Title: Lucie Attwell's Fairy Book.
Publisher: S. W. Partridge & Co: London.
Published Date: 1932. First Edition.
Pagination: pp.256
Illustrated: Featuring twelve full page colour illustrations and numerous in text black and white illustrations.
Condition: Very good.
External Size: Large format: 24cm x 19cm.
This is a lovely clothbound edition of fairy tales, illustrated by Lucie Attwell. The beige boards have some soiling/discolouration and some bumping to the corners and to the head and tail of the spine. Pictorial endpapers which are clean with some minor darkening. There is an ink inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper dated 1932. The contents have moderate foxing throughout. The illustrations are particularly lovely.
Stories featured:
The Good Housewife and her Night Labours
The Shoes
The Don't Care Bird
The Three Children of Fortune
Fairy Fairplay
The Golden Torch
Three Days with the Fairies
A Legend of Tipperary
Jorinda and Jorindel
The Darning Needle
The Misty Mountain
Princess Cherry Blossom
The Old House
Little Thumbling
The Changeling
A Pair of Happy Shoes
A Spell for a Fairy
The Three Dwarfs
The Paradise of Children
The Fairy Market
The Golden Goose
The Troll's Treasure
The Elves and the Shoemaker
The Young Giant and the Tailor
The Tapestry
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