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1939. No Edition Stated. 189 pages. No dust jacket. Cream cloth with faded lettering. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Some gutter cracking. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Title plate missing from spine.

190 [1] pp. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac (two color plates). 4to, publisher's cloth. Cloth frayed at corners; dust-soiled and tanned; shallow chipping to edges of spine label. Tight and sound.

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

First trade edition with two beautiful color plates from Dulac. Very good with some foxing to boards, edges of page block, and endpapers. Original glassine jacket is present and shows some chipping and wear, but lacking the printed jacket.

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.