"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
Cinderella. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919. [Children's classic] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.110; [1], imprint; [1], blank. Mounted colour plate as frontispiece, with numerous silhouette and three-tone illustrations. Publisher's orange cloth spine and pictorial boards, pictorial green endpapers. Minor reading marks else internally clean, edges of txt block toned, tissue guard toned with some offset to facing leaves, covers rubbed at extremities, some soiling to front panel. Remains presentable. One of only two 'silhouette' titles by Arthur Rackham, the other being Sleeping Beauty. Item #75969
Latimore and Haskell p.49; Riall p.134, Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.
Price: £175.00
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