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NY: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1911. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Issued with Heinemann in London, printed in England. Quarter cloth, gilt pictorial and titles pressed to floral patterned cream color covers. All 30 tipped-in plates present. Solid copy, little sign of use, lightly foxed endpapers, prelims/rears. Internals fine.

Heinemann, London., 1939. First single-volume edition. Quarto. pp viii, 160; viii, 182. Forty-eight colour plates and numerous other illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Blue cloth decorated and lettered in black. Pictorial endpapers.Small ownership inscription on title-page and small ownership signature on front free endpaper. Faint tape marks on pastedowns. The removal of the tape on the rear pastedown has affected the edge of the illustration. Covers slightly marked. Very good. No dustwrapper.

London: William Heinemann. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Vellum cover slightly bowed and lightly marked. 1911. Limited Edition [716/1150]. Vellum hardback boards with gilt illustration. 300mm x 240mm (12" x 9"). 182pp. Thirty mounted colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. Signed by Rackham on the limitation page. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .

London: William Heinemann, 1910. First edition thus, no. 124 of 1150 copies. With 35 mounted color plates and other black and white drawings by Arthur Rackham. 1 vols. 4to. Original full parchment, gilt with Rackham devices on spine and upper cover, silk ties, t.e.g. Spine soiled, endpapers foxed, toning and light foxing throughout. In green cloth slipcase. Rackham, Arthur. First edition thus, no. 124 of 1150 copies. With 35 mounted color plates and other black and white drawings by Arthur Rackham. 1 vols. 4to. With 35 Mounted Color Plates.

London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday Page & Co.,, 1910-11. Signed limited edition of Rackham's illustrated Ring Cycle Signed limited editions, number 891 and 87 respectively of 1,150 copies signed by the illustrator. Fred Gettings notes that "in the final picture of Siegfried... there is a lyric beauty of colour, line and form which Rackham rarely achieves again... This is Rackham's personal style taken to its highest point of expressive delicacy". Two volumes, quarto. Original white vellum, lettering on spines and front covers in gilt, decoration on front covers in gilt, top edges gilt and others untrimmed. Colour frontispieces and 62 colour plates mounted on thick brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Arthur Rackham. Some soiling to bindings, extremities of first volume bumped, some scratches and abrasions to first volume, some internal foxing and browning, lacking silk ties, else good copies. Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, London,… Read More

London: William Heinemann; Doubleday Page & Co., New York,, 1910-11. Signed limited edition of Rackham's illustrated Ring Cycle Signed limited editions, number 553 and 769 respectively of 1,150 copies signed by the illustrator. Fred Gettings notes that "in the final picture of Siegfried... there is a lyric beauty of colour, line and form which Rackham rarely achieves again... This is Rackham's personal style taken to its highest point of expressive delicacy". Two volumes, quarto. Original white vellum, lettering on spines and front covers in gilt, decoration on front covers in gilt, top edges gilt and others untrimmed, two ties remaining one of which detached. Colour frontispieces and 62 colour plates mounted on thick brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Arthur Rackham. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpapers. Tiny indentation to front cover of Rhinegold, split to front inner joint of the same (still firm), contents with some… Read More