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914.764.7410 Pg 70 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 101 FABULOUS HAND-COLORED WOODEN JIGSAWS 460. PUZZLE. LES MONUMENTS DE PARIS. French, H. Duru, editeur, no date, circa 1869. The 3 puzzles are housed in a box that measures 14 3/4” wide x 11 tall and is 1” in height. On the box cover is a large and detailed hand colored lithograph of Le Palais du Luxembourg with soldiers on horseback and people taking a stroll. The box has some rubbing and light soil but overall it is in excellent VG+ condition. Inside are 3 large wooden jigsaw puzzles, each resting on a base with ribbon ties that allows the user to remove each puzzle intact. Each puzzles has 6 sections so that 18 French monuments are depicted. The images are fine hand-colored lithographs and include such monuments as La Madeleine, Pantheon, Notre Dame, St. Sulpice, Fontaine des Innocents and more. Each monument has a caption identifying it with a name, date and a brief explanation of its significance. This is a beautiful puzzle in excellent condition. $2250.00 NISTER NOAH’S ARK JIGSAW PUZZLES IN BOX 461. PUZZLE. TOY VILLAGE PUZZLE BOX based on the book by Georgia 463. PYLE,HOWARD. Roberts. London & NY: Nister & Dutton, no date, circa 1907. Housed in the THE STORY OF THE original box 10 1/2 x 8 1/4” are 5 wooden jigsaw puzzles with color illustrations CHAMPIONS OF THE by Katharine Greenland. The guide sheet for solving the puzzles is mounted ROUND TABLE. NY: inside the cover and there is a large color plate on the cover. One flap is replaced Charles Scribners Sons and archival strengthening of box else really near fine and complete. Characters 1905 (1905). 4to, (7 x 9 of the story of Noah’s Ark are portrayed as toys. A rare and charming Nister 1/2”), tan pictorial cloth, puzzle. See Peeps/Hunt p.108 listing only 4 puzzles. $800.00 some wear to spine ends, rear hinge rubbed but not PUZZLES ALSO 20, 405, 443 weak, VG+. 1st ed. of the second of Pyle’s Arthurian series, featuring many beautiful line illustrations. Quite scarce. $275.00 RARE PYLE TITLE 464. PYLE,HOWARD. TWILIGHT LAND. NY: Harper & Brothers 1895 (1894). Large 8vo (6 1/4 x 8 1/2”), leather spine, green pictorial cloth, leather spine shows wear and scuffing, mend on one page else VG+. First edition. A book of 16 original fairy tales written by Pyle and illustrated by him with a total of 126 illustrations (full page and partial page). It was rare at that HOWARD PYLE’S FIRST BOOK OF FAIRY TALES time for an artist of Pyle’s 462. PYLE,HOWARD. PEPPER AND SALT: OR SEASONING FOR YOUNG caliber to also be able to FOLK. NY: Harper Brothers 1886. Large 4to, brown pictorial cloth, spine successfully write the text darkened, tips slightly worn and some foxing, overall VG. 1st ed. of Pyle’s first as well. Because of the book of fairy tales. Written fragility of the spine, few by Pyle and wonderfully copies of this title have illustrated by him with survived intact. Morse many full page and in-text and Brinckle p.134-5. illustrations. Meigs (p.302) Rare. $600.00 says: “The stories in Pepper and Salt and The Wonder Clock show how complete PETER PARLEY TO PENROD was Pyle’s mastery of the 465. (PYLE,HOWARD)illus. THE STORY OF SIEGFRIED by James Baldwin. NY: form and structure of Scribner 1882 (1882). 8vo, (5 3/4 x 7 1/2”), xvi. [iv]. 1-306 + ads, blue cloth stamped the folk tale.” There is a in black and gold, some cover rubbing and light wear to spine ends otherwise VG+. very definite difference in 1st ed. The Saxon myth of Sigurd is retold an illustrated by Pyle with 6 black and quality of printing between white plates. A companion to Pyle/Baldwin Story of the Golden Age. Peter Parley to the first edition and later Penrod p. 63. This is a nice copy, very hard to find in decent condition. $250.00 printings of this title and (SEE ILLUS TOP NEXT PAGE) first editions are quite scarce. $500.00 Helen & Marc Younger Pg 71 [email protected] #465 - previous page LIMITED TO ONLY 560 COPIES - THIS WITH WATERCOLOR BY RACKHAM 468. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. INGOLDSBY LEGENDS by Thomas Ingoldsby. Lond: Dent 1907. Large thick 4to, full gilt pictorial vellum, fine with new ties. LIMITED TO ONLY 560 SIGNED BY RACKHAM (500 for sale). Featuring 24 beautiful tipped-in color plates mounted on dark paper, 12 full page tinted illus. and 66 b&w drawings plus pictorial endpapers. THIS COPY FEATURES A FINE HALF PAGE WATERCOLOR DRAWING SIGNED BY RACKHAM! The image depicts a witch-like old woman and her black cat standing near her cottage - a version of the color plate on page 26 of the book depicting the old woman who dwells upon Tappington Moor. This is a special copy. $13,500. MARCUS WARD PICTURE BOOK OF CHILDREN’S GAMES 466. (PYM,T.)illus. SKIPPING TIME. London: Marcus Ward, no date, circa 1887. Small 4to (6 5/8 x 8 1/2”), cloth backed pictorial boards, tips rubbed else VG+. 17 pastimes of little children are described in rhyme and beautifully illustrated in color by T. Pym with 7 full page and 6 half page chromolithographs plus colored decorations on other pages. Includes playing soldier, playing with tops, flying kites, fishing and more. One of Marcus Ward’s fine, well printed books for children. $450.00 RABELAIS – 149 RABIER, BENJAMIN - 481 INSCRIBED BY RACKHAM’S MODEL FOR “ALICE IN WONDERLAND” 467. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll with proem by Austin Dobson. London & NY: William Heinemann & Doubleday Doran, (1907, 1930). 8vo (6 1/2 x 8 1/4”), green pictorial cloth, [162]p., spine and part of rear cover faded else near FINE IN DUST WRAPPER (dw quite nice with a few closed edge tears). Illustrated by Rackham with 13 color plates with printed tissue guards plus pictorial endpapers and title and with several line illustrations in-text. THIS COPY BELONGED TO THE WOMAN WHO AS A CHILD WAS RACKHAM’S MODEL FOR “ALICE”. The verso of the front free endpaper has a presentation inscription from “Alice” aka Doris (Jane) Dommett: ‘Dear Mother Gracie You will, I know, be interested to read to your Girls, with perhaps Daddy listening too, this story of Alice’s Adventures. Also you will I feel certain enjoy the Coloured Illustrations of Alice Doris ME, drawn by the present famous Artist Arthur Rackham, who chose ME to represent his Idea of an Ideal English Alice. You Gracie who have known me for so long will, I hope, enjoy this Adventure as much as Daddy, Gracie, Joyce, and Evon. With love from Alice Doris ME. Doris E.J. Dommett.’ There are additional inscriptions from Doris Dommett on the half-title, the frontispiece and the verso of the dust wrapper. The frontis is a portrait of Alice and the inscription reads: From Alice ‘Doris” ME. Laid in are two Christmas cards and a letter with a newspaper clipping, all inscribed from Doris to Gracie and family. In her letter to the family Doris writes: ‘I enclose this cutting that may add an interest to the Book I gave you of Arthur Rackhams Alice whom I represent here’. The newspaper cutting, from The Evening News, December 14, 1939, relates Doris’s memories of Rackham: ‘”He chose me from a number of little girls, and I was so pleased he copied my print frock exactly, because it was one my mother had allowed me to design myself... I loved to watch [Rackham] when he was drawing the Mad Hatter, because his own face took on the expression he was trying to get”’. Doris subsequently sat for Rackham’s Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. This is a great, interesting Rackham offering. $2500.00 469. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR) illus. MOTHER GOOSE. NY: Century Co. 1913 (1913). Thick 4to (7 1/4 x 9 1/2”), cloth, pictorial paste- on, Fine in dust wrapper with piece off upper front corner. 1st U.S. edition. Illustrated by Rackham with cover plate, 12 color plates, color title page and over 50 marvelous, detailed black and whites in text. A beautiful copy rarely found with the dust wrapper. $1100.00 Pg 72 914.764.7410 Aleph-Bet Books - Catalogue 101 FANTASTIC COPY OF RACKHAM’S LIMITED CHRISTMAS CAROL 473. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. SLEEPING BEAUTY by Charles Perrault. 470. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens. London & NY: Heinemann London: Heinemann (1915). Large 4to (9 1/2 x 11 1/2”), gilt pictorial vellum, & Lippincott (1920). 4to, ribbon ties, Fine+ condition. LIMITED TO ONLY 525 NUMBERED COPIES cloth backed pictorial SIGNED BY RACKHAM. Illustrated with pictorial endpapers, 12 tipped-in color boards, bottom edge plates and 20 fine black and white drawings. This is an amazing copy of this slightly rubbed else FINE edition with a smaller limitation than most of Rackham’s titles, rarely found with IN ORIGINAL DUST the original ties. $6750.00 WRAPPER (dw frayed). 1st edition. (Lat. / Hask p.51-2). Illustrated with pictorial endpapers, tipped-in color frontis, plus many full page and in-text lovely silhouettes and drawings. A beautiful copy. $700.00 474. (RACKHAM,ARTHUR)illus. THE LONESOMEST DOLL by Abbie Farwell Brown. Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin (1928). 8vo (6 1/2 x 8 1/2”), tan pictorial cloth, some rubbing to endpaper (not visible under dust wrapper) else Fine in dust wrapper (dw chipped on edges).