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Sale 2635
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Estimate$1,000 – $1,500
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1925). First and limited edition, deluxe large-paper issue, #12/105 numbered copies, signed by author Margery Williams Bianco. 4to., (xiv), (176), (2) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 6 color plates, all tipped-in and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's quarter vellum over light blue paper-covered boards, navy blue morocco spine label stamped in gilt; rear hinge just starting; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; illustrated endpapers; Latimore and Haskell, pp. 59-60; Riall, p. 155
A very fine copy of the rarest of all the Arthur Rackham limited editions.
Provenance
From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York
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