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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. Very Good. (1936). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 255, (3) pages; Clean and secure in original quarto orange cloth with gilt lettering and decoration at front board and spine; corners still sharp, spine faded. Text block and all twelve colour plates with tissue guards in near fine condition. Pictorial endpapers. Peer Gynt is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays of all time. This edition contains the fabulous illustrations of Arthur Rackham, one of the most celebrated painters of the British Golden Age of Illustration. Rackham’s artistry combined haunting humour with dream-like romance. .

Pook Press, 2015-05-26. paperback. New. 7x0x10. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Pook Press. hardcover. New. 7x0x10. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Lippincott. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Undated Lippincott in orange cloth in very lightly shelf worn price intact jacket. No marks. 12 tissue guarded Rackham color plates.B27 Please email for photos.

London: George Harrap, 1936. 1st edition. Nice copy. large octavo. pictorial boards 256pp., col. frontis., col. pls., text illusts., 12 fine colour plates plus many black and white illustrations in the text by Arthur Rackham. All plates are excellent, all retaining their captioned tissue-guards. Brown boards with gilt decoration to upper board & spine. Decorated end papers. Nice ownerÕs bookplate on verso of front paste-down & small neat ownership inscription on prelim. dated 1936 o/w a nice bright, tight, square copy of the first edition. PHOTO available

London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1936. First trade edition. Brown cloth over boards, sharp gilt title and decorations to cover and spine, some edge wear, illustrated endpapers, top edge stained with minor foxing, twelve color plates with captioned tissue guards intact, numerous other small illustrations throughout, in very good condition.Peer Gynt, by Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828 - 1906) was written in 1867. Born in Norway, Ibsen was a major 19th-century playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare. Peer Gynt is a Norwegian fairy tale on which the play is loosely based, and several of the characters are modelled after Ibsen's own family, notably his parents. Peer Gynt has also been described as the story of a life based on procrastination and avoidance. Brockett and Hildy (2003, 391)

London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1936. Very good in publisher's gilt-stamped vellum, usual minimal natural discoloration, top edges gilt, contents quite clean, with good matching original slipcase, age-toned, short splits, rubbing to edges.. Limited edition, #237 of 460 hand-numbered copies, signed by Rackham, in publisher's full vellum with gilt title and spine. Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece, 12 mounted color plates by Rackham with lettered tissue guards. 4to. [iv], 5-256pp., [1]. Latimore & Haskell, pg. 74.

London, Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936. . Limited edition, number 295 of 450 copies, from a total edition of 460, signed by the illustrator; 4to; 12 colour plates, including frontispiece, plus in-text black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue guards, text clean and bright; publisher's deluxe full vellum, stamped in gilt, gilt lettering to spine, corners slightly rubbed, top edge gilt, others uncut or unopened, pictorial endpapers, housed in original card slipcase, slightly toned and worn, overall a very good copy. Limited edition, one of only 460 copies, of this popular play based on a Norwegian fairy tale, signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936. First (British) Printing of this Edition. 260 x 197 mm. (10 1/4 x 7 3/4"). 255, [3] pp. Original publisher's linen boards, original pictorial dust jacket. With 12 COLOR PLATES (including frontispiece) BY ARTHUR RACKHAM, all protected by tissue guards with descriptive letterpress. Latimore & Haskell, p. 74. ◆Dust jacket with tiny chip out of bottom edge of back panel and two very minor closed tears at bottom of front panel, a little chafing at folds, but still A VERY FINE COPY IN A FINE JACKET. This is an especially well-preserved copy of the first British trade edition (appearing the same year as a British limited edition and an American trade edition) of Rackham's "Peer Gynt," written by Ibsen in 1867. The translator here, R. Farquharson Sharp (1864-1945), says that his translation is an improvement over former ones because he has refused the temptation of retaining the rhymed verse of the original. He has instead chosen unrhymed verse in Ibsen's… Read More