The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie
by Wagner, Richard; Armour, Margaret (Trans.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket (as Issued?)
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1910. [6], vii-ix, [3], 3-159pp, [1], thirty-four plates. Publishers original vellum, with gilt design to spine and upper cover. Slightly rubbed, lacking ties. Internally the text leaves opposite to the brown paper upon which the plates are tipped in has browned, otherwise quite bright and clean. With thirty-four tissue guarded colour plates by Rackham as called for. Signed by Rackham to limitation leaf, one of one thousand one hundred and fifty copies, this being number nine hundred and eighty two. Riall, page 103. Signed by Illustrator. First Thus. Hardback. Good+/No Jacket (as Issued?). Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. 4to. Limited De Luxe Edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Temple Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001469
- Title
- The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie
- Author
- Wagner, Richard; Armour, Margaret (Trans.)
- Illustrator
- Rackham, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (as Issued?)
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Rackham, Wagner, Rhinegold, Valkyrie
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Temple Rare Books
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Oxford, Oxfordshire
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....