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Price: US$3737.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Deluxe Edition. viii, [3], 122, [2] pp.+ 50 unpaginated leaves of plates. Large quarto. Hardcover, publisher's original vellum binding, gilt lettering and illustrations impressed on the front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Boards a bit bowed as usual in vellum bounded books, lacking ties seems to be a common issue in this series. Illustrated endpapers, slightly browned. Including 50 colourful plates (one is the frontispiece), all tipped in and guarded with tissue papers, captions printed on tissue papers. B&W illustrations in text. Very good condition. Arthur Rackham, an English book illustrator who lived until 1939, played a prominent role during the Golden Age of British book illustration. Known for his robust pen and ink drawings, he incorporated watercolor, a technique influenced by his background as a journalistic illustrator. The first Rackham illustrated edition emerged in 1906, featuring a limited signed run of 500 copies. In 1912, he revisited the work, adding a new color plate and seven additional black and white illustrations. A noteworthy deluxe edition.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1912]. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the Publishers and Engravers/Printers, out of a total edition of 600 copies, this being number 330. Large quarto (21 3/16 x 19 5/8 inches; 539 x 500 mm.). [4] pp. Including engraved title-page and limitation statement. Twelve large proof size color plates mounted in mats with descriptive tissue guards. Original half vellum over light sage green cloth boards. Front cover lettered in gilt. New silk ties. All tissue guards present. Housed in the publisher's original printed box, one bottom panel flap detached but present, and a few small chips to side flaps, some rubbing, especially to the top lid. Overall, a near fine copy. Of the 600 copies of this portfolio (which preceded the American portfolio by two years), one hundred were bound in full vellum and five hundred in half vellum. This portfolio and the American edition contain the largest Rackham plates ever printed. Greatly enlarged from their earlier appearance, these twelve plates are considered to be Rackham's personal favorites from the fifty that appeared in his 1906 illustrated trade edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Latimore and Haskell, p. 39. Riall, p. 113. HBS 67733. $12,500.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45022.95 + shipping
Description: Original pen, ink and watercolour on board. Signed and dated by Rackham in the bottom left corner. 26.5cm x 37cm. Mounted, framed and glazed. A fine, large illustration of the infant Peter Pan, swaddled and sat atop a branch in Kensington Gardens. Peter Pan was Rackham's second major commission and the work which established his reputation as a book illustrator. Issued with new illustrations in 1912 where this image is reproduced in black and white as the chapter heading for chapter 2. A review of this book published in "The World" reads "Mr Barrie has done what no one else has done since the inventor of "Alice", he has invented a new legend, a modern folk story which comprehends all the innermost secrets of the modern child, be he four or forty. Mr Rackham, for his part, has been bewitched in his cradle: he does not dream of fairies or hobgoblins, he knows them." LITERATURE: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M.Barrie (Hodder & Stoughton, 1912) p.19 (reproduced in black and white)
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom