The King of the Golden River (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); John Ruskin
London: George Harrap & Co, 1932. First thus. Very Good +. One of 575 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 222 x 146 mm.). 47, [1] pp. Four color plates and fifteen drawings in black and white. Original limp vellum. Pictorial endpapers in green and white. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some... Read More
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Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures
by [Rackham, Arthur] Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur
London: William Heinemann, 1913. First trade edition. Quarto ( 10 1/4 x 7 5/8 in; 261 x 193 mm). Collating 43, [1]. Original gray green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. In a later issue (1918) printed dust jacket (with the price "21/ - Net" as opposed to the first issue price of "15/ - Net") . Top... Read More
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Some British Ballads (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur
London: Constable & Co, 1919. First thus. Near Fine. Edition deluxe, number 137 of 575 numbered and signed copies by the artist. A Near Fine copy. Quarto (10 7/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 265 x 218 mm.). Sixteen full color tipped-in plates with tissue guards lettered in red, twenty-four black and white drawings. Bound ca. 1960 by Bayntun... Read More
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Aesop's Fables
by [Rackham, Arthur] Jones, Vernon V.S. (translator)
London: William Heinemann, 1912. First trade edition. Small square octavo (8 x 5 7/8 inches; 202 x 149 mm.). Collating xxix, [1, blank], 223, [1]. Complete with the original color pictorial dust jacket, the front panel with a reproduction of the color plate facing p. 84 "The Blackamoor", the spine correctly priced "6/= net" and advertising the 1912 Heinemann... Read More
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Comus (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); John Milton
London & New York: William Heinemann & Doubleday Page & Co, 1921. Deluxe edition. Near Fine. Number 312 of 550, signed and numbered by Rackham on the limitation page. Near Fine and retaining all 24 mounted color plates on brown paper with multiple black and white illustrations throughout. Sympathetically rebound maintaining original pictorial endpapers, some offsetting to front... Read More
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The King of the Golden River (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); John Ruskin
London: George Harrap & Co, 1932. Limited edition. Near Fine. Number 521 of 575 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. A Near Fine, partially uncut copy. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 222 x 146 mm.). 47, [1] pp. Four color plates and fifteen drawings in black and white. Original limp vellum. Pictorial endpapers in green and white.... Read More
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Peer Gynt (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Henrik Ibsen
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936. Deluxe Edition. Near Fine. Number 38 of 460 copies signed and numbered by Rackham on the limitation page. A near fine copy with all 12 color plates. Bound in vellum with gilt pictorial stamping and title and illustrative endpapers. Top of text block gilt, all other edges uncut. Tag for... Read More
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The Vicar of Wakefield
by [Rackham, Arthur] Goldsmith, Oliver
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1929. First trade edition in the publisher's special deluxe binding. Quarto (256 x 186 mm). Collating 231, [1]. Publisher's full olive Persian morocco, gilt stamped with multi colored morocco onlays, reproducing the color frontispiece "An Epitaph for my Wife." Gilt lettered spine. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Twelve full page color plates,... Read More
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The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation
by [Rackham, Arthur] Walton, Izaak
Philadelphia: David McKay Co, 1931. First American trade edition. Quarto (9 7/16 x 7 3/16 inches; 239 x 183 mm.). Collating 223, (1). Publishers dark blue ribbed cloth over boards, front cover and spine decoratively stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Twelve color plates, including frontispiece, with captioned tissue guards. Twenty-five black and white illustrations. Title printed... Read More
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Rip Van Winkle (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Washington Irving
London: William Heinemann, 1905. Deluxe edition. Near Fine. Number 163 of 250 copies signed by the artist on the limitation page. 50 color plates on heavy brown paper with lettered tissue-guards at end, with one facing title page. Bound in vellum with gilt title on spine and title and image of the title character on front cover, replaced... Read More
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Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem by Henrik Ibsen
by [Rackham, Arthur] Ibsen, Henrik
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1936. Publisher's salesperson's sample copy (preceding the first edition). Large octavo (9 13/16 x 7 7/16 inches; 249 x 189 mm.). Complete. Original printed color pictorial dust jacket (with "Harrap" on the spine) with a neatly repaired tear on front near spine. Original gilt decorated brown cloth. Original pictorial endpapers. Title-page printed in green and... Read More
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Some British Ballads
by Rackham, Arthur
London: Constable & Co, 1919. First edition. Later issue. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered, top edge blue, gray pictorial endpapers. The mildest of wear to spine foot, otherwise a fine copy in very good possibly later dust jacket (with Heinemann imprint at foot of spine and with the last book listed on the rear panel as Some British Ballads).... Read More
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A Dish of Apples (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Eden Phillpotts
London & New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921. First thus. Fine. Edition deluxe, number 77 of 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. A fine copy. Small quarto (10 x 7 5/8 in; 254 x 193 mm). 75, (3) pp. Illustrated with three full-page mounted illustrations in color with tissue guards and twenty-three drawings in black and... Read More
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Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur
London: William Heinemann, 1913. First edition. Very Good +. Edition deluxe, number 165 of 1,130 numbered copies, signed by the artist. A Very Good + copy. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 9 inches; 292 x 232 mm). 43, [1] pp. Forty-four color plates (including frontispiece) mounted on tan paper, with descriptive tissue guards, and ten drawings in black... Read More
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The Allies' Fairy Book (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator)
London: William Heinemann, 1916. First edition. Near Fine. Edition deluxe, number 146 of 525 numbered copies signed by the artist. Quarto (9 11/16 x 7 3/8 inches; 246 x 187 mm.). xxii, 121, [1], [4, blank] pp. Twelve color plates mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards printed in red, and twenty-four drawings in black and... Read More
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The Ingoldsby Legends
by [Rackham, Arthur] Ingoldsby, Thomas [Richard Harris Barham]
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1907. Second (and best) trade edition. Large quarto. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Mild wear, spine mildly sunned, but still an excellent copy in a later tan pictorial dust jacket printed in black. Twenty-four color plates tipped-in on brown stock with captioned tissue guards, twelve tinted plates, and sixty-six drawings in... Read More
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Cats at Play
by Rackham, Arthur. Louis Wain, Mary Gladwin (illustrators)
London: John F. Shaw, 1904. First edition. Publisher's quarter decorated cloth over full-color glazed pictorial boards, corners a little worn.Small quarto (9 5/8 x 7 1/8 in; 245 x 180 mm). A few illustrations hand-colored by a child. Closed tear to bottom edge of page. 17. Early ink presentation dated "Christmas 1905" on front paste-down. Illustrated throughout in black... Read More
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Peer Gynt (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Henrik Ibsen
London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1936. First thus. Fine. Edition deluxe, number 286 of 460 copies signed by the artist. A Fine copy. Quarto. Twelve color plates with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white text drawings as head and tailpieces, and devices. Publisher's vellum boards gilt lettered and ornamented, with gilt vignette. Top edge gilt,... Read More
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The Vicar of Wakefield
by [Rackham, Arthur] Goldsmith, Oliver
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929. First American trade edition. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches; 242 x 182 mm.). Collating 231, [1]. Publishers dark blue ribbed cloth over boards, front cover and spine decoratively stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. Small stain on lower blank margin of color frontispiece with very slight mark on facing (title)... Read More
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Robert Browning
London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1934. First thus. Fine/Near Fine. Edition deluxe, number 45 of 410 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. A Fine copy in nearly Fine dust jacket. Octavo (9 1/8 x 6 inches; 232 x 152 mm.). 44, [1], [3, blank] pp. Four color plates and fourteen drawings in black and white (including one double-page).... Read More
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The Paradise of Children (Original artwork)
by Rackham, Arthur (artist)
London, 1922. Fine. Original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawing for the tinted line drawing illustrating “The Paradise of Children” (“Pandora’s Box”) in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book (London: [n.d., 1922]). Signed and dated at lower right. Image size: 15 x 11 inches (381 x 279 mm.). Matted, framed, and glazed. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book was a frame... Read More
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Poor Cecco
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Margery Williams Bianco
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First edition. Near Fine. Deluxe large paper issue, one of 105 numbered copies (this one out-of-series and unsigned). A nearly Fine copy. Quarto (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches; 292 x 216 mm.). 175 pp. Seven full-page illustrations in color, mounted on white paper, and twenty-four drawings in black and white.... Read More
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The Sudden Storm from "Rip Van Winkle" (Original artwork)
by Rackham, Arthur (artist); Washington Irving
1904. Fine. Original watercolor and pen and ink drawing on paper, mounted onto card (drawing measures approximately 270 x 181 mm). Signed and dated by Arthur Rackham in 1904 (lower right). Verso of card with: "Received Jan 30 wtd (?) Feb 13" and "5086 - [unintelligible] Heinemann." Mounted on card. From Rip Van Winkle, printed tissue guard... Read More
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The Zankiwank & the Bletherwitch
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); S.J. Adair Fitzgerald
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1896. First edition. Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy. Small octavo (7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in; 193 x 140 mm). xii, 188 pp. Seventeen full-page and twenty-four black and white text illustrations. Original dark green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Slight wear at the... Read More
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The Grey Lady
by [Rackham, Arthur] Merriman, Henry Seton
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1897. First Thus. First edition with Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Publisher's lavender-gray cloth, front cover with small blind-stamped device, lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, dark gray-blue coated end-papers. Octavo 7 9/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 193 x 130 mm.). Collating viii, 342, [2, advertisements]. Twelve half-tone plates (including frontispiece). A near fine... Read More
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