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Heading: zzc(Rackham, Arthur)
Author: **
Title: Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes
Place: London
Publisher: William Heinemann
Date: [1913]
Item # : 235017
Sale Number   502
Lot Number   258
Sale Name    
Fine Literature - Children's & Illustrated Books & Artwork - Books in All Fields
Sale Date   03/14/2013
Sale Time   11am PST
Low Estimate   $ 1,200
High Estimate   $ 1,800
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Description:
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 13 tipped-in color plates on brown paper, printed guards. (4to), original white cloth, stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. First Rackham Edition. No. 609 of 1130 copies.
Signed by Rackham at the limitation statement. Scarce in the original cloth binding. Latimore & Haskell, p.40.
Condition:
Spine sunned, small chips to spine edges, light soiling to cloth, hinges cracking; very good.
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