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Hardcover first edition - First American edition. A collection of fairy tales from the nations allied with Britain in The Great War - that is, World War I. illustrated with sixteen tipped in water color illustrations and a decorative line drawing on the title page of each story. Includes Snegorotchka from Russia, The Buried Moon from England, The Serpent Prince from Italy; The Hind of the Wood from France, White Caroline and Black Caroline from Flanders, The Fire Bird from Russia; Urashima Taro from Japan; The Story of the Bird Feng from China, and others. Large format. 173 pp. POOR condition in the original black and gold elaborately illustrated boards. The front cover is detached, but present, one tipped in plate is missing (p 159), some fraying and wear to the edges of the boards and the corners. Other than the missing plate the contents are very good - and this is a still appealing copy of a beautiful book at a reasonable price.

Reprint of the classic 1915 edition - done during the golden age of illustration.

This item has been rebacked at some point, the spine has been replaced entirely and new end papers added. The green boards with the black horse design is stained has some damp damage, the titles in gilt are still bright. There is some foxing to the prelims and a little spotting throughout and a there are a couple of closed tears to the a page or two. the colour plates are all extant and the text is clear and bright A Fair copy of a scarce book. scans on request.

Hardback. Nd. [1916]. 4to. A very good copy in publisher's decorated cream cloth with title in black on front board and spine. No inscriptions. Decorated endpapers. 15 colour plates including frontispiece. 170 pages. Fair dustwrapper which has edge tears and chips the worst being at the spine ends where the word" Edmund" is missing at the head of the spine and the word "Stoughton" at the foot. The dustwrapper has been backed onto stiff paper for reinforcement and is protected in a removable cover. Internally the book is a lovely clean copy. Quite scarce in dustwrapper. Photograph available on request.

The first edition of Edmund Dulac's charming and colourfully illustrated anthology of fairy tales. The first edition of this work.An anthology of charming fairy tales written and illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Published in the midst of World War One, this volume contains 'fairy tales of the allied nations'. These include 'Snegurochka', 'The Buried Moon', 'The Seven Conquerors of the Queen of the Mississippi', 'Urashima Taro', 'The Green Serpent', and more.Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, and fourteen tipped-in colour plates.Collated, complete.Dulac is a well regarded illustrator of magazines and books, known in particular for his editions of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, and 'The Rubaiyat'. His style is mostly Art Nouveau, and his illustrations of fairy tales have remained very popular.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, resulting in a small amount of fraying to the cloth. Light marks to the boards, mostly to the rear board, with a faint damp stain to the rear joint and head of the board. Scattered spots to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with some scattered spots. Very Good

The first edition of Edmund Dulac's charming and colourfully illustrated anthology of fairy tales. The first edition of this work. An anthology of charming fairy tales written and illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Published in the midst of World War One, this volume contains 'fairy tales of the allied nations'. These include 'Snegurochka', 'The Buried Moon', 'The Seven Conquerors of the Queen of the Mississippi', 'Urashima Taro', 'The Green Serpent', and more. Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, and fourteen tipped-in colour plates. Collated, complete. Dulac is a well regarded illustrator of magazines and books, known in particular for his editions of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, and 'The Rubaiyat'. His style is mostly Art Nouveau, and his illustrations of fairy tales have remained very popular. Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, resulting in a small amount of fraying to the cloth. Light marks to the boards, mostly to the rear board, with a faint damp stain to the rear joint and head of the board. Scattered spots to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with some scattered spots. Very Good.

The first edition of Edmund Dulac's charming and colourfully illustrated anthology of fairy tales. The first edition of this work. An anthology of charming fairy tales written and illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Published in the midst of World War One, this volume contains 'fairy tales of the allied nations'. These include 'Snegurochka', 'The Buried Moon', 'The Seven Conquerors of the Queen of the Mississippi', 'Urashima Taro', 'The Green Serpent', and more. Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, and fourteen tipped-in colour plates. Collated, complete. Dulac is a well regarded illustrator of magazines and books, known in particular for his editions of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, and 'The Rubaiyat'. His style is mostly Art Nouveau, and his illustrations of fairy tales have remained very popular. Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, resulting in a small amount of fraying to the cloth. Light marks to the boards, mostly to the rear board, with a faint damp stain to the rear joint and head of the board. Scattered spots to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with some scattered spots. Very Good.

[nd], 1916. Illustrated by Dulac with frontispiece and 14 additional illustration plates, tipped in; all plates present. Cream cloth with black titling, decoration in black and baby blue. Cloth rubbed to edges with fraying to spine ends, light age-soil, spine a little dulled. Spine square. Binding cracked to mull at pages 88 and 105, but intact, and else sound. Small chip from top fore-edge corner of FFEP. Pages foxed; illustration plates bright. Text else free of markings.

First edition. Binding a bit loose. Foxing on some pages. Beautiful illustrated (tipped in).

170 pp. Complete with color frontispiece and 14 tipped-in color plates. Folio, publisher's gilt-decorated cloth. First edition; No. 18 of 350 copies signed by Edmund Dulac. Hughey 47. The cloth is lightly dust-soiled but tight and sound. Pencil gift inscription on front free endpaper; and a bump at the top of the spine affects the inner marginal top corner throughout. The plates and text clean and fine.