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IBSEN, HENRIK. PEER GYNT. George G. Harrap, London, 1936.
Price: US$54.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 256pp; A Dramatic Poem; With 12 full colour illustrations by Arthur Racham; Covers are worn and soiled with small tears to head and tail of spine; However internally very bright and clean with tissue-guarded illustrations clean and complete; Digital photos available on request; Size: 4to
Seller: Weathered Stone Books, Skreen, SLIGO, Ireland
Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt : a dramatic poem. George G. Harrap & Co., 1936.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: the boards are scuffed and edge worn. foxing and markings. some minor insect wear. small repairs to the binding. a rather fair copy. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$76.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardback. Original brown cloth slightly marked and faded with slight tear at head of spine, otherwise very good. No dust jacket. Bookplate to verso of endpaper. 12 colour plates with captioned tissue guards. English text.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.27 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & illus to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus title page & prelims, 256pp, illus/plates, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl paint residue to base of spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional patches of foxing sporadically throughout)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Description: First edition with these illustrations (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 19cm), 256pp. 12 colour plates, text illustrations. Original deluxe publisher's binding of full green morocco, gilt titling to the spine, top edge gilt. The book is intact, but the binding is a little scruffy, with rubbing and scuffing to the spine and to the edges of the boards, and some sunning and uneven darkening. There is some light scattered foxing of the preliminary pages, but the contents are generally in very good condition. Overall, just about a good copy of an unusual variant; this binding has the titling and publisher's imprint to the spine, but the front board is unlettered.
Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Embossed, pale-brown leatherette boards (no d/jkt); somewhat worn and marked, esp on rear; binding tight; gilt titling bright. Lovely illustrations (with tissue guards) by Arthur Rackham. ; 8vo (7 1/2" x 10"); 253 pages
Seller: Walden Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Titled tissue frontis and 11 title tissued plates, endpapers and chapter vignettes. First FPu(y) edition. Copper linen, gilt print spine, and topboard illustration. 4to. pp. 256, [1] blank, [1] colophon. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Archival in-house cap and joint repairs, internally near fine, no ownership. Introduction and translation by R. Farquharson Sharp.
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Ibsen Henrik. Peer Gynt. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1936.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. A very good copy in brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on spine and upper board. Spine a little faded (and with one small mark) but lettering clear. Inscribed on the title page by the publisher as follows: "For the Countess Haig from George Harrap. More than a Lady. A ([underlined] Lady. George Harrap Nov. 16, 1936." Countess Haig was, at that date, the widow of Field Marshall Earl Haig who led the British troops in the First World War. A lovely clean copy internally. 256 pages. 12 lovely full-page tissue-guarded colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Decorated end-papers. An interesting copy of the first Rackham illustrated edition.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Henrik Ibsen, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. PEER GYNT. George G. Harrap and Co., London, 1936.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 x 10 in. Copper cloth boards. Color plates and frontis with tissue, decorative endpapers. Condition is VERY GOOD+; small faint water spot on front, spine area mildly sunned. Corners very good, spine ends bumped with mild wear. Binding tight. Plates all fine. Endpapers very bright, text spotless. Gift message on second blank, dated 1937. Fic. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Ibsen, Henrik ; Rackham, Arthur. Peer Gynt : a Dramatic Poem. George G Harrap, 1936.
Price: US$178.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: original brown boards are shelf worn and the spine has been tape reinforced. some tape reinforcing also on the gutter of the front end page. the book has a previous owner's signature and date. internally the book is complete, very clean indeed and well bound with all pages and colour plates present as called for. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$185.99 + shipping
Description: , from the translation by R Farquharson Sharp, 255 pages, [3], 12 tissue-guarded colour plates with titles (including frontispiece), title page with green illustration and decorative titles, illustrated half title with decorative titles, some illustrations in text, inscription to upper free endpaper New Edition, first thus , very slight bowing of boards, slight rubbing to edges of spine, slight foxing to foredge, plates clean, volume in very good condition , repair to spine of dustwrappers, some sections missing with some tears, rubbing and chipping to joints and edges, slight marking to flaps, wrappers in fair condition , brown cloth, gilt illustration and titles to upper board, gilt titles to spine, brown upper edge, illustrated endpapers, black wrappers with monochrome illustration to covers, black titles to upper cover, buff titles to spine octavo, 25.5 x 20 cms Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1936.
Price: US$192.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: brown cloth, gilt lettering and design, 255 pp, 12 color illustrations, damaged dust jacket laid in, top edge soiled, foredge lightly foxed, last color plate loose Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: original gilt decorated cloth hardcover, 12 fine clean tissue guarded plates, 256 pages, a fine clean copy in torn with small loss at top of spine very good price clipped dustwrapper which is spotted to the inside, a pleasing copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom.
Seller: Carmarthenshire Rare Books, Carmarthen, United Kingdom
Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem. George G. Harrap & Company Limited, London, 1936.
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1936, 1st. Quarto. 255pp. Complete with the 12 colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Original cloth, gilt titles. Minor wear to head and tail of spine. A few light spots to text-block. Printed end papers. Contents in good clean order. Free from ownership markings, etc. With the remains of the dust jacket loosely inserted. Overall a 'Very Good+' copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Henri Ibsen, Arthur Rackham (illustrator). Peer Gynt. George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., London, 1936.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1936. First trade edition. Brown cloth over boards, sharp gilt title and decorations to cover and spine, some edge wear, illustrated endpapers, top edge stained with minor foxing, twelve color plates with captioned tissue guards intact, numerous other small illustrations throughout, in very good condition.Peer Gynt, by Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828 - 1906) was written in 1867. Born in Norway, Ibsen was a major 19th-century playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. Peer Gynt is a Norwegian fairy tale on which the play is loosely based, and several of the characters are modelled after Ibsen's own family, notably his parents. Peer Gynt has also been described as the story of a life based on procrastination and avoidance. Brockett and Hildy (2003, 391)
Seller: The Book Lair, ABAA, Pleasanton, CA, U.S.A.
Henrik Ibsen. Peer Gynt. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1936.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade edition. Title page printed in black and green. 12 brilliant and striking color plates w/captioned tissue-gaurds, and numerous black and white illustrations. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Brown cloth, gilt to spine and cover with pictorial figures. Red-brown topstain. Pictorial endpapers. No jacket present. Book Condition: Very Good Minus: Firm copy, bright gilt, an inch split to spine cloth. Noted collector's namestamp, and owner's gift inscription to blank leaf preceding half-title. Brilliant color plates.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 255 p. 26 cm. 12 colour plates by Rackham. Brown cloth with green print. Some marks and stains to covers. Ink signature to half title. A few small stains. A five-act play in verse first published in 1867, Peer Gynt is the best-known Norwegian play. Who better to illustrate a great fairy tale than Arthur Rackham, whose creepy style is among the best from the Golden Age of Book Illustration?
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936.
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Description: 12 colour plates and black & white illustrations within text. Decorative endpapers. Gilt top edge to pages. Brown leather boards with blind tooled border decoration to front board and gilt titles to spine. A very clean and firm copy inside and out. Just a little very light foxing to title page and a few other page margins. No inscriptions. Very minor edge wear to boards.
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
RACKHAM Arthur. Illust. by and IBSEN Henrik.. Peer Gynt.. , 1936.
Price: US$298.45 + shipping
Description: London: George G. Harrap 1936. Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth with gilt dec. title on front cover and spine. 256pp. With illust. endpapers col. frontisp. with tissue guard title-vign. 11 full-page col. illusts. and numerous b/w text-illusts. A fine copy of this beautiful book. 1st edition with Rackham's illustrations. The remains of the illustrated dustjacket neatly folded inside back cover.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Ibsen, Henrik.. Peer Gynt.. George G Harrap., 1936.
Price: US$314.25 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ' A Dramatic Poem ' with an introduction by R Farquharson Sharp. 255[1] pp + plates as called for. One or two pages have short tears to the edge ( presumably where uncut pages have been enthusiastically opened ). The spine is slightly, though evenly, faded. A near fine hardback in green, publishers special, full morocco binding with gilt decoration and lettering. Pictorial eps.
Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom
Henrik Ibsen. Peer Gynt. George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1936.
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen, George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1936, First Edition, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham This is a five-act play written in verse and is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays. Ibsen believed Per Gynt, the Norwegian fairy tale on which the play is loosely based, to be rooted on fact, and several of the characters are modelled after his own family, notably his parents. The play has been adapted for both the stage and film and is celebrated in an annual festival in Vinstra in the Gudbrandsdalen valley. The composer Edward Grieg also composed incidental music for the play in a score that plays for approximately ninety minutes. The handsomely bound book is beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham with twelve full page, tissue-guarded colour plates and several line drawings in the text. This is a First Edition in very good condition. The binding is straight and tight, the boards are beautifully bound in half brown leather, raised bands and bright gold lettering. There is some rubbing to the edges of the front boards. The decorated end papers and pages are clean without marks, tears or inscriptions. The top edge retains its original gold tint. A highly collectible book which would make an impressive addition to a library or a wonderful gift. Will be dispatched by courier, fully insured, carefully wrapped in bubblewrap and in a cardboard box.
Seller: Grimes Hill Book Club, Wythall, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated at copyright page: "First Published 1936 by George G. Harrap & Co., Limited." Large gift book design. Rich brown full-cloth boards, gilt cover and spine titles, design, moderate shelf wear, rub, bow. Features bright stylized titles and two whimsically impish troll creatures; Harrap in gilt at spine heel. Pages near fine, clean. Endpapers with golden silhouette collage of magical fairies and nefarious trolls. Earthy reddish-brown top-stain. Frontispiece plate of "Peer Before the King of the Trolls. Bind fine; hinges intact. Features one dozen smooth color plates; each with captioned tissue guard. In addition, profusely illustrated with headers, tailpieces, partial-page vignettes throughout. Rare near very good first edition of fine book craftsmanship. Among the masterpieces of world literature, this early verse drama by the celebrated Norwegian playwright humorously yet profoundly explores the virtues, vices, and follies common to all humanity as represented in the person of Peer Gynt, a charming but irresponsible young peasant. Based on Norwegian folklore and Ibsens own imaginative inventions, the play relates the roguish life of the world-wandering Peer, who finds wealth and fame - but never happiness - redeemed by love in the end. As the play opens the young farmer attends a wedding and meets Solveig, the woman who is eventually to be his salvation. However, the rascally Peer then kidnaps the bride and later abandons her in the wilderness. This dismal performance is followed by adventures in many lands. After these soul-chilling exploits, an old and embittered Peer returns to Norway, eventually finding solace in the arms of the faithful Solveig. Imbued with poetic mysticism and romanticism, in Peer we find a rebellious character in search of an ultimate truth that always seems just out of reach. In this sense Peer can be seen as an alter ego of Ibsen himself, whose lifelong search for artistic and moral certainties resulted in the great later plays (Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, An Enemy of the People, etc.) Opening scene: "The action, which begins in the early years of the ninteenth century and ends somewhere about 1867, takes place partly in the Gudbrandsdal and on the surrounding mountain-tops, partly on the coast of Morocco, in the Sahara Desert, in the Cairo Lunatic Asylum, at sea, etc." From colophon: "Printed in Edinburgh - the text in Bembo type by R & R Clark, Limited, and the colour plates by Messrs. McLagan & Cumming." 256 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
IBSEN (Henrik).. Peer Gynt. George G. Harrap & Company, Ltd., London, 1936.
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem. Frontispiece and 11 coloured plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations throughout the text. First Trade Edition. 4to. [256 x 190 x 33 mm]. 255, [1] pp. Bound in the publisher's brown "morocco", the front cover with a blind blocked border, the spine lettered in gilt, illustrated endleaves, top edges gilt. (Minor spotting to edges). [ebc8012]. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936. A very good copy. Also published in a limited edition of 460 copies. The publisher offered a variety of bindings for this first trade edition, most of them in cloth, but with a few specials in either green or brown "morocco".
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
[Rackham, Arthur] Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt. George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd, London, 1936.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, Publishers Special Morocco Binding. Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in; 248 x 183 mm). Collating 255, [1]. Publisher's full dark green morocco with gilt fillets and gilt-stamped design and lettering. Top edge gilt, others trimmed. Early ink signature on verso of front endpaper. Twelve color plates with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white text drawings as head- and tailpieces, and devices. Housed in a later blue cloth slipcase. A Near Fine copy. "His drawings for Peer Gynt [are] remarkably fresh and interesting" (Hudson 140). Ibsen's highly regarded and influential play about Peer Gynt, a loafer who undertakes a transcontinental adventure. Gettings 181. Hudson 182. Latimore and Haskell 74. Riall 192.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated at copyright page: "First Published 1936 by George G. Harrap & Co., Limited." Ruddy orange full-cloth boards, gilt cover and spine titles, design w/light shelf wear, bump. Features bright stylized titles and two whimsically impish troll creatures; Harrap in gilt at spine heel. Pages near fine. Endpapers with golden silhouette collage of magical fairies and nefarious trolls. Earthy reddish-brown top-stain. Antiquarian pictorial bookplate inside cover: "Ex Libris, V.B. Wyman Pilcher". Plate depicts silhouette of rancher resting on fence w/sheep on hill in b.g. Frontispiece plate of "Peer Before the King of the Trolls. Bind fine; hinges intact. Features one dozen smooth color plates; each with captioned tissue guard. In addition, profusely illustrated with headers, tailpieces, partial-page vignettes throughout. Rare in original wrap-around pictorial dust wrapper, moderate edge wear, chip, rub, vintage adhesive; unclipped 15/-Net, protected in new clear sleeve. Front panel features frontispiece image rendered in gold, white, grey, and black of Peer before the King of Trolls wrappring around to spine and back panel with various hopping characters including bull, swine, and trolls. Overall design around to spine and back panel is 10" x 17". Front flap lists illustrated books of A. R. Rare near fine first edition in good original dust jacket. Gift inscription to Dr. Jennie Benson Wyman-Pilcher to front blank endpaper: "Presented to Dr. J. W. Pilcher, in appreciation of her work in the Department of Psychology. Psychology Club, Unversity of British Columbia, March 1, 1938." Beautiful vintage signatures of members below: "James L. Gillen; Margaret J. MacKenzie; Elizabeth McKinnon; Oliver L. Lacey; Dorothy Lindop Brown; Francis E. McNair; Helen Pattison; Stanley Bailey; J. Mulland Alexander; J. Louis MacDougall; Charles O. Richmond; James Lowe; Margaret Harper; H. Madeleine Vanes; Ardis Colbourne; Joseph E. Marsh; Frank Wilson; H. Z. S. Coleman; Ernest L. Bishop; Hyslap B. Gray; Margaret Miller; Bill Stewart; Bill Sibley; Irene Elgie; and, Aileen Mann." Among the masterpieces of world literature, this early verse drama by the celebrated Norwegian playwright humorously yet profoundly explores the virtues, vices, and follies common to all humanity as represented in the person of Peer Gynt, a charming but irresponsible young peasant. Based on Norwegian folklore and Ibsens own imaginative inventions, the play relates the roguish life of the world-wandering Peer, who finds wealth and fame - but never happiness - redeemed by love in the end. As the play opens the young farmer attends a wedding and meets Solveig, the woman who is eventually to be his salvation. However, the rascally Peer then kidnaps the bride and later abandons her in the wilderness. This dismal performance is followed by adventures in many lands. After these soul-chilling exploits, an old and embittered Peer returns to Norway, eventually finding solace in the arms of the faithful Solveig. Imbued with poetic mysticism and romanticism, in Peer we find a rebellious character in search of an ultimate truth that always seems just out of reach. In this sense Peer can be seen as an alter ego of Ibsen himself, whose lifelong search for artistic and moral certainties resulted in the great later plays (Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, An Enemy of the People, etc.) Opening scene: "The action, which begins in the early years of the ninteenth century and ends somewhere about 1867, takes place partly in the Gudbrandsdal and on the surrounding mountain-tops, partly on the coast of Morocco, in the Sahara Desert, in the Cairo Lunatic Asylum, at sea, etc." From colophon: "Printed in Edinburgh - the text in Bembo type by R & R Clark, Limited, and the colour plates by Messrs. McLagan & Cumming." 256 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.49 + shipping
Description: First edition with these illustrations. Deluxe edition. Signed by Arthur Rackham. Publisher's original full vellum with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Colour frontispiece and 11 further tipped in colour plates, mounted on white paper, each with a captioned tissue guard. Further black and white illustrations throughout the text. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a bump at the base of the spine, the vellum clean and bright. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the front blank endpaper are otherwise clean throughout and without spotting, inscriptions or stamps. Limited to 450 copies of which this is hand numbered 348 and signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt. George G. Harrap Co. Ltd, London, 1936.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Limited to 460 copies signed by Rackham on the limitation page. Fine in a Good example of the slipcase, rubbed through at a few of the joints but still solidly in one piece. Vellum binding, a bit toned, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, some pages uncut.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1282.67 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed limited issue, number 258 of 460 copies signed by the artist. Ibsen's play, based on a Norwegian fairy tale, was originally published in 1867. In his essay on Rackham's book illustrations, Gettings states that "in the troll scenes" within Peer Gynt, "Rackhamerie abounds" (p. 165). A contemporary review of the book in the New York Times described the artist's work as "delightfully impish and imaginative" and stated, "it is seldom that the work of artist and author is more happily married". Latimore & Haskell, p. 74; Riall p. 192. Fred Gettings, Rackham's Best Book Illustrations, 1976. Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt, original pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. With the original card slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates tipped-in with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text. Vellum a little toned, occasional faint foxing to contents, otherwise bright and clean. A very good copy retaining the original slipcase with some browning, superficial splits at edges, tape repair at foot of spine panel, but sound.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
(RACKHAM, Arthur). Illustrated by.. Peer Gynt. A Dramatic Prose by Henrik Ibsen.. , 1936.
Price: US$1658.04 + shipping
Description: London: George G. Harrap & Co., (1936). 4to. Original vellum (touch shelf-soiled). Gilt. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. (256pp.). With illustrated end-papers, black and white illustrations, and 12 mounted colour plates each with their own captioned tissue-guard. Limited edition to 450 signed by illustrator, this being No. 411. 1st edition. End-papers slightly soiled, otherwise a near fine copy. NOTE: This five-act play in verse took inspiration from the traditional Norwegian fairy tale, Per Gynt.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$1664.00 + shipping
Description: 260 x 197 mm. (10 1/4 x 7 3/4"). 255, [3] pp. Original publisher's linen boards, original pictorial dust jacket. With 12 COLOR PLATES (including frontispiece) BY ARTHUR RACKHAM, all protected by tissue guards with descriptive letterpress. Latimore & Haskell, p. 74. âDust jacket with tiny chip out of bottom edge of back panel and two very minor closed tears at bottom of front panel, a little chafing at folds, but still A VERY FINE COPY IN A FINE JACKET. This is an especially well-preserved copy of the first British trade edition (appearing the same year as a British limited edition and an American trade edition) of Rackham's "Peer Gynt," written by Ibsen in 1867. The translator here, R. Farquharson Sharp (1864-1945), says that his translation is an improvement over former ones because he has refused the temptation of retaining the rhymed verse of the original. He has instead chosen unrhymed verse in Ibsen's original meter in an attempt to capture the original, literal meaning. Rackham's accomplished full-page color illustrations here are the confident work of a mature artist approaching his 70th year. First (British) Printing of this Edition.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
Rackham, Arthur; Ibsen, Henrik. PEER GYNT. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1936.
Price: US$1989.65 + shipping
Description: A dramatic poem by Henrik Ibsen. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Pp. 258(last colophon), 12 coloured plates with lettered guards, half-title and title page vignettes printed in green, black & white text illustrations and decorations, pictorial endpapers printed in brown; post 4to; full vellum, lettered and decorated in gilt, a trifle sprung and slightly 'cloudy'; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; within the original card slipcase with numbered printed paper title label, the slipcase slightly worn at edges; George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1936. Edition de luxe, being one of 460 numbered copies (450 for sale), signed by the artist. Riall p. 192; Latimore & Haskell p. 74. *The text is from the translation of R. Farquharson Sharp.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
RACKHAM, Arthur; IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1936, 1936.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: "In the Troll scenes, or in Peer's moorland Encounter with the Threadballs, Rackhamerie abounds" [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1936. Limited to 460 numbered copies (this copy being No. 349), signed by Arthur Rackham. Quarto (10 7/16 x 7 3/4 inches; 264 x 198 mm.). 255, [1] pp. Twelve color plates with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white text illustrations in the text. Publisher's vellum over boards, front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers printed in tan and white, top edge gilt, others uncut. A very fine copy, partially uncut, complete with the original glassine wrapper. Housed in the original publishers cardboard slipcase with matching limitation number. "In the troll scenes, or in Peer's moorland encounter with the threadballs, Rackhamerie abounds.". (Gettings, Arthur Rackham. P. 165).
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2372.95 + shipping
Description: Deluxe edition, number 250 of 460 numbered copies signed by the artist. Latimore & Haskell, p. 74; Riall, p. 192. Quarto. Original vellum, gilt lettered and decorated spine and front cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. With the publisher's card slipcase (with hand-numbered label). Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates mounted on heavy white paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Slipcase toned at extremities. An excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
RACKHAM, Arthur; IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1936, 1936.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: "In the Troll scenes, or in Peer's moorland Encounter with the Threadballs, Rackhamerie abounds" [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. IBSEN, Henrik. Peer Gynt. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1936. Limited to 460 numbered copies (this copy being No. 286), signed by Arthur Rackham. Quarto. Twelve color plates with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white text drawings as head- and tailpieces, and devices. Publisher's vellum boards gilt lettered and ornamented, with gilt vignette. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A very fine copy, partially uncut. Housed in the original publishers cardboard slipcase with matching limitation number. "In the troll scenes, or in Peer's moorland encounter with the threadballs, Rackhamerie abounds.". (Gettings, Arthur Rackham. P. 165). Peer Gynt is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Written in Danish - the common written language of Denmark and Norway in Ibsen's lifetime - it is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays. Ibsen believed Per Gynt, the Norwegian fairy tale on which the play is loosely based, to be rooted in fact, and several of the characters are modeled after Ibsen's own family, notably his parents Knud Ibsen and Marichen Altenburg. He was also generally inspired by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's collection of Norwegian fairy tales, published in 1845. Gettings, p. 181. Hudson, p. 182. Riall, p. 192.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Ibsen, Henrik. PEER GYNT: A DRAMATIC POEM. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1936.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: (Rackham, Arthur) illustrator. PEER GYNT: A DRAMATIC POEM by Henrik Ibsen; illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1936. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION; "Edition limited to Four Hundred and Sixty copies, of which Four Hundred and Fifty are for sale. This is copy No. 104;" signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. 4to - 10-11/16" x 8". Publisher's deluxe full vellum covered boards with titles and decoration stamped in gilt to front cover and spine, with light uniform toning to the vellum for what is a stunning copy of the book. Original publisher's gray paper covered board slipcase with paper label printed in brown pasted to spine, with hand-inked number matching the book's number, with minor rubbing to the edges but completely intact and really quite nice. Gray and white pictorial endpapers designed by Rackham; bookplate of Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. on front pastedown. t.e.g.; others uncut. [2], 255, [3] pp., plus 12 unnumbered leaves of colored plates. An English translation of the five act play, written in verse, by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen; illustrated by Arthur Rackham with color frontispiece and eleven additional color plates, all with captioned tissue guards, plus numerous small black and white drawings and vignettes within text; internally the book is fine. The condition of the book is FINE. The condition of the slipcase is VERY GOOD +. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 74; Riall, p. 192.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
RACKHAM, Arthur (IBSEN, Henrik). Peer Gynt. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION OF 460 copies SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. A fabulous copy with the ORIGINAL publisher's slipcase that was issued with this book. The box number 198 matches the number in the book. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy authentically SIGNED by Rackham with the scarce publisher's slipcase. We buy SIGNED Arthur Rackham First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.