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Lot 82

Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023 7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$3,000 - 5,000
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$5,670
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Irving, Washington Rip Van Winkle

With an Original Pen and Ink Illustration of Rip Van Winkle

London: William Heinemann, 1905. First and limited edition, #161/250 numbered copies, signed by Rackham, and with an original pen and ink illustration of Rip Van Winkle, dated June 1933, on Colophon. 4to. viii, (60) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 49 color plates (one double-page), all mounted and all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's deluxe full vellum, decorated in gilt, bowed; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; endpapers foxed; yellow silk ties present; previous owner's book-plate on front pastedown; in marbled paper-covered slip case. Latimore & Haskell, p. 26; Riall, p. 69

A fine copy of Washington Irving's classic, with an original illustration of the main character.

"The 1st book illustrated wholly by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition" (Riall, p. 69).

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