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FORD, JULIA ELLSWORTH. SNICKERTY NICK. Moffat, Yard & Company, NEW YORK, 1919.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: FRONT HINGE IS OPEN TOP TO BOTTOM AT FRONT PASTE DOWN AND FFEP. ALL PAGES HAVE PENCIL WRITTING ACROSS THE TOP. (IT LOOKS LIKE PART # AND PEOPLE ASSIGNED) ALL PAGES HAVE STAINING AND SPOTTING BUT ILLUSTRATIONS AND WORDING ARE NOT AFFECTED AT ALL. ALL PAGES ARE BROWNING. THE PLAY ENDS AT PAGE 43 AND STARTS UP SCENE TWO AT PAGE 47. I CANNOT SEE PAGES 44-45-46 OR WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN ON THEM OR IF THEY WERE JUST BLANK. THE BOARDS ARE IN ROUGH SHAPE WHICH IS VISIBLE IN THE PICTURE. RUBBING, CHIPPING AND FRAYING AND BUMPING. CONSIDERABLE STAINING AND A FEW TINY HOLES IN SPINE ALONG WITH DISCOLORATION Only has two colored pictures
Seller: Gene The Book Peddler, Winchester, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green boards with moderate overall soiling; few brown spots; corners bumped; first free end paper upper right corner bent and torn off. Looks to be first; no additional printings noted. Internally very clean.
Seller: A Casperson Books, Niles, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Signed hardback book (no dust jacket) titled SNICKERTY NICK AND THE GIANT by Julia Ellsworth Ford. With rhymes by Witter Bynner and illustrations (13 - all present) by Arthur Rackham. Inscribed and signed by author on half title page - also signed on title page - Boards are worn with soiling -fraying at tips and ends of spine - foxing, soiling to endpapers and other pages - would rate a fair - good reading copy. Bookseller since 1995 (UL2-top-middle) rareviewbooks Language: eng
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's beloved children's tale. Quarto, original publisher's cloth, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with color frontispiece, two color plates, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. In very good condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. One of the leading literary figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration, Arthur Rackham's work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolor, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. "Arthur Rackhamâs fanciful imagination gave his illustrations instant recognition, and his dedication to illustration kept him in the public eye for 30 years" (Hodnett, 233).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Ford, Julia Ellsworth & Bynner, Whitter & Rackham, Arthur. SNICKERTY NICK. Moffat, Yard & Co, 1919.
Price: US$458.20 + shipping
Description: SNICKERTY NICK, Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919, first edition, f.e.p. ever so slightly trimmed at upper right section, some minor stains to the front cover, else a vg+ copy. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. A most curious book which apparently was never published in the U.K. and is entitled SNICKERTY NICK AND THE GIANT on the front cover!
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Ford, Julia Ellsworth. Snickerty Nick. Moffat, Yard & Co., New York, 1919.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Thin 4to blue pictorial cloth stamped in black. Illustrated by Rackham with a color frontispiece, 2 full-page color plates and 10 full-page b/w line drawings. With poems by Witter Bynner throughout the text. Light wear to the spine tips and corners and light fading to the spine; rear inner hinge cracked but holding. Very good. This copy SIGNED BY BOTH FORD AND BYNNER on the title page and further warmly inscribed by Ford on the half title. An uncommon, early Rackham, scarce signed.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Julia Ellsworth Ford, Witter Bynner. Snickerty Nick. Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed by author on both the half-title page and the front panel of the dust jacket, plus her notations on the copyright page and her addition of one additional title to the ''by the same author'' list that precedes the foreword. Blue cloth boards pictorially stamped in black on the front cover. Very mild wear to edges of cloth. The interior, aside from a few minor smudges, is clean and unmarked. Bottom right corner of title page appears a little crumpled. Dust jacket is chipped at spine ends and corners; a few short closed tears; shows general soiling; price on spine ($1.75 net); in a clear archival sleeve. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 13 illustrated plates (three, including frontispiece, are color). viii, (9)-78 pages. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Scarce in jacket. Inscription reads: ''To the young folks of the / Beverly Hills Public Library / from the author / Julia Ellsworth Ford / Rye, N.Y / 1948''. A similar inscription by the author also appears on the front panel of the dust jacket.
Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: One of the Rarest of all the Books Illustrated by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. Snickerty Nick. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Rhymes by Witter Bynner. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919. First edition. Quarto (9 9/16 x 7 1/4 inches; 243 x 184 mm.). viii, 9 -78, [2, blank] pp. Three full-page color plates and ten full-page black and white drawings. Original light blue cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in black, spine lettered in black. Minimal fading to spine and slight rubbing to extremities, rear inner hinge tender. Slight dustmark on lower margin 1/8 inch on third color plate. A very good copy of a scarce Rackham title. "The idea of the Selfish Giant in this play has been taken from the story of Oscar Wilde's Selfish Giant. Spring would not come to his garden because he would not let the children play in it. It was always winter there. One morning he woke up hearing the music of a linnet singing in his garden. He jumped out of bed and saw a most wonderful sight, "flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing," and in every tree was a little child; but one little boy was too tiny to climb the tree and the Giant's heart melted and he helped the little child into the tree. The little child kissed him and forever after the children played in the Giant's garden, because his heart had softened through love of the little child. The children never saw the child again. But one day he came to the Giant, who saw on the palms of the child's hands "the prince of two nails and the prince of two nails were on the little feet". The little child had come to take the Giant to play in his garden, "which is Paradise." My indebtedness to this story is the character of the Selfish Giant. The little play of Snickerty Nick is not a dramatization of The Selfish Giant. The character of Snickerty Nick is an original character and the play centers around him. The little boy is only a loving and beloved child, and Spring and Winter are personified by faeries and gnomes. To Arthur Rackham I tender my most sincere thanks whose magic touch, as in Peter Pan, Grimm's Faery Tales and Undine, making real all faeries and gnomes, endears all child life to grown-ups as well as to children." (Forward by Julia Ellsworth Ford). Riall, p. 136.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
FORD, Julia Ellsworth. Snickerty Nick. Moffat Yard, New York, 1919.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Poems by Witter Bynner; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Thin 4to, pictorial blue cloth; pictorial d.w. N.Y. Moffat Yard, 1919. First Edition. Fine. Contains 3 color illustrations and 10 in black & white. The blue cloth is entirely unfaded, and the white pictorial dust jacket is in excellent condition. There was no English Edition of this book. Cover title reads "Snickerty Nick and the Giant". Latimore & Haskell, p. 50.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1152.78 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Latimore & Haskell, p. 50; Riall, p. 136. Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover black, pictorial image blocked to front cover black. With dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 2 colour plates, black and white drawings in the text, by Rackham. Ownership address label to front pastedown, rubbing to ends of spine, in the soiled dust jacket with chips to ends of spine and lower front edge, closed tears to edges, tape to verso of edges. A very good copy in the very uncommon dust jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: One of the Rarest of all the Books Illustrated by Arthur Rackham [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. Snickerty Nick. By Julia Ellsworth Ford. Rhymes by Witter Bynner. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919. First edition. Quarto (9 9/16 x 7 1/4 inches; 243 x 184 mm.). viii, 9 -78, [2, blank] pp. Three full-page color plates and ten full-page black and white drawings. Original light blue cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in black, spine lettered in black. A near fine copy. Housed in a fleece-lined quarter green morocco over green cloth clamshell case, spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt in compartments. "The idea of the Selfish Giant in this play has been taken from the story of Oscar Wilde's Selfish Giant. Spring would not come to his garden because he would not let the children play in it. It was always winter there. One morning he woke up hearing the music of a linnet singing in his garden. He jumped out of bed and saw a most wonderful sight, "flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing," and in every tree was a little child; but one little boy was too tiny to climb the tree and the Giant's heart melted and he helped the little child into the tree. The little child kissed him and forever after the children played in the Giant's garden, because his heart had softened through love of the little child. The children never saw the child again. But one day he came to the Giant, who saw on the palms of the child's hands "the prince of two nails and the prince of two nails were on the little feet". The little child had come to take the Giant to play in his garden, "which is Paradise." My indebtedness to this story is the character of the Selfish Giant. The little play of Snickerty Nick is not a dramatization of The Selfish Giant. The character of Snickerty Nick is an original character and the play centers around him. The little boy is only a loving and beloved child, and Spring and Winter are personified by faeries and gnomes. To Arthur Rackham I tender my most sincere thanks whose magic touch, as in Peter Pan, Grimm's Faery Tales and Undine, making real all faeries and gnomes, endears all child life to grown-ups as well as to children." (Forward by Julia Ellsworth Ford). Riall, p. 136.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.