Wagner, Richard, [translated by Margaret Armour]. Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods. William Heinemann: Doubleday Page & Co, London: New York, 1911.

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Description: Rackham brings to life the final two stories from 'The Ring of the Niblung' , Wagner's epic opera cycle known as his 'Ring cycle' and based upon characters from the Norse sagas and the Germanic 'Nibelungenlied'. Now well-established in his career, Rackham chose to take on a number of darker and more sinister book illustrations, which he believed might be less appealing to children. However, C. S. Lewis, who encountered the book as a child, later said of it, '[his] pictures, which seemed to me then to be the very music made visible, plunged me a few fathoms deeper into my delight. I have seldom coveted anything as I coveted that book' (Hamilton, pp. 99 - 101). Presentation copy (stamped into ttitle page) of the trade edition with the additional illustrated endpapers (Latimore and Haskell, pp. 37-38) and 30 full page colour plates mounted on tan paper, pp. x, 182. Bound in brown buckram with gilt pictorial stamping and titles to title page and spine, blind stamped publisers logo to rear board. 25.5 x 19 cm. Some wear to boards (particularly to the right hand side of the design on the front board), spine ends gently bumped, a little foxed, signs of weakness in the binding in the first section, however it feels firm, plates all present and clean (one misbound to face p. 18 instead of p.22), very good condition.

Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom

WAGNER, Richard [Signed by RACKHAM, Arthur] [Wagner (R.) *° Music °*] :. Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods. Translated by Margaret Armour. With illustrations by Arthur Rackham. [The Ring of the Niblung].. London: William Heinemann / New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911. First limited signed edition. *, 1911.

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Description: Large 4to Unpaginated. Cream vellum, with gilt block, stained. Silk Tie. Front board detached, backstrip missing, needs rebacking. Endpapers and some edges stained. First edition, limited to 1150 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. 30 tissue guarded colour plates, including frontis.

Seller: Travis & Emery Music Bookshop ABA, London, United Kingdom

WAGNER, Richard. Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. Part II of the Ring of the Nibelung series. Heinemann, London, 1911.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: Translated by Margaret Armour. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 30 mounted color plates protected with lettered tissue, and numerous b/w drawings in the text. 181pp of text. Thick 4to, original gilt-stamped pictorial vellum (slightly discolored & lacking cloth ties); uncut edges, t.e.g. London and New York: Heinemann and Doubleday, 1911. A very good(+) copy. Edition de Luxe. Number 102 of 1150 copies, signed by the artist on the limitation page.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.