With a color frontispiece plus 11 other color illustrations by Rackham (all with tissue guards with illustration titles), 17 other full page pen&ink drawings by Rackham, and many other head piece, tail piece, title page and other illustrations by Rackham. Grey-black woven cloth with gilt stamped Rackham skeleton design and lettering on front cover, gilt stamped Rackham design and lettering on spine, TE tinted black, Rackham endpapers in B&W. First Rackham trade edition, first printing. The front side edge of DJ has a small nick. It is not price-clipped (shows 21/- in bottom front corner), has some tanning at bottom of spine, and some wear at top of spine and at upper corners. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover and is fully intact. The tissue guards for the color illustrations are intact. Endpapers are black and white with skeletal designs. Bottom edge of pages has some soiling by corner. Bottom corners of covers and ends of spine have some wear, and upper corners of covers have some rubbing. Black covers with gilt lettering and design of a skeleton with a knife on front and gilt lettering and designs on spine.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |