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.
Small quarto in beige-colored cloth binding with blind-stamped ornamentation on both covers and black leather spine label with gilt lettering. Color plates. Condition: corners bumped and rubbed through with minor fraying; spine label is a bit rubbed & scuffed; else very good. 190 pages.
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.
190 pages, with two color plates by Edmund Dulac. VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, defects noted: some foxing on endpapers and the label on spine is missing, else a nice clean tight copy. " Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Original ivory embossed cloth with brown gilt leather title label. All color plates present. Minor foxing spots to foreedges not extending to text, else a fine, clean and unmarked copy. Extremely scarce Dulac work.
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.
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
2 color plates by Edmund Dulac. 190pp. Small 4to, white cloth (rubbed and darkened). London: Hatchard, 1939. Very good. Presentation copy, signed by the author.
1939. (4to) Very good, no dust jacket. 190pp. Embossed cover with leather spine label. 2 color plates. Light discoloring along spine edge of rear cover, front corners lightly bumped. Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. (Fiction)
Size: 8.25x10.5 inches. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac Light tan cloth with elaborate blind stamped decoration on both the covers and gilt lettering on the black leather spine label. Very good plus.condition with text clean and binding sound without 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.
190 pp. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Folio, publisher's vellum-backed boards with leather label on spine, in original glassine and printed dust jacket. First of this illustrated edition; probably the American issue; No. 115 of 500 copies signed by Dulac (but not by the author, though the limitation page calls for her signature as well). Very light spotting to vellum and a few spots of foxing to endsheets, else a nice copy. The jacket has a few small chips and scattered blue pencil marks.
Quarto. 10 1/4' x 8". 190pp Cream boards with green linen cloth. Black title label to spine. this is ocpy #288 of 500 and is signed by illustrator Edmund Dulac. Two full page color illustrations. Nice copy.
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half title: The leaf which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at times, the author's name and/or other information may appear.