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Lot 63
Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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$1,000 -
1,500
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$3,024
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Lot Description
[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Bianco, Margery Williams Poor Cecco
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1925). First and limited edition, deluxe large-paper issue, #12/105 numbered copies, signed by author Margery Williams Bianco. 4to., (xiv), (176), (2) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 6 color plates, all tipped-in and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's quarter vellum over light blue paper-covered boards, navy blue morocco spine label stamped in gilt; rear hinge just starting; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; illustrated endpapers; Latimore and Haskell, pp. 59-60; Riall, p. 155
A very fine copy of the rarest of all the Arthur Rackham limited editions.