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London, Jack. THE RED ONE. Macmillan Company, NY, 1918.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 193 pages plus publisher's ads. Portrait frontis. Original brown boards pictorially stamped on front cover and spine in orange, blue, and black. Expertly rebacked with some loss of lettering at the top of the spine with loss of part of the word 'The' in title and complete loss of publisher's imprint at the base of the spine; new endpapers. BAL 11977, Woodbridge 154, HBS 526. Very good. (085)
Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.
London, Jack. The Red One. Macmillan Company, New York, 1918.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 193 pages. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Arnold Genthe. Only 5342 copies printed. Very good book with the top 1" of the spine missing (not affecting the title) and some wear to the bottom of the spine and very slight wear to the corners. The pictoral front cover and spine is bright and clean. A very nice copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1695.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated at limitation page: "This Edition Consists of Five Hundred Copies Signed by the Artist: 'No. 298, Arthur Rackham'". 1918 date at title page. Rare signed, limited edition printed by MacMillan & Company of London. Large 9" x 11 1/4" x 2" design weighing nearly 5 lbs. Cream vellum (leather) boards, gilt embossed cover and spine titles, some shelf wear, discoloration to front, back boards. Bright gilt cover design features finely detailed crest-like collage of children in various states of reading wonder; gilt spine design features stylized lion and titles. Frontispiece color plate by Rackham. Pages generally very good; first fifty at front with some varying edge discoloration. Bind good; front hinge reinforced. Features sixteen color plates in brilliant subdued hues and forty-two in black & white by Arthur Rackham. Each color plate features tissue w/caption, some toning. Additional partial-page imagery, headers, tailpieces, symbology and decoration throughout. Near very good interior, intact example. One of Arthur Rackham's books for English readers in the early post-war years. English Fairy Tales Retold by Flora Annie Steel, with its illustrations, features amongst many others, the grand fairy tales: "St. George of Merrie England; The Story of the Three Bears; Jack the Giant-Killer; The Golden Ball; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Three Little Pigs; Mr. Fox; The Old Woman and her Pig; Little Red Riding-Hood; The Babes in the Wood; The Ass, the Table, and the Stick; and, The Rose Tree." Printed by R. & R. Clarke, Limited, Edinburgh. 341 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Flora Annie Steel. English Fairy Tales. Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London, 1918.
Price: US$1793.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy of the special limited edition of English Fairy Tales signed by Arthur Rackham. No 110 of 500 copies. The fairy tales include Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and Jack and the Beanstalk. In full vellum binding with gilt decoration and titles to front board and spine. With 16 tipped-in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and designs by Arthur Rackham. Printed on 'Holbein' watermarked paper with plates mounted on paper with a woven texture. Decorative endpapers; top page edges gilt, remainder untrimmed. The binding is in good to very good condition being generally clean with bright gilt to spine and front board. The top corners are both turned. There is slight marking to the front board and spine, and some brown spotting to the top corner and corner edges of the back board. The decorative endpapers are clean without any ownership markings. The contents are complete with Rackham's signature to an initial blank and are in very good clean condition. The tissue guard to the plate at p 72 is creased; the guard at p 210 has a small tear close to the gutter; and the guard at p 282 is spotty. The corner tip to p 141 has been turned at some point, and a few later leaves have lost the very tip of the corner. A brown spot/mark appears to the top side edge at p 277-282 and reappears at p 287 before moving to the corner tip at pp 309-327. There is the very occasional light spot, with obvious spotting to the final leaf and light spotting in the gutter of the rear endpaper. The stitching is visible at p113 but the book is sound. Please enquire if you would like to see further images to assess condition.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
London, Jack. THE RED ONE. , 1918.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. 6 pp undated ads. Original brown paper-covered boards pictorially decorated in black, blue and orange, with dust jacket. First Edition of this collection of four tales -- which consisted of only 5,342 copies, a very low number for London's books. By the time Jack wrote these (in Hawaii, in early 1916), he was dying. The title tale involves a wrecked alien spacecraft -- a giant red sphere -- worshipped by Melanesian natives, who need to offer it human sacrifices. Jack reached down into his own unconscious and his knowledge that death was near, and set it boldly on the page. The most haunting of his final stories was "The Red One." In it, an explorer is dying slowly, in the hut of an old shaman in cannibal Melanesia. The explorer has passed through all the stages of savagery himself, and he waits for his inevitable death from the shaman's knife as he watches the old witch doctor cure the heads of other white men. Only one mystery remains unsolved, the melodious siren call that has lured the explorer into his particular heart of darkness. What the truth was, the story does not tell -- only that, in the total dichotomy between the hallucinatory message from the stars and the utter savagery of men, the boundaries of Jack's split personality lay. At last, he had the courage and awareness to declare himself, as he prepared for his own death. [Sinclair] THE RED ONE, rather scarce in any event due to the small number of copies, is quite difficult to find in collectible condition because it is bound in paper-covered boards rather than cloth. This copy is just about fine, unusually clean and bright, with the slightest of wear at the foot of the spine. The scarce dust jacket, reproducing the frontispiece portrait of Jack, is in good-to-very good condition (price cut out of spine, some edge-wear, tape reinforcement on the verso). Sisson & Martens p. 98; Blanck 11977. Housed in a cloth clamshell case with leather label.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
LONDON, Jack.. The Red One.. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1918.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: 193 pp. 8vo, original paper-covered boards in dust jacket. First edition. Lower right corner of half-title page torn away (approx. 1 x 2"); otherwise, a bright, fresh, near fine copy without the usual wear to the binding. The jacket has some old internal tape repairs, but is intact and quite attractive. The price on the spine has been cancelled with a label which is now mostly gone. Extrememly uncommon in dust jacket.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated at limitation page: "This Edition Consists of Five Hundred Copies Signed by the Artist: 'No. 132,' 'Arthur Rackham.'" 1918 date at title page. Rare signed, limited edition printed by MacMillan & Company of London. Larger 9 1/2" x 11 5/8" x 2" design weighing nearly 4 1/2 lbs. Cream vellum (leather) boards, gilt embossed cover and spine titles, sharp corner with slight shelf wear. Bright gilt cover design features finely detailed crest-like collage of children in various states of reading wonder; gilt spine design features stylized lion and titles. Frontispiece color plate by Rackham. Thick deckled pages, near fine; few with moderate corner wear, crease. Moderate toning to, and adjacent to, tissue guards. Lightly pencilled small number inside cover. Fine dark violet satin ribbon marker. Bright gilded top edge. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Antiquarian heraldic bookplate set in. Pencilled to back of this plate: "Streatfeild of Chiddingstone, Kent." The Streatfeild clan owned the beautiful Chiddingstone Castle from the early nineteenth century to the late 1930's when aquired by the Astors. This very volume may owe its rather amazing preservation as part of the Streatfeild collection. Features sixteen color plates in brilliant subdued hues and forty-two in black & white by Arthur Rackham. Each color plate features tissue w/caption, some toning. Additional partial-page imagery, headers, tailpieces, symbology and decoration throughout. Ultra-rare near fine signed limited edition of this beautiful vellum volume. One of Arthur Rackham's books for English readers in the early post-war years. English Fairy Tales Retold by Flora Annie Steel, with its illustrations, features amongst many others, the grand fairy tales: "St. George of Merrie England; The Story of the Three Bears; Jack the Giant-Killer; The Golden Ball; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Three Little Pigs; Mr. Fox; The Old Woman and her Pig; Little Red Riding-Hood; The Babes in the Wood; The Ass, the Table, and the Stick; and, The Rose Tree." Printed by R. & R. Clarke, Limited, Edinburgh. 341 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.