23rd Sep, 2021 10:00 EDT

Books and Manuscripts

 
  Lot 44
 

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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol

London: William Heinemann/Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., (1915). First and limited deluxe edition, #219/500 numbered copies (from a total edition of 525), signed by Rackham. 4to. xv, (i), 147, (1) pp. Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece plus 11 mounted color plates, all with captioned tissue guards, as well as numerous in-text black and white illustrations, by Rackham. Original deluxe full white vellum, stamped in gilt, original ties laid in at rear; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; foxing to endpapers. Riall pp. 124; Latimore & Haskell pp. 44-45

A handsome and clean copy.

Sold for $3,528
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500


 

London: William Heinemann/Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., (1915). First and limited deluxe edition, #219/500 numbered copies (from a total edition of 525), signed by Rackham. 4to. xv, (i), 147, (1) pp. Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece plus 11 mounted color plates, all with captioned tissue guards, as well as numerous in-text black and white illustrations, by Rackham. Original deluxe full white vellum, stamped in gilt, original ties laid in at rear; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; foxing to endpapers. Riall pp. 124; Latimore & Haskell pp. 44-45

A handsome and clean copy.

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