[Rarebooks] Offering: Arthur Rackham

[Michael John Thompson]

FS: Arthur Rackham

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1.  RACKHAM, Arthur [illustrator]. CARROLL, Lewis. ALICE'S ADVENTURES 
IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a 
Proem by Austin Dobson. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. No Date 
[circa 1927]. Early American Edition. An early American printing of 
the Rackham edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled & ruled in 
white chalk lettering on front panel, titled and decorated in white 
chalk lettering on spine, pictorial paper label depicting Alice, the 
Gryphon & The Mock-Turtle on front panel. Frontispiece with captioned 
tissue guard, plus 12 additional colour plates inserted throughout 
the text (13 plates in total), all with captioned tissue guards, plus 
numerous black & white plates, decorated title page, endpapers & 
binding design, all by Rackham. Bound from British sheets, and the 
title page is a cancel. Two small spots along the top edge of the 
cloth show faint fraying, otherwise a fine, bright copy, remarkable 
condition as the white chalk lettering is prone to chipping and 
perishes easily. Fine. Hardcover.
  A lovely early American edition of one of Rackham's greatest works. 
Originally issued in London in 1907, the First American edition was 
issued the same year under the Doubleday, page imprint. Doubleday 
merged with Doran in 1927, forming Doubleday, Doran & Co., the 
imprint found here. An unusually nice copy.           $300.00

2.  RACKHAM, Arthur [Illustrator]. THE ARTHUR RACKHAM FAIRY BOOK. A 
Book of Old favourites With New Illustrations. London: George G. 
Harrap & Co., Ltd. [1954] Early Edition. Early reprint of the First 
trade edition. Octavo, publisher's original brick-red cloth titled in 
gilt on spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers. 286 pp. Eight 
full-page color plates, sixty black and white drawings. Original 
colour pictorial dust jacket which has a few short closed tears. A 
bright, fine copy in an excellent dust jacket. Near Fine in Dust 
Jacket. Hardcover.
  A fabulous collection of Pictures and Tales. The illustrations are 
all new, though this was not the first time that Rackham had 
illustrated several of these old favourites of the nursery. The Fairy 
Tales include: Hop-O'-My-Thumb; Dick Wittington; Jack and the 
Beanstalk; Beauty and the Beast; The Story of Sindbad the Sailor; 
Jack the Giant-Killer; The Ugly Duckling; The Princess and the Pea; 
Blue Beard; The Story of Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp; The Sleeping 
Beauty; The Three Bears; Ali Baba; Cinderella; Puss in Boots; The 
Emporer's New Clothes; Little Red Riding-Hood; & Hansel and 
Grethel          $150.00

3.  RACKHAM, Arthur [Illustrator]. LATIMORE, Sarah Briggs and Grace 
Clark Haskell. ARTHUR RACKHAM. A Bibliography. By Sarah Briggs 
Latimore and Grace Clark Haskell. New York: Burt Franklin 1970. 
Reprint. Reprint of the 1936 edition. Octavo, original green cloth 
titled in gilt on spine panel. 98 pp, Frontispiece and black & white 
plates, Index. A very good plus copy without dust jacket, as issued. 
Very Good. Hardcover.
  Primary bibliography for collecting Arthur Rackham first 
editions.             $40.00

4.  RACKHAM, Arthur [illustrator]. GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm (The 
Brothers Grimm). THE FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM. Illustrated 
by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. New York: 
Doubleday, Page & Company. 1912 Early Edition. Early printing of the 
American Edition. Quarto, original blue cloth stamped pictorially in 
gold on spine and front panel. 325 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard 
and 11 additional full-page colour plates, plus numerous black & 
white line drawings in the text (some full-page), head- and 
tail-pieces, decorated title page and binding design, all by Rackham. 
A fairly good copy only; with an old bookplate, an inscription on the 
front endpaper, wear to spine at the head and heel and at edges (with 
some old glue repair, so they are sound), covers rubbed. Generally a 
fairly worn but presentable copy. Good. Hardcover.
  The Rackham Edition of this classic was first issued in the UK and 
in the USA in 1909, this is an early American reprint, with 12 colour 
plates instead of the 40 in the 1909 edition.                 $125.00

5.  RACKHAM, Arthur [illustrator]. BARRIE, J.M. PETER PAN IN 
KENSINGTON GARDENS. From The Little White Bird by J.M. Barrie. 
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited. 
[1951] Reprint. Reprint. Quarto, publisher's original brownish-red 
cloth titled in gilt on spine, decorated in blind on front cover. 
[123] pp., map. With 12 full-page colour plates and 22 black & white 
illustrations in the text. Corners slightly bumped, a very good, 
clean copy in a nice attractive colour pictorial dust jacket which 
has some very minor wear and slight dustiness to the white paper 
stock on rear panel. An excellent copy. Very Good in Dust Jacket. Hardcover.
  An excellent copy of this perennial classic.           $75.00

6.  RACKHAM, Arthur [illustrator]. POLLARD, Alfred W. [after Malory]. 
THE ROMANCE OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. 
Abridged from Malory's Morte D'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard. 
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited. 1917 
First Edition, First Printing. First printing of the Rackham edition. 
Thick square octavo, original dark blue cloth with pictorial stamping 
in gold on the cover and spine and gold lettering. 509 pp., glossary. 
With 16 full-page colour plates with captioned tissue guards , 
several full-page black & white plates, plus numerous head- and tail- 
pieces, line drawings & decorative initials totaling to 70 black & 
white drawings, all by Rackham. Inscription on front free endpaper, 
dated Christmas, 1917, hint of rubbing to the extremities otherwise a 
near fine, bright copy, clean and sound, hinges tight; all plates & 
original tissue guards present and intact. A very nice copy, one of 
the better copies that I have seen. Very Good. Hardcover.
  One of Rackham's greatest works. When thinking of Arthur Rackham 
one usually turns first to his 'work in Peter Pan in Kensington 
Gardens', or his 'Alice in Wonderland'; next, perhaps his 
illustrations for 'Grimm's Fairy tales' or 'Undine' stand out. But 
his work for on the Malory, one of the great epics of the English 
language, is of very high calibre, and the numerous black & white 
decorations throughout the text - some with a touch of whimsy, others 
with a touch of Beardsley - show a fine attention to detail which was 
not included in many of Rackham's later works. A fresh copy of a 
masterpiece from the height of his career.              $450.00

7.  RACKHAM, Arthur [Illustrator]. LAMB, Charles and Mary. TALES FROM 
SHAKESPEARE. By Charles and Mary Lamb. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 
London: The Temple Press. 1909 [Actually, circa 1939]. Reprint. 
Reprint. First issued by J.M. Dent & Co. in 1909, this later edition 
still retains the "First Published 1909" statement on the copyright 
page, and is commonly confused with the Dent edition. Large octavo, 
original pictorial green clothtitled and with a design in gilt by 
rackham on spine & front panel. 304 pp. Colour frontispiece and 11 
additional full-page colour plates, plus numerous black & white 
drawings within the text, binding and dust jacket artwork, all by 
Rackham. Lower edges of front & rear board stained, corresponding 
stain to dust jacket at lower edge of front panel, minor chipping & 
short tears to the dust jacket, otherwise very good indeed in the 
scarce pictorial dust jacket with pictorial paper label reproducing 
one of the interior colour plates on front panel. Very Good in Dust 
Jacket. Hardcover.              $75.00

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