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Brothers Grimm. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER. Constable: London, 1917.
Price: US$517.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine has Dodd Mead, not Constable. Thirteen tipped-in color plates and text illus. by Arthur Rackham, light grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, foredge and bottom edge deckled, 250pp, blank endpapers. Covers well worn, heavily soiled, BLANK PAGE AFTER HALF TITLE DETACHED AND MISSING THE TIPPED-IN ILLUS., frontis has creased corner (lacks the loose tissue guards), textblock cracked, occasional smudging else good to very good condition. This edition, which is signed and limited, doesn't have all the points listed in the bibliography. This book is published/printed by Constable in spite of the American publisher's name being on the spine. LIMITED TO 525 COPIES, THIS IS NUMBER 444, SIGNED BY RACKHAM ON THE LIMITATION PAGE AND ON THE PAGE THAT IS MISSING ITS TIPPED-IN COLOR PLATE. Obviously SCARCE. SWAF.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light gray cloth with a white panel on the cover with gold pictorials tamping and lettering in the panel, and gilt title on the spine. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Lacking the extra plate in envelope. Tissue guards have offset onto the facing pages, else this is a very good copy. One of 525 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This is number 221. Latimore and Haskell, p. 46. .
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$922.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - Binding whilst holding firm is weak. FEP browned. All plates complete. Text block strong and pages clean. No previous owner inscriptions. Please see photos as part of condition report 1917 1st Edition (Thus) , LITTLE BROTHER AND LITTLE SISTER AND OTHER TALES By Brothers Grimm The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, popularizing stories such as "Cinderella" ("Aschenputtel"), "The Frog Prince" ("Der Froschkönig"), "Hansel and Gretel" ("Hänsel und Gretel"), "Little Red Riding Hood" ("Rotkäppchen"), "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin" ("Rumpelstilzchen"), "Sleeping Beauty" ("Dornröschen"), and "Snow White" ("Schneewittchen"). Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), began publication in 1812. Illustrated By: Arthur Rackham Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. His work is noted for its robust pen and ink drawings, which were combined with the use of watercolour, a technique he developed due to his background as a journalistic illustrator. Rackham's 51 colour pieces for the early American tale Rip Van Winkle became a turning point in the production of books since – through colour-separated printing – it featured the accurate reproduction of colour artwork. His best-known works also include the illustrations for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Constable and Co, London quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305),Pages 251 ISBN: 12 Colour Illustrations 40 stories including: Little Brother and Little Sister, Snow-White and Rose Red, Sweet Porridge, Thumbling's Travels, The Skilful Hunter, The True Sweetheart, The Twelve Brothers, The Three Spinners, The Star-Money, The Old Woman in the Wood, Bearskin, One-Eye Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes, The Wishing-Table the Gold Ass and the Cudgel in the Knapsack, The Wonderful Musician, The Cunning Little Tailor, The Gnomes, Hans the Hedgehog, The Nose Tree, The Three Feathers, The Goose-girl at the Well, The Little People's Presents, The Three Little Men in the Wood, The Spirit in the Bottle, The Three Army Surgeons, The Hare and the Hedgehog, The Griffin, The Spindle The Shuttle and the Needle, Maid Maleen, The Young Giant, The Three Sons of Fortune, The Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat, How Six Men Got on in the World, The Two Travellers, The Hut in the Forest, The Peasant's Wise Daughter, The Two Brothers, The Nix of the Mill-Pond, The Fox and the Geese, The Iron Stove. SKU: BTETM0002067 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Seller: Books That Expand The Mind, Margate, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.99 + shipping
Description: First edition: one of 525 copies signed by the illustrator. Quarto. pp xii, 251. Thirteen tipped-in colour plates, as well as many other illustrations. Grey cloth with gilt-decorated buckram title-label to front. Top edge gilt. Lacks, as so often, the envelope containing a separate plate.Free endpapers tanned. Dent to top edge of front cover. Covers a bit rubbed at the edges. Very good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Grimm, Brothers. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER. Constable & Co. Ltd., 1917.
Price: US$1463.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1917. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Deluxe edition, limited to 525 numbered and signed copies. Bound in light grey cloth with gold pictorial spine. Gold pictorial white label to front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 13 tipped-in colour plates and 43 b/w drawings. Mauve on white pictorial endpapers. 250pp. 12 x 9.5". SIGNED by Rackham. Limited edition: this is copy number 352 of 525. Spine and corners bumped, with some wear to the cloth. Some marks to boards. Cracking ans splitting to front joint. Endpapers browned. Bookplate pasted to half-title page. All colour plates present: last plate is corner creased but all others are in fine condition. A few scattered foxspots. Contents generally clean and bright, but pages 248-9 are browned. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1614.51 + shipping
Description: First Rackham edition, signed limited issue, number 15 of 525 copies signed by the artist. A publisher's note describes how this collection, "together with the selection we published some years ago. make a total of one hundred stories which include, it is thought, all the best of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" (p. v). Riall, p. 129. Quarto (305 x 235 mm). Late 20th-century grey crushed morocco, raised bands, black morocco spine label, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in four compartments in gilt, portion of original cloth to front cover, covers ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, retaining original front endpapers, tan rear endpapers. With 13 tipped-in colour plates, including frontispiece, and black and white illustrations to the text, all by Rackham. Spine and edges slightly faded, couple of marks to rear cover, a very good copy in an attractive binding.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Grimm. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER - Grimm, Brothers. Illus. by Rackham. Constable, 1917.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1917 1st ed GRIMM Fairy Tales Little Brother & Sister Rackham SIGNED LIMITED ED. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER - Grimm, Brothers. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur Author: Grimm, Brothers Illustrated by: Rackham, Arthur Published by: Constable & Co. Ltd. Edition: 1st 1917. First edition. Signed and limited to 525 numbered copies, of which this copy number 62. Bound in original light grey cloth with gold pictorial spine. Gold pictorial white label to front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Beautifully illustrated by Rackham with 13 tipped-in color plates and 43 b/w drawings. Mauve on white pictorial endpapers. 250pp. 12 x 9.5"". SIGNED by Rackham. Limited edition: this is copy number 62 of 525 copies. A fine copy with the slightest ding to right corner. Preserved in a contemporary glassine.
Seller: Weinstein-Perez Rare Books, Studio City, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: xi, 251 pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Folio, publisher's gilt cloth, t.e.g.; and publisher's printed envelope. First edition; No. 65 of 525 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. This copy is accompanied by an extra plate signed by Rackham, enclosed in the publisher's printed envelope. Old bookplate on illustrated pastedown; front joint cracking; corners bumped and rubbed. The printed envelope containing the extra plate has a few tiny tears along the edges.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Rackham, Arthur; Brothers Grimm. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER. Constable, London, 1917.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed limited edition of this lavish illustrated collection of Grimm tales, including Snow White - one of only 525 numbered copies signed by Rackham, with the additional signed color plate. A collection of 40 illustrated fairy tales, this is a hard-to-find limited edition with great Rackham illustrations, rarely found complete with the extra color plate. Quarto. 11.5'' x 8.75''. Original grey cloth with pictorial gilt-stamped label. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Rackham with 13 beautiful tipped-in color plates (one more than in the trade edition) and 43 black & whites to accompany 40 fairy tales. xii, 251, [1] pages. Faint ink owner name on front pastedown. Signed by Rackham on the limitation page. Additional color plate signed by Rackham in the original printed envelope. Bottom edge of boards and text block has a dampstain, generally only faintly visible, some areas with a visible line, others only with a bit of a ripple. Shallow edgewear to laid-in envelope, with half-inch chip to top edge.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Grimm Brothers (Rackham, Arthur). Little Brother and Little Sister. Constable, 1917.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. A sharp copy of this limited edition of 525 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$3750.00 + shipping
Description: With A Signed Extra Plate "He Hurried Away With Long Strides" One of 525 Copies Signed by the Artist [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GRIMM, Jakob and Wilhelm. Little Brother & Little Sister. London: [1917]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 525 numbered copies, signed by the artist, this being copy No. 144. Quarto (11 1/2 x 9 in; 293 x 227 mm). xi, [1], 250, [1], [1, blank] pp. Thirteen color plates mounted on brown paper, with original tissue guards. With a duplicate signed plate in the original printed envelope as issued (blank flap missing), "He Hurried Away With Long Strides". Original gray cloth over boards with a rectangular white cloth panel on the front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated endpapers. A few small marks on the back cover and a small red stain on the lower joint, otherwise an excellent copy. Armorial book plate of Agnes Marion Armitage on front paste-down. ".it was during these years that he illustrated a new Brothers Grimm title, Little Brother and Little Sister which is in effect one of his crowning achievements. In these twelve colour plates we find the most astonishing versatility of style, and an exquisite pitch of execution. The style ranges from the delicate to the virtual burlesque caricature. On the one hand is an example of pre-Raphaelite, infinitely tender portrayals of womanhood, such as 'The True Sweetheart', or the delicate realism of Maid Maleen and her waiting woman escaping from the terrible tower of her father. Yet within the same book we find the classic Rackhamerie of the gnome with his beard caught in the cleft of the semi-anthropomorphized tree, appealing to Rose-red and Snow-white for help and the Hassell-like custard-pie of the three soldiers and the long nose. This is one of the few books illustrated by Rackham from which it would be possible to select any single-colour picture in order to demonstrate Rackham's art at its finest." (Gettings. Arthur Rackham, pp. 116-117). Lattimore and Haskell, p. 46. Riall, p. 129.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3874.81 + shipping
Description: Deluxe first edition, number 334 of 525 copies signed by Rackham. Large 4to. Grey cloth with lettering and vignettes in gilt to spine and white label to upper cover with titles and gilt stamped vignette. Top edge gilt. A near fine copy. Pictorial endpapers, 13 mounted colour plates and 43 black and white drawings. Also present is the extra plate in its printed envelope. The plate is from p.178 an illustration entitled "He hurried away with long strides" and is SIGNED by the artist. A charming version of Grimm's fairy tales accompanied by Rackham's illustrations. Fairy tales include: Snow-white and Rose Red; Thumbling's Travels etc.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$3874.81 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 443 of 525 copies, signed by the artist. The limited edition included an "extra plate", being a duplicate of "He hurried away with long strides", signed by Rackham and this is present here in the original printed envelope. A review in The Bookman noted that "Here is an ideal conjunction of author and artist - the fairy and folk tales of the Brothers Grimm could not have a more fitting illustrator than Arthur Rackham, nor he more suitable authors to illustrate." Latimore and Haskell, pp. 46-7; Riall, p.129. The Bookman, December 1917, p. 156. Quarto. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt on white background, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase with white morocco opening. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates mounted on grey paper, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. With additional plate. Extremities a little bumped, minor tear to top of front joint, front hinge split but firm, some foxing and browning, minor creases to two plates, light soiling and creases to envelope: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$4197.72 + shipping
Description: Deluxe edition, number 505 of 525 copies signed by the artist; with the extra plate signed by Rackham (in its original printed envelope), a repeat of that facing p. 178 ("He hurried away with long strides"). Latimore & Haskell, pp. 46-47; Riall, p. 129. Quarto. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial gilt titles on a white ground to front board, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on heavy white paper with loose tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, by Rackham. Presentation inscription (dated 1941) on verso of front free endpaper; old pale stain on back cover, light rubbing to extremities, head and tail of spine only slightly bumped, short closed-tear into margin at p. 209, light offsetting from tissue guards yet still an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$38102.35 + shipping
Description: An original pen, ink and watercolour painting published in "Little Brother, Little Sister" in 1917. Signed in the lower left hand corner. 21cm x 18cm. Mounted, framed and glazed. In fine condition. Rackham at the height of his creative powers, depicting Snow White and Rose Red, one of the best loved of Grimm's Fairy Tales. The image combines all of Rackham's most characteristic elements: a bad-tempered dwarf in pursuit of gold, sinuous trees and two maidens coming to his aid. Rackham's depiction of Grimm's fairytales, when at the height of his creative powers. Of Little Brother & Little Sister, Fred Gettings claims, "it would be possible to select any single colour picture in order to demonstrate Rackham's art at its finest". LITERATURE: Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by The Brothers Grimm (Constable, 1917) p.12.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$45206.17 + shipping
Description: An original pen, ink and watercolour painting published in "Little Brother, Little Sister" in 1917. Signed in the lower left hand corner. 36.5cm x 26.5cm. Mounted, framed and glazed. In fine condition. A superb, imposing and exquisitely detailed watercolour for "The Fitcher's Bird" by the Brothers Grimm, depicting the moment of triumph when the youngest and cleverest of three daughters, covered in honey and bird feathers, meets the evil sorcerer after he has been tricked into delivering her sisters safely home. Rackham's depiction of Grimm's fairytales, when at the height of his creative powers. Of Little Brother & Little Sister, Fred Gettings claims, "it would be possible to select any single colour picture in order to demonstrate Rackham's art at its finest". LITERATURE: Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by The Brothers Grimm. (Constable, 1917) p.180.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom