RACKHAM, Arthur (Illustrator). The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations. THE ARTHUR RACKHAM FAIRY BOOK

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1933. First edition (trade issue). Octavo. pp. [vi], 287. Illustrations: Frontispiece and seven further colour plates (total 8), each after Rackham, with tissue guards; circa 60 black-and-white illustrations throughout (many full-page); pictorial endpapers. Publisher’s red/rust cloth, blocked in black and light brown with decorative motifs; spine lettered in black. In the original pictorial dust jacket, price unclipped. A fine copy in very good dust jacket. Scarce thus.
Latimore & Haskell p. 69. Riall p. 182.
Contents: Sleeping Beauty; Cinderella; Jack and the Beanstalk; Hop-o’-my-Thumb; Ali Baba; Dick Whittington; The Story of Sinbad the Sailor; Jack the Giant Killer; The Three Bears, and others of Rackham’s own selection, newly illustrated for this volume.

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