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Hardcover. 4to. Published by Hatchard & Co., London, UK. 1939. 190 pgs. Illustrated with 2 color plates. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and blindstamped titles present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. From the Foreword: "Readers of fairy tales and other romantic fiction will have noticed before this that the Mothers of the heroines are seldom featured. One would imagine that the effort of producing a female child destined to adventure was too much for the average Queen or Princess, since, if she has not already expired before the story opens, she usually manages to pass away before its close. Indeed, the only well-known ladies we can recall at the moment who do not so indulge themselves are Shakespeare's Hermione and Thaisa, who only pretend to be dead druing the years their daughters most need them, and Lady Capulet, who cannot be said to shine as a pattern of maternity. And we know that this state of things so depressed as when we were a small child that we made an early resolve to create a young heroine whose Mother should possess, besides beauty and rank, the additional and stupendous virtue of being alive..." EB; 8vo 8"-9" tall.

Illustrated with 2 color plates by Dulac. A fine fresh copy in publishers tan cloth decorated in blind with black spine label titles in gilt.

26.5 x 21 cm. Sm 4to. 190 pages. Grey cloth in pictorial and glassine dust jackets. Two color plates by Dulac. Previous owner's small address stamp on front endpaper.Some soiling ot the dust jacket. Sun fading to the dust jacket spine. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Illustrated with 2 color plates by Edmund Dulac. 190 pages. Short 4to, beige embossed pictorial embossed cloth with black spine label, (light foxing on endpapers). London: Hatchard & Co, 1939. First trade edition. A very good copy in a partial dust wrapper.

A smart first edition of this charming work from Mary Crary, with two colour plates from Edmund Dulac. First edition. Illustrated with two colour plates. Collated complete. A charming story designed to encourage the character of the mother into the forefront of the fairy tale. Written by Mary Crary. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac, a French-British magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot and minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed

London: Hatchard & Co, 1939, 1939. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket Edmund Dulac (illustrator). First Trade Edition. 190 pgs, decoratively stamped tan cloth. 2 color plates by Dulac enhance this tale in which the mother of the heroine features prominently.

190 pgs, decoratively stamped tan cloth. 2 color plates by Dulac enhance this tale in which the mother of the heroine features prominently. Small stain on top edge of book. Dustjacket soiled & wrinkled.

190 [1] pp. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Folio, publisher's cloth and boards in dust jacket and glassine. First edition; No. 237 of 500 copies signed by Mary Crary and Edmund Dulac. Slightly bumped at corners; otherwise a fine copy in a jacket with light dust-soiling to the rear panel, and a snag/chip at one corner. The endsheets are free of the usual foxing.

190 pgs. Vellum backed cloth boards, blue spine label. a tiny bit of wear to edge of spine label, else fine and clean, housed in a later slip case which has a long abrasion to one panel. Illustrated with 2 color plates, there would have been more if the book had not been rushed to publication to avoid WWII paper restrictions. Limited Edition #371/500, signed by Dulac and Crary on the limitation page. A delightful modern fairy tale. Hughey 91a. Size: 4to