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London/NY: William Heinemann/Doubleday, Page & Co.., 1910. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, May 20 (sale item)* first trade edition (1910); [x], [160] pp., 34 mounted color illustrations with printed guards, pictorial endpapers, previous owner's name and bookplate to front free endpaper, wear to spine and cover edges else text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Doubleday & Page, NY. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No DJ. No date found but a date of 1924 is written by previous owner on inside front cover. Beautiful full-page illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbing. Spine back strip rubbed with creases. Binding loosening slightly but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

London: Heinemann Undated circa 1930; Aged end papers, less so to the clean, somewhat fragile textblock, otherwise clean and tight; Tipped-in plates by Arthur Rackham, protected by tissue overlay; One plate chipped at the upper outside corner, not affecting the tipped-in color illustration; Faded grey top edge; Toned spine, fraying to head and foot of spine, bumped/frayed corners, some soiling and bubbling to the boards. 183p.. Illustrated Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Hardcover.

William Heineman, 1939, First edition thus. 48 coloured plates. 4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches), pages: 160 & 182. Original blue cloth, corners bumped, some pale damp mottling to fore-edge of upper cover.

, 183 pages, translation by Margaret Armour, 50 coloured plates, 4 plays in one volume The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods

London: Heinemann, 1939. Translated by Margaret Armour. Cloth covers and contents clean and bright with no inscriptions and no spotting. Covers are light blue cloth which has faded in patches. The black titles are unaffected.. First Thus. Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. 7.5" x 10". Hard Back.

Doubleday, Page & co, 1910-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration, 1910 Doubleday second impression with 34 tissue guarded tipped in Rackham color illustrations. Tight and unmarked showing light age tone. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.

London: William Heinemann Ltd. 341pp. Privately rebound in blue leather and blue cloth with gilt spine title and decoration. Minor leatrher wear and spine sunning. Added are red/yellow headbands, marbled endpapers, and a blue silk ribbon, pages are bright and clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall JC . Very Good. Three-Quarter Leather. 1939.

London New York: William Heinemann; Doubleday,, 1910. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Illustrated end-papers. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Frontispiece accompanied by a guard sheet. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: ix, 159 pages, [34] leaves of plates: illustrations (colour); 26 cm. Notes: The coloured plates are mounted and accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress. Illustrated title page; black and white head pieces to each scene.Contents: Rhinegold. Valkyrie. Subjects: Operas; Librettos. Photoengraving; Specimens. NibelungenOpera German 19th century. Genre: Fiction.Illustrated. Inscriptions.

London and New York: William Heinemann/Doubleday, Page & Co., 1928. Book. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Complete in two (2) volumes, uniformly bound in putty cloth, lettered/illus. in black. Vol. I is 5th ptg. (1928), Vol. II a 3rd ptg. (1930); both were first issued in 1911. Very slightly rubbed corners and spine extremities, text block edges typically tanned. Firm bindings, clean interiors, intact hinges. Former owner's small book plate mounted on front blank of each volume. x,160 + ix,182 pp., illus. w/ 64 (34 + 30) color tipped-in plates with captioned guards, all present and nicely intact, with mounts (as expected) tanned, plates and guards clean and bright (1 mount in Vol. I slightly chipped along lower fore-edge). An exceptional set showing only slight faults..

London: William Heinemann, 1910.. First edition, 4to, x, 160 pp. 34 coloured plates, tipped in onto stiff paper with captioned tissues, faint foxing to the first couple of leaves. Recent red half calf, gilt decorated spine. Latimore & Haskell p37.

London: William Heinemann, 1910. First edition thus, no. 124 of 1150 copies. With 35 mounted color plates and other black and white drawings by Arthur Rackham. 1 vols. 4to. Original full parchment, gilt with Rackham devices on spine and upper cover, silk ties, t.e.g. Spine soiled, endpapers foxed, toning and light foxing throughout. In green cloth slipcase. Rackham, Arthur. First edition thus, no. 124 of 1150 copies. With 35 mounted color plates and other black and white drawings by Arthur Rackham. 1 vols. 4to. With 35 Mounted Color Plates.

London: William Heinemann, 1910. [Norse Saga] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (30 x 24cm). Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's full parchment over boards pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. A lightly used copy with very gentle spotting, and little marking to covers, silk ties wanting, inside paper joints cracked, Pre-Raphaelite style bookplate to pastedown. Near fine. No.3 of 1150 copies.

London / New York: William Heinemann / Doubleday, Page & Co., 1920; circa 1920. 2 volumes. First Edition, new impression of each volume, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a total of 64 tipped-in colour plates and numerous decorations in line, all by Arthur Rackham. 4to, handsomely bound by Bayntun Riviere of Bath in uniform three-quarter navy morocco over blue cloth-covered boards, the corner-pieces and backs trimmed in gilt, the spines with tall raised bands gilt decorated between compartments attractively framed in gilt, two compartments gilt lettered, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. 160; 182 pp. A very handsome set, the bindings are in excellent condition, strong and sturdy and near as pristine, the text-block clean and completely free of foxing or spotting, the plates are all present and vivid, bright and clean, Vol. II with the Ring of the Niblung general title and the Siegfried half-title but bound without the 'Siegfried' title-page. A VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND SET WITH THE IMPORTANT RACKHAM… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1911. Very Good/Very Good. London: William Heinemann, 1910-1911. First Editions, Limited issue of 1150 copies of each signed by Arthur Rackham, nos. 253 and 113 respectively. Quartos. 160 & 182 pp. 64 color plates mounted on heavy brown paper with lettered tissue guards; black and white drawings. Bound in gold-pictorial full vellum; top edges gilt. Lacking silk ties. Light edgewear to boards with light to moderate soiling; corners slightly bumped; small chip to crown of Siegfried. Binding is sound. Ownership inscriptions and bookplates to preliminaries of each volumes; interiors otherwise unmarked. Very Good. [Riall pp. 103 & 109].

London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday Page & Co.,, 1910-11. Signed limited edition of Rackham's illustrated Ring Cycle Signed limited editions, number 891 and 87 respectively of 1,150 copies signed by the illustrator. Fred Gettings notes that "in the final picture of Siegfried... there is a lyric beauty of colour, line and form which Rackham rarely achieves again... This is Rackham's personal style taken to its highest point of expressive delicacy". Two volumes, quarto. Original white vellum, lettering on spines and front covers in gilt, decoration on front covers in gilt, top edges gilt and others untrimmed. Colour frontispieces and 62 colour plates mounted on thick brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Arthur Rackham. Some soiling to bindings, extremities of first volume bumped, some scratches and abrasions to first volume, some internal foxing and browning, lacking silk ties, else good copies. Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, London,… Read More

London: William Heinemann; Doubleday Page & Co., New York,, 1910-11. Signed limited edition of Rackham's illustrated Ring Cycle Signed limited editions, number 553 and 769 respectively of 1,150 copies signed by the illustrator. Fred Gettings notes that "in the final picture of Siegfried... there is a lyric beauty of colour, line and form which Rackham rarely achieves again... This is Rackham's personal style taken to its highest point of expressive delicacy". Two volumes, quarto. Original white vellum, lettering on spines and front covers in gilt, decoration on front covers in gilt, top edges gilt and others untrimmed, two ties remaining one of which detached. Colour frontispieces and 62 colour plates mounted on thick brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Arthur Rackham. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpapers. Tiny indentation to front cover of Rhinegold, split to front inner joint of the same (still firm), contents with some… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1910. Two volumes complete - Volume I - Rhinegold, ix, [1], 159pp, [1], thirty-four colour illustrations tipped on to brown paper and Volume II - Siegfried, (published in 1911), ix, [1], 181pp, [3], thirty colour illustrations tipped on to brown paper. Original full vellum, gilt to spines and upper covers, t.e.g. Spine of Rhinegold slightly rubbed and faded, Siegfried lacks tie, some light spotting to covers, some off setting from brown paper to next text leaf, but generally quite bright and clean. Each illustration with titled tissue guard. Rhinegold is number two hundred and fifty-one of eleven hundred copies, Siegfried is number five hundred and eighty-eight, both signed by Rackham to limitation leaf. Both housed in a leather entry cloth slipcase . Riall, page 103. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Full Vellum. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. 4to. Limited Edition.