Description

Hardcover, brown cloth with color pictorial pastedown depicting small brownie on a galloping horse in wooded glen. 203pp. Plus four pages of publishers ads appended at rear. Illustrated 15 full color plates by Alice Carsey, plus numerous black and white drawings. Early 20th century edition of this classic children’s fairy tale, with old gift inscription on front blank pre-lim dated 1924. Endpapers decorated with butterflies in subdued pinkisk red pastels. An uncommon edition in good+ or better condition. Mull exposed between frontis-piece and color titlepage, hinges slightly shaken, mild stain to upper inch and a half of spine cloth, and mild edge wear.. Else a very collectable copy with hinges intact and strong, all pages firmly attached, all plates present, and no writing or marking internally but for inscription noted above. Near very good.