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Price: US$211.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Third impression. Hardback. Small quarto. 62pp + 50 colour plates. Original green cloth with gilt title and illustration, all edges green. Covers with some edge wear and rubbing, rebacked in recent cloth, a couple of mount pages with slight nick at fore-edge, a couple of captioned tissue guards torn with one lacking, otherwise very good with clean bright contents.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. William Heinemann, 1907.
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 48 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards. Green card mounts and green edged pages. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles and decoration. There is a small inscription on the free front endpaper and scattered light foxing to a few pages. All else very clean and firm inside. Firm boards with some bleached spotting to back board, slightly faded spine and a little edge wear.
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.67 + shipping
Description: [Children's Illustrated] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue, second impression. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Elegantly rebound in half dark green oasis morocco, tooled in gilt to style with the original design blocks. Internally very good; neat repair to one torn caption tissue, externally unmarked. A most attractive recent leather binding. Set in Sleepy Hollow, Irving's slumbersome story is an American masterpiece of short prose, based on local history but rooted in European myth and legend.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated Third Impression, February 1907. Large 7 3/4" x 10" design. Olive full cloth boards, gilt cover design and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, spine sunning. Cover depicts Rackham design in gilt of the aged Rip with walking stick. This particular volume adds a Postscript on the lore of the Catskills. Thick heavy stock leaves of text, very good; moderate roll. Dark green page edges at all sides. Thick heavy stock green matte endpapers. Bind good; hinges intact. Includes fifty-one color plates with captioned tissue guards from the inimitable Arthur Rackham and sixty-two pages of text. This unique volume features the extravagent plates mounted on green matte leaves following Irving's story. Also, decorative headers, tailpieces, etc. throughout. Near very good example of fine book craftstmanship. Printed by Ballantyne & Co., Limited, Tavistock St. London. 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 editionsure to enchant art loverswill 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 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.
Price: US$401.11 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Third Impression, February 1907. Quarto; Olive full cloth boards, gilt cover design and spine titles, tight, some wear at spine ends, spine darkened; Rackham design in gilt on cover well preserved; dark green page edges at all sides; very good end papers; inside excellent; 62 very good text pages; 51 illustrations (complete) all very good with protectives tissues;
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France
Washington Irving. Rip Van Winkle. William Heinemann, London, 1907.
Price: US$410.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HB.1907, Third Impression of 1905 edition. Original green cloth boards with gilt lettering to decorated fnt & spine. Some slight wear and rubbing to edges and corners. xi of intro. & list of illus., 62 pages of story text. Some very sparse and light foxing to the margins of a very few pages -- PLEASE SEE PHOTOS. With 51 colour plates by Rackham, including a frontis., mounted on stiff paper, each with a captioned tissue guard. 50 of the 51 Plates bound following the text. The original binding has had the part (front joint) detachment of the spine professionally and sympathetically repaired retaining its authentic appearance. PLEASE SEE PHOTOS (more available on request). Book tight and clean.
Seller: Carrick-White Ltd., West Looe Cornwall, United Kingdom
Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. William Heinemann, 1907.
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green Cloth Boards. Gilt Titles And Design To Front Boards. Boards Lightly Bumped And Rubbed. No Significant Spine Fade. Area Of Water Damage To Rear Spine. Book Plate To Front Paste Down. Lightly Foxed Esp. Early Pages. Tipped In, Tissue Protected Frontis. This Is A 1907 Third Impression From February 1907. Tightly Bound. This Edition Has 61 Numbered Pages Plus Xii Page Introduction And List Of Illustrations. 50 Tipped In Colour Illustrations At Verso Of Text By Rackham (Includes One Ill. Split Over Two Plates. All Tissue Protected (Tissues With Picture Captions'. All Illustrations Present. One Tissue Has A Closed Tear, One Is Separating From Binding At Joint. Overall This Is A Nice Copy. See Images With Listing. Always Happy To Provide Further Evidence. 3rd Printing. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Item Type: Book. No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Rackham, Arthur. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Children; Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 021005.
Seller: H4o Books, Market Rasen, LINCS, United Kingdom