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Lot 84
Sale 5372 - Rare Books & Manuscripts
Apr 10, 2014
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$600 -
900
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$900
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Lot Description
1 vol.
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1 vol.
(Rackham, Arthur, illus.) Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1922].
#128/600, signed by Arthur Rackham. 4to, slightly later gilt triple-fillet paneled full blue crushed niger morocco, richly gilt floral spine compartments, a.e.g., gilt-ruled turn-ins, raised bands; very occasionally, very slightly scuffed. With 24 color plates (16 mtd), lettered tissue guards, 20 b/w illus. Very minor spotting to limitation sheet. The orig pictorial endpapers replaced by the binder's marbled endpapers. Good margins (rough-trimmed?). Bright bdg. 1st Rackham edition.
Latimore & Haskell p55.