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Sale 2635
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Estimate$500 – $800
London: William Heinemann/New York: J.B. Lippincott Co. (1916). First and limited edition, #356/500 numbered copies, signed by Rackham (from a total edition of 525). 4to. xxii, (122), (2) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 11 color plates, all mounted and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; illustrated endpapers, foxed and with offsetting; offsetting to some tissue guards and pages opposite heavy brown paper; scattered light foxing to text; Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper; blue silk bookmark intact; Latimore & Haskell, pp. 45-46; Riall p. 128
Provenance
From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York
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