Irish Fairy Tales, James Stephens, First Edition (18 results)

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. Color Plates / B&W Illustration (illustrator). 1st reprint (reissued). New York, NY: Macmillan Company. Very Good/Very Good. 1968. 1st reprint (reissued). Hardcover w/DJ. 8vo., 318pp., dust jacket very light shelf wear to edges and corners, small tear to front bottom corner, spine lightly sunned, otherwise very good; cover very light shelf wear to edges and corners, otherwise very good; pages clean and unmarked. .

Rackham (illustrator). First Edition, of the reprint edition. 8vo, pp. 318 + bios. A very good copy in worn dj (lacks the front flap). First Printing(stated) thus of this reprint edition of the book first published in 1920. Reprint of the 1920 edition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. Stated new edition first published in 1978 by Abaris Books. Gigantic folio 9 1/2" x 12 1/4" design. A collection of ten traditional tales of Irish heroes, kings, soldiers, magicians, poets, and madmen. James Stephens (February 9, 1882December 26, 1950) was an Irish novelist and poet with a rare combination of humor and lyricism. He began his career as a poet under the tutelage of "Æ" (George William Russell). In the 1930's Stephens had some acquaintance with James Joyce, who found that they shared a birth year. Joyce, who was concerned with his ability to finish what would later become Finnegans Wake, proposed at one point that Stephens assist him, with the authorship credited to JJ & S. Printed in the United States of America. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). 1st Edition. Rebound. Re-backed with leather, and professional repairs to a few pages. Stain on leather spine (please see photos). Pages tanned with age and with some spotting. Covers rubbed and bumped. With 16 colour plates, with tissue guards, by Arthur Rackham. Please ask for more photos if required.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, International Edition. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. First printing "Published November,1920", 8vo (7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches), pp. (10), (1-4), 5-318, 16 color plates with printed guards after paintings by Arthur Rackham. Fine clean bright copy. Sheets and plates clean, unmarked, no inscriptions or names , complete. H10651 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping. International Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). 1st Edition. One of just 520 copies signed by the illustrator, plain illustrations and 16 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue-guards, publisher's vellum-backed boards, decorated in gilt with gilt titling and decoration to spine. Internally clean, tightly bound. Velum spine, clean and bright, scrape to top front board near spine and light rubbing to rear board near edge. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). First Edition. Heavy rubbing to spine ends. Spine lettering completely faded. Rubbing to edges. 16 color plates with tissue guards + black-and-white illustrations. First trade edition.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Spine faded. Small scratch on lower board. Neat inscription to fep. 220mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). x, 318pp. 16 colour plates; additional line drawings. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. November 1920 Macmillan NY first printing first American tight and unmarked with 16 color plates, pieces of the jacket laid in. Gilt titled boards. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good small quarto x + 318pp., col. frontis., col. pls., illusts., Some wear to cloth at spine o/w a nice tight, square copy. All plates are tissue-guarded.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy small quarto x + 318pp., col. frontis., col. pls., text illusts., 16 fine colour plates plus several black and white illustrations in the text by Arthur Rackham. All plates are excellent, all retaining their captioned tissue-guards. Green boards with gilt decoration on upper board. Nice owner's bookplate on front paste-down o/w a nice bright, tight, square copy of the first edition. PHOTO available.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1920. Very good condition with no wrapper. A book in which Rackham broke new ground in the illustration of Irish literature. Stephens had attempted to create an Irish equivalent of The Arabian Nights in his own poetic retelling of the stories which existed in the oral tradition. Rackham rose to the occasion and produced 37 memorable illustrations including 16 in full colour. Green cloth, gilt decoration to front cover and spine. 318 pages. Spine browned and thus gilt to spine is faded. Corners rubbed and a little worn, lower rear corner has tiny nibble to cloth at edge. Text block and endpapers browned. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. All plates present, pale foxing to plate edges, tissue guards browned. Plate facing page 214 has slight surface paper damage to margins where tissue-guard was stuck. Contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Macmillan, London in 1920. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just a hint of pushing at the spine ends. The gilt titling and decorations to the spine and front panel remain very bright. Mild offsetting to the blank end-papers. Free from inscriptions. Small area of offsetting to the lower front corner of the 'illustrations' page. The scarce WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ or better condition. Light toning to the spine. Light edge wear with a few very small areas of rubbing and a very small area of loss to the upper front corner. Some archival tape reinforcement to the spine ends and corners to the verso. The wrapper looks very vibrant in the removable Brodart archival cover. 16 fine colour plates plus several black and white illustrations in the text by Arthur Rackham. All plates are excellent, all retaining their captioned tissue-guards. A very sharp copy and very scarce with the wrapper in such collectible condition. Only the second copy we have handled. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

Leather Binding. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Rebound in dark green morocco with gilt edged raised bands. Gilt devices in the compartments & gilt title with maroon label & gilt date at base of spine. About fine overall. Features 16 beautiful Rackham full-color plates with captioned tissue guards plus additional b&w vignettes. ; 6 3/4" X 8 3/4"; 318 pages.

First Rackham edition. Edition de Luxe. One of only 520 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Large 4to. Original quarter parchment over boards, spine titled in gilt and gilt vignette to upper cover. An exceptional copy. A book which rarely survives in clean condition, this copy is extremely bright, with just light bumps to corners and offsetting to the endpapers from the original dustwrapper. The exceedingly rare dustwrapper has some chips and tears, but remains clean and attractive, with the printed price of £3/3- intact. Sixteen colour plates are mounted onto tan art paper and set within a border, under captioned tissue guards. There are also various chapter headings in black and white. The Bookman, 1920, describes these tales as "for the child whose parents worship Ireland, for those with adoration for her legends.".

x, 318 pp. Illustrated with 16 color plates by Arthur Rackham, each with printed tissue overleaf. 8vo, publisher's green gilt cloth in dust jacket. First trade edition. Better than very good in a lightly tanned jacket (more so at the spine) with a few tiny chips, edgwear, and some tiny splash marks. Rackham bibliographer Sarah Lattimore's copy, with her bookplate and two others. Signed by James Stephens on the front free endpaper.

x, 318 pp. With sixteen tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards and text illustrations in black and white. 4to, publisher's vellum-backed boards decorated in gold, t.e.g.; in custom cloth folding box. First edition; one of 520 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. Riall, p. 138. Two bookplates to pastedown; boards a bit soiled and rubbed at edges; endsheets very slightly darkened; still, an attractive copy. With Rackham's original signed pen-and-ink drawingshaded in watercolors, for the headpiece on p. 37 of this volume, titled on verso by the artist, "A.R. No. 12 Little Boy Climbing by Arthur Rackham.".

Signed limited edition, one of 520 unnumbered copies signed by the artist, one of Rackham's significant successes. The Dublin Independent stated "Some of Mr Rackham's pictures are pure poems - they set you dreaming". James Hamilton notes that "in writing the stories, [James] Stephens had attempted to create an Irish equivalent of The Arabian Nights, his own poetic retelling of the stories which existed in the oral tradition and in Gaelic texts, but which had not appeared accessibly in print". In the opinion of his biographer, "Rackham rose to the occasion" (Hamilton, p. 128). Riall, p. 138. James Hamilton, Arthur Rackham: a life with illustration, 1990. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 15 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Original vellum-backed boards, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Extremities a little bumped and rubbed, some consistent foxing to spine, light soiling to rear cover, foxing and browning to endpapers: a very good copy.