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Tipped-in plates by Edmund Dulac, 11.5 x 8.5, cloth with gold/black paper cover label, 174 pp, covers very worn and darkened, extremities bumped and badly fraying, hinges loose, front inner hinges cracking (more so in front), pp toned and thumbed, all plates are in beautiful condition, though.

Contains the following stories-"Snegorotchka"; "The Buried Moon"; "White Caroline and Black Caroline"; "The Seven Conquerors of the Queen of the Mississippi"; "The Serpent Prince"; "The Hind of the Wood"; "Ivan and the Chestnut Horse"; "The Queen of the Many-Coloured Bed-Chamber"; "The Blue Bird"; "Bashtchelik (Or, Real Steel)"; "The Friar and the Boy"; "The Green Serpent"; "Urashima Taro"; "The Fire Bird"; and, "The Story of the Bird Feng". No date of pulbication indicated, but likely early 1900's. Yellow cloth-covered boards. Light staining on coverboards. Some cloth missing, some fraying and a 2-inch split in cloth at head of spine. Full colour, tipped-in frontis and 15 other colour, tipped-in illustrations. Small tear at top of second front endpaper. Some math calculations in pen on rear endpaper. Binding is a bit loose but is not in danger. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 174 pp.

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Lightly rubbed, board corners warped, owner inscription dated 1918 to verso of ffep, shaken, gutters cracked, rear gutter badly cracked and last page and frep detached but extant and chipped to edges, some foxing throughout, the odd fingerprint or smudge, and a couple of tears to page edges, but text clean, illustrations good.

B0010P11M0. Textile Artworks. Good+ undated early printing Hodder hardback (circa 1924? ), orange buckram with black lettering and flying horse illustration to front board, no jacket, 16 plates tipped in through the book, all well-preserved. Some page tanning and corner and spine-end pushing, minor marks to boards, light signs of usage and wear with a little fading to spine, tight and unmarked, secure binding. 320 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Textile Artworks; ISBN/EAN: B0010P11M0. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 084119.

Lightly rubbed, board corners warped, owner inscription dated 1918 to verso of ffep, shaken, gutters cracked, rear gutter badly cracked and last page and frep detached but extant and chipped to edges, some foxing throughout, the odd fingerprint or smudge, and a couple of tears to page edges, but text clean, illustrations 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.