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Lot 101

Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023 7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$1,000 - 1,500
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$2,394
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Stephens, James (editor) Irish Fairy Tales

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1920. First and limited edition, one of 520 unnumbered copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. (xii), (318). Illustrated with color frontispiece and 15 color plates, all mounted and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's quarter vellum over cream paper-covered boards, decorated in gilt, front board unevenly toned; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; prelims foxed and with offsetting; some pages unopened; in original white dust-jacket, tattered and soiled; Latimore and Haskell, pp. 52-53; Riall, p. 138

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