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Lot 45
Sale 5364 - Books & Manuscripts
Nov 12, 2020
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$938
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Grimm, The Brothers Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales
London: Constable & Co. Ltd., (1917). #466/525 copies signed by Rackham. 4to. (251) pp. Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece, 12 mounted color plates, plus 43 black and white in-text illustrations. Publisher's deluxe binding of light grey cloth, stamped in white and in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; offsetting to text from loose tissue guards; illustrated endpapers; book-plates on front endpapers; front hinge split, rear hinge starting but sound. Includes an extra plate ("He hurried away with long strides"), signed by Rackham, in original printed envelope, as issued and often missing. Latimore and Haskell, p. 46-47; Riall, p. 129.