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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$800.00 + shipping
Description: Small quarto; G+/no-DJ; brown leather-bound spine with gilt text and black illustrations; cover has rubbing, chipping around edges, back board has small rip at hinge, binding has been reinforced inside, comes in protective plastic cover; textblock has edgewear, minor white spotting on fore edge, binding reinforced in front and back, tape residue at hinge of half title page, stamp on title page, smudging on endpapers and pastedowns, a few stains throughout, text and 40 color plates are all clean; pp 325; FLP Collection. 1284902. Full-priced Rockville.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Grimm Brothers; Rackham, Arthur. FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM. Doubleday Page, New York, 1909.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Deluxe American large-paper edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by Rackham. This is the only American limited edition of this title, never issued as a typical American limited edition. Very rare in this edition in such nice condition. 12.75'' x 10.25''. Original full limp suede binding with yapp edges, gilt-ornamented spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Moire endpapers. Printed on fine paper. Featuring 40 tipped-in color plates by Rackham with guards plus a profusion of full page and smaller black and whites. Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. 325, [1] pages. Repair to rear endpaper, faint crease on corner of frontispiece. Some wear to suede on edges, as is inevitable with this type of binding. Remarkably sound and clean.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Brothers Grimm. Grimm's Fairy Tales. Doubleday, Page and Company, 1909.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 40 tipped in color plates by Arthur Rackham, Autographed by Arthur Rackham. brown/orange color decorated binding.
Seller: RP BOOKS, Newport, NH, U.S.A.