Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes by Arthur Rackham - 1933

Marathon Press (NY), 2001. Library Binding. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Weathervane Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0517266423 . Burgundy cloth boards clean and bright, in a lightly rubbed pictorial dustjacket with v-shaped chip top front panel, now in protective mylar. Hardcover facsimile reprint with 13 full color Arthur Rackham plates and 78 black-and-white illustrations. ; MCF04293; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 238 pp .

London, Heinemann (1948).. XI, 159 S. mit zahlr Textabb. sowie 13 Farbtaf., OLn. mit silberner Titelpräg., sehr gut erhalten. Ohne Umschlag.

London: William Heinemann. This is a Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's blue cloth with black title lettering to spine and upper cover.The book has some emnant stain marks to the outer edges of the boards and the spine.The book comes with it's uncommon dust-jacket graded good with a few shallow chips and tears to exytremities and with a 2cm loss to wrapper at head of spine..Not price clipped and this copy has one neat and small previous ownership inscription to the blank front endpaper.The Book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness,It comes complete with 8 coloured plates by Rackham and with many more b&w illustrations many of which are wrapped around the text.The contents of the book itself are in very good clean condition.Thick 8vo 160pp [1933] Cheaper Edition . Good. Hardcover. Cheap Edition. 1933.

William Heineman, nd (1913) 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG-. 1st Edition, later printing. 15.2 x 20.7 cm grey cloth with sampler design and titles to the front and spine. Top edge blue, pictorial endpapers, as called for in a first edtition. (xi) 160pp, Blue printed title page, 13 full page colour plates with captioned tissue guards 2 with small tears on the bottom edge and numerous black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Part of the cloth over the rear joint has worn through to create a 6.5 cm split and the spine tips and corners are a little rubbed. All four corners have been rubbed and a little pushed. Internally, there are ink initials to the front pastedown and splitting to the endpapers although the binding remains firm and square. There is some spotting and occasional finger marks. 2 tissue-guardswith small tears on the bottom edge. Full of witty and charming illustrations, this is one of Rackham's best illustrated books. It is now protected in a removable rigid plastic… Read More

London: William Heinemann N.d. [1913]. 8vo.Illustrated. First edition. xi, 160 pp. Publisher's original decorated green cloth. Slight wear to spine ends. Boards slightly marked. Pictorial endpapers. Early ink inscription to ffep. Scattered foxing. One or two sections slightly loose. Frontis and 12 additional tissue-guarded colour plates by Arthur Rackham. A VG copy. . Very Good. Decorated Cloth. First Edition. 1913.

MOTHER GOOSE THE OLD NURSERY RHYMES, Heinemann, 1913, first edition thus with these illustrations, spine a bit faded, boards a bit bowed, else a vg copy in the publishers original red, green and dark blue pictorial binding. Profusely illustrated with 13 full color, full page plates Arthur Rackham as well as many, many more in black & white.

London: William Heinemann,, [1913]. First trade edition, later issue, of Rackham's interpretation of these traditional nursery rhymes. Hudson notes that the artist's primary intention with the illustrations was "to amuse... here Rackham laid himself out to please the children, and was completely successful" (p. 94). Rackham is known for including self-caricatures in his works: here, he depicted himself standing next to the initial I at the opening of the first chapter. Moreover, the illustration at page 41 - "The house that Jack built" - is a drawing of his own home in Chalcot Gardens. The bibliographies state that the first impression of the trade edition is dated 1913 on the title page verso and has pictorial endpapers. This copy, with plain endpapers and no date, belongs to a later issue. Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated with pictorial designs in blue, green, and red, top edge green. Colour frontispiece and 12 similar plates, all printed on plate paper and… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1913. Hardcover; large 4to; 159 pages. SIGNED by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. LIMITED EDITION, of which this is #293/1130. 13 tipped-in plates in colour, many others in b&w. In creme-coloured cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering on cover and spine and gilt decoration on front. In a clear glassine wrapper. Gently sunned spine. Light edgewear. Gilt on top. Other edges deckled. Bright and clean pages. VG+/--. Yes. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur.