![]() Riall, pages 174, 176, 179 and 186 respectively Size: 4to. A run of Rackham's later Christmas books, uncommon in the original slipcases. All in original publishers card slipcases, with original paper label to side or head, and now housed in a leather entry slipcase with Cockerell paper sides made by Temple Bookbinders. Each with four colour plates by Rackham, and each signed by Rackham to limitation leaf. Endpapers to 'Night Before Christmas' are browned, otherwise internally clean. Spine of 'Goblin Market' very slightly dulled. Deluxe editions, all bound in limp vellum, t.e.g., first title in original glassine wrapper which is chipped with small amounts of loss. ![]() ![]() Four volumes, 1931-1934 - Moore, 'Night Before Christmas', 1931,, 11-35pp,, number 78 of two hundred and seventy-five copies for the USA Ruskin, 'King of the Golden River', 1932,, 5-47pp,, number 242 of five hundred and fifty copies Rossetti, 'Goblin Market', 1933,, 7-42pp,, number 349 of four hundred copies and Browning, 'Pied Piper of Hamelin', 1934,, 7-44pp,, number 241 of four hundred and ten copies. ![]()
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