The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. A Book of Old Favourites with new illustrations by RACKHAM, Arthur - (1948).

Georg G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., January 1946. Hardcover. Fair - Cash/No Jacket. Faded red cloth hardboards, yellow and black illustration on face, black lettering face and spine. Sun burnt spine. Soiled covers, heavy rubbing, corners dented. Heavy wear along spine gutters, tears length of spine on both sides of hinge. Inscription on ffep dated 1946. Unmarked pages. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

George Harrap & Co.Ltd. 1933 1st... 6.0 x 9.0 inches. In maroon cloth covers with black lettering to spine and illustrated front. Pictorial endpapers. In very good condition. Spine and front board slightly dulled. Some minor rubbing on edges, tiny nick top of spine front corner. A few faint marks. Tanning to endpapers. Pages 278/279/282 have small mark lower margin corners. Colour plates clean and bright. Else a clean and tight copy. 287 pp. With b/w illustrations and eight colour plates. A collection of traditional fairy tales illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

1933 Fairy Book 1st ed ARTHUR RACKHAM Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Red Riding-Hood

"The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book" offers readers a mesmerizing collection of twenty-three timeless fairy tales, ranging from the enchanting narratives suitable for younger children, like "Hop O' My Thumb" and "Henny-Penny," to age-old classics relished by older readers, such as "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty." This treasury features cherished stories from various cultures, encompassing English legends like "Jack and the Beanstalk," tales from the Arabian Nights like "Ali Baba," and iconic pieces by Hans Christian Andersen such as "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The Ugly Duckling." Every tale is further brought to life with the exquisite illustrations of Arthur Rackham, a pivotal figure from the Golden Age of British book illustration, known for his unique combination of intricate pen and ink drawings with delicate watercolors.

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Price: $499

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Philadelphia:: Lippincott,, n.d. [but 1933].. First American edition.. publisher's rose cloth in illustrated dust jacket. . Some very minor ink stains to bottom edge of front board and front free endpaper; ink name neatly eradicated from front pastedown; else about a fine copy in a very uncommon jacket with some chipping to edges, not affecting any lettering or design. . 8vo,. Illustrated in color and black and white by Arthur Rackham.. Latimore & Haskell, p. 70.

London: George G Harrop and Co. Ltd, 1933. Signed Limited Edition. Fine. A limited edition of 460 signed by Rackham. An inspired anthology drawn from "old favourites of the nursery...Most of them had a long and eventful life of oral tradition before somebody who could write caught them as they flew and consigned them to cold print" [Illustrator's Preface]. Classics by Hans Anderson such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor's New Clothes" and Charles Perrault's "Cinderella" and "Puss in Boots" appear with tales from 'The Arabian Nights' and the traditional English folk tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" and Washington Irving's American classic "Rip van Winkle". Published near the end of his remarkable career, Rackham with characteristic rich earth-tones illustrates a mythical fairy world in this beautifully published edition. He is mindful of belonging to an ancient tradition of story-telling and notes "in our own day, inspired story-tellers go on adding original characters to the stock-an Alice, a… Read More