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Brothers Grimm. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Constable & Company LTD, London, 1909.
Price: US$506.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Arthur Rackham's beautifully illustrated edition of the monumental tales of the Brothers Grimm, a colourfully illustrated edition. A collection of the most popular stories of the Brothers Grimm, this being a new translation of the stories by Mrs Edgar Lucas.The Brothers Grimm were siblings who helped to popularise folklore from around the world, particular during the Romantic era which saw popularity in national literature and culture.Including the stories, 'The Frog Prince', 'Rapunzel', 'Hansel and Grethel', 'Red Riding Hood', 'Rumpelstiltskin', and more.With the dashing illustrations of Arthur Rackham, who is one of the most popular book illustrators of all time, known for his proflici work during the Golden Age of Book Illustration.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and thirty-seven colours plates, and in-text monochrome illustrations.Collated, bound without two plates, to face pages 90 and 128, and the half-title. Rebacked, with the original cloth boards and spine restored. Externally, generally smart, with evidence of loss to the spine and joints prior to rebacking. Spine is faded. Some light rubbing to the boards and spne. Discolouration to the tail of the rear board. Light bumping to the extremities. Faded damp stain to the front board. Artist's surname to the front board has been restored in gilt. Paste downs and endpapers have been restored. Light tide mark to the bottom edge of the paste downs and endpapers, offsetting a little to the following and preceding few pages of text, including the frontispiece. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the occasional spot. Small tide mark to the bottom edge of the textblock, including plates, heavier to the first half of the volume. Title page is detaching. Gift inscription to the reverse of the frontispiece. Repair to the tail of page xv, no loss of text. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$536.25 + shipping
Description: First edition. Translated by Mrs Edgar Lucas. xv, 325 pp. A collection of 60 fairy tales including the much loved The Bremen Town Musicians, The Frog Princess, The Goosegirl, Rapunzel, Hansel and Grethel, Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Rumpelstiltskin, The Wolf and the Seven Kids, The Elves and the Shoemaker, etc. etc. Tissue-guarded colour frontispiece & 38 other colour plates. One colour plate missing opp page 62. There should be 40 colour plates in total. Plate from opp. page 128 inserted incorrectly opp. page 84. 55 b/w illustrations. Illustrated eps. Front hinge cracked halfway along length. Moderate finger-soiling throughout text. A few colour illustrations creased. Binding loosening. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering and vignettes on front board and spine. Rear hinge cracked - reinforced with old tape. Cloth on spine chipping at top and bottom. Edges of spine cracked. Corners rubbed. Sellotape marks running horizontally across boards for a few inches. Overall condition Good.
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
Price: US$640.99 + shipping
Description: 4to. Red cloth with gilt decoration and titles to front cover and spine. With 40 tipped-in colour plates, behind captioned tissue-guards, and other black and white text illustrations, complete as per list. At sometime recased, with the original spine laid down. Spine and parts of rear cover faded. Some light spotting and marking throughout, the worst being to pp. 322/323. Four plates creased to lower inner corners to varying degrees. Please see photograph of faults as a further guide, and feel free to request extra pictures. Still a good and sound copy. pp. xv, [i], 325.
Seller: Grove Rare Books PBFA, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1909 date at title page. Scarce first edition from Doubleday, Page & Co. Large volume at over 4 lbs. Brown matte pictorial boards, gilt cover titles and design, partial leather spine wrap, some edge, corner wear, rub. Spine mended and reinforced with dark brown cloth book adhesive. Heavy stock deckled pages, good with attractive toning. Bind intact, square; some portions starting. Includes the beautifully ethereal imagery of Arthur Rackham. Thirty-nine vibrant, yet beautifully subdued, tipped-in color plates on stiff matte setting with most tissued captions adjacent. True mounted individual plates in this volume. Also, fifty-five full and partial page black and white illustrations by Rackham with headers, tailpieces and decorative ornamentation throughout. Illustrated endpapers at front and back; back illus. endpaper missing. Antiquarian signature pencilled at front endpaper: "Richard Ely Morse." Facsimile b&w print of removed plate adjacent p. 188: "'O Grandmother, what big ears you have got,' she said." Near good first edition of this rarity filled with classically beautiful imagery. A wondrous collection of sixty tales including the much loved "The Bremen Town Musicians, The Frog Princess, The Goosegirl, Rapunzel, Hansel and Grethel, Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Rumpelstiltskin, The Wolf and the Seven Kids, The Elves and the Shoemaker," etc. Arthur Rackham was one of the great illustrators of the early twentieth century, a period which is referred to as the "golden age" in British book design. His works were produced in both limited and mass market editions as there was a large market for ornately illustrated books before the First World War. Rackham used a unique style, thought to mix European and East Asian influences, that involved both pen and India Ink as well as watercolor. His work was displayed all over Europe - and received awards at International Exhibitions in Milan and Barcelona and Rackham would influence heavily many illustrators, especially those of children's books, who came after him. "Rackham's illustrations to Grimm, Hans Andersen and Poe show him at his most imaginative and observant of human nature, while his gnomes, fairies and gnarled anthropomorphic trees in Peter Pan or A Midsummer Night's Dream represent his more fantastic side. He was - and remains - a soloist in front of an orchestra, a player with the responsibility to interpret and add a personal lustre to great works with variations of infinite subtlety and grace. Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. 325 pages. Insured post. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$915.34 + shipping
Description: 260mm x 200mm (10" x 8"). 325pp. 40 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards with additional b/w illustrations. A handsome edition of Grimm's fairy tales illustrated by one of the leading lights of the Edwardian era. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. VG : in very good condition. Boards rubbed with minor edgewear and some splitting to external rear joint. Spine sunned. Minor marking to fore-edge - otherwise contents clean and tight
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$961.49 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, with 40 tipped-in coloured plates by Arthur Rackham, each behind captioned tissue-guard, and numerous other line drawn illusts by Rackham. Front hinge partially cracked, rear tender. Original red cloth with gilt title lettering and vignette to upper boards and spine, two inch chip along the bottom edge of lower board. Spine a touch creased with some light shelfwear to head and tail; tips of corner rubbed; slight toning to endpapers; top edge of the pages dyed red. Inked gift inscription, dated 1910. All plates in excellent condition, no foxing or creases. A wonderful collection of the Grimm's Fairy Tales with all the old favourites appearing, including The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, Tom Thumb, The Elves and the Shoemaker, and so on. A VG+ copy.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1160.04 + shipping
Description: 55 illustrazioni in b/n n.t., di cui 10 a piena pagina, e 40 tavole a colori applicate f.t., tutte protette da velina parlante, di Arthur Rackham. Ed. Constable & Co. - London, 1909. Rilegatura coeva in mezza pelle con nervi e titoli in oro al dorso. Pagine pulite e freschissime. 19,5x25; pp.325. Raro e in Ottimo stato. , Ottimo (Fine)
Seller: L'Angolo del Collezionista di B. Pileri, Rignano Flaminio, RM, Italy
Price: US$1510.89 + shipping
Description: 4to. pp.xv + 325. 54 black & white illustrations and 40 tipped in colour plates with tissue guards. Decorated, endpapers There is an original inscription from previous owner on half title page.some odd tanning and one or two areas with marks or spotting not affecting the plates else a beautiful copy of this one of the most desirable Rackham titles.in a very attractive eather binding.
Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
Price: US$2100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1909 date at title page; no other indications. Gigantic folio volume weighing nearly six lbs. Original red cloth pictorial boards bound in fine dark red textured leather spine wrap and corners, gilt cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, rub. Cover features original gilt titles and Rackham vignette. Spine features crips gilt spine titles with vignettes between five raised bands and dated 1909 at heel. Heavy stock deckled pages, generally very good, clean; few w/minimal fox, specks. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Includes the beautifully ethereal imagery of Arthur Rackham. Thirty-nine vibrant, yet beautifully subdued, tipped-in colour plates on stiff matte setting with red captioned tissue guards. Also, many full and partial page black and white illustrations by Rackham with headers, tailpieces and decorative ornamentation throughout. Original front pastedown and endpaper with two-page spread illustration of mouse and frog. Very good example of this first edition rarity filled with classically beautiful imagery. A wondrous collection of sixty tales including the much loved "The Bremen Town Musicians, The Frog Princess, The Goosegirl, Rapunzel, Hansel and Grethel, Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Rumpelstiltskin, The Wolf and the Seven Kids, The Elves and the Shoemaker," etc. Arthur Rackham was one of the great illustrators of the early twentieth century, a period which is referred to as the "golden age" in British book design. His works were produced in both limited and mass market editions as there was a large market for ornately illustrated books before the First World War. Rackham used a unique style, thought to mix European and East Asian influences, that involved both pen and India Ink as well as watercolor. His work was displayed all over Europe - and received awards at International Exhibitions in Milan and Barcelona and Rackham would influence heavily many illustrators, especially those of children's books, who came after him. "Rackham's illustrations to Grimm, Hans Andersen and Poe show him at his most imaginative and observant of human nature, while his gnomes, fairies and gnarled anthropomorphic trees in Peter Pan or A Midsummer Night's Dream represent his more fantastic side. He was - and remains - a soloist in front of an orchestra, a player with the responsibility to interpret and add a personal lustre to great works with variations of infinite subtlety and grace. Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. 325 pages. Insured post. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$2307.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xv, [1], 325pp, [1], plates. Rebound in full morocco by Temple Bookbinders, raised bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, illustrator to fourth, date to foot, panels with double fillet border, upper cover with the design from the original cloth replicated. Externally fine, internally bright and clean, complete with forty tissue-guarded plates by Rackham. Riall, page 97 (published in 1900 with fewer illustrations) Size: 4to
Seller: Temple Rare Books, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Rare signed and limited, deluxe vellum edition. Signed by Arthur Rackham at limitation page: "This Edition is limited to 750 signed and numbered copies for sale in Great Britain and Ireland. No. '127,' 'Arthur Rackham.'" Gigantic folio volume weighing nearly six lbs. Cream vellum boards, gilt cover titles, moderate shelf wear, spine discoloration, rub. Bright gilt cover design features stylized titles with vignette of "The Goose Girl," with children catching fish with their hands. Protected in neatly folded, thick clear sleeve (unattached). Tastefully and professionally re-cased within original vellum cover and spine; with silk ribbon as page marker. Bind firm, square; moderate crease, ripple at hinges. Heavy stock rough-cut deckled pages, near fine with attractive toning. Gilded top edge. Handsome antiquarian bookplate at front blank endpaper: "Agnes Marion Armitage." Plate features Victorian-era framing of roses around window to library with open book upon desk: "Un Livre Est Un Ami." Small antiquarian label inside cover: "Percival Pearce, Bookseller & Stationer, Warrington." And, small gold tag inside back cover: "Mechling Bookbindery, Printing and Binding." Includes the beautifully ethereal imagery of Arthur Rackham. Profusely illustrated with forty vibrant, yet beautifully subdued, tipped-in colour plates on stiff matte setting with red captioned tissue guards. Color plate adjacent page seventy-two mounted from first of same vintage and size: "Blow, blow, little breeze, And Conrads hat seize."; as shown with red-captioned facsimile tissue guard. Also, many full and partial page black and white illustrations by Rackham with headers, tailpieces and decorative ornamentation throughout. Rare near very good signed example of this limited edition filled with classically beautiful imagery. Arthur Rackham was one of the great illustrators of the early twentieth century, a period which is referred to as the "golden age" in British book design. His works were produced in both limited and mass market editions as there was a large market for ornately illustrated books before the First World War. Rackham used a unique style, thought to mix European and East Asian influences, that involved both pen and India Ink as well as watercolor. His work was displayed all over Europe - and received awards at International Exhibitions in Milan and Barcelona and Rackham would influence heavily many illustrators, especially those of children's books, who came after him. Wonderous classics present such as: "Briar Rose, Rapunzel, Hansel & Grethel, Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin, Tom Thumb, Snowdrop, The Elves & The Shoemaker, The Golden Goose and many, many more!" "Rackham's illustrations to Grimm, Hans Andersen and Poe show him at his most imaginative and observant of human nature, while his gnomes, fairies and gnarled anthropomorphic trees in Peter Pan or A Midsummer Night's Dream represent his more fantastic side. He was - and remains - a soloist in front of an orchestra, a player with the responsibility to interpret and add a personal lustre to great works with variations of infinite subtlety and grace. Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. 325 pages. Insured post. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$4807.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1909. First SIGNED NUMBERED LIMITED Edition. Full vellum bound numbered limited edition of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Translated by Mrs Edgar Lucas. Gilt titles and illustration to the front board and spine, the spine rubbed darkened but structurally sound, lacking the silk ties, page top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With 40 tipped in tissue guarded plates and black and white illustrations in the text throughout. A Numbered limited edition of 750 copies signed by Arthur Rackham, of which this is number 276. A collection of 60 fairy tales including the much loved The Bremen Town Musicians, The Frog Princess, The Goosegirl, Rapunzel, Hansel and Grethel, Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Rumpelstiltskin, The Wolf and the Seven Kids, The Elves and the Shoemaker, etc. etc. First edition by Constable. With all 40 mounted colour plates by Arthur Rackham [with titled tissue-guards]; 325-page text Large format. The present edition contains 40 beautifully coloured plates and 55 black and white drawings. One of Rackham's most elusive and most important titles. In the early 19th century Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm brought together a collection of ancient folk tales that had been passed from generation to generation throughout northern Europe. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 12 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition rubbed, darkened and worn, gilt titles. Joints good condition. Corners good condition rubbing and wear. Boards good condition gilt decorated to the front board, marks to both boards. Page edges good condition gilt top edge, others untrimmed. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition tanned, minor foxing. Free end papers good condition foxed. Title good condition tanned. Pages good condition tanned, minor foxing. Binding good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1909 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Price: US$5768.94 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine copy of the 1st enlarged limited edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 750 copies were produced and signed by Rackham, of which this is copy number 490. Issued with tipped in colour frontispiece and 39 further tipped in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and designs. This copy has been recently rebound in full calf with raised bands, blind stamped designs and titles to spine, and blind stamped panelled design to the boards. Top page edges gilted; remainder untrimmed. The binding is in fine clean condition. New endpapers have been added. Contents are complete with bright clean uncreased plates. There is a slight paper ripple to the bottom corner of preliminary leaves, a couple of light creases to tissue guards, and a slight fold to the stock paper for the plate at p 236. The tissue guard to the plate at p 74 has a tiny top edge tear. There is the occasional mark: gutter pp xiv-xv; small brown mark appearing from p 35-41. Light toning towards page edges. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Rare near fine signed, limited edition. Signed by Arthur Rackham at limitation page: "This Edition is limited to 750 signed and numbered copies for sale in Great Britain and Ireland. No. '623,' 'Arthur Rackham.'" Gigantic folio volume weighing nearly six lbs. Presented in a beautiful bespoke (custom) vellum with gilt cover and spine design as original. Bright cream vellum boards, gilt cover titles, sharp corners with light shelf wear. Crisp cover design features stylized titles with vignette of "The Goose Girl," with children catching fish with their hands. Heavy stock deckled pages, near fine. Few with slight discoloration, toning. Bright gilded top edge. Impressively, this volume with clean golden satin ribbons to tie volume's cover closed or utilize as page markers. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Includes the beautifully ethereal imagery of Arthur Rackham. Profusely illustrated with forty vibrant, yet beautifully subdued, tipped-in colour plates on stiff matte setting with red captioned tissue guards. Also, many full and partial page black and white illustrations by Rackham with headers, tailpieces and decorative ornamentation throughout. Rare near fine signed example of this limited edition filled with classically beautiful imagery. Arthur Rackham was one of the great illustrators of the early twentieth century, a period which is referred to as the "golden age" in British book design. His works were produced in both limited and mass market editions as there was a large market for ornately illustrated books before the First World War. Rackham used a unique style, thought to mix European and East Asian influences, that involved both pen and India Ink as well as watercolor. His work was displayed all over Europe - and received awards at International Exhibitions in Milan and Barcelona and Rackham would influence heavily many illustrators, especially those of children's books, who came after him. "Rackham's illustrations to Grimm, Hans Andersen and Poe show him at his most imaginative and observant of human nature, while his gnomes, fairies and gnarled anthropomorphic trees in Peter Pan or A Midsummer Night's Dream represent his more fantastic side. He was - and remains - a soloist in front of an orchestra, a player with the responsibility to interpret and add a personal lustre to great works with variations of infinite subtlety and grace. Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. 325 pages. Insured post. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION OF 750 COPIES. This copy is authentically SIGNED by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. The book is bound in the publisher's vellum cloth with discoloration to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. The color plates are present. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$9600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. pp. xv, 325, [1]. title in red & black within decorative border. 40 tipped-in colour plates (incl. frontis.) & numerous text illus. tissue guards with legends. A very good copy in original gilt-stamped vellum, top edge gilt, others uncut (silk ties present but detached, covers moderately spotted & soiled, a few marginal spots). Deluxe Edition, Limited to 750 numbered copies signed by Rackham.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
GRIMM, Brothers. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Constable, London, 1909.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. Beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 40 mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, and numerous additional b/w drawings. 325pp., thick short 4to, elegantly bound by Sangorsky & Sutcliffe in full crimson crushed morocco; gilt- decorated spine with raised bands; marbled end papers, uncut edges, t.e.g. London: Constable & Company, 1909. Fine. A gorgeous copy of this deluxe limited edition. Number 186 of 750 copies, signed by Rackham on the limitation page.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Mrs Edgar Lucas. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Constable and Company Ltd, London, 1909.
Price: US$12563.47 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The very scarce deluxe edition of this beautifully illustrated copy of the Brothers Grimm. Illustrated and signed by notable pen and ink designer Arthur Rackham. An extremely bright copy of this work. 93 of 750 copies, with Rackham's signature below. Containing a frontispiece and thirty-nine coloured plates by the popular pen and ink fantasy illustrator, Arthur Rackham who was a forerunner during the 'Golden Age' of British illustration. This edition of 'The Brothers Grimm' was one of the earliest titles to be illustrated by Rackham. He also produced drawings for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, The Ingoldsby Legends and Gullivers Travels. Collated, complete. This deluxe edition is in the uncommon original vellum binding. Without the original ties, as is usual. Tales to this volume include 'The Golden Bird', 'Old Sultan', 'Rapunzel', 'The Frog Prince', 'The Raven'. The translation of The Brother's Grimm is by Mrs Edgar Lucas. In the original vellum binding. Externally, smart with several light marks to the boards and to the spine, as is common with vellum. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Grimm, The Brothers (Rackham, Arthur). Grimm's Fairy Tales. Constable, 1909.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. A sharp copy of this limited edition of 750 copies SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. 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. We buy SIGNED Rackham books.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.