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Lot 105
Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Wagner, Richard Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods
London: William Heinemann/New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911. First and limited edition, #414/1,150 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. (xii), (182, (1) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 29 color plates, all mounted and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Translated from the German by Margaret Armour. Publisher's deluxe full vellum, decorated in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; text and binding variously foxed, discolored and toned; silk ties wanting; Latimore & Haskell, pp. 37-38; Riall p. 109
The second part of Wagner's The Ring of the Niblung trilogy.