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Irish Fairy Tales
Stephens, James; Rackham, Arthur [illus.]
Published by Macmillan Publishers Ltd, London, 1924
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Red hardback cloth cover
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Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
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220mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). x, 318pp. 16 colour plates; additional line drawings. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Corners bumped. Wear to cloth along spine ends. Spine faded. Previous owner's inscription to fep. Endpapers browned. Teg. Seller Inventory # g9031a
Bibliographic Details
Title: Irish Fairy Tales
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Ltd, London
Publication Date: 1924
Binding: Red hardback cloth cover
Edition: Reprint.
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Irish Fairy Tales.
Published by
Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1924
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
x, 318 pp. Complete with 16 color plates. 8vo, publisher's red gilt cloth, t.e.g. Old ownership signature; very slight rubbing to corner tips and extremities of spine; clean, tight and sound. Seller Inventory # 72855
Quantity: 1 available
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Irish Fairy Tales
Published by
Macmillan Publishers Ltd, London, 1920
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition. 220mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). x, 318pp. 16 colour plates; additional line drawings. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Spine faded. Small scratch on lower board. Neat inscription to fep Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. Seller Inventory # g9031
Quantity: 1 available
Irish Fairy Tales.
Published by
Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London, 1920
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
x, 318 pp. Illustrated with 16 color plates by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf. 8vo, publisher's green gilt cloth in dust jacket. First trade edition. Better than very good in a lightly tanned jacket (more so at the spine) with a few tiny chips, edgwear, and some tiny splash marks. Rackham bibliographer Sarah Lattimore's copy, with her bookplate and two others. Signed by James Stephens on the front free endpaper. Seller Inventory # 53531
Quantity: 1 available
Irish Fairy Tales
Published by
Macmillan , London, 1920
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Macmillan, London in 1920. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just a hint of pushing at the spine ends. The gilt titling and decorations to the spine and front panel remain very bright. Mild offsetting to the blank end-papers. Free from inscriptions. Small area of offsetting to the lower front corner of the 'illustrations' page. The scarce WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ or better condition. Light toning to the spine. Light edge wear with a few very small areas of rubbing and a very small area of loss to the upper front corner. Some archival tape reinforcement to the spine ends and corners to the verso. The wrapper looks very vibrant in the removable Brodart archival cover. 16 fine colour plates plus several black and white illustrations in the text by Arthur Rackham. All plates are excellent, all retaining their captioned tissue-guards. A very sharp copy and very scarce with the wrapper in such collectible condition. Only the second copy we have handled. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Seller Inventory # ABE-1677603310247
Quantity: 1 available
Irish Fairy Tales.
Published by
London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1920, 1920
Used
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Signed limited edition, one of 520 unnumbered copies signed by the artist, one of Rackham's significant successes. The Dublin Independent stated "Some of Mr Rackham's pictures are pure poems - they set you dreaming". James Hamilton notes that "in writing the stories, [James] Stephens had attempted to create an Irish equivalent of The Arabian Nights, his own poetic retelling of the stories which existed in the oral tradition and in Gaelic texts, but which had not appeared accessibly in print". In the opinion of his biographer, "Rackham rose to the occasion" (Hamilton, p. 128). Riall, p. 138. James Hamilton, Arthur Rackham: a life with illustration, 1990. Quarto. Original vellum-backed boards, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 15 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Extremities a little bumped and rubbed, some consistent foxing to spine, light soiling to rear cover, foxing and browning to endpapers: a very good copy. Seller Inventory # 169795
Quantity: 1 available
Irish Fairy Tales.
Published by
Macmillan & Co., London, 1920
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
x, 318 pp. With sixteen tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards and text illustrations in black and white. 4to, publisher's vellum-backed boards decorated in gold, t.e.g.; in custom cloth folding box. First edition; one of 520 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Riall, p. 138. Two bookplates to pastedown; boards a bit soiled and rubbed at edges; endsheets very slightly darkened; still, an attractive copy. With Rackham's original signed pen-and-ink drawingshaded in watercolors, for the headpiece on p. 37 of this volume, titled on verso by the artist, "A.R. No. 12 Little Boy Climbing by Arthur Rackham.". Seller Inventory # 49060
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