1917 1ST US Edition LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

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1917 1ST US Edition LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM:
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1917 1STU.S. Edition LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER by Grimm

ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

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LITTLEBROTHER & LITTLE SISTER AND OTHER TALES BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM. ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company. FirstPublished 1917. Printed in Great Britainby T. & A. Constable at Edinburgh University Press.

Fromthe Publisher’s Note: “These forty stories, chosen and illustrated for thisedition by Arthur Rackham, together with the selection which we published someyears ago with illustrations by the same artist, make a total of one hundredstories which include, it is thought, all of the best of the Fairy Tales of theBrothers Grimm…” 251 pages. The bookmeasures 7 ½” by 10” tall.

The12 tipped-in color illustrations are mounted on grayish-brown papers and areall present. In addition the book has40-some in-text illustrations all by Rackham.

Condition: Maroon cloth-boards showsome wear and bumping at the corners and spine ends, with some smallspotting. Spine is faded and somewhat wrinkled. Illustrated endpapers in very good conditionwith some light toning and an inscription in fountain-pen. Binding tight,hinges intact. Interior pages of textvery clean with a rare small ¾”tear at the bottom margin from overly eagerfingers turning the page. Condition of tipped-in plates is overall good to verygood, but for accuracy’s sake (also please see the images): 10 of the 12 plateshave one to three creases in the lower left hand corner, most of them are ~1”in length across the corner, a few are ~ 2” in length across the corner. A fewalso have very tiny ¼” tears at the left margin in the same area as the crease.Again, please review the pictures for this. There is very occasional foxing inthe text, none on the illustrations.

Thefollowing tales are in this rare edition:

1. Little Brother and LittleSister

2. Snow-White and Rose-Red

3. Sweet Porridge

4. Thumbling’s Travels

5. The Skilful Hunter

6. The True Sweetheart

7. The Twelve Brothers

8. The Three Spinners

9. The Star-Money

10. The Old Woman in the Wood

11. Bearskin

12. One-Eye, Two Eyes andThree Eyes

13. The Whishing-Table, TheGold-Ass and the Cudgel in the Knapsack

14. The Wonderful Musician

15. The Cunning Little Taylor

16. The Gnomes

17. Hans the Hedgehog

18. The Nose tree

19. The Three Feathers

20. The Goose-Girl at the Well

21. The Little Peoples’ Present

22. The Three Little Men inthe Wood

23. The Spirit in the Bottle

24. The Three Army Surgeons

25. The Hare and the Hedgehog

26. The Griffin

27. The Spindle, the Shuttle,and the Needle

28. Maid Maleen

29. The Young Giant

30. The Three Sons of Fortune

31. Fitcher’s Bird

32. The Poor Miller’s Boy andthe Cat

33. How Six Men Got in theWorld

34. The Two Travelers

35. The Hunt n the Forest

36. The Peasant’s WiseDaughter

37. The Two Brothers

38. The Nix of the Mill-Pond

39. The Fox and the Geese

40. The Iron Stove

The bookweighs: 3lbs