£1,000 - £1,200
Books - Arthur Rackham illustrated 1st editions: Poe (Edgar Allan, 1809-1849), Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, illus. Arthur Rackham, 1st edn., London, George Harrap, 1935, royal 8vo, 317pp colour frontis with captioned tissue guard with 11 other similar and 17 monochrome plates, decoratively printed endpapers after Rackham, bound embossed dark blue boards, gilt titles and gilt titles to spine, d. w. (some slight tears to d. w.); Ibsen (Henrick Johan, 1828-1906), Peer Gynt, trans and intro. by R. Farquharson Sharpe, illus. Arthur Rackham, 1st edn., London, George Harrap, 1936, royal 8vo, 256pp colour frontis with captioned tissue guard with 11 other similar plates, decoratively printed endpapers after Rackham, bound brown boards, gilt titles and figures to front board, gilt titles to spine, d. w. (upper portion of d. w. missing, carefully repaired); Barrie (Sir James Matthew, 1st Bt., OM, 1860-1937), Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, illus. Arthur Rackham, London, Hodder & Stoughton, royal 8vo, 126pp, mounted colour frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, 49 others, similar mounted on brown paper at end, slight foxing to titles pages, brown endpapers printed with map of Kensington Gardens opposite pastedown, bound red cloth (slight wear), gilt titles and figure of Peter Pan, gilt titles to spine, modern slip case with gilt lines and cartouches (3)
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