LOT #91262 |
Sold on Oct 16, 2008 for: Not Sold
[Edmund Dulac, illustrator]. Three Wonderfully Illustrated Books,... (Total: 3 Items)
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[Edmund Dulac, illustrator]. Three Wonderfully Illustrated Books, including: Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. [London:] Hodder & Stoughton, [nd]. Quarto. 222 pages. 23 color plates tipped-in behind captioned tissue guards. Publisher's decorative tan binding with blue floral designs and gilt decorative stamping and titles. Floral endpapers. Moderate wear to the extremities, with minor fraying of the cloth at the spine folds. Bumped corners. Spine darkened. Scattered minor foxing of the endpapers. A beautiful book in very good condition. [and:] Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book. London New York Toronto: Houghton and Stoughton, [nd]. Later edition. Quarto. 135 pages. 18 color plates tipped-in behind tissue guards. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and decorative stamping. Original brown paper dust jacket with full color Dulac plate on the front panel. Moderate wear to the extremities. Rubbed corners. Scattered minor foxing to textblock and edges. Dust jacket has several closed tears along the edges, with mild paper loss at the spine ends and corners. The verso of the dust jacket shows several well-executed tape repairs. A very good copy of a scarce book found in the dust jacket. [and:] Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book. Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations. London New York Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, [nd]. First trade edition. Quarto. 170 pages. 15 color illustrations tipped-in on captioned pages. Publisher's tan cloth with teal and black titles and decorations on the spine and front board. Moderate wear to extremities. Light rubbing to boards. Bumped corners. Minor toning to endpapers. Spine cracked at page 129. Overall, a very good copy.Auction Info
2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)
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October, 2008
16th-18th
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