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Price: US$34.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Compete bound volume of St. Nicholas, includes Arthur Rackham's 'Mother Goose.' Bound in period 3/4 red leather over brown pebbled cloth (spine chipped and split at hinge and pulling away, corners quite rubbed; ink inscription by prior owner). In addition to Rackham, includes work by L. Frank Baum, Gifford Pinchot, Elihu Vedder, et al.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red cloth. (10" x 8")Bound magazines with title label to spine. (Some chipping to title label). Six issues (months) of St. Nicholas Magazine. May 1913, June 1913, July 1913, August 1913, September 1913, and October 1913, Five color and black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Rackham's illustrations are from The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
. Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes. Century Co., New York, 1913.
Price: US$92.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Binding is frayed, boards are loose as are many of the pages. 13 color plates.
Seller: Sheafe Street Books, Portsmouth, NH, U.S.A.
. Colgate Toothpaste Advertising Booklet 1913 Jessie W. Smith nursery rhymes book. , 1913.
Price: US$98.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: (Old Books, Early 20th Century Books, Advertising, Colgate Toothpaste, Illustrated Books, Mother Goose, Nursery Rhymes). Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary & Other Mother Goose Melodies. Published 1914, United States by Colgate & Co.8 pages plus wrapper covers. Text in English. Illustrated with bw line drawings. Cover art by Jessie Willcox Smith. Publisher's oblong color lithographed card stock paper wrappers. A scarce early commercial use of this famous illustrator's work. Item is physically old and shows some signs of handling and time. Item is not new or in "new" condition. Paper covers gently age worn, slight rubbing, remains overall clean and attractive as an object. Text block paper is well age toned, signs of handling, internally still well preserved, tight, sound. Still attractive on the shelf. The fragile and scarce little booklet displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws easy to overlook or forgive. Please review photos for more detail and our best attempt to convey how this antique item survives. Covers measures c. 3 1/2" H x 5 1/4" W.[B2690]. Schnessel, Jessie Willcox Smith, p. 217- nothing this work appeared in the June, 1913 issue of Good Housekeeping.
Seller: RareMapsandBooks, Dover, NH, U.S.A.
. Mother Goose ill by ARTHUR RACKHAM 1913 1st ed. The Century Company, 1913.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book is in Good condition. There is a signature in the front and no bookplates or markings of any other kind. There is some wear to the top of the spine. This book contains all 13 original color illustrations, plus many black and white illustrations by Rackham. A few pages have some light foxing. This is a first edition published by The Century Company in 1913. A rare find in any condition.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
. MOTHER GOOSE, The Old Nursery Rhymes Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The Century Co.: NY, 1913.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 13 full page color illus. + black and white text illus. by Arthur Rackham, 9.5 x 7", black cloth with color illus. label on front cover, 262pp, covers very worn, extremities bumped and fraying, spine ends chipped and torn, front inner hinge cracking, pp toned with scattered finger soiling and spotting (even to margins of color plates); a well-worn but complete copy. FIRST EDITION (SD).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$118.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: From title page: St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks. Volume XL. Part I. Six Months - November, 1912 to April, 1913. Six months bound in deep rich red buckram (cloth) beveled boards, detailed embossed gilt and black cover and spine design, lt. shelf wear. Thick, heavy stock coated pages, very good. Arthur Rackham color plates removed; few illustrations in black & white remain. Bind good; hinges intact. Illustrated and decorated endpapers. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of high quality prints, decorations and imagery. Features great amount of material and reading enjoyment with great old children's stories and tales, articles, etc. A selection of essays, articles include: A Rhyme of Hallowe'en; Aztec Indians; Teddy Bears; Paul Bransom - Animal Illustrations - several; "Aunt 'Phroney's Boy" by L. Frank Baum - Wizard of Oz author; Brownies by Palmer Cox; Christmas - several - Santa Claus; "What Woodrow Wilson Did For American Foot-Ball" by Parke Davis - College Football/President; Abraham Lincoln; Mother Goose - w/Arthur Rackham Illustrations; the Circus; and much more! As shown. 576 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
. Mother Goose : The Old Nursery Rhymes. The Century Co., 1913.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bookplate from previous owner on front endpaper. Name of previous owner penciled in on front free endpaper. Scuffing to paste-on illustration on front cover.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good or better -- binding tight, title clear, spotting to the pages with the color plates as usual, very neat (and small) period Christmas inscription, otherwise clean. The paper pastedown illustration on the top board is complete. 262 pp., 13 tipped-in colored illustrations and 67 black and white lithographed illustrations throughout text. Black cloth binding with color illustration affixed to front and title stamped in gold on the spine. The American edition also includes a title page of a sampler in color that is not in the English editions.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Rackham Arthur -. Mother Goose . The old nursery rhymes.. The Century Company, NY, 1913.
Price: US$132.25 + shipping
Description: In 8 reliure d'éditeur, 1er édition, manque la jaquette, premier plat restauré sinon bon exemplaire
Seller: La Basse Fontaine, VENCE, France
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 11 color illustrations. Pencil on page 17, page 23 illustration has a chip to lower right, two inch chip to upper right of page 35, closed tear to page 79, a few small tears to other pages. Edges are rubbed and worn, front paste-down is rubbed and scratched, hinges held by webbing, pen on endpaper, binding very shaken and ready to blow up. Photos on request.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: From title page: St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks. Volume XL. Part I. Six Months - November, 1912 to April, 1913. Six months of splendid reading bound in one volume. Dark brown buckram (cloth) boards, dark brown leather spine and corners, gilt impressed spine titles, moderate shelf wear. Thick, heavy stock coated pages, very good. Antiquarian bookstore label inside back cover: "Loring, Short & Harmon, Booksellers & Stationers, Portland, ME". Two labels inside cover for The Farmington Public Library. Several frontispiece color plates by Arthur Rackham; also, several in b & w. Bind good; hinges intact. Light green endpapers. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of high quality prints, decorations and imagery. Features great amount of material and reading enjoyment with great old children's stories and tales, articles, etc. A selection of essays, articles include: A Rhyme of Hallowe'en; Aztec Indians; Teddy Bears; Paul Bransom - Animal Illustrations - several; "Aunt 'Phroney's Boy" by L. Frank Baum - Wizard of Oz author; Brownies by Palmer Cox; Christmas - several - Santa Claus; "What Woodrow Wilson Did For American Foot-Ball" by Parke Davis - College Football/President; Abraham Lincoln; Mother Goose - w/Arthur Rackham Illustrations; the Circus; and much more! 576 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
. Mother Goose, the Old Nursery Rhymes. The Century Co, New York, 1913.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: "Mother Goose, the Old Nursery Rhymes". Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. First edition. Published by the Century Co., New York, 1913. The book measures 7" x 9.5", 262 pages. The book is in fair condition. Wear and soiling to the covers with bumped corners. Sunned spine with wear and fraying at the top edge. Gift inscription in ink on the front endpaper. The front hinge and binding is starting. Large closed tear on page 18. All coloured plates are missing. The textblock is largely clean and bright. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(G7-49).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Stated at copyright: Published, October 1913; title page also dated 1913. Black full-cloth boards, mounted pictorial plate, some shelf, corner, wear, rub. Cover features mounted plate of Mother Goose in top hat flying in on her trusty bird to children in awe below. Pages generally good, some w/moderate discoloration, closed and open tears. Endpapers removed. Silhouette decorated title page of children in ring, around the rosy tree, w/detailed states of other children at play in four corners of border. Frontispiece color plate and captioned tissue guard features humorously haunting imagery: ". One dozen darkly charming color plates and captioned tissue guards. Also, many full-page b&w plates and partial page imagery, decoration, and vignettes throughout. Here is Arthur Rackham at his most charming and, slightly macabre, best. From Rackham foreword: There are many more Nursery Rhymes than included in this book, though I think most of the best known are here. I have chosen those I knew and liked best in my own nursery days, and have kept to versions I was familiar with. Nursery rhymes have until recently been handed on by oral tradition with inevitable variations and most we knew came from our elders. However altered, children do not seem to be confused by them and make their own choice and go on inventing variations. 260 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition of the re-issue of A NEW WONDERLAND (1900), brought out under a new title after the success of the Oz books. While MOTHER GOOSE IN PROSE (1897) was Baum's first published children's book, A NEW WONDERLAND was the first children's book he actually wrote - sold only after the former book had come out. In its earliest form, it was one of a number of books published by Baum the same year as his breakout title, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. After Oz proved a sustained phenomenon, publishers re-issued earlier works in hope of capitalizing on the momentum. The name change was hoped to evoke the same stickiness as "Oz": short and punchy. In this it is indicative of Baum's career evolution: when it was first published, A NEW WONDERLAND evoked the established classic ALICE IN WONDERLAND in hopes of finding footing - while this version was meant to echo the new classic, Oz. 9'' x 7''. Original light blue cloth stamped with black-lined white letters, pictorial paste-on. Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates and in-line images. [10], 237, [1] pages. Ink Christmas gift inscription dated 1917 on front fly leaf. A few small stains to cloth, some light edgewear. Hinges expertly repaired, sliver of dampstain to top edge of some leaves.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.). Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes.. The Century Co., New York, 1913.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: xxiii, 262 pp. Illustrated with color plates and black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's black cloth with applied color illustration. Tiny bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown; gold lettering on spine a little dulled; slight rubbing to edges of the applied color illustration on the front panel. Tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
RACKHAM, Arthur, illus. Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes. , 1913.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: RACKHAM, Arthur, illus. Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Original cloth, color pictorial pastedown on front board, non-priceclipped dust jacket. New York: The Century Co., 1913. First American edition. Latimore & Haskell, p. 41. 12 full page color plates, color title page, 67 black and white illustrations. Small chip to foot of d/j spine panel, large piece missing from lower half of jacket front panel, closed tear and small chip to upper corner of front panel, small piece from head of rear d/j panel, else a fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
n/a. Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes. The Century Co., 1913.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black cloth over boards. Pictorial paste down on cover, light scratches and chipped on edges. Gilt on spine, spot on spine. Edges rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Foxing on tipped in pages and facing pages. 12 color plates and several full-page b/w illustrations. A few of the tipped in plates are a little loose, and have wear on edges.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
The Century Co.. Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes. THE CENTURY CO., NEW YORK, 1913.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Very Worn Black Illustrated Hard Back Cover. Cover has a very worn colored plate that has major markings. Back Cover has major soiling. Spine has general wearing and a faded title with the letters P and M marked into it on the bottom. Inside Cover has markings and foxing. Pages have markings and foxing. Contains all 13 color plates present on pages 15, 23, 29, 41, 105, 125, 147, 181, 223, 237, and 249. Overall in poor condition. DATE PUBLISHED: 1913 EDITION: 262
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
n/a. Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes. The Century Co., 1913.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black cloth over boards. Pictorial paste down on cover, light scratches and chipped on edges. Corners bumped and rubbed. Gilt on spine, spot on spine. Edges rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Foxing on tipped in pages and facing pages. 12 color plates and several full-page b/w illustrations. Endpapers are just starting to split at gutter.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.). Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes.. The Century Co., New York, 1913.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: xxiii, 262 pp. Illustrated with color plates and black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's black cloth with applied color illustration, in dust jacket. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with several small chips to the white border, and one larger chip to the rear panel (also affection only the white border).
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
RACKHAM, Arthur.. The Old Nursery Rhymes.. New York: The Century Co., 1913, 1913.
Price: US$1219.10 + shipping
Description: First American edition, first impression, published October 1913, probably simultaneously to the London edition. The American edition is a substantially different book from the London edition, entirely reset, with a larger page size and the contents expanded from 162 to 279 rhymes. The colour plates are the same large size as the London deluxe edition, printed on plain plate paper, omitting the Old Mother Goose plate, which instead forms the basis of the front cover design. The title page is a sampler design printed in colour that is not in the English edition. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 40-41; Riall, pp. 115-16. Quarto. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, colour pictorial illustration of Old Mother Goose mounted on front cover. With the pictorial dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham; title page printed in colour. Bookplates of W. B. Goldstone and The Murphys, Clyde and Tubbs. An excellent copy in the moderately soiled dust jacket with chipping to spine ends and edges, paper reinforcement at head of spine verso.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed at limitation page by Arthur Rackham: "This Edition is limited to eleven hundred and fifty copies. This is No. '141' 'Arthur Rackham'". Extra large 9 1/4" x 11 3/4" design. Cream colored buckram (full-cloth) boards, gilt impressed cover and spine titles, designs, some shelf wear, toning, discoloration. Cover depicts stylized titles and Mother Goose in peaked hat with cane and circle partially drawn around her duck. Spine with pattern of flower and titles, some rub, edge wear. Color frontispiece plus a dozen stunning tipped-in color plates mounted on earthy dark brown matte leaves, each with fine captioned tissue. Also, profusely illustrated w/beautiful black and white imagery throughout with superior printing to the trade edition. Rough cut thick deckled pages, very good. Gilded top edge. Moderate fox at front endpaper. Antiquarian bookplate at front pastedown: "Billy Doob Teddy". Unique pictorial imagery of owl landing out of night window onto open book with lantern. Bind good; hinges reinforced. Rare signed limited edition with some wear to boards. Here is Arthur Rackham at his most charming, and slightly macabre, best. From Rackham foreword: There are many more Nursery Rhymes than included in this book, though I think most of the best known are here. I have chosen those I knew and liked best in my own nursery days, and have kept to versions I was familiar with. Nursery rhymes have until recently been handed on by oral tradition with inevitable variations and most we knew came from our elders. However altered, children do not seem to be confused by them and make their own choice and go on inventing variations. Includes detailed five-page index of first lines at back. Printed by R. Clay and Sons, Ltd., Brunswick Street, Stamford Street and Bungay, Suffolk. 160 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.). Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes.. The Century Co., New York, 1913.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: xi, 159 [1] pp. With 13 color plates mounted on brown paper, each with printed tissue overleaf, and numerous illustrations in black and white by Arthur Rackham. Folio, publisher's white cloth decorated in gold; t.e.g. American issue; variant binding; signed by Arthur Rackham on the colophon page, stating a limitation of 150 numbered copies (this copy is not numbered). This issue not described in Latimore & Haskell. Slight foxing to endsheets; moderate soiling to the white cloth; contents fine; a tight and sound copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.