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[RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. -- The Allies' Fairy Book. With an introduction by Edmund Gosse. London: William Heinemann; Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1916].
Square 8o. Frontispiece and 11 color plates, numerous illustrations throughout text. Original cloth gilt, spine gilt (spine faded, light wear at spine ends). Provenance: Julia M. Barnes (bookplate); ownership signature on front pastedown.
FIRST TRADE EDITION. [Laid-in:] RACKHAM. Autograph letter signed ("Arthur Rackham") to W. Westley Manning, South Hampstead, 19 January 1908, thanking him for his congratulations on the birth of Rackham's daughter. 1 page, 8vo, with autograph envelope.
[With:] Three works illustrated by Rackham, including: PHILLPOTTS, Eden. A Dish of Apples. London and New York: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. 4o. 4 mounted color plates, numerous illustrations throughout. Original pictorial cloth; pictorial dust jacket. -- MOORE, Clement C. The Night Before Christmas. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1931]. 8o. Colored frontispiece and three colored plates, numerous illustrations throughout text. Original turquoise cloth. -- IRVING, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. London: George G. Harrap, [1928]. 4o. Frontispiece and 8 color illustrations, numerous black and white illustrations. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. (4)
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FIRST TRADE EDITION. [Laid-in:] RACKHAM. Autograph letter signed ("Arthur Rackham") to W. Westley Manning, South Hampstead, 19 January 1908, thanking him for his congratulations on the birth of Rackham's daughter. 1 page, 8vo, with autograph envelope.
[With:] Three works illustrated by Rackham, including: PHILLPOTTS, Eden. A Dish of Apples. London and New York: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. 4