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ENGLISH FAIRY TALES: ARTHUR RACKHAM, ILLUSTRATOR
by STEELE, Flora Annie, retold
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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About This Item
SUBERB COPY OF ENGLISH FAIRY TALES - AN UNCOMMON ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED BOOK. This is the AMERICAN FIRST EDITION of 1918.
SIXTEEN BEAUTIFUL COLOR PLATES WITH CAPTIONED TISSUE GUARDS BY RACKHAM as well as MANY LOVELY B/W DRAWINGS WITHIN THE TEXT. Thick, large, 8vo, red gilt cloth, top edge tinted yellow, decorated endpapers, 363 pgs followed by 4 additional pgs of advertising . This is a very clean, tight copy with light edge wear, at top edge of spine there is 1/8" neatly repaired closed tear - not affecting look or strength of the book. There was a flower put inside pages 326/327 - no longer present but there is offset from that plant.
UNCOMMON RACKHAM TITLE - IN VG+ BRIGHT CONDITION.
SIXTEEN BEAUTIFUL COLOR PLATES WITH CAPTIONED TISSUE GUARDS BY RACKHAM as well as MANY LOVELY B/W DRAWINGS WITHIN THE TEXT. Thick, large, 8vo, red gilt cloth, top edge tinted yellow, decorated endpapers, 363 pgs followed by 4 additional pgs of advertising . This is a very clean, tight copy with light edge wear, at top edge of spine there is 1/8" neatly repaired closed tear - not affecting look or strength of the book. There was a flower put inside pages 326/327 - no longer present but there is offset from that plant.
UNCOMMON RACKHAM TITLE - IN VG+ BRIGHT CONDITION.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Enchanted Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50
- Title
- ENGLISH FAIRY TALES
- Author
- STEELE, Flora Annie, retold
- Illustrator
- RACKHAM, ARTHUR
- Format/Binding
- Red cloth stamped design in gilt
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American, thua
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- October 1918
- Pages
- 363 pages
- Size
- Thick, large 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- England, Fairy Tales, Arthur Rackham
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Enchanted Books is a woman owned business founded in 1985.
Being artists we focus on the visual. From the illustrated classic - to a 1st edition picture book - to the scarce - to the one- of -a -kind.
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Being artists we focus on the visual. From the illustrated classic - to a 1st edition picture book - to the scarce - to the one- of -a -kind.
We are located in Brooklyn, New York by appointment only.
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