rackham a illus (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; Kate Greenaway; (illustrator). Hbk in d/w; square 8vo; Vg+/Vg; no inscriptions; not price clipped; ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall.

Cloth(Hrdcvr). Zustand: G/G. Color, Black & White Illus. (illustrator). London, UK: B. T. Batsford LTD. G/G. . Cloth(Hrdcvr). 8vo., 86 pp., DJ chipped & frayed .

Imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus title page, viii + 136pp, illus/plates, VG- (19cm loss to spine, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light chafing & surface loss to front board, heavy soiling to rear board, heavy tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, blue staining to front eps & prelims, light tanning & foxing to pages sporadically throughout).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Kleinodien der Weltliteratur 5. 147 p. 23 cm. 13 colour plates and numerous b&w illustrations.Blue cloth hardcover with gold impressing. Mild soiling to rear cover, tear in lower spine. Fourth colour illustration is detached. German text. More books in series listed on rear page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Rackham (illustrator). Tales from Shakespeare, illus by Rackham. Temple Press 1939. Lacks Dust Wrapper, o/w fine state, all illus in situ. Dated 1909, but published late 30's. Note. In dedication on end paper is a date of 8/12/38, so I assume issued for Christmas. Scan on request.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Introduction by A.A. Milne. Rackham had been invited to illustrate the first edition of Willows in 1908, but was unable to accept the project. He regretted the miss for years, but was able, just before passing away, to illustrate the LEC edition (not unlike Alice Neel's death-bed illustration of Fall of the House of Usher for LEC). While the slipcase is in need of repair/replacement, the volume itself is very handsome. Very minor shelf/edge wear, light toning at spine, small soil mark at head, owner bookplate at front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. Slipcase shows several splits (three poorly repaired with [not so] invisible tape, light shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Quarterbound, gilt lettering and decorative elements (spine and slipcase), marbled paper boards, color frontispiece, teg. Small 4to. 245pp. Illus. (color plates). Limited edition of 2020 volumes, this being 1691. Signed by Bruce Rogers. Very Good+ (Textblock Fine) in Good+ Slipcase.

Deluxe Edition. Not recorded in either of the bibliographies. The book was published in aid of the Belgium fund. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 42-43; Riall, p. 121. Quarto. Frontispiece and 16 coloured plates, one of which is by Arthur Rackham. Original vellum covers, titles and design to spine and front cover blocked in gilt, plain endpapers, all edges gilt. Occasional spotting, offsetting to endpapers, covers bowed, toning to covers. A very good copy.

First Rackham edition, deluxe issue, number 495 of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator. This publication "was still another step forward for Rackham, the unity of conception in the line drawings and the colour plates, and the assertion of contrast in the moods of the heroine, rendered it a masterpiece of sympathetic understanding" (Hudson, p. 80). The fairy tale of Undine, a water spirit who marries a human knight to acquire an immortal soul, was first published in German in 1811. The Manchester Guardian stated that Rackham's "illustrated edition of Undine. may be praised: the drawings are as good as those for Rip van Winkle or Peter Pan. The pictures of the knight in the enchanted wood and of the little Undine coming up dripping into the fisherman's cottage are excellent examples of Mr Rackham's well-known manner". Latimore & Haskell, pp. 34-5; Riall, pp. 93-4. Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham, His Life and Work, 1975; Manchester Guardian, 20 November 1909, p. 6. Quarto (286 x 225 mm). Colour frontispiece and 14 colour plates each mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue guard, black and white drawings in the text, all by Rackham. Original front cover and spine at rear. Late 20th-century blue crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine lettered in gilt, spine in compartments, grey endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine a little toned: a very good copy.

First edition, first impression, of this Rackham-illustrated collection of 14 tales of adventurous young men. G. A. Henty has written four of the stories; the others are by Guy Boothby, L. T. Meade & Prof. Robert K. Douglas, John Arthur Barry, Katharine Tynan, H. A. Bryden, W. H. Williamson, Walter Wood, F. B. Forester, Hemingford Grey, and T. R. Threlfall. Dartt, p. 26; Latimore & Haskell, p. 20; Riall, p. 49. Octavo. Half-tone frontispiece illustration and 7 plates by Rackham. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board in blue, cream, black and gilt, brown endpapers. Two gift inscriptions to front flyleaves and initials at rear. Lightly rubbed, some pencil markings to upper board. A very good copy indeed, notably bright.

First Rackham edition, deluxe issue, number 109 of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator. This publication "was still another step forward for Rackham, the unity of conception in the line drawings and the colour plates, and the assertion of contrast in the moods of the heroine, rendered it a masterpiece of sympathetic understanding" (Hudson, p. 80). The fairy tale of Undine, a water spirit who marries a human knight to acquire an immortal soul, was first published in German in 1811. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 34-5; Riall, pp. 93-4. Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham, His Life and Work, 1975. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 14 colour plates each mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue guard, black and white drawings in the text, title page printed in green and black. Original vellum, spine and front cover decorated and lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Copy of Joanne Mott, "Undine, a Philosophical Interpretation", Pendle Hill Bulletin, no. 130, April 1956 mounted on rear pastedown. Mid-century ownership inscription of one Polly Oakley Hewitt on front free endpaper and contemporary ownership inscription of one F. H. Hague dated 20/2/14 on half-title. Natural discolouration to vellum, lacking original ties, occasional browning from mounts, short closed tear to fore-edge of p. 30; a very good copy.

Deluxe edition, number 168 of 1000 copies signed by Rackham. This publication "was still another step forward for Rackham, the unity of conception in the line drawings and the colour plates, and the assertion of contrast in the moods of the heroine, rendered it a masterpiece of sympathetic understanding" (Hudson, p. 80). The fairy tale of Undine, a water spirit who marries a human knight to acquire an immortal soul, was first published in German in 1811. Latimore & Haskell pp. 34-5; Riall pp. 93-4. Derek Hudson, Arthur Rackham, His Life and Work, 1975. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 14 colour plates each mounted on plain paper in a grey printed frame with captioned tissue guard, title page printed in green and black, black and white drawings in the text. Mid 20th-century green half morocco, spine with raised bands, compartments lettered and framed in gilt, green cloth sides ruled in gilt, preserving original endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. Gift inscription to half-title dated 6 June 1910. Spine faded, intermittent light offsetting from plates, otherwise clean, a very good copy.

First edition, first impression, of this Rackham-illustrated collection of 14 tales of adventurous young men. G. A. Henty has written four of the stories; the others are by Guy Boothby, L. T. Meade & Prof. Robert K. Douglas, John Arthur Barry, Katharine Tynan, H. A. Bryden, W. H. Williamson, Walter Wood, F. B. Forester, Hemingford Grey, and T. R. Threlfall. Dartt, p. 26; Latimore & Haskell, p. 20; Riall, p. 49. Octavo. Half-tone frontispiece illustration and 7 plates by Rackham. Original red cloth, pictorial decoration to front cover and spine, titles to front cover and spine in red. Spine lightly sunned, light rubbing and fraying to ends of spine and corners, front inner hinge cracked, occasional spotting. A very good copy.