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Sale 308: Fine Illustrated Books: The Library of Noreen Curry, Part I (#308) 05/05/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 05/05/2005 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #97 A Christmas Carol

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$2,250

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800

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Description

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(Rackham, Arthur)

Title:

A Christmas Carol

Author:

Dickens, Charles

Place Published:

London / Philadelphia

Publisher:

Heinemann / Lippincott

Date Published:

[1915]

Description:

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, including 12 tipped-in color plates on dark grey mounts, tissue guards captioned in red. (4to) 11¼x8¾, original vellum pictorially gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Limited Edition, no. 183 of 525 copies, signed by the artist.

Bookplate of C. Robert Bignold. Latimore & Haskell, p.44.

Condition:

Touch of bowing to covers, ribbon tie lacking, endpapers and fore-edge foxed, slight pale foxing to first and last few leaves, scattered few soft page creases and spots, last plate mount with slight adhesion from guard; overall, near fine.

Item#:

158798
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