Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 14,400 GBP (2005)
4to, number 1 of 460 copies signed by the artist, one of 10 deluxe copies with an original signed watercolour, additional inscription and specially bound by sangorski and sutcliffe, 8 coloured plates and other illustrations by Arthur Rackham, original green morocco gilt with gilt border and fantastical creatures at each corner on covers, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, marbled end-papers, illustrated end-papers bound in, original slipcase, spine very slightly discoloured
The original watercolour shows the old woman at the door of her gingerbread house greeting Hansel and Gretel. This, the first copy in the limited edition is additionally inscribed "To | G.S.H | "Salaam" together with a self-caricature bowing slightly in pen and initialled. It is assumed this is a presentation copy to rackham's publisher, George Steward Harrap.
2 comments:
Beautiful!
There's a store on Cecil Court in London that has a bunch of first edition Rackham books. Too expensive, but there's nothing stopping me from sitting in there for hours and looking at them all.
Some years ago I bought half a dozen of his first editions and nearly came unstuck - very complicated, but sold them for about what I gave for them in the end. Important lesson for me.
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