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Price: US$136.79 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, deckled page edges, illus eps & title page, frontispiece, xi + 251pp, illus/plates- all present, scruffy but worth the effort! (heavy fraying & scuffing to extrems, 21cm crack to rear hinge, moderate chafing to boards, boards v shaky but attached, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, ffep completely missing, light foxing to pgs sporadically throughout, v heavy cracking to gutters)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: xi, 251 pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 12 tipped-in color plates and other illustrations in black and white. Folio, publisher's green cloth. First trade edition. The cloth of this copy is quite damaged, discolored and separating from the front board to a depth of about two inches around the outside edge. The illustrated front endsheet is dampstained and the rear free endpaper tanned. There is a very slight dampstain to the reverse of the frontispiece mount; otherwise the plates and text are all fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$188.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - This is a really lovely book, beautifully illustrated. Please see photos as part of condition report 1917 1st Edition , LITTLE BROTHER AND LITTLE SISTER AND OTHER TALES By Brothers Grimm The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, popularizing stories such as "Cinderella" ("Aschenputtel"), "The Frog Prince" ("Der Froschkönig"), "Hansel and Gretel" ("Hänsel und Gretel"), "Little Red Riding Hood" ("Rotkäppchen"), "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin" ("Rumpelstilzchen"), "Sleeping Beauty" ("Dornröschen"), and "Snow White" ("Schneewittchen"). Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), began publication in 1812. 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: Constable and Co, London quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305),Pages 251 ISBN: 40 stories including: Little Brother and Little Sister, Snow-White and Rose Red, Sweet Porridge, Thumbling's Travels, The Skilful Hunter, The True Sweetheart, The Twelve Brothers, The Three Spinners, The Star-Money, The Old Woman in the Wood, Bearskin, One-Eye Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes, The Wishing-Table the Gold Ass and the Cudgel in the Knapsack, The Wonderful Musician, The Cunning Little Tailor, The Gnomes, Hans the Hedgehog, The Nose Tree, The Three Feathers, The Goose-girl at the Well, The Little People's Presents, The Three Little Men in the Wood, The Spirit in the Bottle, The Three Army Surgeons, The Hare and the Hedgehog, The Griffin, The Spindle The Shuttle and the Needle, Maid Maleen, The Young Giant, The Three Sons of Fortune, The Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat, How Six Men Got on in the World, The Two Travellers, The Hut in the Forest, The Peasant's Wise Daughter, The Two Brothers, The Nix of the Mill-Pond, The Fox and the Geese, The Iron Stove. SKU: BTETM0002118 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Seller: Books That Expand The Mind, Margate, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$215.00 + shipping
Description: Small quarto, 10.25 in. x 7.75 in., pp. xi, [1], 251. Illustrated with twelve tissue-guarded color plates, laid in on tan cardstock, and forty-three ink drawings in text. Green cloth boards with gilt "maiden with goat" scene and title to front, and gilt title and bird to spine. Untrimmed fore- and bottom-edges. Rubbing to extremities. Cloth is torn and/or lifting at joints and spine, Corners nudged. Hinges a bit loose, but textblock holding. Tanning to endpapers. A solid "reading copy" of classic fairy tales, illustrated in haunting elegance by the incomparable Arthur Rackham. Little Brother & Little Sister is a mix of forty Grimm fairy tales, including "Snow-White and Rose-Red," "The Cunning Little Tailor," "The Young Giant," all selected by the master illustrator, Arthur Rackham. The deep forest settings of many of these German stories, based upon folklore, harmonize beautifully with Rackham's intricate color painting and black-and-white drawings, which depict gnomes, trolls, giants, mischievous fairies, animals that talk, and trees with more personality than people. The Brothers Grimm), Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folkloree. The brothers are among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, popularizing stories such as "Cinderella" ("Aschenputtel"), "The Frog Prince" ("Der Froschkönig"), "Hansel and Gretel" ("Hänsel und Gretel"), "Little Red Riding Hood" ("Rotkäppchen"), "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin" ("Rumpelstilzchen"), "Sleeping Beauty" ("Dornröschen"), and "Snow White" ("Schneewittchen").
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Brothers Grimm; Arthur Rackham. Little Brother Little Sister. London: Constable & Co., 1917.
Price: US$249.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original 1917 first edition of the Arthur Rackham illustrated Little Brother Little Sister. The book is in overall good condition with some signs of wear and age. It is complete with all 12 tipped in color plates. There is some degree of creasing to the corners of most of the plates, though that seems to be pretty common for this title. Most of the creasing is pretty minor and not too noticeable. The most pronounced is to the frontispiece. The tissue guards are no longer present. The covers have some light wear. The binding is good and sound. There is a page or two with a very minor marginal tear which does not affect the text. The interior is generally nice and clean with just the occasional light bit of foxing & grubbiness. Along with that there may be the very occasional page with some kind of other minor imperfection such as a creased page corner, minor interior crack, other tiny chip or tear, etc. Generally though, it's a good copy. The book measures approximately 10 1/4 inches by 7 3/4 inches and is 251 pages long.********This book will require additional shipping charges if being sent outside of the United States********
Seller: Nevermore Bookstore, Wallingford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.01 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Adds 40 additional stories to the 60 Rackham had previously illustrated. 12 tipped in colour plates and 43 black and white illustrations. Fair only. Some colour plates creased at edges. Tissue guards when present browned and detached. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and vignette. Cloth somewhat worn and rubbed though cover colours well maintained. Evvidence of backstrip repair.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light green/gilt cloth hardback - bumped. xi + 251pp., including b/w textual as well as additional mounted colour illustrations. Purple/white illustrated eps. The colour illustrations are loosely tissue-guarded, although several of these guards are creased and/or otherwise damaged. Vertical and bottom page edges are rough-cut. One or two tiny/small corner creases to mounted illustrations. Browning/foxing, particularly evident on eps. Slight strain on hinge. Considering age, overall a Good copy. The price includes an allowance for any extra UK P&P - the item weighs well in excess of 1.2kg. Overseas buyers should contact the seller direct to negotiate appropriate P&P fees.
Seller: Makovski Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
Grimm, Brothers. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER AND OTHER TALES. Constable & Co. Ltd., 1917.
Price: US$268.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1917. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Adds 40 more stories to the 60 which Rackham already illustrated several years earlier. The violence and grotesqueries have been toned down conveying instead a wealth of humour and charm throughout. 12 beautiful tipped-in colour plates plus 43 b/w drawings. Large format. Green cloth, gilt titles and vignette. Pictorial endpapers and title page. 250 pages. Top corner/edge of front cover had semi-circular piece missing (depth 8mm, width of 22mm). Covers a little marked. Bumping to corners. Browning to endpapers. Some page edges uncut. Frontis has light corner creases. All plates present. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$339.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Arthur Rackham edition. xi, 251 pp. Publisher's original gilt-decorated green cloth. Wear to cloth at spine ends. A few marks to front board. Endpapers darkened. With twelve tipped-in colour plates and many in-text b&w illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 4to. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$437.50 + shipping
Description: Large octavo (7-3/4" x 10-1/4") in publisher's decorated cloth. Illustrated with 12 full-page tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham, all but one with tissue guards, as well as a number of black-and-white drawings, many also full-page. Scattered foxing and soiling internally, text mostly clean and plates fine; 1976 owner inscription; spine is a bit rubbed with a few tears along the edge and wear to the head. Very Good
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$445.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 40 stories by the Brothers Grimm, 12 tipped in color illustrations, 44 illustrations in the text. Light olive cloth boards with bright gilt illustration and lettering on front and bright gilt device and title on spine. Corners as well as top spine end rubbed. Bottom spine end bumped. Illustrated end papers. Paste downs, end papers, and half title have tiny diffuse fox spots. Occasional isolated fox spots elsewhere in text. Otherwise, pages clean, mildly toned. Binding tight.
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Brothers Grimm. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER. Constable: London, 1917.
Price: US$517.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine has Dodd Mead, not Constable. Thirteen tipped-in color plates and text illus. by Arthur Rackham, light grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, foredge and bottom edge deckled, 250pp, blank endpapers. Covers well worn, heavily soiled, BLANK PAGE AFTER HALF TITLE DETACHED AND MISSING THE TIPPED-IN ILLUS., frontis has creased corner (lacks the loose tissue guards), textblock cracked, occasional smudging else good to very good condition. This edition, which is signed and limited, doesn't have all the points listed in the bibliography. This book is published/printed by Constable in spite of the American publisher's name being on the spine. LIMITED TO 525 COPIES, THIS IS NUMBER 444, SIGNED BY RACKHAM ON THE LIMITATION PAGE AND ON THE PAGE THAT IS MISSING ITS TIPPED-IN COLOR PLATE. Obviously SCARCE. SWAF.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Brothers Grimm. Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales. Constable & Co. Ltd, London, 1917.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With twelve color illustrations and forty-three other illustration in the text. Bound in green cloth over boards with illustrations and letters in gilding on front and spine. Cloth slightly soiled and aged, bumped head and tail of spine, fraying to rear top corner. Remains solidly and squarely bound. Top edge smooth, other edges rough cut. Spotting to illustrated end papers; minor spotting elsewhere. Some color illustrations with short creases at corners. Text is clean and clear. Some pages uncut. Complete with forty fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm. Pages:(12) 251 Dimensions:10¼ x 8 x 1¾.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, first impression. A publisher's note describes how this collection, "together with the selection we published some years ago. make a total of one hundred stories which include, it is thought, all the best of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" (p. v). Hudson remarks that in this book "Rackham added forty more stories by the Brothers Grimm to the sixty which he had already illustrated, his inspiration showing no decline" (Hudson, pp. 106-8). Latimore & Haskell, pp. 46-7; Riall, p. 129. Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham. His Life and Work, 1960. Quarto. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt. Mounted colour frontispiece and 11 similar plates, black and white illustrations in the text. Neat ownership initials "H. S. E." and December 1917 prize inscription on front pastedown awarding this copy to one Joyce Tankard, with his bookplate on verso. Cloth bright and square, trivial rubbing at extremities, outer leaves and edges foxed, contents clean. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated at copyright: First Published 1917, Printed in Great Britain. Large 7 3/4" x 10" gift book design. Dark green full-cloth boards, bright gilt cover and spine titles, moderate cover, corner, edge wear, rub, bump. Fine thick pages, very good. Beautiful tipped-in plate by Rackham; few w/corner crease, generally fine. Bind good, square; back hinge reinforced. Forty tales chosen and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including tipped-in color plates mounted on beige heavy stock leaves. Snow-White and Rose-Red tale with plate adjacent page twelve is color facsimile print of the original plate: "The end of his beard was caught in a crack in the tree." Also, forty black & white full and partial page illustrations, decoration, and vignettes throughout. The classic tales and legends of the Brother's Grimm are presented here including Snow-White and many more. Features the titular tale wherein a young brother and sister run away from their cruel stepmother, but before they get very far the boy drinks from an enchanted stream and is turned into a deer. The two take shelter in a cottage, and years later the deer inadvertently leads a king to the cottage, and he marries the girl. Later, the young queen's stepmother suffocates her, replacing her with her own daughter. However, the king restores the queen to life through his love and loyalty. When the stepmother is destroyed, the enchantment is broken, and all live happily ever after. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. 251 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to cover. Tipped in color plates. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Corners bumped and slight edge wear.
Seller: Karl Books, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1917 1st ed GRIMM Fairy Tales Little Brother & Sister Arthur Rackham Illustrated How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new! Jacob Grimm An incredible first edition of Arthur Rackham s illustrated Brother and Sister by Grimm. The pieces in this work are often considered one of Rackham s crowning achievements as they show the versatility of his style and artistic execution. A masterpiece! This first edition is beautifully illustrated throughout with 12 full-page, colored plates and 44 black and white line drawings. Item number: #17317 Price: $750 GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm Little Brother & Little Sister, and other tales by the Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London : Constable & Co.:, 1917. First Edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o xi, [1], 250, [2] o 12 color plates o 44 in-text illustrations Language: English Binding: Hardcover; secure o Green cloth Size: ~10.25in X 7.75in (26cm x 20cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 17317 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light gray cloth with a white panel on the cover with gold pictorials tamping and lettering in the panel, and gilt title on the spine. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Lacking the extra plate in envelope. Tissue guards have offset onto the facing pages, else this is a very good copy. One of 525 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This is number 221. Latimore and Haskell, p. 46. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$914.54 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Binding whilst holding firm is weak. FEP browned. All plates complete. Text block strong and pages clean. No previous owner inscriptions. Please see photos as part of condition report 1917 1st Edition (Thus) , LITTLE BROTHER AND LITTLE SISTER AND OTHER TALES By Brothers Grimm The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, popularizing stories such as "Cinderella" ("Aschenputtel"), "The Frog Prince" ("Der Froschkönig"), "Hansel and Gretel" ("Hänsel und Gretel"), "Little Red Riding Hood" ("Rotkäppchen"), "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin" ("Rumpelstilzchen"), "Sleeping Beauty" ("Dornröschen"), and "Snow White" ("Schneewittchen"). Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), began publication in 1812. 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: Constable and Co, London quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305),Pages 251 ISBN: 12 Colour Illustrations 40 stories including: Little Brother and Little Sister, Snow-White and Rose Red, Sweet Porridge, Thumbling's Travels, The Skilful Hunter, The True Sweetheart, The Twelve Brothers, The Three Spinners, The Star-Money, The Old Woman in the Wood, Bearskin, One-Eye Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes, The Wishing-Table the Gold Ass and the Cudgel in the Knapsack, The Wonderful Musician, The Cunning Little Tailor, The Gnomes, Hans the Hedgehog, The Nose Tree, The Three Feathers, The Goose-girl at the Well, The Little People's Presents, The Three Little Men in the Wood, The Spirit in the Bottle, The Three Army Surgeons, The Hare and the Hedgehog, The Griffin, The Spindle The Shuttle and the Needle, Maid Maleen, The Young Giant, The Three Sons of Fortune, The Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat, How Six Men Got on in the World, The Two Travellers, The Hut in the Forest, The Peasant's Wise Daughter, The Two Brothers, The Nix of the Mill-Pond, The Fox and the Geese, The Iron Stove. SKU: BTETM0002067 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Seller: Books That Expand The Mind, Margate, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$992.67 + shipping
Description: First edition: one of 525 copies signed by the illustrator. Quarto. pp xii, 251. Thirteen tipped-in colour plates, as well as many other illustrations. Grey cloth with gilt-decorated buckram title-label to front. Top edge gilt. Lacks, as so often, the envelope containing a separate plate.Free endpapers tanned. Dent to top edge of front cover. Covers a bit rubbed at the edges. Very good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1248.84 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, no. 410 of 525 copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. (xii), 250, (2) pp. Later red half morocco over matching cloth sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels (and dated at the foot), gilt device repeated to the other panels, new endpapers but with one of the originals also retained at the front and rear, top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. 13 tipped in colour plates plus black and white illustrations in the text. A handsome copy. Latimore and Haskell, p.46. Riall, p.129. This edition was also issued with an envelope containing an additional print signed by Rackham, not present here as is mostly the case.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No. 193 of 525 copies signed by Rackham. 4to, 30 by 24 cm. xi, [1], 251 pp. 13 tipped-in color plates, plus plenty of Rackham b/w illustrations interspersed in text. Without Rackham inserted envelope with signed plate, though. Publisher's cloth. Clean, bright copy.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Grimm, Brothers. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER. Constable & Co. Ltd., 1917.
Price: US$1451.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1917. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Deluxe edition, limited to 525 numbered and signed copies. Bound in light grey cloth with gold pictorial spine. Gold pictorial white label to front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 13 tipped-in colour plates and 43 b/w drawings. Mauve on white pictorial endpapers. 250pp. 12 x 9.5". SIGNED by Rackham. Limited edition: this is copy number 352 of 525. Spine and corners bumped, with some wear to the cloth. Some marks to boards. Cracking ans splitting to front joint. Endpapers browned. Bookplate pasted to half-title page. All colour plates present: last plate is corner creased but all others are in fine condition. A few scattered foxspots. Contents generally clean and bright, but pages 248-9 are browned. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Description: First Rackham edition, signed limited issue, number 15 of 525 copies signed by the artist. A publisher's note describes how this collection, "together with the selection we published some years ago. make a total of one hundred stories which include, it is thought, all the best of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" (p. v). Riall, p. 129. Quarto (305 x 235 mm). Late 20th-century grey crushed morocco, raised bands, black morocco spine label, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in four compartments in gilt, portion of original cloth to front cover, covers ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, retaining original front endpapers, tan rear endpapers. With 13 tipped-in colour plates, including frontispiece, and black and white illustrations to the text, all by Rackham. Spine and edges slightly faded, couple of marks to rear cover, a very good copy in an attractive binding.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Grimm. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER - Grimm, Brothers. Illus. by Rackham. Constable, 1917.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1917 1st ed GRIMM Fairy Tales Little Brother & Sister Rackham SIGNED LIMITED ED. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER - Grimm, Brothers. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur Author: Grimm, Brothers Illustrated by: Rackham, Arthur Published by: Constable & Co. Ltd. Edition: 1st 1917. First edition. Signed and limited to 525 numbered copies, of which this copy number 62. Bound in original light grey cloth with gold pictorial spine. Gold pictorial white label to front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Beautifully illustrated by Rackham with 13 tipped-in color plates and 43 b/w drawings. Mauve on white pictorial endpapers. 250pp. 12 x 9.5"". SIGNED by Rackham. Limited edition: this is copy number 62 of 525 copies. A fine copy with the slightest ding to right corner. Preserved in a contemporary glassine.
Seller: Weinstein-Perez Rare Books, Studio City, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: xi, 251 pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Folio, publisher's gilt cloth, t.e.g.; and publisher's printed envelope. First edition; No. 65 of 525 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. This copy is accompanied by an extra plate signed by Rackham, enclosed in the publisher's printed envelope. Old bookplate on illustrated pastedown; front joint cracking; corners bumped and rubbed. The printed envelope containing the extra plate has a few tiny tears along the edges.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Rackham, Arthur; Brothers Grimm. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER. Constable, London, 1917.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed limited edition of this lavish illustrated collection of Grimm tales, including Snow White - one of only 525 numbered copies signed by Rackham, with the additional signed color plate. A collection of 40 illustrated fairy tales, this is a hard-to-find limited edition with great Rackham illustrations, rarely found complete with the extra color plate. Quarto. 11.5'' x 8.75''. Original grey cloth with pictorial gilt-stamped label. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Rackham with 13 beautiful tipped-in color plates (one more than in the trade edition) and 43 black & whites to accompany 40 fairy tales. xii, 251, [1] pages. Faint ink owner name on front pastedown. Signed by Rackham on the limitation page. Additional color plate signed by Rackham in the original printed envelope. Bottom edge of boards and text block has a dampstain, generally only faintly visible, some areas with a visible line, others only with a bit of a ripple. Shallow edgewear to laid-in envelope, with half-inch chip to top edge.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Grimm Brothers (Rackham, Arthur). Little Brother and Little Sister. Constable, 1917.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. A sharp copy of this limited edition of 525 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$3750.00 + shipping
Description: With A Signed Extra Plate "He Hurried Away With Long Strides" One of 525 Copies Signed by the Artist [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GRIMM, Jakob and Wilhelm. Little Brother & Little Sister. London: [1917]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 525 numbered copies, signed by the artist, this being copy No. 144. Quarto (11 1/2 x 9 in; 293 x 227 mm). xi, [1], 250, [1], [1, blank] pp. Thirteen color plates mounted on brown paper, with original tissue guards. With a duplicate signed plate in the original printed envelope as issued (blank flap missing), "He Hurried Away With Long Strides". Original gray cloth over boards with a rectangular white cloth panel on the front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated endpapers. A few small marks on the back cover and a small red stain on the lower joint, otherwise an excellent copy. Armorial book plate of Agnes Marion Armitage on front paste-down. ".it was during these years that he illustrated a new Brothers Grimm title, Little Brother and Little Sister which is in effect one of his crowning achievements. In these twelve colour plates we find the most astonishing versatility of style, and an exquisite pitch of execution. The style ranges from the delicate to the virtual burlesque caricature. On the one hand is an example of pre-Raphaelite, infinitely tender portrayals of womanhood, such as 'The True Sweetheart', or the delicate realism of Maid Maleen and her waiting woman escaping from the terrible tower of her father. Yet within the same book we find the classic Rackhamerie of the gnome with his beard caught in the cleft of the semi-anthropomorphized tree, appealing to Rose-red and Snow-white for help and the Hassell-like custard-pie of the three soldiers and the long nose. This is one of the few books illustrated by Rackham from which it would be possible to select any single-colour picture in order to demonstrate Rackham's art at its finest." (Gettings. Arthur Rackham, pp. 116-117). Lattimore and Haskell, p. 46. Riall, p. 129.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3842.59 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 443 of 525 copies, signed by the artist. The limited edition included an "extra plate", being a duplicate of "He hurried away with long strides", signed by Rackham and this is present here in the original printed envelope. A review in The Bookman noted that "Here is an ideal conjunction of author and artist - the fairy and folk tales of the Brothers Grimm could not have a more fitting illustrator than Arthur Rackham, nor he more suitable authors to illustrate." Latimore and Haskell, pp. 46-7; Riall, p.129. The Bookman, December 1917, p. 156. Quarto. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt on white background, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase with white morocco opening. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates mounted on grey paper, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. With additional plate. Extremities a little bumped, minor tear to top of front joint, front hinge split but firm, some foxing and browning, minor creases to two plates, light soiling and creases to envelope: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3842.59 + shipping
Description: Deluxe first edition, number 334 of 525 copies signed by Rackham. Large 4to. Grey cloth with lettering and vignettes in gilt to spine and white label to upper cover with titles and gilt stamped vignette. Top edge gilt. A near fine copy. Pictorial endpapers, 13 mounted colour plates and 43 black and white drawings. Also present is the extra plate in its printed envelope. The plate is from p.178 an illustration entitled "He hurried away with long strides" and is SIGNED by the artist. A charming version of Grimm's fairy tales accompanied by Rackham's illustrations. Fairy tales include: Snow-white and Rose Red; Thumbling's Travels etc.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$4162.81 + shipping
Description: Deluxe edition, number 505 of 525 copies signed by the artist; with the extra plate signed by Rackham (in its original printed envelope), a repeat of that facing p. 178 ("He hurried away with long strides"). Latimore & Haskell, pp. 46-47; Riall, p. 129. Quarto. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial gilt titles on a white ground to front board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on heavy white paper with loose tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Presentation inscription (dated 1941) on verso of front free endpaper; old pale stain on back cover, light rubbing to extremities, head and tail of spine only slightly bumped, short closed-tear into margin at p. 209, light offsetting from tissue guards yet still an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$37785.48 + shipping
Description: An original pen, ink and watercolour painting published in "Little Brother, Little Sister" in 1917. Signed in the lower left hand corner. 21cm x 18cm. Mounted, framed and glazed. In fine condition. Rackham at the height of his creative powers, depicting Snow White and Rose Red, one of the best loved of Grimm's Fairy Tales. The image combines all of Rackham's most characteristic elements: a bad-tempered dwarf in pursuit of gold, sinuous trees and two maidens coming to his aid. Rackham's depiction of Grimm's fairytales, when at the height of his creative powers. Of Little Brother & Little Sister, Fred Gettings claims, "it would be possible to select any single colour picture in order to demonstrate Rackham's art at its finest". LITERATURE: Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by The Brothers Grimm (Constable, 1917) p.12.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$44830.23 + shipping
Description: An original pen, ink and watercolour painting published in "Little Brother, Little Sister" in 1917. Signed in the lower left hand corner. 36.5cm x 26.5cm. Mounted, framed and glazed. In fine condition. A superb, imposing and exquisitely detailed watercolour for "The Fitcher's Bird" by the Brothers Grimm, depicting the moment of triumph when the youngest and cleverest of three daughters, covered in honey and bird feathers, meets the evil sorcerer after he has been tricked into delivering her sisters safely home. Rackham's depiction of Grimm's fairytales, when at the height of his creative powers. Of Little Brother & Little Sister, Fred Gettings claims, "it would be possible to select any single colour picture in order to demonstrate Rackham's art at its finest". LITERATURE: Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by The Brothers Grimm. (Constable, 1917) p.180.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom