Seller James Cummins Bookseller Published Condition Original purple-brown cloth stamped in gilt, color illustration mounted to upper cover and repeated on dust jacket. Seller Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books Published []. Condition A bright near fine copy with light use at head and tail of spine, in a lightly foxed dust jacket with two chips, one to the rear Edition First edition with Wyeth illustrations.
Binding slightly dulled. Quarto coarse green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated with the 51 full-page color plates including the frontispiece, each mounted on heavy brown paper and with a captioned tissue guard. Except for the frontis, all plates are bound together following the text. Identical to the British and American issues except that the text is in Danish. A very fine copy with the contents as new. Small quarto 26 x 19cm , pp. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard.
Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges blue; dark grey endpapers. Contents clean, caption tissues with some spotting, minor bumps to corners, discreet expert repair to joints and endcaps. An attractive copy. Set in Sleepy Hollow, Irving's slumbersome story is an American masterpiece of short prose, based on local history but rooted in European myth and legend.
Published by William Heinemann, Paris, From France to U. Quarto green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. First American trade edition with the Rackham illustrations. With 51 full-page color plates on slick paper and with captioned tissue guards. Small snag at the upper spine margin, else a fine, fresh copy with contents fine and free of foxing.
Uncommon in this exceptional condition. Irving, Washington; Rackham; Arthur illus. First Edition Thus. On of only copies printed in this limited edition, including a facsimile printed signature of Rackham.
Text in Danish, this "de luxe" edition was printed in Denmark the same year as the English release. Since the text is brief, his fifty illustrations, which are grouped at the end, come at the rate of one to every two or three sentences" Ray Green cloth boards, gilt lettering and pictorial elements, frontispiece, captioned tissueguards, teg. Numbered, limited edition, this being of No DJ. Published by William Heineman, London, First Thus.
Rebound in full, green Morocco leather, original cloth cover and spine are tipped into rear of book. First edition of the Rackham illustrated edition, published in London by William Heinemann. Contains 44 color plates. These illustrations established Rackham's reputation as one of the top-tier illustrators of the time. He would go on to illustrate Peter Pan by J. Three-Quarter Leather. A sharp first edition published by William Heinemann of London; at title page. Dark green half-morocco [smooth pebbled leather] spine and corners, and few shades lighter green cloth cover, crisp gilt spine titles, light shelf wear.
Very attractive. Pages generally very good or fine; first few with moderate fox as is common with these leaves. Light green matte endpapers.
Bind fine; hinges intact. Includes fifty-one tipped-in color plates on dark green matte with captioned tissue guards from the inimitable Arthur Rackham and fifty-seven pages of text. Also, decorative headers, tailpieces, etc. Insured post. Antiquarian bookplate of crest inside cover: "CFJ Beausire" - a twentieth century 'philanthropist'. Crest features three goats on diagonal white strip, slender canine on hind legs, a laying lion, and large crown atop crest.
The Beausire name originated soon after the Norman Conquest of England in , the name was recognized as name for a person who frequently used the Norman greeting 'beu sire', translating as good sir or fine sir. Set in Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving's slumbersome tale is an American masterpiece of short prose, based on local history but rooted in European myth and legend. Wandering through the mountains to escape from his nagging wife, Rip Van Winkle encounters a stranger and a group of small oddly dressed people playing a strange game with bowls of a magical beverage.
An enduring foundation of Catskill lore, the captivating narrative continues the fanciful adventures of an amiable ne'er-do-well colonial farmer who wanders into the highlands, falls asleep after drinking with a band of strange little mountain men, and awakes twenty years later in a world that has passed him by. Effusing a gentle humor, Rackham's art is a constant reminder of a more innocent era.
This edition sure to enchant art lovers will also delight Rackham devotees and fantasy fans alike. This edition features all fifty-one full-page color plates, as well as the full text of Irving's classic. The multitude of "illustrations, for a story of not more than five-thousand words, enables the story to be told twice, once through Irving's words, and once again, image by image, through Rackham's pictures.
These magnificent illustrations, created for this edition of Washington Irving's enchanting fairy tale, established Rackham. The illustrations feature traits that soon were to characterize much of Rackham's art: flowing pen lines and muted watercolors, forests of looming trees, lovely fairy maidens, and quizzical troll-like figures. Today these images are recognized as among his very best. Published by Peter Hansens Forlag, Very good condition with no wrapper.
Limited edition. Large format, green cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. Each of the 51 tipped-in colour plates are mounted on a separate sheet of heavy brown paper with captioned tissue guards. Except for the frontis, the plates are all bound together after the text. This is copy NO. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly edge rubbed. Ink writing to front free-endpaper.
Joints cracked. Browning to contents. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!. First trade edition. Publishers green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine, plain green end-papers, all edges stained green.
Title-page very lightly stained on edge from titled tissue guard, spine slightly faded and a little rubbed at extremities. Neat early ink signature on half-title.
Color frontispiece and fifty color plates mounted with titled tissue guards. A Very Good copy. The publishing rights were then resold in a complicated deal to Heinemann, before the illustrations were exhibited at Brown and Phillips' Leicester Galleries. Most of the Rip drawings were sold at the exhibition, and by October they had all found purchasers.
Rackham, Arthur, illustrator; Washington Irving. Fine condition, rebound in navy blue half leather with marbled paper-covered boards. Five raised bands, gilt decoration on spine.
Interior pages are in Fine condition, unmarked and unblemished. A very handsome copy. Small 4to. Hard Cover. Stated Second Impression, November at copyright page. Dark green full cloth boards, crisp gilt cover and spine titles, moderate discoloration, light shelf wear. Cover depicts sharp Rackham design in gilt of the aged Rip van Winkle with walking stick.
Pages near fine, clean. Antiquarian inscription inside cover: "To Ada, from George, Xmas ". Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Includes fifty-one color plates with captioned tissue guards from the inimitable Arthur Rackham and fifty-seven pages of text. Fresh example of this beautiful collection in clean, crisp boards. Rip Van Winkle. London: William Heinemann, First Trade Edition. Color frontispiece and fifty color plates mounted with titles tissue guards. Preliminary text leaves and some tissue-guards foxed, spine slightly faded and a little worn at head and tail.
Small repaired tear cloth on edge of front board, lower corners worn. In inscription date Xmas on verso of front free end-paper. A good copy only.
Around the middle of The 51 illustrations, for a story of not more than five thousand words, enables the story to be told twice, once through Irving's words, and once again, image by image, through Rackham's pictures. But the first work that greatly advanced his fame in the years immediately following his marriage was his edition of Rip Van Winkle.
This lovely book decisively established Rackham as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period. The deluxe edition of the book was fully subscribed before the [Leicester Galleries] exhibition closed" Hudson.
Latimore and Haskell p. Riall pp. Gettings p. Hamilton pp. Hudson pp. Hudson, p. Published by William Heinemann , London, Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Decorated Cloth. Condition: Good. All 50 plates have captioned tissue guards. A few marks here and there, , and some rubs and very slight tear to the head and tail of the spine, but an attractive copy overall.
In the original dark green decorated cloth. Foxing to the extremities of the text. Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd. Rackham Arthur illustrator.
Second impression November. Pp viii, Frontis and 50 tipped-in colour plates. Original cloth, gilt, lightly marked. Edges of half title and title page foxed, and with light foxing to the following few pages. No inscriptions. A particularly nice copy with minimal wear. A fresh copy. From Denmark to U. Quantity: 2. No , af eksemplarer. Med 50 indsatte farvebilleder. Published by London: William Heinemann, November , Toning and light spotting to preliminary leaves of text, and extremely heavy spotting to pp.
Light occasional spotting to tissue guards. Spine quite heavily toned, with some rubbing. Lower corners bumped with some light wear to boards. Very good. Published by Doubleday, New York, Used - Hardcover Condition: Very good.
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London : Second impression. Signed by Rackham on the title page. London : Signed limited edition, number 26 of copies signed by the artist. This copy also includes a charming original pen and ink portrait of Rip van Winkle by Rackham, dated 17 July This was the first book wholly illustrated by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition format and it immediately established him as the leading illustrator of lavishly London : Signed limited edition, number of copies signed by the artist.
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