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Stephens, James / Arthur Rackham (illusts.). Irish Fairy Tales. Macmillan,, 1920.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Macmillan, NY, 1920, 1st.thus - matching dates, small 8vo., green cloth, 318pp., 16 color plates, all present, ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, chipped spine caps, bumped corners, waterstained text & plates, poor, $
Seller: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.
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$179.57 + 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
James Stephens. Irish Fairy Tales. MacMillan, 1920.
Price: US$250.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st British trade edition in original publishers green cloth with gilt titles to spine and decoration to front board. A very good and clean copy complete with all plates.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
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 [Arthur Rackham (illust.)]. Irish Fairy Tales. MacMillan London 1920, 1920.
Price: US$346.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good small quarto x + 318pp., col. frontis., col. pls., illusts., Some wear to cloth at spine o/w a nice tight, square copy. All plates are tissue-guarded
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Stephens, James [Arthur Rackham (illust.)]. Irish Fairy Tales. MacMillan London 1920, 1920.
Price: US$374.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy small quarto x + 318pp., col. frontis., col. pls., text illusts., 16 fine colour plates plus several black and white illustrations in the text by Arthur Rackham. All plates are excellent, all retaining their captioned tissue-guards. Green boards with gilt decoration on upper board. Nice owner's bookplate on front paste-down o/w a nice bright, tight, square copy of the first edition. PHOTO available
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Stephens, James & Rackham, Arthur. IRISH FAIRY TALES. Macmillan, 1920.
Price: US$458.20 + shipping
Description: IRISH FAIRY TALES, Macmillan, 1920, first edition (British issue), some off-setting to the end-papers, else a vg+ copy with all 16 full color full color plates by Arthur Rackham present and in fine condition with tissue guard.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
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$577.20 + 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
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Rebound in dark green morocco with gilt edged raised bands. Gilt devices in the compartments & gilt title with maroon label & gilt date at base of spine. About fine overall. Features 16 beautiful Rackham full-color plates with captioned tissue guards plus additional b&w vignettes. ; 6 3/4" X 8 3/4"; 318 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
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 & Rackham, Arthur (Illus.). Irish Fairy Tales. Macmillan , London, 1920.
Price: US$1924.01 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The First UK printing published by Macmillan, London in 1920. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just a hint of pushing at the spine ends. The gilt titling and decorations to the spine and front panel remain very bright. Mild offsetting to the blank end-papers. Free from inscriptions. Small area of offsetting to the lower front corner of the 'illustrations' page. The scarce WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ or better condition. Light toning to the spine. Light edge wear with a few very small areas of rubbing and a very small area of loss to the upper front corner. Some archival tape reinforcement to the spine ends and corners to the verso. The wrapper looks very vibrant in the removable Brodart archival cover. 16 fine colour plates plus several black and white illustrations in the text by Arthur Rackham. All plates are excellent, all retaining their captioned tissue-guards. A very sharp copy and very scarce with the wrapper in such collectible condition. Only the second copy we have handled. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
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$3206.68 + 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$3206.68 + 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.
RACKHAM, Arthur; STEPHENS, James. IRISH FAIRY TALES. Macmillan, 1920.
Price: US$5772.03 + shipping
Description: First Rackham edition. Edition de Luxe. One of only 520 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Large 4to. Original quarter parchment over boards, spine titled in gilt and gilt vignette to upper cover. An exceptional copy. A book which rarely survives in clean condition, this copy is extremely bright, with just light bumps to corners and offsetting to the endpapers from the original dustwrapper. The exceedingly rare dustwrapper has some chips and tears, but remains clean and attractive, with the printed price of £3/3- intact. Sixteen colour plates are mounted onto tan art paper and set within a border, under captioned tissue guards. There are also various chapter headings in black and white. The Bookman, 1920, describes these tales as "for the child whose parents worship Ireland, for those with adoration for her legends."
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom