First Trade Edition of Rackham's "Fairy Book" RACKHAM, Arthur, [illustrator]. The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. A book of old favourites with new illustrations. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1933. Full Description:
Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. A book of old favourites with new illustrations.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1933.
. The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations. London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1933].
First trade edition. Large octavo (8 1/2 x 5 11/16 inches; 215 x 144 mm). 286, [1], [1, blank] pp. Eight color plates and sixty drawings in black and white (some full-page). Original pictorial endpapers bound in at front and back.
Bound by Sotheran in full red calf. Boards double-ruled in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. With black calf spine label, lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Some repairs to gutters of the bound in original endpapers. Title-page on a stub. About fine.
Latimore and Haskell, p. 69. Riall, p. 182
HBS 69669.
$1,000.
Price: $1,000.00
Item #69669