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IRVING, Washington. RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.). Rip Van Winkle.. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1905.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Description: viii, 57 pp. With color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, each with captioned tissue overleaf. Large 8vo, publisher's green cloth illustrated and lettered in gold. Second impression (same year as the first). Spine a little tanned; slight use at extremities; tight and sound.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Washington Irving. Rip Van Winkle. Doubleday, Page & Co, 1905.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 51 plates, collated and complete. Covers worn, with foxing throughout. Spine cocked. A couple pages detached, but present. As-Is.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle with Drawings by Arthur Rackham. Doubleday, Page & Co/William Heinemann, New York And London, 1905.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Green cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt front cover pictorial of an old Rip Van Winkle. Half title page through page 8 with a vertical split in the lower half of pages in gutters with some edge tears along splits. Spine ends and extremities with rubbing. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down. Includes fifty-one color plates, to include frontispiece, with captioned tissue guards. Guard for "These fairy mountains" has pulled off backing sheet along fore and inside edge side of text block leaving some vertical guard paper residue adhered to backing sheet. Frontispiece titled "Rip wakes up" has a crease in lower right corner. The 50 plates bound in at back in superb condition. 62 pages of text. PayPal accepted.

Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.

Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. Doubleday, Page, & Co. / William Heinemann, New york / London, 1905.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 62 pages, frontispiece, and the 51 tissue-guarded plates as called for. Top edge gilt. This issue with the plates bound together following the story. NB: the plate "He would sit on a wet rock and fish all day" is present with its tissue guard, but the green card onto which it was tipped is absent. Else a fine interior, with no foxing and no inscriptions. Discreet professional repair to one inch of cloth rear panel near joint.

Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada

Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle with Drawings by Arthur Rackham. William Heinemann - Doubleday, Page & Co., London - New York, 1905.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Published by William Heinemann of London; 1905 at title page. Stated Second Impression, November 1905 at copyright page. Large 7 3/4" x 10" design. Dark green full cloth boards, crisp gilt cover and spine titles, moderate edge wear, bump, rub, bow. Cover depicts sharp Rackham design in gilt of the aged Rip van Winkle with walking stick. Pages generally near fine, clean; few with scattered fox at front. Small antiquarian inscription inside cover: "To Ada, from George, Xmas 1905." Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Includes fifty-one color plates with captioned tissue guards from the inimitable Arthur Rackham and fifty-seven pages of text. Also, decorative headers, tailpieces, etc. throughout. Beautiful collection of wondrous imagery. Printed by Ballantyne & Co., Limited of Tavistock Street in London. Insured post. This edition features all fifty-one full-page color plates, as well as the full text of Irving's classic. The multitude of "illustrations, for a story of not more than five-thousand words, enables the story to be told twice, once through Irving's words, and once again, image by image, through Rackham's pictures. In his illustrations, Rackham pays homage not only to Dürer, Cruikshank and Dutch seventeenth-century painting, but to contemporary artists, too." (Hamilton)." This is the work that greatly advanced Arthur Rackham's fame and decisively established him as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period. These magnificent illustrations, created for this 1905 edition of Washington Irving's enchanting fairy tale, established Rackham. The illustrations feature traits that soon were to characterize much of Rackham's art: flowing pen lines and muted watercolors, forests of looming trees, lovely fairy maidens, and quizzical troll-like figures. Today these images are recognized as among his very best. Set in Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving's slumbersome tale is an American masterpiece of short prose, based on local history but rooted in European myth and legend. Wandering through the mountains to escape from his nagging wife, Rip Van Winkle encounters a stranger and a group of small oddly dressed people playing a strange game with bowls of a magical beverage. An enduring foundation of Catskill lore, the captivating narrative continues the fanciful adventures of an amiable ne'er-do-well colonial farmer who wanders into the highlands, falls asleep after drinking with a band of strange little mountain men, and awakes twenty years later in a world that has passed him by. Effusing a gentle humor, Rackham's art is a constant reminder of a more innocent era. This edition—sure to enchant art lovers—will also delight Rackham devotees and fantasy fans alike. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.

Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York and London, 1905.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Quarto green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. First American trade edition with the Rackham illustrations. With 51 full-page color plates on slick paper and with captioned tissue guards. Small snag at the upper spine margin, else a fine, fresh copy with contents fine and free of foxing. Uncommon in this exceptional condition.

Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

IRVING, WASHINGTON. RIP VAN WINKLE. WILLIAM HEINEMANN. NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO., LONDON & NEW YORK, 1905.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: STATED ON VERSO: "FIRST PRINTED, SEPTEMBER 1905". FOXING ON FIRST SEVERAL PAGES. SLIGHTLY RAISED STAIN TO FRONT COVER. OWNER'S SIGNATURE ON FIRST END PAGE. DESPITE FLAWS THIS IS A NICE COPY AND CLEARLY "VERY GOOD". COLOR FRONTISPIECE + 50 COLOR PLATES PLACED AFTER THE TEXT. ALL TIPPED-IN ON HEAVY DARK GREEN ART STOCK PAPER, WITH LETTERED (DESCRIPTION OF PICTURE) TISSUE GUARDS. GOLD GILT LETTERING ON SPINE AND FRONT COVER. GOLD GILT PICTORIAL OF RIP VAN WINKLE ON FRONT COVER.

Seller: BRIER ROSE BOOKS, TEANECK, NJ, U.S.A.

Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle with Drawings by Arthur Rackham [First Edition]. William Heinemann - Doubleday, Page & Co., London - New York, 1905.

Price: US$795.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A sharp first edition published by William Heinemann of London. 1905 at title page; stated All Rights Reserved at copyright page. No other dates, indications. Large 7 3/4" x 10" design. Dark green full cloth boards, crisp gilt cover and spine titles, light shelf, corner wear. Cover depicts sharp Rackham design in gilt of the aged Rip van Winkle with walking stick. Pages generally near fine, clean; some fox to first few leaves. Matte dark green endpapers. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Includes fifty-one color plates with captioned tissue guards from the inimitable Arthur Rackham and fifty-seven pages of text. Also, decorative headers, tailpieces, etc. throughout. Attractive example of this beautiful collection in clean, crisp boards. Printed by Ballantyne & Co., Limited of Tavistock Street in London. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.