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Tales of Mystery & Imagination Edgar Allan Poe, Sleeping Beauty |
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First Edition Rare books Illustrated by Arthur Rackham |
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Arthur Rackham Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe |
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William Shakespeare The Tempest, Peter Pan, Undine, Peer Gynt. |
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Shakespeare, William. The Tempest illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Published: London: William Heinemann Ltd 1926
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original gilt tooled black cloth
Price: U.S.$525
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4to., First Edition, original gilt tooled black cloth, similar spine, light wear to corners and edges, small mark to lower cover, pp. ix + 185, top edge green, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with pictorial title page, 20 mounted colour plates plus numerous chapter heading & tailpiece vignettes, bookplate on front paste-down & inscription dated 1946 on front free endpaper, an occasional spot, a very good copy.
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Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. With Drawings by Arthur Rackham
Published: Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1907
Edition: First U.S. Edition
Binding: Original gilt tooled green pictorial cloth
Price: U.S.$525
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4to., First U.S. Edition, original gilt tooled & gilt lettered green cloth, rubbed at corners & edges and slightly darkened and spotted, gilt lettered spine, pp. xiv + 126 + 49 tissue guarded mounted colour plates plus mounted colour frontispiece plate all on thick grey art paper by Arthur Rackham, plus line drawings in text, some spotting to tissue guards, text pages crisp and clean and all plates in very good condition, apart from moderate wear to binding, a very good copy.
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De La Motte Fouque. Undine. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Published: London William Heinemann. 1909
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original gilt tooled & lettered blue cloth
Price: U.S.$475
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4to., (26 x 19cm), First Edition, original gilt tooled and lettered blue cloth, minor wear to corners & edges, 3-4 small stains to lower cover, spine elaborately gilt tooled but faded, decorated endpapers, pp. 136, illustrated by Arthur rackham with 15 tissue guarded mounted colour plates, plus chapter heading & tailpiece vignettes, present inscription dated 1909 on front free endpaper and small cute bookplate mounted on half title page, slight browning and a few small marks to decorated endpapers, otherwise a very good copy.
This is the story of the Knight Huldbrand of Ringstetten and of Undine, telling how the Knight wedded with a water-sprite, and what chanced therefrom: and how the Knight died and was buried: and how Undine returned to her element beneath the Mediterranean Sea.
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Evans, C. S. The Sleeping Beauty illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Published: William Heinemann. 1920
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pictorial decorated boards in pictorial (silhouette) dust wrapper
Price: U.S.$325
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4to, First Edition, pictorial decorated boards, with black lettered cloth spine, pp. 109, corners and edges rubbed, in its pictorial brown dust wrapper, splits along folds of wrapper, corners and edges chipped with small loss, glue stain to inner margin between frontispiece and page 9, colour title page, one tipped-on colour plate, three double-page colour silhouette drawings, four double-page B&W silhouette drawings, eight B&W full-page drawings, and numerous small illustrations in text, plus chapter headings and tail pieces, overall a very good copy.
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   Arthur Rackham, illustrator. Margery Williams Bianco. Poor Cecco.
Chatto & Windus 1925. 4to., First Edition, original pictorial orange cloth lettered in red, slightly rubbed and marked, spine faded & a small half inch indent tear in middle of spine, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with seven mounted colour plates plus many line drawings, some random spotting, pp.175, a good copy of a scarce Rackham. U.S.$295
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*The Wonderful Story of a Wonderful Wooden Dog Who was the Jolliest Toy in the House until He Went out to Explore the World. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. First English trade edition (no English limited edition was issued).
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Poe, Edgar Allan Tales of Mystery & Imagination, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Published: London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1935
Edition: First Edition Thus.
Binding: Original rare publisher's morocco binding.
Price: U.S.$850
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4to., First Edition Thus, original rare publisher's gilt tooled and lettered purple morocco binding, faded, rubbed at corners & edges, and a few small marks, also a small old worm hole to upper joint, and a one inch tear to lower joint, spine faded to brown, top edge gilt, pp. 318, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with pictorial title page, 12 full page colour plates with captioned tissue guards, 17 black & white plates plus chapter headings and tail pieces, decorated endpapers, one or two spots only to prelims, contents clean and fresh, apart from wear to binding a very good copy in the extremely rare publisher's morocco binding.
 
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Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt A Dramatic Poem. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Published: London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original gilt tooled tan cloth.
Price: U.S.$175
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4to., First Edition, original gilt tooled tan cloth, bad flecking to upper and lower covers, pp. 256, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with decorated endpapers, 12 captioned tissue guarded full page colour plates, decorated title plus vignette head & tail pieces, no marks or spots, apart from damage to binding contents very good to fine condition.
 
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