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Price: US$115.28 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: A fair copy in the original grey decorative cloth binding with designs and 34 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham. The binding has been rebacked - relaying the original spine and endpapers, so it is nice and tight. There is some bumping to the front top corner and the back board corners. The binding is very clean with some fading and browning to the spine. The original decorative endpapers are free of inscriptions - there is a little grubbiness - the back free endpaper has had a sheet of music pasted to the reverse - the music contains the motifs to Siegfried, the ring and other relevant sections. There is an ink inscription to a preliminary 'To Elizabeth for her "seventeenth" birthday - from Daddy and Mummie with our best love 19 Aug'. There is some spotting to preliminaries and the text pages have a brown tint especially to edges. This book is classed as 'fair' and priced cheaply because there is some damage to the plates. They are all present but 7 have slight creases - to the left bottom corner and 5 have very noticeable creases again mainly to the left corner. Three of the backing pages for the plates have small repaired paper tears to the edges. The plate opposite page 104 has a small spot of loss where the plate surface has come off onto the tissue guard. The backing plate for the final plate has very nibbled edges. There is the odd mark to pages but the contents are generally clean.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Description: 4to. (255x187mm), ix,[i]+[1]-159,[1]pp., tissue guarded tipped-in frontispiece and 33 tipped in coloured plates by Arthur Rackham [34], decorated endpapers, occasional foxing of prelims and edges of final leaves not affecting plates which retain printed tissue guards. Original cloth black lettered, sound, tight and very good.
Seller: Offa's Dyke Books, LUDLOW, SALOP, United Kingdom
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 160pp, 34 plates with captioned tisue-guards. Grey cloth, black lettering. Corners lightly rubbed, spine faded and mottled and very readable, contents age-toned, all Rackham plates are very sound, former owner's bookplate on front free endpaper.
Seller: Old Bookshelf, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In grey printed cloth. Spine, ink tooling & titles, slight bumping to edges. Fair DJ is browned to edges, a few chips to head most of which repaired, spine is more darkened & has a small tear to top and a smaller one to base. Internally, decorative endpapers, no inscriptions, very light browning to paper edges as is normal, 35 beautiful tipped in colour plates by Rackham protected by tissue with the plate title, half titles present, (ix), [1], 160 pp, printed by R Clay & Sons, Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk. A wonderful production with outstanding plates by Rackham. A colour plate classic! (250*183 mm). Wilhelm Richard Wagner, was a German composer, conductor, theater director and polemicist primarily known for his operas. See Wiki for a full Bio. Rackham, painter and illustrator. See ODNB for a full Bio.
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Translated by Margaret Armour. Extremities rubbed with light wear, trace of gue residue from missing bookplate front pastedown, very good. Rebound in 3/4 blue crushed morocco over blue cloth, blue endpapers
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Complete in two (2) volumes, uniformly bound in putty cloth, lettered/illus. in black. Vol. I is 5th ptg. (1928), Vol. II a 3rd ptg. (1930); both were first issued in 1911. Very slightly rubbed corners and spine extremities, text block edges typically tanned. Firm bindings, clean interiors, intact hinges. Former owner's small book plate mounted on front blank of each volume. x,160 + ix,182 pp., illus. w/ 64 (34 + 30) color tipped-in plates with captioned guards, all present and nicely intact, with mounts (as expected) tanned, plates and guards clean and bright (1 mount in Vol. I slightly chipped along lower fore-edge). An exceptional set showing only slight faults. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$762.11 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A MOST ATTRACTIVE PAIR IN THE RARE ORIGINAL DUST-JACKETS (with minimal headband chipping) Illustrated with fine tipped-in Rackham Plates, complete with tissue-guards.2 vols. Quarto. Original grey cloth, lettered / decorated in navy blue. ix+ (182)pps. & ix+ (160)pps. Scarce in this condition ! The pair ;-
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom