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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay, 1929.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 232 pages; includes Rackham's color illustrations. Moderate wear, Shelf wear; moderate soiling to the blue covers; pages are tanned; a good solid binding. No jacket. No date. Illustrator: Rackham, Arthur. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literary Classics; Inventory No: 208178.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay, 1929.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 232 pages; includes Rackham's color illustrations. Moderate wear, a couple stains to the blue covers; pages are tanned; a good solid binding. No jacket. No date. Illustrator: Rackham, Arthur. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literary Classics; Inventory No: 203298.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay, Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: David McKay Co, Philadelphia, 1929. First US edition. Book condition: very good. Very minor shelf wear with a little rubbing to head & tail of spine. Small area of marking to lower area of rear board where it looks as if a label has been removed leaving some traces of adhesive and some loss of gloss to affected surface. Three pin-head sized white marks to upper area of rear board. Internally very clean. Previous owner's name and date (1929) to verso of frontispiece. Tope edge gilt, gilt decoration and titles to front and spine. 12 full page colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham plus numerous other line drawings and decorated endpapers. A nice clean copy. No dust jacket.
Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom
Goldsmith, Oliver/Arthur Rackham Illustrator. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay Company, 1929.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cloth, small 4to. Date not stated, but circa 1929. 232pp. Grey boards with gilt at front & spine. 12 color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, and numerous B&W drawings. Illustrated end pages. Gilt top edga.
Seller: David Morrison Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER.. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.. David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Pictorial stamping and lettering in gilt. Twelve full-page color illustrations, 22 drawings in black and white, pictorial endpapers by ARTHUR RACKHAM. Covers only very gently worn. Small crease at head of spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. See Lattimor and Haskell p.65. 232pp. Size: Royal Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. Vicar of Wakefield, The. David McKay Co, Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$51.00 + shipping
Description: 231 pages, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 12 color plates, multiple b&w plates and drawings, illustrated endpapers, blue cloth cover, gilt lettering and pictorial to front cover and spine. Light wear to cover, previous owner's signature to front endpaper; otherwise a tight, clean copy. Record # 803250
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Description: , 232 pages, with 12 colour plates including frontispiece, plus text illustrations throughout, green and white illustrated endpapers US Edition , lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, few light marks to covers, firmly bound, internally nice and clean, the book is in very good condition , blue cloth with gilt floral decoration and titles, top edge gilt 25 x 19 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue-gray cloth covered boards with gilt title on front and spine. Mild edgewear. Protected in modern stiff clear plastic DJ. Bumped spine ends and corners. Binding somewhat shaken, text clean. Previous owner name to fep. Minor foxing to pastedowns and eps. Gilt topped text block with light rubbing. No stickers or stamps. Illustrated with 12 color plates. ; Small 4to, hardcover, 232 pages.
Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: HARDBACK NOdustJaCKET, 1929, 1st edition THUS, First American Trade Edition UNDATED, NF-/VG-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, 9.75 x 7.5 in., cloth, 232 pgs, 4to, gray-blue cloth, cvr with small indentation & decorated Gold Gilt with Titles, Back Cvr Scuff Marks, very lightly worn at corners, no jacket, a clean, sound, very nice copy with light wear FOX Interior, Top edge is gold gilt.The spine is mildly tanned.
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver; Rackham, Arthur (Illustrator). The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay, 1929.
Price: US$74.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition Thus, Later Printing. Published by David McKay, 1929. Octavo. Dark blue cloth boards stamped in gold with gilt topstain and illustrated endpapers. Book is very good with no writing or names. Boards have some shelf/edge wear with a few small nicks along edges/corners. No dust jacket. A very good copy of this classic tale with the timeless illustrations of Arthur Rackham. 12 full-color plates and numerous black and white sketches throughout. Book has been placed in a custom acetate protector. 232 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.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto (10 x 7 1/2"). 231, [1]pp. Original gray-blue cloth boards with gilt-stamped lettering and illustration on front cover and spine. Top of book block in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated half-title and title page. Color frontispiece. "In the England of jazz and Noel Coward the whimsical and fantastic had grown increasingly out of fashion. With "The Vicar of Wakefield" of 1929. Rackham played it safe by turning to historical costume. in which he had long been supremely accomplished and successful" (Hudson, p.126). "The Vicar of Wakefield" is a novel by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith. It was written in 1761 and 1762, and published in 1766, and was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century books. The novel is mentioned in George Eliot's "Middlemarch," Jane Austen's "Emma," Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" and "David Copperfield," Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," Sarah Grand's "The Heavenly Twins," Charlotte Brontë's "The Professor" and "Villette," Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" and in Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther," as well as his "Dichtung und Wahrheit." (Wikipedia). For more information, see: Hudson, p.171. Latimore and Haskell, p. 65. Riall, p.170. This handsome book is splendidly illustrated throughout with 12 color plates and 22 b/w in-text illustrations. Binding overall very good-, interior has age toning , starting in very good- condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver Illustrated by Rackham, Arthur. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay, Phili, 1929.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An attractive looking copy in smooth grained blue cloth with gilt decorations and titles. A nice bright clean copy in complete un-chipped jacket which is a little soiled on the rear white panel and has a couple of closed 1 tears to the front. Overall a very nice copy with the plates present.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First U. S. trade Rackham illustrated edition (bound from British sheets), 4to (9¾ x 7¼), pp. (1-4), 5-231, (1), 12 color plates after paintings by Arthur Rackham. Original gilt lettered & decorated blue-gray cloth, top edges gilt. Very good with some wear to edges & extremities. Sheets & plates clean, unmarked, complete. H9215.
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
. The Vicar of Wakefield Arthur Rackham 1929 w Rare DJ!. David Mckay Company, 1929.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book is in good condition. There's are no bookplates, signatures, or markings of any kind. The gilt lettering and illustration on the front cover and spine is bright. There is some wear to the bottom of the spine. This book contains all 12 original color llustrations plus many black and white illustrations by Rackham, with none missing, removed, or loose. A few pages have some light foxing, but most of the book is clean. The book comes with its rare original dust jacket. The jacket is chipped around its edges and has a signature on its top margin. A rare find in any condition.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Blue cloth sans dustjacket. Illustrated with 12 full color plates and 22 line drawings by Arthur Rackham. Pictorial endpapers. Fore-edge of one page cropped due to binders error. Small several mm blemish to cloth on front board. Else a very clean, very good copy of the first American edition of this title illustrated with Rackham plates. Latomore and Haskell p.65.
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Very good+, spine dulled, light wear to cloth; Inscription on endpaper.
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Very good+, some spotting & light wear to cloth; Inscription on endpaper.
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 12 colour and 22 black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Very nice copy in soiled and worn jacket missing irregular one inch piece at head of spine with several smaller chips and tears. TEG. 232 pp.
Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Canada
Goldsmith, Oliver [Rackham, Arthur]. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay [1929], Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: VG+, lacks 2nd blank ep, few pencil marks neatly excised; hardback
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First U.S. trade edition. No date, but 1929. In gray cloth, in original pictorial jacket with fairly shallow chipping to spine ends (not affecting lettering), 1.5 inch tear to front top edge. Scarce in jacket. (1929)
Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto, 231pp. [1]. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on cover and spine. Top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. Solid text block, faint wear to corners, light toning to hinges, a near fine example. Complete with 12 full-page color illustrations by Arthur Rackham, including frontispiece. Lacking dust jacket. Oliver Goldsmith's (1728-1774) The Vicar of Wakefield was widely recognized due to its popularity amongst Victorians. It has since been referenced in other famous novels, including Austen's Emma, Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, and Alcott's Little Women.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$133.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Undated; circa 1929. Black full-cloth boards, crisp gilt embossed cover and spine design, moderate shelf wear, rub, bow. Charming stylized gilt cover and spine titles with rose and thorny stems at cover and spine. David McKay impressed at spine. Thick heavy stock pages mostly very good; some moderate fox throughout. Monochromatic greenish-grey endpaper pictorial spread, also by Rackham; features scene of humoured riders on horseback through forest w/townscape in b.g. Bind good; hinges intact. This edition features one dozen, superior, richly subtle color plates by Arthur Rackham and twenty-two black & white images w/decoration, headers, tailpieces throughout. Appropriately charming and whimsical imagery by Rackham heightens the enjoyment of this romp. Scarce near very good example of this charming volume. Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction and continues its enduring popularity to this day. Goldsmith depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. By turns comic and sentimental, the novel's popularity owes much to its recognizable depiction of domestic life and loving family relationships. Whether it is a straightforward novel of sentiment or a satire on the social and economic inequalities of the period and the very literary conventions and morality it seems to embody, this tale is sure to warm the hearts of all who enter its milieu. Printed in Great Britain by The Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh. 232 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Description: Gray Boards/Gilt. First American Edition. Small 4to. 12 colour plates and many other lovely monochrome illustrations. Light wear and rubbing otherwise an excellent copy.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. David McKay Company, 1929.
Price: US$148.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st USA 1929. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. This is the U.S. edition. Light blue cloth, gilt vignettes and titles to spine and front cover. Top edges gilt. White design on green endpapers. 232 pages. 10 x 7.5". 12 colour plates. B/w text illustrations. Spine very slightly bumped and rubbed. Top 2" of spine and a tiny section to top edge of rear cover faded. A few tiny spots to edge of textblock. Endpapers are browned. Dustwrapper is edge torn with tape repairs on verso, loss to top of spine and slightly grubby on rear panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$149.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Philadelphia: David McKay, 1929. First American edition, undated [1929]. Illustrated with 12 full color plates by Rackham. Blue cloth lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, nearly 10" tall, no dustjacket. Extremities lightly rubbed, good hinges, firm text block, old gift notation neatly written at top of title page, pages lightly age-yellowed but very clean, no other names or markings. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
GOLDSMITH.OLIVER. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.. DAVID MCKAY., PHILADELPHIA., 1929.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: IN ORIGINAL PRINTED AND DECORATED BOX WHICH IS GOOD PLUS.BOOK IS TIGHT AND CLEAN.BRIGHT GILT ON COVERS.END-PAPER S,COLOR PLATES AND B/W ILLUSTRATIONS BY RACKHAMORIGINAL DUSTJACKET HAS SMALL CLOSED TEARS BUT IS BRIGHT AND CRISP.A FEW SMALL SCRAPES TO FRONT COVER AND TANNED STRIP TO BACK COVER.ORIGINAL BOX HAS COVER PASTE-ON TO TOP EDGE AND LABEL ON FRONT EDGE OF THE LID.BOTTOM OF THE BOX SHOWS WEAR AT THE THE CORNERS BUT IS STILL SOUND.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay, Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: nd (1929). Dark grey covers, gilt imprinted title and Rackham decoration on front bright, also top-edge, very slightest wear spine edges and corners, gilt a bit dulled still legible. Copy clean w/ very light wear; Rackham design eps, sl yellowing around edges, ink gift inscription dated 1935 top fep, 12 color plates, all present, add b/w txt decorations, 232 pp. Attractive copy, only light wear. Size: 7.5"-10"
Seller: Ragabooks, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First American trade edition. Illustrated with twelve color plates and 22 black-and-white engravings by noted English illustrator Arthur Rackham. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has a short closed tear on the bottom right corner, and jacket rear panel has three small chips on the top edge, bottom left corner, and center flap fold.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay Co, NY, 1929.
Price: US$194.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, Thus with RAckham illustrationsl 12 full color plates, 22 b/w text illustrations, title page, endpapers, spine and upper cover decorations and color upper jacket cover illustration by Arthur Rackham. Original blue/gray cloth, stamped gilt on spine and upper cover, top ege gilt; dust jacket with chipping, 1" loss of paper at lower spine; in mylar Size: 4 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
(Rackham, Arthur) Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay, Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Rackham, Arthur. First American trade edition. 12 full page color illustrations and 22 in black and white as well as pictorial end papers by Arthur Rackham. 1 vols. Small 4to. Latimore and Haskell, p. 65 12 full page color illustrations and 22 in black and white as well as pictorial end papers by Arthur Rackham. 1 vols. Small 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay, Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st ptg., 4to, full blue cloth stamped in gilt, illustrated with 12 color plates by Arthur Rackham, decorated endpapers, top edge gilt. Fine in fine, unclipped dj without previous owner's marks.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
. The Vicar of Wakefield Arthur Rackham 1929 Deluxe edition. George G. Harrap and Co, 1929.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book is in Very good condition. There's are no bookplates, signatures, or markings of any kind. The front board is slightly bowed. The gilt lettering and color illustration on the front cover and spine is bright. There is some light wear to the outsdie boards. This book contains all 12 original color llustrations plus many black and white illustrations by Rackham, with none missing, removed, or loose. A few pages have some foxing, but most of the book is clean. This is the Deluxe leather edition printed by George G. Harrap in 1929. A rare find in any condition.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First American Trade Edition in The Original Pictorial Dust Jacket [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Philadelphia: David McKay Company [1929]. First American trade edition. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches; 242 x 182 mm.). 231, [1] pp. Twelve full page color plates, twenty-two black and white line drawings. Publishers dark blue ribbed cloth over boards, front cover and spine decoratively stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Tiny and inconsequential split on lower edge of spine, otherwise a very fine copy with the original color pictorial dust jacket with a 'titled' version of the color plate "A Favourite Song of Dryden's" (facing p.36) on the front panel. Small piece missing from lower spine of jacket, a few small closed tears, otherwise excellent. "In the England of jazz and Noel Coward the whimsical and fantastic had grown increasingly out of fashion. With The Vicar of Wakefield of 1929 . Rackham played it safe by turning to historical costume. in which he had long been supremely accomplished and successful" (Hudson, p. 126). "The Vicar of Wakefield is a novel by Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith. It was written in 1761 and 1762, and published in 1766, and was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians. The novel is mentioned in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Jane Austen's Emma, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins, Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, as well as his Dichtung und Wahrheit." (Wikipedia). Hudson, p. 171. Latimore and Haskell, p. 65. Riall, p. 170.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay Company N.d. [1929], Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$352.90 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 232 pp. Publisher's original gilt-decorated grey cloth in colour pictorial dust wrapper. In the original cardboard box with tipped-on colour plate to top of box. Box slightly worn at corners. Two tears to dust wrapper. Pictorial endpapers. With twelve full-page colour plates by Arthur Rackham. B&w illustrations also by Rackham. Plates complete. The cloth is especially bright and fresh. Internally fresh and clean, without any ownership names or spotting. Uncommon in the original box. Small 4to. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay Co., Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First American trade edition. Quarto. 9½ x 7¼ inches. 232pp. plus 12 full-page plates in color and 22 black & white drawings, gray and white pictorial endpapers. Dark gray-blue cloth, gilt lettering and illustration on cover, top edges gilt. The slightest of rubbing to foot of spine, near owner's name and address on end. A very fine and bright copy. The classic Goldsmith novel depicting the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar. Beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham, the premier British illustrator of the late 19th - early 20th century, focusing on the illustration of classic children's literature and fairy tales. [Latimore and Haskell: p. 65].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Oliver Goldsmith Arthur Rackham. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. David McKay, Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$440.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ glassine dust jacket. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$504.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in blue boards. Publisher's blue grey cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. Book plate, no owner name. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition thus. Copy #60/200 numbered copies of the American issue signed by Arthur Rackham. (There were an additional 575 numbered copies of the English issue, published by George G. Harrap, and also signed by Arthur Rackham). There are 12 tipped-in color illustrations, plus additional black and white illustrations, plus pictorial endpapers all by Arthur Rackham . White vellum binding, with gold gilt lettering and rules, top edge gilt, with the other edges untrimmed. Generally a Near Fine copy, with tight uncracked hinges. This copy also has an oversized plain paper white,significantly worn and somewhat chipped dust wrapper. The top and bottom edges folded under, but even so it is still significantly taller than the book. Frankly, I do not know whether this Dust Wrapper was original to the book, or added at some later date although I suspect that the latter is more likely. LR4/2E
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Price: US$748.00 + shipping
Description: Beautiful copy of this classic, with 12 full page color plates by Arthur Rackham. This is #155 of 200 copies in the American edition, and is SIGNED by Rackham under the limitation statement on verso of half title. Bound in full vellum with gilt-stamped titles and rules on spine and upper board, top edge gilt. Ref. LATIMORE p. 65. Very good with some overall light soil, a few slight rubs. Vellum over boards. Quarto. 232 pages
Seller: Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First American trade edition. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches; 242 x 182 mm.). Collating 231, [1]. Publishers dark blue ribbed cloth over boards, front cover and spine decoratively stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Small stain on lower blank margin of color frontispiece with very slight mark on facing (title) page. Twelve full page color plates, twenty-two black and white line drawings. Otherwise a very Fine copy with the original color pictorial dust jacket with a 'titled' version of the color plate "A Favourite Song of Dryden's" (facing page 36) on the front panel. Clean tear on upper panel neatly repaired, small closed tear on lower rear panel. Original blue cardboard box with the same color illustration as on the dust jacket pasted on the top panel and a white label "The Vicar of Wakefield / Oliver Goldsmith / Illustrated by Arthur Rackham on the lower edge. The box has had some repairs to the corners and the left-hand side edge is missing. "In the England of jazz and Noel Coward the whimsical and fantastic had grown increasingly out of fashion. With The Vicar of Wakefield of 1929 . Rackham played it safe by turning to historical costume. in which he had long been supremely accomplished and successful" (Hudson 126). One of the most popular books of the 18th century. This novel, both a work of sentimental fiction and a satire on the genre itself, follows the trials and eventual triumph of the Primrose family, led by the Rev'd Dr. Charles Primrose, the vicar. Goldsmith was a noted Irish wit and a member of Samuel Johnson's famed literary club, who Johnson praised as: "In genius, vivid, versatile, sublime. In style, clear, elevated, elegant." The legend of the book's publication is that Goldsmith was about to be arrested by his landlady for debt, when Johnson was able to sell the manuscript of the novel to a publisher for sixty pounds, saving his friend in the nick of time. "I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Hudson 171. Latimore and Haskell 65. Riall 170.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Vicar of Wakefield" by Oliver Goldsmith and ill. by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929 limited edition: #136/200 copies signed by Rackham (from a total edition of 775). Small 4to. (232) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece, 11 full-page color plates, plus 22 black and white in-text illustrations. Publisher's deluxe full vellum binding, stamped in gilt; illustrated endpapers; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; largely unopened; light scattered foxing throughout including some plates; book-plate on front paste-down. Vellum much cleaner than usually found. Latimore and Haskell, p. 65; Riall, p. 170. NIce copy.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$937.50 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 575 copies for England and 200 copies for the U. S., this being no. 29 of the American issue and signed by Arthur Rackham; 4to, pp. 231, [1]; 12 color plates by Rackham, other illustrations in the text, pictorial endpapers; near fine copy in original art vellum stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. New blue cloth slipcase.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver.. The Vicar of Wakefield. SIGNED by illustrator. David McKay, Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7000 PB shelf. #115 of the American issue of 200 copies, beautifully signed up front by Rackham. Gold-stamped lightly soiled/foxed vellum bds. No names, clean text. No dust jacket issued. Gilt top edge. Lovely illustrated endpapers. Deckled edges. With 12 color plates. 232 p.
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: First American Deluxe Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, n.d. [1929]. First American edition, deluxe issue, limited to 775 copies (575 for England and 200 for the United States) signed by Arthur Rackham, this being copy no. 101 of the American issue. Quarto (10 5/16 x 7 3/4 in; 263 x 197 mm). 231, [1] pp. Twelve full page color plates, twenty-two black and white line drawings. Publisher's white vellum, front cover ruled and lettered in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Some scattered foxing otherwise a very good copy. "In the England of jazz and Noel Coward the whimsical and fantastic had grown increasingly out of fashion. With The Vicar of Wakefield of 1929. Rackham played it safe by turning to historical costume. in which he had long been supremely accomplished and successful" (Hudson, p. 126). "The Vicar of Wakefield is a novel by Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith. It was written in 1761 and 1762, and published in 1766, and was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians. The novel is mentioned in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Jane Austen's Emma, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins, Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, as well as his Dichtung und Wahrheit." (Wikipedia). Hudson, p. 171. Latimore and Haskell, p. 65. Riall, p. 170.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (Rackham, Arthur) illustrator. Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1929]. LIMITED EDITION; "Edition limited to Five Hundred and Seventy-five copies for England and Two Hundred copies for the United States, of which this is No. 159 of the American issue." Signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. 4to - 10-9/16" x 8". White vellum covered boards with triple-line border and titles stamped in gilt to front cover and decoration and titles stamped in gilt to spine with a single tiny abrasion, a few tiny spots of discoloration and slight bow to the boards for what is a bright, clean copy of the book. Gray and white pictorial endpapers designed by Rackham. T.E.G.; others untrimmed. 231 pp. Oliver Goldsmith's 1766 novel which lampooned literary conventions of the day, e.g., pastoral scenes, artificial romance and the hero's stoic bravery, is illustrated by Arthur Rackham with [12] full page color plates and twenty-two drawings in black and white, both full page and within text. Internally the book is bright and clean with no foxing and no extraneous marks or smudges; slight waviness to the text block as is not uncommon with these deluxe Rackham editions. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. A beautiful copy of the book.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. David McKay Company, 1929.
Price: US$1295.33 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st 1929. Fine condition with no wrapper. Deluxe edition limited to 775 copies (575 for England and 200 for the United States). Bound in vellum with gold lettering and border to front cover. Gold titles and vignette to spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 232 pages. 10.25 x 8". 12 coloured plates and 22 b/w drawings. Grey-green and white pictorial endpapers. SIGNED by Rackham. This is copy no. 133 of the American issue. This is a stunning copy with no marks on the vellum other than a tiny rub to the edge of the rear cover and a small crack (0.5") at top and tail of the spine. The front endpaper has a 0.5" closed margin tear, there is a tiny gold gallery label to the rear pastedown, otherwise the contents are fine with all plates present and no foxing. This copy would make a wonderful gift. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe issue, limited to 775 copies (575 for England and 200 for the United States) signed by Arthur Rackham, this being copy no. 94 of the American issue. Publisher's white vellum, front cover ruled and lettered in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A few text leaves poorly opened, some scattered foxing, bookplate on front paste-down. Quarto (10 5/16 x 7 3/4 in; 263 x 197 mm). 231, [1] pp. Twelve full page color plates, twenty-two black and white line drawings. A very good copy, housed in a green cloth slipcase. "In the England of jazz and Noel Coward the whimsical and fantastic had grown increasingly out of fashion. With The Vicar of Wakefield of 1929. Rackham played it safe by turning to historical costume. in which he had long been supremely accomplished and successful" (Hudson 126). One of the most popular books of the 18th century. This novel, both a work of sentimental fiction and a satire on the genre itself, follows the trials and eventual triumph of the Primrose family, led by the Rev'd Dr. Charles Primrose, the vicar. Goldsmith was a noted Irish wit and a member of Samuel Johnson's famed literary club, who Johnson praised as: "In genius, vivid, versatile, sublime. In style, clear, elevated, elegant." The legend of the book's publication is that Goldsmith was about to be arrested by his landlady for debt, when Johnson was able to sell the manuscript of the novel to a publisher for sixty pounds, saving his friend in the nick of time. "I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Latimore and Haskell 65. Riall 170.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Description: First American Deluxe Edition [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, n.d. [1929]. First American edition, deluxe issue, limited to 775 copies (575 for England and 200 for the United States) signed by Arthur Rackham, this being copy no. 120. Quarto (10 5/16 x 7 3/4 in; 263 x 197 mm). Twelve full page color plates, twenty-two black and white line drawings. Publisher's white vellum with gilt-ruled borders and lettering. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Partially unopened. A fine copy. Chemised in a quarter green morocco clamshell case. "In the England of jazz and Noel Coward the whimsical and fantastic had grown increasingly out of fashion. With The Vicar of Wakefield of 1929. Rackham played it safe by turning to historical costume. in which he had long been supremely accomplished and successful" (Hudson, p. 126). "The Vicar of Wakefield is a novel by Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith. It was written in 1761 and 1762, and published in 1766, and was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians. The novel is mentioned in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Jane Austen's Emma, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins, Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, as well as his Dichtung und Wahrheit." (Wikipedia). Hudson, p. 171. Latimore and Haskell, p. 65. Riall, p. 170.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Rackham, Arthur (Oliver Goldsmith). The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1929.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. This is the American Issue bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's full Velum cloth. A beautiful copy. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy in collector's condition. We buy SIGNED Rackham First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.