Little Brother & Little Sister (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm
London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1917. First thus. Near Fine. Edition deluxe, number 144 of 525 numbered copies, signed by the artist. A Near Fine copy. Quarto (11 1/2 x 9 in; 293 x 227 mm). xi, [1], 250, [1], [1, blank] pp. Thirteen color plates mounted on brown paper, with original tissue guards. With a duplicate signed plate in the original printed envelope as issued (blank flap missing), "He Hurried Away With Long Strides". Original gray cloth... Read More
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The Dolly Dialogues (Association Copy)
by [Rackham, Arthur] Hope, Anthony
London: Westminster Gazette, 1894. First edition. The scarce first issue (July 1894) with "Dolly" as running headline and "price one shilling" at the extreme lower right corner; subsequent issues have "The Dolly Dialogues" as running headline and the price location shifted upward. Yellow pictorial wrappers, blue lettering and illustration. Mild wear and soiling to wrappers, especially on spine. The title-page is signed in black ink "Anthony Hope Hawkins." Small octavo (7 3/16 x 5 9/16 in; 182 x 142... Read More
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Poor Cecco
by [Rackham, Arthur] Bianco, Margery Williams
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First English trade edition (no English limited edition was issued). Quarto (10 x 7 1/4 inches; 253 x 186 mm.). Collating 175, [1]. Original orange cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in red on front cover and lettered in red on spine. Blank endpapers. Seven mounted color plates and twenty-four drawings in black and white. A Very Good copy in the scarce original color pictorial dust jacket (jacket complete but with some repairs). "Margery... 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/Very Good +. Edition deluxe, number 30 of 410 copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. A Fine copy. 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). Publisher's full limp vellum lettered in gilt on front cover. Top edge gilt. In the original publisher's cardboard slipcase with matching limitation number on... Read More
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Goblin Market (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Christina Rossetti
London: George G. Harrap & Co, 1933. Limited edition. Fine/Very Good. Number 403 of 410 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Octavo (9 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 228 x 146 mm.). 44, [1], [3, blank] pp. Four full-page color plates and nineteen drawings in black and white. Publisher's limp vellum, front cover decoratively lettered in gilt, pictorial end-papers in green and white, top edge gilt, others uncut. A fine copy in the Very Good original (chipped) glassine wrapper... Read More
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The Vicar of Wakefield (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); Oliver Goldsmith
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929. First American edition. Near Fine. Edition deluxe, number 101 to 775 copies (575 for England and 200 for the United States) signed by Arthur Rackham. Quarto (10 5/16 x 7 3/4 in; 263 x 197 mm). 231, [1] pp. Twelve full page color plates, twenty-two black and white line drawings. Publisher's white vellum, front cover ruled and lettered in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others... Read More
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Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures
by Rackham, Arthur
London: William Heinemann, 1913. First trade edition. Collating 43, [1]. Publisher's gray-green cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge stained gray. Very slight discoloration on free end-papers from paste-downs. Ink name partially erased from the bookplate design on front paste-down, otherwise a very Fine copy in the original brown paper dust jacket printed in black (with the first issue price of "15/ - Net" on spine). A few small and neat repairs to... Read More
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The Compleat Angler, or The Contemplative Man's Recreation
by Rackham, Arthur
London: George Harrap & Co, 1931. First Thus. Very Good +. Original vellum with gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Scattered spotting to boards and toning to spine. Front hinge tender; small crack to upper rear joint but both holding well. Bookplate to front pastedown. Preliminaries toned and foxed, but textblock and illustrations largely clean and unmarked. Signed limited edition, this number 498 of 775. Izaak Walton's The Compleate Angeler (1653) is perhaps... Read More
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (Original artwork)
by Rackham, Arthur (artist)
London, 1932. Fine. Watercolor on paper, image size: 9 x 7 1/2 inches; 228 x 190 mm. Matted and framed. Lettered in blue at the top: "Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales," and at the bottom: "With a Number of Illustrations by Arthur Rackham." This gentle and delightful watercolor depicts a group of four children, with a dog, dancing around a snowman. The group is set before a green picket fence and a full moon against a dark... 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. Near Fine. A Near Fine 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. Engraved bookplate on front paste-down (which has caused light offsetting to the facing endpaper). Neat ink presentation and small "Merry Christmas" postage stamp on front... Read More
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The Rainbow Book. Tales of Fun & Fancy by Mrs. M.H. Spielmann
by [Rackham, Arthur] [Hugh Thomson, illustrator] Spielmann, M.H.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1909. First edition. First edition in book form; the stories originally appeared in Little Folks in 1905-1906, with the same illustrations. Publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Cream pictorial end-papers printed in olive green, top edge gilt. Slight fading to spine, small stain at top of front cover, neat ink inscription (dated 1909) on front end-papers. Collating [2], xvi, 289, [2], [1, blank], with twenty plates including a... Read More
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); J. M. Barrie
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. First edition. Near Fine. One of 500 copies, numbered and signed by the artist (this being copy 77). Large quarto (273 x 225 mm). xii, 125, [1] pp. Color frontispiece and forty-nine color plates (collected at the end of the text) mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards. Four black and white drawings (two on the title and one each on p. 1 and p. 14). Publisher's vellum over boards pictorially... Read More
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The Grey House on the Hill
by [Rackham, Arthur] Green [Louisa Lilias], The Hon. Mrs
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1903. First thus. First Rackham-illustrated edition, first issue printed on pink paper. Collating 205, [1, blank], [2, adv.]. Publisher's original blue cloth, front cover and spine blind-stamped in a conventional all-over patternand lettered in gilt. A color variant not noted by Riall or Latimore and Haskell. Title-page printed in red and black on white paper as issued. Eight full page color plates by Arthur Rackham. A Near Fine copy with just the lightest amount... Read More
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And There We Played at Shovel-Board Half the Day from "The Compleat Angler" (Original artwork)
by Rackham, Arthur (artist); Izaak Walton
1931. Fine. Original watercolor and pen and ink drawing on paper, mounted onto card (drawing measures approximately 278 x 190 mm). Signed and dated by Arthur Rackham in 1931 (lower left). Matted, framed and glazed. Image coming a bit loose in mount, some minor soiling on matte. From The Compleat Angler, printed tissue guard with: "And There We Played at Shovel-Board Half the Day," facing p 182. Last sold at Heritage Auctions, 2019. Before that at Swann... Read More
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Feats on the Fjord
by [Rackham, Arthur] Martineau, Harriet
London/New York: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited/E.P. Dutton & Company, 1914. Second edition. Publisher's original blue cloth pictorially and ornamentally stamped in gilt, gilt lettered and ornamented spine with "Dent London" at foot. Onlaid color plate to upper board and blue cloth label with "With Many Coloured Illustrations" pasted over small rectangular panel. Original pictorial dust jacket (with "J.M. Dent & Sons" at foot printed in green at foot). Neat gift signature to front paste-down. With all the plates... Read More
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Imagina
by [Rackham, Arthur] Ford, Julia Ellsworth
New York: Duffield & Company, 1914. First edition. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 5/16 inches; x 242 x 185 mm.). Collating [12], 178, [1], [1, blank]. Publisher's light blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Pictorial endpapers in pale blue and white by Lauren Ford. Two color plates by Arthur Rackham (including frontispiece) and numerous black and white drawings in the text by Lauren Ford. Housed in a fleece-lined... Read More
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The Lonesomest Doll
by [Rackham, Arthur] Brown, Abbie Farwell
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First Thus. First edition illustrated by Rackham, published only in America. Octavo (8 5/16 x6 1/8 in; 212 x 155 mm). Collating [8]. 80, [1], [3, blank]. Original tan cloth, pictorially stamped in colors. Small "1951" postage stamp on front free-endpaper. Title page, frontispiece and two full page illustrations in rose and greenish-blue, twenty-six black and white drawings. A Near Fine copy. "There is no more famous illustrator of children's books in the... Read More
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Comus (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur (illustrator); John Milton
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First thus. Fine. Edition deluxe, number 375 of 550 copies, a Fine copy. Large quarto (11 5/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 295 x 225 mm.). xviii, 76, [1, blank], [1, printer's device] pp. Twenty-four color plates mounted on brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards, thirty-seven drawings in black and white. Bound ca. 1992 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E. Joseph (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full dark green crushed levant morocco. Covers... Read More
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Le Livre des Ballades
by [Rackham, Arthur] Fort, Paul
Paris: L'Edition D'Art H. Piazza, 1920. Limited to 300 copies with an extra-suite of (13 of 14) mounted color plates, this being copy no. 256 of a total edition of 1300. Quarto (11 7/8 x 9 1/8; 303 x 232 mm). Collating 108, [2]. Publisher's original pictorial tan wrappers. Fourteen mounted color plates with captioned tissue guards. Headpieces, typographical devices. The duplicate color plate "La France" is missing from the additional suite. Otherwise a Near Fine copy. First... Read More
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The Vicar of Wakefield (Signed Limited Edition)
by [Rackham, Arthur] Goldsmith, Oliver
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929. First American edition. Deluxe issue, limited to 775 copies (575 for England and 200 for the United States) signed by Arthur Rackham, this being copy no. 94 of the American issue. Publisher's white vellum, front cover ruled and lettered in gilt, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A few text leaves poorly opened, some scattered foxing, bookplate on front paste-down. Quarto (10 5/16 x 7 3/4... 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). Original full limp vellum lettered in gilt on front cover with the publisher's original glassine wrapper (with a just a... 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 silk ties. Front inner hinge just starting. Interior text pages clean with minor foxing on fly leaves and interior paste-downs.... 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, twenty-two black and white line drawings. Light foxing to preliminary leaves, otherwise a Near Fine copy. Reportedly published as... Read More
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Some British Ballads (Signed limited edition)
by Rackham, Arthur
London: Constable & Co, 1919. First edition. Near Fine. Number 137 of 575 copies signed by Rackham on the limitation page. 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 (Rivière) in full red crushed levant morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt with gilt corner-pieces. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively... 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 white. Publisher's cream cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial end papers, top edge gilt.... Read More
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