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RAND, Ayn. We the Living.New York : 1936
First edition, sole printing, presentation copy of Rand's first novel, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper just a few days after publication on 7 April, "Johnny and Lucille - - who sympathize with my cause - Ayn. 4-13-1936". The first printing of 3,000 copies sold out within 18 months of the book's publication, but in the meantime Macmillan... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 125120
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.London : 2000
First edition, first impression, dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page with an arrow from the printed dedication ("to Susan Sladden who helped Harry out of his cupboard"): "and, though we didn't want it in print, helped me out of my cupboard. With unending gratitude and equal love Jo a.k.a. (again) JK Rowling x". The printed... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 128864
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.London : 1906
Signed limited edition, number 381 of 500 numbered copies signed by the artist. Barrie asked Rackham to illustrate not the play Peter Pan (which remained unpublished until 1928) but make a new book from those chapters from The Little White Bird (1902) that had first introduced the character. Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 117385
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, number 588 of 1,130 numbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 111922
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler.1931
Limited edition of 775 copies, signed by Rackham. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 47610
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales.London : 1920
Limited edition of 520 unnumbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 122376
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, one of 1030 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 48431
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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. D-Day Prayer.Washington, DC : 1944
First and sole edition, inscribed by Roosevelt on the front free endpaper, "For Fred Adams, Christmastide 1944, from Franklin D. Roosevelt"; number 76 of 100 copies privately printed at the White House Printing Office. The recipient, Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. (1910-2001), was the son of Roosevelt's cousin Ellen Walters Delano, and was the second... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 132010
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RAND, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged.New York : 1957
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author: "To Lenore McConnell, - wishing you a great future. Ayn Rand. February 4, 1959." Atlas Shrugged was named by a 1991 Library of Congress survey as the most influential book in the US, second only to the Bible. Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 99376
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) AESOP. Aesop's Fables.London : 1912
First Rackham edition, signed limited issue, and first edition of this translation; number 1,071 of 1,450 copies signed by the artist. "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful... Learn More£2,950.00Stock Code: 115168
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ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.London : 1997
First edition, first impression, paperback issue, inscribed by the author "To Paul, Best Wishes, J K Rowling" on half-title and dated "18/3/98". Rowling signed this copy during a school visit in Wales for a young boy who had been given the book as a present by his aunt.
This is one of 5,150 copies in wrappers, with all the requisite points of the... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 135240
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales.London : 1920
Signed limited edition of 520 unnumbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 135277
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RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures.London : 1913
Signed limited edition, number 166 of 1,030 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 61468
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.New York : 1940
Signed limited edition, number 1077 of 2,020 numbered copies signed by the designer Bruce Rogers. Rackham had been asked to illustrate the first edition of 1908 but was unable to accept the commission. He deeply regretted the decision, but just before his death he was able to illustrate this Limited Editions Club edition. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 122097
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tempest.London : [1926]
Signed limited edition, number 118 of 520 numbered copies signed by the artist. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 110585
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield.London : 1929
Signed limited edition, one of 575 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 20927
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows.London : 1951
Deluxe edition, number 305 of 500 copies. This is the one-hundredth edition of Grahame's timeless classic, which was originally published in 1908, with just a frontispiece, by Graham Robertson. Rackham's illustrations for the text first appeared in the Limited Editions Club edition of 1940, and it was the last work he illustrated. "During his last illness... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 107331
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) GRIMM, [Jacob & Wilhelm]. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.London : 1909
Signed limited edition, number 302 of 750 copies signed by the artist. This is a revised and enlarged edition of the work originally published in 1900 with some new illustrations, as well as others redrawn and coloured. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 115169
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(RACKHAM, Arthur.) LA MOTTE-FOUQUÉ, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de. Undine.London : 1909
Signed limited edition, number 464 of 1000 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 101815
