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The Vicar of Wakefield

The Vicar of Wakefield by [Rackham, Arthur] Goldsmith, Oliver

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
The Vicar of Wakefield
Author
[Rackham, Arthur] Goldsmith, Oliver
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1929. First trade edition in the publisher's special deluxe binding. Quarto (256 x 186 mm). Collating 231, [1]. Publisher's full olive Persian morocco, gilt stamped with multi colored morocco onlays, reproducing the color frontispiece "An Epitaph for my Wife." Gilt lettered spine. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Twelve full page color plates, twenty-two black and white line drawings. Light foxing to preliminary leaves, otherwise a Near Fine copy. Reportedly published as a means for thwarting debt, The Vicar of Wakefield became one of the most popular novels of the late 18th century. Mixing irony with sentimentalism, it paints a portrait of village life "narrated by Dr. Primrose, the title character, whose family endured multiple trials -- including the loss of their fortune, the seduction of a daughter, the destruction of their home by fire, and the vicar's incarceration -- before all is put right at the end" (Britannica). Goldsmith was a noted Irish wit and a member of Samuel Johnson's famed literary club, who Johnson praised as: "In genius, vivid, versatile, sublime. In style, clear, elevated, elegant." The legend of the book's publication is that Goldsmith was about to be arrested by his landlady for debt, when Johnson was able to sell the manuscript of the novel to a publisher for sixty pounds, saving his friend in the nick of time. For this illustrated edition, Rackham embraced historical costume and his traditional whimsy, despite the more fashionable Jazz-Age and Art Deco style predominant at the time (Husdon). Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Latimore and Haskell 65. Riall 170.
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Six-Guns and Saddle Leather. A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen by Adams, Ramon F.

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Title
Six-Guns and Saddle Leather. A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen
Author
Adams, Ramon F.
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition of the authoritative reference source on writings about western outlaws and gunmen. SIGNED by the author on endpaper. xiii, 426pp. 17 illustrations of title pages. Green cloth. Spine slightly toned, but a fine copy with rubbed and slightly worn, price-clipped printed dust jacket. Provides annotated descriptions of over eleven hundred titles. A useful reference..
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Tea and Sympathy by Baerwalt, Wayne

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Title
Tea and Sympathy
Author
Baerwalt, Wayne
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
vg
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Winnipeg: PLUG IN Contemporary Art/L'Art Contemporain, 1999. Softcover. vg. 8vo. 205 pp. Decorative orange wrappers with b/w facsimile photograph of a man reclining on a bed with a pipe. Plug In is an artist-run center for the production, exhibition and distribution of contemporary art in all media. Book is profusely illustrated with b/w facsimile photographs and sketches by a wide range of artists. In very good condition.

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