Product Type
Condition
Binding
Collectible Attributes
Free Shipping
Seller Location
Seller Rating
Published by Godfrey Cave Associates Ltd; Bloomsbury Books, London, 1988
ISBN 10: 1870630904ISBN 13: 9781870630900
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). New Edition. New edition, first printing. Large octavo hardback, 288 pages Colour and black and white illustrated Very Good + condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket (one small closed corner tear) Original gift inscription on front end paper.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, 1988
ISBN 10: 1870630904ISBN 13: 9781870630900
Seller: FITZ BOOKS AND WAFFLES, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Some wear to top of dust jacket, first few pages slightly creased on top corner, but overall still in great condition.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, 1988
ISBN 10: 1870630904ISBN 13: 9781870630900
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Published by David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1932
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
288 pp. With twelve color plates by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf, plus many text illustrations. Small folio, publisher's red gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g., in dust jacket. First American edition. Latimore & Haskell 68. Bookplate on (illustrated) pastedown; small area of sunning at the top of the spine matching a 1" diagonal chip in the jacket backstrip; otherwise fine in a jacket with other tiny chips and tears and a dust-soiled rear panel.
Published by David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1932
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
288 pp. With twelve color plates by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf, plus many text illustrations. Small folio, publisher's red gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g., in dust jacket and publisher's illustrated two-part box. First American edition. There is some light foxing to the fore-edge; otherwise a beautiful unworn copy in a bright jacket with several tears (two internally repaired with clear tape), and a 1/2" chip at the bottom of the backstrip. The box is lightly rubbed, with splits to two of the short joints and some chipping.
Published by Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1932, 1932
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First US trade edition, first printing, complete with the publisher's box unique to the US edition. As noted by Derek Hudson in 1960, this became "one of the most difficult of Rackham's books to buy" (p. 134). The title page and jacket both provide the name of the UK publisher, Harrap. David McKay, the US publisher, appears on the spine. Considered among his finest work, "Rackham's illustrations to Grimm, Hans Andersen or Poe show him at his most imaginative and observant of human nature" (Hamilton, p. 11). When the Observer invited Hugh Walpole to choose the best picture book of 1932, he awarded the accolade "without hesitation to Rackham's Hans Andersen. He has risen nobly to his subject. He has acquired a new tenderness and grace. His fantasy is stronger than ever" (ibid., pp. 133-4). The stories, which were chosen by Rackham, include "The Snow Queen", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Tinder-Box", "The Little Mermaid", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Little Mermaid", and "The Emperor's New Clothes". Latimore & Haskell, p. 68; Riall, p. 177; James Hamilton, Arthur Rackham: a Life with Illustration, 1990; Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham: His Life and Work, 1960. Quarto. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, pink and white pictorial endpapers, top edge edge. With dust jacket and publisher's pictorial box. Colour frontispiece and 11 similar plates, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Head of jacket spine very slightly worn with adhesive tape repair to reverse, spine slightly toned, price-clipped; restoration to box lid joints, minor soiling to lower box: a fine copy with near-fine jacket and box.
Published by London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd, 1932, 1932
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Signed limited edition, number 171 of 525 copies signed by the artist. A contemporary review in The Bookman notes, "here we see some of [Rackham's] most delightful and characteristic work - wizened old women, gnarled old trees which assume all manner of grotesque expressions, quaint, vivacious mice, beetles, etc. - while the full-page coloured plates are a sheer joy". Rackham selected the tales himself and included some familiar favourites, including "The Ugly Duckling", "The Snow Queen", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "Thumberlina", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Little Mermaid", and "The Emperor's New Clothes". Riall, p. 177. The Bookman, December 1932, p. 333; James Hamilton, Arthur Rackham - A Life with Illustration, 1990, p. 144. Quarto. Original white vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, spine with vignette in gilt, decorated endpapers, top edge gilt. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Slightly bumped at extremities and a little soiled, internally clean: a very good copy.
Published by 1932, 1932
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Signed
Published within Rackham's illustrated edition of Hans Andersen's Fairy-Tales in 1932, a work described by Hamilton as "ideal - even the classic - late Rackham". This drawing was originally reproduced on page 125 as a black and white drawing for "The Steadfast Tin Soldier". The publishers of the book sent Rackham and his wife to Denmark for a week in November 1931 "to collect Danish atmosphere for the book", as stated by Hamilton. In a letter Rackham wrote that "Copenhagen is a very beautiful city. Lots of water, ships, fishing boats, quays - everywhere. It is rather fatiguing to me. I have to talk so much and behave myself so well all the while taking notes and notes for dear life". Ink and watercolour drawings generally command higher prices than pen and ink drawings. Rackham, ever the commercial artist, frequently reworked his black and white drawings and, as in this example, occasionally added detail. The published version shows the steadfast tin soldier in a paper boat. The reworked illustration has indistinct lines of newsprint added to the boat made out of a piece of newspaper. James Hamilton, Arthur Rackham: a life with illustration, 1990, pp. 144-5. Original drawing (234 x 233 mm) on card, laid down on artist's board, ink and watercolour, signed ("ARackham") lower left, mounted, framed, and glazed (framed size 402 x 397 mm).