The Ring of The Niblung
by Wagner, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- The interior, including printed end papers, is near mint with all plates present and in perfect shape.
- Seller
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West Orange , New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
This is a one-volume American edition of Rackham's epic, if not excessive, 1910-1911 treatments of Wagner's The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie, and Siegfried and The Twilight of The Gods. If 48 full-page color plates of Rackham illustrating Wagner is enough for you – meaning, you don't require the full 64(!) from the pricy original editions and their pricy faithful reprints -- this is where to get it. There's also a two-volume edition of this if you want to spend a bit more. Book is tight, clean and straight with some water spots on the blue buckram binding, spine gilt still in effect, some shelf wear at bottom of the spine. The interior, including printed endpapers, is near mint with all plates present and in perfect shape save for a couple of spots like the one in the photo. The only other marking evident is an unobtrusive gift inscription (April 11, 1943) from someone called Snooks. Any attempt to track down Snooks seems unlikely to succeed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Acme Book & Anvil (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 712
- Title
- The Ring of The Niblung
- Author
- Wagner, Richard
- Illustrator
- Rackham, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Tight, clean and straight with some water spots on the blue buckram binding, spine gilt still in effect, some shelf wear at bott
- Book Condition
- Used - The interior, including printed end papers, is near mint with all plates present and in perfect shape.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- Thick quarto
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Acme Book & Anvil
We have a 30-day return guarantee with full refund. The refund includes original shipping costs only if the item is not as described in the listing, or under the theoretical possibility that it arrived damaged due to some error in packing. Unfortunately, it can't cover acts of hijinx by third-party shipping concerns -- for example, if a package sent through USPS were to be beaten up by a team of gorillas à la that iconic 1970s luggage commercial that everyone mistakenly remembers as an ad for Samsonite. It was for American Tourister -- we just checked because we're thorough that way.
About the Seller
Acme Book & Anvil
Biblio member since 2022
West Orange , New Jersey
About Acme Book & Anvil
We took a sabbatical to trade in vintage musical gear and hunt wild mushrooms, as one does, and during the whirlwind of it all, we got heavily into original books with color plates from the Golden Age of Illustration, meaning from roughly 1900 until the last really nice stuff in that lineage from the late 1930s (including late works by Harry Clarke and Arthur Rackham and credible reprint editions of earlier titles). Yes, we have fun. Our official métier is out-of-print academic books, leaning in a general way toward the social sciences and Continental philosophy.In actual practice, a lot of those books are presently hanging out in boxes waiting to be listed, with some boxes of fiction first editions (along an Updike-Cheever sort of continuum, with a García Márquez-Calvino cross-axis) and the cargo of splendid Edwardian illustrated gift books, as above. The takeaway: Got a lot coming up here.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Near Mint
- a synonym for Near Fine.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...