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Price: US$112.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Vi (Ads), X, 345, Xxiv (Ads) + Ads On Pastedowns. Grey Cloth Illustrated And Lettered. First Edition, First Issue (With Ads Dated 1894). Wear, No Fraying, Hinges Tight But 1" Tear In Gutter Of Front Endpapers. Foxing To Endpapers But Other Pages Clean, Foxing Spots To Edges Of Page Block. No Marks.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Mrs. Alfred Berlyn [Annie Berlyn]. Sunrise-Land. Jarrold & Sons, London, 1894.
Price: US$179.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of this novel by Annie Berlyn, with one of the earliest examples of Arthur Rackham's illustrations. First edition, first impression, with the advertisement for the Great Eastern Railway dated 1894. Bound in the publisher's original grey pictorial cloth. One of the earliest examples of the artistic work of English book illustrator, Arthur Rackham.Written by British theatre critic and playwright, Annie Berlyn. 'Sunrise-Land' was the result of a commision for Berlyn to paint a picture of the Poppyland region of the UK in words, being the North-East of the Norfolk coastline. Illustrated with one-hundred-and-thirty-six vignettes, seventy-four of which are by Arthur Rackham. Collated, complete. With original advertisements to the front and to the rear. Bound in the publisher's original grey pictorial cloth. Externally, very good, with light bumping to the extremities. Darkening and rubbing to the spine, with the odd mark to cloth. Spine is slightly cocked. Front hinge is a touch strained, with the occasional mark or spot to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with a small ink mark to the fore edge, not affecting pages. Ink inscription to the verso of the title page. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$196.17 + shipping
Description: First edition. vi, x, 346 pp, xxvii pp ads. Containing early illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 134 b/w fine detailed b/w ink drawings in text, 75 of which by Rackham. Ads on eps. Original grey cloth boards with colour illustration of sunrise behind island with windmill on front board. Red and black lettering on front board and spine. Some light staining on back board. Top and bottom of spine and corners very lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG.
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Small octavo. 346pp, xxvii pp (ads dated 1894). 134 black and white illustrations, 75 of them by Arthur Rackham. Illustrated decorative gray cloth. Slight foxing on first and last leaves, spine a little toned, tiny penciled "R" by each page number of the Rackham illustrations, a tight, very good or better copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition/First State. Hardcover. Approx. 75 drawings by Rackham (and numerous by others). (Latimore & Haskell, 3) Overall, a handsome copy of this rather scarce Rackham title. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of toning/sunning to spine, else tight, bright and unmarred. Grey cloth boards, black and red ink lettering, color ink pictorial element at front board, ad endpages. 12mo. 345pp plus approx. plus 7pp. ads at front and 20pp. ads at rear.
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
RACKHAM, Arthur; BERLYN, Annie. Sunrise-Land. London: Jarrold & Sons, , 1894, 1894.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: One of Arthur Rackham's Earliest Works RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator. BERLYN, Annie. Sunrise-Land. Rambles in Eastern England. By Mrs. Alfred Berlyn. London: Jarrold & Sons, 1894. First edition, first issue with advertisement for the Great Eastern Railway dated 1894. Small octavo (7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 185 x 124 mm.). [vi], [x], [9]-345, [3], xi-xxii, [3] pp. With seventy-three vignette drawings by Arthur Rackham in the text. Publisher's gray cloth front cover pictorially stamped in colors, spine decoratively lettered in black and red, rear cover with publisher's stamp in blind. Minimal rubbing to spine extremities, corners very slightly bumped. A near fine copy. "Other commercial commissions were for an illustrated guide to Wells-next-the-sea (1894) and for seventy-five (sic) drawings in Sunrise-Land: Rambles in Eastern England by Mrs Alfred Berlyn (1894), both books carrying advertisements for the Great Eastern Railway." (Hudson, p. 38). "In the same year [1894]. appeared Sunrise Land by Annie Berlyn, to which Rackham provided seventy-three illustrations, all of the vignette type, most of them based on photographs, but in a quality of line which is refreshing in appearance." (Gettings, p. 31). Latimore & Haskell, 3.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.