Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$115.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition without jacket on illustrated cloth lacks frontispiece plate will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.86 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first trade edition, printed at The Complete Press in West Norwood and issued alongside a deluxe limited issue. 8vo. xxii, 122pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine, with black lettering and two gilt-stamped Rackham decorations to the upper board. With illustrated endpapers, a title page decoration, a colour frontispiece and eleven full-page colour plates each with a captioned protector (the protector for the final plate detached and laid-in), plus twenty-four black and white illustrations as head and tail pieces, or in the text. Some wear to the cloth at the backstrip ends and several corner tips. The hinges a little tender, the free endpapers browned and with a little edge-creasing and a single tiny tear to the frontispiece. Quite a nice crisp copy of this delightfully illustrated collection of thirteen fairy stories from assorted allied nations (including English, Welsh, Irish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, Serbian and Belgian).
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$179.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, Nd. c. 1916. Coloured frontispiece and eleven full page colour plates, and text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. All tissue guards with captions are present. Part of dustwrapper glued onto half title. Some foxing mostly to page edges and endpapers. Publishers gilt decorated blue cloth lightly rubbed at the top and bottom of spine and corners. Some very light marking to cloth. Gilt decoration very slightly tarnished. Generally a very good crisp copy. 122 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$181.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original blue cloth with title and author gilt printed on spine, on first board 2 figures glit printed, title and name of illustrater printed in dark blue; 12 full-page colour illustrations and b/w illustrations in the text. No date (1st edition 1916).; Name on htitle; foxed on some text pages; endpapers browned; edges cover slightly worn. Please ask for all available pictures.
Seller: Klondyke, Almere, Netherlands
Price: US$269.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Previous owner inscription on half title page, some browning to FEP and REP. Some bumping and scuffing to spine top and tail and boards. Please see photos as part of condition report 1916 1st Edition (Thus) , THE ALLIES FAIRY BOOK By Edmund Gosse Sir Edmund William Gosse CB (21 September 1849 – 16 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. His account of his childhood in the book Father and Son has been described as the first psychological biography. He lectured in English literature at Cambridge University. Illustrated By: Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. Rackham's 51 colour pieces for the early American tale Rip Van Winkle became a turning point in the production of books since – through colour-separated printing – it featured the accurate reproduction of colour artwork. His best-known works also include the illustrations for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: William Heinemann, London Crown octavo (8vo 5+3?8 × 8 137 × 203),Pages 122 ISBN: A collection of traditional fairy tales from the allied participants in world war one. Compiled and edited by Edmund Gosse. Below the fairy tales title and country of origin. English: Jack the Giant-Killer Scottish: The Battle of the Birds Welsh: Lludd and Llevelys Irish: Guleesh French: The Sleeping Beauty Italian: Cesarino and The Dragon Portuguese: What Came of Picking Flowers Japanese: The Adventures of Little Peachling, The Fox's Wedding and The Tongue-cut Sparrow Russian: Frost Serbian: The Golden Apple-tree and The Nine Pea Hens Belgium: The Last Adventure of Thyl Ulenspiegel SKU: BTETM0002215 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Seller: Books That Expand The Mind, Margate, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First trade edition, American issue from British sheets. Octavo. 121, [1]pp. Illustrated with 12 color plates by Rackham. Red cloth lettered in white. Top corner a little bumped, slightest rubbing, near fine without dustwrapper. Collection of folk-tales gathered from the Allied countries of World War I.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1090.35 + shipping
Description: Tall hardback, approx 10 x 8 inches. Quarter bound morocco leather fine binding, with marbled paper to boards, raised and gilt banding to spine with gilt lettering to maroon leather spine label. Gilt page edging. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Lovely later fine leather binding. No binders stamp. One or two very minor handling marks else pages all very clean and tight throughout. Pages uncut. Plates all with titled tissue guards. All clean and bright. Else a lovely leather bound signed copy. 122 pp. Illustrated with 12 full-page mounted colour plates, and B&W illustrations in text.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$1199.38 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition. Sm. 4to. xxii + 122pp. 12 tipped in colour plates, vignette title page, numerous other ills. and decorations. Dec. e.ps., f.e.ps. browned, glue mark to front pastedown where bookplate removed, page preceding and following each plate lightly browned, original gilt lettered blue cloth with sm. gilt device to upper board and spine, some very minor soiling and rubbing, head and tail of spine very sl. bumped, t.e.g. rest uncut. No. 130 of a Limited Edition of 525 Copies.Signed by the Artist Arthur Rackham. US$1187
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Rackham, Arthur. The Allies' Fairy Book. William Heinemann London, 1916.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION OF 500 copies printed for sale. This copy is SIGNED by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy SIGNED by Rackham in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Description: The Deluxe Edition "How Beautiful I Think Your Illustrations" [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. The Allies' Fairy Book. With an introduction by Edmund Gosse C.B. and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [n.d., 1916]. Edition DeLuxe Limited to 525 numbered copies signed by the artist, this being No. 173. Quarto (9 11/16 x 7 3/8 inches; 246 x 187 mm.). xxii, 121, [1], [4, blank] pp. Twelve color plates mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards printed in red, and twenty-four drawings in black and white. Pp. 67/68 with small marginal paper fault, otherwise fine. Publisher's blue buckram, front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, decorative end-papers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A near fine copy. Housed in a fleece-lined, blue cloth slipcase. "His book for 1916, The Allies' Fairy Book, published by Heinemann as a contribution to the mood of patriotism and cooperation between the Allies, is likewise composed of images that thrill and inspire, but do not terrify. Where in Grimm, Rackham happily includes illustrations of people battering each other to death or hanging by the hair and caught in brambles alive or half dead, this kind of image is not dwelt upon in The Allies' Fairy Book. even though some of the stories are as red in tooth and claw as any of their type and certainly would have allowed a violent interpretation. Reports coming back from the Front, eye-witness accounts of devastation, violation and butchery, were quite enough to suggest to Rackham and his publishers that at this time the Allies could be spared violent images with their family reading at home." (Hamilton, Arthur Rackham. p. 109). "When The Allies' Fairy Book was published, [Edmund] Gosse wrote to Rackham (6th November 1916): 'Will you think me impertinent if I tell you how beautiful I think your illustrations. their variety, and ingenuity, and the delicacy of your fancy, and the romantic ardour of your mind, were never so humble a degree - in a work so charming'" (Hudson, p. 104). The tales, from their nation of origin, include: English: Jack the Giant-Killer Scottish: The Battle of the Birds Welsh: Lludd and Llevelys Irish: Guleesh French: The Sleeping Beauty Italian: Cesarino and The Dragon Portuguese: What Came of Picking Flowers Japanese: The Adventures of Little Peachling, The Fox's Wedding and The Tongue-cut Sparrow Russian: Frost Serbian: The Golden Apple-tree and The Nine Pea Hens Belgium: The Last Adventure of Thyl Ulenspiegel Latimore and Haskell, pp. 45-46. Riall, p. 128.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed by Arthur Rackham at limitation page: "This Edition is limited to five hundred and twenty-five copies of which five hundred are for sale. This is No. '125.' 'Arthur Rackham.'" Measures apprx. 7 3/4" x 10"; significantly larger design than trade edition . Fine, dark blue cloth boards, gilt cover and spine titles with vignettes, moderate cover, corner wear, rub, some discoloration. Cover depicts two whimsical elfin characters, one appearing more benevolent, the other mischievous. Spine titles with vignette; Heinemann at heel of spine. As a result of the first world war, this is the only Rackham limited edition not to be issued in white cover. Pages generally very good; moderate page roll. Last few at back with some discoloration at exterior edge. Elfin illustrated endpapers; some toning. Retains dark grey ribbon marker w/some fray. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Includes a dozen richly detailed color plates by Arthur Rackham mounted on heavy stock matte leaves with captioned tissue guards adjacent. Two dozen with full page b&w; partial-page imagery, headers, and tailpieces also by Rackham throughout. Rare near very good limited signed edition. Classic tales include: "English tale, Jack the Giant Killer; Scotch tale, The Battle of the Birds; Welsh tale, Lludd and Llevelys; Irish tale, Guleesh; French tale, The Sleeping Beauty; Italian tale, Cesarino and the Dragon; Portuguese tale, What Came of Picking Flowers; Japanese tales, The Adventures of the Little Peachling, The Fox's Wedding, and, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow; Russian tale, Frost; a Serbian tale, The Golden Apple-Tree and the Nine Peahens; and finally, The Last Adventure of Thyl Ulenspiegel, a Belgian tale." Printed in Great Britain at The Complete Press, West Norwood, London. 121 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed by Arthur Rackham at limitation page: "This Edition is limited to five hundred and twenty-five copies of which five hundred are for sale. This is No. '165.' 'Arthur Rackham.'" Measures apprx. 7 3/4" x 10"; significantly larger design than trade edition. Fine, dark blue cloth boards, gilt cover and spine titles with vignettes, moderate shelf, edge wear, rub, toning. Cover depicts two whimsical elfin characters, one appearing more benevolent, the other mischievous. Spine titles with vignette; Heinemann at heel of spine. Rough-cut, thick deckled pages, very good, clean; some varying toning. Elfin illustrated endpapers with moderate toning. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Includes a dozen richly detailed color plates by Arthur Rackham mounted on heavy stock matte leaves with captioned tissue guards adjacent. Two dozen with full page b&w designs; partial-page imagery, headers, and tailpieces also by Rackham throughout. Rare near very good limited and signed edition. Classic tales include: "English tale, Jack the Giant Killer; Scotch tale, The Battle of the Birds; Welsh tale, Lludd and Llevelys; Irish tale, Guleesh; French tale, The Sleeping Beauty; Italian tale, Cesarino and the Dragon; Portuguese tale, What Came of Picking Flowers; Japanese tales, The Adventures of the Little Peachling, The Fox's Wedding, and, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow; Russian tale, Frost; a Serbian tale, The Golden Apple-Tree and the Nine Peahens; and finally, The Last Adventure of Thyl Ulenspiegel, a Belgian tale." Printed in Great Britain at The Complete Press, West Norwood, London. 121 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Arthur Rackham. The Allies' Fairy Book. J.B. Lippincott, 1916.
Price: US$3999.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Published by William Heinemann/J.B. Lippincott, 1916. Octavo. Dark blue cloth boards stamped in black and gold with illustrated endpapers. Original pen/ink drawing by Arthur Rackham on half-title page of a lion sitting on a rock over water on half-title page (measures approximately 5"x5"). The drawing is signed by Arthur Rackham and dated December 6, 1916. Book is very good with sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. 12 full-page color plates present as well as numerous black & white sketches throughout. Has some light offsetting to endpapers and a few small pencil notations from previous bookseller mentioning the edition and signed artwork. Can be easily erased if desired. Boards have some very light shelf wear. An scarce copy of this beloved Rackham story collection featuring a truly unique original artwork by Rackham and dated in the year of publication. Book has been placed in a custom acetate protector. 122 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.