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34 PLATH, Sylvia. Ariel. London: Faber and Faber, 1965 “i have suffered the atrocity of sunsets” First edition, first impression, of Plath’s most enduring poetry book, published two years after her suicide, edited by Ted Hughes and with an introduction by Robert Lowell. Plath believed her Ariel poems to be the best she had ever produced, “announcing to her mother that ‘they will make my name’” ( ODNB ). Octavo. Finely bound in bright blue morocco, lettering blocked on spine and front cover after design from jacket, bright yellow endpapers, turn-ins ruled in yellow, gilt edges. A fine copy. ¶ Tabor A5. £1,575 [153598] 35 POGANY, Willy (illus.); COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. London: George Harrap & Co., [1910] “he stoppeth one of three” Signed limited edition, number 458 of 525 copies signed by the artist. This is arguably Pogany’s best work, and a well-illustrated edition of Coleridge’s masterpiece. Quarto. Finely bound in terracotta morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial title block on front cover in gilt, inner dentelles in gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Colour illustrated title page, 20 tipped-in colour plates, lettering, colour and monochrome illustrations in the text by Willy Pogany. A fine copy. £2,950 [140200] 36 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. London: William Heinemann, 1905 First Rackham edition. Quarto. Finely bound in dark green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial block on front cover
The story of Peter Pan had its genesis in Barrie’s 1902 novel The Little White Bird , in which the central chapters tell of a child “who escaped from being a human when he was seven days old … and flew back to Kensington Gardens”. Barrie developed this story into a play (first performed in 1904, but not published until 1928), this book of 1906 (the first to appear with the name of the character in the title) and, finally, the novel Peter and Wendy , which was published in 1911. Octavo. Finely bound in terracotta morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, compartments ruled in gilt, gilt fillets and cornerpieces on covers and turn- ins, green endpapers, edges gilt, original grey free endpapers with illustrated map of Kensington Gardens bound-in at front. Colour frontispiece and 49 similar plates tipped onto heavy grey paper, with captioned tissue guards, occasional woodcuts in the text, all by Arthur Rackham. Foxing to prelims and occasional margins, contents otherwise clean, illustrations bright. A near-fine copy, handsomely bound. ¶ Riall, p. 74. £3,500 [134784] 38 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1909 Signed limited edition, number 168 of 750 copies signed by the artist. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the work originally published in 1900 with some new illustrations, as well as others redrawn and coloured. Quarto. Finely bound in red morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial onlay of the dwarf from “The Water of Life” on front cover, turn-ins ruled in gilt, floral endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. With 40 colour and numerous black and white illustrations by Rackham bound in with text. The occasional minor blemish. An excellent copy in a fine binding. £5,750 [134021] 39 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm. Little Brother & Little Sister and other tales. London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1917
Signed limited edition, number 340 of 525 copies signed by the artist, with the extra plate that is often missing (“He Hurried Away with Long Strides”) also signed by the artist bound in at the rear. Quarto. Finely bound in green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with raised bands, covers ruled in gilt, pictorial block on front cover, inner dentelles gilt, original endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates, 43 black and white illustrations in text. ¶ Latimore & Haskell p. 46. £3,750 [102175]
in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With 51 tipped in colour plates as issued, captioned tissue guards, bound in at the back. A fine copy. £2,250 [63508] 37 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906 the first appearance of peter pan in the title of a book First Rackham edition, inscribed by him on the half-title of this trade issue copy, “from Arthur Rackham”. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was the most popular Christmas gift book for 1906.
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