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Stephens, James. Irish Fairy Tales. Macmillan & Co., London, 1920.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Heavy rubbing to spine ends. Spine lettering completely faded. Rubbing to edges. 16 color plates with tissue guards + black-and-white illustrations. First trade edition.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
James Stephens. Irish Fairy Tales. Macmillan And Co, 1920.
Price: US$179.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, boards showing, top and bottom of spine bumped and a little worn, titles on spine faded, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, all plates (16) present and in good condition, front hinge a little weak, paper ripped and webbing showing, short inscription to a previous owner on front end paper
Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom
Stephens, James. Irish Fairy Tales: Ten Tales. Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1920.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New End pages and Paste-Downs. Complete with all Illustrations and Tissue Guards. Illustrated by the Author Rackham. Publication of 318 pages. There is gilt on the spine and decoration on the front cover. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, light marks and a touch edge worn. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Stephens, James. Irish fairy tales,. The Macmillan company, 1920.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1920 Macmillan first trade edition with 16 tissue guarded color plates, from the estate of artist Paul Cadmus with his signature and bookplate to the front pastedown. Light bump to head and toe of spine. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Stephens, James. Irish Fairy Tales. MacMillan & Co Ltd. 1920, London, 1920.
Price: US$448.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Arthur Rackham edition. x, 318, (1) pp. Bound in recent dark green half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & maroon leather title label. In green cloth slipcase. New endpapers. With sixteen full-page colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Some occasional spotting and fingermarks, including to plates and some colouring-in of black and white illustrations. Pencil inscription to p. 17. VG overall. Square 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. First printing "Published November,1920", 8vo (7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches), pp. (10), (1-4), 5-318, 16 color plates with printed guards after paintings by Arthur Rackham. Fine clean bright copy. Sheets and plates clean, unmarked, no inscriptions or names , complete. H10651 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping. International Edition
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Stephens, James. Irish Fairy Tales. MacMillan & Co Ltd. 1920, London, 1920.
Price: US$577.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Arthur Rackham edition. x., 318, [1], pp., 16 colour plates. A clean attractive copy in the original gilt decorated cloth. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
STEPHENS, James. RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.). Irish Fairy Tales.. Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London, 1920.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: x, 318 pp. Illustrated with 16 color plates by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf. 8vo, publisher's green gilt cloth in dust jacket. First trade edition. Better than very good in a lightly tanned jacket (more so at the spine) with a few tiny chips, edgwear, and some tiny splash marks. Rackham bibliographer Sarah Lattimore's copy, with her bookplate and two others. Signed by James Stephens on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Stephens, James. Irish fairy tales,. The Macmillan company, 1920.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rackham signed limited edition (520)in the original vellum over paper hardcover binding, large format hardcover. Illustrated with tissue guarded color plates throughout. Tight and unmarked, small losses to the paper covering the boards. Top edge gilt, others rough cut. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Oversized hardcover. Vellum (paper) spine and tan boards, both stamped with gold. Binding good and tight, with some minor wear to the edges and corners. Small (3/4 inch) tear at the base of the spine. A limited edition of 520 copies signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. 318 pages. 16 color illustrations tipped in (with tissue guards) and 21 black and white drawings. Binding good and tight. Measures 9 x 11 pages. Receipt from Bauman rare Books tucked inside (from the 1990s). (They described it as 'a fine copy'.) Please email with questions or to request photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3206.90 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, one of 520 unnumbered copies signed by the artist, one of Rackham's significant successes. The Dublin Independent stated "Some of Mr Rackham's pictures are pure poems - they set you dreaming". James Hamilton notes that "in writing the stories, [James] Stephens had attempted to create an Irish equivalent of The Arabian Nights, his own poetic retelling of the stories which existed in the oral tradition and in Gaelic texts, but which had not appeared accessibly in print". In the opinion of his biographer, "Rackham rose to the occasion" (Hamilton, p. 128). Riall, p. 138. James Hamilton, Arthur Rackham: a life with illustration, 1990. Quarto. Original vellum-backed boards, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 15 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Extremities a little bumped and rubbed, some consistent foxing to spine, light soiling to rear cover, foxing and browning to endpapers: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
STEPHENS (James). Irish Fairy Tales. Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London, 1920.
Price: US$3206.90 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 16 coloured plates, guarded with tissue, and 21 black and white headpieces. First Edition thus. 8vo. [211 x 163 x 38 mm]. x, 318, [2] pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full green morocco, the covers tooled in gilt with a fillet and roll border and an all over design of shamrocks in three sizes, intertwining scrolls and a profusion of dots. The spine divided into six panels by gilt tooled raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and fourth and dated at the foot, the others with shamrocks, scrolls and dots, the turn-ins tooled to match, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
STEPHENS, James. RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.). Irish Fairy Tales.. Macmillan & Co., London, 1920.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: x, 318 pp. With sixteen tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards and text illustrations in black and white. 4to, publisher's vellum-backed boards decorated in gold, t.e.g.; in custom cloth folding box. First edition; one of 520 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Riall, p. 138. Two bookplates to pastedown; boards a bit soiled and rubbed at edges; endsheets very slightly darkened; still, an attractive copy. With Rackham's original signed pen-and-ink drawingshaded in watercolors, for the headpiece on p. 37 of this volume, titled on verso by the artist, "A.R. No. 12 Little Boy Climbing by Arthur Rackham."
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.