The Centenary of Arthur Rackham's Birth
New York Columbia University Libraries 1969. 12 1/4 x 9 inches. 48 pps. This second printing of 1969 is the first and only printing of the catalog in hardbound form and was published in response to a demand for a more permanent record of the many unpublished drawings presented at the exhibition. Contains four full-page color illustrations, three half-page color illustrations, three one-third page color illustrations and fifty-seven black and white illustrations and sketches.. Works generally not viewed, including several figure studies and his family Christmas card of 1926. As New. Inventory # 5004 Price $220
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Aesop; Higton, Bernard (editor)
Aesop's Fables : A Classic Illustrated Edition (Classics Illustrated Ser.)
San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: Chronicle Books LLC, 1990¬ Folio. Illustrated boards. 95 pps. A book collector's book. At last someone has put together a history of Aesop's illustrators from Steinhowel in the 15th century through Detmold Rackham and Artzybasheff to Anrid Johnston. It seems that everyone who was anyone as an illustrator undertook this book at one point in his career. Fine in VG++ in mylar
ISBN: 0877017808
Bookseller Inventory #6053 Price:$40.00
Once Upon a Time: the Fairy Tale World of Arthur Rackham
Viking, NY.; 1972 FIRST EDITION. 4to. (9X7.75 in) 296 pps. Cloth-backed gold hard-cover. Pictorial endpapers. Very good reproductions of Rackham's work with running commentary. Some minor scuffing of boards at bottom front. Fine in Fine in broadart. Bookseller Inventory # 468
Price: $70.00
Arthur Rackham : A List of Books Illustrated by Him
Rackham, Arthur; Coykendall, Frederick
Mt Vernon NY Privately printed in 175 copies 1922. 22 pp White boards with gold lettering on the front cover. Frontis (photogravure) of Rackham signed on plate and tissue protected. 2 small drawings, one unique to this volume. Introductory note by Martin Birnbaum. The first serious bibliography of Rackham’s work. This is as fine a a copy of this rare volume as one is likely to find. A penciled gift line on the FEP, cover with the discoloration and rubbing adjacent spine visible in scan. Internally FINE, pages uncut. Inventory # 7606 Price $650.00
of Arthur Rackham Prints
Arthur Rackham, Illustrator
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
J.M. Barrie
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1914. 8vo - over 7 X 9 inches tall. Olive green boards with gilt titles. No dust jacket. Beautifully framed paste down Arthur Rackham color illustration "Put his strange case before old Solomon Caw" on front board. B/w Kensington Garden map and 3 illustrations plus 16 tipped-in tissue-guarded gorgeous colorplates throughout. Without damage. Some sun fading to spine. All plates with tissue guards. Very Good+ Inventory# 7811 Price $190.00
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Puck of Pook's Hill
Kipling, Rudyard
Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1906. Cloth. No Jacket. First American Edition. Octavo. 277 pp.Oxford Companion to English Lit. p537, 797.The Rackham illustrations did not appear in the British edition. Kipling's popular series of tales set in different historical eras, including Roman Britain, Anglo-Saxon England, The Norman Conquest, The Middle Ages and the Tudor Period. Original green cloth with gold gilt printing and illustration in black of a sailing ship on the upper cover and spine. Head and tail of spine and corners are mildly bumped and very slightly worn. Top edge is gold gilt. Deckled edges. Owner's name in ink on FEP. simple bookplate pasted in on FEP. Tissue protected color frontis with foxing to tissue and title page. Four Rackham color plates. Inventory# 7812 Price $150.00
Arthur Rackham, Illustrator
A Christmas Carol
Dickens, Charles
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. Undated. [1962] Hardcover. Book plate on FEP. Dust jacket tattered at edges.. Octavo. Red cloth with black lettering.Covers and contents Fine. $1.00 price is not clipped. 4 Illustrations in color and 18 in black and white. Mylar wrapped. Inventory#7813 Price $75.00