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ASQUITH, CYNTHISA HARDY, THOMAS; MILNE, A.A.; ET AL . THE FLYING CARPET.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition Cloth Very Good
Twenty-four illustrated stories from popular writers, 4 color tipped in plate, including frontispiece. Drawings and headpieces throughout. Stories included: The Bargain Shop, Olaf the Fair and Olaf the Dark by Cynthia Asquith; When We Were Very, Very Young, by A.A. Millne; The Shadow Land, by David Cecil; I Wish I Were A Dog, by Desmond McCarthy; Invitation To The Voyage, by Alfred Noyes; Mr. Snoogles, by Elizabeth Lowndes; Jack and His Pony, Tom Tom and His Pony, Jack, by Hilaire Belloc; The Perfect Host, by Sir Walter Raleigh; The Weasel In The Storeroom, by Edward Marsh; Neil and Tintinnabulum; The Magic Medicine, by Denis MacKail; Dr. Dolittle Meets A Londoner In Paris, by Hugh Lofting; Scenes In The Life of a Princess, by Charles Whibley, and others. Illustrations by: Mabel Lucie Attwell, H.M. Brock, Susan Pearse, T. Heath Robinson, Ernest H. Shepard, J.R.C. Bodley, and others.
Tan buckram boards and spine, red title and illustration of children on Flying Carpet, line decorations. Mild soil and darkening of boards, few soil marks to lower edge of front board. Spine darkened, thin rub line down middle, ends rubbed with light fraying, joints rubbed. Few page corners have mild crease. Nice neat Christmas incription to f.e.p. dated 1925. Printed on heavy stock. Clean, tightly bound. In protective archival polyester cover. sm 4 to, 200 pp. Very nice copy. First Edition
Price:
65.00 USD
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