Internally very good; cloth slightly softened at head of spine, otherwise very good; jacket with edge wear, minor browning.
Colour plates and plain illustrations Violet Brunton; jacket artwork by Lee Elliott.
£750
a collection of the world’s best fairy tales from all countries
London, Jonathan Cape, 1929.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s.6d.
An anthology of fairy tales from many countries, including well-known ones like “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” Hawthorne’s “The Miraculous Pitcher,” plus several anonymous and less popular tales. Wilson is better known as a novelist and essayist.
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