list of illustrations; and one plate, the one listed as opposite p. 92, is not present. 4to, publisher's red gilt cloth. First edition. Lacking one plate as noted; very slight sunning to the spine; otherwise a very attractive, unworn copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$126.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. An acceptablecondition book with red boards. Officially undated but a pretty gift annotation on the ffep is dated 1922. Notable wear and fading to the spine, and a few marks and fraying to the boards and their corners. Foxing to the first and last handful of pages and then the pages clear considerably throughout. Occasional mild signs of handling and little marks but the book remains perfectly legible and unfaded. The binding has a few slackening sections with cracks to the gutters and a small handful of pages are dog-eared down one edge from protruding slightly. The whimsical illustrations throughout remain crisp and vibrant when in colour. A good reading copy.
Seller: WeBuyBooks 2, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Large Octavo, 207 pages with 24 color illustrations. In Good condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and detailing on spine and front cover. Boards have fraying to spine edges, bumping and rubbing to corners, and sunning to spine. Textblock has splitting to gutters between page 56 and subsequent plate and between second and third to last pages, slight age toning, and previous owner's name on verso of front endpaper. Shelved Case 14. 1374199. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$170.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Bound in publisher's red cloth, with gilt image of a Pan in a tree flanked by a boy and girl. Hardcover. Good cover. Some leaves loosened. Clean, unmarked pages. viii. 206 pages. All 16 plates present, 5 of the tipped in color plates are torn from the insert. Specifically, 6th plate on page 80, 7th on page 88, 9th plate on page 96, 10th plate on page 112, and 12th plate on page 120. Latimore & Haskell, p. 55, Riall, p. 146.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$199.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$243.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Undated, but either the first or an early edition thus. The first Rackham illustrated edition was1922; preface by Hawthorne is dated 1851. HB. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine and front, with gilt vignette of two children with faun to front cover, as well as blind-stamped title. No dustjacket. With pictorial brown and cream endpapers. viii, 207pp, large quarto. Pictorial title page. With 24 colour plates, as called for, from watercolours and lithographed drawings by Arthur Rackham, including frontispiece, with titled guard-leaves to the watercolours, as well as small b&w line drawings by him in the text. The illustrations are all present, though some have been bound-in next to pages other than their listed positions. Six traditional stories adapted by Hawthorne. A Good copy overall: the contents are generally very good and clean, with no inscriptions, occasional light mark, and browning to endpapers and gutters, as well as some colour bleed to front endpapers from red of cloth. Binding sound though slightly stretched in places. The covers are rather worn but have bright gilt ; cloth has various light marks, spine cloth is faded and has small splits to edges, and ends; corners bumped. and rubbed. Photos available.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Description: Hodder & Stoughton. London. No date, circa 1922 (inscription dated 1922). Hardback. No DW. 4TO. Red cloth, gilt, with lovely gilt vignette to front board. Colour frontis with tissue guard. Colour and b/w illustrations all present except some are on varying pages to contents list and those on p12 and p55 are detached but present. Spine sunned. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper and very light foxing to contents o/w a lovely copy.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$516.95 + shipping
Description: First Thus. Small 4to. red clothbound hardback with decorative gilt titles to spine and upper board, in scarce, original dust jacket with colour plate pasted on. Top edge dyed dark grey. Illustrated endpapers. 207pp. with many head and tail pieces in text, 16 tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue-guards and 8 full-page 2 or 3 colour illustrations, all in excellent condition. Previous bookseller's description in pencil to inside front cover. No other markings or inscriptions. Occasional light foxing, slightly heavier to prelims and foredge. Slight weakness to inner hinge at pages 72-73. A small patch of lower corner of red cloth of spine slightly faded and light edgewear to lower edge. Dust jacket somewhat soiled and tanned with some edgewear and small area of loss to lower corner of spine and upper board. Overall a VERY GOOD, BRIGHT COPY IN GOOD, SCARCE DUST JACKET. (Shelf 130/4) NOTE: Heavy Book (1.6 kg+): postage outside the UK might incur a surcharge.** Pictures available upon request, if not already displayed here.** The shop is open 7 days a week. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
[Rackham, illus.] Hawthorne Nathaniel. A WONDER BOOK. London Hodder and Stoughton [1922], 1922.
Price: US$522.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 16 tipped-in colour plates, 9 full page coloured illustrations, line drawing head and tail pieces and pictorially decorated endleaves, all by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's original bright red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, pictorial endleaves. 207 pp. A bright, clean and handsome copy with only minor evidence of age or use, lightly mellowed. FIRST EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK. A scarce Rackham title with beautiful colour plates and drawings that are an excellent complement to Hawthornes fantastic Wonder Book. These are timeless tales - including The Gorgons Head, The Golden Touch, and The Miraculous Pitcher - all imaginatively illustrated by the Master Rackham. The renderings of Pandora and the joyful innocence of youth are especially moving while the King Midas sequence shines with golden poignancy. The battle between Pegasus and the horrible Chimaera is charged with graceful, ferocious beauty.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.). A Wonder Book.. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1922.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 207 [1] pp. With tipped-in color plates and printed tissue overleaves; other color plates; and text illustrations in black and white by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's red gilt cloth in dust jacket with applied color illustration on front panel. First trade edition. Latimore & Haskell, p. 55. A beautiful bright copy in a slightly tanned jacket with several tiny chips, and a few tiny marks to the applied color illustration.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$615.73 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing with Rackham illustrations. Original red cloth with gilt titles and illustration to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 16 tipped in tissue guarded colour plates, a further 8 full page colour plates and black and white drawings throughout the text by Arthur Rackham. An excellent near fine copy, the red cloth boards very fresh and entirely unfaded, the gilt very bright having been protected by the dustwrapper. The contents are entirely complete and without loose or torn pages. Other than some spotting to the text block edge, the pages are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. All of the colour plates are present (although mispaginated as in all copies of the trade edition we have examined) and in fine condition with no creasing. Complete with the very good dustwrapper which is nicked with short closed tears at the spine tips and darkened to the spine and panel edges. All in all an excellent example, uncommon complete with the original illustrated dustwrapper. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Wonder Book. Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, London, New York, & Toronto, 1922.
Price: US$667.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy in the original red decorative cloth binding with 16 tipped-in colour plates and 8 tinted full page plates by Arthur Rackham. With fair to good dust wrapper. Undated but 1922 1st edition in this form. The wrapper has a pasted picture and titles to the front cover. There is loss to the top of the spine and edge nibbling at the bottom of the spine and the flap joints and along the top edge of the back cover. It has had some repair. The flaps are quite small but there is no indication that they have been trimmed. The jacket is in a removable protective wrap. The binding has blind stamped titles and a gilt design to the front board and gilt titles to the spine. It is very bright and clean with just slight pulling and corner wear. Top page edges green. The decorative endpapers are clean with a small signature dated December 1926 to the top of the front pastedown. The contents, with tissue-guarded frontispiece, decorative title page and text with numerous designs as well as the tipped-in and tinted plates, is in very good clean condition. The tissue guard to the frontispiece is beginning to detach at the top and there is slight spotting to the title page and rear endpapers. The stitching is visible at p80 but the book is sound. There is some spotting to the foredge. A very good copy in rare wrapper.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Rackham trade edition of six stories from Ancient Greek mythology, famously retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with gorgeous Golden Age illustrations. Rackham's beautiful paintings bring these legends to life with Golden Age flair. This is a particularly nice copy of this title, which is not often found in its original dust jacket. 9.75'' x 7''. Original red cloth binding with gilt and blind stamping. Original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket. Black topstain. Pictorial endpapers of a fawn and two fancy children. Illustrated with color frontispiece tipped onto thick paper with printed guards, with 15 color plates tipped onto thick paper with printed guards and various black and white and tinted images throughout. viii, 208 pages. Jacket with light edgewear and short closed tears, some tape repairs to verso; a few thin spots of dampstaining, primarily to top of rear panel. Binding with a bit of edgewear, tiny bump to lower edge. Clean and bright. Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$769.66 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the red cloth boards very fresh and entirely unfaded, the gilt very bright. The contents are entirely complete and without inscriptions or stamps. All 24 colour plates are present and in fine condition with no creasing. Complete with the very good rubbed and lightly nicked dustwrapper, the spine tips and fold corners with strengthening to the reverse. All in all an excellent example. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Wonder Book. Hodder & Stoughton LTD, London, New York, & Toronto, 1922.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 24 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original cream cloth gilt, slightly soiled and darkened, 592/600 copies, signed by Rackham.
Seller: Written Relics, Alton Bay, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No. 562 of 600 copies signed by Rackham. 4to. 29 by 23 cm. viii, 207 pp. 16 tipped-in color plates, eight other color plates, and a bunch of other b/w line drawings throughout text. Light darkening and minor soiling to the cream-colored buckram. A small bubbled area on rear cover cloth. Tiniest of cloth tears at spine extremities. Endpapers with some staining. Otherwise, clean and tight within.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1282.76 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 538 of 600 copies signed by the artist. A review of this work in The English Review noted that "the charm of [Rackham's] work. holds, and the result is a quite delightful presentation book, perhaps too good for the tender mercies of the nursery". The English Review, December 1922, p. 573; Latimore & Haskell, p. 55; Riall, p. 146. Quarto. Original cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered and with vignette in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and 15 colour plates, 8 three-colour full-page illustrations, illustrations in the text, all by Arthur Rackham. Light consistent toning to cloth, occasional splitting at gutter between gatherings, first gathering becoming loose, minor foxing to free endpapers; a very good and attractive copy with uncreased plates.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1603.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London, New York and Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd, 1922, SIGNED Numbered Limited Edition. Fine limited edition, signed and numbered in ink by Arthur Rackham to the limitation page: "This Edition is limited to six hundred copies numbered and signed by the artist. This copy is number '120'. 'Arthur Rackham'". Cream coloured buckram (full cloth) boards, gilt titles and illustration to the front board, gilt titles to the spine with the publisher s details at the base, moderate shelf wear, rub, toning. Pictorial endpapers of young boy and girl walking towards a tree. Thick heavy stock pages, with gilt top edge, others untrimmed, clean with attractive toning. Frontispiece mounted colour plate with captioned tissue guard: "Pandora and Epimetheus". Illustrated with fifteen further full-colour mounted plates on darker stock paper, all with tissue guards. An additional eight full-page duo-chromatic illustrations, many resembling a Japanese influence, with cations. Contents include: The Gorgon's Head; The Golden Touch; The Paradise of Children; The Three Golden Apples; The Miraculous Pitcher; The Chimaera. Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable Ltd. at the Edinburgh University Press. 207pp. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 11 ½ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition slightly darkened, gilt titles. Joints good condition. Corners good condition minor rubbing and wear. Boards good condition gilt decorated to the front board, minor marks to the rear board. Page edges good condition gilt top edge, others untrimmed. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound, some straining to gutters internally. Paste downs good condition pictorial, tanned, minor foxing. Free end papers good condition foxed. Title good condition tanned. Pages good condition tanned, minor foxing. Binding good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1922 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Price: US$1700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1922. Signed by Rackham. 1st Printing. Has six hundred copies numbered and signed by the Author, this is 578. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Bound in white cloth and gold decorations, top page edges gold gilt. 207 pages. RBR14
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1885.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Fine in own presentation box, presentation box has some sun bleaching Please see photos as part of condition report 1922 1st Edition (Thus) , A WONDER BOOK By Nathanial Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that town. Illustrated By: Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. Rackham's 51 colour pieces for the early American tale Rip Van Winkle became a turning point in the production of books since – through colour-separated printing – it featured the accurate reproduction of colour artwork. His best-known works also include the illustrations for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Hodder & Stoughton, London Super octavo (8vo 7 × 11 178 × 279),Pages 207 ISBN: Hawthorne's retelling of Greek myths. The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame story is that Eunice Bright, a Williams College student, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time. All the tales are modified versions of ancient Greek myths: "The Gorgon's Head" - recounts the story of Perseus killing Medusa at the request of the king of the island, Polydectes. "The Golden Touch" - recounts the story of King Midas and his "Golden Touch" "The Paradise of Children" - recounts the story of Pandora opening the box filled with all of mankind's Troubles "The Three Golden Apples" - recounts the story of Heracles procuring the Three Golden Apples from the Hesperides' orchard, with the help of Atlas "The Miraculous Pitcher" - recounts the story of Baucis and Philemon providing food and shelter to two strangers who were Zeus and "Quicksilver" (Hermes) in disguise. Baucis and Philemon were rewarded by the gods for their kindness; they were promised never to live apart from one another "The Chimæra" - recounts the story of Bellerophon taming Pegasus and killing the Chimæra. SKU: BTETM0001640 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 3Kg
Seller: Books That Expand The Mind, Margate, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fine limited edtion signed and numbered in fountain pen by Arthur Rackham at limitation page: "This Edition is limited to 600 copies numbered and signed by the artist. This copy is number '592'. 'Arthur Rackham'". Beautiful gigantic 9 1/2" x 11 1/2" x 2" design weighing over five lbs. Cream colored buckram (full cloth) boards, gilt cover titles and detailed vignette design, gilt spine titles w/Hodder & Stoughton at heel, moderate shelf wear, rub, toning. Front cover depicts wily satyr in tree shaking the leaves while children look on below. Pictorial endpapers of young lad and lady approaching tree w/silhouette in foreground of mercury atop pedestal and young satyr-like being sitting upon foundation. Thick heavy stock deckled leaves, clean with attractive toning; no writing. Gilded top edge. Frontispiece mounted color plate w/captioned tissue guard: "Pandora and Epimetheus". Illustrated with fifteen more full-color mounted plates printed in rich hues. Fine captioned tissue guards present. Also, an additional eight full-page duo-chromatic illustrations, many resembling a Japanese influence, with captions greatly enchance this volume. Variously sized b&w decorative headers and tailpieces throughout. Bind fine; hinges intact. Very attractive near very good limited edtion of fine book craftsmanship. Presented here are a half dozen of the classical myths rendered into very essential reading for children. A great freedom of treatment was necessary rendering these legends into malleable forms remaining same or similar in their essence having existed for the past two or three millennia. But, by their indestructibility are legitimate subjects for every age to clothe with its own garnish of manners and sentiment, and imbue with its own morality. In these fables of Hawthorne, they assume a Gothic or romantic guise and meeting the comprehension of children. It is only the artificial and complex that bewilder them, while their imaginative senses rise deep and high for elemental of these legends. Contents include: The Gorgon's Head; The Golden Touch; The Paradise of Children; The Three Golden Apples; The Miraculous Pitcher; The Chimaera. Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable Ltd. at the Edinburgh University Press. 207 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Rackham, Arthur). Wonder Book. Hodder & Stoughton, 1922.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. A sharp copy of this limited edition of 600 copies SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy SIGNED by Rackham in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Rackham books.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$6032.00 + shipping
Description: 286 x 222 mm. (11 1/4 x 8 7/8"). viii, 206, [2] pp. MOST ATTRACTIVE CHOCOLATE BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT AND ONLAID, BY ELEANORE VAN SWERINGEN (stamp-signed and dated 1928 on rear turn-in), covers bordered by thick and thin gilt rules enclosing an onlaid geometrical frame of blue-green morocco, the corner with tan morocco and gilt anthemiums, center of each side with onlaid blue morocco square with gilt tulip, raised bands, spine compartments with similar gilt and onlaid frame, blue squares with tulips at center, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, pictorial endpapers by Rackham, all edges gilt. Original pictorial gilt binding of white cloth bound in. Housed in a French style calf-lined chemise trimmed with matching brown morocco. With 24 colored plates, 16 of them tipped on, as well as other illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Front flyleaf with detached bookplate of John Suetierle Taylor, with handwritten ink notation "The Wonder-Book, presented to John on Sunday--the 10th of April, 1932. His ninth birthday." Signed with the monogram E. S. T. Hudson, p. 171; Latimore & Haskell, p. 55. For the binder, see Conroy, "Teaching Genealogies of American Hand Bookbinders" in the Guild of Book Workers Journal (Vol. 28. Nos. 1 & 2. spring/fall 1990), p. 61. âEndpapers with offsetting from the morocco flaps of the chemise, otherwise very fine IN A LOVELY, VIRTUALLY PERFECT BINDING. This item is of interest for its binder, author, and illustrator. Our volume was beautifully bound by New York artisan Eleanore Van Sweringen, who studied with a number of prominent binders in the U.S., England, and France. Although best remembered for his novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne published several books of stories for children, including the present work, which ANB tells us was produced in 1851 "to support his growing family." Here, Hawthorne's delightful retelling of Greek myths of Perseus, King Midas, Pandora's Box, Hercules, and Baucis and Philemon is much enlivened by Rackham's charming illustrations. Our copy was bound when Van Sweringen was a member of the Guild of Book Workers, which, according to the group's website, was founded in 1906 "with the goal of nurturing a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts." The Guild's Yearbook for 1908-09 and 1909-10 listed Van Sweringen as a member and named F. Boone, Helen Haskell Noyes, and A. Dehertagh as her teachers. Van Sweringen continued her training abroad, adding, in 1912-13, the name of the great Charles McLeish to her instructors and then the French masters Domont, Noulhac, and Maylander in 1923-24. Our binding definitely shows the influence of Henri Noulhac in its design, onlays, and tooling. Van Sweringen became a teacher herself, and her pupils included Ruth S. Bergen, Gertrude Dodsworth, Dorothy Moulton, and Christine Hamilton. Van Sweringen bindings are rarely seen: we could trace just two others in RBH, one of them the substantial and significant five-volume Doves Press English Bible.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.