Kipling, Rudyard; Arthur Rackham Illus (4 results)

277 pp. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 8vo, publisher's green decorated cloth; t.e.g. First US edition. The title page is nearly detached; tissue overleaf and endsheets tanned; ownership stamp at top edge of the front pastedown; light rubbing to cloth and bumping at corners.

Cream hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and soiled. Sporadic foxing; heavy at eps; Inner hinge cracking. Some creasing to plates. 280mm x 220mm (11" x 9"). 187pp. 16 tipped-in plates by Rackham, Neilsen, Dulac, Parrish et al; additional plates and b/w illustrations. 'A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from the Representative Men and Women Throughout the World'. A compilation of prose and illustrative work from the great luminaries of the age. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas.

First edition and the first with illustrations. Four illustrations in colour by Arthur Rackham. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black with the design of the famous caravelle sailing ship. t.e.g [8], 277 pp. A very pleasing copy, the gilt and cloth bright. FIRST EDITION, AND THE FIRST WITH THE RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS. The English edition was not illustrated. Stories from English history told by romantic characters to two children over whom Puck the fairy had cast a midsummer spell. It can count both as historical fantasy since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy since it depicts a magical being active and practicing his magic in the England of the early 1900s when the book was written.

Condition: Very Good. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, top edge gilt; [10],275pp.; color frontispiece and three plates by Rackham. Some light shelf wear to cloth extremities, corners gently bumped, minor soil spot to half title page, a few leaves with small losses from having been clumsily opened (not uncommon with this title), else a Very Good, still quite brilliant copy. The first appearance of Rackham's illustrations for this title, absent from the first U.K. edition.