The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book (Signed limited edition)

London: George G. Harrap, 1933. First edition. Fine/Fine. One of 460 copies signed by the author. A bright, lovely copy retaining its original glassine dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Slipcase with some separation to joints at tail and a couple minor smudges but otherwise clean and holding firm. A Fine copy of the book in like dust jacket and Very Good+ slipcase.

Drawing together a wide array of fairy stories, the Fairy Book gave illustrator Arthur Rackham an opportunity to showcase his talents in depicting ethereal creatures as well as natural spaces. The lurking darkness in many of the images have always suggested that his book was (truncated) meant for adults as much as it was for children. "Rackham's influence on the art world during his life and in the decades after his death is difficult to measure. But many creatives have acknowledged their debt to his unique interpretation of the world, and his creatures both graceful and grotesque. Recently Guillermo del Toro cited Rackham as a direct influence on his 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth" (BBC). Fine in Fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 7291)