Rip Van Winkle
by Irving, Washington; Rackham; Arthur (illus)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good [Textblock Very Good+; Plates Fine]. No DJ.
- Seller
-
Portland, Maine, United States
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About This Item
København: Peter Hansens Forlag, 1905. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good [Textblock Very Good+; Plates Fine]. No DJ.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. On of only 250 copies printed in this limited edition, including a facsimile printed signature of Rackham. Text in Danish, this "de luxe" edition was printed in Denmark the same year as the English release. "Rackham's" Rip Van Winkel "is among the most thoroughly illustrated books of English. Since the text is brief, his fifty illustrations, which are grouped at the end, come at the rate of one to every two or three sentences" (Ray 328). Light shelf/edge wear. minor fraying at head and heel, owner bookplate at front pastedown, small ownership signature at ffep, moisture stain at bottom corner of boards (slight discoloration to preliminaries, slight rumple to textblock, does not effect any plates), joints starting, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering and pictorial elements, frontispiece, captioned tissueguards, teg. 4to. 46pp plus np plate pages grouped at rear. Numbered, limited edition, this being 202 of 250.
Synopsis
1891 edition,g.p.putnam,a legendof the kaatskill mountains, by washington irving, fiction
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lux Mentis, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6031
- Title
- Rip Van Winkle
- Author
- Irving, Washington; Rackham; Arthur (illus)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good [Textblock Very Good+; Plates Fine]. No DJ.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Peter Hansens Forlag
- Place of Publication
- København
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- Fine Press-Fine Binding-Limited Editions | Illustrated/Illustrated Juvenalia
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About the Seller
Lux Mentis, Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Portland, Maine
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- Facsimile
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- Gilt
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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