SIGNED BOOK OF FAIRY TALES
The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book
Harrap, 1933.
First edition. Number 342 of 460 copies of the deluxe issue, signed by Arthur Rackham. 8vo. Publisher's full white vellum, with gilt titles. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed, yellow silk page marker present. Housed in the original publisher's slipcase, with correct corresponding number to the book. Pictorial endpapers, eight colour plates and 60 black and white illustrations. A fine book, slightest crinkling to the spine else as new. The book still has the paper flaps to the original glassine jacket, perhaps indicating how the book has remained so fresh.
There is a two page preface to this book written by Arthur Rackham in which he explains how he has chosen the fairy tales in this book. The tales are a selection of well known fairy stories; including, Sindbad the Sailor, Aladdin, Dick Whittington, Jack the Giant Killer, Cinderella and the Emperor's New Clothes. Although some of the stories have been previously illustrated by Rackham, all the illustrations for this book are new and have never been published before.
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