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#31: ARTHUR RACKHAM
- GROUP OF TRADE EDITIONS ILLUSTRATED BY RACKHAM
(1) "Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods" 1911.
(2) "Rhinegold and the Valkyrie" 1910. (3) "Wind
in the Willows" 1940 - Limited Edition Club. (4) "Midsummer
Night's Dream" 1908. (5) "Peter Pan" 1906.
(6) "Guinevere" illustrated by Florence Harrison.
(7) Seven others.
Estimate: $ 1000.00 - $ 1500.00 Sold at $1000 |
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#32: ROBINSON, CHARLES (ARTIST) "THE BIG BOOK OF
FABLES" NY (DODGE) (N.D.), 4TO
Illustrated with 28 color plates by Robinson. Red gilt pictorial
cloth. Inner hinges strengthened - else fine and bright.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 Sold at $275 |
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#33: (FIRST ISSUE) SENDAK, MAURICE "WHERE
THE WILD THINGS ARE" NY, 1963. FIRST EDITION, FIRST
ISSUE, OBLONG, 4TO
First issue dust jacket with no mention of the Caldecott
medal. Dust jacket price of $3.50; lower price of $3.79 has
been clipped. Color pictorial boards with some edge browning
and a few tiny nicks. Dust jacket is lightly browned with
a few closed tears. Spine of dust jacket chipped with 1/2
of the spine with paper separation.
Estimate: $ 2000.00 - $ 3000.00 Sold at $1500 |
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#34: (1 of 450) SEWELL, ANNA "BLACK BEAUTY",
LONDON (DENT) 1915. FIRST EDITION (THUS), 4TO
1 of 450 copies (for England) signed by the illustrator Lucy
Kemp Welch. Printed on large paper. Green cloth with gilt
medallion on front board. Some rubs on the edges.
Estimate: $ 400.00 - $ 600.00 Sold at $600 |
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#35: JESSIE WILCOX SMITH - TWO BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY:
(1) "The Water Babies" London (Hodder and Stoughton)
printed for the drug store chain "Boots the Chemists" Ca.
1920. 12 color plates. Green gilt pictorial cloth. Fine copy.
(2) "Children of Dickens" NY (Scribner's) 1926.
Probably second printing. Almost fine copy.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 |
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#36: STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS "VIRGINIBUS
PUERISQUE AND OTHER PAPERS" LONDON, 1910. SMALL 4TO
1 of 250 copies. Illustrated with12 color plates by Norman
Wilkinson. Bound in full limp vellum; ribbon ties. Vellum
soiled.
Estimate: $ 800.00 - $ 1000.00 |
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#37: PETERSHAM, SARG AND LEAF - FIVE TITLES - ALL FIRST
EDITIONS. FINE IN DUST JACKETS
(1) Petersham, Maud and Miska "Get-A-Way and Hary Janos" NY
(Viking) 1933. (2) Leaf, Munro "Flock of Watchbirds" Phil.
(1946) (3) Leaf "Geography Can Be Fun" Phil. (1951).
(4) (Sarg) Mills and Nelsen "The Talking Dolls" NY
(1930). (5) Sarg, Tony "Soldier Boy" NY, 1926.
Estimate: $
300.00 - $ 400.00 Sold at $500
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#38: (FINE PRESS) "THE BOOK OF GENESIS" LONDON
(MEDICI SOCIETY) 1914. 4TO
Illustrated with ten color plates by F. Coyley Robinson.
1 of 500 copies. Bound in limp vellum with the original ribbon
ties present.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 700.00 Sold at $200 |
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#39: LIMITED EDITION CLUB - GROUP OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS
ISSUED BY THE CLUB
(1) London "Sea Wolf" illustrated and signed by
Fletcher Martin. (2) "Grimm's Fairy Tales" - 4
vols. (3) Tennyson "Idylls of the King" illustrated
by Lynd Ward. (4) Evergreen Tales - 6 vols. in two slipcases.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 |
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#40: LARGE GROUP OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS - MOST IN FINE CONDITION.
SOME ARE REPRINTS. APPROXIMATELY 60 VOLUMES
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 400.00 Sold at $1000 |