Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 319

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
Timlin, William M. (1892-1943)
The Ship That Sailed to Mars.

London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, n.d. [1923].

First edition of "the most original and beautiful children's book of the 1920's," (Dalby), folio, illustrated with 48 color plates; bound in publisher's parchment-backed boards, spine decorated in gilt; with the original printed dust jacket (front panel of jacket detached, spine discolored; tiny closed marginal tears throughout; lower endpapers foxed; overall a lovely, crisp copy); 12 x 9 1/4 in.

One of only 2,000 copies printed, 350 of which were distributed for sale in the United States. This is Timlin's only completed work.

Dalby, Richard. The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, 1991.