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Browning, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London England, 1934.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 6 x 9 " 45 pages. four colour plates by Rackham and many black and white. dj covers show some handling and smudges (now in mylar protector) Internally very clean and nice.
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 37 pp. Color frontispiece after Rackham, and black-and-white illustrations in text. Original printed paper wrappers. Wrappers woth some chipping/short tears at edges, small loss at foot of spine, some soiling
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Robert Browning. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. George G. Harrap & Co., Limited, 1934.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1934 first edition; missing dust jacket. Boards are clean with a little toning and come light rubbing/fraying to cloth around edges. Binding is pulling slightly at pages 24-25, but is otherwise good. Pages are clean and unmarked. HB TNOS HS
Seller: Ed's Editions LLC, ABAA, West Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Browning, Robert. THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN. George G. Harrap, London, 1934.
Price: US$79.00 + shipping
Description: 45pp. 4 color plates and numerous black & white illustrations plus 2-color silhouette endpapers & 3-color paste-down silhouette cover. Bound in red cloth with original card cover paste-on. Back cover is sort of discolored - or dull - on about 1/2 from some sort of dampness, with faint bleeding of red cover to endpaper, but not affecting interior otherwise. Traces of extensive pencil marks on half-title page and blank flyleaf. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Artis Books & Antiques, Calumet, MI, U.S.A.
Browning, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1934.
Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cloth with pictorial pastedown on front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Former owner's name and date "2-24-42" on front free flyleaf. Ink bleeds onto verso of front free endpaper. Title and silhouette illustration on half title page; list of 8 books illustrated by Rackham on verso of half title page. Line drawings in gold on title page. Four color plates including frontispiece. Four full page black and white illustrations; black and white illustrations throughout text. No dust jacket. First thus. 45 pp.
Seller: Toadlily Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus, 1934. Four coloured plates and black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Some very light foxing to first page. publishers decorated card wrappers very slightly foxed and browned with some creasing to the overlapping edges. The dustwrapper is very slightly rubbed and frayed at the top and the bottom of the spine, spine is browned and front and rear panel foxed and browned. Slightly rubbed and creased at the edges. Still a pretty good copy. 45 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: (7)-45 Pp. Color frontis, 3 full-page color plates, b&w illus. throughout by Arthur Rackham Near fine copy in a very slightly sunned dust jacket Illus. cloth with decorative endpapers in dust jacket
Seller: Schooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC), Halifax, NS, Canada
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 45 pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 8vo, publisher's limp gilt vellum in publisher's slipcase. First edition; No. 374 of 410 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. Bookplate on illustrated front free endpaper; otherwise a fine copy in a slipcase with some tanning at edges and shallow chipping to one edge of the printed paper label.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Copy number 173 of a limited 410, signed by Arthur Rackham. In original full limp vellum stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light toning, rippling to pastedowns. In a Very Good publisher's slipcase with title label and matching limitation number on spine; a bit toned, soiled and worn with two short splits. Signed by the illustrator.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
BROWNING, Robert; RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator. Pied Piper of Hamelin. George G. Harrap, 1934.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Robert Browning, Arthur Rackham's The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Limited to 410 Copies, Signed by Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. BROWNING, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Publication: London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1934 First Edition thus, limited to 410 copies for sale, signed by Rackham, of which this is copy number 335. First edition, thus. Octavo. Beautifully bound in full vellum, lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Endpapers illustrated in gold and white. Beautifully illustrated with four color plates, black & white drawings throughout. 44 pages. Edition was limited to 410 copies. Signed by the illustrator, Arthur Rackham, on the limitation page. Octavo. 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Illustrator. Previous owner's bookplate and offsetting to following blank pages. Otherwise, a fine copy, rare in such pristine condition.
Seller: Weinstein-Perez Rare Books, Studio City, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Book condition is Very Good bound in original vellum, with gilt titles on the front cover; housed in a Very Good slipcase with paper label at spine. Foxing, toning, smudge, scuff and edge wear to slipcase. Text is unmarked, decorated end papers, four color plates, black & white drawings throughout. 44 pages. Edition was limited to 410 copies. ; Signed by the illustrator, Arthur Rackham, on the limitation page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Illustrator.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Description: The Signed Limited Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. BROWNING, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1934]. Limited to 410 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham, this being copy no. 30. Octavo (9 1/8 x 6 inches; 232 x 152 mm.). 44, [1], [3, blank] pp. Four color plates and fourteen drawings in black and white (including one double-page). Publisher's full limp vellum lettered in gilt on front cover. Top edge gilt. In the original publisher's cardboard slipcase with matching limitation number on spine. A very fine copy in the publisher's very slightly rubbed cardboard slip-case. The Pied Piper of Hamelin was a magician in German folklore. According to legend, the town of Hamelin was plagued by rats. A mysterious stranger in varicolored clothes appeared and offered to rid the town of the destructive vermin for a specified sum of money. The leaders of the town agreed to the contract, and the stranger began to play his pipe. The rats came swarming from the buildings and followed him to the River Weser, where they drowned. But when the town leaders refused to make the agreed payment the Pied Piper returned once more to play his pipe. This time, however, it was all the children of the town whom he enchanted and lured away to vanish behind a door in the Koppenberg hill. Robert Browning told the story in his poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin in 1842. Latimore and Haskell, p. 71. Riall, p. 186.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2050.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Numbered copy 20, of 410 copies, 400 of which were for sale. 8vo. 45 pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham: four color plates, fourteen b/w drawings. Vellum binding with gilt titling on the front panel The only word for the book is "superb." "Very fine" comes close, too. The near-fine slipcase has a printed title label on the spine.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: An Immaculate Copy Of The Signed Limited Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. BROWNING, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1934]. Limited to 410 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham, this being copy no. 45. Octavo (9 1/8 x 6 inches; 232 x 152 mm.). 44, [1], [3, blank] pp. Four color plates and fourteen drawings in black and white (including one double-page). Original full limp vellum lettered in gilt on front cover. Top edge gilt. In the original publisher's cardboard slipcase with matching limitation number on spine. A very fine copy in the publisher's original glassine wrapper (with a just a few small chips at edges). The Pied Piper of Hamelin was a magician in German folklore. According to legend, the town of Hamelin was plagued by rats. A mysterious stranger in varicolored clothes appeared and offered to rid the town of the destructive vermin for a specified sum of money. The leaders of the town agreed to the contract, and the stranger began to play his pipe. The rats came swarming from the buildings and followed him to the River Weser, where they drowned. But when the town leaders refused to make the agreed payment the Pied Piper returned once more to play his pipe. This time, however, it was all the children of the town whom he enchanted and lured away to vanish behind a door in the Koppenberg hill. Robert Browning told the story in his poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin in 1842. Latimore and Haskell, p. 71. Riall, p. 186.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Browning, Robert (Rackham, Arthur). The Pied Piper of Hamelin. George G. Harrap, London, 1934.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION of 410 copies. This copy is authentically SIGNED by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's white vellum cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A fabulous copy SIGNED by Rackham in collector's condition. We buy Rackham First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.