THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
Written by Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 321289
Published by George G. Harrap & Company Ltd.. 1st 1929. Very good condition.

Publisher's de-luxe binding. Olive green morocco with gilt titles. Front cover has coloured leather inlaid illustration. Pictorial endpapers. 12 colour plates. A handsome book. Boards a little rubbed to edges. Some erased pencil writing (faint) to verso of Front endpaper Endpapers browned. Contents otherwise clean and bright. Front joint cracked. Tear to middle of one page at joint. Generally a superb 1st edition.

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THE LONESOMEST DOLL
Written by Abbie Farwell Brown. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 596084
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. 1st 1928. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A charming story of the proud little queen and her beautiful lonesome doll. 31 unique illustrations including four in colour. Attractive tan pictorial cloth, black title to spine. A rare Rackham title being published only in America. Spine just very slightly bumped. Pale stain to front cover which is hardly noticeable. Tiny bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. Inscription in pencil to front endpaper. Very light water stain to margins of pages in second half of book. Pages very lightly browned. First gathering pulled at hinges and slightly misaligned. Closed tear to gutter edges of first gathering. Prelims almost detached. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly grubby with a few light stains, chipped at corners with a few small edge-tears. Difficult to find in good condition due to paper used being of poor quality, this is an exceptionally bright copy, rare in original wrapper.

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WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS
Written by Christopher Morley. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 652881
Published by Doubleday, Page & Company. 1st USA 1922. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

4 colour plates and 9 b/w line drawings. Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front cover and spine. Blue and white pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. 227pp. Cr 4to. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed to head and tail. A couple of finger-marks to page margins otherwise contents bright. Original pictorial dustwrapper is slightly edge-chipped with a little loss to spine, 2" closed tear to top of front. A super first edition.

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