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Waking Lion Press. Hardcover. New. 10x7x0. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. Fair with no dust jacket. 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth. Cloth stained, hinges cracked, corner wear. Bit of crayon coloring to endpage illustration; crayon check marks to title page. One tipped-in plate missing; some plates have bit of creasing to corners. ; quarto; 251 pages .

London: Constable & Co., Ltd, 1917. 4to, xi, 251 pp. 12 tipped in color plates, 43 black and white illustrations, some of which have been colored in, likely by a child. Original green cloth boards, with gilt title and vignettes to upper board and backstrip. Cloth rubbed and split along rear joint, small stain on upper board, text pages spotted, joints soft, plates in very good condition. § First trade edition. This was one of Rackham’s most successful books, mixing black-and-white vignettes of great charm and subtlety with color plates that are vintage Rackham. “It was during these years that he illustrated a new Brothers Grimm title, Little Brother and Little Sister which is in effect one of his crowning achievements... This is one of the few books illustrated by Rackham from which it would be possible to select any single-colour picture in order to demonstrate Rackham's art at its finest." (Gettings, Arthur Rackham, pp. 116-117). Lattimore and Haskell, p. 46.

London: Constable & Co. Ltd., (1917). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Scattered foxing and soiling internally, text mostly clean and plates fine; 1976 owner inscription; spine is a bit rubbed with a few tears along the edge and wear to the head. Very Good. Arthur Rackham. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 10-1/4") in publisher's decorated cloth. Illustrated with 12 full-page tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham, all but one with tissue guards, as well as a number of black-and-white drawings, many also full-page.

London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1917. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine. No. 193 of 525 copies signed by Rackham. 4to, 30 by 24 cm. xi, [1], 251 pp. 13 tipped-in color plates, plus plenty of Rackham b/w illustrations interspersed in text. Without Rackham inserted envelope with signed plate, though. Publisher's cloth. Clean, bright copy.