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Hardcover. Good. Ex-school library in good condition. Label residue on spine. Great illustrations by Arthur Rackham.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1885.. publisher's gilt-decorated cloth; a.e.g.. Ink signature; cloth rubbed at extremities. Tight and sound.. Large 8vo,. With Illustrations by F. S. Church..

London: S W. Partridge & Co, Ltd.. First Edition. Softcover. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 352 pages. Notes; No clear date given. Subjects; Mythology, Greek. Mythology, Classical.

London:: Hodder & Stoughton,, [1922].. First edition.. publisher's red gilt cloth.. Lacking one plate as noted; very slight sunning to the spine; otherwise a very attractive, unworn copy.. 4to,. With tipped-in color plates and printed tissue overleaves; other color plates; and text illustrations in black and white by Arthur Rackham; however, in this copy, the plates are not placed in accordance with the list of illustrations; and one plate, the one listed as opposite p. 92, is not present. .

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1893.. First US trade edition.. publisher's decorated cloth; top edge stained blue.. Slight rubbing and use to the cloth; clean, tight and sound.. 8vo,. With Sixty Designs by Walter Crane..

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1928. Book. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Burgundy cloth, lettered/illus. in gilt, illus. endpapers. Light shelf wear, spine lettering rather faded, text block edges a bit toned by age. Firm binding, clean and unmarked interior beyond former owner's signature (dated Christmas 1930) on upper front pastedown, all color plates present and fully intact. x,207 pp., illus. w/ (15) full page color plates including frontis. Please note that this 1928 printing is not strictly a reprint of the earlier (1922) Doran edition, which contained a total of (24) plates; the '28 printing contains (9) fewer plates, including the original Pandora frontis. and (7) Japanese-style wood cut prints. The "List of Illustrations" on p. ix is a revised listing consistent with the '28 printing, but the verso (p. x) contains a partial set of entries beginning with p. 84 that is identical to the… Read More

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1893.. First US trade edition.. publisher's decorated cloth; top edge stained blue.. Bookplate on pastedown. Slight rubbing and dust-soiling to the cloth; tight and sound.. 8vo,. With Sixty Designs by Walter Crane..

New York:: Frederick A. Stokes Company,, [1908].. First edition with these illustrations.. publisher's cloth with applied color illustration on front panel, in dust jacket.. 1916 ink gift inscription; otherwise a beautiful copy in a slightly sunned jacket with a few light signs of use.. 4to,. Decorations and Illustrations by Lucy Fitch Perkins (some color)..

Hodder & Stoughton. Used - Very Good. 1922. Dec. cloth, 207 pp., illus. First Trade Edition. Latimore & Haskell, p. 55. (Subject: Books on Books & Cartography.)

Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1893, the Edition de Luxe with Crane's illustrations. One of 250 copies, this one 'Publisher's copy unnumbered.' Hardcover, embossed parchment binding with gilt title and design. THIS COPY LACKS 3 PLATES from the Three Golden Apples story: Hercules and the Nymphs (pg. 112), Hercules and the Old Man of the Sea (pg. 120), and Hercules and Atlas (pg. 126). All of the other mounted color plates. Near Fine in the original green oil cloth dust jacket and matching slipcase. Hint of foxing to the text-block and margins of approx. 50 pages. DJ lightly edgeworn, minor fraying to spine ends. Slipcase also frayed at the corners; strong and attractive. A beautiful deluxe edition -- this copy lacking 3 plates.

New York:: Duffield & Company,, 1910.. First edition.. publisher's dark blue cloth with applied color illustration on front panel.. The cover illustration is a little rubbed; light use to cloth at extremities; a clean, tight and sound copy.. 4to,. With pictures by Maxfield Parrish. There are ten full-page color plates, each with tissue overleaf captioned in red.. Publisher's small illustrated flyer laid in (a little creased).

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1922]. First Edition. 16 tipped-in colour plates, 9 full page coloured illustrations, line drawing head and tail pieces and pictorially decorated endleaves, all by Arthur Rackham. 4to, publisher's original bright red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, pictorial endleaves. 207 pp. A bright, clean and handsome copy with only minor evidence of age or use, lightly mellowed. FIRST EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK. A scarce Rackham title with beautiful colour plates and drawings that are an excellent complement to Hawthorne’s fantastic Wonder Book. These are timeless tales - including The Gorgon’s Head, The Golden Touch, and The Miraculous Pitcher - all imaginatively illustrated by the Master Rackham. The renderings of Pandora and the joyful innocence of youth are especially moving while the King Midas sequence shines with golden poignancy. The battle between Pegasus and the horrible Chimaera is charged with graceful, ferocious beauty.

New York:: George H. Doran Company,, [1922].. First American edition.. publisher's red cloth in dust jacket.. A beautiful copy in a jacket with a slightly faded spine, a few tiny chips and tears, and several unobtrusive spots. . 4to,. With tipped-in color plates and printed tissue overleaves; other color plates; and text illustrations in black and white by Arthur Rackham..

London:: Hodder & Stoughton,, [1922].. First trade edition.. publisher's red gilt cloth in dust jacket with applied color illustration on front panel.. A beautiful bright copy in a slightly tanned jacket with several tiny chips, and a few tiny marks to the applied color illustration.. 4to,. With tipped-in color plates and printed tissue overleaves; other color plates; and text illustrations in black and white by Arthur Rackham. . Latimore & Haskell, p. 55.

London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, , [1922]. Original gilt decorative binding Signed limited edition, number 538 of 600 copies signed by the artist. A review of this work in The English Review noted that "the charm of [Rackham's] work... holds, and the result is a quite delightful presentation book, perhaps too good for the tender mercies of the nursery". Quarto. Original cream buckram, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered and with vignette in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and 15 colour plates, 8 three-colour full-page illustrations, illustrations in the text, all by Arthur Rackham. Light consistent toning to cloth, occasional splitting at gutter between gatherings, first gathering becoming loose, minor foxing to free endpapers; a very good and attractive copy with uncreased plates. The English Review, December 1922, p. 573; Latimore & Haskell, p. 55; Riall, p. 146.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1893.. First of this illustrated edition de luxe; No. 174 of 250 copies.. publisher's embossed gilt vellum, t.e.g.; in the publisher's pale green gilt-lettered and gilt-stamped flexible cloth wrapper.. Armorial bookplate on pastedown; a spectacular copy.. Large 8vo,. With Sixty Designs by Walter Crane..

London, New York, & Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922. Deluxe Edition Limited to 600 Copies Signed by Rackham, this no. 128. Six of the mounted color plates have slight creases near the mounting point, all else very fine, very handsome copy. Deluxe Edition Limited to 600 Copies Signed by Rackham, this no. 128. Quarto. viii, 207p. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 24 full-page color plates, 16 of which are tipped-in with lettered tissue guards, and 20 text drawings. Bound in an unsigned binding - but surely by Bayntun - in full dark blue morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., the spine densely gilt with titles and floral panel ornaments with intricate surrounds, triple-rules covers, quadruple-ruled dentelles. Riall p. 146.