Verlag: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005
ISBN 10: 1593083300 ISBN 13: 9781593083304
Anbieter: Gulf Coast Books, Memphis, TN, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrator).
Verlag: Sterling Publishing, 2003
ISBN 10: 159308062X ISBN 13: 9781593080624
Anbieter: Orion Tech, Kingwood, TX, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator).
Verlag: Palala Press, 2015
ISBN 10: 1347315667 ISBN 13: 9781347315668
Anbieter: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
Verlag: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2017
ISBN 10: 1509844368 ISBN 13: 9781509844364
Anbieter: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, USA
Zustand: New.
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Verlag: Avenel Books, 1975
ISBN 10: 0517171988 ISBN 13: 9780517171981
Anbieter: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). Good hardcover with good dust jacket. Flyleaf missing, some wear and chipping to jacket. Black & white illustrations and color plates. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton.
Verlag: Canterbury Classics, 2013
ISBN 10: 1607109476 ISBN 13: 9781607109471
Anbieter: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Kanada
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Flexibound. Zustand: Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). 1st.
Verlag: Heinemann, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0434958557 ISBN 13: 9780434958559
Anbieter: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Arthur Rackham, (illustrator). Reprint. Large octavo hardback. xx + 224 pp. 12 Colour plates and many black & white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Very Good condition in Very Good, orice-clipped dust jacket (slightly colour faded om spine of jacket). Previous owner's name on inside cover.
LeatherBound. Zustand: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1912 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 322 Language: English.
LeatherBound. Zustand: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1912 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 318 Language: English.
Verlag: Pan Books, New York 1975., 1975
ISBN 10: 0330245333 ISBN 13: 9780330245333
Anbieter: Dial-A-Book, NARRABEEN, NSW, Australien
8vo. softcover. 158pp. index. Good, cover creased, light crease to first few pages.
Verlag: Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 101855145X ISBN 13: 9781018551456
Anbieter: California Books, Miami, FL, USA
Zustand: New.
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Anbieter: Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, Indien
Leather Bound. Zustand: New. Language: English. This book is available in 5 different Leather color without any extra cost. Explore More Options by Clicking on 'More Images' and Notify Us of Your Choice via Email within 24 hours of placing the order. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted by the prestigious organization "Rare Biblio" with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1912. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: : - 318, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 318.
Verlag: William Heinemann / Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1929
Anbieter: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. No jacket. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). 7th printing. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Covers shelfworn.
Verlag: William Heinemann, London, 1949
Anbieter: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 224 pages, a very good hardback, publisher's original light blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine as well as a flying mystical creature. The front cover has a gilt design but there's also four small stains. The latter is the only fault. Otherwise, the book is VG being tightly bound and square. (On the first blank page, there's a neat Xmas gift inscription dated 1950).
Verlag: William Heinemann / Doubleday Page & Co. 1912, 1912
Anbieter: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Neuseeland
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering & decorationto front board & spine, blind motif to rear board, illus eps, frontispiece, xxix + 224pp, illus, coloured plates have captioned tissue guards, G+ (one plate (The Lion, Jupiter and the Elephant) has come loose and been reattatched in the wrong place with ugly brown packing tape, 'The Quack Frog' plate is loose but present with sellotape residue staining to gutter, 'The Trees and the Axe' plate lacks tissue guard, 5cm closed tear to lower front hinge, moderate fraying to spine extrems & board corners & around tear, faint foxing to spine, moderately heavy foxing to page edges, occasional foxing to some pages, child's scribble in pencil to two pages, owner's inscription to prelim, tape repair to prelims).
Verlag: William Heinemann, London, 1919
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Cloth. Zustand: Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). A scarce neat collection of Aesop's fables, illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham. Scarce work. Fourth impression, 1919. Originally published 1912. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and twelve colour plates with tissue guards and many black and white images. Collated complete. Aesop's fables, a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones, an American translator. With an introduction by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, a literary and art critic. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, an English book illustrator who is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Cloth lifting slightly to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot or tide mark. Good. book.
Verlag: London New York : W. Heinemann ; Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912
Anbieter: MW Books, New York, NY, USA
New Edition. Good copy rebacked with the original spine laid back, gilt decoration to the spine and boards. Front board starting. Some staining, wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright and sharp-cornered. Includes previous owner's inscription. Series; Children's illustrated classics. Physical description; xxix, 223 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. Subjects; Fables, Greek ; Translations into English. Fables. Aesop's fables. Aesop's fables Children's literature. Animals in literature. Short stories ; Juvenile fiction. Folklore. Fables, Greek ; Illustrations. Children's stories. Fables ; Juvenile fiction. Folklore ; Juvenile fiction. Fables Juvenile literature. Fables, Greek ; Adaptations. Animals ; Juvenile fiction. Animals. Fables. Genres; Adaptations. Fables. Fiction. Illustrated. Juvenile works. Translations. 1 Kg.
Verlag: London New York : W. Heinemann ; Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912
Anbieter: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irland
New Edition. Good copy rebacked with the original spine laid back, gilt decoration to the spine and boards. Front board starting. Some staining, wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright and sharp-cornered. Includes previous owner's inscription. Series; Children's illustrated classics. Physical description; xxix, 223 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. Subjects; Fables, Greek ; Translations into English. Fables. Aesop's fables. Aesop's fables Children's literature. Animals in literature. Short stories ; Juvenile fiction. Folklore. Fables, Greek ; Illustrations. Children's stories. Fables ; Juvenile fiction. Folklore ; Juvenile fiction. Fables Juvenile literature. Fables, Greek ; Adaptations. Animals ; Juvenile fiction. Animals. Fables. Genres; Adaptations. Fables. Fiction. Illustrated. Juvenile works. Translations. 1 Kg.
Verlag: Garden City Publishing Co., New York, 1939
Anbieter: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, USA
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. 1939 at copyright; early printing in rare pictorial wrapper. Superbly illustrated, decorated, and featuring a thoroughly enjoyable introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Red full-cloth boards, Rackham mounted color plate, gilt spine titles, moderate shelf wear, spine rub. Front boards features color plate of The Hare and the Tortoise surrounded with blind-stamped animals: lion, wolf, stork, crow, rooster, frog, and owl. Deckled pages near fine, clean; no writing. Small antiquarian label inside cover: "Sally Stilson, Madison Heights, Anderson, Indiana". With thirteen richly colored, smooth coated plates by Arthur Rackham and over fifty black and white illustrations, many full-page, in immaculate detail throughout. Bind good; hinges intact. Rare pictorial wrapper moderate edge, spine sunning, discoloration; protected in new clear sleeve. Front panel in deep red w/stylized titles, Rackham's hare and fox illustration; back panel features illustrated classics of the time availabe from Garden City books. Near fine profusely illustrated book of classic moral fables in good original wrapper. Aesop's Fables was first published in 1912 with this imagery by Rackham. Includes two-hundred fables of timeless humor and wisdom. "In Aesop's Fables (1912) Rackham's primary intention was to amuse, but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea, the pompous gentleman who scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (Hudson, Derek. Arthur Rackham His Life and Work, p. 94). Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 B.C. The first century A.D. philosopher, Apollonius of Tyana, is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V:14).Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39. Printed in the United States of America. 224 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
Verlag: NY: Doubleday, Page, 1912, NY, 1912
Anbieter: HAVE BOOKS - WILL SELL, Wind Lake, WI, USA
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton; full-bound green cloth, embossed titles, color paste-down illustration front board, 13 color plates, 51 b&w illustrations; minor wear with light fraying at extremities, light spotting and a faint damp stain front board, mild roll, previous owner name and date top edge front-free endpaper, all plates present but two plate tissues missing and two tissues torn, rear gutter cracked, clean internals.
Verlag: William Heinemann, London, 1956
Anbieter: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, USA
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. First printed in 1912; stated 1956 printing, the twelfth, in scarce pictorial wrapper. Superbly illustrated, decorated, and featuring a thoroughly enjoyable introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Evergreen full-cloth boards, bright silver cover vignette and spine titles, moderate shelf, corner wear. Bright silver flying stork vignette at spine. Pages generally very good, clean; no writing. Light fox to exterior text block. Small yellow striped antiquarian label inside cover: "Harold Hockey Ltd. Stationers & Booksellers, Clifton, Bristol 8." Illustrated endpapers featuring: an eagle, lion, rooster, frog, fox, mouse and duck; toned areas from removed adhesive at front and back endpaper. With eight richly colored, smooth coated plates by Arthur Rackham and over fifty black and white illustrations, many full-page, in immaculate detail throughout. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Original white pictorial dust wrapper, moderate rub, discoloration, small spine sticker-pull; unclipped 15s NET, protected in new clear sleeve. Front panel features Rackham's "The Blackamoor" plate, as the first edition, w/title at spine; advert for Rackham titles from Heinemann at back panel. Attractive near very good mid-century printing in rare near fine wrapper. Aesop's Fables was first published in 1912 with this imagery by Rackham. Includes two-hundred fables of timeless humor and wisdom. "In Aesop's Fables (1912) Rackham's primary intention was to amuse, but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea, the pompous gentleman who scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (Hudson, Derek. Arthur Rackham His Life and Work, p. 94). Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 B.C. The first century A.D. philosopher, Apollonius of Tyana, is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V:14).Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39. Printed in Great Britain at The Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey. 5 1/4" x 8" design. 224 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
Verlag: William Heinemann, Limited - Doubleday, Page & Co., London - New York, 1912
Anbieter: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, USA
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. 1912 at title page; "Printed in England" at copyright page. Olive green full cloth boards, black cover and spine titles, Rackham pictorial plate of "The Quack Frog" at cover, some corner, edge wear, spine rub; back board worn along exterior edge. Pages generally very good; moderate discoloration, some toning. Includes frontipiece plate with captioned tissue guard: "The Hare and the Tortoise". Pictorial endpapers of collage line-drawing of Aesop's animal characters. Small antiquarian signature at front pastedown. Bind good, moderate cant; hinges intact. Superbly illustrated, decorated, and featuring a thoroughly enjoyable introduction by G. K. Chesterton. With a dozen richly colored, smooth coated plates by Arthur Rackham and over fifty black and white illustrations, many full-page, in immaculate detail throughout. Near good first edition thus of this illustrated rarity from 1912. Printed by Ballantyne & Company Ltd. at the Ballantyne Press, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London. 224 pages. Insured post. Aesop's Fables was first published in 1912 with this imagery by Rackham. Includes two-hundred fables of timeless humor and wisdom. "In Aesop's Fables Rackham's primary intention was to amuse, but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea, the pompous gentleman who scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (from Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham His Life and Work). Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 B.C. The first century A.D. philosopher, Apollonius of Tyana, is recorded as having said about Aesop: "Like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V). Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
Verlag: William Heinemann, London, 1912
Anbieter: Books at yeomanthefirst, Folkestone, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good++, almost Near Fine. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. A very, very nice copy of Arthur Rackham's first illustration of this classic. 13 full colour, tissue-guarded illustrations plus many black and white drawings throughout. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration to front and spine. Publishers blind stamp to rear board. Decorated endpapers. Copyright page says "All Rights Reserved". Clean, straight boards only minimal bumping corners and spine ends, small, mild, dark stain to rear board. Spine slightly darkened. Endpapers toned, prelims blotchy foxing, Xmas (1912) inscription to ffep. No further markings throughout. Age related foxing as offset from reverse of final colour plate to text, otherwise a remarkably well-kept, uncompromised copy with very little to distinguish it from a Near Fine grading.
Verlag: William Heinemann - Doubleday, Page & Co., London - New York, 1912
Anbieter: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, USA
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. 1912 at title page. Copyright page states "All Rights Reserved"; no other dates, indications. Olive green full cloth boards, gilt cover and spine design and titles,moderate cover, edge wear, rub. Front cover features stylized gilt titles and various animal characters and decoration. Spine features additional animals and titles in gilt. Back board feature blind-stamped Heinemann windmill emblem. Pages generally very good; moderate toning. Includes frontispiece plate with captioned tissue guard: "The Hare and the Tortoise." Mended closed tear to the "The Quack Frog," adjacent page 56. White pictorial endpapers repeat cover motif of animals in green outline. Dark green top-stain. Bind good, square; hinges intact. Superbly illustrated, decorated, and featuring a thoroughly enjoyable introduction by G. K. Chesterton. With thirteen richly colored, smooth coated plates by Arthur Rackham and over fifty black and white illustrations, many full-page, in immaculate detail throughout. Near very good first edition thus. Printed by Ballantyne & Company Ltd. at the Ballantyne Press, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London. 224 pages. Insured post. Aesop's Fables was first published in 1912 with this imagery by Rackham. Includes two-hundred fables of timeless humor and wisdom. "In Aesop's Fables Rackham's primary intention was to amuse, but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea, the pompous gentleman who scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (from Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham His Life and Work). Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 B.C. The first century A.D. philosopher, Apollonius of Tyana, is recorded as having said about Aesop: "Like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V). Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
Verlag: William Heinemann, London, 1912
Anbieter: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, USA
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Zustand: Very Good. . . . . Signed limited edition: #1218 of 1450 copies, signed by the illustrator 4to, hardcover. No dj. Vg condition. Attractively rebound copy, in green buckram over silk boards, paper spine title label replacing original perished leather label. Limitation statement, signed by Rackham on the half-title verso. Contents clean, no marking or writing; binding square and tight. 13 tipped-in color illustrations, collated, all present; numerous black and white illustrations in the text. literature illustrated signed limited.
Verlag: William Heimann, London, 1912
Anbieter: Studio Bibliografico Orfeo (ALAI - ILAB), Bologna, BO, Italien
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30 cm, formato in 4°, rilegatura editoriale i tela bianca con titoli ed illustrazioni al piatto e dorso, tagli superiori in oro e pagine in barbe. p. xxix (1) 223 (1). Con 64 illustrazioni di cui 13 a colori fuori testo montate su cartoncino e proteste da un foglio di guardia con testo.Esemplare Assai ben conservato in splendida edizione lussuosa di 1450 esemplari numerati a mano con la firma di Arthur Rackham. Molto buono Edizione originale limitata. Es 1195 / 1450 esemplari numerati e firmati dall'artista.
Verlag: William Heinemann, London, 1912
Anbieter: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, USA
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A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. xxix, 224 pp. With frontispiece and twelve color tipped-in mounted plates by Arthur Rackham, and text illustrations in black and white. Folio, publisher's gilt white cloth, t.e.g. First edition; No. 28 of 1450 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Latimore and Haskell, 39. Endsheets lightly tanned; edges of cloth lightly foxed; plates and text clean and bright. Laid in is a small broadside printed in red for a 1912 Leicester Galleries exhibition of Rackham original watercolors for this and other subjects.
Hardcover. Limited Edition; First Edition Thus. Very Good, bound in full white buckram with gilt titles and decorations. Minor wear, toning, weak smudges and a weak/faint stain to crown of front panel (does not affect interior). Interior clean and unmarked, binding strong. 4to, 11 3/4"h x 9 1/4"w. Beautiful edition, with twelve full-page color illustrations in-laid on brown paper, 53 black & white in-text illustrations. Limited to 1,400 copies signed by Rackham.
Verlag: London: William Heinemann., 1912
Anbieter: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition. Signed Limited Edition. Original white cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. With 13 tipped in colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard and 53 black and white drawings throughout the text by Arthur Rackham. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and firm with some toning of the spine, the gilt titles and illustration clear and bright. The contents are entirely complete, clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. All colour plates and their tissue guards are in fine bright condition and without corner creases. A very attractive example of this beautifully illustrated Arthur Rackham signed deluxe edition. Limited to 1450 copies of which this is number 1103 and signed by Arthur Rackham in black ink on the limitation page. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Verlag: William Heinemann, London, 1912
Anbieter: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, USA
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A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. xxix, 224 pp. With frontispiece and twelve color tipped-in plates by Arthur Rackham, and text illustrations in black and white. Folio, publisher's gilt white cloth in publisher's plain paper wrapper (neatly titled in ms. on spine by a former owner) First edition. Slight bump to one corner and the slightest of soiling to the white cloth; light foxing to endsheets; some shallow chipping and use to the wrapper; a very attractive copy.