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FORD, Julia Ellsworth.. Imagina.. Duffield and Company, New York, 1914.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: 179 pp. With illustrations in color by Arthur Rackham and in black and white by Lauren Ford. 4to, publisher's blue cloth. First edition. Just very good; some light insect damage to binding with moderate fraying at the extremities of the spine, not affecting any lettering. The text and plates are in nice condition.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

RACKHAM, Arthur; Ford, Julia Ellsworth; Ford, Lauren. Imagina. New York: Duffield & Company, 1914, 1914.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: With Two Full-Page Color Plates by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. FORD, Julia Ellsworth. Imagina. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford. New York: Duffield & Company, 1914. First edition. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 5/16 inches; x 242 x 185 mm.). [12], 178, [1], [1, blank] pp. Two color plates by Arthur Rackham (including frontispiece) and numerous black and white drawings in the text by Lauren Ford. Pages 171/172 with lower corner crease, pages 173-176 with neat repairs on upper blank margin. Publisher's light blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Pictorial end-papers in pale blue and white by Lauren Ford. Extremities of binding a little faded, some slight wear to top and and bottom of spine and corners. A good copy of the scarce first edition. A wee young, motherless boy, a dreamer who secretly loves poetry, yearns to be held and loved by the beautiful woman he has conjured in his mind in the dim moonlight - Imagina - and communes with trees, birds, flowers, and his dog, Kit, all of whom understand and accept him as he is rather than how his no-nonsense guardian would prefer him to be. "Julia Ellsworth Ford was a New York socialite, art collector and patron, and author of children's books. She was married to Simeon Ford, a financier and co-owner of the Grand Union Hotel in New York. Ford presided over a salon that included the Lebanese mystic Kahlil Gibran, Irish poet W. B. Yeats, and American dancer Isadora Duncan. Her published works include: Simeon Solomon: An Appreciation (1908), Imagina (1914), and Snickerty Nick (1919), among others" (Yale University, Julia Ellsworth Ford papers). Riall, p. 123. See Latimore and Haskell, p. 42.

Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.

Julia Ellsworth Ford. Imagina. Duffield & Company, New York, 1914.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this charming children's work by New York socialite Julia Ellsworth Ford, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The first edition of this work, signed by the author, a prominent socialite, art collector and patron of the arts. She was married to financier and co-owner of the Grand Union Hotel in New York, Simeon Ford.Tipped in to the front pastedown is a signed note by Ford reading 'with love from Julia Ellsworth Ford, remembering pleasant days', and Ford's typed card, reading 'Mrs. Simeon Ford'.Illustrated with two colour plates by Arthur Rackham, and charming vignette illustrations by the author's daughter, Lauren Ford. Collated, complete.A melancholy tale of a child's imagined world. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Damp staining to tail of rear board, with fading to head of rear board and to fore edge of front board. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Author's handwritten signature and typed card tipped in to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with the odd spot, most concentrated to the start of the work. Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Ford, Julia E. [Illustrations By Arthur Rackham & L. Ford] Kate Douglas Wiggin Inscription. Imagina. Duffield, New York, 1914.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Description: Very Good, front hinge crack, spine ends worn,; Library of Congress surplus stamp on endpaper,; Inscribed by Julia Ford to Kate Douglas Wiggin; also inscribed by Kate Douglas Wiggin to Margaret Harriman.

Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.

[Rackham, Arthur] Ford, Julia Ellsworth. Imagina. Duffield & Company, New York, 1914.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 5/16 inches; x 242 x 185 mm.). Collating [12], 178, [1], [1, blank]. Publisher's light blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Pictorial endpapers in pale blue and white by Lauren Ford. Two color plates by Arthur Rackham (including frontispiece) and numerous black and white drawings in the text by Lauren Ford. Housed in a fleece-lined quarter green morocco clamshell case. Rear inner hinge slightly cracked, otherwise a Near Fine copy. A young, motherless boy, a dreamer who secretly loves poetry, yearns to be held and loved by the beautiful woman he has conjured in his mind in the dim moonlight - Imagina - and communes with trees, birds, flowers, and his dog, Kit, all of whom understand and accept him as he is rather than how his no-nonsense guardian would prefer him to be. Riall 123. See Latimore and Haskell 42.

Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

FORD, Julia Ellsworth. Imagina. Duffield, New York, 1914.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham and Lauren Ford. Small 4to, plain wrappers, hand lettered with an ink drawing of fish. New York: Duffield, 1914. Advance copy in wrappers, with the author's autograph. A penciled notation on the flyleaf indicates this was the author's own copy. It has two extra original ink illustrations by Lauren Ford in the margins of pages 17 & 21. The lower half of the spine has some dampstains, which comes through on the pictorial endpapers. Otherwise a fine copy of a unique book.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); FORD, Julia Ellsworth.. Imagina.. New York: Duffield & Company, 1914, 1914.

Price: US$779.73 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. A nice example of this title in the rare dust jacket. Latimore & Haskell, p. 42; Riall, p. 123. Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to front board and spine gilt, illustrated endpapers. With dust jacket. Housed in a grey solander box. Colour frontispiece and colour plate by Rackham, illustrations in text by Lauren Ford. Covers faded and with soiling, rubbing to corners and ends of spine, in the dust jacket with soiling to panels, small chips to edges, tape to verso of spine splitting along front flap fold. A very good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Ford, Julia Ellsworth; Rackham, Arthur; Ford, Lauren. IMAGINA. Duffield & Company, New York, 1914.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Description: Unique presentation copy of Ford's distinctively melancholy story of a child's imagined half-world, inscribed by Ford to Rackham collector and bibliographer Sarah Briggs Latimore. 9.5'' x 7.25''. Original dark blue cloth with decorative gilt stamping. In later E.P. Dutton dust jacket. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated with two color plates by Rackham and numerous black and white drawings by Lauren Ford. Inscribed by Julia Ford on front free endpaper: "To Miss Latimore with the author's best wishes. Julia Ellsworth Ford. / My daughter Lauren Ford illustrated this book in black & white when she was 17 years old. She is now a celebrated artist. One of her pictures was accepted by the Metropolitan Museum in N.Y." Jacket with shallow chipping to extremities and tape repairs to verso, one.25'' circular hole to front panel, light soil and very faint foxing. Only mild wear and rubbing to boards.

Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.