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Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, USA
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First edition. Very good. Complete with 12 color plates, though lacking tissue guards. Bottom left hand corner of some color plates, with occasional small paper loss. Pages are bright. Binding is firm. Light wear to boards. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001643
Titel: Little Brother & Little Sister and Other ...
Verlag: Dodd, Mead and Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 1917
Einband: Hardcover
Illustrator: Arthur Rackham
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: 1st Edition
Anbieter: Bookcase, Carlisle, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hard. Zustand: Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. Text and illustrated plates bright, occasional light spotting throughout, some plates lightly dog-earred, white space on pages 13-16 clipped although doesn't affect text, foxing on endpapers, partially cracked gutter at front endpaper, binding firm, shelf wear to boards with some light chipping to edges. Size: 4to. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 82935
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Anbieter: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, USA
Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. Stated at copyright: First Published 1917, Printed in Great Britain. Large 7 3/4" x 10" gift book design. Dark green full-cloth boards, bright gilt cover and spine titles, moderate cover, corner, edge wear, rub, bump. Fine thick pages, very good. Beautiful tipped-in plate by Rackham; few w/corner crease, generally fine. Bind good, square; back hinge reinforced. Forty tales chosen and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including tipped-in color plates mounted on beige heavy stock leaves. Snow-White and Rose-Red tale with plate adjacent page twelve is color facsimile print of the original plate: "The end of his beard was caught in a crack in the tree." Also, forty black & white full and partial page illustrations, decoration, and vignettes throughout. The classic tales and legends of the Brother's Grimm are presented here including Snow-White and many more. Features the titular tale wherein a young brother and sister run away from their cruel stepmother, but before they get very far the boy drinks from an enchanted stream and is turned into a deer. The two take shelter in a cottage, and years later the deer inadvertently leads a king to the cottage, and he marries the girl. Later, the young queen's stepmother suffocates her, replacing her with her own daughter. However, the king restores the queen to life through his love and loyalty. When the stepmother is destroyed, the enchantment is broken, and all live happily ever after. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. 251 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 021975
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