HOLIDAY ~ CHILDREN'S BOOKS/GRIMM

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, RARE IN THE PUBLISHER'S BOX

[RACKHAM, Arthur] GRIMM. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER AND OTHER TALES BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM. Illustrated by Arthur RACKHAM. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1917). First American edition. xi + [1] + 251 pp. 4to., dark red cloth stamped in gilt, near fine in the original publisher's box with color pastedown illustration. Box stained, slightly chipped, top half missing one side panel; illustration fine. Book fine externally, with only a few spots of occasional soil to margins. 12 tipped-in color plates, and b/w illustrations in the text. Some of the plates are slightly creased at the edges/corners, not too far into illustration to be distracting. Near fine overall, and rare in the box. $1,750.00 #83840