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Lot 62

Sale 5364 - Books & Manuscripts
Nov 12, 2020 7:00AM ET
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Wagner, Richard, and Christopher Morley The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie and Where the Blue Begins

London: William Heinemann/New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. 1910. #860/1,150 copies signed by Rackham. 4to. (160) pp. Translated by Margaret Armour. Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece, 33 mounted color plates, plus 14 black and white in-text illustrations. Bound in three-quarter purple goatskin over marbled paper-covered boards, front board detached, leather missing from top panel of spine; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; foxing to prelims, front and rear; offsetting from plates and mounting paper to text block; book-plates on front and rear paste-downs. Latimore and Haskell, p. 37; Riall, p. 103-104. Together with: Where the Blue Begins London: William Heinemann Ltd./New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. (1925). #112/175 copies signed by Rackham. 4to. 227 pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece, 3 color plates, plus 16 black and white in-text illustrations. Publisher's deluxe binding of black cloth, worn, stamped in gilt, over japon vellum-covered boards, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; foxing to title-page and plates; illustrated endpapers; book-plate on front paste-down. Largely unopened. Latimore and Haskell, p. 60-61; Riall, p. 154.

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