Rackham, Arthur and Washington Irving:. Rip Van Winkle.. London, William Heinemann u. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co.,, 1924.

Price: US$109.63 + shipping

Description: XI, 61 S. mit Titelvignette u. zahlr. mont. Abb. auf Tafeln. Einb. etw. berieb. u. min. bestoß., ExLibris auf Vorsatz, Buchblock an einer Stelle angeplatzt (Bindung stabil). Sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch

Seller: Antiquariat Kunsthaus-Adlerstrasse, Stuttgart, Germany

IRVING, Washington. RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.). Rip Van Winkle.. William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page, London and New York, 1924.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: xii, 62 [1] pp. With tipped-in color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, each with captioned tissue overleaf. Large 8vo, publisher's green cloth printed in green; all edges stained green. A beautiful, fresh, unworn copy inside and out.

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

Washington Irving; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Rip Van Winkle. London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday Page and Co, 1924.

Price: US$192.13 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1924 reprint. With illustrations by Arthur Rackham, including 50 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, mounted on green paper, gathered together at the back of the book. Green with black titles and decorations. Dark green endpapers. All edges stained green. Inscription to ffep. 1922 written to this page, although copyright page page indicates this is 1924 edition. Condition: Top and bottom of spine cockled. Titles on spine rubbed. All plates and tissue guards complete. Light corner crease to frontispiece. Several small creases on other plates. Book protected in film which has been taped inside boards. Size: 10 x 7.5 inches / 26 x 19 cm. 62numbered pages. Weight: 955g.

Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom

Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle With Drawings by Arthur Rackham. William Heinemann [&] Doubleday Page,, London, New York, 1924.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: xii,61,(3) Pp. Colour tipped in plate frontis plus 49 colour tipped in plates and tissue guards with title Green cloth with dark green design and lettering to front cover and dark green title to spine

Seller: Schooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC), Halifax, NS, Canada

Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle with Drawings by Arthur Rackham. William Heinemann - Doubleday, Page & Co., London - New York, 1924.

Price: US$595.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, early printing; October 1924. Large 7 3/4" x 10" design. Deep green full-cloth boards, crisp cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, bow. Cover depicts sharp Rackham design of an elder Rip with children beneath tree. Pages near fine, clean. Bind fine; hinges intact. Includes fifty-one wonderfully vibrant color plates with captioned tissue guards from the inimitable Arthur Rackham and sixty-one pages of text. Each of the plates tipped-in on heavy stock green matte leaves. Green text block at all sides. Rare original pictorial wrapper, some edge wear, chip; unclipped 21/- net, protected in new clear sleeve. Front and spine matching boards in design, stylish titles w/Heinemann at heel. Back panel features available details and titles from Heinemann of Arthur Rackham in gift book form. Fresh example of this beautiful collection in clean boards and retaining original dust jacket. Set into book are letters of 1999 to and from Christie's South Kensington with their letterhead concerning estimation and submission, etc. The typed inquiry originated from a Mrs. Slatter of Merseyside in Liverpool. Made and Printed in Great Britain. Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Bungay, Suffolk. Insured post. 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. 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. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

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