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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$1803.86 + 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
Price: US$2899.06 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 366 of 500 copies numbered and signed by the artist. Reviewed in The Bookman in December 1918, this edition was hailed with the comment that "it would be difficult to find a more fascinating and artistically produced volume than the collection of English Fairy Tales retold by Mrs Flora Annie Steel. There are sixteen delightfully fanciful full-page illustrations in colour by Mr Arthur Rackham, and countless black-and-white drawings in the text. It is a sumptuous feast and a gift that will be prized by all art-loving and imaginative children". Latimore & Haskell p. 48; Riall p. 132. Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and with designs in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 15 colour plates mounted on heavy off-white paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Some light soiling to binding, as usual, rear joint slightly splitting, light browning and creases to tissue guards: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
STEEL, FLORA ANNIE [RETOLD BY]. English Fairy Tales. Macmillan & Co, London, 1918.
Price: US$3393.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. One of 500 copies numbered and signed by Rackham. This being No. 386. Full vellum with gilt decoration to the front board and spine. Top edge gilt, fore and tail edges untrimmed. Illustrated throughout in black and white, and with 16 full-colour plates mounted on cream-coloured card stock, all with printed tissue guards. Some dust soiling, lower outer corner slightly bumped, otherwise a beautiful, clean copy of a very desirable book.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$4187.53 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 128 of 500 numbered copies signed by the artist. This edition was positively reviewed by The Bookman: "it would be difficult to find a more fascinating and artistically produced volume than the collection of English Fairy Tales retold by Mrs Flora Annie Steel. It is a sumptuous feast and a gift that will be prized by all art-loving and imaginative children". Large octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, decorative title block on front cover in gilt, inner dentelles in gilt, floral patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 16 mounted colour illustrations, captioned tissues printed in black, and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Steel, Flora Annie (Rackham, Arthur). English Fairy Tales. Macmillan, 1918.
Price: US$4750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. A sharp copy of this limited edition of 500 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.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. A spectacular copy bound in the publisher's Vellum. The book is in fabulous condition and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. An exceptional copy SIGNED by Rackham. We buy SIGNED Rackham First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, 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.