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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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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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 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 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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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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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 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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The Peter Pan Portfolio (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator)
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. First edition. Very Good. One of 500 copies signed by the publisher and printer on the limitation page. A Very Good copy, internally very clean and complete. Measuring 22 x 20 inches and collating complete with all twelve plates and textual tissue guards. Plates mounted on Chippendale boards hand-finished with gold frames. Bound... Read More
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A Million and One Nights (Signed limited edition)
by Ramsaye, Terry; Thomas A. Edison (contributor)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926. First edition. Very Good. One of 372 copies (this being copy seventy-two). Signed by Terry Ramsaye and Thomas Edison. A Very Good set. Two volumes, quarto (262 x 175 mm). Collating: lxx, 400; 401-868 pp. Frontispieces. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographic reproductions. In the publisher's deluxe quarter leather over textured paper boards.... Read More
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A Million and One Nights (Signed Limited Edition)
by Ramsaye, Terry and Thomas A. Edison (contributor)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926. First edition. Very Good. Limited to 327 copies (this one out of series). Signed by Ramsaye and Thomas A. Edison. Quarto (241 x 168 mm). Collating: lxx, 400; 401-868. Frontispiece portrait. Illustrated throughout text with black and white photographic reproductions. In the publisher's original blue cloth with gilt decorations on the front... Read More
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Anthem (Presentation Copy)
by Rand, Ayn
London: Cassell, 1938. First edition. Very Good +/Fair. Publisher's binding with red marbled boards and gilt to spine. Spine slightly cocked with rubbing to corners and base of boards. Black topstain and black endpapers. Scarce original jacket Fair only with significant paper loss to the spine and chips at the corners. Playfully inscribed "To George with love --... Read More
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[Atlas Shrugged] The United States Railway Mission in Mexico, 1942-1946
by [Rand, Ayn] Linder, Fred E.
Washington DC: Institute of Inter-American Transportation, 1947. First edition. Original pictorial paper wraps stapled at spine. 199 pages with multiple illustrations and charts. Gently toned, but overall a tight, pleasing copy. With provenance from Ayn Rand's library, and including 45 pages annotated in pencil by Ayn Rand as she conducted research for what would become her most influential work,... Read More
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Hollywood: American Movie City
by Rand, Ayn
Moscow & Leningrad, 1926. First edition. Very Good +. Original pictorial wraps. 48 pages. Wraps with some light soiling; spine restored, pages gently toned throughout. Else, a tight and complete copy of this rare work, which last appeared at auction over a decade ago in 2008. Rand's second published work, Hollywood appeared in Russia during her youth.... Read More
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The Foundations of Morality (Association copy)
by [Rand, Ayn] Hazlitt, Henry
Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1964. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Publisher's cloth binding with black spine and yellow boards. Some rubbing to front and rear boards with edges slightly toned, else a bright and fresh copy overall. In its unclipped black and yellow jacket. Spine sunned and panels rubbed and toned; remnant of removed adhesive tag to front cover;... Read More
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For the New Intellectual (Presentation Copy)
by Rand, Ayn
New York: Random House, 1961. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Original black publisher's cloth binding. Small bump to top front corner. Dark blue endpapers with mild offsetting. Near Fine in a like jacket, which is unclipped and shows only slight creasing and wear to corners. Inscribed and signed by Rand on the half title in the year of... Read More
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Pola Negri
by Rand, Ayn
Moscow & Leningrad, 1925. First edition. Very Good +. Original pictorial wrappers stapled at spine. Light rubbing to rear wrap. Internally tight and overall clean, spine reinforced, and small paper repairs to the front and rear wrappers, and to the margins of pages 10 and 12 not affecting text. This rare work in Russian has appeared only six... Read More
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Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
by Ransome, Arthur. Thomas Mackenzie (illustrator)
New York: Brentano's, 1920. First American trade edition. Original light brown buckram pictorially stamped and lettered in red and blue on front cover and spine. Pictorial endpapers in black and white. Small booksellers label on rear paste-down. Heavy black stock for plate VI has neat repair, not affecting the image. . [128] pages. Twelve color plates mounted on heavy... Read More
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Ross. A Dramatic Portrait (Inscribed first edition)
by Rattigan, Terence
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by the author "To David Brass/With every good wish,/Terence Rattigan." A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Small octavo (7 1/4 x 4 13/16 inches; 180 x 123 mm.). [1]-122 pp. Bound in publisher's red paper cloth over boards, spine lettered in silver. Original pictorial dust jacket,... Read More
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The Yearling
by Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First printing with Scribner "A" and seal printed on the copyright page. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Octavo (6 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 209 x 143 mm.). [viii], 428 pp. With 34 woodcut chapter-headings (including illustration on title-page). Publisher's cream linen over boards,... Read More
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The Yearling
by Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing with Scribner "A" and seal printed on the copyright page. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's cream linen boards. Toning to hinges and a bit of foxing to lower board. Dust jacket with a bit of chipping to edges and some minor... Read More
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