Hans Andersen Illus Arthur Rackham (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Arthur Rackham (illustrator).

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. tan and green cloth, green lettering, dust jacket, 287 pp dj worn and torn on the top edge covers lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). …

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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.…

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 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).…