Search Results: some british ballads by rackham arthur

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008-01-10. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Legacy . Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (23.5cm), pp. 170. Undated reproduction of Dodd, Mead & Co. book from 1919. Glossy pictorial cover. Some light corner bumping. No dust jacket.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

New.

Hardback. New.

New.

London: Constable & Company Ltd.. Good with no dust jacket. 1919. Hardcover. Hard cover published by Constable and Co. in London (no date given, but a gift inscription has the date 1920). No dust jacket. Blue covers with gilt lettering and artwork on front cover and spine, and back cover has a blindstamped design. All 16 color plates are present and are in very good condition. All tissue guards are present, and some have creases. Spine is faded some, and has some wear and fraying at top and some wear at bottom. Front edge of spine has a small split near bottom. Covers are slightly bowed. Bottom corners are bumped and worn, with some fraying, and top corners are worn some. Side edges of pages have some foxing. First two pages have some writing in pencil near top edges. Half title page has a gift inscription with the date of 1920. Book is in good condition. Small 4to, 170 pages, 2.1 lb.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 170 pages .

Constable & Co (N/D) but circa 1918. Quarto with new eps, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt illus to spine & front board, blind-stamped motif to rear board, frontispiece, 170pp, illus, VG- (damage & fraying to spine wihch has been re-glued, some staining to boards, moderately heavy browning to page edges, some pages loose, patches of heavy foxing throughout, creasing to page edges)

Dodd, Mead & Co, 1919. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. 1919; New York; blue cloth covered boards with gold titles; covers contain rubbing and edge wear; hinges are loose; spine contains minor sun damage; Ex-Library with typical stamps and markings; interior contains foxing and spotting; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; 170 pages

Constable & Co. Ltd. [1919], 1919-01-01. Hardcover. Good. many tipped in color plates no date but from early 20th c.

New York:: Dodd, Mead & Co.,, no date.. Later issue, with pictorial endsheets.. publisher's blue gilt-decorated cloth. . Tiny white spots to spine and along the edges of the boards; moderate rubbing at extremities.. 4to,. With 16 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham..

Constable & Co, 1919. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 170 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt, Endpapers Illustrated, 16 Tissue-Guarded Plates Plus Many B/W Headpieces And Tailpieces. Worn, Spine Cloth Faded, Gilt Bright, No Marks, Front Hinge Cracked After Front Free Endpaper. Tissue Guards Undamaged But Browning. Plates Immaculate And Undamaged.

London: Constable, 1919. hardcover. very good. Rackham, Arthur. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with color frontispiece and 15 other color plates mounted on stiff gray paper with tissue guards; additional in-text figures & pictorial endpapers. 170 pages (paper damaged on margins of lower corner, but well outside the printed area . Short 4to, gilt-decorated blue cloth (spine a bit faded and somewhat edgeworn). London: Constable, no date, [1919]. Overall a very good copy.<br/><br/> Later issue of the first edition, with the pictorial endpapers.<br/><br/>

Single offset color print. London: Constable, 1919. Single offset color print, 5 x 6 inches, matted, originally tipped in. Fine. § A single illustration by Arthur Rackham from Some British Ballads (1919).

Single offset color print. London: Constable, 1919. Single offset color print, 5 x 6 inches, matted, originally tipped in. Fine. § A single illustration by Arthur Rackham from Some British Ballads (1919).

Single offset color print. London: Constable, 1919. Single offset color print, 5 x 6 inches, tipped to the original captioned buff paper, matted, fine. § A single illustration by Arthur Rackham from the ballad of "Young Bekie" in Some British Ballads (1919). The plate shows beautiful Burd Isbel being woken by the household spririt Belly Blin with the news that Bekie, who had promised to marry her if she broke him out of prison, is about to marry another. She goes on to track him down and hold him to his word. The ballad was first collected by Francis James Child in the 19th century but older versions of the story are found in Norse, Italian, and and Spanish.

Single offset color print. London: Constable, 1919. Single offset color print, 5 x 6 inches, tipped to the original captioned buff paper, matted, near fine. § A single illustration by Arthur Rackham from the ballad of "Young Bekie" in Some British Ballads (1919). The plate shows young Bekie in prison, swarmed by rats. The ballad tells how he makes and breaks his promise to marry any young woman who rescues him and how his rescuer Burd Isbel tracks him down and holds him to his word. The ballad was first collected by Francis James Child in the 19th century but older versions of the story are found in Norse, Italian, and and Spanish.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1919. First American edition [1919]. Collection of British ballads in verse with sixteen tipped on color plates by Arthur Rackham along with additional illustrations in black and white. Dark blue cloth printed in gilt, 170 pages. Covers quite rubbed and scuffed with fraying to corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, all plates present and in very good condition, blanks at beginning and end plus half-title darkened and foxed, text pages lightly age-toned with some occasional foxing, personal bookplate on preliminary blank, no other names or markings.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.