Rackham Arthur Illustrates (29 results)

Not stated edition. Good in green cloth boards with gilt illustration to front board and gilt titles to the spine. Front endpaper removed. 2 plates missing and some others trimmed and loose. Lacks dustjacket.

First edition. Octavo. pp xvi, 290. Fairy tales with black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Hugh Thomson, Bernard Partridge, Lewis Baumer, Harry Rountree and C. Wilhelm. The colour frontispiece is by Rackham. Pictorial endpapers. Red cloth elaborately decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. On the verso of the front free endpaper is the bookplate of Alban Dobson, the youngest son of the writer Austin Dobson.The half-title page has been removed. Edges slightly spotted. Endpapers tanned. Spine faded. Very good indeed.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original dark blue cloth covers. Quarto 10½'' x 8¼''. 12 full-page colour plates, illustrated end paper. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with small loss to the spine head, closed tear to the top of the lower panel, white paper of the dust wrapper a little grubby. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Customs duty applies for orders shipped into the EU from outside the EU, Delivered Duty Paid (DDP), our shipping price includes DDP. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).…

First edition with these illustrations. Quarto. 224 pages. Twelve colour plates, including frontispiece, with printed tissue guards, by Arthur Rackham. Original blue-green cloth with gilt design and lettering. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt.Some fading to covers. Very good indeed in the uncommon dustwrapper which is good, torn with a few large chips and with the red lettering faded on the spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. EARLY RACKHAM EDITION. Second impression, the same format as the First edition, published two months earlier. 4to.(10.1 x 7.7 inches). Colour frontis and fifty colour plates, mounted onto thicker paper and with a printed tissue guard. Publishers dark green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Illustration of Rip Van Winkle stamped in gilt to front board. Lower hinge split to the middle of spine. Apart from some foxing to the first four text pages this is a clean copy internally. A near very good copy of this beautiful book. The first of the famous tipped in colour plate gift books that made Rackham a household name...…

Reprint. Octavo. pp [x], 126, [1] adverts. 16 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards; endpaper map. Original green gilt pictorial cloth.Contemporary (1935) gift inscription on half-title page. Faint spotting to edges. Very good indeed in very good, chipped and nicked dustwrapper a bit darkened at the spine.…

First edition with these illustrations. Quarto. 256 pages. Translated, with an Introduction, by R. Farquharson Sharp. Twelve colour plates, all with captioned tissue guards, and black-and-white illustrations in the text by Arthur Rackham. Original gilt decorated cloth, lettered in gilt. Decorated endpapers. Spine very slightly faded. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper.…

First Swedish edition with the Rackham illustrations. Translated by Nino Runeberg and Arne Runeberg. Octavo. pp 144, [2]. Six colour plates and drawings in the text. Cloth-backed colour pictorial boards.Corners faintly rubbed. Front cover slightly spotted. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. 12 full page colour plates and 22 line drawings throughout the text. Finely bound in Publishers delux leather binding of dark brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt. Front board with onlayed reproduction of one of the book's colour plates in gilt and six different coloured leathers. Green endpapers illustrated with white silhouettes. Top edge gilt. Neat previous owners name and address stamp to top of front free endpaper. Minor rubbing to the edges but overall a very good copy of this beautiful delux edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. EARLY RACKHAM EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.7 x 6.8 inches). 4 full page colour plates and 16 line drawings throughout the text. Finely bound in late twentieth century half blue morocco. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments with double gilt ruled lines and gilt lettering. Marbled paper on boards. Plain blue endpapers. An attractive leather bound copy of Morley's great Dog tale. …

First illustrated edition, U.S. issue. Quarto. 227 pages. Four colour illustrations as well as line drawings in the text. Blue pictorial cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. The copyright page gives the date as 1922, but that refers to the original unillustrated edition.Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: ''Signed for Henry D. Morley with affectionate greetings from his pseudo-cousin - Christopher Ditto''.Very good indeed in good dustwrapper with large chips at head and tail of spine and bottom edge of front panel.…

First edition. Preface by Edmund Gosse. Eight colour plates, including the frontispiece, and numerous decorations by Arthur Rackham. Original green decorated cloth gilt.Small dents to spine. Very good in the scarce dustwrapper which is a bit nicked and creased at the edges and has a horizontal crease, and a faint damp patch at the tail of the spine.…

First edition. Quarto. 288 pages. Twelve colour plates with captioned tissue guards, as well as illustrations in the text, pictorial title-page printed in brown and black, and pictorial endpapers. Rust-red pictorial cloth gilt.Some surface marking to spine. Very good. No dustwrapper.

First edition thus: the drawings had originally appeared in the 1899 edition - from the publishers' Note: ''Most of the designs appeared as line drawings in an edition issued by the present publishers in 1899, but they have been worked over, revised, and coloured by the artist, while some entirely new designs have been added.'' Royal octavo. pp xvi, 291. Decorated olive green cloth gilt. Twelve colour plates as well as drawings in the text and pictorial endpapers by Arthur Rackham. Top edge gilt.Contemporary (1909) gift inscription on front pastedown. Free endpapers tanned. Faint mark to rear cover. Very good indeed.…

First edition, first printing with Rackham illustrations. Original red cloth with gilt titles and illustration to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 16 tipped in tissue guarded colour plates, a further 8 full page colour plates and black and white drawings throughout the text by Arthur Rackham. An excellent near fine copy, the red cloth boards very fresh and entirely unfaded, the gilt very bright having been protected by the dustwrapper. The contents are entirely complete and without loose or torn pages. Other than some spotting to the text block edge, the pages are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. All of the colour plates are present (although mispaginated as in all copies of the trade edition we have examined) and in fine condition with no creasing. Complete with the very good dustwrapper which is nicked with short closed tears at the spine tips and darkened to the spine and panel edges. All in all an excellent example, uncommon complete with the original illustrated dustwrapper. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Later issue (no gilt to top edge) of the 1912 new edition with a new frontispiece and seven new full-page black and white illustrations. Fifty tipped-in colour plates. Gilt decorated green cloth.Early (1919) ownership signature on front free endpaper. Head of spine scuffed. Tail of spine slightly pushed. Very good in tattered and torn dustwrapper.…

First edition thus: tipped-in colour frontispiece and 39 mounted colour plates by Arthur Rackham, all with captioned tissue guards; also numerous black and white illustrations. Quarto. pp [vi], 134. Pictorial cloth gilt.Near-contemporary (1911) gift inscription on front free endpaper. One or two small flecks of foxing here and there. Some tanning to free endpapers. Light spotting to spine. Very good indeed in the scarce dustwrapper which is a bit rubbed and darkened at the spine, nicked at the edges, and with closed tears to the folds at the joints. A bright copy.…

First edition, first printing with Arthur Rackham illustrations. Publisher's original red cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge brown. Illustrated with 12 full page colour plates, 2 full page black and white illustrations and 7 chapter headings and tail-pieces by Arthur Rackham. A lovely near fine copy, the binding clean and square, the gilt remaining exceptionally bright. The contents, with some offsetting to the illustrated endpapers and mild toning to the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is a little chipped at the tips of the darkened spine not affecting the text. The front panel with the publisher's "cancelled" stamp over the price to the front panel, the original 7/6 net price remains to the spine. A very attractive example, scarce in the original dustwrapper. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. 1st printing. 4to. (10.1 x 7.7 inches). Colour frontis and thirty nine tipped-in colour plates, each with a printed tissue paper guard, and 30 fine line drawings by Rackham throughout the text, some full page. Finely bound in recent full tan morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Some light foxing throughout but still a very good copy of this beautiful book in an attractive leather binding. Rackham at his very best.…

First edition. Royal octavo. pp [viii], 130. Twelve plates by Rackham. This fairy story had first appeared in Little Folks magazine in 1900 with the illustrations in black and white. Here six of them have been coloured by Harry Rountree. Original brown cloth, titles in black, colour plate mounted on front.Contemporary (1912) gift inscription on front free endpapers. Free endpapers a bit tanned. Tail of spine slightly scuffed. Near fine. No dustwrapper. One of the more uncommon Rackham titles.…

First edition thus. Quarto. pp [vi], 134. 40 tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, including frontispiece. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Free endpapers lightly tanned. Several mysterious small holes in the cloth, but still a very good copy indeed.

First edition with these illustrations. Adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney. Quarto. pp [viii], 136. Fifteen tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards and thirty black and white head- and tailpieces.One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist and bound in full vellum (or parchment) decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, silk ties.Half-title page tanned. Very good indeed. Unusually, both silk ties are present.…

First edition: one of 525 copies signed by the illustrator. Quarto. pp xii, 251. Thirteen tipped-in colour plates, as well as many other illustrations. Grey cloth with gilt-decorated buckram title-label to front. Top edge gilt. Lacks, as so often, the envelope containing a separate plate.Free endpapers tanned. Dent to top edge of front cover. Covers a bit rubbed at the edges. Very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. REPRINT RACKHAM EDITION. 4to. (9.7 x 7.2 inches). Colour frontis and thirty nine tipped-in colour plates, each with a printed tissue paper guard. Thirty black and white illustrations, some full page, throughout the text. A lovely clean copy. Small crease to the bottom corner of the frontis plate otherwise a very good copy, Finely bound, for Henry Sotheran of London, in recent full dark brown Levant Morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Decorative gilt border roll on the inside of the boards. All edges gilt. Original blue cloth spine and both boards bound in at the back. A fine copy of this beautiful book. Rackham at his very best.…

First edition. First issue with the frontispiece tipped onto green paper. Octavo. pp xii, 147. Twelve colour plates with captioned tissue guards, as well as other illustrations in black and white; pictorial endpapers printed in grey. Mauve pictorial cloth gilt.1923 prize inscription in Swedish on front free endpaper. Very good indeed in the dustwrapper which is split along the length of the front joint, a bit darkened at the spine and has a shallow chip at head of spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Large 8vo. (10 x 7.6 inches). Illustrated with 12 full page colour plates and 40 smaller line drawings and silhouettes throughout the text. Finely bound, for Asprey, in full mid brown morocco. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Boards with double gilt ruled and single floral roll border. Turn-ins with elaborate gilt decoration. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A highly attractive leather binding. A Fine copy.…

First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the red cloth boards very fresh and entirely unfaded, the gilt very bright. The contents are entirely complete and without inscriptions or stamps. All 24 colour plates are present and in fine condition with no creasing. Complete with the very good rubbed and lightly nicked dustwrapper, the spine tips and fold corners with strengthening to the reverse. All in all an excellent example. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. …

First edition illustrated by Rackham. Small 4to. (10 x 7.5 inches) 231 pp. illustrated with 12 colour plates and many other drawings. Bound in the original decorated cloth. Top edges gilt. A fine example in the original binding. ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS LITERATURE ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS.

First edition, illustrated by Rackham. Small 4to. (10 x 7.5 inches) 231 pp. illustrated with 12 colour plates and many other drawings. Bound in the original decorated cloth. Top edge gilt. A fine example in the original binding, in a very good dust wrapper, which has a few very small tears without any loss. A near fine copy. ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS 20th CENTURY ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS.…