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Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: #1974 of a limited edition of 2020 copies signed by the book designer & printer : Bruce Rogers. In ivory quarter-cloth over patterned paper covered boards, 4to, 244pp. tipped-in color Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
[RACKHAM, Arthur] GRAHAME, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.
Price: US$937.50 + shipping
Description: Bound in half white linen and marbled boards. Copy #717 of 2020 copies with an introduction by A. A. Milne and illustrated with 16 color plates by Arthur Rackham. First published in 1908, this is the first publication of this title with Rackham's illustrations. Designed by Bruce Rogers, who has SIGNED the colophon page, this is the only one of Rackham's major works to be first published posthumously, and this edition of the book is the only one to include all 16 color illustrations, the trade edition having only twelve. This is the first enduringly popular work of fiction to introduce the automobile as a major plot element. Light foxing to first and last few pages; mild soiling to the spine. Very Good, lacking the slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Wind in the Willows. Kenneth Grahame. Signed by designer Bruce Rogers. [1940] Limited Editions Club; slipcased hardcover in very good vintage condition or nearly so. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Introduction by AA Milne. Larger format tall quarter-leather hardcover with a bit of rubbing at top and bottom of spine; bookplate on pastedown; a bit of darkening to spine; very light handling wear otherwise; tight/square; pubs insert tipped to back pastedown. Rogers signature and number (836/2200) on limitation page. Color plates tipped throughout. A scarce signed copy for the collector of rare vintage books.
Seller: Forgotten Lore, Friendswood, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: With an Introduction by A. A. Milne. 245 [1] pp. With 16 tipped-in color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed decorated paper boards, t.e.g., in publisher's slipcase. First edition; No. 637 of 2020 copies signed by Bruce Rogers, the designer. Spine very slightly dust-soiled; otherwise fine in a slightly tanned slipcase with some rubbing and wear along the joints, including a 4" split along one lower edge.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. Limited Editions Club, 1940.
Price: US$1305.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited Editions Club,1940. Limited to 2020 copies, this is copy number 35. Signed by designer, Bruce Rogers, on limitation page at end of book. Hard Cover in slipcase. Top edge gilt, rough cut pages. Grey slipcase is sound, with numerous tiny chips around open edge, tiny chip at bottom of spine edge, gilt title remains bright. Marbled boards with cloth spine. Cover has a tiny rub at top of darkened spine, otherwise pristine. 16 tipped-in delightful color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. A beautiful edition of a classic tale. Letter from publisher 'To the Members' and Limited Editions Club newsletter from September, 1940 included. Beautiful condition.
Seller: PJK Books and Such, Murrells Inlet, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Arthur Rackham's "Wind in the Willows" [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. With an Introduction by A.A. Milne & Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Limited to 2,020 numbered copies (this copy being No. 1315), signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 289 x 207 mm.). [2], 244, [2] pp. Sixteen mounted color plates. "Printed at the Walpole Printing Office.The edition was designed by and printed under the supervision of Bruce Rogers" (Colophon). Original quarter pale yellow buckram over patterned paper boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A very fine, partially uncut copy. In the original publisher's olive green cardboard slipcase. "The Wind in the Willows was not published in England until 1950, but it found two publishers, one for a de luxe edition (The Limited Editions Club, New York) and one for a trade edition (The Heritage Press, New York) in the United States posthumously in the year following Rackham's death. The book is a gentle delight, presenting sixteen illustrations which in no way fight with the more famous imaginative world created by Shepherd, although if Shepherd had not preceded him, then Rackham might have anthropomorphized his creatures even more. Several of the plates are delightful: the âGolden Day when the three heroes walked by the Caravan, Mole leading a happy horse'; the placid Rat handing a hamper to put into a boat, a plate famous among Rackham lovers because it was the boat for which Rackham forgot to draw the oars, an omission which some see as significant in view of the artist's imminent death. Perhaps the most interesting picture is the frontispiece, which depicts the egocentric Toad levelled to the drab clothes of a no-pocket washerwoman, hopping about permissively, totally unequipped for the real contest. In the real world of people, like all egoists, animal or human, he is alien, and it is a typical piece of Rackhamerie that we should see two children laughing at the glum toad, not because he is a toad, but because he is obviously pretending to be something else. It is with a sense of a serious loss that one turns to the imprint of the de luxe edition in search of the familiar Rackham signature, and finds not the careful hand of Rackham, but that of the designer Bruce Rogers, who saw the book and Rackham's pictures through the press." (Gettings, Arthur Rackham. Pp. 168-169). "This was the final book Arthur Rackham illustrated before his death in 1939" (Riall, pp. 197-198). Bruce Rogers (1870 - 1957) was an American typographer and type designer, acclaimed by some as among the greatest book designers of the twentieth century. Rogers was known for his "classical" style of design, rejecting modernism, never using asymmetrical arrangements, rarely using sans serif type faces, favoring stolid roman faces such as Caslon and his own Centaur.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1700.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited first Rackham edition, one of 2020 copies signed by fine press book designer Bruce Rogers, a stunning copy. The distinctly English atmosphere of this classic bucolic tale notwithstanding, this edition was first published in the United States and not published in England until 1950. Only two years before this edition, Updike called Rogers "the most exquisitely sensitive designer of books that this country, or perhaps any country, possesses." The stories of timid Mole, practical Rat, wise Badger, and intemperate Mr. Toad remain excellent bedtime reading. This is a beautiful gift edition. 11.25'' x 8''. Original quarter tan cloth, orange patterned boards. In original green slipcase. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Illustrated by Rackham with 16 magnificent mounted color plates. 245, [1] pages. Signed by Rogers on limitation page at rear. Book a couple barely visible spots to spine, else fine; slipcase repaired at joints. About fine in very good slipcase.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Rackham, Arthur; Grahame, Kenneth. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940.
Price: US$3031.90 + shipping
Description: With an Introduction by A. A. Milne & illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Pp. 246(last colophon), 16 mounted coloured plates (including frontispiece), title page vignette printed in green, the title and chapter numbers printed in gilt; impl. 8vo; qr. cream linen, spine lettered in gilt, batik papered boards, the spine cloth very slightly soiled; t.e.g., others uncut; within dark grey/green papered slipcase with gilt lettered title label on spine, lacking the top edge, other edges lightly worn; Limited Editions Club, New York, 1940. First edition with these illustrations, limited to 2020 numbered copies signed by the designer/printer, Bruce Rogers. [Limited Editions Club] Bibliography S-7.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia