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Washington Irving;-
Rip van Winkle. Danish 1st. Edition Illustrated & Signed by Arthur Rackham. 1905 Price : $450 Buy Now Published by Peter Hansens Forlag, København 1905. Large 4to. 45 pages + Number 170 of 250 copies in Danish;- 50 mounted colour plates. Untrimmed in the original green decorated cloth binding (after Rackham). One of 250 numbered copies with Rackham's printed signature. Near fine++, with only very minor wear to the extremities.. Danish de luxe edition of this classical illustrated book, apparently identical to the English original. Except for the frontispiece illustration, all illustrations are placed in the back of the book, after the text leaves. Highly collected Children’s book $450 |
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Washington Irving;-
Rip van Winkle. English 1st. Edition Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 1905 Price : $450 Buy Now Published by William Heinemann. London.,1905;- 1st. edition with 4to.(10.1 x 7.7 inches). Colour frontispiece and forty nine coloured plates, mounted onto thicker paper and with a printed tissue guard. Publishers dark green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Illustration of Rip Van Winkle stamped in gilt to front board. A fine copy of a highly collectable book;- Apart from some slight foxing to the first four text pages this is a clean copy internally. A near very good copy of this beautiful book. The first of the famous tipped in coloured plates gift books that made Rackham a household name.:.$450 |
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Edward Fitzgerald, Translates.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Illustrated & Signed by Edmund Dulac. Price : $2,800 Buy Now Published in London;- by Hodder and Stoughton (1909) Quarto. (3), (74)ff. One of 750 deluxe copies, signed by the illustrator. This copy is 643. Complete with twenty enchanting tipped-in color plates surrounded by decorative borders printed in bronze ink. The text is also enclosed by ornamental borders. Bound in decorative gilt-stamped vellum, bearing the title in Arabic-inspired lettering and an elaborate border comprised of peacocks, flowers, and elephants. A few small, light spots and slight soiling to spine, faint scratch to front cover, top edge of spine bumped, else a fine copy with the original silk ties intact. Stunning and highly collected Children’s book. |
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Peter Rabbit's Race Game
Original "Peter Rabbit" Board Game Price : $1,200 Buy Now [POTTER, Beatrix]. Peter Rabbit's Race Game. An exciting Original board game introducing Beatrix Potter's world-famed charactersPeter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jeremy Fisher, Jemima Puddle-Duck. London: Frederick Warne & Co., [n.d., ca. 1946]. Very Fine condition of a highly collectable board game;- $1,200 Complete boxed game with folding board in three sections. Large oblong folio (20 3/16 x 29 1/2 inches; 513 x 749 mm.). With the four original unpainted lead figures (Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Jeremy Fisher, and Jemima Puddle-Duck), black plastic dice cup, and 3 plastic dices. Original color pictorial label and printed rules of the game mounted on board verso. Housed in the original red cardboard box with color pictorial label on lid. Minimal wear. An excellent example. Inside the box is an extra set of the rules of the game printed in red (one octavo page). Also, an advertisement (6 pp. on the recto and verso of one folded leaf) for "Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit's Bookshelf," "Peter Rabbit Books in Other Languages," "The Tale of Beatrix Potter, A Biography by Margaret Lane [London: 1946]," "Beatrix Potter Wallpaper Nursery Frieze," "Peter Rabbit's Race Game," and "Jig-Saw Puzzles." |
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The Children´s Friend. 1883
Price : $50 Buy Now Published in London, Seeley, Jackson & Halliday/S. W. Partridge & Co, 1885;- Illustrated navy blue cloth covers, embossed and gilt decorations to front cover, Embossed decoration to back cover;- Coloured pgotograph of a young girl enclosed in gilt decoration also to front cover. Many Illustrations throughout, 186 pages, and Index & 4 pages of Ads to the back pages;- The book is complete, some hand-coloured in the illustrations; A find collectable children’s book;- $50 |
