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Sale 252: Fine & Rare Books with Artists' Books (at Los Angeles) (#252) 11/17/2002 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 11/17/2002 1:00 PM PST

Lot #71 The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$125

Estimate: $200 - $300

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Description

Heading:

(Rackham, Arthur)

Title:

The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie

Author:

Wagner, Richard

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Doubleday, Page

Date Published:

1910

Description:

[8], 160 pp. Translated by Margaret Armour. Illustrated with 34 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham; printed tissue guards. 9¾x7, gilt-stamped & lettered blue cloth. First American Rackham Trade Edition.

The first volume in Wagner's The Ring of the Niblung trilogy, with lovely tipped-in plates by Rackham. This is the same as the English trade edition with the exception of the binding, which on the English edition is brown buckram.

Condition:

A touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, the gilt decoration on the front cover quite bright; later margled endpapers, some darkening to the mounts with offseting to adjacent pages, pp. 130-1 darkened from item previously laid in, else very good, plates fine.

Item#:

122072
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